Godly Wisdom To Recognising The Grace Of GOD...

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Updated: Jun 4, 2021, 2:59 AM | 3

This post speaks of the truth Of GOD in the believer according to The faith that is in CHRIST JESUS.

It speaks of the self-righteous; of those who will accuse others of being self-righteous, of the true meaning of what means being, self-righteous.

It speaks of legalism; its true definition and of those who are the legalist according to its true definition.

It speaks something of Spiritual blindness; in the words spoken and actions resulting and The Scriptures used by many, unknowingly, in that they show themselves, as yet at least, to not truly understanding according to GOD, according to their very own words and deeds.

It speaks of seeing with the eyes of the heart and what this is, means, and causes to be in the one who does indeed see in truly possessing a Spiritual faculty in having fellowship with GOD The FATHER And The LORD JESUS CHRIST.

It speaks and explains something of the Spiritual sense in being either rich or poor.

It speaks of light and Righteousness along The Narrow Path to the fulfillment of The Law; which is love.

It speaks of the consequence to any and all as Christians who will choose to live being contrary to these things; contrary according to GOD and HIS Word to us all, and for those who will, in their blindness, stubbornly refuse correction of The Word in what is their rebellion to Divine Authority (thus being of the spirit of the antichrist no matter how much they deny it of themselves).
Those who rather trust in and by their own wisdom, and yet will name themselves a Christian.

It speaks something of repentance where Godly repentance is truly needed in these things.

It is all spoken in accordance with and substantiated by The Word Of GOD.

But if you read, examine carefully and will disagree with anything written and believe of yourself that you are a Christian who walks after GOD'S Own Heart, then speak from The Word to show it, and we will humbly examine everything carefully together from The Word alone, as is proper among the Saints, so that GOD Alone be found true; as is The Truth and can only ever be, and so is our knowing true repentance leading to The Knowledge Of The Truth, that it may be known by all.

Many are asleep and the days are short and the time for many to wake from their sleep is now.
To repent and make ready The Way Of The LORD; to make HIS Paths straight.

May GOD Be With you.
Just as HE Will be and Is with those who will walk in Righteousness and Holiness Of The Truth according to all HIS Word.
HIS Grace being sufficient for when we will stumble and get it wrong along The Way to our overcoming sin.

To GOD The Glory Through JESUS CHRIST our LORD. Always.
Amen.

Wisdom cries out,

..."To you, O men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of men.
"O naive ones, discern prudence;
And, O fools, discern Wisdom.
"Listen, for I shall speak noble things;
And the opening of my lips will produce right things.
"For my mouth will utter Truth;
And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
"All the utterances of my mouth are in Righteousness;
There is nothing crooked or perverted in them.
"They are all straightforward to him who understands, and right to those who find Knowledge...
Proverbs 8:4-9.

Godly Wisdom to Recognising The Grace Of GOD: Being & Remaining True To The LORD, and not being as the many are: People Of Judgement

In our being a Christian: a follower of JESUS CHRIST, this wholly means that our LORD JESUS CHRIST Is, so that HE comes into being in us, our Wisdom from GOD, and Righteousness and Sanctification and Redemption, that, just as It Is Written, "Let him who boasts, boast In The LORD."

This, so that we who sojourn during the time of our stay here on earth and learning towards our perceiving the Wisdom Of GOD through our being Led By The HOLY SPIRIT shall know our mouth only to utter Truth; and wickedness shall be an abomination to our lips; according to Godly Wisdom; being as Of CHRIST HIMSELF.

This is The Purpose Of GOD The FATHER In HIS SON, JESUS CHRIST our LORD; for all who will call upon HIS Name.

See; 1 Corinthians 1:30-31, 2 Corinthians 3:17-18, 1 Peter 1:13-19, Romans 8:10-11, Galatians 5:5, Proverbs 8:6, Philippians 2 1-5, Romans 15:1-6, 2 Corinthians 2:14-17, 1 Corinthians 11:1, Hebrews 6:11-12. Romans 8:28-30.

And because of this Spiritual Truth, which is shown to being borne out in the one who truly lives believing that JESUS CHRIST Is The SON Of GOD: in that they know to love (1 John 4:7-8); in keeping themselves in the love Of GOD (Psalm 146:8, John 14:21-23, Psalm 11:7, Deuteronomy 33:3, John 16:27, 1 Corinthians 2:9-10, John 15:9-10); through their abiding in the love of GOD (Jude: 21-23, 2 Thessalonians 3:5, 1 John 3:16-17); in their knowing GOD (John 17:3, 1 John 5:20); for this is the love of GOD, that we keep HIS Commandments; and HIS Commandments are not burdensome; then all the utterances of their mouth shall be in Righteousness; that there is nothing crooked or perverted in them; but they shall all be straightforward; and shall be straightforward in accordance with the Truthfulness Of GOD In CHRIST JESUS.

See; 1 John 2:27-29, 1 John 5:1-4, Proverbs 8:7-9.

As The Scripture Speaks:

...As is the earthy, so also are those who are earthy; and as Is The Heavenly, so also are those who are Heavenly.
And just as we have borne the image of the earthy, let us also bear The Image Of The Heavenly...
1 Corinthians 15:48-49.

This to us means that as those who are born of the flesh walk (Genesis 2:7, John 3:6, Ephesians 2:1-3), so also are all of those who will walk according to the flesh (Galatians 5:19-21, Romans 8:7-8, 1 John 2:16);
and as Is HE WHO Is from Above (John 8:23-24, & v29), so also are those who are indeed Heavenly (John 17:16-18, Hebrews 5:8-9, Philippians 3:20-21, Philippians 2:1-5, 2 Corinthians 3:17-18, Ephesians 1:4).

And just as we once walked bearing the image of the earthy and our being dead in our transgressions, separated from The Life Of GOD, yet now, even though we walk in the flesh, we understand to know that our body of flesh is dead because of sin, though now, our spirit; being how we are animated to think, perceive, determine and so do, is alive because of Righteousness.

And because of this is how GOD our FATHER now Gives life to our mortal bodies; because of HIS SPIRIT WHO Indwells us, so that we now walk as pleasing to GOD.
(Romans 8:9-14, 1 Corinthians 10:31 - 11:1, Ephesians 5:1-2, 2 Corinthians 5:1-11).

It is because of The HOLY SPIRIT WHO Indwells the one who lives by faith in JESUS The SON Of GOD and it is not, it is not that we have life Given to our mortal bodies because we ourselves will bear witness to ourselves that we are followers of JESUS CHRIST.

The SPIRIT HIMSELF Bears Witness with our spirit that we are children Of GOD, and if children, heirs also, heirs Of GOD and fellow heirs With CHRIST, if indeed we suffer with HIM in order that we may also be Glorified with HIM.
Romans 8:16-17.

We, as Of JESUS CHRIST, look to do and desire to do the things that are pleasing to our Heavenly FATHER (John 8:29-36).

And those who do indeed have The Fruit Of The SPIRIT: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; in and through their difficulties, and distresses and needs within themselves, they assiduously and patiently wait for their Adoption; The Redemption of their body (Romans 8:23-25).

This is The Truth Of GOD In CHRIST JESUS and it is not as many will believe, and what they will uphold and teach, that we have already accomplished our Redemption.

But we press on ever mindful in our walk, that it is the one who endures to the end, overcoming both our own flesh and persecutions who shall be Saved (1 Corinthians 9:24-27, Matthew 10:16-33).

The utterances of the one who lives to GOD, being in Righteousness; that there is nothing crooked or perverted in them, is because this one truly knows and has known to live by The Grace Of GOD through The faith that is in CHRIST JESUS; knowing to have put on the New self, which In GOD has indeed and is being shown in their living, (meaning in all words and deeds), to their having been Created in Righteousness and Holiness Of The Truth; and is their being the salt of the earth; the light of the world; Matthew 5:3-16.

See; Ephesians 4:21-24, 1 Corinthians 5:7, Colossians 3:10, 2 Corinthians 5:17, John 6:44-47.

By this we know that we abide In HIM and HE in us, because HE Has Given us Of HIS SPIRIT.
1 John 4:13.

In this, so that the one who does indeed understand in accordance with JESUS CHRIST and HIS Holy Apostles, and accordingly will always seek to be right before HIM in thought, word and deed; because they will know the discipline Of The LORD (Hebrews 12:5-15) and that they will be as one with those who also have, By The HOLY SPIRIT, The Knowledge Of GOD (Acts 14:22): The Mystery which has been Kept Secret for long ages past, but now is Manifested, and by The Scriptures of the Prophets, according to The Commandment Of The Eternal GOD, which has been Made Known to all the nations, to obedience of faith.

See; John 8:47, 1 John 4:6, Romans 16:25-27, 2 Thessalonians 2:13 - 3:2.

That we may be of those who truly say:

For our proud confidence is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in Holiness and Godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but in The Grace Of GOD, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.
2 Corinthians 1:12.

These are the ones who shall be doers of The Word; those who live proving themselves to being an aroma of CHRIST to GOD in their being doers of The Word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves.
They will understand, evermoreso, to knowing not to merely love with word or with tongue, but in deed and Truth.

Not all have faith: For many are Called, but few Chosen.

See; James 1:19-25, 2 Corinthians 2:14-16, 1 John 3:18, Matthew 22:1-14, 2 Thessalonians 3:1-5.

In our living, when we live not knowing The LORD; not living as understanding according to GOD, then everything we know and understand is being merely natural to us.

But this is being only natural according to the flesh; and flesh and blood cannot Inherit The Kingdom Of GOD; nor does the perishable Inherit The Imperishable. 1 Corinthians 15:48-58.

It is not natural according to GOD and what was meant to be and was before The Fall and is now meant to be; The Purpose Of GOD for all In CHRIST JESUS our LORD.

It is because we live in a fallen and sinful world with our nature being of the same; and in this even our standard of what is good only ever being of the same, being governed by mere natural fleshly instincts and the standards of morality which are given to change over time and not knowing to be Of GOD.

But to do good and to love according to GOD, being as from GOD, is something that we cannot truly know when living or thinking or speaking apart from GOD.
And it cannot ever be Spiritually discerned and being truly according to GOD in the natural man (1 Corinthians 2).

Human nature in differing things throughout time often goes from bad to worse in it not knowing Godly sincerity, Godly morality and is only ever being according to the flesh.
And what is not accepted at one point in time is then often accepted and considered as natural and acceptable at another point in time.
And natural it is; but it is not natural according to what is from Above, but is according to what is earthly, sensual, demonic.

So very sadly though being abundantly clear, for the many it is no different in the church today and it is no different in the church today because of the flesh.
But if all was according to The SPIRIT Of GOD then it would not change and would not have changed as it has and does, because GOD does not change.

Divine Nature and living accordingly is to have escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust, which is Granted to us Through Divine Power, and with it, for us, is our everything pertaining to Life and Godliness, through The True Knowledge Of HIM WHO Called us By HIS Own Glory and Excellence:

...For by these HE Has Granted to us HIS Precious and Magnificent Promises, in order that by them you might become partakers of Divine Nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust...
2 Peter 1:4.

In this we do no harm to others whether that be in thought, word or deed, and all because of the love of GOD.
And in love it becomes our nature; so that we shall not then live doing harm to any, knowing that if doing so then we are only grieving our Heavenly FATHER and ultimately causing eternal harm to our own selves.
Because according to GOD we all shall reap as we have sown in this life; and nothing is nor can be hidden from GOD, WHO Desires and does Bring to fruition in HIS children a love that is without hypocrisy.
Because GOD'S Arm is not so short that it cannot Save; neither is HIS Ear so dull that It cannot Hear.
Yet for many The Scripture is true:

But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your GOD, and your sins have hidden HIS Face from you, so that HE does not Hear. Isaiah 59.

"Remember now, who perished being innocent?
Or where were the upright Destroyed?

"According to what I have seen, those who plough iniquity and those who sow trouble harvest it.
"By The Breath Of GOD they perish and by The Blast Of HIS Anger they come to an end.
Job 4:7-9
(Galatians 6:6-10, Proverbs 1:22-33, Proverbs 11:18-21, Romans 2:1-16).

Where The SPIRIT Of The LORD is, there is Liberty; and this Liberty means, Freedom from the flesh.

...But one who looks intently at The Perfect Law, The Law Of Liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man shall be Blessed in what he does.
James 1:25.

Sow with a view to Righteousness, reap in accordance with kindness;
Break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek The LORD until HE Comes to rain Righteousness on you...
Hosea 10:12.

To love according to GOD is benevolence; first and foremost toward GOD and then to all (Luke 10:25-28); the desire for good and kindness, even to those who will hate us and would wish us and do do us harm.
And this, being unchanging love; love without hypocrisy, is not a natural inclination nor is it a natural ability according to the flesh.

And so, as those who have been Chosen Of GOD, Holy and Beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience; bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as The LORD Forgave you, so also should you.

And beyond all these things love, which is the perfect bond of unity.

And let The Peace Of CHRIST rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were Called in One Body; and be thankful.

Let The Word Of CHRIST Richly dwell within you, with all Wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with Psalms, hymns, Spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to GOD.

And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in The Name Of The LORD JESUS, giving thanks Through HIM to GOD The FATHER.
Colossians 3:12-17.

Christians live being Led By The HOLY SPIRIT; but for this, the desire and will to obey must come first (Acts 5:29-32); and then by Grace we walk with our hearts Comforted and Strengthened in every Good work and word in our being Conformed to The Image Of HIS SON.
It always is from free will; it is always from our own free will.

According to The Holy Scriptures which speak this Spiritual Truth; which many, who though they profess to believe and will walk boasting of many great things as they will see them, and of themselves in all their taking GOD'S Covenant in their mouths, they yet still walk as enemies of The Cross Of CHRIST; whose end is destruction.

And if they, not knowing to live to crucify the flesh with its passions and desires, but do indeed determine to remain in the futility of their mind in their fleshly wisdom, then according to GOD in HIS Word to us, then they are going to die. Romans 8:12-17, Luke 14:25-35.

It is a choosing in life; being either to live according to the flesh or live according to GOD.
And many will make the wrong choices because of what they will choose to believe in and follow and what to them pleases them to do more than truly seeking GOD and are content in doing so, even though they will profess themselves as being a follower of CHRIST.

And these, being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the Life Of GOD because of the ignorance that is in them, their blindness being because of the hardness of their heart and having become callous in and because of their being apart from Godly repentance, is their not coming to their senses to escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will.

Though they will deny it of themselves, in their being apart from Godly repentance and so not being according to GOD, they, accordingly so, will perish.
Apart from repentance they shall perish.

See; Philippians 3:18-19, Ephesians 4:17-19, 2 Timothy 2:23-26, Romans 6:6-7, Psalm 50:16-23.

Wisdom cries out:
"To you, O men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of men.
"O naive ones, discern prudence;
And, O fools, discern Wisdom...
Proverbs 8:4-5.

How Great are THY Works, O LORD!
THY Thoughts Are Very Deep.

A senseless man has no knowledge;
Nor does a stupid man understand this;
That when the wicked sprouted up like grass, and all who do iniquity flourished,
It was only that they might be destroyed forevermore.

But THOU, O LORD, Art On Hight Forever.
For, behold, THINE enemies, O LORD,
For, behold, THINE enemies will perish;
All who do iniquity will be scattered.

But THOU hast Exalted my horn like that of a wild ox;
I have been Anointed with fresh oil
And my eye has looked upon my foes, my ears hear of the evildoers who rise up against me.

The Righteous man will flourish like the palm tree, he will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Planted in The House Of The LORD, they will flourish in The Courts Of our GOD.
They will still yield fruit in old age;
They shall be full of sap and very green, to declare that The LORD Is Upright;
HE Is my Rock, and there is no unrighteousness In HIM.
Psalm 92:5-15.

And here I will show some of The Words Of GOD which many shall speak and use, yet by their own words and actions it is shown that they do not live truly understanding the Holy Scriptures which they will so freely use.
And they in their living, either in their words or deeds as professing followers of JESUS CHRIST, are not declaring The LORD Is Upright; that HE Is their Rock and there is no unrighteousness In HIM.

But they are instead blindly walking still upholding the deeds of the flesh and are merely quoting Scripture and the Message Of The Gospel whilst being apart from The Truth Of GOD in all their living.
And in it all they lead others astray.
They are hypocrites who are as yet blind to their hypocrisy.

They are hypocrites because they live believing of themselves and even being accepted by many others also that as they are speaking The Sacred Writings it is that they live understanding them; that they live fulfilling them, but they do not.

Their words and deeds show them to be yet still of the flesh, contradicting The Scriptures and are not Of The SPIRIT Of GOD; not living by The Grace Of GOD but in fleshly wisdom.

And this is because of their blindness to The Truth Of GOD and that they often will stubbornly refuse any correction from The Word when another shall attempt to show them their error according to The Word Of GOD.

Instead of listening and humbly seeking to examine everything carefully, just as we are Called and Instructed to do as followers of JESUS CHRIST, they will instantly reject and repay with accusations in judgement in their own wisdom and understanding; and this is always because of the flesh.

They believe of themselves that they see, though in truth they are the blind who cannot determine to know what their eyes do not see and cannot see, because of their blindness.
This is their Spiritual sight, and because of it, in it, though they consider themselves as rich and having become wealthy and have need of nothing and will walk bearing such an attitude, even if they believe of themselves that they walk as the humble of CHRIST who are poor in spirit yet rich In GOD, they do not know that they are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.

His watchman are blind, all of them know nothing.
All of them are dumb dogs unable to bark, dreamers lying down, who love to slumber;
And the dogs are greedy, they are not satisfied.
And they are shepherds who have no understanding;
They have all turned to their own way, each one to his unjust gain, to the last one.
Isaiah 56:10-11
(Hosea 4:6, Jeremiah 6:13-14).

They will speak saying that they refuse the self-righteous, and yet they themselves are the self-righteous.
Their righteousness is not according to GOD; that is, and to us all; JESUS CHRIST; in WHOM there is no division and strife, no pride, no arrogance.

In its correct meaning, to be self-righteous means; being confident of one's own righteousness, especially when smugly moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behaviour of others.
Namely, being towards those who are Of GOD and who truly, according to all GOD'S Word, look to live and believe rightly according to GOD In CHRIST JESUS that they may attain to The Knowledge Of The Truth.

It is not a correct application of the word self-righteous when it is spoken in accusation to accuse another who will attempt to show to them any error solely according to The Word Of GOD.

And we all should be careful in doing so, because most certainly we shall give account to GOD for all we have done in the body, even for every careless word spoken (Matthew 12:33-37, 2 Corinthians 5:6-11, Romans 14:9-12, 1 Peter 4:5-11).
And woe to the one who shall give account to GOD for doing what is contrary to HIM, according to HIM.

If one speaks correction from The GOD Breathed Word to someone who is in error according to The Word Of GOD, and the one in error rejects it and chooses to reply with accusation, then who is the one being accused?
It is not the messenger whom they are accusing, but ultimately it is The ONE WHO Is Speaking through HIS messenger that they are rejecting and accusing.

And it is not that any are self-righteous merely because of an accusation of self-righteousness being levelled at them by another. And never is it so.

But being self-righteous is because of the spirit of the one who indeed proves themselves to being self-righteous, and is what truly shows their understanding in all Spiritual matters, and how they themselves actually walk conducting themselves in The Name Of JESUS CHRIST in the attitude of their heart.

Being self-righteous, by its true definition, is of those who shall refuse their being corrected by The Word Of GOD when being shown that they are believing and/or living contrary to and so conducting themselves in error according to The Word Of GOD.

And yet they will prove themselves being intolerant, to what is for all intent and purpose, a formal statement made to them from The Living and Abiding Word Of GOD (1 Peter 1:23 - 2:3) to their still maintaining that they are right; not recognising their spirit, and along with this is their regulating the rules of right conduct of others in their conveying "truths" of Godly counsel as they in their own rightwiseness will see it.

They do not know to consider their spirit lacking true humility in the light of GOD'S Word, which applies to each and every soul, without partiality.
But still, they consider themselves as righteous.

Let not many become teachers, my Brethren, knowing that as such we shall incur a stricter Judgement.
For we all stumble in many ways.
If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well...
James 3:1-2.

Because to do this and to be in right standing before GOD would mean being right according to GOD Alone; word and deed; according to all The Scriptures; not refusing and repudiating The Scriptures; The GOD Breathed Word which makes any one of us wise unto Salvation through faith which is in CHRIST JESUS; The Sacred Writings Inspired By GOD and always profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in Righteousness; that the man Of GOD may be adequate, equipped for every Good work (2 Timothy 3:15 - 4:4).

The humble will know this; and that is why they receive Grace so as to be Saved (James 4:1-12, 1 Peter 5:2-11).

The one who stubbornly refuses correction according to The Word is the one who, by its correct definition and application, is proving himself as being self-righteous: of being confident of their own righteousness; especially when is their being shown according to The Word Of GOD and will turn on the one attempting to show them, and shall accuse in judgement, which again is being contrary to The Commandment and The Word which we have had from the beginning, yet it is exactly what they are doing.

And this is because they are contentedly confident of their own ability and superiority as they see it, and their arrogance in what they are doing clearly shows it of them, that is, to those who do have eyes to see and ears to hear; that there truly is no fear of GOD before their eyes.
They do not revere GOD, even though they will say they revere GOD.

The Spiritual Truth is, if we truly live to revere GOD, then we would serve only HIM and never ourselves (Malachi 3:13 - 4:6).

And their own correctness being according to themselves; and in it all truly proving themselves to being complacent and truly intolerant in matters pertaining to GOD but reflecting it in accusation onto those who will walk according to GOD and who will always look to do so, who desire to, then it shall prove on That Day as being to their own detriment, because of The LORD, because of what they have believed and held on to throughout the course of their life in their disobedience to The Truth Of GOD (2 Thessalonians 1:6-12).

It is to see these things and discern, because the darkness is passing away, and the True Light is shining.

The one who says he is in The Light and hates his Brother is in the darkness until now.
The one who loves his Brother abides in The Light and there is no cause for stumbling in him.
But the one who hates his Brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes...
1 John 2:9-11.

Or do we yet still deny this and still determine to call GOD a liar?

Can a throne of destruction be allied with THEE, one which devises mischief by decree?

They band themselves together against the life of the Righteous and condemn the innocent to death.

But The LORD has been my Stronghold, and my GOD The Rock Of my Refuge.
And HE Has Brought Back their wickedness upon them and will destroy them in their evil;
The LORD our GOD Will Destroy them.
Psalm 94:20-23.

He who returns evil for good, evil will not depart from his house.

The beginning of strife is like letting out water, so abandon the quarrel before it breaks out.

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the Righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to The LORD.
Proverbs 17:13-15

Evil shall slay the wicked;
And those who hate the Righteous will be condemned.
The LORD Redeems the soul of HIS servants;
And none of those who take refuge In HIM will be condemned.
Psalm 34:21-22.

Being self-righteous is contrary to JESUS CHRIST and in being so is not confessing JESUS CHRIST has Come in the flesh.

This is because the self-righteous prove to live not having The Spirit Of CHRIST in them; and so according to The Word Of GOD they do not belong to HIM (Romans 8:9).

They prove of themselves to not having The Mind Of CHRIST, even though they shall walk and profess of themselves that they do and will be accepted by many that they do, who in doing so also live to proving themselves as equally unknowing and foolish in it all as they.

We do not walk determining GOD to be like us, but we are to walk determining to be Made like GOD In CHRIST JESUS.

... Therefore be imitators of GOD as Beloved children; and walk in love, just as CHRIST also loved us, and Gave HIMSELF Up for us, an Offering and A Sacrifice to GOD as A Fragrant Aroma.
Ephesians 5:1-2

But he who is truly Spiritual will indeed appraise all things (1 Corinthians 2:12 - 3:11).

Repentance is in The Grace Of GOD; which comes through The faith that is In CHRIST JESUS.

...By this you know The SPIRIT Of GOD: every spirit (of man) that confesses that JESUS CHRIST has Come in the flesh Is from GOD; and every spirit that does not confess JESUS is not from GOD; and this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that is coming, and now it is already in the world...
1 John 4:2-3.

The spirit of the antichrist means, one who proves to be an adversary of MESSIAH, an opponent of MESSIAH.

But we live understanding,

"I have been crucified with CHRIST; and it is no longer I who live, but CHRIST lives in me; and the life which I live in the flesh I live by faith in The SON Of GOD, WHO loved me, and Delivered HIMSELF Up for me.
"I do not nullify The Grace Of GOD; for if Righteousness comes through The Law, then CHRIST Died needlessly."
Galatians 2:20-21.

This is the simple understanding which every Christian should know; an elementary principle of The faith; that the Message Of The Gospel is repentance for Forgiveness of sins.

Though no longer being under Law we now, being under Grace, live fulfilling The Law through faith, which could not be done by any before MESSIAH JESUS Came and died and Rose again on our behalf.
This means that we do not now live nullifying The Law through faith, but we now live establishing The Law through faith (Romans 3:31).

The Purpose Of GOD In HIS SON Is that we are Released from our sins By HIS Blood through and by our faith in HIM, wherein HE has Made us to walk as kings and priests to HIS GOD And FATHER (Revelation 1:5-6); and so is our being Spiritually rich and not poor.

If we live not keeping The Greatest and Foremost Commandment and the second which is like it, then whoever we are, whoever we think we are, whatever we live choosing to believe which is contrary to The Commandment and our fulfilling The Law and walking ever mindful to do so, then we shall certainly die (Luke 10:25-28).

And accordingly is our understanding in the Spiritual; to our either being Spiritually rich or to our being poor:

He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will find Compassion.

How Blessed is the man who fears always,
But he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity.

A roaring lion and a rushing bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
A leader who is a great oppressor lacks understanding,
He who hates unjust gain will prolong his days.

A man who is laden with the guilt of human blood will be a fugitive until death; let no one support him.

He who walks blamelessly will be Delivered, but he who is crooked will fall all at once.

He who tills his land will have plenty of food, but he who follows empty pursuits will have poverty in plenty.

A faithful man will abound with Blessings, but he who makes haste to be rich will not go unpunished.
Proverbs 28:13-20

We are Called to walk as imitators of CHRIST.
HE Is our Example and HE shall be In the one who is truly being Led By The SPIRIT Of GOD, who is shown by their words and deeds to being an imitator of CHRIST; an aroma of CHRIST to GOD.

For you have been Called for this Purpose, since CHRIST also Suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in his steps, WHO committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in HIS Mouth; and while being reviled, HE did not revile in return; while suffering, HE Uttered no threats, but kept entrusting to HIM WHO Judges Righteously; and HE HIMSELF Bore our sins In HIS Body on the cross, that we might die to sin to live to Righteousness; for By HIS Wounds you were Healed...
1 Peter 2:21-24.

The naive believes everything, but the prudent man considers his steps.
A wise man is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is arrogant and careless.
Proverbs 14:15-16.

Do not quench The SPIRIT; do not despise Prophetic utterances.
But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good; abstain from every appearance of evil.

Now may The GOD Of Peace HIMSELF Sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be Preserved Complete, without blame at The Coming Of our LORD JESUS CHRIST...
1 Thessalonians 5:19-23.

"Be on guard for yourselves and for all The Flock, among which The HOLY SPIRIT has made you overseers, to shepherd The Church Of GOD which HE Purchased With HIS Own Blood.
"I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing The Flock; and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the Disciples after them.
Acts 20:28-30.

And the same, the self-righteous, will also speak in saying that they refuse the legalist, and yet they themselves are the legalist, because of the meaning of, legalist or legalism.
This too has no part in The Grace Of GOD.

Legalism means, a strict adherence, or the principle of strict adherence, to law or prescription; especially to the letter rather than of the spirit.

This again is speaking of those who shall walk, not according to The SPIRIT Of GOD but according to the flesh; and it will be shown in their actions, their words and their deeds as not being in accordance with JESUS CHRIST and The SPIRIT Of GOD.

They shall speak and shall expect your adherence to their understanding of Scripture; to The Word Of GOD as they see and understand It, and in this is their not understanding what truly is shown to being Of GOD and is according to GOD; that is, of our spirit being Led By The HOLY SPIRIT, that HE HIMSELF Bears Witness with our spirit that we are, in Truth; in word and deed, children Of GOD.

And though they boast of great things and of the works thay they will do in The Name Of JESUS CHRIST, they do not understand and they show themselves as not understanding what SPIRIT they are Called to be of and In Truth shall be Of, and what this will then cause to be in them, in all of how they will perceive and accept in the conduct of GOD'S children; in all their words and deeds to being truly of JESUS CHRIST

And they walk contrary to their fulfillment of these Scriptures; contrary to the fulfilment of The Law: love; even though they believe of themselves that they understand them to do them.

The SPIRIT HIMSELF Bears Witness with our spirit that we are children Of GOD,...
Romans 8:16.

By this we know that we abide In HIM and HE In us, because HE Has Given us Of HIS SPIRIT.
1 John 4:13

The one who believes in The SON Of GOD has The Witness in himself; the one who does not believe GOD has made HIM a liar, because he has not believed in The Witness that GOD Has Borne concerning HIS SON...
1 John 5:10.

We are to recognise such as these; who live to show in how they will conduct and hold themselves to their not believing in The Witness that GOD Has Borne concerning HIS SON.
And those who will refuse correction of The Word and will not turn away from what it is they do that is contrary to The Witness, and in doing so is their calling GOD a liar in their living, we are to have no part with them; until they will know repentance in it. Matthew 18:15-35.

The man Of GOD entreats the Favour of The LORD with all his heart; and to him HE is Gracious, Merciful; according to HIS Word.

Therefore, if any man refuses The Word Of Truth then he does not have GOD; and if he does not have GOD, then The LORD GOD cannot be Gracious, Merciful toward him according to HIS Word.
And this is because it is impossible for GOD to lie.
Psalm 119:57-96.

Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice, and be Gracious to me and Answer me.
When THOU Didst Say,
"Seek MY Face,"
my heart said to THEE,
"THY Face, O LORD, I shall seek."
Psalm 27:7-8.

Now I urge you, Brethren, keep your eye on those who cause dissensions and hindrances contrary to The Teaching which you learned, and turn away from them.
For such men are slaves, not of our LORD CHRIST but of their own appetites; and by their smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.
Romans 16:17-18.

There is nothing of Godly Wisdom in such as these, who glory in themselves; who will believe of themselves that they have authority because they own titles, which in truth are not theirs to own, and neither are they titles.
As Paul warns those who are indeed partakers of Grace;

Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision; for we are the circumcision, who worship in The SPIRIT Of GOD and Glory In CHRIST JESUS and put no confidence in the flesh,...
Philippians 3:2-3 (Mark 13:34-37).

We, as partakers of Grace in the defense and confirmation of The Gospel, will live to serve GOD in our spirit in The Gospel Of HIS SON (Romans 1:9), and not being as those who stand as a Christian and yet will walk showing that they do not understand what means to being in Righteousness and Holiness Of The Truth.

"But an hour is Coming, and now Is, when the true worshipers shall worship The FATHER in spirit and truth; for such people The FATHER Seeks to be HIS worshipers.
"GOD Is SPIRIT, and those who worship HIM must worship in spirit and truth."
John 4:23-24.

Those who are in the flesh cannot please GOD (Romans 8:6-8), but If CHRIST Is in us now is our knowing that our body is dead because of sin (Romans 7:6); yet our spirit is alive because of Righteousness (Romans 8:10), and so is our serving in Newness Of The SPIRIT.

For The Law Of The SPIRIT Of Life has set me Free from The Law of sin and death.
Romans 8:2.

Now The LORD Is The SPIRIT; and where The SPIRIT Of The LORD Is, there is Liberty.

But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror The Glory Of The LORD, are being Transformed into The Same Image from glory to Glory, just as from The LORD, The SPIRIT.
2 Corinthians 3:17-18

But put on The LORD JESUS CHRIST, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.
Romans 13:14

...if indeed you have heard HIM and have been Taught In HIM, just as Truth Is In JESUS, that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and that you be Renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the New self, which In GOD has been Created in Righteousness and Holiness Of The Truth.
Ephesians 4:21-24.

that, as sin reigned in death, even so Grace might Reign through Righteousness to Eternal Life Through JESUS CHRIST our LORD.
Romans 5:21.

So also It Is Written,
"The first man, Adam, became a living soul." (Genesis 2:17, Acts 17:26)
The last Adam A Life Giving Spirit.

However, The Spiritual is not first, but the natural; then The Spiritual.
The first man is from the earth, earthy; The Second Man is from Heaven.

As is the earthy, so also are those who are earthy; and as Is The Heavenly, so also are those who are Heavenly.

And just as we have borne the image of the earthy, let us also bear The Image Of The Heavenly...
1 Corinthians 15:45-49.

For The Law Of The SPIRIT Of Life has set me Free from The Law of sin and death.
Romans 8:2.

Now we have Received, not the spirit of the world, but The SPIRIT WHO Is from GOD, that we might know the things Freely Given to us by GOD, which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those Taught By The SPIRIT, combining Spiritual with Spiritual...
1 Corinthians 2:12-13.

The naive inherit folly, but the prudent are Crowned with knowledge.
Proverbs 14:18

A man has joy in an apt answer, and how delightful is a timely word!
The Path Of Life leads upward for the wise, that he may keep away from Sheol below.
Proverbs 15:21-22.

Understanding is a fountain Of Life to him who has it, but the discipline of fools is folly.
The heart of the wise teaches his mouth and adds persuasiveness to his lips.
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
Proverbs 16:22-23.

Before destruction the heart of a man is haughty, but humility goes before honour.
He who gives an answer before he hears, it is folly and shame to him.
Proverbs 18:12-13.

It is a snare for a man to say rashly,
"It is holy!"
And after the vows to make inquiry.
Proverbs 20:25.

Those that will do so will live proving themselves to be envious, feeling ill will, discontent, to their causing and maintaining strife, abusive language, evil suspicions, and constant frictions between others, because they, before GOD and according to HIS Righteousness are not Righteous.
They are men of depraved mind and deprived of The Truth who suppose that godliness, as they will understand Godliness to be, is a means of gain to and for themselves.

What they do not understand is that Godliness is indeed a means of Great gain, when it is accompanied by competence and sufficiency; regardless of situation and circumstance.

There are six things which The LORD Hates,
Yes, seven which are an abomination to HIM:
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that run rapidly to evil, a false witness who utters lies,
And one who spreads strife among Brothers.
Proverbs 6:16-19.

They will say such words about their living as being; "to seek GOD'S Will for their lives so that they can glorify HIM."

Yet they prove of themselves as not seeking GOD and their not knowing how to live to their showing GOD honourable in their living.
They do not understand that it is only through our living by faith, according to all HIS Word, that HE may be Glorified in us, through us:

"Offer to GOD a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to The MOST HIGH;
And call upon ME in the day of trouble;
I Shall Rescue you, and you will honour ME."

But to the wicked GOD Says,
"What right have you to tell of MY Statutes, and to take MY Covenant in your mouth?
"For you hate discipline, and you cast MY Words behind you.
"When you see a thief, you are pleased with him, and you associate with adulterers
"You let your mouth loose in evil, and your tongue frames deceit...
Psalm 50:14-19. (John 10:1, James 4:1-6).

They prove themselves by their living according to the flesh, to not magnify HIM in their light not being light, but proving to be darkness, and so they cannot live to glorify GOD by their words and deeds, even though we are told by our LORD JESUS CHRIST:

"Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your Good works, and Glorify your FATHER WHO Is In Heaven...
Matthew 5:16.

And,

"No one after lighting a lamp, puts it away in a cellar, nor under a peck-measure, but on the lampstand, in order that those who enter may see the light.
"The lamp of your body is your eye; when your eye is clear, your whole body is full of light; but when it is bad, your body also is full of darkness.
"Then watch out that the light in you may not be darkness.
"If therefore your whole body is full of light, with no dark part in it, it shall be wholly illumined, as when the lamp illumines you with its rays."
Luke 11:33-36.

And in their not understanding is how and is according to Scripture they are actually found to be living, as opposed to how all In CHRIST are to live and to be found living; that being, wholly according to GOD, HIS Holy Apostles and all HIS Word, to the praise and worship of GOD Through JESUS CHRIST:

For whatever was Written in earlier times was Written for our Instruction, that through perseverance and the encouragement Of The Scriptures we might have Hope.

Now may The GOD WHO Gives perseverance and encouragement Grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to CHRIST JESUS; that with One accord you may with One voice Glorify The GOD And FATHER Of our LORD JESUS CHRIST.

Wherefore, accept one another, just as CHRIST also accepted us to The Glory Of GOD...
Romans 15:4-7.

This they do not do.
And this is because they uphold strife and division; they do not know how to speak In CHRIST; they do not know the humility required, through faith, to our entering into this Grace in which we stand and to our remaining in The Grace Of GOD; that we do not live so as to nullify The Grace Of GOD.

They do not know, because of the flesh, to accept one another in the same manner as CHRIST also accepted us to The Glory Of GOD; which is in Righteousness and Holiness of The Truth; where Lovingkindness and Truth meet together; where Righteousness and Peace kiss each other.
Then and only then, Truth springs from the earth; and Righteousness looks down from Heaven. (Psalm 85).

But they still know to mock others, and being contrary to GOD they do not, they cannot, discern when they are doing so, because we know and learn Through The SPIRIT Of GOD; and GOD cannot lie.

They judge and condemn in their own wisdom and belief of The Scriptures and so they live to judge The Law as opposed to their being doers of The Law.

They do not know to love In The SPIRIT.

And so in all these things they are shown that they do not walk being led By The HOLY SPIRIT.

Yet to all of these things they will say that they either do not do them or they know to do them in accordance with CHRIST JESUS, and they cannot recognise that they are not living as they believe they are living; yet it is proven, in light of Scripture and By The HOLY SPIRIT that by their own words and deeds they, before GOD, blindly practice lawlessness.

They do not extol GOD; they do not magnify GOD; they do not live to celebrate GOD in all their living.
They may do so in their own understanding of these things but they do not do so according to GOD and HIS Word to us.
They do not render HIM excellent; because they worship with their lips yet truly their hearts are far away from HIM.

Again, they will take objection to this and shall deny this being of themselves, but their Spiritual blindness, which is proven by their own words and deeds in what they will honestly believe and do and consider as acceptable service is being in their own wisdom of what is acceptable to GOD in all their work of service as they will see it and shall do.

Yet to those with eyes to see and ears to hear it shows them for who and what they truly are before GOD.
Just as, and I am sure because of The Word Of GOD and The HOLY SPIRIT, those of whom our LORD JESUS CHRIST Speaks, as we have written in Matthew 7:21-23.

But the one who does indeed join himself to The LORD is One Spirit with HIM.
And they live understanding;

...For by ONE SPIRIT we are all Baptised into One Body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all Made to drink of ONE SPIRIT.
For The Body is not one member, but many...
1 Corinthians 12:13-14.

"...that they may all be One; even as THOU, FATHER, Art In ME, And I In THEE, that they also may be In US; that the world may believe that THOU Didst Send ME.

"And The Glory which THOU Hast Given ME I Have Given to them; that they may be One, just as WE Are ONE; I In them, and THOU In ME, that they may be Perfected in Unity; that the world may know that THOU Didst Send ME, and Didst love them, even as THOU Didst love ME...
John 17:21-23

...being diligent to preserve the Unity Of The SPIRIT in the bond of Peace.
One Body and ONE SPIRIT, just as also you were Called in One Hope of your Calling;
ONE LORD, One Faith, One Baptism, ONE GOD And FATHER Of all WHO Is Over all and Through all and In all...
Ephesians 4:3-6

...that HE might present to HIMSELF The Church in all Her Glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that She should be Holy and blameless.
Ephesians 5:27.

Yet they will say, and believing;

"GOD Desires fellowship with us, not because of who we are but because of WHO HE Is."

Is it any wonder that they conduct themselves contrary to The Will Of GOD when they believe and accept such as this; which is shown by how they will then willingly and so easily still fight and quarrel according to the flesh and yet believe they walk in fellowship with GOD.

It is true that GOD Desires fellowship with us, but what they do not comprehend is what fellowship with GOD truly is and means.
And in fellowship with GOD The FATHER And The LORD JESUS CHRIST, it is how we are walking and believing; it is not however we are walking or whatever we believe in.

And if anyone sins, we have An Advocate With The FATHER, JESUS CHRIST The Righteous.

But by definition of advocate, an advocate ensures a person has the tools to make an informed decision; it is not about making the decision for that person: and just as HIS Apostles believed, understood and spoke;

What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we beheld and our hands handled, concerning The WORD Of Life - and The Life was Manifested, and we have seen and bear witness and proclaim to you The Eternal Life, which was With The FATHER and was Manifested to us - what we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also, that you also may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with The FATHER, And with HIS SON JESUS CHRIST.
And these things we write, so that our joy may be made Complete.

And this is The Message we have heard from HIM and announce to you, that GOD Is Light, and In HIM there is no darkness at all.

If we say that we have fellowship with HIM and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice The Truth; but if we walk in The Light as HE HIMSELF Is In The Light, we have fellowship with one another, and The Blood Of JESUS HIS SON Cleanses us from all sin...
1 John 1:1-7.

This fellowship means, participation to communicate.
GOD does not hear sinners (Lamentations 3:39-44, Zechariah 7:13, Isaiah 1:15, Job 35:10-13, Proverbs 1:29, James 4:4-12, Proverbs 15:29).

"We know that GOD does not Hear sinners; but if anyone is GOD-fearing, and does HIS Will, HE Hears him.
John 9:31

Come, you children, listen to me;
I Will teach you the fear of The LORD.

Who is the man who desires Life, and loves days that he may see good?

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.
Depart from evil, and do good;
Seek peace and pursue it.

The Eyes Of The LORD are Toward the Righteous, and HIS Ears are Open to their cry.
The Face Of The LORD is Against evil-doers, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.
Psalm 34:11-16.

And it escapes them, being shown that it escapes them by their words and deeds and all they shall do being contrary to The SPIRIT Of Holiness and without conscience in it, that GOD Says to us in Truth, through HIS Apostles:

...As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts in your ignorance, but like The Holy ONE WHO Called you, be Holy yourselves in all behaviour; because It Is Written,
"You shall be Holy, for I AM Holy."

And if you address as FATHER The ONE WHO Impartially Judges according to each man's work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay upon earth; knowing that you were not Redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with Precious Blood, as Of A LAMB Unblemished and Spotless, Of CHRIST...
1 Peter 1:14-19.

They will quote Galatians 5:22-23;
But The Fruit Of The SPIRIT is love, joy, peace patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no Law...

But they do not perceive this Godly Fruit in The Truth Of GOD when what they shall willingly do holds nothing of the true definitions of The Fruit Of The SPIRIT.

They will speak of love and faith, but truly, the nearest they come to love and faith is to talking about them, making confident assertions of them, yet not knowing either what they truly mean in the Spiritual nor what means by our living to our bearing witness to the love Of GOD and a Saving faith being borne out in our living.

They will speak of forgiveness, but in their living they show not to truly know the requirements of GOD'S Forgiveness, both to themselves and their willingness in understanding their forgiveness according to GOD towards all others.

They will say such as;

"If you are actively doing something that is wrong and immoral, GOD Commands you that you must turn away from them."

But they themselves cannot recognise when they are, according to GOD, doing what is wrong and not knowing Godly repentance and what Godly repentance will mean in their not continuing in them; and all so blindly.
Yet they shall all too willingly be ready to argue a point even though they are unknowing in it.
And so they shall blindly refuse any correction according to The Word and shall themselves continue in their sins.

The Advocate WHOM we have With The FATHER, JESUS CHRIST The Righteous, then becomes rejected by them, because they, speaking from themselves, are willingly rejecting HIM in The Wisdom and Righteousness and Sanctification and Redemption HE Is to those who believe in HIM.

They shall be all too ready to argue and ready to give their answer before they have fully heard and understood what it is they are speaking out against and refusing, which is contrary to The Wisdom Of GOD.
And The Word and Wisdom Of GOD WHOM they lay claim to having faith in states of those who will do this:

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man is he who listens to counsel.
Proverbs 12:15.

He who walks with wise men will be wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
Proverbs 13:20.

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.
Fools mock at sin, but among the upright there is good will.
Proverbs 14:8-9.

A wise man is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is arrogant and careless.
Proverbs 14:16.

A fool does not delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own mind.
Proverbs 18:2.

...If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.
James 1:26 (Proverbs 13:1-3).

They lose sight of the fact that by our being In CHRIST, when we speak, we are to let it be, as it were, The Utterances Of GOD (1 Peter 4:11).

But instead they will hate him who reproves, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly (Amos 5:10, Proverbs 9:7-8).

They will commend themselves and those whom they themselves will deem as being faithful servants of GOD; not by The Word Of GOD but by their own wisdom and judgement, and in it all is their knowing to show partiality.

"How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another, and you do not seek The Glory that is from The Only GOD?
John 5:44.

They will claim to any and all that they love GOD.
But their statement of loving GOD is not borne out in their words and deeds; it is not according to The Word Of GOD.

If someone says,
"I love GOD," and hates his Brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his Brother whom he has seen, cannot love GOD WHOM he has not seen.
And this Commandment we have from HIM, that the one who loves GOD should love his Brother also...
1 John 4:20-21 (John 13:34-35).

Theirs is love in hypocrisy, which is not love according to GOD. Romans 12:9-18.

Striving in their own strength and wisdom, they, being the legalist who blindly claims to refuse legalism; and being the self-righteous who will lay claim to refusing the self-righteous; in their being untaught and unstable in their belief of these things, which stem from their advocating a different doctrine, from their distorting The Scriptures and their not agreeing with Sound Words; those Of our LORD JESUS CHRIST and with The Doctrine conforming to Godliness, (and so is their not being led by The SPIRIT Of GOD); their ears are dull, their eyes are dim and their hearts they have hardened to their lacking any Spiritual discernment.

It is not surprising that they will deny these things of themselves and will know, in response to their being shown error, to rather choose to accuse, which is because of their poor Spiritual state as opposed to their being Spiritually rich; and believing of themselves much in the same spirit of the Pharisees and Sadducees, the scribes and the so called experts of the Mosaic Law (lawyers) who hated and rejected The LORD JESUS CHRIST and HIS Apostles.

And being just as their fathers who did the same to the Prophets who spoke in The Name Of The LORD, whom GOD Sent to HIS people to turn them back from their wicked ways and the death that awaited them in it all; yet they chose rather to refuse and kill them.

Today this Scripture is true of them also:

"You men who are stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears are always resisting The HOLY SPIRIT; you are doing just as your fathers did.
"Which one of the Prophets did your fathers not persecute?
And they killed those who had previously announced The Coming Of The Righteous ONE, WHOSE betrayers and murderers you have now become; you who received The Law as ordained by angels, and yet did not keep it."
Acts 7:51-53.

These are the last days.
Time is short and the days are evil.
And yet The Church for whom The LORD JESUS CHRIST Suffered and died; which HE Purchased with HIS Own Blood is a house divided, believing in strange and varied teachings, being deceived, and largely stuck in the ways of the world, in the deeds of the flesh.
And what they offer up they deem acceptable to GOD and appropriate as followers of JESUS CHRIST and to the world imitators of CHRIST.
Yet, John 17!

They have stiffened their necks, hardened their hearts and do not know to bend the knee.
And what they will offer from their lips is because their hearts are far away from GOD.
Each one of them is stubbornly determined to strive in his own strength and wisdom.
And those who can see these things and recognising that the time is short are relatively few.

I do not write any of these things with malice toward any, but only for the purpose that even just one might see and recognise and know to refuse what they will do, and he who walks this way will also know repentance; because that which they do, the following of will not and cannot save them; but it condemns them.
Do not rejoice in their light, which is no light at all to guide along the paths of life, but is darkness in which they stumble.
They condemn themselves in and by their own choosing; the very meaning of heresy.

Wisdom is vindicated by all her children.

This is in the hope that those who are those who do not understand as they believe they understand, may actually come to their senses, and will know repentance: the Godly repentance which leads to Salvation in accordance with The Holy Scriptures through The faith that is in CHRIST JESUS.

After all, it is for those who will call on The Name of JESUS CHRIST to have The Mind Of CHRIST; to have The Heart Of GOD in our dealings with all; just as Of CHRIST HIMSELF:

"A battered reed HE will not break off,
And a smoldering wick HE will not put out, until HE Leads Justice to victory. (1 Corinthians 15:56-58)
"And In HIS Name the Gentiles will hope."
Matthew 12:20-21.

Matthew 13:24-30, Hebrews 12:12-13, Ezekiel 34:16.
And only GOD Sees the end from the beginning.

Their way is death, but in their strange and varied teachings, the ignorance that is in them as to The Truth Of GOD denies this of themselves; and this, being tantamount to arrogance before GOD, is why they cannot see.
Because GOD Is Opposed to the proud but Gives Grace to the humble (1 Peter 5:5-8).

It is Grace Given according to the measure of CHRIST'S Gift that HE Gives Gifts to men.
They are not titles as they will presume them to be and will use them and believing of themselves accordingly.

But, and being contrary to The Word Of GOD, of those who are in the world and bearing the name of one of these Gifts many do not walk in accordance with The Purpose Of GOD in them.

But you who read here, read The Scriptures to examine everything carefully; read The Scriptures to see that if in those you come across in your walk, who will lay claim to bearing any of these Gifts, that their Purpose according to GOD is being fulfilled by them according to GOD; knowing that wisdom is vindicated by her deeds;

...And HE Gave some Apostles, some Prophets and some Evangelists and some Pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the Saints for the Work of service, to the building up of The Body Of CHRIST; until we all attain to the unity Of The faith and Of The Knowledge Of The SON Of GOD, to a mature man, to the Measure of the Stature which belongs to The Fullness Of CHRIST.

As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves, and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; but speaking The Truth in love, we are to grow up in all into HIM, WHO Is The Head, CHRIST, from WHOM the whole Body, being Fitted and Held Together by that which every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of The Body for the Building Up of Itself in love.
Ephesians 4:11-16.

Any house divided against itself cannot stand.

Given this, in that we live and walk fully understanding this; possessing Godly wisdom, only then is it being able to see through the eyes of your heart that what these will often do is in their being estranged from GOD, when it is impossible for such as this Scripture being fulfilled in them/through them, along with those who will also accept them for what they themselves will say they are in HIS Church.

Many do not understand The Word, let alone will walk and know to walk following the example of men Of GOD such as the Apostles Of our LORD JESUS CHRIST and pressing on toward The Goal for The Prize of The Upward Call Of GOD In CHRIST JESUS; and in all their knowing to both they and our attaining to the unity of The faith; being as One In CHRIST.

Unity means unanimity; the state of being unanimous, a consensus or undivided opinion; being wholly in agreement.

Given this and what Paul wrote to The Church at Ephesus, and understanding that The Church is made up of believers, each one being as a living stone:

If the stones are not joined together and being built upon The Firm Foundation which is JESUS CHRIST, because some of the stones are not being careful in allowing GOD'S Building; GOD'S Edification as the sole means of their construction (1 Corinthians 3:9-11) because the meaning of a simple word such as 'unity' cannot be understood by them in what they believe and in how they will conduct themselves, with what they will permit and accept as being Good and Acceptable and Perfect according to GOD, then in the context of what Paul has written to The Church, as they are, there is no hope for them; there is no firm expectation of receiving The Promises Of GOD, even though they believe of themselves that this is what they are destined for in what it is they will do in HIS Name.

And for these, though they profess The Name, they live as though they do not understand such as Romans 15:1-13.

And this is because they are, in truth, living contrary to this Word, even though they profess to be followers of JESUS CHRIST.

They are not living to believe so that their wisdom is shown vindicated in and by The Wisdom Of GOD.

Therefore having been Justified by faith, we have peace with GOD Through our LORD JESUS CHRIST, Through WHOM also we have Obtained our Introduction by faith into this Grace in which we stand; and we exult in Hope Of The Glory Of GOD.

And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, Hope; and Hope does not disappoint, because The Love Of GOD has been Poured Out within our hearts Through The HOLY SPIRIT WHO Was Given to us.
Romans 5:1-5 (John 7:18).

Through tribulation the one who endures knows to their acquiring perseverance, and this perseverance makes for proven character as of the children Of GOD.
And this in turn causes our very real Christian expectation (Hope) because of The Glory Of GOD in us; through us.

This is the Hope which does not disappoint, because we are shown to have the love Of GOD in our hearts Through The HOLY SPIRIT; Through WHOM we have all these things; being GOD'S Workmanship by HIS Grace Through The faith that is in CHRIST JESUS The LORD; our being Released from our sins By HIS Blood; shown to no longer be as slaves to sin but Freed from sin and alive to GOD In CHRIST JESUS.

And in our having this means we are indeed subsequently shown ourselves to love with the love Of GOD; our abiding in HIS love, and means not merely with word or with tongue; but in deed and Truth.

Love is patient, love is kind, is not jealous; love does not brag, is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with The Truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails...
1 Corinthians 13:4-8a.

And all is to The Glory Of GOD through us.

If we speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, we have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

And if we have any of The Gifts for the common good, and all faith, but do not have love, then we are nothing.

And if we give all our possessions to the poor and deliver our body that we may boast, but do not have love, it will profit us nothing. 1 Corinthians 13.

Love is Righteousness manifested in us and is borne out in our words and deeds; because love does no wrong to a neighbour; it is always benevolence; the desire for good, to do good; word and deed, according to GOD.
It is the doing of, from the desire for love and the desire to love.

And this is the path we must be on as we sojourn here in our time on earth; that we all, as we walk we grow; to shine brighter and brighter; our light which shines before all men, and Glorifies our FATHER WHO Is In Heaven.
It is the difficult walk along The Narrow Path until the day, either our soul is required of us, or when HE Returns.

But the path of the Righteous is like the light of dawn, that shines brighter and brighter until the full day.
The way of the wicked is like darkness;
They do not know over what they stumble.
Proverbs 4:18-19

The LORD Is my Light and my Salvation;
Whom shall I fear?
The LORD Is The Defense of my life;
Whom shall I dread?
Psalm 27:1

For with THEE Is The Fountain Of Life;
In THY Light we see light.
Psalm 36:9.

"Then The Kingdom Of Heaven will be comparable to ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.
"And five of them were foolish, and five were prudent.
"For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the prudent took oil in flasks along with their lamps.

"Now while the bridegroom was delaying, they all got drowsy and began to sleep.

"But at midnight there was a shout,
'Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet.'
"Then all those virgins rose, and trimmed their lamps.

"And the foolish said to the prudent,
'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.'
"But the prudent answered, saying,
'No, there will not be enough for us and you; go instead to the dealers and buy for yourselves.'

"And while they were going away to make the purchase, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast; and the door was shut.

"And later the other virgins also came, saying,
'Lord, lord, open up for us.'

"But he answered and said,
'Truly I say to you, I do not know you.'

"Be on the alert then, for you do not know the day nor the hour...
Matthew 25:1-13.

...Everyone who loves is born Of GOD and knows GOD.
The one who does not love does not know GOD, for GOD Is love
1 John 4:7b-8.

It is not that we as Christians may sleep in our walk, walking as we please and then believe that we are alert in our doing service to GOD; that we are walking in The Truth Of GOD The FATHER as we have Received Commandment to do and shall, regardless of how we actually do walk, have GOD.

To have GOD means that we hold possession of the mind being joined to both The FATHER and The SON in the bond of that relationship. 2 John: 9.

- what we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also, that you also may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is With The FATHER, and With HIS SON JESUS CHRIST.
1 John 1:3

For we have become partakers Of CHRIST, if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end;...
Hebrews 3:14.

That is, if we have indeed heard and continue to hear, according to The FATHER, And HIS SON, JESUS CHRIST; By HIS HOLY SPIRIT.

And the contents of the Apostle John's second letter makes this abundantly clear.

But this is very much the attitude of many today who will profess to be Christian and is their living contrary to Scripture; contrary to GOD; and so it is not knowing obedience of faith in their not acknowledging The Words Of The New Covenant in the Apostles' teaching and being as they knew to understand.

The Covenant we now have in The New Covenant In The Blood Of CHRIST is and means a disposition.

Many who profess to believe in GOD through JESUS CHRIST and consider themselves as partakers of The Covenant simply and clearly do not have the disposition: the characteristic attitude; the inclination toward GOD which they believe they have.
Certainly they are not mindful, even knowledgeable of The Covenant as GOD, WHO cannot lie, is toward us;

To Show Mercy toward our fathers, and to Remember HIS Holy Covenant, The Oath which HE Swore to Abraham our father,
To Grant us that we, being Delivered from the hand of our enemies, might serve HIM without fear,
In Holiness and Righteousness before HIM all our days.
Luke 1:72-75.

But instead they are truly,

... without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; and, although they know The Ordinance Of GOD, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.

Therefore you are without excuse, every man who passes judgement, for in that you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.

And we know that The Judgement Of GOD rightly falls upon those who practice such things.
And do you suppose this, O man, when you pass judgement upon those who practice such things and do the same, that you will escape The Judgement Of GOD?

Or do you think lightly of the Riches Of HIS Kindness and Forbearance and Patience, not knowing that The Kindness Of GOD leads you to repentance?...
Romans 1:31 - 2:4.

Sadly and disturbingly so, many who believe of themselves and trust in themselves that they are Righteous, but are not; because they do not understand Scripture because of the false teachings they will believe in, trust in and follow, they do not understand to see that according to GOD they are doing these things also.

They do not understand what walking according to The SPIRIT means and will mean of themselves as followers of JESUS CHRIST in their conduct, their thoughts, words, deeds, and indeed their conscience in it all.

As the kjv translation has it in Romans 1:31, they are covenant-breakers, the Greek word Paul uses here, meaning, treacherous.

They do indeed think lightly of the Riches Of HIS Kindness and Forbearance and Patience, because they do not truly comprehend these things; that the knowing of these things is why The Kindness Of GOD Leads us to repentance; and their obstinacy in refusing any form of correction according to The Word Of GOD, it bears witness to their arrogance, despite their profession of faith.

..."But to this one I Will Look, to him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at MY Word.

Hear The Word Of The LORD, you who tremble at HIS Word:
"Your Brothers who hate you, who exclude you for MY Name's sake, have said,
'Let The LORD be glorified, that we may see your joy.'

But they will be put to shame.
Isaiah 66:2b & v5

My flesh trembles for fear of THEE, and I am afraid of THY Judgements.
Psalm 119:120

How Blessed is the man who fears always, but he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity.
Proverbs 28:14.

They speak and act as not understanding these Scriptures; they speak and act as not understanding to recognise how true men Of GOD revered The LORD GOD ALMIGHTY and shall revere HIM: Judges 6:22, Isaiah 6:5 , Acts 9:1-6.

So then, my Beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your Salvation with fear and trembling; for It Is GOD WHO Is at Work in you, both (for you) to will and to work for Good Pleasure...
Philippians 2:12-13 (Malachi 3:13 - 4:6).

The sacrifices Of GOD are a broken spirit;
A broken and contrite heart, O GOD, THOU Wilt Not Despise.
Psalm 51:17.

A fool does not delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own mind.
Proverbs 18:2.

They who stubbornly, even arrogantly, shall not know true repentance; Godly repentance, wherein we bring forth fruit in keeping with repentance; they are not people of discernment.
Therefore in The Day of Judgment, their MAKER will not have Compassion on them and their CREATOR will not be Gracious to them.

For though The LORD Is Exalted, yet HE Regards the lowly;
But the haughty HE Knows from afar.
Psalm 138:6.

We all may hear of The LORD, but to see HIM with our mental/Spiritual faculties is something else altogether.
And it is clear that not many who will claim faith in GOD do truly perceive as the men Of GOD in Scripture did, and those Of GOD throughout time til now and to The Day of Eternity; in such as is given to us in The Word Of GOD in the example of Job and his three friends (Isaiah 29:13, Jeremiah 9:1-9, Ezekiel 33:30-32):

"I have heard of THEE by the hearing of the ear;
But now my eye sees THEE;
Therefore I retract, and I repent in dust and ashes."

And it came about after The LORD had Spoken these words to Job, that The LORD Said to Eliphaz the Temanite,
"MY Wrath Is Kindled Against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of ME what is right as MY servant Job has.
Job 42:5-7.

There is much to see; to understand here with the eyes of the heart, which is the Spiritual understanding:

...that The GOD Of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, The FATHER Of Glory, may Give to you a spirit of wisdom and of Revelation in The Knowledge Of HIM.
The eyes of your heart may be Enlightened, so that you may know what is The Hope Of HIS Calling, what are the Riches Of The Glory Of HIS Inheritance in the Saints, and what is The Surpassing Greatness of HIS Power toward us who believe.
In accordance with The Working of The Strength Of HIS Might, which HE Brought About In CHRIST, when HE Raised HIM from the dead, and Seated HIM At HIS Right Hand In The Heavenly...
Ephesians 1:17-20.

Let not many become teachers, my Brethren, knowing that as such we shall Incur a stricter Judgement.
For we all stumble in many ways.
If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a Perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well...
James 3:1-2.

And The Example to us all in John's Second Letter.

In his second letter, John writes, writing to a Chosen lady and her children, whom he loves in Truth; and not only he, but also all who know The Truth, for the sake of The Truth, which, he says, abides in them and will be with them forever: to which he adds, Grace, Mercy, Peace will be with them, from GOD The FATHER And from JESUS CHRIST, The SON Of The FATHER, in Truth and love (v 1-3).

But what many will follow today is not of those doing, in how they will live and in what they will do being of and for The Truth Of GOD; which in The Truth Of GOD is when Grace, Mercy, Peace abides in us and will be with us forever.

And how can it possibly be for those when by their own doing, there is division, when there are so many differing teachings which produce arguments and uphold disunity and as a result the true definition of love is not known nor can it be known?

Hence is why there is not the Peace Of GOD in The Unity Of The SPIRIT, which a man such as the Apostle John knew to understand and admonish the Brethren with in the instruction.
And this, because of The Word, is undeniable.

So where then for the many shall be, Grace, Mercy, Peace that will be with them from GOD The FATHER And from JESUS CHRIST, The SON Of The FATHER, in Truth and love?
By what they follow it will not be and it cannot be.

Yet John writes, and in The Foreknowledge Of GOD is that we too hear, of his being glad to find of her children walking in Truth, just as they have Received Commandment to do from The FATHER.

As we too ought to fully know for ourselves.

Today we do not know this, such is the unduly high opinion the many will have both of themselves and of the teachings which they will follow; even though The Sacred Writings are clear, that in all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing forbearance to one another in love, being diligent to preserve the Unity Of The SPIRIT in the bond of Peace is The Way And The Truth And The Life.

And in this that there is only One Truth: One Body and ONE SPIRIT, just as also we were Called in One Hope of our Calling; ONE LORD, One faith, One Baptism, ONE GOD And FATHER Of all WHO Is Over all and Through all and In all.

This is truly realised by relatively few, by comparison to the many there are who profess The Name Of JESUS CHRIST today, and the many, who though they profess to believe, they do not know to even begin to truly understand, that their eye does not see GOD; and these are the Spiritually blind in The Church, of whom The WORD Of GOD HIMSELF Speaks,

"And to the angel of The Church in Laodicea write:
The AMEN, The Faithful And True Witness, The Beginning Of The Creation Of GOD Says this;
'I Know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I Would that you were cold or hot.
'So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I Will Spit you out of MY Mouth.
'Because you say,
"I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing," and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.
I Advise that you buy from ME gold refined by fire, that you may become rich, and white garments that you may Clothe yourself, and the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eyesalve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.
'Those whom I love, I Reprove and Discipline; be zealous therefore, and repent.

"Behold, I Stand At The Door and Knock; if anyone hears MY Voice and opens The Door, I Will Come Into him and Will Dine With him, and he with ME.

'He who overcomes, I Will Grant to him to sit down With ME on MY Throne, as I also Overcame and Sat Down With MY FATHER On HIS Throne.

'He who has an ear, let him hear what The SPIRIT Says to The Churches ' "
Revelation 3:14-22.

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