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The World Hears Them
****1John.4:4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world. 4:5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.
What the Spirit says is babel to the flesh, the flesh is the world that cannot know God or be in subjection to God, who is the Spirit! The issue is are we mature enough in Christ to accept this truth that cannot be changed by all the well intention teaching technics in the world?
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 flesh i.e., the world speaks a language 180-degrees opposite the Spirit, one is light, while the other darkness. The brothers and sisters at John's time we involving themselves in debates certainly they meant well and felt that if they could just say it a certain way logic who enter in and the person would see the truth. However, just as we have no control over the wind, neither do we have control over whom Jehovah God reveals his Son Christ Jesus to.
John 3:8 The wind{The same Greek word (pneuma) means wind, breath, and spirit.} blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don't know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."
The anointing these brothers and sisters had was not a progressive dripping of a faucet into a bucket to where through hours of studying they finally got it. That flaw, is not of the Spirit, but the flesh, and that is why so many thinking they can make people see the truth through a debate of words.
Titus.3:2 to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men. 3:3 For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
3:4 But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared, 3:5 not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
3:6 whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior;
The world debates because its of flesh, and flesh feels very insecure if it does not have everyone agreeing with it. That is why the flesh cannot stop debating, or lets put it another way? The flesh is in a constant state of justifying itself. When it comes in contact with God's word, it does not change the flesh into Spirit it just uses the word of God to justify its actions in its flesh.
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.
Galatians 5:4 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
The fear is in the flesh, fear of judgment, increasing God's word the judgment increase in the flesh. The flesh is under judgments, so it uses works of law, teaching, being one of those works of law to justify its own fear.
Isaiah 28:13 Therefore the word of Yahweh will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.
But it does not matter because the Spirit does not justify the flesh, the Spirit is the truth, and the flesh can't hear it, but the Spirit knows all things of God of both the evils of flesh and goodness of God. Our anointing is like the wind, it comes and goes and God's direction. No human born on this earth births themselves without parents.
John 1:13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name:
1Cor.2:10 But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
2:11 For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God's Spirit.
2:12 But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.
2:13 Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.
2:14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
2:15 But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.
No anointed child of God gains enough knowledge through debates to birth themselves into a new creation. If knowledge helps so much that it is a god worthy of dying for, and its all things to the flesh, why is our world in darkness according to God, the Spirit? Is knowledge going to bring it into light, where one-day it will become a paradise and bring everyone in it everlasting life?
1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
2 Peter 3:7 But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
1 Corinthians 4:20 For the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
The problem exist back at John's time and ours, which is, if we have the Spirit of God the world can't hear us, and if we have the spirit of flesh the Spirit words of God are babel to us, and we go off and build bigger and better towers of babel. False religion can't go away until the flesh goes away, that is, the fallen flesh.
Matthew 16:17 Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
Zechariah 14:12 This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth.
Revelation 19:18 that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, and small and great."
Weeds do not become wheat, a person of flesh cannot be educated enough to born themselves again into a new creation. Does that mean God does not care? Well it does to the flesh, and its world of darkness, but not to the Spirit that will not pervert the truth because of feelings of our flesh.
Revelation 22:17 The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" He who hears, let him say, "Come!" He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.
1 John 2:2 And he is the atoning sacrifice{"atoning sacrifice" is from the Greek "hilasmos," an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation--the sacrifice that turns away God's wrath because of our sin.} for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
In other words, if one puts fresh water into a barrel of polluted water the only things that changes is nothing! It changes nothing, it makes the same mess of polluted water. God does not put his Holy Spirit to vessels polluted with sins.
1 John 3:6 Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.
1 John 3:9 Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.
God put his Holy Spirit in his Son Christ Jesus, we are born again into Christ Jesus the temple of God, by the righteousness of Christ. We are dead in our flesh, and its judgment by being in Christ Jesus having no judgment, because, the law is not for a righteous man it is for sinners, and the wicked.
Philippians 1:11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Philippians 3:9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith.
1Tim.1:9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 1:10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;
We gain access to God the Spirit by another person righteous life, we have no righteousness in our flesh, it is dead, our righteousness exist in Christ. That being in Christ makes us no part of this world, and makes it so the world can't hear us, or listen to us, or even know us. Those truth will not change for any good intentions of our flesh, in our wanting to reform a religion, convert the world into Christian's. We are not in charge, no more so then we are in charge of birthing child into this world by giving them the gift of life.
1 John 3:1 Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.
1 John 3:13 Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.
1 John 4:1 Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
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. 7:19 For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice.
Resting in God's Sabbath day, is resting in Christ as our leader, head, the fine Shepard that cannot leave one of God's children, it is not about beating the sins out of someones flesh to make them righteous in their flesh, so God will then rebirth them into a new creation. Frankly, our desires matter not, we have no control over the wind, and we cannot say why God anointed us? We know the truth before we did bad or good God chose us from the foundation of this world.
Isa.40:13 Who has directed the Spirit of Yahweh, or has taught him as his counselor?
If we do not have faith in that, and we have not tasted and seen the Lord is good, why then would we think we can go beyond the Spirit of truth, and do what is against the Spirit? It is very simple actually we lack love, for the God of love, we fail to see his unending love that cannot fail, we refuse to rest in it, because of he fears of our flesh!
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.
Rom. 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.{NU omits "who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit"}
Rom. 8:11 But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
8:12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
Rom.8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God. 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!" 8:16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;
Rom. 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 8:39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Daniel a Slave of Christ Jesus
Listen To Us
****1John.4:6 We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn't listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
Each of us have a spirit our spirit is in our flesh, and it is projected to others, rather we understand that or not? If we are angry, or loving, or sneaky those traits are projected to others even if we don't say a word. Words are used to confirm or deny those traits, but it does not change those traits it only helps to hid them or deny them!
Proverbs 28:13 He who conceals his sins doesn't prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
Proverbs 12:20 Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.
Most of us would like to think were good readers of the spirit, and we well may be of peoples fleshly spirit, we could very will be a Doctor of the flesh reading it every movement by the words we use to expose it. Religious people are often good at reading the weaknesses of the flesh in others. If you drive a stake in ones flesh by a commandments the weaknesses in the flesh will certainly follow!
Matt.7:1 "Don't judge, so that you won't be judged.
7:2 For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you. 7:3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye? 7:4 Or how will you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye? 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.
But that's not what the apostle John is driving at here in the verses above. The anointed children of God are not doctors of the flesh (their flesh is dead in Christ), they are however, ambassadors of the Spirit. It is their job to trust the Spirit and test all others spirits so they are not mislead (They are not in a war with flesh and blood). They are not a police force to check the flesh in others, to judge the flesh of others, and/or extract the flesh out of their brothers eye.
2Cor. 3:3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
3:4 Such confidence we have through Christ toward God;
3:5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;
3:6 who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Romans 8:6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace; 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. 8:8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.
The question is what rights are given them by God's Spirit? Do they have the right to get into peoples business, to make them obey the Spirit? Do they understand by the Spirit that it is a very fine line between giving and taking something we have no right to? It hard not to be enslaved to something on this earth. It is doubly hard for one of God's anointed not to be enslave to something or someone because they are the center of powerful wicked spirit force in heavenly places that control our earth.
Galatians 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.
1Cor. 10:23 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are profitable. "All things are lawful for me," but not all things build up.
10:24 Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor's good.
Testing the spirits does not mean controlling them as most religion teach through some doctrinal application they can peal off a religious argument. The spirit of the religious argument is of the flesh, and not God's Spirit and if a person has God's Spirit they would know that and shake the dust off their feet so they do not lose the peace of God's Spirit they use to build up their most holy faith.
1 Corinthians 2:10 But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
It one thing to defend our faith, then it is looking for a fight to change others. One is a defensive move when challenge, and the other an offensive move to attack our opponent.
2 Corinthians 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we don't wage war according to the flesh; 10:4 for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,
The spirit of the flesh is full of jealously that attacks others for envy, because it wants retribution. It sees the flesh, hates the flaw in the flesh and attacks the flesh to humble it. That is not, that is not what John is talking about at all here in testing the spirits!
James 4:11 Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
The Spirit of God is full of good gifts of love, generosity, forgiveness and kindness. When we don't have that Spirit but another spirit lacking the good things of God that spirit is not of God. The good things of God does not attack the bad things of the spirit coming from our flesh, it not even attacking Satan. Have you noted, it just leaves in peace. It hard to hanging onto Spirit of God when we have it confused with all these other evil spirits thinking some of its good and some of its bad?
James.1:16 Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.
1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
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.
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.
There is no in between, some light, and little darkness, which is the message of John letter. Christ own message on earth was even clearer? He stated a good tree (God) cannot bear bad fruit, and corrupt tree not of God cannot bear good fruit (that is of God)
Matt. 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.
Same message said in different ways from Christ and John, light cannot dwell with darkness, so that can't be God's Spirit eventhough its using words from God's word the bible. The Spirit of truth residing in us, that is, the Spirit of God's love does not dwell, cannot listen to the evil of the spirits of our sinful flesh, now can it?
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.
No! If we are in the Spirit they can't even understand our words coming from the Spirit of God, they can't hear us because darkness and light does not dwell with darkness, where is the debate in that? There is none, not unless we are a doctor of flesh which knows that to make the flesh listen requires great discipline and humiliation by taking it to the ground with words or physical combated defeating its pride.
Romans 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
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.
Yes, the power of government, the power of religion the lover of the flesh that boast in creating a better flesh upon earth, but not the Spirit of God. God is done with our flesh, finished, he does not mix light into darkness, he killed it in Christ. Christ took the nails in his hands and feet and he did not squirm to get out of our discipline. We know the truth it dwells in us the Spirit, let us not mock the truth because we can't stop squirming in our flesh, let us not call good evil, or evil good rather let us know the truth from the lie.
Let us be humble knowing our salvation is not with us, it is reserved in heaven, in the light, please Lord give us he wisdom to walk in your light.
Ps.90:8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
90:9 For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
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.
90:11 Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Daniel a Slave of Christ Jesus
God's Love Revealed In Us
****1John.4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.
4:8 He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.
4:9 By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
The apostles John speak in a parable here for the legal mind that always gets the cart before the horse! The legal mind is the fleshly mind that makes the truth of the Spirit into babel, which in fact, is the context of John's above thoughts how the world cannot hear us because they can't know the things of the Spirit.
Mark 4:34 Without a parable he didn't speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.
1Cor.2:14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
2:15 But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.
The legal mind always put the fleshly thinking first, that is, the spirit of flesh before the glory of God, now with that context; (1.) number one, we love one another, because we are born of God who is love. That is simple truth, the source of our new life, the power of our new life is love because we are birthed from love, from our Father love, because he is love.
1 John 4:19 We love Him, because he first loved us.
Subsequently, we know God because he birthed us from love, for simply put, he is love, so all that is birthed of God must also be love. legalist make themselves into what they think God's love is by commandments, but those of the Spirit are birthed from love, into a life, in Christ Jesus that remove their sins so they obey the commandments of God by love, without sin, those that sin cannot obey God at all! For the law was not created for a righteous man, which means without sin.
1 John 3:9 Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.
There are no works of law in love, God's love is a gift given freely to his children, none, no not one person earned God's love. Those of God, love one another because God is loved, and his love birthed them, and teaches his children the law of Himself, love, the Royal law of our King, for God is love.
2 Corinthians 5:14 For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
2 Corinthians 8:8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
Galatians 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.
In that truth love, which is the context, we put the cart behind the horse, we do not think for a moment that we muster up from our flesh love, it can't be done, its that simple; have we figured that out yet? Hopefully, we have the Spirit that reveals all things of Spirit, God's love, it is in that truth of the Spirit we understand the love of God? It not about us, its about the glory of God, and now his Son's glory the exact representation of God himself Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 1:4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love;
Ephesians 3:17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love.
Ephesians 3:19 and to know Christ's love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
You see, the flesh cannot please God, at all! In fact, if we are interested, it can't be in subjection to God or his laws. Hence, how could a person imagine if they were not of the flesh: that they could muster God's love from flesh which can't please God at all?
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.
This is the demarcation of the Spirit that cuts through darkness, it is the demarcation that causes the flesh confusion and fear that what God gives freely as undeserved kindness the flesh has to earn by commandments. “I must love, the unlovable because God commandments me or I don't know God” (sin of the flesh). That fear drives my flesh into lying that I love people like God love them. My fear causes me not to admit I don't love that much so I become a phony, a so called Christian's constantly justifying myself like a politician's so I can bring people to Christ!
Corinthians 1:29 that no flesh should boast before God.
Jude 1:25 to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.
Stating I am love in so many words, so people can see God's love, then teach all that will listen to uses commandments about love demanding they must act in love the way I interpret from my flesh God is love! No! That is not at all the truth of Spirit (the Spirit is love), we are born into Spirit as a new creation, Christ Jesus, who is God's love to us, the fruit of Holy Spirit is love. Thus, the fact we are born of God's love is how we know love!
1 John 4:12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
This is how the Spirit lets us know who is of God, and who is not? its not a mystery, no one can act like God's love without boasting in their flesh, because God is love, and the flesh is not. The flesh acts like love, by using commandments, but the Spirit we are birthed from is love so the identifying mark of God's children is love, God is love how can we be birthed less?
1 John 4:9 By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
In others words, the truth is revealed to us by the Spirit of God, who is love. Yes, the truth is love, the revealing of Spirit reveal love to us about whom? Who we are birthed from, love, for God is love. We are not god's, we do not generate love that is life. life sustaining eternal life, we must have God's love to have eternal life. It is for that glory we live in Christ, not from our own love, or what we think Christian's should show by a commandment to love us. That is not John's message, and/or the message we heard from the beginning of our new birth from love, from our Father's love.
1 John 4:10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice{"atoning sacrifice" is from the Greek "hilasmos," an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation--the sacrifice that turns away God's wrath because of our sin.} for our sins.
1 John 4:8 He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.
Now the mystery that some of these brothers and sisters were falling into at John's time was that somehow there was more needed in their flesh that they had birthed themselves from some commandments that the flesh cannot do or keep anyway, which solidly condemns them if they loved the truth; Christ, more than themselves. No! None of what's in the flesh is true no matter how great one thinks the teacher is of worldly wisdom, it can't change the birth of God's children, before they did good or bad, God had foreordained their birth for his own glory – love.
1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.
It is not by works, if its by works, it no longer a gift of God, who is love, it is earned by being able to make ourselves into God's love by hard works from our flesh. That's is the thief Christ warned us would come. which is, our flesh that steals and plunders and destroyed, God's love, for what purpose? For its own glory which is a lie for the flesh is a lie! To gain glory among flesh so one can hear the words that person is of God because he/she is love. So flesh might say; “Lets be like him/her, lets worship him/her like a god in the flesh because they have the love of God.”
1 John 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
No! All the body of Christ is created by God's love, not some more, and/or some less, why? Because it not about us, as a finger, a foot, or because we have a gift given us freely. It is about God, his love that lets us live in his Son Christ Jesus. It is God's name, not our name we have become apart of God because God is love.
When we go to flesh, and demand, and get angry because the rules are being broken about love we are essentially thinking we can by application change the very nature of a weed into the nature of a wheat. Our energy, our time, our mind is distorted into our own judgmental flesh it can't be done, it is a waste of time that not even God crosses over. If we are born again from love the fruit of the body we are producing is love and if not? Its not of God, it can't hear us, it can debate us, dragging us into the flesh that can't know God, for it does not have the love of God that birthed us into a new heavens.
1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, "Things which an eye didn't see, and an ear didn't hear, which didn't enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him."{Isaiah 64:4}
1 Corinthians 13:1 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 13:2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing. 13:3 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.
That is no little treasure that we should give it to the dogs, or pigs; lovers of the flesh that can't change their specie because they eat up our fine pearl! We may love both fleshly species its OK! But if we don't keep them in their kind, we make a fool of ourselves and what rightfully belongs to Christ our lives for God's glory.
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.
1 Corinthians 10:31 Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 2:7 But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory.
Colossians 3:4 When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.
Daniel a Slave of Christ Jesus
In This Love
**** 1John.4:10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice{"atoning sacrifice" is from the Greek "hilasmos," an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation--the sacrifice that turns away God's wrath because of our sin.} for our sins.
4:11 Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
Do we understand that our flesh is wrath with God? Do we understand we cannot be at peace while at wrath with God? How does one ensue for peace when our very life and nature is found to be at wrath with God?
Exodus 24:5 He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to Yahweh.
You see, wrath does not teach us love, now does it? Wrath is anti- love, it not even friendship let alone love, one is darkness the other is light. But if we can't; if we don't know why our flesh is at odds/wrath with God, then we think God is like us in our flesh, at wrath with us, but that is not God's love, so why is God opposed to our flesh?
Romans 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.
The book of First John gives us that answer very simply if we are lead by Holy Spirit the teacher of the Spirit teaching us all things is teaching us all things about the Spirit, but not our flesh or someone else flesh?
So what is an enemy? Isn't it someone that is against us, trying to destroy us, that see no good in us, and want to remove us from life itself, or at least their life, they are not a friend because the analytical mind play's politically correct words games so one does not have to admit murder is in their heart.
1Cor.2:10 But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
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.
The enemy of God is death! What dwells in our flesh? death! Where does death come from? Sin! The same sin in us was used by the Devil to destroy God, and nothing less, and it has destroy God for mankind because few, very few, actually know God as love! There is our real truth found in the book of First John.
1 Corinthians 15:26 The last enemy that will be abolished is death.
1 John 3:1 Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.
Our sin cause us wrath with God, our sins cause us wrath with our brothers, do you know why? Simply put, the flesh we are born into judges good and evil, it can't stop, so it must be at odds with God and our brothers who have not judgment in Christ. It is that judgment of sin that cause wrath, wrath is not love, neither is judgment, because our bible teaches us judgment of the commandments under the old law, which was God's wrath. To make peace with God the thing making wrath must end or appeased our flesh. God must purchased paid off sins like a debt to make peace with God so he could remove his wrath. However, the judgment of that law could be only temporarily appeased by animal blood until the payment ran out, until it was used up.
Romans 4:15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
Romans 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath through him.
God's love has no wrath, because to be in God's love, sin is no more, that is, our flesh, the thing causing judgment, and/or wrath with God's incorruptible life. Where did that flesh go, how was it removed from God's wrath (the law), i.e., his judgment? Christ paid the debt, he was put to death in the flesh, to pay that debt of sin, a debt we cannot remove by any works in our flesh. Christ gave his everlasting blood, the payment that can't run out it is everlastingly paid once for all times.
Hebrews 7:16 who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life:
Hebrews 7:27 who doesn't need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself. e
Then we are told he presented that gift to his Father YHWH. His Father gave Christ his incorruptibility in the very image of himself. Power of the law was sin, sin in our flesh, Christ removed that power of our flesh once for all times, everlastingly, but how? He was made alive in Spirit not in the flesh.
Heb.1:1 God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,
1:2 has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.
1:3 His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself made purification for our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
for us to remain in God's love, one must be dead in their flesh in Christ Jesus, removing the wrath of God's judgment under the law for the flesh.
1 Timothy 3:16 Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.
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.
Romans 8:12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
The wall removed, abolished, in the everlasting life of Christ. That is how God first loved us. God did not live in the past, or in corruption (flesh), he removed judgment from us by his love, which is Christ Jesus; the thing separating us (flesh) from entering into God's love, his rest for us. In that love, we know God as love, and not judgment and wrath.
Hebrews 3:11 as I swore in my wrath, 'They will not enter into my rest.'"{Psalm 95:7-11}
Hebrews 4:3 For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;"{Psalm 95:11} although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
2Cor.3:15 But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.
3:16 But whenever one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Moreover, we are in God's love free of judgment, which means condemnation of the law, of the commandments, freed as it were of proving ourselves, which we could not, we no longer have to justify ourselves constantly by some work we are doing good or bad in a flesh that does not exist in God's judgment any longer (flesh) once for all times (flesh) being cast into the very sea.
Ephesians 2:14 For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition.
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.
In that love, we are to love our brothers the same way, we are to do on to them as what God has done on to us. We are to remove the flesh, stop judging it, as though it can be made righteous, or that it can be made without sin by some work of law, that is, the commandments, or some human judgment, because that is impossible for us or our brothers.
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.
If we say we have not, and/or no sinned, we are saying we have gotten rid of our sins by human power in obeying God's laws that makes us the judge, because only one is the judge and law giver Christ Jesus, and he did not sin. We take his position by judging our brothers with laws of death completed in Christ by him giving his life for us, so we can know God's love without any merit found in our flesh, Christ freely giving us his merit freely by God's love.
Rom.13:8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
1 Peter 4:8 And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
1 John 3:10 In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.
Daniel a Slave of Christ Jesus
Remain in Him
**** 1John.4:12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
4:13 By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
For us humans the criteria for worshiping God was not seeing him. Adam was created without sight worship of God, Adam lacked nothing in his worship of God, his worship was perfect because he was in God's love, and as long as he remained in God's love, he would remain perfection.
John 17:26 I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them."
The idea, and practice of sight worship came into the human race when Adam sinned, once found in that sin he lacked what was good in God. He became incomplete lacking the very power of eternal life in his members. He found himself in want of heart, spirit, mind, and soul, such want is the criteria the foundation stones of sight worship found in our own world today.
2 Corinthians 5:7 for we walk by faith, not by sight.
Matthew 13:13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.
The alienation from the source of life created in us an error that we cannot be complete without seeing God, a popular form of false religion that Adam and Christ never practice while on earth in their flesh. Both were created in God's image and glory having no sin in them.
Matthew 25:38 When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you?
Matthew 25:39 When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?'
Matthew 25:44 "Then they will also answer, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn't help you?'
John now addresses the same erroneous error that was moving like gangrene into the Christian's congregation of God anointed son's the worship by sight, first in men, and later those teachings would spawn into a host of false teachings that a person could not be complete in pure worship without seeing God, and his people on earth, Christ brothers. Such teachings would dismiss the whole idea that people could live on earth, and for this earth could worship God in Spirit and truth, But instead exchanging that truth for a lie that without the constant sight seeing of God in Christ brothers mankind would fall into sin like Adam did.
Matthew 12:39 But he answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.
Subsequently, coming upon the false teaching that all on earth was nothing more then an experiment of God when God fully planned to have every one in heaven with him in the first place. John speaks to those created in Christ as son's of God like Adam without sin. Their worship was like Adam's and Christ, in remaining in God's love, while under the evil test of their flesh alienated from God in darkness, which flesh is opposes and lust against God Spirit.
Galatians 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.
That test of being in death, the flesh, while living in the life of Christ indwell them proves beyond in legal doubt Adam was created by God in perfect love, he could have remained in God's love, as so many angels have and did never leaving God's love for selfish pride of the flesh.
That case is closed at the death of Christ and his resurrection in to God's own incorruptibility. Case law established for an eternity Adam was created in God's love fully complete, he lacked nothing good if he remained in God's love he remained a perfect man. Adam chose to leave God's love for the darkness of his wife's love.
James.1:16 Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.
1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
So to the creation under the power of Christ and his body members will be set free, there are new heavens, and a new earth where righteousness dwells, where all in both heaven and earth remain in God's love.
2 Peter 3:13 But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.
Revelation 21:4 He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away."
The flesh is the lie, it is the first lie which created flesh without the Spirit of God. That lie created a lack, a lost of God, the Spirit of God (love), which if we remain in it, we are in God's love, the two are inseparable. God is love, what comes from God too us is love felt by the Spirit of love.
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.
God gives all his children the Spirit, it is the Spirit that is pure worship not us, not the bible, not what a teacher has, but the Spirit. Once the Spirit is gone, so goes pure worship. So without love, the Spirit, knowledge is pointless, feeding the poor is pointless, prophecy is pointless, faith is pointless, none of which is good, what makes those gifts good is remaining in God's love, the Spirit.
1Cor.13:1 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
13:2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.
13:3 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.
If one does not commune in love, in God, life eternal does not exist, if one does not walk in God's Spirit, which is love, there is no brotherhood no matter how much powerful doctrine one possess it is without point, it will lack. Our master the Lord Jesus Christ told us, and them back at his time on earth, that it is the Spirit that is life the flesh profits us nothing. Amen!
John 4:24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."
John 6:63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
2 Corinthians 3:3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
John 14:24 He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word which you hear isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me.
John 13:35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
Daniel a Slave of Christ Jesus
Pure Worship of God
**** 1John.4:12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
4:13 By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
For us humans the criteria for worshiping God was at first not seeing him. Adam was created without sight worship of God, Adam lacked nothing in his worship of God, his worship was perfect because he was in God's love, and as long as he remained in God's love, he would remain perfect.
1 John 4:16 We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
The idea, and the practice of sight worship came into the human existence when Adam sinned, in that sin he lacked what was good in God - love. He became incomplete lacking the very power of eternal life found in God's love. He found himself in want of heart, in spirit, mind, and soul, such want is the criteria, and the foundation stones of sight worship.
1 John 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
The alienation of us from the source of life causes in us an error where we feel incomplete without seeing God, a popular form of false religion that Adam and Christ never practice while on earth in their flesh. Both being created in God's image and glory having no sin in them.
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.
John now addresses the same erroneous error that was moving like gangrene into the Christian's congregation of God anointed son's, worship by sight, first in men, and later, their teaching would be spawn into a host of false teachings that one cannot be complete in pure worship without seeing God. Such error was to dismiss the whole idea that people could live on earth in God's love, exchanged for a lie that without the constant sight seeing of God or of a man representing God in religion mankind could not no God in pure worship.
1 John 3:22 and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
2 Corinthians 5:7 for we walk by faith, not by sight.
Subsequently, teaching that all on earth was an experiment of God when God fully planned to have every one in heaven with him in the first place. John speaks to those created in Christ as son's of God like Adam, without sin. Their worship was like Adam's and Christ in remaining in God's love, while under the evil test of flesh, which flesh is alienated from God in darkness opposed to, and lust against God Spirit.
Jude 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
That test of being in death, the flesh, while having the living life of Christ indwell them proved beyond any legal doubt that Adam created in perfect love, could have remain in God's love, as so many angels did and have who will never leave God's love for self pride.
That case is closed at the death of Christ and his resurrection into God's own incorruptibility. Case law established for eternity, Adam was complete upon his creation, nothing in him was lacking in God's love for him as a perfect man, which made Adam complete. Adam chose to leave God's love for the darkness of his wife love.
So too the creation under the power of Christ and his body members will be set free, there will be a new heavens, and a new earth where righteousness will dwell, within that new creation all in both heaven and earth will remain in God's love.
Luke 5:37 No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.
Revelation 21:5 He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." He said, "Write, for these words of God are faithful and true."
The flesh is the lie, the first lie created flesh without the Spirit of God. That lie created a lack, a lost of God, the Spirit which if we remain in it, we are in God's love, the two are inseparable. God is love, what comes from God to us is love felt by the Spirit of tender mercy and kindness.
Gal.5:1 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
God gives all his children the Spirit, it is the Spirit that is pure worship, not us, not the bible, not what a teacher has, but the Spirit. Once the Spirit is gone, so goes pure worship. So without love, that is, the Spirit, knowledge is pointless, feeding the poor is pointless, prophecy is pointless, faith is pointless, none of which is from remaining in God's love, the Spirit.
1Cor. 13:1 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
13:2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.
13:3 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.
If one does not commune in love, in God, life eternal does not exist, if one does not walk in God's Spirit, which is love, there is no brotherhood no matter how much powerful doctrine one possess it without point, we will lack in false worship. Our master the Lord Jesus Christ told us, and those back at his time on earth, that it is, the Spirit that is life the flesh profits us nothing. Amen!
1 John 5:6 This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
John 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.
Daniel a Slave of Christ Jesus
Remain In Him
****1John.4:14 We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.
4:15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.
What does the flesh of mankind trust? Let us answer that question with the truth, nothing! The world is full of courts, legislative bodies, laws compound upon laws, with never ending rules, laws, and documents. So if mankind trust each other why all the paper work shouldn't a handshake be enough?.
James 1:8 He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
The wisdom of the world trust no one verify every thing get it on paper and make it iron clad so one has a recovery for losses. So how could anyone believe what the apostle John was speaking here to those weeds popping up that wanted to incorporate the truth of Christ into a religion?
1Cor.13:4 Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud, 13:5 doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
13:6 doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 13:7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
13:8 Love never fails.
He couldn't, for John himself under Holy Spirit makes it profoundly clear the world that these brothers and sister were no part of that so many wittingly or unwittingly were slowly -
going back into they could not understand the saying of Spirit, which Spirit is no part of this world. When John spoke they could not hear, they heard, but they heard from another mind, the mind of the flesh that teaches them all thing of this world.
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.
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.
When a weed process food from the earth and our Sun it feeds the life of the weed, but when a wheat process the food from the earth and the Sun it processes it into a wheat, same everything, but different plant.
1 John 1:5 This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
So goes the flesh against the Spirit one is light the other is darkness each feeds from its own body that it is attached to, but they could not be more different than light is to darkness.
1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
The world is totally different than God's world, the Spirit world, one cannot use the truth of the world the very life principal of this world and know God, it can't happen as a weed cannot change into a wheat by feeding off the same food as the wheat.
1 Corinthians 15:50 Now I say this, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} that flesh and blood can't inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
God is not a legal contract, God does not fear in his flesh, God has no fear, no flesh. God is life, he has never been not life, God does no fear being taken advantage of, he does not worry over who is right and who is wrong. God does not try to make a name for himself or prove himself righteous or seek the glory from man.
James. 3:11 Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?
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.
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.
God is love, God is life, God is perfect in all his ways, if he speak a son of God into existence there is no proving that from the flesh or this world. God verifies his love by his Spirit that is always the truth, he does not need the witness of flesh to make it proper, legal and/or right.
John 3:33 He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.
John 5:31 "If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid.
John 3:11 Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don't receive our witness.
We then, as John spoke have but one thing we must do, and what is that? We must remain in God's love, how do we do that? Is it being in our flesh, is it by contract law, is it about being wise in study, in good works. No! Its not about our works at all, it about God's love in us because we have been born new into God's love Christ Jesus, which, if on pauses, and thinks, means, our being no part of this world at all!
James 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.
2 Peter 1:4 by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
1 John 5:19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
Let us remember, with out faith one cannot love God, or be in God's love. Lets simplify this further if we don't love God more than this world, ourselves, anything, and everything, we don't stay in Gods' love. If we are not willing do give everything up for God's love, we can't understand the truth. Thus, we speak another language not of God, for God is love, and God only speak to us in truth and love. That is our wittiness, always was, and will always be.
1 John 4:5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.
1 John 4:17 In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.
1 John 5:4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
Daniel a Slave of Christ
Remains in love Remains in God
****1John 4:16 We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
Love what an easy word! Yes, a word easily thrown around, it is expressed by drunks, it is expressed as a saying to gain friendship, its a beautiful word used often in song. It is the strongest emotion humans express, it is so powerful that it was once said most people in prison their crime was connected to love gone bad!
1 Corinthians 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.
No one can really define love, but all of us have principles we consider to be love; without love we are empty needing it to make us feel whole. But what of the apostles John's words here, by the way under the Holy Spirit? How did John and the brothers and sisters know that God loved them?
1 Thessalonians 2:5 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
Powerful question? Was it a laundry list of things God had done for them, and if so, why didn't John list those proofs as a witnesses to God's love. Here in lays the problems for most Christian's whom think God loves them by doctrine of their religion. In other words, the religion is growing, theirs new buildings being built, their religion overcome problems and there are great success stories being told by its membership, is this witnesses John was talking about?
Matt. 7:20 Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.
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.'
Are we honest? If so, lets ask a honest question? If the most pure and powerful truth were found at the apostles times, why do we see none of what religion touts today as proof of God's loves found in their writings and experiences? However, what we do see is no boasting in the apostles writing what so ever in the flesh by any man or religion through the Holy Spirit lead apostles; has God changed in our times?
Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
Galatians 5:16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.
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.
Matthew 13:38 the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one. 13:40 As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age.
No he has not changed! John speaks to undeniable truth, what is that truth? Well, the same book of John makes it abundantly clear that its is the Spirit that is the truth for God's children. It is not an apostle, a book, a scroll, not even the witnesses of men! It is the Spirit that is truth for those anointed by God. Let us make this point clear, John is speaking to only those anointed as God's children in his writings here, there is no secondard application to another group, a second flock. No! God is speaking only to God's children no matter what time period they are found in, then, and/or now!
1 John 5:6 This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the.
Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
John 16:7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don't go away, the Counselor won't come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
John 16:13 However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.
It is the Spirit that makes them God's children. It is not about a good education of God's word, its not if one sits in the highest of position of a religion, or a head of government. The Spirit is the whole truth and nothing but the truth for God's anointed. Christ himself was so convinced of that truth that he would say if you don't believe me, believe the works of the Father that he was performing by God's Holy Spirit through him. Christ was light of God for those whom believed. Do we grasp that concept? Christ revealed God to us by what, by looks, his great reading voice, his superior education in researching all of God's word for us, his connection to King David?
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.
No! Christ reveled the truth of God to us, by the Spirit, its is the Spirit that is truth. God reveled himself in Christ to us. Christ did nothing of his own will reveal God. He didn't foolish say as so many in religion “practice”:
“Let me find a new clever way to make God known, more appealing to us humans. Let me build massive factories for printing bibles and books, let me start a massive chain of TV station so I can reveal God to humans”.
1 John 3:1 Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.
1 John 3:13 Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.
1 John 4:5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.
But why one may ask? First, it is the Spirit that gives God's children the truth. Secondly, God knows his own household those he predestined from the founding of the world. Thirdly, the works were not of Christ mind and heart, they were given him by his Father will, Christ gladly was a servant of his Father will knowing what most of us fail to understand, but repeat often God's love can't fail!
John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name:
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!
3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
3:7 Don't marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born anew.'
John. 3:33 He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true. 3:34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.
Let us digress to the conversation of how one of God's children knows the love of the Father? Christ is God's love towards his children, its that simple, one cannot go beyond Christ because if one does he is back into the flesh, and/or teaching of demons, both of which are found in false religion.
Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.{NU omits "who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit"}
Romans 8:10 If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
1 Corinthians 1:12 Now I mean this, that each one of you says, "I follow Paul," "I follow Apollos," "I follow Cephas," and, "I follow Christ." 1:13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?
1 Corinthians 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 Corinthians 2:2 For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
Subsequently, if we connect the dots, if we are in Christ we are in God's love towards us that is pretty simple. If we are in Christ we have the teacher for the children of God, God's Spirit. Now having stated that which John and all the apostles of Christ spoke and wrote about we know we are in God's love.
Such love does not come from our flesh, it never comes from our flesh which is dead in Christ. Thus, we are doing the will of Christ (Spirit and not flesh), as he did his Fathers will because God's was in Christ like a child God lets the truth of Christ life be revealed in them as the light of this world.
Philippians 2:2 make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;
Colossians 1:8 who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.
Colossians 1:13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;
1 John 4:9 By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
None of that has to do with our intellect, our power, our resourcefulness, but the truth of the Spirit that reveals the love of God to others, that is, if Christ chooses to reveal himself to them. Words do not change Spirit nor our motive the Spirit, the Spirit does not run on mankind time table wishes or desires, not whatsoever!
John.1:11 He came to his own, and those who were his own didn't receive him.
1:12 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name:
1:13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
If we stay in Christ in complete faith that God is love, and is good, we cannot be lacking. God is faithful, he has a purpose in our being birthed by his Spirit. It is when we confuse our religion, our personal ambition, thoughts, and our will with God's will it becomes false religion that is full of yeast and corruption to the love of God.
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.
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.
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.
James. 4:13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."
4:14 Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away. 4:15 For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."
4:16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
Rom. 8:36 Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."{Psalm 44:22}
8:37 No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
8:39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Second Edition 1John.4:16
**** 1John 4:16 We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
Why is there such mystery surrounding God's word, such as the apostle John's words here, as if they are coded to hid God from us in some dark mystical language? Simply put, Christ is not our reality, he is a words on paper as he was to the Jews. The Jews made their life and worship their reality, which was a shadow, not the reality.
John.5:39 "You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me. 5:40 Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.
5:41 I don't receive glory from men. 5:42 But I know you, that you don't have God's love in yourselves.
Subsequently, when the reality came, and stood in their mist, talked to them, did powerful works among them they were so focused on self as reality they rejected the Word of God, Christ Jesus! Years, later the shadow once again was becoming the light to God's children the reality wasn't in them it had faded into the glory of men, they wanted the world, the ways of the world, the speech and things of the world. Yes, like the Jews religion became their reality, and Christ life in them an unreality.
1 Corinthians 15:45 So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul."{Genesis 2:7} The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
You see one cannot believe in God's love without having Christ Jesus life in us. Truth was not on paper as so many love that unreality over the reality of life in us, that is, the endless life of Christ that is the new covenant, which is love. We believed the love of God has for us, because we have the life of Christ in us. Thus, if we remain in Christ, we remain in God, and God remain in us.
Philippians 1:20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.
Colossians 3:4 When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.
We can't study our way into Christ, try if we will, it will not give us the reality of his living eternal life in us. We can't go to enough meeting obey enough rules to put Christ in us. No! We are not talking about putting knowledge in our mind here! No! John is stating God put his son life in us, that is, his love, the eternal life of Christ indwelling us a living truth.
1 John 2:25 This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.
1 John 5:11 The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
Philippians 3:9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
Now if we read John's word as an intellectual pursuit thinking that the Holy Spirit is going to reveal the truth to us then we find the mystery. But on the other hand if Christ is in us, the book of John and the rest of our bibles becomes a reality because having Christ in us we have the teach the promise Holy Spirit that anointed us, teaches us all things because living in someone else life does that.
Romans 15:18 For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed.
1 Corinthians 3:23 and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
1 Corinthians 6:15 Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!
Its not hard at all we either have Christ in us, or we don't, we either have the truth, Christ or we don't? If the reality of Christ life indwells us, we live because he lives, if not we are in a unreality trying out of fear to get something from God's word that we did nothing to have in the first place. God is not selfish like we are, he is not withholding something good from us. All that is of us, from sin in us which is a lack of love for God.
1 Corinthians 8:6 yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.
Christ is the light a simple truth, if Christ indwells us we have the light for his life lives in us. The rest is fears of our flesh which is darkness and judgment, we then lie, we try, and we do all we can for fear because we do not have the love of God indwelling us which is the Christ. The mystery is our flesh found in darkness that we used to try to earn God's love which is given freely to all those loving him.
2 Corinthians 1:21 Now he who establishes us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God;
2 Corinthians 2:17 For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
2 Corinthians 3:3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
2 Corinthians 3:4 Such confidence we have through Christ toward God;
2 Peter 3:18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
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God's Love is Loving our Brother There is Only One
1John. 4:19 We love Him, because he first loved us.
4:20 If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? 4:21 This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
Do we honestly know how God first loved us? Now think about that question seriously, but why?
Well, human are without doubt self-center when we love some one they think its about our own love, the love we give to someone, and our showing them love. And when we feel slighted in our love we remove our love because human make people earn their love. Moreover, all mankind's loving kindness is but a mist, a flower that is very weak and not long lasting.
Isa.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.
40:7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh's breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.
40:8 The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever."
Jeremiah 31:3 Yahweh appeared of old to me, [saying], Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.
But how has God first loved us? Most don't feel loved of God unless they are associated with a group of Christian's that shows them love, and that is fine, and its is great, but if there love stops by some correction or evil done by the group, many find they don't know God loves them or if God cares about the evil or even exist because they believe only in human love found in their religious group.
John 5:41 I don't receive glory from men.
John 5:44 How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?
Romans 3:23 for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
1 Peter 1:24 For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
Ps. 90:9 For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
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.
So once again how has God first loved us? Well, the problem we have here is if we take the apostles John words in context within all the Greek writings, “after the Holy Spirit was pour out”, why is that important? It is important because the scriptures written from that point on focus on one specific group, who is that group?
It was God's own children birthed by His own power. Yes, from his Holy Spirit into the life of Christ. They became the body of Christ in Spirit and truth, they became the temple of God in Spirit and truth the placed of God's own habitation! It is in that specific group John is addressing loving our brother. In other words, not every person in the world, or for that matter those weed Christian's that take over the field of God's planting the brothers of Christ as the wheat.
1 Corinthians 6:19 Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own.
2 Corinthians 6:16 What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people."{Leviticus 26:12; Jeremiah 32:38; Ezekiel 37:27}
One cannot love the flesh that is against and hates the Spirit of God the residing place of God's Spirit in the temple of God, Christ, and his brothers. Now that we narrowed the thoughts of John's words to those that were “in the body of Christ” it not hard to see why one cannot hate ones own foot, eye, mouth, finger, foot, or any other part of Christ whom they are now part of.
That is an act that is unnatural, it not the way we are created and certainly not in Spirit and truth in Christ as our body.
Eph.5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.
5:24 But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
5:26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
5:27 that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
5:28 Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
5:29 For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;
Eph.5:31 "For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."{Genesis 2:24} 5:32 This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly. 5:33 Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
So now we ask the question how does God love the body of Christ? Well, that quit a difference is it not? First, God gives them Christ life undeservingly that is no small gift of God's love.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
In other words, he removes their judgment of sin, sin that wages demand death. He forgives their sins one time and forever, no little thing that is a paramount act of love. Then he places them into Christ body so Christ righteousness sanctifies them from all the evil they must deal with in their own flesh and from others like Christ whom they carry sins of others as vessel in God's temple.
1 Corinthians 9:13 Don't you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?
Levitius 6:16 That which is left of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten without yeast in a holy place. They shall eat it in the court of the Tent of Meeting
Levitius 6:18 Every male among the children of Aaron shall eat of it, as their portion forever throughout your generations, from the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Whoever touches them shall be holy.'"
Levitius 6:26 The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Tent of Meeting.
They are made into the royal priesthood of God to do the works of Christ as his body. They are love by God and nothing in this world, in all its evil and trouble that can separate them from God's love. God's love is Christ. How does one separate a body part of Christ by anything on this earth and/or in heaven.
Rom.8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
8:36 Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."{Psalm 44:22}
8:37 No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
8:39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
So now we have established the real context of John's words that now take on real meaning. How could one be given that much love and not love God? Moreover, how could one so easily hate their brother killing them with laws for the unrighteous, that is, for sinners, while their own sins has been forgiven once for all times? How could they revert to man's religion destroying the love of God in their brothers?
Philippians 2:1 If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,
Philippians 2:2 make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;
Colossians 1:4 having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have toward all the saints.
Colossians 1:8 who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.
Colossians 1:13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;
Colossians 2:2 that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ.
How could they become part flesh, false religion, and part Christ Spirit, and think they are not killing their brother when the flesh attacks the Spirit? How could they be part of the world its religion, governments, and commerce and not kill the Spirit in their brothers in the same body that is no part of this world.
1 Corinthians 5:6 Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
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.
Galatians 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.
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.
You, see the depth of truth in Christ and his wisdom of his God given and created mind in the exact representation of his Father YHWH puts each one of his body members in harmony, but only by the one precious gift of God the Spirit for the Spirit is the truth and teacher of us in God's love. When we reject that Spirit for the flesh, and its wisdom in any fashion we reject the love of God and ultimately hate our brothers in Christ. For one cannot separate God's children without first killing God in us.
Revelation 17:16 The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, and will make her desolate, and will make her naked, and will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire.
1 Peter 1:2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
1 John 3:24 He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.
1 John 4:6 We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn't listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
1 John 4:13 By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
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 2:20 You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.{Or, "know what is true." Or, "know all things."}
1 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.
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Testing The spirits
Chapter 4
1John.4:1 Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
Why worry about spirits if they don't exist? Yes, Christian's are not warring with flesh and blood, but with wicked spirit force in heavenly places. Yet, unfortunately most of us can't separate our own flesh from spirit of our flesh, should we then be in wonderment why there is so much confusion in Christian's over how to test spirits?
Ephesians 6:12 For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
False prophets have a spirit of their flesh, a spirit of rebellion against the authority of Christ. The first false prophet was Satan the Devil our bibles tell us, he spoke from where? He spoke from is own spirit, his own originality, not from the correct Spirit of God. His spirit was less then God's Spirit, and his words brought corruption and death into our world, and not the eternal life that Eve thought she was going to get from her own rebellious spirit of her flesh.
2 Peter 1:21 For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
Our emotions are not testing the spirits, it is supremely important that we understand this? We all us have emotions, but our emotions are not the Spirit by which we test the spirits to see if they are from God, or a lesser source of life our flesh. Furthermore, none of us should think that when a person has strong emotional feeling, and they love God that our flesh automatically believes God feelings are the same as ours are. Hence, the best intentions tied to words of our bible can and has mislead the majority of mankind into false religion since Christ was on earth.
Matthew 19:17 He said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."
James. 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.
Lets us remember as well that because people can states words from their bibles does not mean that is the way we test spirits either? The facts are, many Christian's religions today believe the words just below where it is stated; Christ came in the flesh, and died for us, but those same people are still in false religion.
We do not test spirits by words coming from our mouths, or even the other peoples mouths. The entire book of First John is about our anointing (not words) that teaches us all things. Its not about words without Spirit, or words alone, if it were just about words there would be no need for God to teach us by his Spirit, without human words.
1 Corinthians 2:5 that your faith wouldn't stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
1 Corinthians 4:20 For the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
The context of John's letter is not about fear either that somehow those belonging to Christ would not know the difference of Christ voice and the voice of evil spirits. Instead they were not to be turn aside by false teachers claiming that without their supreme knowledge of God's word the body of Christ could not survive or know Christ.
2 Timothy 2:19 However God's firm foundation stands, having this seal, "The Lord knows those who are his,"{Numbers 16:5} and, "Let every one who names the name of the Lord{TR reads "Christ" instead of "the Lord"} depart from unrighteousness.
John.10:4 Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. 10:5 They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don't know the voice of strangers."
That type of spirit comes from the flesh, the fearful flesh of self-appointed teachers that are not of God (Spirit), those claims are boasting in the flesh, and they deny why Christ came in the flesh; it not about words, but the spirit from flesh, the spirits of the flesh that are used by wicked spirit force to mislead others with the best intentions in their own flesh.
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.
John 8:15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.
Christ came to abolish death, the death found in our flesh from sin, requiring God's judgment. That is why the flesh has no value at all as our Lord and Savior told us, because its judgments are death, and are corrupt, and that is why those in flesh can't please God, and our flesh cannot be in subjection to the Spirit of God. Subsequently, it should be profoundly obvious that the spirits coming from our flesh can't be of God either.
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.
2 Timothy 1:10 but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.
The confusion is, we have been taught when hearing the word flesh that nothing from the flesh can feel good, sound good, and or do good. But let us remember there are good feelings in our flesh, there are good feelings in demons that do beautiful powerful works, but they are not of God's, what does that mean? Those feelings of good in flesh or in demons are not of, or in God's Spirit (those spirits are lesser they cannot give us life if we listen to them or confuse them with God's Spirit). Eves own good feelings in her flesh about herself thoughts, her motives beliving they were pure, and if they are pure, then how could they be bad, and/or wrong?
Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"
Proverbs 30:12 There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.
No that was not John's point to test the spirits with are best intention, it was that we should test the spirits with the Spirit of truth and righteousness within by God's anointed of us, the same Spirit of righteousness that was in Christ Jesus in his flesh which rejects the spirits of flesh, and wicked spirit force; but not in words alone. No! It can't be in words alone, because in just a few verses below John states that it is the Spirit that is truth, and it is because we have that Spirit of truth indwelling us we know the truth. Moreover, that is why God's Spirit in us is why the world cannot hear us. John is speaking light and darkness, the two cannot dwell together and be one. Only flesh can dwell with the flesh, and only the Spirit can dwell with Spirit.
1John. 4:5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them. 4:6 We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn't listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
1John. 4:13 By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
1John.5:6 This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
If Christ had not came in the flesh neither would we have anointing Spirit from God that teaches us what? Some things? No! It teaches us all things about what? The letter of John is clear on that point as well? It teaches us about the light, from another world instead of spirits from the flesh of this world, why? Because we are not of this world (our flesh is dead in Christ), as Christ was not of this world. Remembering our flesh is of this world, and its spirit is against the Spirit of God from his world, the two are opposed to each other, so our spirit from our flesh lust against Spirit of God, it cannot stop its lusting because it is the dire enemy of God's Spirit created from rebellion against God in sin and corrupt the darkness of this world, let us not confuse the two spirit thinking we will come up with a better solution than in Christ coming in his flesh to put ours flesh to death so we could be declared righteous and receive the anointing Spirit sonship from God.
Gal.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.
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.
Here is the problem John is addressing the same problem all the writers of the Greek scriptures faced, but could not stop the problem. It is yeast permeating the Christ, that is, his Spirit filled truths about God tasught by Spirit; fleshly spirits permeating them with human reasoning the good emotions of our flesh because the flesh feels good about itself.
Gal.5:8 This persuasion is not from him who calls you. 5:9 A little yeast grows through the whole lump.
In other words, a polluted yeast filled kingdom on earth that Christ stated would happen. Words of truth and Spirit ruined by the fleshes emotions that wicked spirit force uses to mislead entire nations and religions. Not God's anointed, which if possible, means? God's had filled in his love, and his predestining of them before the beginning of our world. How does one stop the Spirit of God? How does one stop the teaching of God's Holy Spirit in one of his children? How does one pollute Christ righteousness, the very reason he came to earth in the flesh to make us alive in the Spirit, upon the death of his own flesh given for us freely that is in possible because Christ is no part of this world, or its flesh, he is the incorruptable light indwelling his brothers upon earth still in their flesh.
Matthew 24:24 For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
Roman. 8:28 We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
8:29 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}
8:30 Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
If God is for us, who in the flesh can stand against us? What power do wicked spirits force have when Satan the Devil was defeated upon Christ resurrection, moreover, Christ conquered this world of darkness under the power of Satan, defeating death, Hades, stripping all powers, and authority from this earth and also in heaven by the incorruptible Spirit of God indwelling him.
Rom.8:31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 8:32 He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things? 8:33 Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who justifies. 8:34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
John is not thinking for one moment his anointing is weak that it is not guarded, reserved for him in heaven; God cannot lie. What John is letting us know we should be able to tell the difference between the spirits of flesh that constantly frets, worries, and are always anxious, and that cannot know God is love (the Spirit)? We should not think those spirits are from God? Do we understand that the flesh is under the power of wicked spirits forces in heavenly places and it rejects the truth about wicked spirit force as nonsense! Do we know it was Eves independence that all flesh has the same independent fleshly thinking that it can't be influence by wicked spirit forces?
1 Peter 1:5 who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
James.3:16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed. 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.
The flesh believes it is by words only it can be influenced, it also believes, its only by it own will that it can it be influenced by outside forces, by its own mind? The truth is according to God the Spirit the flesh is lead by wicked spirit force in heavenly places, but the flesh can't see them, or know them so does believe in them! So what does it do? It attacks and wars constantly with other peoples in the flesh, not realizing that all flesh is in darkness and are mislead. Thus, here is the point of our bible in the Greek scriptures and it cannot be deny - if we get this, we know why Christ had to come in the flesh for us, to put away the sins of our flesh, to die in the flesh to redeem us so we could received the promised Holy Spirit the teacher, under the one Shepard Christ Jesus so we can separate the truth from the flesh by the Spirit of God!
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 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.{NU omits "who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit"}
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.
1 John 5:19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
That is the point if we do not belong to Christ, and lead by the Spirit of truth not of this world, we then are mislead, and being lead by wicked spirit force, there is no middle ground between light and darkness, that is, the ground of shadowy deception the flesh loves which has permeated into the thinking of most religious people, and is the great mystery to all flesh.
Matt.5:37 But let your 'Yes' be 'Yes' and your 'No' be 'No.' Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.
1 John 1:5 This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
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.
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.