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Rom.11:16 If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches. 11:17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree; 11:18 don't boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.

False religion thinks it is holy, moreover, not only holy, but supports the truth, that is, being the truth, making themselves in charge of holiness! Sinners are not holy, nor can they make themselves holy, which is much like saying salt water makes itself into fresh water, or rotten fruit makes itself into fresh fruit.

1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Proverbs 16:2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"

This profound and basic truth is what false religion has taken, stolen, and uses to build a world wide empire of false worship, enslaving billions into a self-help program of holiness through the grandest lie ever told! Here the apostle Paul was dealing the first seed, the seeds the enemy planted in God's field where God's children grow into wheat, good fruit of God's planting with holy hands, he alone is the one making them holy through the righteous gift of his Son Christ Jesus life.

Matthew 13:38 the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.

Matthew 13:40 As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age.

Instead some wheat were boasting in self-righteousness through works they had done, thinking such works are what made them holy, which is the cunning mystery of false religion, the lie. Here they were willing to take a finger off the body of Christ and proclaim it holy by self efforts boasting the finger had made itself holy outside the blood of the body! How profoundly foolish had they become? Body members did not exist as a child of God unless God had made them holy by the body of Christ. Instead like a rebellious child they would be cut off from the source of righteousness and die in their sin, where else could the find such a sacrifice, from wicked spirits controlling the lurking place of the demons, false religion - Babylon?

Hebrews 10:26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins.

2 Peter 2:22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to his own vomit again,"{Proverbs 26:11} and "the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire."

(knowledge of the truth, is having the truth indwell us, Christ Jesus the truth, or there is no knowledge of the truth, Christ revealing himself by Spirit of God to us; flesh cannot reveal truth)

Despite their human wisdom God is the creator of sinless people not people born into sin, despite their arrogance the creator of life tells the truth its is the root of the tree that supports the branches and fruit on the tree, one cannot boast in something they had nothing to do with, let alone created. Satan the Devil said human were the source of holiness, and could sustain life by their choices of good and evil, but none are gods, none have made themselves a holy root stock giving mankind a superior people without death from sin, none!

1 Peter 3:21 This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you--not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Romans 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

Coming to life requires great humility, staying in the tree of life for long takes even greater humility. Israel was proud, she rejected the tree of life God provided, the Son of God, the Gentles could be grafted into life, through the life of the tree Christ Jesus, it was his life working in us that changes the fruit on the tree into Christ righteousness as a gift to God, for his works.

1Cor.1:28 and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are: 1:29 that no flesh should boast before God. 1:30 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption: 1:31 that, according as it is written, "He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."{Jeremiah 9:24}

James.3:10 Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
3:11 Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water? 3:12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.
3:13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
3:14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth. 3:15 This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic. 3:16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

Ecclesiastes 1:15 That which is crooked can't be made straight; and that which is lacking can't be counted.

Now flesh is pride and arrogance and promotes self-holiness, but flesh is dead to God and his will, Flesh here was dictating what is good and evil too God, as a god. The flesh thought it had become the instructor of God, telling him his ways, setting up religion by its doctrine then demanding all flesh conform to its powerful institutional leaders. But there is nothing new under the Sun when its comes to what flesh creates. Flesh builds control through everything thing it creates from government, commerce, and religion, but all flesh continues in sin from the first gods Adam and Eve, there nothing new in what flesh does or will do in dead works, building yet another form of false religion using the name of Christ.

Ecclesiastes 1:9 That which has been is that which shall be; and that which has been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Luke.13:20 Again he said, "To what shall I compare the Kingdom of God? 13:21 It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures{literally, three sata. 3 sata is about 39 litres or a bit more than a bushel} of flour, until it was all leavened."
The simple questions all of God's children must answer, who support who, and where did their new life come from, man or God? Would they teach the lie, or teach the truth of God? Would their standard of worship become like the worlds where all that matters is to be just a little better than the other guy? Looking at the sin of others, and promoting self holiness by rejecting someone else faults then boasting in the cloak of self-righteousness proving to be a wolves in sheep clothing? Deceiving their own heart by a mouth of judgment while forgetting their own cleansing through no righteousness of their own?

James.1:19 So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; 1:20 for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God. 1:21 Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls{or, preserve your life.}. 1:22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves. 1:23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror; 1:24 for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 1:25 But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does. 1:26 If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.

Titus 3:5 not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit.

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