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The Power of Knowledge

The power of knowledge, knowledge is like treasures bring the one having the knowledge riches in many forms, from a good name to a renown position among mankind.

Exodus 35:31 He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;

Psalms 139:6 This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it.

Hence, knowledge of certain subjects are form into a profession taught through elite colleges, where student aspiring to a career pays thousand's of dollars to obtain a degree. We should not underestimate the power of knowledge.

Proverbs 8:10 Receive my instruction rather than silver; knowledge rather than choice gold.

Proverbs 20:15 There is gold and abundance of rubies; but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.

But what if there existed a knowledge from another world which would give us eternal life? From a world where the knowledge must be given to us so we can understand how to obtain everlasting life in paradise, what would we pay for such knowledge?

Matthew 13:46 who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

Knowledge From Below

The knowledge from below, we will call this knowledge from our human existence upon earth, this knowledge cannot give us everlasting life within God's new heavens and earth, it can lead us down a road so we can dimly see a hazy outline of what God holds in store for mankind.

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.

However, without the knowledge from above the knowledge below is incomplete. It is not an accurate knowledge of the giver of eternal life YHWH. Knowledge from below is based upon human effort alone, and not God's help, our own efforts in bring us true knowledge of His personality (above). But did you know without knowing God, that is, his real personality we are mislead, but why?

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.

Imputing Human Reasoning too God

Human assume that because they are created in God's image stated within his written word that God feels like we do about most subjects. However, this thinking and/or emotions misleads them into imputing their own thoughts, and feeling into God as his personality. Nations have been destroyed over such thinking, peoples lives have been ruined from men and woman assuming their righteous anger, and/or feelings were God's own, and that God was acting through them because of their zeal for God's word!

Proverbs 19:2 It isn't good to have zeal without knowledge; nor being hasty with one's feet and missing the way.

Romans 10:2 For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

Imputing of mankind's feeling into God is a lie! Pure and simple, we can without doubt prove that from God's own words the bible. Sin in all humans taints their thinking and emotions, thus, God says because of the power of sin in us we are liars, we live in a lie, making us liars. We treat people differently face to face, than we do when they not in our present. We act according to the position given us living up to a certain profession and its requirements. But an act is a lie, no matter how much we love the cool professional; when we put on a personality it only proves we are not the truth.

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

Christ The Truth

Most Christian talk about truth as a god, they fight and wrangle over biblical truth, such fights means life and death to them spiritually. They believe truth is bigger than anyone person, and of course, people are expendable for the truth, that is, the greater good for the principal of truth is worth dying for and/or killing others for.

Ps. 90:10 The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

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.

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.

But how is Christ the truth? Now stop, and reason, is truth, the truth if it puts on act? In other words, God say Christ is our truth, meaning there cannot be an act with Christ, why? Because there is no lie in the truth. God's truth match every action of the being, the name means exactly what it is truth. This is not how man defines a truth, and how is that? Man set a goal of being something, he works at it by his will power until he meets the goal, but he is not the thing, he is acting like the thing requires him to act like, to be in the profession, and/or have the titled.

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

God creates the person to be the name, and the person is the name as Christ is the truth. Hence, no person is the truth. Subsequently, than how can a person say they are in the truth?

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

In The Truth

In the truth is not a meaningless statement. Let put it this way, some think knowledge from their bibles puts them in the truth. Sadly, they are badly mistaken. Putting truth in untruth does not make it more truth or even the truth, now does it?

James 3:10 Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. 3:11 Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?
3:12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water. 3:13 Who is wise and understanding among you?

To be in the truth, one must be in Christ Jesus the truth of God for us. This is the knowledge from above giving us eternal life, it does not come from below from our bibles. The bible leads us to Christ above, giving us stepping stones of knowledge dimly so we can put faith in Christ the truth above, and than recieve the Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 4:21 if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:
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.

Human reasoning takes the step of being in Christ off the narrow road into eternal life replace it with by being "in knowledge" this is falsely called knowledge which produce fruit of false religion (the flesh, and/or fleshly mind). What are those fruits? The fruit are seen in all religion, it is the fruits that any person that has every associated with religion complains about and is stumble over, and what are those fruits.

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.

Listen carefully, they are human action under sin cloaked as God's righteousness by uses of his word the bible. They are the works of flesh justified by some scriptural reasoning. They are from below, not from above (Christ mind), where the fruits of God come down to us when we are in Christ the truth!

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.

In others word, human lie about the actions of false religion, they justify its worthless fruits by some good the religion is doing for the greater good. This is the concept of all of Satan creation alienated from God. Find the good, to justify the bad, and say its if from God. This confusion and mystery has mislead the entire world for thousand's of years.

Proverbs 20:14 "It's no good, it's no good," says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

Proverbs 17:13 Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

Truth becomes not the actions, or the fruit, but the doctrine, doctrine is without emotion, and its judges life as unworthy without mercy thus, it is the most important thing for false religion which is in a love affair with flesh and its judgments. But again if we put pure water into polluted water what does it produce? More polluted water.

Matthew 12:33 "Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

If we put bible truths into sinful human that cannot live up to truth what does it produce? We have no doubt, fleshly acts, inconsistent with truth. Do we impute those human acts of sin, lust of the flesh common to all of us, as God working through us? Hence, do we make God both good and evil so we can live in a lie?

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 Corinthians 5:6 Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

Truth From Above

Thousand's of years of human existence has past, but we find the same old actions in every generation to have ever lived upon earth, the same fights, the same evils, the same good in helping others, the same feelings of jealousy, hates, ambition, competition the same sexual acts.

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

Genesis 6:5 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

No matter how enlighten a nation or generation was they still practice the same old works of the flesh, that is, works of sin. Nothing new has been created by mankind to stop the works of their flesh! Not one creation under the Sun in mankind best most sincere efforts has redeem mankind out of the evil of sin, and its fruits.

1 John 5:19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

Mankind on the other hand, has built massive impressive institutions of higher education, medical research, governments, and commerce only to be a the same staring point of works of the flesh as all generation have been found in. Religion has been the key to educating the human race into condone evil as good, but how?

Matthew 13:26 But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also.

Luke 6:44 For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don't gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.

Simply put, a good tree cannot bear bad fruit that is what the truth of God told us, Christ Jesus. Yet, false religion say a good tree can have both good and evil upon its branches. Christ say: A bad tree cannot bear good fruit. False religion says yes it can, it can have both good and evil if it justify its actions with good for others.

Matthew 7:18 A good tree can't produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.

Made New

Christ did not come to this earth in the flesh to make a new institution, a new religion to lead people to God. He did not try to put his personal good into a government, or one of its many members from religion to commerce to reform them into bring up mankind into a better form of life, with less sin, and works of the flesh, did you know that?

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 17:14 I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Christ came to take out of this world those whom seek God from another world, from above. He opened a door by his own precious life redeeming us out of this world, to be no part of it! False religion makes better people for this world below, God creates new people without sin for his kingdom above.

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.

Those created from above are foreigners living in this world, waiting upon the master hand to live fully with Christ and God in a world producing only good fruit. God does not justify evil by some good. God is only good, and nothing of sin dwells in him. God cannot put his goodness into polluted water like men and live a lie so they can maintain some standing with other men of sin.

Peter 1:17 If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear:

God is not forming and old world, into a better world, God has created a new heavens, and will shortly created a new earth without sin. God does not put new wine into old wineskin, or does he take yeast out of yeast bread to produce a new lump of unleavened bread. No! Christ was sinless, he was not both sin and unleavened bread, sin did not touch him, he was made into the likeness of sin, but he did not sin.

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

1Pet.2:21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you{TR reads "us" instead of "you"} an example, that you should follow his steps, 2:22 who did not sin, "neither was deceit found in his mouth."{Isaiah 53:9} 2:23 Who, when he was cursed, didn't curse back. When he suffered, didn't threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously; 2:24 who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
2:25 For you were going astray like sheep; but now have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer{"Overseer" is from the Greek episkopon, which can mean overseer, curator, guardian, or superintendent.} of your souls.

Creating All Things New

Jesus was to tell the apostle John that it was the Spirit that is truth, and the Spirit would teach us all things about God. This concept was totally rejected from below by men and woman of the flesh (Jews), and rightly so, because they could not know the things above without God's Spirit creating them new, new how?

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.

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

By God making them new by being made new into a new life, what life, in Christ Jesus, not their own old life born of sin. Is Christ part of this world, and its faulty sinful reasoning? No! He is far above all human mountains of learning, power, government, commerce, and religion. The mind of Christ is not found in one human institution of our earth, how do we know that? It is because all produce the same old fruit cloaked in biblical righteousness.

James 1:15 Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death. 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.

Matthew 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.

God put his Holy Spirit into Christ the truth, all members in Christ are of Christ the temple of God (new, new heavens), not a building, an organization, and/or anything old of this world. Knowledge from below puts us into yeast thinking, which thinking cannot be made into unleavened bread, how do we know this? Look at the fruits of good and evil, it is the same old world Adam and Eve created after sinning!

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.

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.

Truth must come from above, not from below where mankind is dying from sin and has a mind corrupted by yeast of sin. Truth comes too us by Spirit, untainted by human reasoning, of sin, its is pure and full of good works of the Holy Spirit fruit.

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 5:38 But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.

Ephesians 4:24 and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

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.

Justification

For the flesh justification is a work, a hard work all the years upon earth toiling in our sins. We must work hard in righting ourselves in the eyes of others, that is, justifying our actions good or bad before others, so we can live in this life.

Hebrews 4:10 For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.

Ephesians 2:9 not of works, that no one would boast.

But God does not justify our sins, by telling us to do a good work, did you know that? God does not mix evil with good as a justification for our sins, and/or action that is mankind works, not God's works.

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.

God kills our sins, he buries them and makes us new without sin, than we do his works which works are no part of this world. This speech is shocking to those in false religion who are in the business of reforming flesh to make Satan world a better world by doing good works cloaked in righteousness, that is, God's word the bible.

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.

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.

In other words, we have a false kingdom, a yeast kingdom producing good and evil upon the same tree, which the truth Christ Jesus told us was, it could not be done! Justification is a legal act from God, killing our sins by blood of Christ. Once dead to sin (fleshly mind), we are in Christ the sinless Son of God, we are born new, not from this world, that is, from sin (below), but new from God (above), so we can know the things of God.

Romans 8:5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

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

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.

We all justify our actions, but this is not what God's justification is of humans by the precious blood of Christ. Human put power on knowledge once having it they think a good debate justify their wrongful actions because of the power of knowledge defeating, that is, justifying their bad actions in jealousy, hates, and fights as God's. Sin justified by knowledge from the bible is false religion, and a lie!

1 Corinthians 4:4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

1 Corinthians 6:11 Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Galatians 2:16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

Knowledge of scriptures used to condone sin has been one of the greatest evil ever perpetrated upon the human race. The knowledge coming to those dead to sin, that is, in Christ, and him in them, is from the mind of Christ. Giving us knowledge of his Father Jehovah God in truth and love.

Romans 8:30 Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

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.

That knowledge is perfect without sin, or the thinking of the fleshly mind, it is holy and full of peace and good fruit of God's own Spirit. It does not condone or produce any bad fruit, it comes for a tree of life. It is completely new to this earth thinking, it is beyond all human wisdom and cannot be known without faith and trust in God as good.

Philippians 2:5 Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus.

Colossians 3:2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

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.

We are completely dependent upon Christ mind, not of this world, God's wisdom is from his world, and its life eternal for those eating the unleavened bread of Christ.

1Cor.1:9 God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord. 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.

Humanizing Christ, and his Father YHWH into sinful men with feeling like ours that is justifying our bad actions by scriptures is an effort to yeast up the kingdom of God, which kingdom presently exist in the hearts of minds of sinful mankind as nothing more than walking by sight and not faith.

Matthew 13:33 He spoke another parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven 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 meal, until it was all leavened."

To be in Christ one must accept by faith Christ life, and not their own, they must trust completely in the unseen Spirit of God to provide all things for this life and next. They must listen to God's mind in Christ Jesus and do the works of God, in the power of Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 4:20 For the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

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.

Ephesians 1:19 and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

Our personal works are not justify because we have great knowledge of the scriptures, we are justify by Christ life, his merit given us freely by our faith. If we do not desist from our own works of self-justification by doing some good work we can never enter into Christ, and do the works of God.

John.6:27 Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him." 6:28 They said therefore to him, "What must we do, that we may work the works of God?"
6:29 Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent."

Completed: June 03, 2015

by: Daniel a Slave of Christ Jesus