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Feature Article For the Month of January 2015
 
Sober Up to Righteousness

 
1Cor.15:34 Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak `this' to move you to shame.
 
 
The bible uses this terminology “sober up to righteousness”. But what does it mean? What are Christian's sobering up from?  Moreover, what causes us drunkenness?
 
1 Peter 5:8 Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
 
The standard answer for Christian's would be false religion. However, false religion is a catch net for any religion we don't agree with, and to make things more complex, there are some fifty-one-thousands Christian's sects alone in our world, this does not include thousand's of other non-Christian's religions. So we must define what it means to sober up to righteousness, because those in religion in our world certainly do not believe they are drunk. In fact, they function just fine in society and are sometimes the best members of our societies, so how can they be drunk?
 
1 Thessalonians 5:8 But let us, since we belong to the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
 
Drunkenness
 
Drunkenness is an alter state of our mind, its not trying to get drunken, or talking about drunkenness, it is rather a alter state of our mind that causes physical actions within our body. It is a state that can be proven by science, so for people to be drunken spiritually as the bible speaks to it would mean they have to be a in alter state of ones mind.
 
Revelation 18:3 For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury."
 
The Mind for Christian's
 
1Cor.15:34 Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
(English Standard Version)
 
The question then is, what is the sober state for a Christian's mind, without being alter by a drugs?   Most Christian's can read their bibles through a religion, but never know the mind they should have, why?   Because as stated religion can alter our state of mind making us drunk to true righteousness.
 
Jeremiah 51:7 Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh's hand, who made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
 
Romans 6:13 Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
 
To have a sober mind, which according to the bible is a sinless mind, the person must have a new mind which is given them by God. This sober state of mind in righteousness is not found in this world, lets say that one more time. The sober mind in a Christian is a new mind not of this world, and it must be given too us by God. What then is that mind?
 
James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 3:18 Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
 
It is scripturally the mind of Christ Jesus, it is not the mind we are born with, it is a new mind found in a person God calls a new creation, but why is it the mind of Christ?   It is very simple really?   How many minds does our own body have in it?  Well, of course one, but what happens to our mind when people start coming into our life and enslaving us to their own mind thoughts?
 
1 Peter 4:7 But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
 
Hebrews 10:16 "This is the covenant that I will make with them: 'After those days,' says the Lord, 'I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;'"{Jeremiah 31:33} then he says.
 
1 Corinthians 2:16 "For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?"{Isaiah 40:13} But we have Christ's mind.
 
We all have experience that from time to time, we may have a very strong willed friend, a boss, a mate, but what happens to our normal way of thinking, and doing things for ourselves when they overpower us with their will?   We become confused, in conflict, we hid our real feelings, we hid our emotions because we are in a state of stress often times going against what we know is correct so we can please the other person, or ourselves.   Now let clarify this point, we are not staying we gain no good from those we submit to, or that we don't love them, but what we are saying such unions cause us tribulation in our flesh that we should learn from?
 
James 1:5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him. 1:6 But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
1:7 For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord. 1:8 He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
 
Romans 7:20 But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
 
In fact, we may become physically sick to prevent a problem with a strong willed mate, or a boss.   Subsequently, we are adding to our own person by another mind that has a measure of control over us. This is good for children needing control and direction until they become of age, but for an adult it can steal our personality, leaving us insecure and lacking the strengthen to get out of the circumstance we have allowed ourselves to get into.
 
Romans 6:16 Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
 
Romans 6:12 Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
 
The Mind of Christ
 
Christian's should have the mind of Christ. Christ mind is given too Christian's by God, when they are born again. There is one mind in the body of Christ, where all directions comes too the body members from. The mind of Christ is actually the mind of God, but because of mankind's fall into sin by Adam, they can no longer have the mind of God, why?
Because sin separates us from God, so God provides us a go-between, an mediator, which is Christ, so we received not the mind of God, but the mind of Christ. The mind of Christ is perfect, it has proven perfect by being completely lead by the mind of God, which is God's will; while Christ was upon this earth.  He never did his own will, he only did what the mind of God told him to do.  Christ proved faithful in his love for his Father YHWH, he need not prove faithful to the law of Moses, because it was created for sinners, and Christ was not a sinner.
 
Luke 11:18 If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.
 
John 4:34 Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
 
John 5:20 For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.
 
John 5:30 I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don't seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.
 
Subsequently, Christ by loving his Father perfectly without fault, fulfilled the law of Moses. God then, out of love for his Son, resurrected him, giving him authority over all in heaven and upon earth. So our communication with God must come through the mind of Christ. Christ is a mediator of a new covenant, not the old covenant, which was part of the Old Law of Moses.
 
1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
 
Hebrews 9:15 For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
 
So born again Christian's must have the mind of Christ to be sober, and found in righteousness.
 
1Cor.1:30 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption: 1:31 that, according as it is written, "He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."{Jeremiah 9:24}
 
Spiritual Drunkenness Caused by What?
 
Spiritual drunkenness is when a born again Christian's adds too the mind of Christ by another mind, not of Christ mind, its that simple!   Christ mind is free of sin, and it is incorruptible. In other words, Christ has no works of the flesh in him, because he is free from any, and all sins or lust of the flesh, as is the Father of Christ.
 
1 Corinthians 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
 
James 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.
 
Adam before sinning had the mind of God, and was also free of the lust of sin found in his flesh. He was a perfect sinless man, created in God's own image, free of sin. Thus, Adam was not drunken by mixing two minds together, one of spirit and the other of flesh i.e., sin.  Once Adam sinned, he became drunken into an alter state of mind having corruption of sin enter into his mind creating instantly into a fleshly mind!  He had two minds competing with each other, one of sin and the mind of eternal life, which was God's mind that Adam could only remember.  God's mind could not commune with sin in Adam, so Adam must recall from memory the mind of God because he could not have intercourse with the righteous sinless God YHWH any longer.
 
Gal.5:13 For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another. 5:14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."{Leviticus 19:18}
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. 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,{or, faithfulness} 5:23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 5:24 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.5:25 If we live by the Spirit, let's also walk by the Spirit.
5:26 Let's not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.
 
Hence, now came a need for written word of God to remember the mind of God, which mind cannot mixes with corruption of sin found in all men. Also came the war found in all sinners between the written word of God in their fleshly mind trying to make it into a spiritual mind of God by its own will power.
 
Ephesians 3:7 of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.
 
2 Peter 1:3 seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;
 
Ephesians 3:20 Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
 
2 Corinthians 13:4 For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.
 
The Great Mystery of Fleshly Mind
 
 
Let us think, but not from are given religion, or what we have been taught, but rather let us think with truth even if we are not born again into a new mind of Christ. The fleshly mind is a corrupted mind away from God's mind, because of sin. It was born from sin, it is then a dead mind to God. In other words, the fleshly mind can do no good, it can do evil, which is death, but it cannot make itself not a sinner, or can it give itself eternal life as a sinless mind like Adam possessed before sinning, and as Christ is for us.
 
With this basic truth all things in our bibles become harmonious, however, without this one key, nothing will fit, and it will be like a drunk man helping another drunk man drive a car!
 
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.
 
Romans 8:8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.
 
The great mystery is as stated above many are drunken in their fleshly mind leaving a good life, and they don't feel drunken, or in a alter state when reading their bibles, but they are, and here is why?
 
The Great Chasm
 
2 Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
 
God has created all living things according to its “kind” that is a species that can have a number of subspecies, but it must always be according to its kind, there is no drunkenness in  laws of God to confuses us with theories; all life according to its kind. When a person has a dog, it is a dog, there may will be thousand's of other species of dogs, but it is a kind. One cannot change it species by dressing it up as a human, or treating it as human  by feeding it human food or love.  We cannot change it into a human because the dog was created into its kind or specie.
 
Matt. 13:24 He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,13:25 but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds{darnel is a weed grass (probably bearded darnel or lolium temulentum) that looks very much like wheat until it is mature, when the difference becomes very apparent.} also among the wheat, and went away. 13:26 But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also.13:27 The servants of the householder came and said to him, 'Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where did this darnel come from?'
 
 
The mystery for some dog owners is their feelings of love for their pet, so they impute human feelings into the pet, thinking the dog will act like a human, or thinks like a human. But when the dog rolls in a pile of manure the owner will have to face the truth!  It is still a dog no matter how much we love the dog it will still and always act like its kind and think like a dog?
 
The mystery is not in the dog, but rather the mystery is found in the dog owners mind which  cannot accept the truth of their own a dog, which is, it's not a human, it is the owners emotions which ties them to the dog, and imputes his feeling into the dog not letting go for lust of their flesh (which is our feelings). They are drunk with emotions, which alters their thinking of their mine into an unreality, for the pleasure of loving the dog as a human. From here all kinds of things can be imputed into the dog, but can they be back up by reality/truth, or is it the feelings of the owner imputing things into the dog which the dog was never created to feel or think in the first place?
 
Philippians 2:2 make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;
 
Philippians 2:5 Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus.
 
2Cor.4:4 in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.4:5 For we don't preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake;
 
The debate about dogs having human feelings can be hostel and last forever if your a dog owner, but this in not point of this article. The point is this, the fleshly mind found in all sinners since Adam cannot know the mind of God or Christ, it must be given too them by God. It is a gift which comes too us by being born anew into a new spirit body of Christ which puts us as a member in his body under the one mind of Christ directing the will of God for his body in its kind, a new spiece, a new creation.

1 Corinthians 1:10 Now I beg you, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
 
All other human emotions from sin, does not make our fleshly mind into a new species, we must be recreated by God's power being made new in Christ Jesus as a spirit person. Drunkenness is mixing our fleshly mind with strong emotion into the mind of Christ, which is free from that corruption. There is light and darkness, there exist a great chasm between the living and dead, none can cross over without God recreating them into a person that lives, rather born again or not! The world of the living that in God's world where all are living, is not this world where all are dead from sin, sin and death are not found in God's mind. God's mind has a different language that cannot be understood without the help of God's Holy Spirit.
 
1 John 4:13 By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
 
John 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!
 
John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
 
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.
 
Planting Truth or Weeds?
 
If a man has a bag full or weeds, and he sows an entire field working day and night to do so, what will his labors produce? Will it produce something to feed others on, a fruit, or will it produce yet more weeds?  Those waiting on the foolish man crop will go empty of good bread for life.
 
Proverbs 10:21 The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.
 
Proverbs 14:7 Stay away from a foolish man, for you won't find knowledge on his lips.
 
Matthew 7:26 Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.
 
Many are the Christian's feeding upon empty food thinking it is the bread of life because of their emotional feeling of love for God or the brothers and sisters giving it too them. This mystery is powerful, because sinful flesh, and its mind imputes motive to all, what does this mean?
 
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.
 
It means the fleshly mind imputes its own feeling and thoughts into God mind. Subsequently, we have a polluted bread mixed with yeast, whick people will defiantly defend  as God thoughts.  Moreover, defining for us from a fleshly mind what God wants for us in every aspect of our human reasonings.  However, what has been planted by the foolish man?  Wheat or weeds?  If a man is empty at the end of a season from his hard work because he has tricked his own mind into believing a weed produce wheat he is drunk because of a fancy created by his emotions through the lust of his own flesh causing him drunkenness.  Hence, in that state what must he face at the end of party?
 
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 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.
 
He must face the truth of his own foolish ways, or he can chose to live a lie, and go hungry living off drunkenness to kill the pain of truth of an empty stomach!  The vast majority of Christians' live Christianity on emotional highs, which feeds the flesh mind imputing all kinds of unrighteous to sataify their own emotional hunger.
 
Galatians 6:8 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
 
They have planted flesh,weeds; seeds of corruption deceiving themselves by their good emotions, not truth of the mind of Christ without sinful emotions of their flesh. They find themselves empty of the bread of life required by all Christian's to partake of, which is why the Christ is the unleavened bread of God, the manna for Christian's.
 
John 6:35 Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.
 
This quest, a lust, if you will, to the next exciting teaching or end day prophecy is fake entertainment to feed the emotions of the flesh minded person who is empty like coming off a drug high, with the end results creating an addiction for the drug not to feel the pain of truth, fear, despondency, anger, and emotional outburst, and the like. Hence, covering up the truth by more drugs for a emotional religious high causing a permanent alter state of mind, where the person cannot hear the truth, at all!
 
Thess. 2:1 Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to him, we ask you 2:2 not to be quickly shaken in your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, saying that the day of Christ had come.
 
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}
 
Tasteless Bread!
 
Sweet is the taste buds of the spiritual person feed by Holy Spirit, and not the bread of yeast. Christian's have convinced themselves the truth is not enough, each truth must be made exciting, tasting spice  and good to them or they lose all interest. Thus, if they lose interest than everyone else must also loose interest because they are of the fleshly mind, and the fleshly mind always imputes its feeling and thoughts into others, why?  Because that is the nature of sin, which is why one human can be a leader and kill millions not even imagining that everyone else does not think like him/her does?  The more fleshly a person is, the greater he will imput his ways into others, and when defied the greater the person anger will be towards the person who does not follow his/her thoughts perfectly.
 
Matt.7:6 "Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces. 7:7 "Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
 
The bread of Christ is without leaven, that is, without fleshly thoughts, it is “tasteless” to the sinner. It gives no nutrients to the body of flesh, it feeds it nothing, and is flatly rejected by its taste buds as trash! The fleshly minded person produces its own kind of bread, and eats the food for its kind, what it needs to survive.
 
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 8:7 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.
 
In other words, the fleshly minded person feeds on God's word the bible and its produces more corrupt teaching permeating the word of God with yeast. That is how Christ stated the Kingdom of God would become after his departure and his apostles deaths, so what happened at that time?   People got flesh, dogs, and started inputting their feelings into them trying to change their species (fleshly mind by works of flesh) into a new creations.
 
In other words, the written word became abundant in Christian's hands the bible and such (written word is the food of the fleshly mind), because the fleshly mind does not have God's Spirit mind found in Christ indwelling as life.  Subsequently, when the fleshly mind digest the words of God from their bibles they corrupted it into human reasoning, that is, yeast!   Moreover, as those lead by God's Spirit and indwelt with the truth, which is Christ Jesus, his spirit life, became fewer,  they themselves were corrupted by the teaching of the fleshly mind, weed Christian's overtaken God's field,  those  not having the Spirit of truth to teach them the truth in Christ making them weeds according to their kind.  The language slowly changed from spirit language of love into the legal language of sins laws, which is the food for the fleshly mind.
 
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.
 
Romans 8:12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
 
Romans 8:13 For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
 
The end results of this corruption is found in fifty-one-thousands sects of Christian's in today's world, by faith producing more corrupt teachings from  other men thoughts, not even knowing they have a fleshly mind. They like all fleshly minded person believe that reading the bible makes them a spirit minded person, and will defiantly oppose and attack anyone daring to say otherwise.

Romans 13:14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
 
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.
 
The disconnect is this!   Reading the bible, and having doctrinal truths does not make a person part of Christ Jesus having his mind, it does not sober us up to righteousness, that is, being in Christ without flesh, placing us under the mind of Christ, bring us into his righteousness. This disconnect is like Adam experience when he sinned and became a fleshly minded person. His intellect could recall God's personal intercourse (by Spirit) with him in the garden, but it could not become real again to him because of his sin. Now he was forced to believe because of his knowledge which was past dead knowledge with life of God's Spirit, but rather human intellect, and not the personal relationship he once had with God in Spirit of truth.   The question is could  he in this condition face the truth, and know the truth?  No he could not, because it was an alter state where he must as all human's do by lust of the flesh impute thoughts to God instead of understanding God's feeling of love communicated by Holy Spirit, the comforter.  Adam could not restore himself to Spirit truth without God's help?
 
1 John 5:17 All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death.
 
1 John 3:14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death.
 
Genesis 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.
 
Would he continue to live a lie, or would he make up a substitute idol, a god, feeding it his fleshly thoughts to make him comfortable in life?  So to many Christian's are found in this condition of intellect not separating their emotional needs, which are their fleshly from the truth, they live each day for a new teaching, a new personality in a human to restore their faith in God, and new archeological find to excite them so they can believe, renewing the fleshly minds constant doubt, a new bible, a new singer, something to keep them going in their fleshly intellect, which is separate from the real love of God found in the tasteless bread of life Christ Jesus by Spirit and truth.
 
1 Corinthians 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
 
Galatians 5:9 A little yeast grows through the whole lump.
 
Luke.13:20 Again he said, "To what shall I compare the Kingdom of God? 13:21 It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures{literally, three sata. 3 sata is about 39 litres or a bit more than a bushel} of flour, until it was all leavened."
 
Inputting Flesh to Christian's
 
James 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. 1:18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. 1:19 So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
1:20 for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God.
1:21 Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls{or, preserve your life.}.
1:22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
 
Does God love us, does he comfort us? Yes, but does God live in the flesh and its desires like us human do? Do you honestly care what God is, and how he thinks, and how he answers our prayers?   If so one cannot be double minded and expect to receive anything from our Lord with two minds.
 
James 1:6 But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
1:7 For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord. 1:8 He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
 
We cannot have a fleshly mind inputting evil to God because we did not get our emotional appeals fulfilled by God. We cannot have sometimes the mind of Christ, and sometime a fleshly mind that lacks faith, which is dead to God's Holy Spirit, and the gift of faith, by the same Holy Spirit, and think we will receive anything from God.
 
2 Corinthians 1:17 When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the "Yes, yes" and the "No, no?"
 
By our emotions we can unwittingly summons evil spirits that will give us are selfish wants and needs of our flesh to trick us into believing God has our emotions with good and evil in him. Satan is the god of this world, he has not been stopped by God as of yet, he does without doubt provide for his own. So don't be fooled you want riches, and fame, it can be deliver to you to help mislead others into the types of fleshly selfish prayers so promoted and taught to others when our prayers are answered from our fleshly lust which enslave us to a saving this life now, a religion!
 
James.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.
 
2 Corinthians 11:14 And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
 
Matt.7:21 Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 7:22 Many will tell me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?' 7:23 Then I will tell them, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.'
 
Truth is sought from above by a humble heart that wants to please God and not live a lie in the flesh. Truth must start with ourselves our honest condition, not with doctrinal truth that will come later. If we are cut to our hearts, and we love truth, to the losing of this life for God's truth, Christ Jesus; the Holy Spirit will give it to us.
 
Matt.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!
 
This requires the hardest thing the fleshly minded person has ever done, it requires us to put faith in God that every word, and promise stated by him will come true and be given us by simply trusting in him. It does not mean you won't have evil fleshly thoughts, or you will not be tested beyond the flesh power to control everything in this life, or that you are perfect like Christ was perfect in mind, soul, and body.
 
2 Corinthians 13:5 Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don't you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?--unless indeed you are disqualified.
 
1 Thessalonians 5:21 Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.
 
1 Peter 4:12 Beloved, don't be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.
 
What it does mean is that God is good and he will teach us in His time the truth, it means resting in that truth, and waiting upon a righteous God who can't forget your prayers for truth, who cannot handed you a serpent when asking for real food from the body of Christ.
 
Romans 10:8 But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart;"{Deuteronomy 30:14} that is, the word of faith, which we preach:
 
But if you teach God by the fleshly mind and its religious teachings from other weed Christian's God cannot and will not answer your prayers, because he can't promote error, and/or a lie.
 
1 John 2:21 I have not written to you because you don't know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
 
James 3:14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.
 
Sobering Up to Righteousness
 
We must sober up to real godly righteousness found in Christ Jesus alone. We must be taught from his mind, from a mind from another world, not of the flesh here below. We must put faith in God love that it will happen, so how will it happen?   Good question?   From the least likely of place one can imagine by their flesh mind sold under sin, in God's way, and God's perfect timing.  He may use a person, but one thing we must all remember is it is by God's divine appointment, not from mankind appointment by some bible study on a religious time table. It will come by Holy Spirit opposite of the thinking of our fleshly mind, and in away that can only come from above, building up our everlasting faith in God is good, and near to all of us.
 
God must reveal to you in his life, his ways, into our heart from above, have no doubt, if its by faith it will be as real to you as the life whom created all things small and great. God's treasure will be given too you outside of man and his religion, and they will be good having no evil of human thoughts associated with them. God's thoughts are powerful making us walk on water lifting us up on the mountain of God high above all human wisdom, where human flesh minded error cannot exist, found in the ways of peace the Holy Spirit.
 
This is the true sobering up to righteousness, coming away from faith in people as gods, and listening to the truth from above from the living truth, found only in God's Holy Spirit given freely to those asking for unselfish reasons.
 
Matt.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! 7:12 Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
 
Truth can never hurt life, please here what that means.  Life comes from truth, God is truth, he is life, death comes through lies, death comes through darkness of human reasoning under sin.  But life comes from above not here below? The question is how much do you want truth from above?
 
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.
 
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.
 
1John.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.
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.
2:17 The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.
 
That truth, the Christ, is not far off from anyone asking, it is near in your heart, but it will not be legislated into you by fleshly thinking in repeating bible verses or my pounding of a preacher. It will speak in peace an quiet things of the Holy Spirit in gentle wisdom of love and kindness to draw you to life, into a living hope where Christ will indwell you by God's love.
 
1 Peter 3:4 but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.
 
1 Thessalonians 4:11 and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;
 
Jeremiah 30:10 Therefore don't you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
 
Those of the flesh an its thinking cannot selfishly take God's love. God's love cannot be corrupted by yeast or weeds, it is not found on paper, it is sealed in a child of God's heart, giving them life by feeding on the bread of life, the mind of Christ. It is a rare find, it is something this world cannot know, and it is a very narrow road, but if one finds it selling all else in this world to keep and treasure it, it will be an everlasting blessing.
 
Matthew 13:44 "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.
 
Luke 12:34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
 

 
 
Completed on: December 24, 2014
 
by: Daniel a Slave of Christ Jesus