God comes to make war against the minds of men who have taken His words by violence or their own judgment about them. Zephaniah 3:4 Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the Law. Becoming a Christian will not be a Church picnic, but war fought in the minds of men. Of course if God hasn't reveal or illuminated any of His words against our carnal mind it: has nothing to war against. Hebrews 10:23 But call to remembrance the former days, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions. We make war against the physical or something the carnal mind see and only brings spiritual death. John 3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Begotten, means God had a thought and the thought was His son; made like unto us: He had a carnal mind. Hebrews 4: 15 For we have not an High Priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities: but was in all points tempted like as we, yet without sin. Greetings. Most contracts require Lawyers or people with special training to read them. Contract: a written or spoken, especially on concerning employment [millions of Pastors hired themselves, God never did, it would be to their wisdom to sell what they think they have and buy the truth] sales or tenancy, that is intended to be enforceable by law. The Bible is a book of God's Spiritual Laws and we are going to need a Spiritual counselor, yet we spiritually hire a wicked counsellor ourselves. Nahum 1:11 There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the Lord, a wicked counsellor. Of course we can always sign a contract on the straight line or speak vain thoughts against God's word; not having a clue to what we are signing or speaking. Our own tongue will do the Spiritual writing: no physical ink pen needed.Psalm 45:1 My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Most of the time we want material or spiritual things so badly we sign away or open wide our lips. When we speak our own wisdom concerning the Bible, we are in spiritual agreement with idols or our own thoughts. 2 Corinthians 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? Most legal contracts are written that the public cannot understand them and this is done on purpose. If you are acquitted of a crime you are found not guilty, why could not the legal system come up with another term that even I could understand, like you did not do it? What does the verse mean by saying God so loved the world? It means He condemns my judgment against His words, so He sent His son knowing His Son would not condemn the word. He loved man enough to send His son to show us how to interpret His words: Jesus never spoke His own thoughts about God’s word, he could have because He was God, but for our sake He did not. John 8:28 Then said Jesus unto them,When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. Noticed it says I do nothing of myself, in other words Jesus did not judge the words himself. We on the other hand we judge the Bible from the start and condemn ourselves. It’s our own mouths that condemns us, not something we physically do or not do. Ecclesiastes 3:11He hath made every thing 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. The word, world in the Bible represents what I believe in my heart and nothing in my heart is good. I LOVE THE DARKNESS THAT’S IN MY HEART! 1 John 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. The Bible was written by God to reveal to us that own carnal mind could not understand it without the Holy Ghost and you do not receive the Holy Ghost by doing some physical act. We are told simply to obey to receive the Holy Ghost or believe God’s word. 1 Corinthians 2:9But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. None of us at first love God only the things we falsely believe about his character, thus, we will never Spiritually see the things which are His words. 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. What are the witnesses of these things in the above verse? His words, if our spirit is not witnessing what His Spirit is saying in His words: we have not got a witness. If we still claim we do, we make God a liar and the truth is not in us. Fact being the truth was never in us and every thought we first saw in the Bible was a lie. John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. My thoughts against God’s words are devilish and the first time I picked up a Bible I murdered any Spiritual meaning God wanted to impart unto me. I wanted to have it my way and spoke of my own wisdom about it, which is a lie. Matthew 10:20For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you. If God’s Spirit is not speaking through our spirit, we are not His sons. Our spirit must be corrected and the old man in all of us must be put to death, this is mentally painful to my flesh and I love what I think. John 3:6That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. We judge everything that is physical and we should, but we are insufficient to judge anything Spiritual. God’s word is the only Spiritual book that exists. The lie has never been, we lied to another mortal creature, but we lied also to the living creatures: his words, by saying we understood them. The lie has been we made ourselves God in our minds. Joshua 1:8This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shall meditate therein day and night, that thou majesty observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. Good success has nothing to do with the physical, but thy ways [His ways] will be prosperous in thy understanding of the Bible. Isaiah 55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. And I know we all thought our thoughts were God’s. Isaiah 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. The Bible is a book of God’s laws, which Is His character or the way He thinks. The mind I’m born with also has its own law or character, this character is: the law of sin and death.Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. We could have read the above verse for years and without Spiritual understanding. We have all been quick to make ourselves rich in the things of God, His word. We have become rich rulers, who sought to rule over God’s word and instead have become poor. I’m spiritually poor because I refuse to sell what I think I know. We have Imagined if we could quote a verse that it belonged to us and we became very rich. Psalm 73:12Behold, these are the ungodly who prosper in the world, they increase in riches. That rich ruler in Matthew 19:16-22, is an image and the character of us all, we have been very rich in the things of the world or our own wisdom. Sometime very intellectually intelligent people will surround themselves with books, but the Bible is the only book our foolish earthly intellect cannot understand. We can go to these so-called Churches for years and have many possessions or ungodly thoughts about the meaning of God’s parables. Matthew 19:22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions. His possessions were his worldly wisdom: he had gained about the Bible and so have you. Mark 8:36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Matthew 16:26For 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? Exchange your earthly wisdom for the wisdom that is from above. This is a very hard to do because our hearts are hard and the worldly wisdom God put in our heart harden itself against any correction from God. Every time when we refuse to allow God's word to correct our thinking by studying and rather watch cable for hours: our hearts gets harder. Once God tries to enlighten our darkness and shine His light into a dark place: our hearts, it will make us sorrowful. We do not want to believe all our own possession of what we imagined God to be is a lie, we refuse to repent of our sins. We imagine being sorrowful of how we wronged other physical people somehow made us righteous: this is worldly sorrow. 2 Corinthians 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. Every time God reveals from heaven the Spiritual meaning of a verse, we can repent of the evil thoughts that we held in our heart against God character or that verse: God is creating a new heart in us and this does not happen all at once. Ezekiel 36:26A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. This new heart will be of His flesh. John 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. We are Spiritually eating when we can discern His words and not our own bread or thoughts. Matthew 4:4But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. When we spiritually eat of our own bread, we are persecuting Christ and mocking Him. A mockery is an imitation of the real thing. Genesis 21:9And Sarah saw the son of Hagar [Ishmael]the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking. God promise Abraham a son when it was humanly impossible for him to have one. It's impossible for our carnal mind to produce one spiritual thought or son when we read the Bible. Abraham represents us or the old man of sin, we must bring fore a Spiritual son or thought. Sarah represents represents a clean law or the Bible: the Spiritual womb to produce a promise seed. We will spiritually produce an Ishmael or thought born of our flesh that mocks God greater thoughts about His word. When we can consider our own dead old fleshly thinking cannot produce one thought of God until we can come to the knowledge of the faith. Romans 4:19And [Abraham] being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb: Faith is simply seeing God’s word as he sees it. 2 Corinthians 5:7 (for we walk by faith, not by sight:) Not by sight is how the carnal mind sees God’s words. So called Pastors have mocked God’s words by claiming faith is being able to obtain material things. Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Until God starts to reveal His word unto us, it is impossible to please Him. Have we ever asked ourselves what is mean by the word rewarder in the above verse? What does it mean to diligently seek, does it mean I go to Church once a week and always pray over my physical food? Proverbs 23:1When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee. God provides a Spiritual counselor to interpret His word for us: we could never interpret the Spiritual thoughts hidden from our way of thinking. We must be taught how to separate God’s righteous judgment from our own judgment which is deceit: our own hearts deceits us. Proverbs 12:5The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit. Our own counselors[thoughts] of the mind does not consider it’s reading the words of a ruler or King. Let’s ask the Holy Ghost as we look at the book of the Prophet Daniel. We have all been wise in trying to interpret the King of kings and Lord of Lord’s writing or the Bible: we could not interpret the writing. Daniel 5:8Then came in all the king’s wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof. As spiritual wicked men over God’s word we have never been able to interpret any verse or word from God’s Law and we’re all been wise in our own deceit: thinking we could. Daniel 4:6Therefore, made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream. The next time somebody comes up to you claiming to be saved, ask them from what and how. Millions could not answer you correctly all they know is they went up to a physical altar and repeated after somebody, we produce Ishmael and mocked the promise seed, Isaac. Daniel could interpret the dream of the King by the Spirit of God. How could Daniel make known the interpretation of a thing? Daniel 2: 27 Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king; 28 but there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets.Our wisest of Theological Seminary student graduates could not interpret any of the secrets of God’s words: it’s impossible unless it’s revealed from heaven. Job 37:34 Men do therefore fear him: He respecteth not any that are wise of heart. God does not respect my thoughts concerning His words, He hates them because we hate His wisdom. Then who can be saved? Luke 18:27And he said,The things which are impossible with men are possible with God. It’s been impossible because we have not had the desire for His ways or thoughts. Job 21:14Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. Once it been revealed to us our thinking has been from the devil we can be corrected. Luke 24:45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures. Nobody understands the scriptures at first from the beginning, we only father thoughts or interpretations based on our own lusts. It will take years of sincere desire of being corrected by God’s Spirit. This requires great suffering against our own thoughts that hates God’s thoughts. Millions never come to this place or great tribulation and endure its persecution from within. The true Christian will have to battle to possess his soul and only God can give us the victory. In the end God will have to war against what's in our evil heart to obtain a new heart: that's the true war of of the world. Michael Rudolph Hodges 2/13/2020 amended 3/26/2021/ amended 6/13/2021/ amended 4/1/2022
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