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Without Faith it is Impossible to Please God!

Matthew 15:8 'These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

Oneday a man was baffled how to ride a horse after several hours of trying a cowboy came along and told the man: “You point the head in the direction you want to go and the tail will follow!”

Today people point the tail in a certain direction and the head follows. Subsequently, the rulers have become lying politician's to follow the whims and wants of all the people. In other words, it is impossible to follow the tail because its against the very creation, so people live a lie instead.

Romans 1:20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

It much like a person invited to a marriage feast of a great king, once there the person thinks they are at a restaurant, and starts ordering what they want to eat! The king has become subservient to his servants. They are demanding the king serve them, following the tail, and they find themselves without a king, protection, and/or food.
Luke 14:8 "When you are invited by anyone to a marriage feast, don't sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you might be invited by him.

Matt.22:2 "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son, 22:3 and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come. 22:4 Again he sent out other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited, "Behold, I have made ready my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast!"' 22:5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise, 22:6 and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them. 22:7 When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. 22:8 "Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding is ready, but those who were invited weren't worthy. 22:9 Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the marriage feast.' 22:10 Those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests.

This is the problem for false religion, the core, if you will, the first lie told by the Devil, God is created to serve man. God was not created by man's will, thinking or wants, and needs, now was he? God created servant as the one and only king of all. The lie is that the servant rules the king like a political system, that is, follows the trends, and adjust their rhetoric to please the people want's and needs so he can stay in power.

Luke 17:7 But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, 'Come immediately and sit down at the table,' 17:9 Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded? I think not.

Luke 19:17 "He said to him, 'Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.'

False religion is found in the mind of our fallen flesh, it is an image, an idol created by human needs and wants to worship God in away that please the desires of our flesh.

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. 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.

God of Love

Thankfully for us human's God is love, not many comprehend what that means based upon a false love of the human race, but nevertheless, God is love. Perfect love puts fear outside, when that is stated in our bibles, what does it mean?

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.

Outside means, outside of judgment, but what judgment? The judgment of our fallen flesh where fear comes from. There is no fear in God, is there? Then if we are in God's love, do you understand what God's love is? God love is Christ Jesus, so let restate those remarks, if we are “in Christ Jesus”, we are “in God's love”. Conversely, if we are in God's love we are in Christ Jesus.

Thus, in Christ Jesus there is no fear of judgment of our flesh because we are in God's love. We are not talking about the fearful love in our fallen flesh based upon lust of jealousy, fear, hate, and all the other workings of our own spirit of flesh, which if the bible is correct our flesh envies.

1 John 4:17 In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

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.

We serve a King who is perfect love without fear, pretty simple stuff, and that is our truth. The problems most of us face is we been taught false religion where God in created from a person imagination from their wants and needs and laced with scriptures to make a legal argument to build an idol of false religion, and then we demand God serve us, and/or those who claim to represent him on earth for them to meet our so call spiritual needs.

Isa. 40:13 Who has directed the Spirit of Yahweh, or has taught him as his counselor? 40:14 Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?

In other words, we show up at the table of God for the feast, and we demand what foods we want to eat or not, and then critic the flavors of each food. Subsequently, we are not at God's table, moreover, we have no faith in God, because we don't know God is love, which cause us fear in our flesh if we are not in a constant state of chowing down so called spiritual food. The tail is not following the horse, and the illusion is the head in following the tail which is a lie and against the creation itself that bears witnesses against us.

Gal. 5:15 But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don't consume one another. 5:16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh. 5:17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.
5:18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
5:19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, 5:20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, 5:21 envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

Faith in What?

Faith in what? We are told in God, but can we have faith in God if we don't even understand what God's love is? Here is the problem for those in false religion, faith to them is a legal contract written from the scriptures as a doctrine of their religious beliefs, but somehow it always fails them, because it may be truth, but without the love of God one lives in fear of judgment.

1Cor.13:1 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 13:2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing. 13:3 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing. 13:4 Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud, 13:5 doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; 13:6 doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 13:7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
13:8 Love never fails.

You see, its really simple, love requires love back and that means complete trust in God's love, without love, one cannot know God, if one does not know God they are simply saying they cannot put faith in God's love. Instead we are demanding proof of God through arguments of the scriptures to build a trust God is there, and will not punish us, not that he is love.

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

From that foundation, physical foundation, felt and seen with human eyes we put faith in, but live in fear of judgment because we are not in Christ Jesus. Real faith does not satisfy the flesh, real faith takes away the power of the flesh to follow the head not the tail of the horse.

Romans 6:4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

2 Corinthians 1:9 Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

The creation since Adam's sin has followed the tail, its own will, because the will of our flesh cannot be subjection to God. As offense as this is to the pride of our flesh, that is, our self-worth God makes it clear without doubt that our flesh profits us nothing when it comes to severing God. Hence, God kills our flesh, in Christ, so we can know his love, that is, without the judgment of our flesh causing us fear.

Romans 9:8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.

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.

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.

Testing the spirit(s)

Being in Christ means being freed of judgment of our flesh, but lets make this perfectly clear. Stating we are in Christ is a doctrine not the truth which is only found in God's Spirit.

Matthew 15:18 But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.

James 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.

We in Christ worship in Spirit and truth. It is the Spirit that is truth, not us, which means not our thoughts, feelings, and wants from our fallen flesh. Our flesh, other humans, and demons can and do effect our fallen flesh producing spirit(s). Those in Christ have been born from God's Spirit in Christ Jesus our truth. Thus, we worship in Christ, that is, in God Spirit, and Christ the truth.

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.

Without the Spirit of God we cannot test if the spirit; if it is from our fallen flesh or somewhere else? Its that simple. Are we demanding the head follows the tail? If so we are not in Christ our head and following his kingship. Do we distrust everyone and everything including God's love? Then we are not in faith, or God's love, we are not in the Spirit of God.

Romans 8:15 For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba{Abba is an Aramaic word for father or daddy, often used affectionately and respectfully in prayer to our Father in heaven.}! Father!"

2 Timothy 1:7 For God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

1 John 4:1 Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

God is love, love mean perfect in trust, subsequently, perfect in faith, which is pure unadulterated love of God.

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.

Eating What We Want

Many cram feed themselves the bible, and every article written by a certain group thinking they are feeding on Christ the bread of life, only to find themselves with greater fear of judgment, but why? It is because they are feeding the needs of the fallen flesh not being feed by the king in Spirit and truth, such cram feeding causes them greater fear of judgments in their fallen flesh. They are unwitting showing no faith in love, in God the creator of all living things to feed them the proper food at his time, and not from the fears in their flesh demanding spiritual food like a spoiled brat!

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!

Is God love, is he your king? This is the point Israel of God failed miserable at! They put faith in all manner of idol, every time God raised up a prophet they would hate him, and mock him, and finally kill him because he did not have the food they wanted to feed on then later make an idol out of him, and worship the prophet. They turn God into a servant for their fleshly needs and hated anyone that made them uncomfortable in their flesh and its way of life.

Matthew 23:29 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous, 23:30 and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn't have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.' Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.

Matthew 23:34 Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

The creation testified against them in worshiping the created thing over God's discipline of them.

Galatians 4:29 But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

Rom.7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin. 7:15 For I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do. 7:16 But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good. 7:17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. 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.

The Bread of Life

First, we are not going to a fast food restaurant, secondly, we cannot have the bread of life without faith. We must believe God will feed us what he wants, what is best for us, because he is love, and cannot deny himself. Next we have to know the difference between the spirit(s). What does God's Spirit produce in us, if it is not love? Then it not of God. What does the spirit of flesh produce in us, not others, but us, let us not compare ourselves against what is evil in another man's fallen flesh; We ask what is the spirit hate, contention and fear of judgment? Or love? Our fight is not against flesh. but spirits, Including our own!

James 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.

1 Corinthians 10:15 I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.

1 Corinthians 3:18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

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.

Can we honestly wait upon God, for his time to feed us? That is the question Israel faced in the desert and the whole story of Christ the bead of life. God humble what? God humble the flesh of Israel, how? By making them wait upon him for food, water, and spiritual guidance. Rebel if they wanted, give out if need be, kill their own brother in the flesh and hate their leaders for not providing their wants and need, but still God did not budge until he was made king in their hearts.

Numbers 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.

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

John 6:50 This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. 6:51 I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

John 6:58 This is the bread which came down out of heaven--not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever."

Deuteronomy 8:3 He humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you didn't know, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh does man live.

Israel God's people were not the leading the horse to water, the tail does not lead, it follows in truth of the created thing the horse. The lesson was man does not live by bread alone, the flesh, get it? But every utterance from YHWH mouth the Spirit, it is the Spirit that is life, the flesh profit us not! What temple are we building a physical one feed by the fleshly minds fears and needs of our fearful flesh, or a spiritual temple built by God's Spirit in complete trust and faith?

1 Corinthians 6:19 Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own.

1 Corinthians 9:13 Don't you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?

Romans 2:22 You who say a man shouldn't commit adultery. Do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

There is spirit(s) of faith in physical things, writings, debates, building, religions, sights, feelings, people, place, things the list is endless, but faith of God's Spirit causes fear in our flesh, because we cannot walk on water, we cannot see Christ, we cannot know when God will feed us for what is our betterment, we must trust and wait despite our greatest fears of our flesh.

Hebrews 10:22 let's draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water.

Ephesians 5:26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word.

Acts 11:16 I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, 'John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.'

John 4:14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."

Revelation 22:17 The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" He who hears, let him say, "Come!" He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.

Let us not give out in faith between the watering holes, let us not become bitter towards flesh, let us listen to the truth the Spirit in us knowing we hold what is common to all mankind the flesh, and its desires. Let us know as we have been taught all things from the Spirit that God disciplines those he loves. Nothing can separate from God's love, not even the power of our fallen flesh, and its fears, God is faithful planting a seed of incorruptibility in us that conquers the world. That seed will teach us love, we need no one to teach God's love, and/or feed us the Spirit. We do need love among ourselves which gives us hope, faith and love in God leading.

1Cor.10:1 Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
10:2 and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
10:3 and all ate the same spiritual food;
10:4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
10:5 However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
10:6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
10:7 Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."{Exodus 32:6}
10:8 Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
10:9 Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.
10:10 Neither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer. 10:11 Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come. 10:12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn't fall. 10:13 No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. 10:14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. 10:15 I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.
10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, isn't it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn't it a sharing of the body of Christ?

1 John 3:20 because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

1Cor.11:32 But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
11:33 Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait one for another.

Psalms 27:14 Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

Psalms 37:7 Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don't fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

Daniel

Completed: April 16, 2016

by: Daniel a Slave of Christ Jesus