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Fiery Serpents

Psalms 18:26 With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

We humans believe it is a noble thing for us to hid our true feelings, we are taught from birth this practice so we don't hurt someones feelings or undue our own life, costing us work, mates, friend, and children. But what happens, when we practice hiding our feelings, and we ourselves get to believing the lie, even denying the truth painting a glorious picture of our good motives too other, while inside we live a lie?

Psalms 24:4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

When human do something long enough it become part of them, that is, part of their personality, their grain, the tree has, which grows from day to day until its harden into a strong fiber, as a way of life! To fight against the grain does not work because the resistance make the tree stronger.

Proverbs 30:12 There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

2 Peter 3:3 knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts.

But what if we could see a manifestation of our real self not judged by our own grain, but outside of ourselves, and have to deal with what we really our in eyes of God? In other words, God hates sin, but what really is sin, if we hid our real feelings to others? Is sin only an outward manifestation when we act badly, or is it also an inward truth of what we feel and think?

Proverbs 30:12 There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

Matthew 5:28 but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Shocking Manifestation!

As already stated telling someone the truth of their core won't work, because we also have a core, and our own truth on the inside is no better than the other guys. The more one pushes against the grain of the tree the more the tree gains making it stronger. God in his benevolent wisdom does not push upon the tree, we human do in judgment because we can all see the grain of someone else life, but hid our own.

Proverbs 26:27 Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.

Proverbs 27:3 A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.

God gives us a manifestation of our own heart, the truth of our condition so we may humble ourselves and look to him for help. For God's ways our higher than ours. We live in sin, thus, our judgments are skewed, we judge from our core, our own grain, thinking it is God's truth, imputing those truths into God character which is false religion.

Isaiah 66:3 He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog's neck; he who offers an offering, [as he who offers] pig's blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their.

Ezekiel 21:5 and all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more.

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

We cannot practice what sin practices by imputing motives into others, God cannot be made to do anything by human feelings imputed, God cannot be made to change by human feelings imputed. God is perfect in all his ways, he is the Rock, not changed by human feeling like we ourselves do! In other words, God compares himself to no human, or any thing on this earth. Humans compare themselves to other humans to justify their own sins. But when we compare ourselves to God, all our of loving kindness is but a flower of the field when the hot desert winds blows upon the flower it fades and dies. We then have no justification but truth!

Isaiah 40:18 To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

Isaiah 46:5 To whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?

Psalms 103:15 As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

Man ascends by imputing evil to his brother so he can justify/hid the truth of his own evil,within his own heart. God makes known the secret of our hearts, and he will give us a manifestation of truth of our true self if we push long enough against the truth of God in judging other wickedly while declaring ourselves righteous.

Isaiah 40:6 The voice of one saying, "Cry!" One said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field. :7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh's breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass. :8 The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever."

Proverbs 14:5 A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.

Deuteronomy 32:4 The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice: a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he.

Serpents Among The People

Numbers 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.

Many are confused as to why God would send serpents among his rebellious people? Truth is not easy, it is life and death endeavor, and when men pervert truth with their tongues to justify their wicked deeds of their hearts, God gives them the ways of their own dealings! God is not taken by a tongue, he not moved by specious copious showers of mans justifications by words of our mouths.

Jer.17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it? 17:10 I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

When man refuses to get a proper judgment of themselves, while putting on a pretense before other men for glory, and/or for gains of the flesh in the name of God. God will give them the workings of their own hearts so all can see the truth of their heart, which is their real motives. Subsequently, God says, this is your tongues, this is the condition of your real hearts a serpent that violently bits others blindly to protect itself.

2 Thessalonians 2:11 Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;

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

The mouth speak wonderful things, concern for others spiritual growth, it uses flattery to be looked up to as righteous and good, but the truth is a fiery serpent that also bits others with death dealing venom of wickedness, it is our tongue that will destroy lives to prove a point to make a person right at the cost destroying others! The tongue glorifying God, but slander human made in God's image.

James 3:6 And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.{or, Hell} 3:7 For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind. 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.

Being Saved From Venous Bit!

Romans 12:21 Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Thinking our ways are pure, let us qualify that statement when one thinks they are a god and what they say has life, and death, by their words, they are evil. Such power does not belong to sinners, because their core is corrupted making them inadequate for such eternal judgments.

James 4:12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

James 5:9 Don't grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won't be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

But will the sinful flesh take such power of life and death judgments? Will a goat climb to the top of hill knocking others off to be the top goat on the hill? Yes, of course, because that is its nature. Mankind refuses his own nature as a sinner believing words makes him not a sinner, instead clean of heart. Moreover, man deceives himself with words, by using words which are righteous words from God's own mouth the bible, but these words blinded them to the truth of their own soul.

Revelation 3:17 Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;' and don't know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

Romans 2:19 and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness?

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."

Such blindness from God's word's puts us on a course with eternal cutting off, because it becomes a sin against Holy Spirit, which Spirit is not a man as the flesh thinks, so we impute falsehood to excuse our unrighteousness acts like wicked person finding fault in examining sin of a person as does a wicked lawyer digging up fault for a conviction to make a name for themselves, and not in healing, but opening wounds he himself also has in his own heart.

Matt.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? 7:5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.

They have like Satan make themselves into a god inputting their own personal feeling into God by using his words, making God like a wicked serpent; in saying their words are enforced by bible words, which our God's judgment upon others. Satan the Devil sought glory, and found humiliation being made lower than mankind, without the gift of legs, he made himself lower into a vile hated animal slithering upon his belly in the dust of the earth. His so called love was the bite of a venomous serpent killing all of mankind. His words were smooth and nice, clever soft with wisdom, but he was bitten by his own falsely called widsom, deceiving himself by thoughts of grander.

Isaiah 6:10 Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed."

Gen.3:14 Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. On your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.

Man thinks by his words he can change a bad tree into a good one, man thinks reading and speaking words from the bible gives other life, or takes that life. Man is not a god, like Satan found he was not a god, and all his ways were not eternal life, but eternal death, so must man find the truth of his own condition by a manifestation of his own heart projected into image of animal without the Spirit of God, which Spirit gives man a moral righteousness, not their own spirit from the flesh which can only bring with it death, although it does a temporary good, but for a moment in time on earth.

Ecclesiastes 8:8 There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.

Ecclesiastes 3:21 Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?"

Job 11:4 For you say, 'My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.'

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

Psalms 49:7 none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.

The Copper Serpent on a Pole

Genesis 3:4 The serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die.

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.

A curse, is a curse! It cannot be lifted by the person with the curse upon them. It must be lifted by a person having power over the curse! Adam was curse by an evil bite of self-rule; by words that did not heal or tell the truth. He was bitten by a lesser god, a rebellious spirit son of God seeking worship and glory through his own evil imagination project into God's motives.

Gen.3:17 To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. 3:18 Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field. 3:19 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

It was too late for Adam, he found that rebellion is not happiness, it did not bring him the thing he wanted more than God's eternal life with his mate, Eve. It brought them a life cursed outside of the garden of Eden living in their own ways, by the works of their own hand's creating nothing eternal, it was all a lie!. Nothing was satisfying, it was a life of danger and death, where all good things are taken from us into death and darkness, at end, putting them, and us squarely in the hands of God where He must raise us from death.

Heb.6:5 and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come, 6:6 and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame. 6:7 For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;
6:8 but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

It was a life of toil that only words could try to make better by some noble thoughts, but in reality of truth words did not make it a living truth, truth become only words removed from reality of harsh living making the words lies. Their reality lost, and fruit of their lives told the truth in each actions.

Matt.7:15 "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. 7:16 By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? 7:17 Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit. 7:18 A good tree can't produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit. 7:19 Every tree that doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.

Here outside the Garden of Eden nothing lined up, nothing! So man became incongruous by his words of their mouth not lining up with truth of actions, or thoughts, man became a lie by calling evil good, just as the god of this world Satan the Devil does who is the Father of the lie producing more seeds of his kind into all mankind. this life is not paradise, words of religion, government, or commerce cannot make beautiful what is evil and troublesome.

John 8:44 You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

The world became a weed patch with thorns and thistles where lies of the mouth spoke grand and wonderful things making a thorn bush into a fruit tree only to end up with truth of bloody fingers, finding not the blessings of God, but the curse of Adam which we are all under in this life on earth.

Matthew 7:16 By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

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

But God giving those seeking him a manifestation of truth, in showing each of us the real condition of our hearts in many ways through out our life time on earth; has raised up a way of salvation that we might received the blessings of God removing the curse of the Devil.

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

We are bitten by our ways, and the ways of others, by all that is built upon in this world is but an illusion of a lie told to Adam and Eve, where mankind must say many words to live a lie with some ideal of a comfort that never happens. Where mankind must preach words to strengthen the flesh to live a lie, where mankind must make laws to bring order to ciaos of sin in the human race.

Rom.3:11 There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God. 3:12 They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not, so much as one."{Psalms 14:1-3; 53:1-3; Ecclesiastes 7:20}
3:13 "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit."{Psalm 5:9} "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"{Psalm 140:3}
3:14 "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."{Psalm 10:7}
3:15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood.
3:16 Destruction and misery are in their ways.
3:17 The way of peace, they haven't known."{Isaiah 59:7-8}
3:18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes."{Psalm 36:1}

Christ lift up! Christ removing the curse of Adam is the only way out of this world. The garden of Eden was not created by the human mind or by hands of mankind, life must be accepted by faith in God's love for us. Nothing else will remove the curse of mankind, nothing! It is out of our hands, it is placed into righteous perfect hands of a eternal life of Christ Jesus.

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."

Luke 5:36 He also told a parable to them. "No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.

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.

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.

We are at God's mercy, we must look up, to remove the poison of our ways from our hearts and be healed by God's love. Our tongues are evil they bless God, and curse man, we have both good and evil in us, but we are not god's our ways are not right and righteous, we must be made right and righteous by a mind given us freely, not a human mind.

We must come into death of no hope looking only at the serpent on the pole so we are healed. We cannot look at another person with the same curse, or someone that tells you: “Look at my ways, they are righteous because I uses the bible!” No! The curse is lifted not by human hands, not by religion hands, not by a group of people calling themselves a faithful and discreet class, but God's hands.

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.

Isaiah 4:4 when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from its midst, by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning.

This is the whole point, do you see it? Life without a curse that Adam and Eve had came from God, and no one else. Satan said otherwise, and intervene into mankind's affairs with words, to take, life from Adam and Eve. God does not speak many words, he gives us his Holy Spirit comforting us with his love, which is only one word, trust, without worry, not many words to build our flesh up. It is our mind clutter with flesh rules and laws that impute evil to God's loves, let us not be deceived!

2 Corinthians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;

2 Corinthians 1:4 who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

2 Corinthians 1:5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

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.

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.

God is the one bring us too life, by life, Christ Jesus, which is by communing with Holy Spirit, he does not push against the grain in us, he creates an new grain by putting us into a new tree life recreated us by love. We are its branches, producing the fruit of God, by Holy Spirit, we are removed from the curse of Adam in the life, the tree of life Christ Jesus.

John 15:1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
15:2 Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
15:3 You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 15:4 Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. 15:5 I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 15:6 If a man doesn't remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 15:7 If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

Loving the Serpent Bit More Than Life

Why would anyone kiss the tongue of the serpent knowing the outcome is sure death? Here is a mystery which takes a powerful tool to unlock. Christ is the word of God, he is sharper than a two edged sword dividing our flesh from truth (Himself), this is the working of God in us by Holy Spirit, not the flesh spirit.

Heb. 4:11 Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
4:12 For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 4:13 There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
4:14 Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.

Life is not found in the flesh of our sinful nature, it is found in our spirit, which spirit must be separated from the lie of the flesh, the fallen flesh, and its thinking, this is the power of Christ because he was made into the likeness of sinful flesh to save us from the serpents bit.

James 4:1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members? 4:2 You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.
4:3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures. 4:4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 4:5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"? 4:6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."{Proverbs 3:34}

But why would we love the serpent more than life? Because the serpent uses many "words" to deceive us, it is cautious and cunning with words, it alludes us with falsely called knowledge so we are blinded willingly by it alluring crafty words. However, the truth of Christ, does not lie about our flesh or the words coming from our fleshly thoughts.

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.

Daniel 7:25 He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High; and he shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time

2 Peter 2:3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

2 Peter 2:18 For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

The love of life in the flesh is a sin of greed when it is to the exclusion of truth. The lie of the flesh has to be killed from our spirit for us to walk in truth with Christ the word of God. We lust for life in this world from our flesh, this lust is so powerful it will destroy others to keep this life on earth. The power of sin is so strong for fear of death, it will create kingdoms at the cost of a billions lives to make a name for itself to endure into the history of man.

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.

1 Peter 3:14 But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you are blessed. "Don't fear what they fear, neither be troubled."{Isaiah 8:12}

Hebrews 13:6 So that with good courage we say, "The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?"{Psalm 118:6-7}

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!"

Luke 12:5 But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him, who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna.{or, Hell} Yes, I tell you, fear him.

This power cannot be understated it is the power that built this world, and is found in each one of us, rather it be having a home and family, or to build a giant religious organization, or to simply maintain a life on this earth.

Matt.4:2 When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.
4:3 The tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread." 4:4 But he answered, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'"{Deuteronomy 8:3}
4:5 Then the devil took him into the holy city. He set him on the pinnacle of the temple, 4:6 and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, 'He will put his angels in charge of you.' and, 'On their hands they will bear you up, so that you don't dash your foot against a stone.'"{Psalm 91:11-12}
4:7 Jesus said to him, "Again, it is written, 'You shall not test the Lord, your God.'"{Deuteronomy 6:16} 4:8 Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory. 4:9 He said to him, "I will give you all of these things, if you will fall down and worship me."

To minimize this truth is to live a lie, by false words, which will keep us from finding life in Christ. So serious is this power it has for most Christian's replaced the life of Christ indwelling them for the power in Satan, to keep this life and uses the good things found in God's word to build a personal empire, now on earth of false religion.

John 18:36 Jesus answered, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn't be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here."

John 17:25 Righteous Father, the world hasn't known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

John 17:16 They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.
1 John 2:15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.

1 John 2:17 The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.

One can go to a monastery having no wealth or power and build an empire upon this earth of self glorification in the sinful flesh; through mocked humility processing nothing but their fallen flesh as an object of veneration to the exclusion of Christ life and his righteousness in us.

Col.2:20 If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
2:21 "Don't handle, nor taste, nor touch" 2:22 (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?
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.

Putting Faith in God

Our life does not come from words or human wisdom, we can build kingdoms, we can be wealthy, but short it will be, compared to the real life in Jesus Christ. We can think we can have both, but we are lying to ourselves as it is our nature. We can think we are wiser smarter and fool ourselves as billions have gone before us only to face the curse or Adam (death). We can think we are special, better than other Christian's, but we are fooled! There is no other salvation, lets say it again, there is no other salvation anywhere, at any time, under the Sun than Christ Jesus, and his life in us!

Hebrews 9:24 For Christ hasn't entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

Hebrews 9:11 But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,

Daniel 2:34 You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. 2:35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them: and the stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

If we think we don't have a strict pattern to follow in Christ, and we are left in the dark so we must rethink, re-figure the pattern that we are imaged after because our times we live in are different, we are deeply and profound mislead.

Hebrews 8:5 who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, "See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain."{Exodus 25:40}

Colossians 3:10 and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator.

2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

Christ refused the glory of this world, in position, power, and wealth for the glory of the next world with his Father. None of his apostles sought anything more than than Christ and his life. This is what a faithful slave does for his master he follows the plan. This life is given up in Christ life, it is gone and put to death. We are purchased by Christ life and we must live in it to be faithful.

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

Galatians 5:24 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

Romans 1:6 among whom you are also called to belong to Jesus Christ;

Faith is believing that! Faith is believing in something unseen, it is not going to be a man or woman calling themselves a Christ/Christian for approval of our faith. Such faith in flesh God kills for His glory, and His power, We must have His approval to right in our eyes Fathers YHWH, eyes, the great Spirit that gives life to all. We find the door to salvation by Spirit and not the flesh, and we don't doubt that way of Salvation because a religion tells us it is the door into eternal life.

Romans 4:5 But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

Romans 5:2 through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

1 Corinthians 2:5 that your faith wouldn't stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

We let nothing rob us by the bite of a fiery serpent, we look up, in compete faith knowing God is the one good way of life that cannot lie, we wait on him. When men take themselves so seriously, let us pause catching our breathe and look about us, look at these types of people the destruction they have brought upon each other. Let us honestly see the ego of fallen mankind which the world calls strengthen;where one man thinks has the power to run the lives of billion upon earth. Where like a serpent they will follow the father of the lie to maintain that power at the cost of life.

2Tim. 3:1 But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.
3:2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3:3 without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,
3:4 traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; 3:5 holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof. Turn away from these, also. 3:6 For of these are those who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, 3:7 always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 3:8 Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.

Our kingdom cannot be shaken, only flesh shakes, only flesh lust for power and control of this life, only flesh lies, and is willing to boast in self and its wonderful motives. This is not the truth, although, it be cloaked in truth of God's word. Truth is the Christ, he is the temple of the living God where life is found in him, and no curse, not one fiery serpent that will bit us, not one! Where the life of Christ becomes the living truth, and each word produce an action for life. Where by the fruit of truth lines up with the tree and the branches, where on glorifies the creator of the tree and does not lie about what the real fruit is.

Hebrews 12:28 Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can't be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe.

Completed on: December 16, 2014

by: Daniel a Slave of Christ Jesus