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Baptism by Fire!

Heb.5:7 He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear, 5:8 though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered. 5:9 Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation.

Did Christ carry our sins? That is a first teaching of Christ, to deny Christ carried our sins is a repudiation Christ, which is where the word apostasy came from. Apostasy is a standing away from Christ.

1 Peter 2:24 who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

But how did Christ carry our sins without being charged with sin by God?

1 John 3:4 Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

Could Christ carry our sins without feelings our sins? Moreover, Christ being touched by sin, how did he keep himself clean from sin when we are told by God’s word to separate ourselves from all uncleanness (sin)?
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The verses above prove Christ suffered immensely under the power of sin! But what is the power of sin in us?

Col.5:11 Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

Isn’t sin death? Can we deny that sin is the opposite of life in Christ Jesus, does death dwell with life? Are we not speaking of two opposing powers when speaking of life and death?

1 John 3:6 Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

Adam died spiritually after sinning he did not physically die on that day, but his life with God spiritually died; his intercourse with God the Father ended when he sinned. He was dead to God spiritually; a death far greater consequence than in his physical death which took almost a 1000-year to realize in the flesh!

Matthew 10:28 Don't be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.{or, Hell.}

What work in Christ needed to be perfected?

1 Peter 1:20 who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of times for your sake.

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Wasn’t Christ chosen from the founding of the world to break up the works of Devil? Yes, he was, Christ was predestine by God to set his creation free from the corruption of sin (darkness). Thus, if that is correct and we believe that simple truth from God’s word is truth, then Christ is also the first fruit, that is, a patterned for all those born again after Christ into his life are to follow in Christ steps while on this earth in their flesh.

John 1:5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome{The word translated "overcome" (katelaben) can also be translated "comprehended." It refers to getting a grip on an enemy to defeat him.} it.

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

So the first pattern of God’s works was in Christ which each body member must under go while in their tent of flesh? What was “in Christ”, that caused the divine predestine pattern to start working in Christ first? It was the life of God, so how did Christ carry our sins while having God’s life in him, that is, the Spirit of God indwelling Christ?

John.17:21 that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

Romans 11:16 If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.

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Romans.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."}

Christ was righteous which means he had no sin before God. God did not send Christ so he could prove he was a sinless faithful son of God. No! Christ was with God as his first born of God, God did not distrust Christ nor leave him while in his flesh on earth. God is love, love does not impute evil, nor does love fail, God did not send his son for evil, for some legal reason. God sent his son because he loved his son and his son loved him. it was impossible for God to think his only begotten son was evil, waiting to sin against God!

Evil is sin, Christ is sinless, not having sin, God did not think Christ to be evil that he was just waiting to disobey his Father; God does not think like that its impossible for him to repay evil for good. Such thinking is evil coming from Satan, and later all of us born into sin.

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.

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.
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1Cor.13:5 { LOVE } 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.

Young’s Literal Translation (Infra.)

1Cor.13:5 doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil.

Sin could not attach to Christ, but it could perfect him as a man on earth in completing his precious faith under the power of sin, something he had never experienced before as the spirit son of God. It would be his faith under the power of sin that would be brought to perfection for us, not for himself. Christ would be the pattern for his own body that would in God’s time table set all of creation free from sins. What we are talking about here is what the bible tells us sin is, which is, death that is a real power opposed to life. Christ then was under going death from sin, and the power of life for YHWH was in him.

Ephesians 1:22 He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly.

1 Corinthians 15:24 Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power.

2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

2 Corinthians 13:4 For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.
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When a person is declared righteous by God, like in the case of “Christ”. (We don’t read of this process before before Christ); That is God declaring a person righteous not because of faith but because of a legal act by God towards a person declaring them free of sin and its judgment, that is, having no sin that can be accounted against them by any authority on earth or in heaven accept by God himself!

Rom.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.

Romans 5:19 For as through the one man's disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

So why is that true of Christ, because in Christ case God indwell him, God does not indwell a sinner, nor does he mixes light into darkness. (Christ was God’s temple for his holy, holy, holy righteousness).

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.

1 John 3:6 Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

God dwelt in buildings prior to Christ, Christ dwelt in men and woman; in a Temple not built with hands, the human body!

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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}

John 2:19 Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." The Jews therefore said, "Forty-six years was this temple in building, and will you raise it up in three days?" 2:21 But he spoke of the temple of his body.

Which means Christ could carry our sins, feel our sins, but God did not account our sins against him as though Christ created them from his own will, or that he wanted to live in them. For that reason Christ could say with all authority he was eternal life and had eternal life in him.

Rom. 8:3 For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

John 10:10 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

John 11:25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

John 17:3 This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

John 20:31 but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

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Christ by carrying our sins felt the power of life and death at work in him, the death created by sin, and the life of God opposing darkness of sin causing Christ great pain and suffering. in that suffering Christ looked only to God, denying his feelings of death at work in him which took real faith, it took a person that rejected any form of idolatry from personal feelings of what is good and what is evil. Unlike Satan the Devil, Christ despite our weakness of death in us Christ believe only in the truth, that is, God indwelling him with the power of life is good and the judge of all!

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."

Romans 6:19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

No person or angel’s had every experienced such a training before Christ came to earth carrying our sins. None had been perfected in knowing what is of God power (life) and what is totally of the power of death from sin, which evil, sin, death rejected by God’s righteousness in Christ a fire unquenchable!

Hebrews 5:2 The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.

The fire to test Christ in his flesh while carrying our sins was God righteousness in him.
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1 Timothy 6:16 who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.

Isa.6:5 Then I said, "Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!"
6:6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar.
6:7 He touched my mouth with it, and said, "Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven."

Moreover, that is why Christ is the new creation never had such a thing happen in our universe before he came too our earth. He was the first, the pattern, the head of all those born of God into Christ Jesus life who are tested as if by fire having death and life work in them by sins of others.

Joshua 22:28 Therefore we said, 'It shall be, when they tell us or our generations this in time to come, that we shall say, "Behold the pattern of the altar of Yahweh, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you."'

2 Timothy 1:13 Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

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

Baptism by Fire!
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Luke 12:49 "I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.

Not all experience Christ life in them, but all experience the power of death working in them at some point in life. The profound flaw of sin in us corrupts our thinking (pattern) into light and darkness, and/or life and death. Thus, what we experience by life through our feelings, and our emotions is a thief that robs us of God’s righteousness indwelling us, that is, God’s life due to our sins.

Sinners have one power working in us, but not the other!

Hence, we can only think in terms of what is good (life from God, but not his power which is life, the truth Christ experience in him) and evil from the sin dwelling in us. We are not a god that has the power redeem ourselves, let alone fix our flawed thinking by two opposing forces in our minds and hearts that ends in 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. 7:19 For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice.

We may spend a life time trying to relate to others by our emotions and feeling and can become very good at it.

James.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.
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But sadly, we think we can relate our feeling towards God thinking that we can show empathy for God because of the sins in us. However, God is not us or is he a man He does not need our empathy.

When we project our feelings into God we also project our sins as well.

Sin is the power of death at work in us; sins is eternally under the judgment of God. That judgment was made at the founding of our world, thousands of years ago before we were born. It is the very reason God separated himself from man because God does not dwell in death, or is there in death in him, he is the God of the living, not the dead! (God is incorruptible deathless)

Matthew 16:16 Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

Matthew 22:32 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?'{Exodus 3:6} God is not the God of the dead, but of the living."

Moreover, our not realizing this we are making God into little more than an idol of ourselves; by this practice we come to believe God is a reflection of our feelings, and education, deceiving ourselves and blinding ourselves to the truth. We judge all things in our world through our approval of what is good and evil/bad, unwittingly walking by sight, in things we feel, and touch, and think, through judgments of our fleshly mind in a body/mind dead to God, judged by God as dead at the start of this world.

2 Corinthians 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we don't wage war according to the flesh;

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Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

James.1:23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;
1:24 for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 1:25 But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
1:26 If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.

Hebrews 6:1 Therefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection--not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God, 6:2 of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

Colossians 2:13 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses.

In other words, a man does not realize he is dead to God as he see himself in a beautiful flesh in the mirror, the life in the flesh deceives his own heart to the truth of God, his flesh choose by its own judgment accounting himself good or evil, but forgetting he is a god of good and evil, which if his in Christ is dead in God’s judgment; If he forgets Christ in him, he has the power of sin at work in him, and his own mouth speaks it forgetting he no longer is alive in flesh to God. Thus, his entire form of worship is defiled and dead!

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James.1:23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;
1:24 for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 1:25 But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
1:26 If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.

2 Corinthians 10:12 For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

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.

Separating death and life killing the god of good and evil in us

Heb.4:12 For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
4:13 There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

The baptism by fire is the righteousness of Christ life indwelling us, but it is a fire against what?
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It is against the flesh/death, against all flesh having sin. That power of fire does not exist in our sins, that is, the power to separate life from death, in truth and Spirit in Christ Jesus (who is our truth and our Spirit) He is the priest that separates us from flesh and bone, Spirit from our flesh that is Christ righteousness indwelling those under going the baptism by fire!

Matthew 20:22 But Jesus answered, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" They said to him, "We are able."

Luke 12:50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

Luke 3:16 John answered them all, "I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the latchet of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire.

In other words, until Christ was put to death in his flesh and made alive in the Spirit no such pattern of divine works existed with men or woman on earth. What they could do partially to separated their sins, from power of life, that is, God as life. The could uses the shadow of Christ by the mandates of the laws righteousness. But they could not know the things of God that must be revealed by fire!

Yes, this self-help effort of bring ones sin to light by law, caused the apostasy in a standing away from the power of Christ and his predestine work. It also caused the Jews faith self-judgment; missing the righteousness of Christ. Moreover, it is the weeds of Christendom in today's world. Having a form of godly devotion put proving false to the fire of Christ righteousness.
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2Tim.3:1 But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.
3:2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3:3 without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,
3:4 traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
3:5 holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof. Turn away from these, also.

1 Peter 1:7 that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ--

1 Corinthians 3:13 each man's work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man's work is.

1 Corinthians 3:15 If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

This is not a philosophical point of discussion it is a divine truth one experienced upon baptism by fire. The fire of Christ righteousness in us destroys death thoughts created by the power of sins of the flesh. It is as real of war that could ever exist on earth and in heaven. It is the epoch battle of the ages of good vs. evil on every front to confront and defeat death forever!

2 Corinthians 10:5 throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

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For those not born of Christ not having his righteousness in them its a distance concept, its an idea that becomes a minor false reality in their life until they fall short in some sin within their life time, but it not a continue fire burning because Christ righteousness in them something they cannot control of put out by their fleshly will.

The flesh can by its own will stop and start a lesser fire by reading God’s word the bible, but that is not a baptism by fire having the indwelling of Christ in God’s children, who are belong to the body of Christ!

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;

Rom.10:1 Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.
10:2 For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
10:3 For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

Matthew 22:14 For many are called, but few chosen."

The righteousness that dwells in weed Christians is by written word of God that they struggle to keep in their flesh, allowing them to judge what is good and evil on that day, not realizing they have no judgment in these matter, that such judgment was created by sin, in making mankind a god with sin that is dead to God.

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A false god who could decide what was his own life good and evil of his ways. But this is not the living righteousness of Christ which sanctifies, refines them as pure gold, but rather a false righteousness a deception which deceives them into false religion, and/or yeast that corrupts the kingdom of God on earth by fleshly teachings.

Matthew 13:33 He spoke another parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures{literally, three sata. 3 sata is about 39 litres or a bit more than a bushel} of meal, until it was all leavened."

The very deception is their reading the word of God applying it in their lives than judging themselves if its acceptable to God or not. Something a son of God cannot do because they don’t not have a righteous of themselves but Christ in them. Such judging of what is in God’s temple cannot be found in our flesh because our flesh was not let go into the temple of God. It is nothing more than a self-approval a self-righteousness created from a false god of good and evil.

1Cor.4:3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I don't judge my own self.
4:4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord. 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

This is paramount information for those under going the baptism by fire.

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Because, our relating to something, and our being in the truth, are two very different things, indeed! They are in fact opposed to each other as light is to darkness.

2 Corinthians 11:15 It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

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;

When one takes a piece of a garment its called a remnant from the identical whole garment, but it not treated the same as the garment. God, rather we like it or not, only has a remnant, he has called out of this world, just like Christ, whom was not many messiahs, but one, thus, there can only be one remnant of God, one body of Christ. (noting that the call went at to the entire garment, but only a remnant responded)

2 Kings 19:30 The remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

2 Kings 19:31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of Mount Zion those who shall escape: the zeal of Yahweh shall perform this.

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Ezra 9:8 Now for a little moment grace has been shown from Yahweh our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

Isaiah 1:9 Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom; we would have been like Gomorrah.

Isaiah 10:19 The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child could write their number.

Romans 9:27 Isaiah cries concerning Israel, "If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;

Romans 11:5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

It is the remnant of God that under goes the baptism by fire, not the whole garment (the world, the weeds). Thus, we can have a bible, love God, project our feelings into it thinking we understand the baptism by fire, but it does not mean we are in the truth, that is, in Christ, and Christ in us as a fire of living truth that causes a baptism by fire.

It is for this very reason those that look like the whole garment can’t comfort us in truth and Spirit, nor can they understand us at all. It is the baptism by fire that removes this idolatry in looking to flesh to approve us in Christ, it is the fire of that baptism that removes all idolatry of sins of the flesh.

1 John 4:5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.
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1 John 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. 4:6 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.

The garment cannot approve the remnant because it looks and comes from the same maker.

The pride of the flesh is against the righteousness of God indwelling the remnant of those baptized by fire. We did not say that the flesh is gone, thus, the remnant has an on going war with the sins of pride. When saying remnant we are saying as God says the body of Christ as one, not many remnant(s) throughout time.

1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Rom.9:18 So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
9:19 You will say then to me, "Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?"
9:20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"{Isaiah 29:16; 45:9}

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9:21 Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

But what we are saying is this that flesh is pride, it is also an idol, and it thinks and even demands that it can by its feelings prove its anointed of God, which does not exist in the truth, that is, in the body of Christ. (none in Christ can prove they are in Christ righteousness in fact they will fail if they try.)

1 Corinthians 4:7 For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn't receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

The remnant of God is not self-approved because it does not have its own righteousness, nor a separate baptism by fire, it only has Christ righteousness which is the fire against all self-assuming brags of the flesh. The remnant is born new into a body of righteousness which has a fire against the sinful flesh. But in the whole garment is found pride of the flesh of those whom think, by pride they are chosen of God (Israel).

Ephesians 1:5 having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire.

Gal.4:22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the free woman.
4:23 However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.
4:24 These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.
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4:25 For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.
4:26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

The sins of the remnant, the body of Christ, are not accounted against them because they are the Christ body that has no sin. The false pattern of Christianity found in the whole garment totally rejects this teaching of truth because it is in the flesh that must prove its righteousness. Hence, it cannot know the Spirit body of Christ, which is a divine truth of God and not mankind.

1Cor.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.

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.

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Thus, the children of the flesh, the whole garment persecute the Spirit and truth in the children of God, making constant judgments against them, wittingly, or unwitting, because they are born of flesh and blood and not of God’s Spirit. That of the flesh is unrighteous so are its judgments; it is only the judgments of Spirit God accounts righteous in that judgment God’s children sins are forgiven gone forever never to brought up again they are dead to the flesh they have not flesh before God any more they belong not to themselves but Christ.

John 8:15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

Not of the World

The garment is the world, it was first the Jews that rejected Christ, today it is all those calling themselves Christian in the flesh who have no choice in the matter they are the world because they are born into the world by man’s will, that is the power of procreation. Procreation is under the power of sinful flesh that's why all die because sin judgment is death!

1 John 2:15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him. 17:15 I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one. 17:16 They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.

John 17:18 As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.

John 17:21 that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
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From that garment God took a small remnant, a piece of the Jews into a kingdom of light in Spirit and truth: called the body of Christ. It was only this small remnant that were called out of this world, those of the whole garment the world have never to date, been called out of this world. In today's world those not called out of world Christ called that group weeds, which would include the Jews as it did back 2000 years ago when Christ call God’s people the world.

John 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn't recognize him.

The remnant are no part of this world, not by hiding, or going somewhere or doing something. They are no part this world because they belong not to the world, but to God in Christ Jesus, they don’t have to keep telling each other not to be part of this world it is a truth living in them, the living righteousness of Christ is a fire being baptized in fire, and raised up and seated with him that makes them no part of this world! (this is not a concept in building a wall of bible scriptures around someone it is a living truth in a person by the living righteousness of Christ that cannot be of this world.)

It not a choice as the whole garment or weeds believe it to by bible doctrines. How can your foot not be a part of your body if your foot goes some where the body is at the same place it not a choice it is a truth. The flesh in sin believe it can recreate itself into a better flesh, thus, it thinks it can make itself no part of this world by its own actions produced by its own will under sin.

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:

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1:13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Part of that action of the flesh is in repeating words that it believes drives people into action; into not being a part of this world which is a lie! The flesh is the world, and its cannot get out of this world by fleshly actions, it only gets out of this world by the wages of sin pays for by death!

Galatians 4:3 So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

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 Thessalonians 5:5 You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor 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 Body of Christ Taken Out of the World

With being no part of the world, the world hates the body of Christ not because they do something against them by preaching and teaching. This is a fact, a truth that the flesh, which is the world, is against the Spirit, that is, the righteousness of Christ, it is not a make believe thing where one can judge their trials and think because of them they are born again into Christ. Nor can the flesh hear the things of the Spirit. It is the truth God told his children from the beginning that darkness oppose light they do not dwell as one together. Neither can Christ righteous dwell with the world in darkness.
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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.

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.

Once again our own body communicates with each living part of itself right into the very cells it communicates, but not in audible words heard by human ears; it is the life within the body that communicate to its own DNA. So our body of life can’t communicate with some else body out side our own. Our life is unique to our body only. None of us can hear what someone else body is saying to its own life force with in the body.

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

How does the world that is no part of Christ and against Christ get the communication from the body of Christ? It does not, so by its very nature of sin; flesh of this world must take what isn’t it; steals such truth found in the bible and calls themselves the body of Christ, boldly with great pride onto death claiming by head knowledge just as the Jews did who rejected Christ that it is God’s people! Thus, making a show of the flesh and its works to prove its the body of Christ. (noting there is a pattern for the body, but equally there is a patter for the flesh.)
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Matt.13:24 He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,
13:25 but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds{darnel is a weed grass (probably bearded darnel or lolium temulentum) that looks very much like wheat until it is mature, when the difference becomes very apparent.} also among the wheat, and went away. 13:26 But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also.
13:27 The servants of the householder came and said to him, 'Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where did this darnel come from?' 13:28 "He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' "The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and gather them up?'
13:29 "But he said, 'No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them.
13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn."'"

Trial by Fire Separates Truth from Fiction of the lie!

All of the above statement (supra) and more is what Christ went through testing his faith in God’s love, which made him the perfect head of the body to bring forth many son’s of God to eternal righteousness, to undo, the corruption of this world brought into darkness by the first sin of mankind in Adam.

None of God’s children can get out of a body under going the baptism by fire because the righteousness of Christ is against the whole world of darkness that fights to destroy the light of Christ in them.

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To think one can change the righteousness of Christ into a religion that determines what trials are of the body of Christ is a fools game and that is why they are called the foolish virgins.

Matt. 25:1 "Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.
25:2 Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. 25:3 Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them, 25:4 but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
25:5 Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept. 25:6 But at midnight there was a cry, 'Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!' 25:7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.{The end of the wick of an oil lamp needs to be cut off periodically to avoid having it become clogged with carbon deposits. The wick height is also adjusted so that the flame burns evenly and gives good light without producing a lot of smoke.} 25:8 The foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.' 25:9 But the wise answered, saying, 'What if there isn't enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.' 25:10 While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut. 25:11 Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us.' 25:12 But he answered, 'Most certainly I tell you, I don't know you.' 25:13 Watch therefore, for you don't know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

One does take a Kings children, or file accusation against them based on phony laws of the flesh due to the sin in themselves. One does not impute evil into the eye of the King for personal gain and remain innocent. Personal gain is the flesh and from the desires of the flesh as being more important than the righteousness of Christ.

Matt.7:1 "Don't judge, so that you won't be judged.

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7:2 For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

Judging the Dead

Rom.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.

One does not judge what is dead, one cannot punish the dead they can only punish the living. The punishment of sin is death, death is the price for all sin. That judgment is rejected by those of the flesh who think they know better than God and believe they can worked their way out of sin by good works that wash away the evil of sin in them!

1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Rom. 2:1 Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

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.

The flesh lust against the Spirit such lusting does not imply goodness or trust nor love for the Spirit of God. It is the perfect fire in the flesh through its lust to destroy the Spirit if it could!
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We are not saying that some flesh under sin lust more than others like the world does, we are saying as God say any sin in our flesh lust against what is God’s righteousness and it cannot stop.

Rom. 7:10 The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death; 7:11 for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
7:12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

The flesh is a god, don’t mock this statement, the flesh was not created until what? God’s word the truth tells us what the flesh is without doubt it speaks of the flesh as corrupt and sinful, but it did not until Adam and Eve became a god onto themselves by sinning against the God of love.

Rom.7:15 For I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
7:16 But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good. 7:17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. 7:18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good. 7:19 For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice. 7:20 But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

The lie is the flesh, why? Because it is the god of good and evil from sin caused by the first lie!

So all of us in our flesh are under a clear and present judgment of God. DEATH!

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Gen. 3:4 The serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die,
3:5 for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

Romans 3:4 May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, "That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment."{Psalm 51:4}

Jesus stated to those Jews who rejected the God’s truth of Christ life among them what it would cause them, which was, God was in Christ, and God/YHWH in him as righteousness beyond any law of mankind. Christ himself stated the truth that he did not judge anyone in the flesh, but he also stated the truth of the flesh that it judges everything.

John 8:15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

John 3:17 For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

Why? Does our flesh judge? Because it is oppose to God and is a god of good and evil by its judgments that were never created or intended for Adam and Eve living in peace in paradise.

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.

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Christ was not judging the flesh he had nothing for it beyond what his Father had righteously judge it. All those in Christ are dead to the judgment of the flesh, which means, judgment to sin, they like Christ will follow the same pattern (they are predestined in Christ) in suffering for righteousness sake, who righteousness?

Rom.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."}

1Cor.1:29 that no flesh should boast before God.
1:30 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

Not their own righteousness which is dead in Christ Jesus in their old flesh or old man, that no more exist, gone forever, its gone into the grave where all the dead go.

Levitius 21:1 Yahweh said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, 'A priest shall not defile himself for the dead among his people;

Ecclesiastes 9:5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

Romans 8:10 If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

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Those in the flesh (dead to God) were from below fixated on what was in them the things of the flesh; the world inherited from sin and darkness. The world that feeds them cares for them is not from above, it is not watered and loved by a heavenly Father freely giving them refreshment from the evil of their flesh by Holy Spirit.

James. 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. 1:14 But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. 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.

This is the everlasting fire of Christ righteousness that makes the world hiss and melt into the light of Christ life as he is revealed from heaven. Yes, the test by fire his body members our put into, at their birth into Christ being delivered out of the darkness of the world/flesh into the wonderful light not of this world.

2Pet.3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
3:11 Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,
3:12 looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
3:13 But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.
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The end of sin, the end of darkness, the end of death, the end of the world, into a new heavens and new earth where righteousness of God will consume all in opposition to Spirit and truth, so be it, come quickly Lord Jesus!

1 Corinthians 3:13 each man's work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man's work is.

1 John 3:8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

1 Peter 4:17 For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don't obey the Good News of God?

Completed: November 20, 2020

by: Daniel a Slave of the Lord Jesus Christ

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