WOLF PACK

Greetings. Physical wolves usually hunt in packs of four or more and people have reported packs up to a hundred or more. Our ungodly thought against God words comes in packs or multitudes. Some physical nations in the pass have named military units after wolves. One thing is certain, rather it is physical wolves or the spiritual wolves of the mind they are both killers. Some physical wolves have even been known to dribble rubber balls. John 10:12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. We will ask the Holy Ghost to give the many spiritual interpretations hid in the above verse, as we progress through this letter. I just asked for a good thing and nothing to consume on my fleshly thinking. Jeremiah 5:25Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you. When we try to interpret a scripture or even a word; in time our interpretation become our iniquities and good things [God’s words] are withheld from us. The last thing any of us need is the secret counsel of our own wicked thoughts on God’s word. Now, physically we can take secret counsel with other people to commit a crime and we call these conspiracies. Psalm 64:2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity. I do not need any other people to become a conspirator against God’s word, we are all born with our own, in the mind. When I come against God’s word in my own wisdom; I am coming spiritually against the Lord of lords, and King of kings. King David’s son Absalom came against his father with other conspirators to overthrow His fathers Kingdom. 2 Samuel 15:12 And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he offered sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom. Our own conspirators are strong, these wicked witnesses about the character of God increase continually: this can happen in a physical building or our mind. These stories in the Bible were put there by God to try and show us something about ourselves; or we go away thinking Bible stories just make a great movie. Corinthians 10:6Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. The evil things we lust after is our own evil wisdom about God’s word. People love to call other people evil and the evilest person you will ever meet is that familiar friend or yourself. I sometime take a verse as John 10:12, and ponder it for days or weeks: as I weed out all the conspirators in the mind against that verse. I recall an old cartoon show where the wolf or coyote was always trying to destroy the sheep and never gave up. Acts 20:29For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Saint Paul spiritually saw that man was no better than a beast and spiritually would try to destroy God’s word or the flock. We as people think there is some kind of divine light born in man that makes him good, there is not. Ecclesiastes 3:18I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. We do not like to think of ourselves as being little more than just a beast, because after all most people use deodorant and toilet paper. And the last thing we should have to worry about is running out of toilet paper, but we do and care nothing for our souls. Psalm 6:4 Return, O Lord, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies’ sake. We have all spiritually birthed in our mind princes: from the virgin word of God and replaced it with a whore. These princes represent our exalted thoughts against God words, again nothing here is physical. Ezekiel 22:27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. The word prey speaks of the sheep or God’s word and we spiritually ravage them; as we gain spiritually, but all we really gain is the world. Mark 8:36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? I recalled as a young man having purchased my first Bible, how the wolf inside of me could not wait to devour spiritually every verse I could read. I cared nothing for the sheep because I was a hireling or servant of sin. Romans 6:20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. All this was meant [ spiritually devouring] it for evil, but God meant it for good. I was learning the letter of the[schoolmaster] Law, till faith should come or the Spiritual revealed words of Jesus Christ. Galatians 3:24Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. Galatians 3:25But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. Bible faith has nothing to do with getting physical things, nor is its positive thinking. These grievous wolves or wicked thoughts enter our mind when we read the Bible and grieves God’s Spirit. Hebrews 3:10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. We have not wanted to know God ways or thoughts and He is grieved with this generation which is our thinking. The error has been in our hearts, which is little more than a beast heart. I am grieved when I hear people take the Lord’s name in vain; this has nothing to do with modern-day slang or four or five letter words. Exodus 20:7Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.His name is His word and we must learn to keep our vain thoughts or words off them. Psalm 2:1Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? We are the heathen when we imagine our own vain interpretation of a scripture is His wisdom: it is not!  Our vain interpretation of any scripture will not spiritually profit or deliver me from the pit. Psalm 139:20For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain. Millions of so-called Christian have become God’s enemies and imagined it is the drunk on the street taking His name in vain. Jeremiah 4:14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? The above verse said O Jerusalem, but we can put our name there. O carnal minded devil how long will thy vain thoughts lodge in the mind. The carnal mind is the biggest lodging house for sin; the incredible amount of foolishness it could birth concerning God word: could fill a sea. Isaiah 57:20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. The wolf inside of us is destroyed when we cease from our own wisdom about the Bible. In: John 10:12 , we have the word hireling, in our modern- time we have the word, at will employee. Now to a Lawyer this term, might mean this or that, to me it means they can fire me for any reason, and I can also quit for any reason. It is no secret that millions of people hate their jobs and after a few paychecks they quit. John 10:13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. We are only using physical examples here to reveal the spiritual, thus the sheep are God’s words or his physical people. We are also either spiritual sheep or goats and a spiritual goat will eat anything. We may have all seem a physical painting of a long hair Jesus holding a physical sheep, and it is just an artist rendition of what he imagined his Jesus to look like. 1 Peter 2:25  For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. WHO LEAD THESE SHEEP ASTRAY? MAN! As Christ is the good Shepherd, taking care of God’s word as a flock, so He must protect His words from the beast within us. We lead the sheep astray so we can gain such as a false righteousness. Now if we are not the good Shepard or Pastor over God’s word who hired us? We hired ourselves and care nothing for the sheep or God’s words. Millions have gone forth and prayed a sinner’s prayer and were hired by a man to work in a physical Church. And the only spiritual wages millions will receive is death. Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. When God called us, we are to work in His vineyard to bring fore precious seed or His word. Can we begin to see how none of this is physical? Matthew 20:7 They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive. The they, in the above verse were in a good place, because they waited until God called them. The they in the above verse were told to receive whatsoever was right and what was this right? God’s righteousness, because men come up with their own form of righteousness that makes them look good to others. Romans 10:3 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. We do not like to look evil to others, but we carry a book under our arms that begs to differ. When we go to the Bible in our own wisdom, we spiritually plant our own thoughts or seed into His vineyard and defiled it. Deuteronomy 22:9 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.  John 10:12But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.God has to reveal to us that the wolf inside all us cares nothing for His word, we only want to make ourselves look good ! We are still using John 10:12, as a starting point as we allow God Spirit to reveal more about John 10:12 using other scriptures; God Spirit pointed out to me the words divers seeds, in Deuteronomy 22:9. What is that all about? A synonym for divers could be different, mixed, various, to name a few. We sow different thoughts or ideas into God’s word and defiled the garden or vineyard. Hebrews 13:9Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. As we look at also the word, seed: it’s God’ word and not physical money as million have come to believe. Luke 8:11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. And what is even more important is how we receive that seed through hearing. Do we hear God’s words in our stony heart of unbelieve? ALL THE TIME! When we are in our own wisdom about God’s word, we can only scatter it and make it a lie. Thus, we allow that wolf or beast inside all of us to destroy by scattering God’s word. Matthew 12:30He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad. There is no neutral ground in this spiritual battle of the mind, and you cannot spiritually flee to Switzerland. Doing the second world war, Switzerland was a neutral country to flee to and held the money for the winner. When we chose to ignore God’s word all together it is the same as scattering it. Luke 11:23 He that is not with me is against me. It is difficult to determine who is the bigger fool: those that totally ignore God word or those that worship an image of a beast that they have created in their mind. Millions could care less about the Spiritual interpretation of God’s word and do not even realize such things exist. John 10:13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. I observed two people I personally know, who have more spiritual revelation of God’s word than I can imagined. That you do not come away thinking highly of them at first, but you marvel at the Spiritual wisdom God has given them. When men speak their own wisdom about the Bible, they have a wisdom from beneath and this makes them look good to the simpleminded. James 3:15This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. People come in different shapes and colors and no races is better or eviler than the next: we are all born when a beast heart. Ecclesiastes 3:18I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. Jesus spoke the wisdom that came from above and when it is revealed to us, we are to do the same: this will make people hate you.  John 8:23And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.Men are deceived by the wisdom of this world, thinking it is the wisdom from above. Matthew 8:27 But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him! God’s wisdom grants us the power to destroy the wicked wind or doctrine of men. Ephesians 4:14 that 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. When God revealed the evil that is in my heart, people became open book because you know nobody is good, only God.  Spiritually we could make the sea obey me concerning of what is coming out of ungodly men mouths. The sea here represents wicked words coming out of men vile mouth, and what destroyed Pharaoh army? Isiaah 57:20  But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. I have never lost a verbal battle coming against the wisdom of men because they have not the wisdom of God. Psalm 65:7which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people. Still not convinced. Isaiah 57:20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. What about that sheep you lost? You better go find it! Luke 15:4  What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?

Michael Rudolph Hodges / 6/20/2020 8/1/2022