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The book of John

Chapter 3

John 3:1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 3:2 The same came to him by night, and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him." 3:3 Jesus answered him, "Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew,{The word translated "anew" here and in John 3:7 (anothen) also means "again" and "from above".} he can't see the Kingdom of God."

Here a high ranking Pharisee's named Nicodemus acts on his faith, knowing that no man on earth could perform the works Christ was doing if they weren't of God, but why the controversy? The controversy is as it is today, rules and laws, which stop Spirit and truth denying it by judgment and blindness through laws created for wicked people.

1Tim.1:9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 1:10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

The law was the legal book for Pharisees whom weren't concerned with God's righteousness as much as they were concern making people obey the law, confusing themselves with disillusionment that they could some how keep the law perfectly. However, Christ was not acting from the law, he was acting with Spirit, and the truth, what truth? The truth of God, his Father whom he loved with his whole soul, mind, and spirit. Yes, Christ was showing, not talking, or acting in legal terms how God personality really is through his works for God.
John 15:24 If I hadn't done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.

Nicodemus got the message which frighten him, although it appeared Christ was breaking the law, his works showed he was of God. Nicodemus realized there was more to this man than the law could convicted him of evil. Christ does not answer Nicodemus, but instead makes a statement that actually explained everything. He says: "Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew,{The word translated "anew" here and in John 3:7 (anothen) also means "again" and "from above".} he can't see the Kingdom of God."

1 John 3:6 Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

One could not be born anew by the law, one could not become sinless by the law, one could not be eternally declared righteous by the law, thus, one could not judge the works of God by a law that accounted every man evil.

Romans 14:4 Who are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

The works of God through Christ was the reality not the shadow of the prophets or the law, it was a profound awesome experience coming into direct contact with God working through a sinless man, not judged by the law of wicked. How do you make evil stick to God's righteousness, Christ Jesus? How to you file accusation against a sinless person? How do you impute wickedness to a person God is not judging because they are sinless, not unless you hope they fall into wickedness so they can be right?

Luke 19:22 "He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn't lay down, and reaping that which I didn't sow.

Here than would be the judgment of entire nation for just such unrighteous judgments of the sinless Son of God. Yes, the righteous law of God was not for the righteous, but the wicked, and each person under it should have known they could not keep it on their very best day, by simply looking at the blood upon the altar of God shed for their sins!

Romans 3:10 As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.

John,3:4 Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?" 3:5 Jesus answered, "Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can't enter into the Kingdom of God!

Nicodemus faced a shocking truth, the same truth that has been over looked by so many fleshly minded Christian's how can you know God, if your not born again? Nicodemus was a teacher of God's law, but was he a teacher of God's personality, love? How did Nicodemus know God through his understanding of the law? Now stop and think about that statement, the law was created for who?

1Cor.2:13 Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things. 2:14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

1Tim. 1:9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 1:10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine.

It was indeed righteous and good, but it was nevertheless created for the unrighteous and wicked, not the righteous. Can an unrighteous person truly know God as Adam did before sinning?, Can they commune with God's righteous Holy Spirit as Adam did in the Garden of Eden? Such is the problem with the legalistic mind because it reads God's laws it assumes to know God, and than judges brother and sisters by law for death.

Matt.7:1 "Don't judge, so that you won't be judged.
7:2 For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you. 7:3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye? 7:4 Or how will you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye?

Here Nicodemus was confronted with something he could not understand by Christ, why could he not understand it? Simply because this point was out of his control. You see, the law controlled everything into a convenient package for Nicodemus, but one cannot born again themselves by law, it not in their control! So the legal mind hates the thought, because it believes it owns God, by its definition of legal truth. However, Nicodemus was a teacher a powerful position in Israel and should have known nothing within God's law was under flesh control it was not man's law it was God's law, and that law condemned every human as a sinner, leaving forgiveness up to God, by blood of innocent victim, out of human control.

One could not be under a law for sin and be born again into the kingdom of God. How shocking and hopeless Christ words are for many that live by laws of a religion, where can they go to work their way into heaven? How can they prove by laws that only condemns them they are good enough to entire into heaven? Here than is the power of undeserved kindness which the legal minded person hates as an weakness, but a weak thing of God is greater than men.

Romans 5:6 For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

Romans 8:3 For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh.

1 Corinthians 1:27 but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong.

John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Here Christ makes a powerful statement to Nicodemus, a statement overlooked, and not much talked about in today's religion's, and what is that? What is born of flesh, is flesh, and what is born of Spirit is spirit! Why the emphasis the demarcation if you will between spirit and flesh? It is because this is the mystery, the point of all of Christ amazing teachings, it is the birth from corruption out of sin into eternal life by faith. It is darkness into the wonderful light, the summation of why such great confusion is found in all Christian's religion's today!

John 6:63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Romans 3:20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Don't be confused here if a person is flesh, that is, sinful flesh with a fleshly mind they cannot be changed by reading their bible, they cannot be change by beating their body, nor by going to meetings every day, they cannot be changed by any good effort of your own, from flesh into spirit! Don't be deceived by false religion telling you you can make yourselves into a spiritual person by self-effort of meeting that's religion's rules and or doctrines. Flesh is flesh, and Spirit is spirit, light is light, darkness is darkness, and sin is sin, and righteousness is righteousness without sin. This was the dichotomy facing all of physical Israel in which Nicodemus came to Jesus about, how could flesh under the condemnation of the law be anymore than condemned flesh? Jesus than gives him the answer, by being born again out of the flesh, and becoming spirit, he did not say, work harder at being a spiritual person like false religion teaches, but why not?

Romans 7:18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.

Romans 8:3 For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh.

Christ is the effort, he is God's righteousness, not ours, he is God's salvation for us, he paid the price with a perfect life, we could not because that which is born of flesh is flesh. In other words, how do you get something clean out of something unclean, how does on change a thorn bush into a fruit tree? How do you get unleavened bread from yeast, or sweet water from polluted water? No human can work their way out of sin, no human can say: “I am sinless!” No human than can pay the price for yours or my life from sin.
Romans 8:8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

If one is not born again out of the sinful flesh into Christ life, they are not going to enter into God's Kingdom, and they will teach the truth of Christ wrong, its that simply. This is what Nicodemus a powerful teacher in Israel was ultimately told by Christ Jesus.

Subsequently, if Christ did not fulfill the law abolishing our deserved judgment we have no hope, but if faith tells you he did than you are freed of sin in God's eyes. You are dead in Christ, that is, your sinful flesh born again into a sinless life the truth, Christ Jesus, and the truth has set you free!

John 8:15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

Galatians 3:5 He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

John 3:7 Don't marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born anew.' 3:8 The wind{The same Greek word (pneuma) means wind, breath, and spirit.} blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don't know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."

Control is the issue for men in power, control is the issue for humans in protecting themselves from harm, should we than be surprise that religion wants and love control, but how indeed does one control the wind? The idea of human putting themselves in control of God and how He communicates to mankind is the nightmare of thieves, how can one steal the wind?

Luke 10:21 In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, "I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight."

Matthew 20:25 But Jesus summoned them, and said, "You know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.

Here Nicodemus a teacher of Israel gets an education about the truth of God from Christ Jesus “the teacher”. God is the owner of heaven and earth, his words goes forth with certain success and will complete that for which it was sent to do! In other words, despite mankind's best efforts in educating people about God, God needs no one to teach His children, he is not dependent upon any human in any religion to educated his children, does that shock you? Will, it really shouldn't, God educates his children by Spirit as he did Adam, and Christ Jesus, and is now doing with those anointed by His Holy Spirit, as His children.

Matthew 8:26 He said to them, "Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?" Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.

Luke 17:6 The Lord said, "If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, 'Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.

John 14:17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world can't receive; for it doesn't see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

No good father gives birth to son's and daughters and neglects their education, certainly mankind cannot teach God how to be a good Father, now can they? Nicodemus, like many Christian's cannot imagine how God could do without their teachings. Moreover, many Christian's have taken God's words claiming authority over others to teach it, and without their personal thoughts one will be mislead. Subsequently, they approve every jot and tittle in every verse within their bibles.

John 14:26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

Mat.7:7 "Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. 7:8 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
7:9 Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 7:10 Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent? 7:11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

So what is the lesson? God appoints teachers, but they are not Lords of our faith, nor are they in any better position, they are gifts to the rest of us within the body of Christ. However, as Nicodemus found out, God will rise up teachers from stones because He is in no way dependent upon human's to train and teach his children, and truthfully few should be teachers because most put themselves at the center instead of Christ the head of his own body purchase by his precious life.

The mere fact the new birth is not human, and being raised in Christ ,the seal of truth each child of God received from and eternal God should teaches them humility that none of the new birth is from our efforts. Hence, our job is to listen to the Spirit, not too the fleshly mind, and be lead as a servant for the glory of God.
1Cor. 4:1 So let a man think of us as Christ's servants, and stewards of God's mysteries. 4:2 Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found faithful.

1John.2:27 As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don't need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

John. 10:1 "Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn't enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

John. 3:9 Nicodemus answered him, "How can these things be?"
3:10 Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and don't understand these things?

Here is the ultimate question each of us must consider, is the bible a text book unraveled by by human education? Can a person go to school and teach the bible and know God? Nicodemus a powerful teacher in Israel could see Christ was doing works of God, but he could not understand by his education? What a shocking realization, remembering people were killed, destroyed over law, how small Nicodemus must of felt in not knowing what Christ was speaking?

John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

John 4:24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

Many Christian's have this idea that Christ obeyed physically every rule of law that the teachers of Israel put upon people, but actually he did not. Most of what Christ taught directly contradicted the teachings of his times. In fact, Christ often made shocking statements to where the teachers of Israel struggled trying to bring his thoughts into their understanding of law. Here, in this part of John's letter we find one of those shocking statements of Christ that could not be understood by the law, that is, one must be born again. Who of all the prophets taught such a thing, where was this found in the law, was Christ breaking the law by such teachings, going outside of the law?

John 6:63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

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.

You see, the law was given for sinners, not the sinless, a sinner like
Nicodemus could not imagine that Christ being sinless was not evil, evil of sin imputes evil to all human. In other words, we are all sinner having evil motivates which we hid by our teachings, but not Christ. The flaw is to think from the fleshly mind judging Christ the sinless lamb of God as having evil motives the law checks! This concept for teachers of the bible is hard to grasp, but it is true. If a person is sinless the law declares them righteous it does not condemn them as evil needing redemption. In fact, there is no law for the sinless, but love, there is no need to check conduct by laws punishing sins, because they are sinless perfect in God's judgment of the person.

If a person gets this backwards, which is, God created the law with evil intention only to condemn people instead help them up to faith in His love than they misjudge God, by their own evil thoughts.

1Tim.1:7 desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.
1:8 But we know that the law is good, if a man uses it lawfully,
1:9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 1:10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine.

Certain Nicodemus was a teacher, he had a given position by powerful authority within Israel, but he did not know God, he knew the law created for sinners. Soon the teachers of Israel would misjudge Christ killing him thinking he was evil, by their own evil eye. But what lesson can we as Christian's learn from Nicodemus? We are born again, out of sin, into the life of Christ perhaps we impute evil knowing as we do all men our sinners, and we all have bad motives at times, but do we only see Christ and those in Christ through the glasses of evil, that is, the laws of the bible?

Rom.8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.{NU omits "who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit"} 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

This is important, because we are not under the laws for sinners, we are freed from the law of the flesh in Christ, but how do we honestly teach? Is it from our fleshly mind of judgment, or from the mind of freedom Christ Jesus? Here one can simply check themselves; do you really believe there is only one Lawgiver and King, and when we judge by sins laws we have made ourselves a judge of law? Do we really comprehend Christ words when saying stop judging?

James 4:11 Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. 4:12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

John.3:11 Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don't receive our witness. 3:12 If I told you earthly things and you don't believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

The human assumption is for those loving their bibles, everything in the bible is based upon facts, facts proven by other human's through research, comparing earthly things with earthly things. But here Christ stuns a high ranking priest/teacher Nicodemus with a simple question one that each of us must also face in our own faith at some point, which is? How do we speak of heavenly things with authority if we are not a part of the heavens? We can speak about all things earthly by education and experience, but even than there are many false prophets claiming they know “the truth” so how much more unseen spiritual things?

John 1:14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 6:63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Compounding the problems further if a person does not believe Christ whom came down from above like no other person walking among them. If you can't believe the greatest witnesses of truth about the Father how indeed is one going to unravel spirit things by earthly teachings? To the making of many books has no end, which is vanity, and tiresome. Hence, trying to understand spiritual things by earthly teaching with a fleshly mind is as unobtainable, the greatest chasm in the universe, its like trying to change the lie into the truth.

Romans 7:18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.

Romans 8:6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

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.

The two are literally worlds apart, sinful flesh cannot know Spirit its of no value at all in knowing God, it cannot cross over into God's Kingdom by comparing earthly things against earthly things. Yet, this is the foundation stone all false religion is build upon because the flesh is prideful, it refuses to believe it can't unravel the bible by human intellect, human wisdom. Nicodemus one of the highest teacher in Israel was overwhelmed he could see Christ works, knowing they were from God, but simply could not find anything within his law to justify them. What a fearful reality, judging righteous blood by a law created for sinners.

Romans 8:9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

Acts 7:52 Which of the prophets didn't your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

How can we judge correctly heavenly things by things of this earth? Specifically, a mind sold under sin by a perfect law from heaven that judges us as unrighteous? If we are a wise person our whole premise of truth is flawed, we thought we knew God, and was willing to die for such truth and even kill other in the name of truth, but now Christ the Truth is telling us, we can't understand by our teachings of the fleshly mind born under sin. Moreover, he knows our fleshly mind will reject his witness of the Father's truth!

1 Corinthians 15:50 Now I say this, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} that flesh and blood can't inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

1 Corinthians 6:16 Or don't you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."{Genesis 2:24}

2 Corinthians 5:16 Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

John 3:13 No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

A little yeast ferments the whole lump, yeast is corruption to unleavened bread, and no one doubts this truth. If one has a new lump of unleavened bread it cannot in the slight way come near yeast, or the natural process will corruption to the unleavened bread. A person cannot take a piece of leaven bread and make a new lump of unleavened bread we must start anew.

Matthew 9:17 Neither do people put new wine into old wineskins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved."

Mankind's corruption from sin came from earth in Adam's failure as the father of the human race, everything coming from Adam was corrupted from sin. One cannot make a new lump a sinless human from the leaven of Adam. We may chose to get bogged down in detail of arguing bible truth's and even high moral principles, but none of can make something clean from something unclean. Now Nicodemus was learning this value lesson, Christ did come from below from the corruption of sin on the earth, he came from above and was the only human that could make this truthful statement. He was the unleavened bread, the sinless lamb of God, how do we know this?

Job 14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

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

Simple because sinful flesh cannot inherited the Kingdom of God, Christ became the King of God's Kingdom because he was sinless, he went back holy and righteous as he came holy and righteous. Yes, Christ was right with God, he needed no law convicting him of sin, why? Because he loved the Father, no one made him obey, he loved the Father, no one had to commanded Christ to obey with strong warning, no! He loved the Father, he was sinless because of his perfect love for his Father.

Matthew 22:37 Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'{Deuteronomy 6:5}

John 15:9 Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

Two worlds collided, two laws from these worlds collided one would have to be completed allowing God's love to be perfected in Christ brothers making them a new lump, a new personality, and a new mind, a new heart, free from yeast of Adam's sin. The old passing away and new power in heaven would bring the will of God into each one of his children hearts on earth. Nothing from yeast can mixes into the Christ, not the old law, not our sins, and not our fleshly mind, dead, dead, dead, are these dead works they cannot help the heaven's they cannot add one cubit to the law of love, they cannot help in making the Kingdom of God living stones righteous, they have to be made new from hands free of yeast, the sin of Adam to be everlasting.

Revelation 21:5 He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." He said, "Write, for these words of God are faithful and true."

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

What God is doing through Christ brings no false glory to sinful men and their many accomplishments, don't be fooled the world and its desires are passing away, but those loving the Father will remain forever!

1 Corinthians 5:7 Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.

John 3:14 As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 3:15 that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

The nation of Israel was soon too be under a curse, as had been the Israel under Moses when rebelling against God, and Moses leadership ,which leadership would soon pictured the Christ. God had done wonders among those Israelite releasing them from Egypt bondage by YHWH powerful hand. Moses himself was made a God over Egypt, where he spoke God's judgments upon Pharaoh, and all his false gods. if Pharaoh listen to God's voice spoken through Moses his false god's and his great nation was not plagued by YHWH. Still Israel lacked faith in God and Moses mediatorship rebelling soon after their release from Egypt. God sent them fiery serpents biting those rebels cursing each one whom made themselves into a god, choosing good and evil for themselves like Adam was bitten by sin through great serpetn Satan the Devil.

Number.21:5 The people spoke against God, and against Moses, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread. 21:6 Yahweh sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
21:7 The people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh, and against you; pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us. Moses prayed for the people. 21:8 Yahweh said to Moses, Make you a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard: and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.

God again was doing great wonders for the wayward nation of Israel in Christ, but once again the majority would reject Christ choosing for themselves as gods good and evil for themselves. The very law they so loved and which had been enforced over them for some two thousand's years became their curse, the very thing they wrongly judged Christ over, “claiming no one can forgive sins but God!” But God made Christ their God through a greater mediatorship than Moses, through the mouth of Christ came the word of God, Christ was the Word of God.

Those bitten by the fiery serpent could repent God allowed Moses to lift up a copper serpent on a pole, but each person bitten must humble themselves looking to God's means of salvation to be healed from their death dealing bit. Now Christ tells a teacher of Israel Nicodemus this story, one he himself often taught, applying it to him and all the nation of Israel once more. Christ would be lift up, he would be put on a tree a stake as a curse to removed the laws judgment off this great nation, most would be rejected denying the Christ and clinging to the law of God given them by Moses. Cursed is anyone under the law of God once Christ was lift up, cursed they would be in rebellion against God, bitten by pride of self-righteousness through the law, instead of Christ righteousness.

Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"{Deuteronomy 21:23}

Galatians 1:8 But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any "good news" other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.

Galatians 1:9 As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you any "good news" other than that which you received, let him be cursed.

Christian's mustn't be bitten by pride of judgment through the Old Law covenant good and spiritual as it was, it did not make a person sinless once for all time declaring them righteous, it did not perfect them in Christ the eternal life. Moreover, the Old Law could not born a person new, the very conversation Christ had with Nicodemus a great teacher in all Israel. Israel could not become a ruling class of Kings and priest by the power of the Old covenant, in fact, they would be cursed by the Old law, what curse?

Galatians 4:5 that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.

Galatians 2:19 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

Struggling in works of law, blaming and condemning each other by the laws judgment always lacking in the sweat of their face, dying in fear of God's judgment. The law could not make them good enough for the thing they sought so selfishly eternal life. It rather condemned them as sinners, as unrighteous needing God's forgiveness through blood of innocent animal victims. Now that blood was removed, no more, not accept by God as righteousness, but rejected as thorns and thistles. God placed the superior righteousness of Christ the new covenant over Israel a new law, a new heavens, superior where each person of Israel could be a son of God, born a new, replacing what Adam had lost in the righteousness of Christ.

Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them."{Deuteronomy 27:26}

No those Israelite's could not hang on to pride of laws, and its righteous judgments they would have to freely forgive each one his brother from their heart as God had removed their own transgression freely once for all times. Now God was dealing with spirit sons, under the greatest spiritual law of love, the only authorized law expressing God's own righteousness in truth and Spirit. God is no longer dealing with fleshly Israel, God has put the flesh and its judgment away, killing it in Christ and the new covenant. Now God has become King judging the eternal lives of His own son's, hence, making Him the rightful judge of such great and profound matters. Let us not be bitten, by Old Law and New Law mixtures, polluting us into the yeast of leaven through teaching good and evil, what good and what evil? Judgment of sin under the the Old Law, and sinlessness under the New Covenant.

1 John 5:18 We know that whoever is born of God doesn't sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn't touch him.

Galatians 2:18 For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.

1 Corinthians 15:56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

Romans 13:8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Romans 13:10 Love doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 3:17 For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him. 3:18 He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn't believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

Christ words here are so misunderstood by most Christian's, whom are void of the power of the law over the flesh of the Jewish faith. Most just think Christ is judging, and skip right over most of his words about not judging - moving on to another condemnation toward someone or a religion. If we as Christian's could get out of thinking we are the most important generation to have every lived, applying all application of scriptures to ourselves or our times the context of Christ word here make perfect sense.

The law of Moses judged the Jewish faith, it condemned all of them as unrighteous sinners, to get out of that judgment one had to spill blood of an innocent victim an animal upon God's altar of mercy. They could not fix being a sinner by applying more law into their lives it would not make them a non-sinner. They could however, be set right by blood atoning for them being a life long sinner. This truth made them completely depended upon God's mercy, God''s love and kindness towards them. In other words, to stop the judgment of their flesh as being a sinner, blood had to be spilled.

Hebrews 9:22 According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

Christ did not come to enforce God's righteous judgment through the law upon us, or the Jewish faith, but why? Simply put, that issues was finished. It served its purpose, no one, not one person every made themselves sinless enough in not needing blood upon God's altar, why beat a dead horse by having Christ prove what had been proven for thousand's years? It was time for something better. Now this is why Christ was hated by so many teachers of the law, he was teaching beyond the law into a time his blood would save the world, that world at that time was the Jewish faith, Israel. The Jews could not save themselves from sin, no matter if they lived 120-years they still needed to go to the altar spilling blood for sin, the law could perfect no one from sin. It could atone for sin, but not take sin out of us.

Heb.10:4 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

Heb.7:18 For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness 7:19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

Who than would take mankind's sin away? If Christ came to establish sin through the law that had already been done by His Father YHWH. Most Christian's establish sin in judging their whole life, but Christ did not, he removed our sins, how? Not by taking sin out of us, no! He removed the thing judging us a sinner, the law. How can that happen? The law was for sinners, was Christ a sinner? Of course not, there is no law against love, there is not law against a righteousness man without sin, whom would judge Christ a sinner?

1Tim. 1:9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 1:10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine.

If a person is put to death in their sinful flesh by being made a part of a sinless life (Christ) there is no law judging that person. We cannot account ourselves anything in our flesh, we are not in our flesh in Christ Jesus. There is no other place a person can go and not be judged, but in Christ Jesus, not a bible, not a religion, not a teacher, not a new prophet, not one thing under the Sun can remove your sins, but Christ Jesus.

1 John 3:9 Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.

If a Christian's takes his eyes off this focus point, Christ, but a moment looking at men, or the beauty of human flesh to lead them they will be mislead into being struck all over with thorns and thistle of judgment and condemnation.

James 3:8 But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 3:9 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God. 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.

John 3:19 This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

Try if you will for a moment to get the context of Christ words here and whom he was speaking too? What world had Christ came into? Moreover, just who was he calling the world? As shocking as this is to most Christians, Christ was speaking not to the world as they know it, but those in the Jewish faith for he was sent to none other! Moreover, Christ was speaking to Nicodemus a great teacher of Israel.

John 8:23 He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

Here then Christ spoke to God's people as the world, as hating the light, as evil? How could these things be after thousand's of years of having God's word the law and all the prophets, let alone Kings, great Kings over Israel, how could a people get is so wrong? Well, here something not will like by legalistic minded Christian's they got so wrong because they have blinded themselves by God's law, how can that be?

John 9:39 Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, that those who don't see may see; and that those who see may become blind."

John 9:41 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.

The light was not the law any longer for Christian's. or lets say at this point, soon to be Christian's. The light for them was Christ Jesus, the truth, but here is the point overlooked by most of us. Truth, and light, is sinless. If a person is sinless they are not judged by what? The law, for the law was created for sinners. Now that one step of being judgmental, which means, first imputing evil to Christ cost this nation everything. You see, law implies by it creation one is evil having bad motives, and is needed to put one into check whom is a sinner!

1Tim.1:9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 1:10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine.

How does this nation teacher put Christ into check by laws created for sinners when he is sinless? Well that made their own hearts evil right? One cannot judge righteous blood, with laws created for the unrighteous. So this nation as a whole did not come to the sinless life of Christ the light. Making them them the world, not of God, but separate. Either they would come to the light and be made a part of that light or remain in darkness under Satan domain the world.

Romans 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath through him.

1John.5:6 This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

Compounding this problem for Jews and Christian's alike Christ brothers would be given a sinless life! In other words, God imputes Christ sinless life too them because they are apart of Christ as body members and the temple of God. How could the Jews judge them anymore than Christ by the law? The question is do we as Christ come to the light, or stay in darkness by the laws judgments, the two won't mix anymore than it did with the Jews unrighteous judgment for Christ. Do you impute evil of good?

Rom.8:33 Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who justifies. 8:34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

John 12:47 If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn't believe, I don't judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

John 14:17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world can't receive; for it doesn't see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

1 John 3:6 Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

John 3:20 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed. 3:21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God."

What is evil? Well, for the world it is defined as felonious act against someone, but is this the definition of the bible evil. No! Its not, sin is evil and that is the context of Christ Jesus words here, not a legal definition by religion or State, but God's view where a man lust for a woman had commit evil in his hearts, which is the same as the physical act of adultery.

1 John 5:18 We know that whoever is born of God doesn't sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn't touch him.

What is the light, the law? Well, the law certain was light of God's righteous correction and judgment for those in the Jewish faith and they came too that light, but Christ is speaking of “the light”, not the light of the law. So who would come to him, those loving truth, what truth? The truth of whom they honestly were at heart, not what they put on in the sight of men, but the secret person of the heart that love God's righteousness, and knowing they could not meet it as a sinner not just proven by the law, but in their hearts and measure themselves against God's righteousness.

Romans 7:21 I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

Each of us have a choice in this life, we can pretend, we are not a sinner by judging others worst than we are thinking somehow we are upholding something better than ourselves justifying our own unrighteousness, or we can love truth. What truth? The truth of Christ Jesus as the light, when we compare ourselves against a righteous man whom never sinned we judge ourselves correctly into the light of truth. We see what we stumble over, but we still stumble, we stop justifying our sins by some other evil in our brother or sisters eye thinking as it were: “I am a least not that bad!”

John 11:9 Jesus answered, "Aren't there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn't stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

We come to the light that exposes us to the truth of our sinful life, we humble ourselves and thank God for his great kindness and mercy in saving us from our sins. We bless those that curse and bear up walking in love, so we can cover a multitude of sins. No other works cannot be done in God, by the law, or by sins laws that condemns us just as we are sinners, instead we come to the light being made a part of the light so we can love God and have are own judgment put away undeservedly.

1 John 1:5 This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

The only way we are not evil is by having no sin in God's eyes, we cannot in our own goodness or power accomplish something our fallen flesh is part of sin. We must be born anew from sin into a sinless life of the light Christ Jesus.

1 John 2:10 He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

1 John 3:9 Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.

John 3:22 After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them, and baptized.
3:23 John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were baptized.
3:24 For John was not yet thrown into prison. 3:25 There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John's disciples with some Jews about purification. 3:26 They came to John, and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, the same baptizes, and everyone is coming to him." 3:27 John answered, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.

All things in heaven are good and united, but all things upon earth exist divided even within forced unity. The unites of the heaven is vastly different than so called unites man upon earth has in government, religion and commerce. Mankind is united is by words, a label that is a lie, which people must enforce by power of fear this unity will destroy to make it happen. Whereas, unity of the heavens, where God exist and Christ came down from is united by love, which givens freely and adds more life.
Ephesians 4:13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.

1 John 4:20 If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

James 2:5 Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

The thought of love is not jealous, it does not take away, but only adds to another life, it is not a label it is in fact life, the life of our Heavenly Father YHWH. One can not loss when this unity of purpose given from heaven by Holy Spirit.

Hebrews 6:10 For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

Here the disciples of John and perhaps, some of Christ disciples acted like politician worrying like the flesh mind does in striving for what makes this world work, power, control and gaining by unrighteous force to prove one is successful. But John the Baptist knew all he had was given him by God, he had a purpose, but for a moment, his purpose was everlasting adding to God's own love, for mankind. Nothing could be lost in God's love only added, nothing was lacking for John and his disciple, for God is good.

1 Timothy 1:14 The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

2 Thessalonians 2:10 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

Christian's must remember, always, this powerful lesson, there is no competition in love, if God gives all live, and all gain a closer relationship with God/life, nothing is taken, because God and his son are the perfection of prettiness. Nothing from below, the earth under the power of sin and death can know the things of heaven, the things of heaven must teach us, it must say this is God, this is what is good and everlasting and we must put faith in those words. All things of God will go on increasing until the whole earth is filled with the glory of God's own life in righteousness and death and pain will be no more.

1 Thessalonians 4:9 But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

1 Thessalonians 3:12 and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you.

Colossians 3:14 Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Fear of loss does not exist in Christ, or God, it exist in death, in the mind of this world, striving for perfection by forced unity of unrighteous rules, and laws created for this world under mind of fear and judgment. This is the reason we cannot please God unless we have faith, letting ourselves be wronged, giving up that which the fleshly mind cannot give up, pride, power, control and fear of not gaining, which is being right.

Colossians 2:2 that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ.

Philippians 2:2 make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

John 3:28 You yourselves testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but, 'I have been sent before him.' 3:29 He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.

So often Christian's believe that being a prophet is about unraveling a deep mathematical book like Daniel or Revelation, but we do not here of the greatest prophet John the Baptist doing so? John was given a gift of knowing there was a bride and a bridegroom, and he was the one whom prophesied about the Christ and his soon to be anointed followers.

John 3:31 He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the Earth belongs to the Earth, and speaks of the Earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

Nor was John the Baptist taken into heaven having in a vision like the apostle John, nor for that matter most of other great prophets of God before John the Baptist were. Sometime the greatest prophesy is found in the simplest of truths. In fact, the apostle Paul was given to remind the brothers and sisters of his times not be be take away from the simplicity of Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:3 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

John the Baptist knew by Holy Spirit that his ministry was short lived, only six-months, and Christ was three-half years long changing all things before him, Such should humble us, where religion boast of apostolic succession.

John 19:11 Jesus answered, "You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin."

Everything from John the Baptist and Christ proved their ministry was not from man, but from above, God's power. However, many Christian's think pounding points over and over again for hundreds of years in God's will, but governments, and commerce practice the same fleshly mind programs comparing man's fruit with man fruit which is the standard fighting over words, never being able to stop for fear to not getting that last little point unfortunately believe will change everything, Hence, leaving the power of Holy Spirit out of their teaching all together.

Luke 6:40 A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

Holy Spirit is not controlled by some interpretation of the bible, it is a mighty powerful force and when God wants truth be known, no flesh of green grass will prevail against it, it will rather fade in glory and the word of God will last forever, and this is why Christ did not wrangle in the streets.

Galatians 4:26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

Ephesians 1:21 far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.

John 3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease.

John the Baptist understood what may fleshly minded Christian's cannot, and what is that? That truth of God is not a competition, it is not of the values espoused by this world. There are so many whom feel that the thoughts and emotions of this world must be expressed in biblical terms so their message can be validated as truth. But such non-sense was not found in John the Baptist words, he knew without a doubt his ministry was not of his doing, nor of his strong message, or of his choosing.

He knew what fleshly minister never get, the size, and number of people in their ministry is by Holy Spirit, not of them, by how nice, good looking, will educated, or politically correct they are. Sadly, every part of Satan system of things from government, commerce and religion all uses the same fleshly promotional tactics to gain greater membership. John realized his ministry was ending, it would be completed by Christ fulfilling the law, no longer could John call the nation of Israel to repentance under the law of Moses.

John 4:24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

John the Baptist did not count numbers to prove he had God's blessing, he was not jealous of God's Holy Spirit upon Christ, no! He rejoiced in Spirit and truth. This entire part of the apostles John's letter is about Holy Spirit it was not about John the Baptist, or the disciples of Christ. They must come to understanding it was about the Holy Spirit working them as a vessel of God words revealed to mankind. Shortly that same Holy Spirit would born anew each disciple of Christ they would be vessels for God's words to mankind. It was not a personal message unless they put themselves first, that is, in the way of the Word, Christ Jesus work in and through them.

2 Corinthians 2:17 For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

John 3:31 He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the Earth belongs to the Earth, and speaks of the Earth. He who comes from heaven is above all. 3:32 What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness. 3:33 He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.

Do you understand the nature of our fallen flesh? This is not insult but the first step in coming to God. When one looks to creation and see a animal acting in a certain pattern they marvel at God's wisdom manifested in the animal, they are not offended by its nature. But when talking of our fleshly mind we fast become offended with God reveals how unlike his mind is too ours. The fleshly mind under sins believes without a moment of doubt it can know God by knowledge, it needs nothing more than education, and effort to know God, and because its gets some of God's nature correct it than imputes its own feelings into God, for it must be, the fleshly mind knows nothing but the thoughts of it flesh, as natural.

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.

Colossians 2:23 Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren't of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

But God's way are not at all mankind's ways, His thinking it 180-degrees opposed to our fleshly minds darkness. Because even an animal can read mankind's actions to please them for reward of affection, and food it does not mean they can read our minds as some believe. God knowing this, sent us a Son from above, to teach us things from above by Spirit, which is truth, the Spirit is not hampered by the desire of the sinful flesh so it changes like shadows of light under a tree as the Sun passes overhead. No! We must humble ourselves and receive all things of God from above, but how?

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.

Romans 8:8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

Simply put, by undeserved kindness, by the gift of God's love, through a new birth from flesh into Spirit where God's mind can be known by Spirit in Jesus Christ. Christ was not insulting anyone as the fleshly mind thinks here, he was stating a truth that sinful flesh cannot receive the witnesses of God, because it cannot commune with God in His own nature because of the flesh sinful condition. Thus, none of us can save ourselves or have a understanding of God without his love given us by sheer undeserved kindness.

Romans 8:9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

1 John 4:6 We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn't listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

1 John 5:6 This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

John 3:34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure. 3:35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.

Here is a grave mistake many Christian's find themselves in, and what is that? They understand one facet of Christ coming to our earth as to redeem mankind and nothing more. Why would Christ stated here as truth if being born again by God's Holy Spirit, was no more than being allowed into the Kingdom of God as some teach?

John 14:26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

John 14:17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world can't receive; for it doesn't see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

Matthew 13:17 For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn't see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn't hear them.

In other words, the very context of Christ words are saying you cannot understand the things of God without Holy Spirit, and yet how many faithful prophets were before Christ? Did these prophets lack God Spirit in them? No! Each prophet of God gave us a preview into Christ the least to the greatest prophet of God, their lives were light leading to the very light of God, found in Christ Jesus, but they did not understand the things of heaven, does this shock you? Many teach because of their good motives they have gain merit with God to be anointed into the heavens, but if that were true, why did the greatest prophets of God prior to Christ become the least ones in Christ Kingdom?

Matthew 23:11 But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.

Luke 24:26 Didn't the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?" 24:27 Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

Matthew 11:11 Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.

Did Elijah not have feelings like ours, was he lacking in love and faith for God? But yet we are told he will not rule with Christ, or for that matter any of the great prophets from Moses to Christ, how shocking to think they did not have enough earn merit as those that teach they enter into the Kingdom of God by some specialness that they alone possess. Many of these same Christian's will explain perfectly why these prophets could not rule with Christ, adamant stating God is not partial, he is a fair judge, stating it was not time according to God's will for the heaven to be opened up to mankind. Moreover, they will teach God can do what he wants, and who could argue with such fallacious reasoning, God has no standards because they are special. So God shut the door to all his prophets, but open it to them because of their own good feeling about themselves. How arbitrary they have made God's justice for self-merit and good motives, it this what you want to believe about God?

James 5:17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months. 5:18 He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit.

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.
11:19 You will say then, "Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in." 11:20 True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don't be conceited, but fear;
11:21 for if God didn't spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. 11:22 See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off. 11:23 They also, if they don't continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

Sadly forgetting their own place God chose not the great prophets to rule with Christ but the least ones of mankind, those rejected by all, those looked down upon by the world, even the Jewish faith whom boasted in being the son's of the God's prophets looked down on Christian's, What Christ spoke by Spirit had never been heard upon earth, he taught about the Father's of love, and not Judgment, he taught the truth of a personal relationship given to His children at great cost to himself. Christ stated to the a great teacher of Israel that they must be born again to enter into God Kingdom, something no man could do by his own power, merit, or good motives, it was an act of God which excluded many before Christ, a grand privilege based upon merit, not their own merit, but Christ Jesus merit that God would build his congregation upon.

Heb.1:5 For to which of the angels did he say at any time, "You are my Son. Today have I become your father?"{Psalm 2:7} and again, "I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?"{2 Samuel 7:14; 1 Chronicles 17:13} 1:6 Again, when he brings in the firstborn into the world he says, "Let all the angels of God worship him."
1:7 Of the angels he says, "Who makes his angels winds, and his servants a flame of fire."{Psalm 104:4} 1:8 But of the Son he says, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.

Not one prophet of past held that much merit, not one, not one great men of faith among the prophets whom loved God, and God loved them, perhaps even more than the least one whom rule with Christ? For this reason, and for this reason God states why he did such a thing marvelous thing, it was for a stunning purpose, so that no person could boast in themselves!

Romans 3:10 As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.

1Cor.1:26 For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;
1:27 but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;
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.

John 3:36 One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys{The same word can be translated "disobeys" or "disbelieves" in this context.} the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."

Did Christ say if you believe in the Son of Man you have eternal life, than say caveat? In other words; “I am not really telling you that your belief in me is enough, what I am really saying is, hears a thousand's other do's and don't you must keep to have eternal life?”
Here is where a works of law legal minded person just can't get figure out. They will preach God's impartial justice when condemning other for a sinning. Yes, they must because they don't want to be considered impartial, blood guilty!

John 10:10 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
John 6:47 Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.

But these same fleshly minded Christian's cannot for some reason apply God New Covenant impartially, have you ever notice that? Yes, the new covenant of love, where we have been freed of condemnation of our sinful flesh by being dead in Christ and made new in mind, heart, and spirit. Why don't these weed Christian's declare impartially when applying the new law of love? Simply, put they created the caveats upon Christ words here, they add all the do's and don't for fear, fear of what? The fear of judgment, people don't judge other harshly if they believe God is love, they only judge other harshly when they think God is like they are living in fear of a caveat of judgment!

1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

Christ stated the truth, the only caveat was disbelief, the only downside to his words, was our lack of love, not so much for each other, but for God. In other words, would you handed your children a serpent if they ask you for a fish? Well, no, of course not! Than why would God send His love in Christ just to trick us by a lie, a serpent? Why not measure your faith against yourself, stop comparing yourself by another person failures, how they meet a rule of law by your religion, your teachings, your senses of justice, ask yourself one question? “Why do I judge so harshly, what is it I don't believe about God?”

John 3:14 As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up.

Matt.7:7 "Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. 7:8 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
7:9 Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 7:10 Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent? 7:11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

James. 1:16 Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers. 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Can you be that honest? Do you believe you have the truth on paper, in the bible, the question is do you have the truth in you? Do you believe God is love, and if you simply believe in God's love towards you, you have eternal life? Well, if you can't believe than how is judging others supposedly worst than yourself going to give you life? You see, either we have eternal life by faith, or we have eternal life by our merit, if it is by faith than we have no merit, Christ must supply his merit too us. If it is by our own merit than your merit must prove to be greater than someone else merit, hence, you have ended up at why you must judge other so harshly.

Numbers 21:5 The people spoke against God, and against Moses, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread. 21:6 Yahweh sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. 21:7 The people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh, and against you; pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us. Moses prayed for the people.
21:8 Yahweh said to Moses, Make you a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard: and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live. 21:9 Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it on the standard: and it happened, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived. 21:10 The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in Oboth.

Rom.7:21 I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present. 7:22 For I delight in God's law after the inward man,
7:23 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members. 7:24 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death? 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.

Rom. 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.{NU omits "who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit"} 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

James 4:11 Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Completed on: January 05, 2014

by: Daniel a Slave of Christ Jesus