For all; our needing to learn how to learn because of the deceitful heart.
...that their hearts may be encouraged, having been knit together in love and to all the wealth that comes from the full assurance of understanding, in a true knowledge of GOD'S Mystery, that is, CHRIST HIMSELF, in WHOM are Hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
I say this in order that no one may delude you with persuasive argument.
For even though I am absent in body, nevertheless I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good discipline and the stability of your faith in CHRIST.
As you therefore have received CHRIST JESUS The LORD, so walk In HIM, having been firmly rooted; being built up In HIM and established by your faith, just as you were instructed, overflowing with gratitude.
See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to CHRIST.
For In HIM all the Fullness Of Deity Dwells in bodily form and In HIM you have been made Complete, and HE Is The Head over all rule and authority; and In HIM you were also circumcised with a Circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the Circumcision Of CHRIST; having been buried with HIM in Baptism, in which you were also Raised Up with HIM through faithin the Working Of GOD, WHO Raised HIM from the dead... Colossians 2:2-12.
On waking in the morning of then beginning to write this, I had a thought in me of our need, not just to acquire knowledge, but of our need to learn just how, In CHRIST, we are Called to learn according to GOD, because of the deceitful heart.
"The beginning of wisdom: Acquire wisdom; And with all your acquiring, get understanding.
"Prize her, and she will exalt you; She will honour you if you embrace her.
"She will place on your head a garland of Grace; She will present you with a Crown Of Beauty." Proverbs 4:7-9.
Then, as I do each morning, I opened my Bible, and I opened at Jeremiah 17 and the deceitful heart.
...Thus Says The LORD, "Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind and makes flesh his strength and whose heart turns away from The LORD. "For he will be like a bush in the desert and will not see when prosperity comes, but will live in stony wastes in the wilderness, a land of salt without inhabitant.
"Blessed is the man who trusts in The LORD and whose trust is The LORD. "For he will be like a tree planted by the water, that extends its roots by a stream and will not fear when the heat comes; But its leaves will be green and it will not be anxious in a year of drought nor cease to yield fruit.
"The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; who can understand it?
"I, The LORD, Search the heart, I Test the mind, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the results of his deeds.
"As a partridge that hatches eggs which it has not laid, is he who makes a fortune, but unjustly; In the midst of his days it will forsake him and in the end he will be a fool."
A Glorious Throne On High from the beginning is the Place of our Sanctuary.
O LORD, The Hope Of Israel, all who forsake THEE will be put to shame. Those who turn away on earth will be Written Down, because they have forsaken The Fountain Of Living Water, even The LORD.
Heal me, O LORD, and I will be Healed; Save me and I will be Saved, for THOU Art my praise.
Look, they keep saying to me, "Where is The Word of The LORD? Let it come now!"
But as for me, I have not hurried away from being a shepherd after THEE, Nor have I longed for the woeful day; THOU THYSELF Knowest the utterance of my lips was in THY Presence.
Do not be a terror to me; THOU Art my Refuge in a day of disaster. Let those who persecute me be put to shame, but as for me, let me not be put to shame; Let them be dismayed, but let me not be dismayed. Bring on them a day of disaster and Crush them with a twofold Destruction! Jeremiah 17:5-18.
In all our learning is our acquiring understanding that we never knew before and could never have known before; and will never know, if we will refuse to trust solely in GOD, to learn just how we are, In CHRIST, Called to learn.
"I Will Declare your righteousness and your deeds, but they will not profit you. Isaiah 57:12.
For from of old they have not heard nor perceived by ear, neither has the eye seen a GOD besides THEE, WHO Acts on behalf of the one who waits for HIM. THOU Dost Meet him who rejoices in doing Righteousness, who remembers THEE in THY Ways. Behold, THOU Wast Angry, for we sinned in Them a long time; and shall we be Saved?
For all of us have become like one who is unclean and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; and all of us wither like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. And there is no one who calls on THY Name, who arouses himself to take hold of THEE; For THOU Hast Hidden THY Face from us and Hast Delivered us into the power of our iniquities... Isaiah 64:4-7.
The sting of death is sin and the power of sin is The Law. This learning is wholly Spiritual; it is not possessed in us, that is, our flesh; it is not in our combining Spiritual with any fleshly understanding, but is only in combining Spiritual with Spiritual. It is not of this world.
What is of this world and the flesh shall always, always, both hinder and refuse all matters pertaining to GOD and HIS Righteousness. The only thing that we possess in ourselves and which is of ourselves that is of any importance in Spiritual matters is our heart. And it is the desire and willingness of our heart to seek and to find; and submit to GOD; that HE may work in us to Cleanse our heart, that we may indeed see GOD.
..."Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see GOD... Matthew 5:8.
...For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to Face; now I know in part, but then I shall know fully just as I also have been Fully Known. But now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. Pursue love... 1 Corinthians 13:12 - 14:1a
Pursue peace with all men and the Sanctification without which no one will see The LORD. See to it that no one comes short of The Grace Of GOD; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled;... Hebrews 12:14-15.
When any first come to The LORD we do not know what kind of spirit we are of; The SON Of Man did not Come to destroy men's lives, but to Save them. Yet our own fleshly nature cannot perceive how The LORD GOD would have our sentient element to be, so as to understand with what is profitable for all things and which holds Promise for the present life and for the Life to come; Godliness.
All we ourselves know and understand in all things is to think, feel, perceive, desire and act according to the flesh.
But there is a process that all must enter into and remain in as a constant throughout all the days of our lives; The Washing Of Regeneration And Renewing By The HOLY SPIRIT (Titus 3:1-8).
... Beloved, now we are children Of GOD, and it has not Appeared as yet what we shall be. We know that, when HE Appears, we shall be like HIM, because we shall see HIM just as HE Is. And everyone who has this Hope on HIM purifies himself, just as HE Is Pure... 1 John 3:2-3.
But do we truly know to live as those who shall indeed see HIM just as HE Is, in order to be of those who have this very real expectation upon HIM; through our constant pressing on to The Goal of our Instruction; that being, love from a pure (Cleansed) heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith; and as a result our bearing fruit in keeping with repentance? And all in being fully according to GOD and HIS Glorious Gospel.
Or are we of those who, after being grafted in, do not truly take to the Rich Root Of The Olive Tree so as to flourish and grow to the bearing of good fruit? Because we are to live to learn and to understand that a good tree cannot produce bad fruit (Matthew 7:13-27, Romans 11:16-22).
..."The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; who can understand it?...
"I AM The True Vine and MY FATHER Is The Vinedresser. "Every branch in ME that does not bear fruit, HE Takes Away; and every branch that bears fruit, HE Prunes (Cleanses) it, that it may bear more fruit... John 15:1-2 (Psalm 51:7-13, 2 Corinthians 4:6-18, Titus 2:11-15).
For HIS Creation to live according to HIS Word has been The Will and Word Of GOD from the beginning. As also has, now In CHRIST, the ability for all mankind to do so, that there may be no cause for stumbling in the one who abides in HIS Word. And this was Revealed to all mankind at the proper time.
... Beloved, I am not writing a new Commandment to you, but an old Commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old Commandment is The Word which you have heard.
On the other hand, I am writing a new Commandment to you, which is true In HIM and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the True Light is already 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...
...And the world is passing away, and its lusts; but the one who does The Will Of GOD abides forever... 1 John 2:7-11 & v17.
...A Glorious Throne On High from the beginning is the Place of our Sanctuary....
The fulfillment of Prophecy; The Hidden Wisdom which was Kept from past ages and generations, was Revealed at The Coming Of JESUS CHRIST; The Testimony Borne at the proper time; that all, because all are sinners; As It Is Written, "There is none Righteous, not even one; there is none who understands, there is none who seeks for GOD; All have turned aside, together they have become useless; There is none who does good, there is not even one."
"Their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they keep deceiving," "The poison of asps is under their lips"; "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness";
"Their feet are swift to shed blood, destruction and misery are in their paths and the path of peace they have not known."
"There is no fear of GOD before their eyes." Romans 3:10-18, may now, as was not possible under the First Covenant, be Justified as A Gift By HIS Grace through The Redemption which is in CHRIST JESUS;
WHOM GOD Displayed publicly as A Propitiation In HIS Blood through faith, to Demonstrate HIS Righteousness, because in The Forebearance Of GOD HE Passed Over the sins previously committed; for the Demonstration of HIS Righteousness at the present time, that HE might be Just And The Justifier Of the one who has faith in JESUS... Romans 3:24-26.
..."Blessed is the man who trusts in The LORD and whose trust is The LORD. "For he will be like a tree planted by the water, that extends its roots by a stream and will not fear when the heat comes; But its leaves will be green and it will not be anxious in a year of drought nor cease to yield fruit...
This fulfillment of Prophecy at the Coming of MESSIAH was not only Payment for sin once for all; The LAMB Of GOD WHO Takes Away the sin of the world (John 1:29), but was essentially, through it also, the ability for any to access this Redemption in HIS Blood, by faith; that through The HOLY SPIRIT we now may know in that we may obey The Sacred Writings which are able to give the Wisdom that leads to Salvation through faith which is in CHRIST JESUS (2 Timothy 3:15-17).
HE does not take away sins, but the sin which existed since The Fall, when sin first entered the world and which is subject to GOD'S Judgement. Living by faith in JESUS CHRIST according to GOD and according to no other is absolutely required; that HE might be Just And The Justifier Of the one who has faith in JESUS...
As The LORD JESUS Says to those who are HIS Disciples indeed:
"I AM The Way And The Truth And The Life; no one comes to The FATHER, but Through ME. "If you had known ME, you would have known MY FATHER also; from now on you know HIM and have seen HIM." John 14:6-7.
And Through The HOLY SPIRIT, by faith, is the only way we may now live In CHRIST JESUS, living as those who are indeed waiting for The Hope Of Righteousness.
For we, Through The SPIRIT, by faith, are waiting for The Hope Of Righteousness. Galatians 5:5.
"It Is The SPIRIT WHO Gives Life; the flesh profits nothing; The Words that I have Spoken to you are Spirit and are Life. "But there are some of you who do not believe." John 6:63-64.
We all, without exception, are found as slaves to sin. And a slave cannot be instructed by words alone. This is because even though one may understand, yet still, there will be no response that we may actually be effectual doers of The Word in our overcoming of sin. And sin is rebellion to Divine Authority.
But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light. For this reason it says, "Awake, sleeper, and arise from the dead and CHRIST will Shine on you." Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men, but as wise, making the most of your time, because the days are evil. So then do not be foolish, but understand what The Will Of The LORD is. Ephesians 5:13-17.
The Law Of The LORD is Perfect (Blameless), restoring the soul; The Testimony Of The LORD is Sure, making wise the simple.
The Precepts Of The LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; The Commandment Of The LORD is Pure, enlightening the eyes.
The fear of The LORD is clean, enduring forever; The Judgements Of The LORD are true; they are Righteous altogether. Psalm 19:7-9.
It is the effectual doers of The Word who are those who are the Chosen according to GOD The FATHER; Through The Sanctifying Work Of The SPIRIT that we may fully obey JESUS CHRIST and be Sprinkled With HIS Blood: May Grace and peace be yours in Fullest Measure (1 Peter 1:1-5).
And it is for the Godly purpose, that in the actual fact of our living, and not in our living deceiving ourselves, we live as obeying The Voice Of The LORD in that we understand so as to practice The Truth. (The Word Of The LORD Abides forever. And this is The Word which was preached to you).
Because to The LORD our GOD, for us to obey is better than sacrifice; and this, in our overcoming of sin, is why MESSIAH JESUS Came;
"Sacrifice and offering THOU Hast not Desired, But A Body THOU Hast Prepared for ME; In whole burnt offerings and for sin THOU hast taken no Pleasure. "Then I Said, 'Behold, I Have Come (In The Roll Of The Book It Is Written Of ME) To Do THY Will, O GOD.' "
This is The Will Of GOD: in taking away the First Covenant, GOD Establishes the Second Covenant; so that those who will truly live believing in GOD may now, By HIS SPIRIT, in the rest of their time in the flesh, being no longer for the lusts of men but for The Will Of GOD; obey The Voice Of The LORD; learning to walk in the same manner as JESUS Walked (1 John 2).
By This will we have been Sanctified Through The Offering Of The Body Of JESUS CHRIST Once for all. (Hebrews 10).
To live as not breaking a covenant one must maintain the agreement and not break what is specified therein.
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that Grace might increase? May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Or do you not know that all of us who have been Baptised Into CHRIST JESUS have been Baptised Into HIS Death?
Therefore we have been buried with HIM through Baptism into death (1 Peter 4:1-2), in order that as CHRIST was Raised from the dead Through The Glory Of The FATHER, so we too might walk in Newness of Life... Romans 6:1-4.
For those who believe in GOD, now is our Sanctification By The SPIRIT and faith in The Truth; The Grace Of GOD through faith in The Gospel Of The Kingdom Of GOD; The Gospel Of JESUS CHRIST (2 Thessalonians 2:13-17).
This means our overcoming sin and is not our living continuing in sin as we all once blindly did so before; before we first heard of The Way Of Righteousness and The Holy Commandment through The Grace Of GOD in HIS SON. If we have indeed heard.
...As for you, let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning (John 1:14, John 6:63, John 11:25-26, John 14:6) abides in you, you also will abide In The SON And In The FATHER. And this is The Promise which HE HIMSELF Made to us: Eternal Life... 1 John 2:24-25.
THY Word I have treasured in my heart, that I may not sin against THEE. Blessed Art THOU, O LORD; Teach me THY Statutes. Psalm 119:11-12.
We, in our flesh, being in and of ourselves, cannot hope to understand to the point of being able to live to GOD that we may overcome sin so as to live the rest of our days as pleasing to GOD, because the heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; and none, not one, can understand it in and of himself according to the wisdom of the flesh.
...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. But a natural man does not accept the things Of The SPIRIT Of GOD; for they are foolishness to him and he cannot understand them, because they are Spiritually appraised. But he who is Spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no man. For who has known The Mind Of The LORD, that he should instruct HIM? But we have the mind Of CHRIST... 1 Corinthians 2:12-16
...For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to The SPIRIT, the things Of The SPIRIT. For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on The SPIRIT is Life and Peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward GOD; for it does not subject itself to The Law Of GOD, for it is not even able; and those who are in the flesh cannot please GOD... Romans 8:5-8.
And without faith it is impossible to please, for he who comes to GOD must believe that HE Is, and HE Is A Rewarder Of those who seek HIM. Hebrews 11:6.
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... Colossians 3:16.
So now, for those whose eyes are not blinded by the darkness, (as are the eyes of the many who themselves profess to see and yet who live contradicting The Word and The Commandment; and The Word Is The Commandment), they are those who, because they walk in The Light as GOD HIMSELF Is In The Light; thus truly having fellowship with HIM; The Blood Of JESUS HIS SON Cleanses them from all sin (1John 1:1-10). And they are known by their fruits.
They see to recognise what is now evident to them, of which the doing of causes the perpetrators thereof to not being able to Inherit The Kingdom Of GOD; because they live refusing to walk in The Rule Of GOD:
...Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are; immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you just as I have forewarned you that those who practice such things shall not Inherit The Kingdom Of GOD... Galatians 5:19-21.
For now, by The Grace Of GOD, we have A SAVIOUR WHO Is The Propitiation in HIS Blood for our sins; JESUS CHRIST The Righteous, and so it is that HE becomes to us through our faith in HIM. Thus it is that we are The Righteousness Of GOD In HIM.
But by HIS Doing you are In CHRIST JESUS, WHO became to us wisdom from GOD and Righteousness and Sanctification and Redemption, that, just as It Is Written, "Let him who boasts, boast in The LORD." 1 Corinthians 1:30-31
Therefore, we are ambassadors for CHRIST, as though GOD were entreating through us; we beg you on behalf of CHRIST, be reconciled to GOD. HE Made HIM WHO Knew no sin sin on our behalf, that we might become The Righteousness Of GOD In HIM. And working together, we also urge you not to receive The Grace Of GOD in vain - for HE Says, "At the acceptable time I Listened to you and on The Day of Salvation I Helped you"; behold, now is "The acceptable time," behold, now is "The Day of Salvation" - giving no cause for offense in anything, in order that The Ministry be not discredited, but in everything commending ourselves as servants Of GOD, in much endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses... 2 Corinthians 5:20 - 6:4
But our remaining in this Grace in which we enter into and in which we remain standing by faith alone, is our remaining in by faith in our living from faith and towards faith; always believing in GOD wherein The Righteousness Of GOD is Revealed to us in and through the day by day Renewing of our inner man.
As Paul writes, For I am not ashamed of The Gospel, for it is The Power Of GOD for Salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek (Gentile). For in it The Righteousness Of GOD is Revealed from faith to faith; as It Is Written, "But the Righteous shall live by faith." Romans 1:16-17.
This means we learn and are all the while learning and never ceasing to learn. It is and always is to be a constant all the days of our lives.
If we, in our walk, are living contrary to The Word and will refuse correction from The Word, then we have, of ourselves, chosen to break the covenant and do no more than live trusting in ourselves and making flesh our strength.
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... Psalm 50 (v16-17).
We have ceased to walk learning how we are Called, by GOD, to walk and to learn; in humility before HIM all the days of our lives.
...Thus Says The LORD, "Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind and makes flesh his strength and whose heart turns away from The LORD. "For he will be like a bush in the desert and will not see when prosperity comes, but will live in stony wastes in the wilderness, a land of salt without inhabitant...
This day by day renewing of our inner man through The Washing Of Regeneration And Renewing By The HOLY SPIRIT, so that we indeed now live to GOD and may worship The FATHER in spirit and truth; being of those who are alive from the dead, is an essential part and the understanding required for all who hope to live Godly In CHRIST JESUS.
Those that will live believing something of themselves do lack the humility required in order to being able to learn in coming to The Knowledge Of The Truth; their heart is not right within them. But the Righteous will live by faith (Habakkuk 2:4).
"But this is The Covenant which I Will Make with The House of Israel after those days," Declares The LORD, "IWill Put MY Law within them, and on their heart I Will Write It; and I Will Be their GOD, and they shall be MY people. "And theyshall not teach again, each man his neighbour and each man his Brother, saying, 'Know The LORD,' for they shall all know ME, from the least of them to the greatest of them," Declares The LORD, "For I Will Forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more." Jeremiah 31:33-34.
("But do not be called Rabbi; for ONE Is your TEACHER and you are all Brothers. Matthew 23:8)
...Do we then nullify The Law through faith? May it never be! On the contrary, we establish The Law. Romans 3:31.
...like newborn babes, long for the Pure Milk Of The Word, that by It you may grow in respect to Salvation, if you have tasted the Kindness of The LORD. And coming to HIM as to a Living Stone, rejected by men, but Choice and Precious in the Sight Of GOD, you also, as living stones, are being Built Up as a Spiritual House for a Holy priesthood, to offer up Spiritual sacrifices acceptable to GOD Through JESUS CHRIST... 1 Peter 1:2-5
"It is The SPIRIT WHO Gives Life; the flesh profits nothing; The Words that I have Spoken to you are Spirit and are Life... John 6:63
GOD'S Purpose according to HIS Choice stands, not because of our works, but because of HIM WHO Calls. We are HIS Workmanship, Created in CHRIST JESUS for Good Works which GOD Prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Through HIM alone we have access in ONE SPIRIT to The FATHER (Ephesians 2:8-22). Where The LORD JESUS is, there shall HIS servants also be (John 12:24-26).
...One Body and ONE SPIRIT, just as 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 4:4.
Some may say of what I am saying here, 'But HE Gives teachers,' (Ephesians 4:11).
But many who stand as Pastors and teachers and whatever else do so according to their own beliefs, imaginings and interpretations of Scripture, and not according to The TEACHER. And those that do so are not where The LORD JESUS CHRIST Is: "A blind man cannot guide a blind man, can he? Will they not both fall into a pit? "A pupil is not above his teacher; but everyone, after he has been fully trained, will be like his teacher... Luke 6:39-40.
So who do you look to as your teacher? Is it The TEACHER, or is it a man who stands as teacher? Because whoever it is we are a disciple of, it is he whom we will be like.
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.
We are, In CHRIST, now manifested that we are a letter Of CHRIST, cared for by each other, written not with ink, but with The SPIRIT Of The Living GOD, not on tablets of stone; as will now be evidenced in our living establishing The Law through faith; through our having The Law Written on our hearts; according to Prophecy, and so, according to GOD. The Testimony Of JESUS is The Spirit of Prophecy (Revelation 19:7-10).
It is not on paper, it is not on certificates of qualification, it is not on our job description and wage slip, it is not on word processors, it is not in any self justification or justification by other men, but is Written on tablets of human hearts By The HOLY SPIRIT. And it is such as this that a man Of GOD will recognise of a man Of GOD who is a bond-servant Of CHRIST and GOD indeed; recognising The Grace Of GOD Given to him by his words and deeds being Of GOD and always according to HIS Word; never refusing The Word and correction from The Word (Romans 12:3, 1 Peter 4:10-11).
And such confidence we have Through CHRIST toward GOD. Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy Is from GOD, WHO also Made us adequate servants of a New Covenant, not of The Letter, but Of The SPIRIT; for The Letter Kills, but The SPIRIT Gives Life...
...Now The LORD Is The SPIRIT; and where The SPIRIT Of The LORD Is, 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 chapters 3 - 6.
The Goal of our Instruction is love from a pure heart; which means a Cleansed heart, and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
Being Baptised in The Name Of The LORD JESUS does not mean one has then consequently Received The HOLY SPIRIT (Acts 8:14-17).
Neither is it that one has not Received The HOLY SPIRIT because they have not as yet been Baptised in water in The Name Of The LORD JESUS (Acts 10:34-48).
And Acts 2:38-47, Acts 19:1-7.
Now The LORD Is The SPIRIT; and where The SPIRIT Of The LORD Is, is Liberty. This Liberty is and means, Freedom from the flesh, that CHRIST is always exalted in the body of our flesh and never ourselves (Philippians 1:19-20), because of GOD, WHO Gives Life to your mortal body Through HIS SPIRIT WHO Indwells you (Romans 8:1-17).
The LORD GOD Will Give to each and every one of us according to the path in life we have trodden; by our words and our deeds and all being known according to our fruit. ..."I, The LORD, Search the heart, I Test the mind, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the results of his deeds...
Knowing this, for those who do indeed learn and learn in accordance with The Truth, that sin, taking opportunity through The Commandment deceives us (initially, apart from The Commandment we would not know what constitutes sin before A Holy GOD), and through it kills us, because The Law is Holy and Righteous and Good, they will learn to understand The Scriptures and accordingly that we cannot continue in sin that Grace might increase and with this the knowledge of what constitutes sin before A Holy GOD, and that it is not according to what a man himself deems to be right and good and acceptable and perfect.
This, because The Law is Spiritual and our actual living fulfilling The Law in that we establish The Law in all our living, consequently, can only be Spiritual.
...Is The Law then contrary to The Promises Of GOD? May it never be! For if a Law had been Given which was able to impart Life, then Righteousness would indeed have been based on Law. But the Scripture has shut up all men under sin, that The Promise by faith in JESUS CHRIST might be Given to those who believe.
But before faith came, we were kept in custody under The Law, being shut up to The faith which was later to be Revealed.
Therefore The Law has become our tutor to CHRIST, that we may be Justified by faith (Romans 3:26). But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. For you are all sons Of GOD through faith in CHRIST JESUS. For all of you who were Baptised Into CHRIST have Clothed yourselves with CHRIST... Galatians 3:21-27.
Flesh and blood cannot Inherit The Kingdom Of GOD. It is Spiritual. Our spirit; our sentient element; that by which we feel, think, decide, being the vital principle by which our fleshly body is animated, is now, In CHRIST, to be Led By The HOLY SPIRIT and not according to our fleshly nature as was before we first confessed JESUS LORD.
Through this, we begin to bear The Testimony Of JESUS; thinking, deciding and speaking as an imitator of HIM; because this is what means confessing JESUS before men (Luke 12:8-9), living being as imitators of GOD as Beloved children (Ephesians 4:29 - 5:2).
Do not believe me in my words here? Many because of false doctrine will not. But I do not ask any to believe me, but GOD Alone. Do you believe that this is far and beyond any capabilities we have in ourselves, that is, our flesh? It most certainly is.
Do you believe when we act as we will that just because we believe of ourselves that we are Christian and yet it is contrary to CHRIST we still serve and please GOD all the same? We do not.
...But The Wisdom from Above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy... James 3:17.
The LORD Is Good to all and HIS Mercies are over all HIS Works. All THY Works shall give thanks to THEE, O LORD, and THY Godly ones shall bless THEE. They shall speak of the Glory of THY Kingdom and talk of THY Power; To make known to the sons of men THY Mighty Acts and the Glory of The Majesty Of THY Kingdom. THY Kingdom Is an everlasting Kingdom and THY Dominion throughout all generations. Psalm 145:9-13.
And if you do live believing we please GOD all the same, then you are not believing in The GOD WHO Gives HIS HOLY SPIRIT to you. And if so, then your faith is nothing and it will profit you nought (Psalm 50:16-21).
A man who hardens his neck after much reproof will suddenly be broken beyond remedy. Proverbs 29:1.
Just look at the Apostle's Of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, how they were before in The Gospel accounts of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and then to those same men we read of and from in the acts of the Apostles, and at their heart in their letters which make up the The New Testament. They bear witness to The Truth Of GOD; and we are Called in like manner.
Hear The Song of Moses, a most humble man Of GOD: "Give ear, O Heavens, and let me speak; And let the earth hear the words of my mouth. "Let my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, as the droplets on the fresh grass and as the showers on the herb.
"For I proclaim The Name Of The LORD; Ascribe Greatness to our GOD! "The ROCK! HIS Work Is Perfect, for all HIS Ways Are Just; A GOD Of Faithfulness and without injustice. Righteous and Upright Is HE... Deuteronomy 32:1-4.
So who are you, O Christian, who does not look for such traits now in all your own living? Just ways, faithfulness, without injustice, Righteousness, uprightness.
Now, in The New Covenant, The Kingdom Of GOD is Righteousness and peace and joy in The HOLY SPIRIT. For he who in this serves CHRIST is acceptable to GOD and approved by men... Romans 14:17-18.
Again, we are Called to that the peace Of GOD governs, controls and directs our hearts, letting The Word Of CHRIST inhabit to influence us abundantly, in all Godly wisdom, wherein we both learn and teach one another; and all for our building up to the praise and Glory Of GOD (Colossians 3:12-17).
But there are many who do not live as understanding such a spirit of the New Creation; yet for those who do walk by this rule, truly, Peace and Mercy is Upon them.
"Truly, truly, I Say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see The Kingdom Of GOD."
"Truly, truly, I Say to you, unless one is born of water and The SPIRIT, he cannot enter into The Kingdom Of GOD. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born Of The SPIRIT Is Spirit. "Do not marvel that I Said to you, 'You must be born again.'... John 3:3 & v5-7.
Here, to see The Kingdom Of GOD means our perceiving in that we see to understand The Rule Of GOD in our lives. And, unless one is born of water and The SPIRIT, he cannot enter into The Kingdom Of GOD, means without Baptism and The HOLY SPIRIT we simply cannot enter into The Rule Of GOD.
And what does it mean according to Scripture of our being Baptised Into CHRIST? It means now, the life that we live we live to GOD, considering ourselves to be dead to sin but alive to GOD In CHRIST JESUS.
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that Grace might increase? May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Or do you not know that all of us who have been Baptised Into CHRIST JESUS have been Baptised Into HIS Death?
Therefore we have been buried with HIM through Baptism into death, in order that as CHRIST was Raised from the dead Through The Glory Of The FATHER , so we too might walk in Newness of Life.
For if we have become United with in the likeness of HIS death, certainly we shall be also of HIS Resurrection, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with, that our body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is Freed from sin.
Now if we have died with CHRIST, we believe that we shall also live with HIM, knowing that CHRIST, having been Raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over HIM.
For the death that HE died, HE died to sin, once for all; but the life that HE Lives, HE Lives to GOD. Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin but alive to GOD In CHRIST JESUS.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey its lusts and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to GOD as those alive from the dead and your members instruments of Righteousness to GOD.
For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under Law, but under Grace... Romans 6:1-14.
The members of our body of course include our heart (Romans 6:16-18, Matthew 5:8), tongue (James 3:1-6), along with every limb and other part of the body (Matthew 5:27-30).
...Therefore, since CHRIST has suffered (death) in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because he who has suffered (death) in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for The Will Of GOD... 1 Peter 4:1-2.
Yet how many Christians continue to live practicing the deeds of the flesh, unable to recognise that they live still doing the very things which they are Called in One Body to do away with; to die to, and all because of their fleshly attitude of their heart toward others? They live as professing to be of those who are grafted in to The Rich Root of The Holy Olive Tree, yet they are not living as producing the fruit of It; the fruit Of Righteousness.
For you were Called to Freedom, Brethren; only not your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole Law is fulfilled in one Word, in the, "You shall love your neighbour as yourself."
But if you bite and devour one another, take care lest you be consumed by one another.
But I say, walk By The SPIRIT and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. For the flesh sets its desire against The SPIRIT, and The SPIRIT Against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please (Romans 7:14-25).
But if you are Led By The SPIRIT, (only then)you are not under The Law... Galatians 5:13-18. (Luke 12:35-40).
And we are to know, because we are told through The Word Of GOD to us all, that those of an impure mind and who are impudent, and sorcerers and the immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices lying, have no right to The Tree Of Life and cannot enter The Gates Of The Heavenly City (Revelation 22:10-21).
'Dog,' in Philippians 3:2 & Revelation 22:15, is speaking of those whose impurity in principles and rules of right conduct, not being according to GOD, will exclude them from the New Jerusalem. The Jews used the term 'dog' of Gentiles, under the idea of ceremonial impurity and among the Greeks it was an epithet of impudence.
The one who himself says, "I have come to know HIM," and yet does not keep The LORD'S Commandments, this one is a liar and The Truth is not in him; he is practicing lying and so because of this he, by his own doing, has no right to The Tree Of Life and cannot enter into The Gates Of The City (1 John 2:1-6, 1 John 4:20).
If any will refuse to learn how we need to learn and in their refusal will deny The Truth Of GOD, then all they do in their ignorance to The Truth Of GOD is to make HIM a liar. Despite their profession of faith, they have not believed in The Witness GOD Has Borne concerning HIS SON (1 John 5:9-12).
As it is impossible for GOD to lie we must align all our deeds with HIS Word to see if we stand in Truth or not, rather than do what many today do, which is to believe of themselves that they are Saved, without knowing to examine themselves to see if JESUS CHRIST is in them; in all their words and deeds (2 Corinthians 13:4-11).
I will bow down toward THY Holy Temple and give thanks to THY Name for THY Lovingkindness and THY Truth; For THOU Hast Magnified THY Word according to all THY Name. On the day I called THOU didst Answer me; THOU didst Make me bold with Strength in my soul. Psalm 138:2-4.
Whoever upholds what is not of Sound Doctrine according to The Glorious Gospel Of The Blessed GOD, is a liar; and love is the fulfillment of The Law (Luke 10:27-28).
The Law is not made for a Righteous man; and we only are The Righteousness Of GOD In CHRIST JESUS.
..."Will you really annul MY Judgement? Will you condemn ME that you may be justified? "Or do you have an arm like GOD and can you thunder with a voice like HIS?
"Adorn yourself with eminence and dignity; and clothe yourself with honour and majesty. "Pour out the overflowings of your anger; and look on everyone who is proud, and make him low. "Look on everyone who is proud, humble him; and tread down the wicked where they stand. "Hide them in the dust altogether; bind them in the hidden place.
"Then I Will also Confess to you, that your own right hand can save you... Job 40:8-14.
We have no adequacy in ourselves, because nothing good dwells in us, that is, our flesh. Just as all men Of GOD understand, because they have learned, are learned and constantly learning that it is so.
A man Of GOD will learn to understand that he himself is nothing. He will see to recognise his utter wretchedness before GOD and that in this there is no room for boasting; but only in The LORD. He will learn more and more of his total dependence upon The LORD and HIS Grace; because of his wretchedness, and that before GOD no man has a place to stand as a dominant better over another; that before GOD all are as nothing and men of high degree are neither how they are seen or anything of what they will believe of themselves. Some will refuse this because they do not have such humility so as to be able to recognise man's standing before The Perfection Of Beauty, GOD HIMSELF.
...For all of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; And all of us wither like a leaf and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away... Isaiah 64:6.
As a man Of GOD in CHRIST such as Paul wrote,
...Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy Is from GOD, WHO also Made us adequate servants of a New Covenant, not of The Letter, but Of The SPIRIT; for The Letter Kills, but The SPIRIT Gives Life...
...Now The LORD Is The SPIRIT; and where The SPIRIT Of The LORD Is, is Liberty...
...Therefore, since we have this Ministry, as we Received Mercy, we do not lose heart, but we have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating The Word Of GOD, but by Manifestation of Truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in The Sight Of GOD.
And even if our Gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that they might not see the Light Of The Gospel of The Glory Of CHRIST, WHO Is The Image of GOD.
For we do not preach ourselves but CHRIST JESUS as LORD and ourselves as your bond-servants for JESUS' Sake.
For GOD, WHO Said, "Light Shall Shine Out of darkness," Is The ONE WHO Has Shone in our hearts to Give The Light Of The Knowledge of The Glory Of GOD in The Face Of CHRIST.
But we have this Treasure in earthen vessels, that the Surpassing Greatness of The Power may be Of GOD and not from ourselves... 2 Corinthians 3:5-6, v17 & 4:1-7.
For all; our needing to learn how to learn because of the deceitful heart.
...that their hearts may be encouraged, having been knit together in love and to all the wealth that comes from the full assurance of understanding, in a true knowledge of GOD'S Mystery, that is, CHRIST HIMSELF, in WHOM are Hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
I say this in order that no one may delude you with persuasive argument.
For even though I am absent in body, nevertheless I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good discipline and the stability of your faith in CHRIST.
As you therefore have received CHRIST JESUS The LORD, so walk In HIM, having been firmly rooted; being built up In HIM and established by your faith, just as you were instructed, overflowing with gratitude.
See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to CHRIST.
For In HIM all the Fullness Of Deity Dwells in bodily form and In HIM you have been made Complete, and HE Is The Head over all rule and authority; and In HIM you were also circumcised with a Circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the Circumcision Of CHRIST; having been buried with HIM in Baptism, in which you were also Raised Up with HIM through faith in the Working Of GOD, WHO Raised HIM from the dead...
Colossians 2:2-12.
On waking in the morning of then beginning to write this, I had a thought in me of our need, not just to acquire knowledge, but of our need to learn just how, In CHRIST, we are Called to learn according to GOD, because of the deceitful heart.
"The beginning of wisdom: Acquire wisdom;
And with all your acquiring, get understanding.
"Prize her, and she will exalt you;
She will honour you if you embrace her.
"She will place on your head a garland of Grace;
She will present you with a Crown Of Beauty."
Proverbs 4:7-9.
Then, as I do each morning, I opened my Bible, and I opened at Jeremiah 17 and the deceitful heart.
...Thus Says The LORD,
"Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind and makes flesh his strength and whose heart turns away from The LORD.
"For he will be like a bush in the desert and will not see when prosperity comes, but will live in stony wastes in the wilderness, a land of salt without inhabitant.
"Blessed is the man who trusts in The LORD and whose trust is The LORD.
"For he will be like a tree planted by the water, that extends its roots by a stream and will not fear when the heat comes;
But its leaves will be green and it will not be anxious in a year of drought nor cease to yield fruit.
"The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; who can understand it?
"I, The LORD, Search the heart, I Test the mind, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the results of his deeds.
"As a partridge that hatches eggs which it has not laid, is he who makes a fortune, but unjustly;
In the midst of his days it will forsake him and in the end he will be a fool."
A Glorious Throne On High from the beginning is the Place of our Sanctuary.
O LORD, The Hope Of Israel, all who forsake THEE will be put to shame.
Those who turn away on earth will be Written Down, because they have forsaken The Fountain Of Living Water, even The LORD.
Heal me, O LORD, and I will be Healed;
Save me and I will be Saved, for THOU Art my praise.
Look, they keep saying to me,
"Where is The Word of The LORD?
Let it come now!"
But as for me, I have not hurried away from being a shepherd after THEE,
Nor have I longed for the woeful day;
THOU THYSELF Knowest the utterance of my lips was in THY Presence.
Do not be a terror to me;
THOU Art my Refuge in a day of disaster.
Let those who persecute me be put to shame, but as for me, let me not be put to shame;
Let them be dismayed, but let me not be dismayed.
Bring on them a day of disaster and Crush them with a twofold Destruction!
Jeremiah 17:5-18.
In all our learning is our acquiring understanding that we never knew before and could never have known before; and will never know, if we will refuse to trust solely in GOD, to learn just how we are, In CHRIST, Called to learn.
"I Will Declare your righteousness and your deeds, but they will not profit you.
Isaiah 57:12.
For from of old they have not heard nor perceived by ear, neither has the eye seen a GOD besides THEE, WHO Acts on behalf of the one who waits for HIM.
THOU Dost Meet him who rejoices in doing Righteousness, who remembers THEE in THY Ways.
Behold, THOU Wast Angry, for we sinned in Them a long time; and shall we be Saved?
For all of us have become like one who is unclean and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; and all of us wither like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
And there is no one who calls on THY Name, who arouses himself to take hold of THEE;
For THOU Hast Hidden THY Face from us and Hast Delivered us into the power of our iniquities...
Isaiah 64:4-7.
The sting of death is sin and the power of sin is The Law.
This learning is wholly Spiritual; it is not possessed in us, that is, our flesh; it is not in our combining Spiritual with any fleshly understanding, but is only in combining Spiritual with Spiritual. It is not of this world.
What is of this world and the flesh shall always, always, both hinder and refuse all matters pertaining to GOD and HIS Righteousness.
The only thing that we possess in ourselves and which is of ourselves that is of any importance in Spiritual matters is our heart. And it is the desire and willingness of our heart to seek and to find; and submit to GOD; that HE may work in us to Cleanse our heart, that we may indeed see GOD.
..."Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see GOD...
Matthew 5:8.
...For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to Face; now I know in part, but then I shall know fully just as I also have been Fully Known.
But now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Pursue love...
1 Corinthians 13:12 - 14:1a
Pursue peace with all men and the Sanctification without which no one will see The LORD.
See to it that no one comes short of The Grace Of GOD; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled;...
Hebrews 12:14-15.
When any first come to The LORD we do not know what kind of spirit we are of; The SON Of Man did not Come to destroy men's lives, but to Save them.
Yet our own fleshly nature cannot perceive how The LORD GOD would have our sentient element to be, so as to understand with what is profitable for all things and which holds Promise for the present life and for the Life to come; Godliness.
All we ourselves know and understand in all things is to think, feel, perceive, desire and act according to the flesh.
But there is a process that all must enter into and remain in as a constant throughout all the days of our lives; The Washing Of Regeneration And Renewing By The HOLY SPIRIT (Titus 3:1-8).
... Beloved, now we are children Of GOD, and it has not Appeared as yet what we shall be.
We know that, when HE Appears, we shall be like HIM, because we shall see HIM just as HE Is.
And everyone who has this Hope on HIM purifies himself, just as HE Is Pure...
1 John 3:2-3.
But do we truly know to live as those who shall indeed see HIM just as HE Is, in order to be of those who have this very real expectation upon HIM; through our constant pressing on to The Goal of our Instruction; that being, love from a pure (Cleansed) heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith; and as a result our bearing fruit in keeping with repentance?
And all in being fully according to GOD and HIS Glorious Gospel.
Or are we of those who, after being grafted in, do not truly take to the Rich Root Of The Olive Tree so as to flourish and grow to the bearing of good fruit?
Because we are to live to learn and to understand that a good tree cannot produce bad fruit (Matthew 7:13-27, Romans 11:16-22).
..."The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; who can understand it?...
"I AM The True Vine and MY FATHER Is The Vinedresser.
"Every branch in ME that does not bear fruit, HE Takes Away; and every branch that bears fruit, HE Prunes (Cleanses) it, that it may bear more fruit...
John 15:1-2 (Psalm 51:7-13, 2 Corinthians 4:6-18, Titus 2:11-15).
For HIS Creation to live according to HIS Word has been The Will and Word Of GOD from the beginning.
As also has, now In CHRIST, the ability for all mankind to do so, that there may be no cause for stumbling in the one who abides in HIS Word.
And this was Revealed to all mankind at the proper time.
... Beloved, I am not writing a new Commandment to you, but an old Commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old Commandment is The Word which you have heard.
On the other hand, I am writing a new Commandment to you, which is true In HIM and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the True Light is already 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...
...And the world is passing away, and its lusts; but the one who does The Will Of GOD abides forever...
1 John 2:7-11 & v17.
...A Glorious Throne On High from the beginning is the Place of our Sanctuary....
The fulfillment of Prophecy; The Hidden Wisdom which was Kept from past ages and generations, was Revealed at The Coming Of JESUS CHRIST; The Testimony Borne at the proper time; that all, because all are sinners; As It Is Written,
"There is none Righteous, not even one; there is none who understands, there is none who seeks for GOD;
All have turned aside, together they have become useless;
There is none who does good, there is not even one."
"Their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they keep deceiving,"
"The poison of asps is under their lips";
"Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness";
"Their feet are swift to shed blood, destruction and misery are in their paths and the path of peace they have not known."
"There is no fear of GOD before their eyes."
Romans 3:10-18, may now, as was not possible under the First Covenant, be Justified as A Gift By HIS Grace through The Redemption which is in CHRIST JESUS;
WHOM GOD Displayed publicly as A Propitiation In HIS Blood through faith, to Demonstrate HIS Righteousness, because in The Forebearance Of GOD HE Passed Over the sins previously committed;
for the Demonstration of HIS Righteousness at the present time, that HE might be Just And The Justifier Of the one who has faith in JESUS...
Romans 3:24-26.
..."Blessed is the man who trusts in The LORD and whose trust is The LORD.
"For he will be like a tree planted by the water, that extends its roots by a stream and will not fear when the heat comes;
But its leaves will be green and it will not be anxious in a year of drought nor cease to yield fruit...
This fulfillment of Prophecy at the Coming of MESSIAH was not only Payment for sin once for all; The LAMB Of GOD WHO Takes Away the sin of the world (John 1:29), but was essentially, through it also, the ability for any to access this Redemption in HIS Blood, by faith; that through The HOLY SPIRIT we now may know in that we may obey The Sacred Writings which are able to give the Wisdom that leads to Salvation through faith which is in CHRIST JESUS (2 Timothy 3:15-17).
HE does not take away sins, but the sin which existed since The Fall, when sin first entered the world and which is subject to GOD'S Judgement.
Living by faith in JESUS CHRIST according to GOD and according to no other is absolutely required; that HE might be Just And The Justifier Of the one who has faith in JESUS...
As The LORD JESUS Says to those who are HIS Disciples indeed:
"I AM The Way And The Truth And The Life; no one comes to The FATHER, but Through ME.
"If you had known ME, you would have known MY FATHER also; from now on you know HIM and have seen HIM."
John 14:6-7.
And Through The HOLY SPIRIT, by faith, is the only way we may now live In CHRIST JESUS, living as those who are indeed waiting for The Hope Of Righteousness.
For we, Through The SPIRIT, by faith, are waiting for The Hope Of Righteousness.
Galatians 5:5.
"It Is The SPIRIT WHO Gives Life; the flesh profits nothing; The Words that I have Spoken to you are Spirit and are Life.
"But there are some of you who do not believe."
John 6:63-64.
We all, without exception, are found as slaves to sin.
And a slave cannot be instructed by words alone. This is because even though one may understand, yet still, there will be no response that we may actually be effectual doers of The Word in our overcoming of sin. And sin is rebellion to Divine Authority.
But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light.
For this reason it says,
"Awake, sleeper, and arise from the dead and CHRIST will Shine on you."
Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men, but as wise, making the most of your time, because the days are evil.
So then do not be foolish, but understand what The Will Of The LORD is.
Ephesians 5:13-17.
The Law Of The LORD is Perfect (Blameless), restoring the soul;
The Testimony Of The LORD is Sure, making wise the simple.
The Precepts Of The LORD are right, rejoicing the heart;
The Commandment Of The LORD is Pure, enlightening the eyes.
The fear of The LORD is clean, enduring forever;
The Judgements Of The LORD are true; they are Righteous altogether.
Psalm 19:7-9.
It is the effectual doers of The Word who are those who are the Chosen according to GOD The FATHER; Through The Sanctifying Work Of The SPIRIT that we may fully obey JESUS CHRIST and be Sprinkled With HIS Blood: May Grace and peace be yours in Fullest Measure (1 Peter 1:1-5).
And it is for the Godly purpose, that in the actual fact of our living, and not in our living deceiving ourselves, we live as obeying The Voice Of The LORD in that we understand so as to practice The Truth.
(The Word Of The LORD Abides forever. And this is The Word which was preached to you).
Because to The LORD our GOD, for us to obey is better than sacrifice; and this, in our overcoming of sin, is why MESSIAH JESUS Came;
"Sacrifice and offering THOU Hast not Desired,
But A Body THOU Hast Prepared for ME;
In whole burnt offerings and for sin THOU hast taken no Pleasure.
"Then I Said, 'Behold, I Have Come (In The Roll Of The Book It Is Written Of ME)
To Do THY Will, O GOD.' "
This is The Will Of GOD: in taking away the First Covenant, GOD Establishes the Second Covenant; so that those who will truly live believing in GOD may now, By HIS SPIRIT, in the rest of their time in the flesh, being no longer for the lusts of men but for The Will Of GOD; obey The Voice Of The LORD; learning to walk in the same manner as JESUS Walked (1 John 2).
By This will we have been Sanctified Through The Offering Of The Body Of JESUS CHRIST Once for all.
(Hebrews 10).
To live as not breaking a covenant one must maintain the agreement and not break what is specified therein.
What shall we say then?
Are we to continue in sin that Grace might increase?
May it never be!
How shall we who died to sin still live in it?
Or do you not know that all of us who have been Baptised Into CHRIST JESUS have been Baptised Into HIS Death?
Therefore we have been buried with HIM through Baptism into death (1 Peter 4:1-2), in order that as CHRIST was Raised from the dead Through The Glory Of The FATHER, so we too might walk in Newness of Life...
Romans 6:1-4.
For those who believe in GOD, now is our Sanctification By The SPIRIT and faith in The Truth; The Grace Of GOD through faith in The Gospel Of The Kingdom Of GOD; The Gospel Of JESUS CHRIST (2 Thessalonians 2:13-17).
This means our overcoming sin and is not our living continuing in sin as we all once blindly did so before; before we first heard of The Way Of Righteousness and The Holy Commandment through The Grace Of GOD in HIS SON.
If we have indeed heard.
...As for you, let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning.
If what you heard from the beginning (John 1:14, John 6:63, John 11:25-26, John 14:6) abides in you, you also will abide In The SON And In The FATHER.
And this is The Promise which HE HIMSELF Made to us: Eternal Life...
1 John 2:24-25.
THY Word I have treasured in my heart, that I may not sin against THEE.
Blessed Art THOU, O LORD; Teach me THY Statutes.
Psalm 119:11-12.
We, in our flesh, being in and of ourselves, cannot hope to understand to the point of being able to live to GOD that we may overcome sin so as to live the rest of our days as pleasing to GOD, because the heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; and none, not one, can understand it in and of himself according to the wisdom of the flesh.
...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.
But a natural man does not accept the things Of The SPIRIT Of GOD; for they are foolishness to him and he cannot understand them, because they are Spiritually appraised.
But he who is Spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no man.
For who has known The Mind Of The LORD, that he should instruct HIM?
But we have the mind Of CHRIST...
1 Corinthians 2:12-16
...For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to The SPIRIT, the things Of The SPIRIT.
For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on The SPIRIT is Life and Peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward GOD; for it does not subject itself to The Law Of GOD, for it is not even able; and those who are in the flesh cannot please GOD...
Romans 8:5-8.
And without faith it is impossible to please, for he who comes to GOD must believe that HE Is, and HE Is A Rewarder Of those who seek HIM.
Hebrews 11:6.
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...
Colossians 3:16.
So now, for those whose eyes are not blinded by the darkness, (as are the eyes of the many who themselves profess to see and yet who live contradicting The Word and The Commandment; and The Word Is The Commandment), they are those who, because they walk in The Light as GOD HIMSELF Is In The Light; thus truly having fellowship with HIM; The Blood Of JESUS HIS SON Cleanses them from all sin (1John 1:1-10).
And they are known by their fruits.
They see to recognise what is now evident to them, of which the doing of causes the perpetrators thereof to not being able to Inherit The Kingdom Of GOD; because they live refusing to walk in The Rule Of GOD:
...Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are; immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you just as I have forewarned you that those who practice such things shall not Inherit The Kingdom Of GOD...
Galatians 5:19-21.
For now, by The Grace Of GOD, we have A SAVIOUR WHO Is The Propitiation in HIS Blood for our sins; JESUS CHRIST The Righteous, and so it is that HE becomes to us through our faith in HIM.
Thus it is that we are The Righteousness Of GOD In HIM.
But by HIS Doing you are In CHRIST JESUS, WHO became to us wisdom from GOD and Righteousness and Sanctification and Redemption, that, just as It Is Written,
"Let him who boasts, boast in The LORD."
1 Corinthians 1:30-31
Therefore, we are ambassadors for CHRIST, as though GOD were entreating through us; we beg you on behalf of CHRIST, be reconciled to GOD.
HE Made HIM WHO Knew no sin sin on our behalf, that we might become The Righteousness Of GOD In HIM.
And working together, we also urge you not to receive The Grace Of GOD in vain - for HE Says,
"At the acceptable time I Listened to you and on The Day of Salvation I Helped you";
behold, now is "The acceptable time,"
behold, now is "The Day of Salvation" - giving no cause for offense in anything, in order that The Ministry be not discredited, but in everything commending ourselves as servants Of GOD, in much endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses...
2 Corinthians 5:20 - 6:4
But our remaining in this Grace in which we enter into and in which we remain standing by faith alone, is our remaining in by faith in our living from faith and towards faith; always believing in GOD wherein The Righteousness Of GOD is Revealed to us in and through the day by day Renewing of our inner man.
As Paul writes,
For I am not ashamed of The Gospel, for it is The Power Of GOD for Salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek (Gentile).
For in it The Righteousness Of GOD is Revealed from faith to faith; as It Is Written,
"But the Righteous shall live by faith."
Romans 1:16-17.
This means we learn and are all the while learning and never ceasing to learn.
It is and always is to be a constant all the days of our lives.
If we, in our walk, are living contrary to The Word and will refuse correction from The Word, then we have, of ourselves, chosen to break the covenant and do no more than live trusting in ourselves and making flesh our strength.
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...
Psalm 50 (v16-17).
We have ceased to walk learning how we are Called, by GOD, to walk and to learn; in humility before HIM all the days of our lives.
...Thus Says The LORD,
"Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind and makes flesh his strength and whose heart turns away from The LORD.
"For he will be like a bush in the desert and will not see when prosperity comes, but will live in stony wastes in the wilderness, a land of salt without inhabitant...
This day by day renewing of our inner man through The Washing Of Regeneration And Renewing By The HOLY SPIRIT, so that we indeed now live to GOD and may worship The FATHER in spirit and truth; being of those who are alive from the dead, is an essential part and the understanding required for all who hope to live Godly In CHRIST JESUS.
Those that will live believing something of themselves do lack the humility required in order to being able to learn in coming to The Knowledge Of The Truth; their heart is not right within them.
But the Righteous will live by faith (Habakkuk 2:4).
"But this is The Covenant which I Will Make with The House of Israel after those days," Declares The LORD,
"I Will Put MY Law within them, and on their heart I Will Write It; and I Will Be their GOD, and they shall be MY people.
"And they shall not teach again, each man his neighbour and each man his Brother, saying,
'Know The LORD,'
for they shall all know ME, from the least of them to the greatest of them," Declares The LORD, "For I Will Forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."
Jeremiah 31:33-34.
("But do not be called Rabbi; for ONE Is your TEACHER and you are all Brothers. Matthew 23:8)
...Do we then nullify The Law through faith?
May it never be!
On the contrary, we establish The Law.
Romans 3:31.
...like newborn babes, long for the Pure Milk Of The Word, that by It you may grow in respect to Salvation, if you have tasted the Kindness of The LORD.
And coming to HIM as to a Living Stone, rejected by men, but Choice and Precious in the Sight Of GOD, you also, as living stones, are being Built Up as a Spiritual House for a Holy priesthood, to offer up Spiritual sacrifices acceptable to GOD Through JESUS CHRIST...
1 Peter 1:2-5
"It is The SPIRIT WHO Gives Life; the flesh profits nothing; The Words that I have Spoken to you are Spirit and are Life...
John 6:63
GOD'S Purpose according to HIS Choice stands, not because of our works, but because of HIM WHO Calls.
We are HIS Workmanship, Created in CHRIST JESUS for Good Works which GOD Prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Through HIM alone we have access in ONE SPIRIT to The FATHER (Ephesians 2:8-22).
Where The LORD JESUS is, there shall HIS servants also be (John 12:24-26).
...One Body and ONE SPIRIT, just as 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 4:4.
Some may say of what I am saying here, 'But HE Gives teachers,' (Ephesians 4:11).
But many who stand as Pastors and teachers and whatever else do so according to their own beliefs, imaginings and interpretations of Scripture, and not according to The TEACHER. And those that do so are not where The LORD JESUS CHRIST Is:
"A blind man cannot guide a blind man, can he?
Will they not both fall into a pit?
"A pupil is not above his teacher; but everyone, after he has been fully trained, will be like his teacher...
Luke 6:39-40.
So who do you look to as your teacher?
Is it The TEACHER, or is it a man who stands as teacher?
Because whoever it is we are a disciple of, it is he whom we will be like.
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.
We are, In CHRIST, now manifested that we are a letter Of CHRIST, cared for by each other, written not with ink, but with The SPIRIT Of The Living GOD, not on tablets of stone; as will now be evidenced in our living establishing The Law through faith; through our having The Law Written on our hearts; according to Prophecy, and so, according to GOD.
The Testimony Of JESUS is The Spirit of Prophecy (Revelation 19:7-10).
It is not on paper, it is not on certificates of qualification, it is not on our job description and wage slip, it is not on word processors, it is not in any self justification or justification by other men, but is Written on tablets of human hearts By The HOLY SPIRIT.
And it is such as this that a man Of GOD will recognise of a man Of GOD who is a bond-servant Of CHRIST and GOD indeed; recognising The Grace Of GOD Given to him by his words and deeds being Of GOD and always according to HIS Word; never refusing The Word and correction from The Word (Romans 12:3, 1 Peter 4:10-11).
And such confidence we have Through CHRIST toward GOD.
Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy Is from GOD, WHO also Made us adequate servants of a New Covenant, not of The Letter, but Of The SPIRIT; for The Letter Kills, but The SPIRIT Gives Life...
...Now The LORD Is The SPIRIT; and where The SPIRIT Of The LORD Is, 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 chapters 3 - 6.
The Goal of our Instruction is love from a pure heart; which means a Cleansed heart, and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
Being Baptised in The Name Of The LORD JESUS does not mean one has then consequently Received The HOLY SPIRIT (Acts 8:14-17).
Neither is it that one has not Received The HOLY SPIRIT because they have not as yet been Baptised in water in The Name Of The LORD JESUS (Acts 10:34-48).
And Acts 2:38-47, Acts 19:1-7.
Now The LORD Is The SPIRIT; and where The SPIRIT Of The LORD Is, is Liberty.
This Liberty is and means, Freedom from the flesh, that CHRIST is always exalted in the body of our flesh and never ourselves (Philippians 1:19-20), because of GOD, WHO Gives Life to your mortal body Through HIS SPIRIT WHO Indwells you (Romans 8:1-17).
The LORD GOD Will Give to each and every one of us according to the path in life we have trodden; by our words and our deeds and all being known according to our fruit.
..."I, The LORD, Search the heart, I Test the mind, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the results of his deeds...
Knowing this, for those who do indeed learn and learn in accordance with The Truth, that sin, taking opportunity through The Commandment deceives us (initially, apart from The Commandment we would not know what constitutes sin before A Holy GOD), and through it kills us, because The Law is Holy and Righteous and Good, they will learn to understand The Scriptures and accordingly that we cannot continue in sin that Grace might increase and with this the knowledge of what constitutes sin before A Holy GOD, and that it is not according to what a man himself deems to be right and good and acceptable and perfect.
This, because The Law is Spiritual and our actual living fulfilling The Law in that we establish The Law in all our living, consequently, can only be Spiritual.
...Is The Law then contrary to The Promises Of GOD?
May it never be!
For if a Law had been Given which was able to impart Life, then Righteousness would indeed have been based on Law.
But the Scripture has shut up all men under sin, that The Promise by faith in JESUS CHRIST might be Given to those who believe.
But before faith came, we were kept in custody under The Law, being shut up to The faith which was later to be Revealed.
Therefore The Law has become our tutor to CHRIST, that we may be Justified by faith (Romans 3:26).
But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
For you are all sons Of GOD through faith in CHRIST JESUS.
For all of you who were Baptised Into CHRIST have Clothed yourselves with CHRIST...
Galatians 3:21-27.
Flesh and blood cannot Inherit The Kingdom Of GOD.
It is Spiritual.
Our spirit; our sentient element; that by which we feel, think, decide, being the vital principle by which our fleshly body is animated, is now, In CHRIST, to be Led By The HOLY SPIRIT and not according to our fleshly nature as was before we first confessed JESUS LORD.
Through this, we begin to bear The Testimony Of JESUS; thinking, deciding and speaking as an imitator of HIM; because this is what means confessing JESUS before men (Luke 12:8-9), living being as imitators of GOD as Beloved children (Ephesians 4:29 - 5:2).
Do not believe me in my words here? Many because of false doctrine will not.
But I do not ask any to believe me, but GOD Alone.
Do you believe that this is far and beyond any capabilities we have in ourselves, that is, our flesh?
It most certainly is.
Do you believe when we act as we will that just because we believe of ourselves that we are Christian and yet it is contrary to CHRIST we still serve and please GOD all the same?
We do not.
...But The Wisdom from Above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy...
James 3:17.
The LORD Is Good to all and HIS Mercies are over all HIS Works.
All THY Works shall give thanks to THEE, O LORD, and THY Godly ones shall bless THEE.
They shall speak of the Glory of THY Kingdom and talk of THY Power;
To make known to the sons of men THY Mighty Acts and the Glory of The Majesty Of THY Kingdom.
THY Kingdom Is an everlasting Kingdom and THY Dominion throughout all generations.
Psalm 145:9-13.
And if you do live believing we please GOD all the same, then you are not believing in The GOD WHO Gives HIS HOLY SPIRIT to you.
And if so, then your faith is nothing and it will profit you nought (Psalm 50:16-21).
A man who hardens his neck after much reproof will suddenly be broken beyond remedy.
Proverbs 29:1.
Just look at the Apostle's Of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, how they were before in The Gospel accounts of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and then to those same men we read of and from in the acts of the Apostles, and at their heart in their letters which make up the The New Testament.
They bear witness to The Truth Of GOD; and we are Called in like manner.
Hear The Song of Moses, a most humble man Of GOD:
"Give ear, O Heavens, and let me speak;
And let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
"Let my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, as the droplets on the fresh grass and as the showers on the herb.
"For I proclaim The Name Of The LORD;
Ascribe Greatness to our GOD!
"The ROCK! HIS Work Is Perfect, for all HIS Ways Are Just;
A GOD Of Faithfulness and without injustice. Righteous and Upright Is HE...
Deuteronomy 32:1-4.
So who are you, O Christian, who does not look for such traits now in all your own living? Just ways, faithfulness, without injustice, Righteousness, uprightness.
Now, in The New Covenant, The Kingdom Of GOD is Righteousness and peace and joy in The HOLY SPIRIT.
For he who in this serves CHRIST is acceptable to GOD and approved by men...
Romans 14:17-18.
Again, we are Called to that the peace Of GOD governs, controls and directs our hearts, letting The Word Of CHRIST inhabit to influence us abundantly, in all Godly wisdom, wherein we both learn and teach one another; and all for our building up to the praise and Glory Of GOD (Colossians 3:12-17).
But there are many who do not live as understanding such a spirit of the New Creation; yet for those who do walk by this rule, truly, Peace and Mercy is Upon them.
"Truly, truly, I Say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see The Kingdom Of GOD."
"Truly, truly, I Say to you, unless one is born of water and The SPIRIT, he cannot enter into The Kingdom Of GOD.
"That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born Of The SPIRIT Is Spirit.
"Do not marvel that I Said to you,
'You must be born again.'...
John 3:3 & v5-7.
Here, to see The Kingdom Of GOD means our perceiving in that we see to understand The Rule Of GOD in our lives.
And,
unless one is born of water and The SPIRIT, he cannot enter into The Kingdom Of GOD, means without Baptism and The HOLY SPIRIT we simply cannot enter into The Rule Of GOD.
And what does it mean according to Scripture of our being Baptised Into CHRIST?
It means now, the life that we live we live to GOD, considering ourselves to be dead to sin but alive to GOD In CHRIST JESUS.
What shall we say then?
Are we to continue in sin that Grace might increase?
May it never be!
How shall we who died to sin still live in it?
Or do you not know that all of us who have been Baptised Into CHRIST JESUS have been Baptised Into HIS Death?
Therefore we have been buried with HIM through Baptism into death, in order that as CHRIST was Raised from the dead Through The Glory Of The FATHER , so we too might walk in Newness of Life.
For if we have become United with in the likeness of HIS death, certainly we shall be also of HIS Resurrection, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with, that our body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is Freed from sin.
Now if we have died with CHRIST, we believe that we shall also live with HIM, knowing that CHRIST, having been Raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over HIM.
For the death that HE died, HE died to sin, once for all; but the life that HE Lives, HE Lives to GOD.
Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin but alive to GOD In CHRIST JESUS.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey its lusts and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to GOD as those alive from the dead and your members instruments of Righteousness to GOD.
For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under Law, but under Grace...
Romans 6:1-14.
The members of our body of course include our heart (Romans 6:16-18, Matthew 5:8), tongue (James 3:1-6), along with every limb and other part of the body (Matthew 5:27-30).
...Therefore, since CHRIST has suffered (death) in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because he who has suffered (death) in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for The Will Of GOD...
1 Peter 4:1-2.
Yet how many Christians continue to live practicing the deeds of the flesh, unable to recognise that they live still doing the very things which they are Called in One Body to do away with; to die to, and all because of their fleshly attitude of their heart toward others?
They live as professing to be of those who are grafted in to The Rich Root of The Holy Olive Tree, yet they are not living as producing the fruit of It; the fruit Of Righteousness.
For you were Called to Freedom, Brethren; only not your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
For the whole Law is fulfilled in one Word, in the,
"You shall love your neighbour as yourself."
But if you bite and devour one another, take care lest you be consumed by one another.
But I say, walk By The SPIRIT and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.
For the flesh sets its desire against The SPIRIT, and The SPIRIT Against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please (Romans 7:14-25).
But if you are Led By The SPIRIT, (only then) you are not under The Law...
Galatians 5:13-18. (Luke 12:35-40).
And we are to know, because we are told through The Word Of GOD to us all, that those of an impure mind and who are impudent, and sorcerers and the immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices lying, have no right to The Tree Of Life and cannot enter The Gates Of The Heavenly City (Revelation 22:10-21).
'Dog,' in Philippians 3:2 & Revelation 22:15, is speaking of those whose impurity in principles and rules of right conduct, not being according to GOD, will exclude them from the New Jerusalem.
The Jews used the term 'dog' of Gentiles, under the idea of ceremonial impurity and among the Greeks it was an epithet of impudence.
The one who himself says, "I have come to know HIM," and yet does not keep The LORD'S Commandments, this one is a liar and The Truth is not in him; he is practicing lying and so because of this he, by his own doing, has no right to The Tree Of Life and cannot enter into The Gates Of The City (1 John 2:1-6, 1 John 4:20).
If any will refuse to learn how we need to learn and in their refusal will deny The Truth Of GOD, then all they do in their ignorance to The Truth Of GOD is to make HIM a liar. Despite their profession of faith, they have not believed in The Witness GOD Has Borne concerning HIS SON (1 John 5:9-12).
As it is impossible for GOD to lie we must align all our deeds with HIS Word to see if we stand in Truth or not, rather than do what many today do, which is to believe of themselves that they are Saved, without knowing to examine themselves to see if JESUS CHRIST is in them; in all their words and deeds (2 Corinthians 13:4-11).
I will bow down toward THY Holy Temple and give thanks to THY Name for THY Lovingkindness and THY Truth;
For THOU Hast Magnified THY Word according to all THY Name.
On the day I called THOU didst Answer me;
THOU didst Make me bold with Strength in my soul.
Psalm 138:2-4.
Whoever upholds what is not of Sound Doctrine according to The Glorious Gospel Of The Blessed GOD, is a liar; and love is the fulfillment of The Law (Luke 10:27-28).
The Law is not made for a Righteous man; and we only are The Righteousness Of GOD In CHRIST JESUS.
..."Will you really annul MY Judgement?
Will you condemn ME that you may be justified?
"Or do you have an arm like GOD and can you thunder with a voice like HIS?
"Adorn yourself with eminence and dignity; and clothe yourself with honour and majesty.
"Pour out the overflowings of your anger; and look on everyone who is proud, and make him low.
"Look on everyone who is proud, humble him; and tread down the wicked where they stand.
"Hide them in the dust altogether; bind them in the hidden place.
"Then I Will also Confess to you, that your own right hand can save you...
Job 40:8-14.
We have no adequacy in ourselves, because nothing good dwells in us, that is, our flesh.
Just as all men Of GOD understand, because they have learned, are learned and constantly learning that it is so.
A man Of GOD will learn to understand that he himself is nothing.
He will see to recognise his utter wretchedness before GOD and that in this there is no room for boasting; but only in The LORD.
He will learn more and more of his total dependence upon The LORD and HIS Grace; because of his wretchedness, and that before GOD no man has a place to stand as a dominant better over another; that before GOD all are as nothing and men of high degree are neither how they are seen or anything of what they will believe of themselves.
Some will refuse this because they do not have such humility so as to be able to recognise man's standing before The Perfection Of Beauty, GOD HIMSELF.
...For all of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment;
And all of us wither like a leaf and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away...
Isaiah 64:6.
As a man Of GOD in CHRIST such as Paul wrote,
...Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy Is from GOD, WHO also Made us adequate servants of a New Covenant, not of The Letter, but Of The SPIRIT; for The Letter Kills, but The SPIRIT Gives Life...
...Now The LORD Is The SPIRIT; and where The SPIRIT Of The LORD Is, is Liberty...
...Therefore, since we have this Ministry, as we Received Mercy, we do not lose heart, but we have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating The Word Of GOD, but by Manifestation of Truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in The Sight Of GOD.
And even if our Gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that they might not see the Light Of The Gospel of The Glory Of CHRIST, WHO Is The Image of GOD.
For we do not preach ourselves but CHRIST JESUS as LORD and ourselves as your bond-servants for JESUS' Sake.
For GOD, WHO Said,
"Light Shall Shine Out of darkness,"
Is The ONE WHO Has Shone in our hearts to Give The Light Of The Knowledge of The Glory Of GOD in The Face Of CHRIST.
But we have this Treasure in earthen vessels, that the Surpassing Greatness of The Power may be Of GOD and not from ourselves...
2 Corinthians 3:5-6, v17 & 4:1-7.
Psalm 62.