Some having gone to some Church to please a family members or a new girlfriend, who insist that her man must love the Lord. The unknowing person entering the Church [synagogue of Satan] and exchanges plastic smiles with actors[everybody acting nice]; followed by a Broadway style praise and worship service. Then have when the music stops, everybody seems to want to hug those members of the opposite sex, and those have bulging biceps or large breasts seen to be keeping the most hugs. At least the preacher made a few good points from a man's point of view or earthly wisdom. 1 Corinthians 2:4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.Then it happens everybody looking at you, the preacher just stated everyone whose saved rise their hands:you didn't. Darn it! You have been blinded sided, you go forward and give your heart to Jesus not knowing what's in your heart. Jeremiah 17:10The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?So now you are told by them[the spiritual blind] you are saved and born again, not so. Matthew 15:14Let them alone they be blind leaders of the blind. Jesus wasn't talking physical in: John 3:7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. But how can I say that when millions think Jesus was talking physical. What does the bible say? The controversy is can I enter my mother womb the second time and be born again, as asked by Nicodemus the Pharisee. John 3:4Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? The carnal mind wants me to think about the Bible that everything physical. Look at who the Bible say our mother is; Galatians 4:26But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.Have you ever seen a city with arms, legs, eyes and physical? How foolish the carnal mind of man is. There are so many Christians that don't know how to be born again. Yet they will tell you that you must be born again. The bible will interpret itself and GOD will supply the INTERPRETER the HOLY GHOST. John 3:5 and 6 :Except a man be born of the water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of GOD. 6: That which is born of flesh is flesh; and that which is born of spirit is spirit. Please don't think that being born again of the water and spirit is physical. The hidden truth: hid to the carnal mind of man is this: The bible is the Law it's the mother and the womb that we must all enter into to be born again. The truth about being born again1 Peter 1:23Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible by the word of GOD, which liveth and abideth forever. For some 30 years when I first started studying the Bible I saw a corruptible seed [ my thoughts on God's holy word]. But I must go past the corruptible seed to get to the good seed of the word of GOD. How do I do this? I can't but must wait on the lord to reveal His word and endure the temptation not to see the carnal corruptible seed: or my own thoughts. So if you think you're saved just by going forward and repeating after some man, where's the tribulation? Acts 14:22[latter verse] and through much tribulation enter into the Kingdom of God.David before he became king had to deal with tribulation.1 Samuel 26:24 [latter verse] so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the Lord, and let him deliver me out of all tribulation.Because King Saul wanted to take David physical life and what triggered Saul envy? words.1 Samuel 18:7And the women answered one another as they played and said, Saul has hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousand. 8 And Saul was very wroth, and these saying[words] displeased him.What brings tribulation in the mind of a man or women reading the Bible? Words!!!! Matthew 13: 21Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the WORD,by and by he is offended. God's words are Spiritual and the carnal mind of man wants to bring them down to his earthly wisdom and understanding so his mind won't get offended.James 3:15This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. There is a war in the mind of man when he cannot see what is hidden: his carnal mind envy's GOD word. Galatians 5:17For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh, and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.I was at a funeral recently and a dear relative of mine spoke of a suffering women having all kinds of medical problems. That is not suffering tribulation for hearing word; we must get pass our own spirit of error to hear God's word. The tribulation in the Bible is not physical but some carnal minded self-righteous peoples would say, what about Saint Paul didn't he have eye problems? Galatians 4:15 [latter verse] If it had been possible, ye would plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.No, the foolish Galatians wanted Saint Paul to see things their way, through the eyes of the flesh. Job 10:4Hast thou eyes of flesh? Or seest thou as a man seeth? Proverbs 3:7Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the lord, and depart from evil. There was this skinny kid years ago, this kid had a quarter size lump on his wrist and he became very skilled at hiding it with long sleeves shirts. One day a fellow classmate thought he saw something on the skinny kid wrist and tried to show the whole class the deformity. Now the skinny kid would be mocked by the whole school. That night a ten year old boy went home and prayed the only prayer he knew Psalms 23. That next day the lump went gone and he never told told anybody about it and soon he would forget it was ever even there. Twenty three years later as I sat upon my hallway stairs, now so called baptized and thinking I was full of the Holy Ghost. I was troubled by a recent job lost. I looked down at my right hand and the lump was back[over night] this time in the palm of my hand. God in his mercy was trying to show me something and it took another 23 years to figure it out. Ecclesiastes 2: 11Then I looked on the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had laboured to do: behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. God was showing me I had no faith and was not saved nor filled with His Holy Ghost. To become a son of God, we must allow God to correct our thinking: this is a grievous correction. Genesis 18:20 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight because of his son.We naturally do not want to give up that Spiritual son we have all birth in our carnal mind about God’s word. We must be become a new man or a new creature by the living creatures that are God's words. 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away, behold, all things are become new. We are being born again every time God reveals a verse or even a word about HIS TRUTH. 1 Timothy 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. Noticed it does not say anything about going up to physical altar to be saved. An altar call is an physical device created by men in the 183Os and later used to the fullest doing 1950s. Isaiah 17:8 And he shall not look to the altars, the works of his hands. 2016/ amended 5/11/2021 Michael Rudolph Hodges AMENDED 7/15/2022
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