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  1. Acts 3:1 ..........silver and gold have we none...... How can that possibly be with all the thousands of folks getting saved and paying tithes?
  2. When God speaks of a new covenant or agreement, He makes the first one obsolete (out of use). And what is obsolete (out of use and annulled because of age) is ripe for disappearance and to be dispensed with altogether. (Hebrews 8:13 AMP) This letter to the Hebrews sets forth the all-inclusive revolution or reconstitution which God made when He brought His Son, Jesus Christ, into the world – that is, the religious revolution. This revolution, which was rejected by Judaism, has been almost entirely overlooked or lost sight of by Christendom since Apostolic times. The entire present system of Christianity as generally accepted would be impossible if the meaning of this letter were received as a heavenly revelation in the power of the Holy Spirit. That is – if it came into the heart by the Spirit's power with the effect of a revelation in the same way as the Apostle Paul came to see who "Jesus of Nazareth" is, then a Christian-Judaism, or Judaistic-Christianity (which Christendom so largely is) would be impossible; as it became in his own case. The Letter to the Hebrews is only one other aspect of the battle fought out in the Letters to the Romans and Galatians. In the light of such a spiritual eye-opening a whole lot of things would go: but being a "heavenly vision," there would be no tears, no sense of loss, and no fond farewells. The gain and joy would rather put all such things into the category of a worn-out and no-longer-to-be-desired suit of clothes. In saying this we are only contemplating the full-tide of spiritual life known before any of these things came into being. These things only came in when the fullness of the Spirit had gone out, and, being an artificial substitute, they can never but be limiting things in the realm of Divine purpose. And yet, behold how these things have become the very nature of traditional and organized Christianity! So much so that to touch them in any way which threatens their existence is to meet something more bitter and formidable than any persecution from the world. This is not said carelessly. Religion can be, and is very largely, a terrible force; and Christianity has become a religion. There are very few communities of Christians – even the most evangelical, and spiritual – who wholly escape the tendency or propensity to persecute or ostracize other bodies of Christians who might be regarded as rivals in their field of activity... "God... hath at the end of these days spoken... in His Son." But the new era and new order had brought out a new and mightier-than-ever conflict. By T. Austin-Sparks from: "God Hath Spoken" - Chapter 1
  3. Sarah beyond child bearing age....on purpose. So the child could be of God. Abraham and Sarah wanted to help God out by their own means. Hagar's child became the picture of bondage born of the flesh. Hannah was mocked for being barren. The other wife was arrogant and proud. God finally gave Hannah a miracle....Samuel, the greatest prophet of old. Have you spent a life time 'waiting on your ministry'? Wondering why others seem to get there's on a silver platter while you continue to wait and wait and pray and pray with no results or open doors at all? Abe was 90. Sarah was 80. The word of God is pretty clear. That which is born of flesh is flesh, and that which is born of Spirit is spirit. The impatient try to establish ministries by the arm of flesh. This will end in little fruit for God. Flesh will not glory in His presence. Meaning, if flesh is in operation and self glorifying, His presence is NOT there. Quenched as it were. For one thing, the fleshly mind cannot receive the things of God. So error and untruths have a rightful foothold. So if you are one who has been faithful and waiting on God for a life time, you are right on target. Don't give up on God and don't give in to the god of this world who would be tickled pink if you'd strike out on your own without the Holy Spirit leading and unction to 'fake a ministry of sorts'. Another lifeless ministry keeping the folks in 'Ismael bondage.' Follow Hannah's lead not Sarah's. Yes you'll be scorned and looked down on as an oddball like Hannah was but that's part of the test. Wait i say, wait upon the Lord and you will bring forth your Samuel! By His Spirit, not by the flesh. We've all had enough of fleshly, Spiritless ministries. They're everywhere.
  4. A mans foes will be of his own household. Buck the system and despised and rejected you'll be. See: Isaiah 53.
  5. You dont have to study Babylon to figure out what the duce is going on with what is called 'church'. See: awildernessvoice.com and truthforfree.com yo get you started. But if you want to dive into the deep end of the pool see: wickedshepherds.com
  6. December 5 Let us go out to Him, outside the camp, and bear the disgrace He bore. (Hebrews 13:13 NLT) We can organize our movements, lay our plans, and draft our schemes. We can lay it all out according to the New Testament and it can be dead, ineffective.... You see the difference between a traditional system, whether it be Judaism or Christianity, and a living thing coming all the time in a living way out from the Christ Himself by the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit Himself doing it. Well, this is going to cost something. See what it meant for these people. At the end of this letter you come on this: “Wherefore, Christ also... suffered without the camp. Let us therefore go to Him without the camp, bearing His reproach.” The camp was Judaism, and He suffered without the camp because He repudiated Judaism and stood for the realization of all God’s thoughts as in Himself personally. He gathered up everything into His own person, “I am.” It is the Christ who is the full sum and embodiment of all God’s thoughts and ways, and that takes the place of Judaism, and He, therefore, repudiated Judaism and suffered without the camp. "Let us go to Him without the camp." What is the issue? If you are going to take this line you are going to repudiate organized Christianity, going to repudiate Christendom as a traditional system, going to repudiate that order of things which is made, and going, therefore, to suffer reproach and be outside of the camp suffering His reproach. In other words, we are immediately going to come up against that force of antagonism to stop what has come in through the death and resurrection and exaltation of the Lord Jesus, the heavenly thing. Is it not sad that these people met it through God’s historic people, the people who claimed to have the oracles, to be the elect, to be the favored of the Lord? It is always like that. “A man’s foes shall be those of his own household.” Do not narrow that down to the limits of a family where one is a Christian and all the rest are not. That is not the point at all. It is his own household, the Christian household. You will meet the antagonism to what has come in from heaven as a heavenly thing; you will meet the antagonism amongst those who are the traditional people of God in this dispensation. That is how it will be. That is going to be the cost of a walk in Life with the Lord and not with man, knowing the Lord for yourself. By T. Austin-Sparks from: The Kingdom That Cannot be Shaken - Chapter 2
  7. To show partiality is not good, for a piece of bread (or a big tither) that man will transgress. Proverbs 28:21 The reason Jesus said 'you freely received, freely give' This is called 'tickling the ears' for gain. 'He who justifies the wicked and condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination'. Proverbs 17:15 I saw this 'a plenty' in the 'church'. The rich given ministries while the poor had no open door. James 2:3 If you show special attention to the one with fine clothing and say to him 'heres a good seat for you', but say to the poor man ' sit on the floor' . Is this not showing partiality? Looking for those bigger tithers? Of course it is. Sometimes it was the 'good looking' or charismatic. Some of these did have talent, some didn't. Talent not withstanding, this negates the every member participation meeting confining the gifts of the Spirit that God gives every believer to the back of the bus indefinitely. 'God giving gifts to men'. Which fulfills the prediction when 'and the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of you, nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. 1Cor. 12:21. Before you go off on a tangent, the head here simply pointing to the fact that a body has many parts. There is only one head and His name is Jesus. So, many stagnate in this fleshly environment. Why? Give you 3 guesses. The Spirit is quenched Jesus stands outside the door knocking. Eventually many of these on the bottom leave. Some back to the world. Others searching for the real Jesus, the real, gospel, the real Spirit. Just hungering for more of Christ. Ten virgins. Five ready, five not ready. Are you getting the picture yet?
  8. Jesus is on the outside trying to get in. Is He knocking on the door of a movie theater? Is He knocking on the door of an abortion factory? Is He knocking on the door of a bar? Is He knocking on the door of a pool hall? Is He knocking on the door of a strip club? Is He knocking on the door of a school house? Is He knocking on the door of a gambling joint? Is He knocking on the door of Congress? Is He knocking on the door of any Hellywood god? What door is He knocking on? What is He trying to get into? I are befuddled between confusion and stupid pit. Help me out please. Revelation 3:20
  9. December 2 Wherever two or three are gathered (drawn together as My followers) into My name, there I AM in the midst of them. (Matthew 18:20 AMP) Jesus, as the Truth, is contrasted with Satan, the liar. But He is also contrasted with all representations, types, symbols, outward forms, etc., which were – and are – not the true, the real. When our Lord spoke of His body as the Temple, deliberately refraining from the fuller explanation because of the fixed prejudice of His hearers, He introduced the great truth of the transition from one dispensation to another, and the complete change in the nature of temple and worship. It was because Stephen saw this and declared it that he was murdered by these very people. Said he: "The Most High dwelleth not in houses made with hands" (Acts 7:48). Paul said the same to the Athenians (Acts 17:24). This does not mean that God never came into representations when they wholly corresponded with His thought. Both the Tabernacle and the Temple were "made with hands" and God came into them in power and glory, but not to commit Himself to the thing. The time came when He forsook both and He was no longer found there. They were only temporary representations and His presence was conditional. The "true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man" (Hebrews 8:2) is "not of this creation." The whole Letter to the Hebrews has to do with this change from the earthly and temporal to the heavenly and spiritual. Hence, He is no longer in "temples made with hands." To come right to the point: the New Testament teaches that the Temple in this dispensation is a Person, and persons incorporated into Him through death, burial and resurrection, and "baptized into one body by one Spirit" (1 Corinthians 12:13). We must also remember that Jesus foretold the passing away of that entire temporal system, with Jerusalem as its center and representation. With His foreknowledge of the passing of the earthly, temporal and material things; places, systems, fixed locations, and outward forms, the Lord Jesus put the whole matter of survival upon Himself as the constituent of a spiritual structure against which the very powers of hell would not prevail. Against fixed localizing and systematizing of Himself and His presence He was emphatic, and history is evidence of how right He was. If, according to John 3:16, salvation is a matter of "whosoever," the Lord's presence and true worship, according to Matthew 18:20, is "wheresoever." By T. Austin-Sparks from: The Dispensation of the Holy Spirit - Chapter 2
  10. The church is perfect and needs no correction.
  11. This is talking to the ecclesia at large. Sound doctrine cannot be discussed.
  12. I am 100 percent in favor of assembling with other saints.
  13. Ten virgins (born again christians). 5 had oil, 5 did not. Why is that? All ten saved but only half were ready for the rapture. This would explain a pre-trib rapture and also take care of the post trib rapture. I digress. I believe we are to go directly unto the throne of God daily for our supply of oil. You've heard some say ' cant wait to go to church so i can get my tank filled'. Are we to look to man to get the oil of the Spirit in our lives or are we to go directly to Jesus moment by moment. What if Jesus returns on Tuesday, two days after 'church', and one day before Wednesday service? And your lamp is without oil? Do you miss the rapture like the 5 virgins with no oil in their lamps? And if your oil is so depleted, are you sure you're even getting any oil in the first place? A goose bump or two from a beautifully crafted sermon, eloquently delivered may not be a source of the oil scripture talks about. Besides, can you even remember on monday what was preached on sunday? If you can, then you are a rare one. Most cannot. Ten virgins. 5 depended on other sources and came up short when they really needed it. The other 5 had their oil delivered personally by Jesus, a one on one daily relationship whose voice they followed disallowing any other.
  14. You're going to find that there will be times when people will have no stomach for solid teaching, but will fill up on spiritual junk food, catchy opinions that tickle their fancy. They'll turn their backs on truth and chase mirages. 2Tim. 4 Is this still in the future?
  15. ....but Diotrephes, who loveth the preeminence among them, receiveth us not. 3John 9. KJV ....but Diotrephes who loved exalting himself among them, rejected us.....
  16. Robbing a bank or robbing a widow?
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    You can be born again and still not follow the Spirit. As many as are led of the Spirit are the sons of God. Paul told one bunch he couldn't give them meat for they were babes. Most churches are dead because they are not empowered and directed by the Spirit. Are tv evangelists who started out 'born again' but because pride and greed took them over, they now operate without the Spirit anointing and guidance? Come on moderator, wake the duce up.
  18. Vs. 9 'and call no man your father upon the earth.' Strongs concordance. Father: pater: an honorific title. 3962 Greek. vs. 12 'and whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased.' Ramam: to self exalt: wormy, full of maggots. 7311 Hebrew.
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    I believe its about 'coming into the unity of the Spirit'. Study the word till hell freezes over and still not obtain experientially 'Christ in you', 'teaching you all things'. Logos vs. Rehma.
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    I have told you all this so that you may find your peace in Me. You will find trouble in the world – but, never lose heart, I have conquered the world! (John 16:33 Phillips) When the spiritual stands to confront the merely formal, traditional, nominal and "natural," then there is going to be trouble. This is not now merely the reaction from the world: it is the reaction from religion. I would go further, and say it may be the reaction from Christianity. There is a very great difference between formal, traditional, nominal, "natural" Christianity, on the one side, and spiritual Christianity, on the other; a great deal of difference. So much so, that this also becomes a battlefield – the battlefield of a lot of trouble. Leave formalism alone, and everything will go on quite quietly. Leave traditionalism alone – that is, the set order of things as it has always been; that framework of things as it has been constituted and set up and established by man; that Christianity which is the fixed, accepted system of things – and you will escape a great deal of trouble. But seek to bring in a truly spiritual order of things, and trouble arises at once. And YOU are the trouble maker! The truth is that the trouble lies in the existing condition, the situation, the state; but it is only brought out by your action. And so spiritual men and women, and spiritual ministry, are called "trouble makers," because the two things cannot go on together. That is where Israel was. They had the traditions, they had the oracles, they had the ordinances, they had the testimonies; they had the forms, they had the system – they had it all; but, in the days of the prophets, there was ever this vast gap between the "externals" and "internals" of life in relation with God. The heart is far removed from the lips. The spiritual reality is not found in the formal. You may have it all – but then bring in the truly spiritual meaning of things, and trouble begins in that very realm. It is the trouble which arises when what is external and traditional comes into conflict with something which is truly spiritual. By T. Austin-Sparks from: Jealousy for God
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    Galatians 5:20-21 ......heresies.........they which do (promote, teach) such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. heresy: doctrine or practice. I submit that if anyone twists or corrupts the word purposely for personal benefit.........well...you call it. Mens traditions will stifle His promises in your life. We must not be mistaken here. We must follow God and His truth and not yield to the inventions of men. May God confirm this to you.
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    For the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God. (Matthew 15:6 ESV) This revelation of Christ in us, when it is a true, real, living revelation, not only leads to and makes for stability and assurance and confidence, wonder and freshness and Life, but it leads to loneliness, and I should be false to you if I did not say so, and indicate what that means; because the majority even of Christians are still hide-bound by tradition. They are still all of that other kind: what they have received they have received through men or from a man; they have taken on an already completed, rounded-off system of truth and teaching called Christianity. They have entered into it and taken it up, and they cannot see beyond it. You do not question their sincerity, nor do you doubt their earnestness, but there is that about all they have which is so second-hand. It is something which has existed through the Christian centuries, developed by this one and that one, shaped, formed and phrased by different teachers. It has become the evangel, evangelical Christianity in all its set terms, phraseology and forms. They do not see beyond it. And when one moves out of that realm into a personal, direct knowledge of the Lord through what we often term an open heaven – but not, mark you, through a new or different revelation of Christ that is something apart from the Scriptures – into that experience, where we can say, "It pleased God to reveal His Son in me, and with me it is so real that sometimes I wonder if anyone has such a knowledge, such an experience"; when we move that way, we move into a lonely realm. The majority cannot follow, cannot go with us, and cannot understand. It does seem to me that there was something of that about Paul, that even other apostles were not able to grasp or apprehend Paul. He seemed to be very much one by himself. Yet here too we see the wonderful grace of God.... It does seem that even Paul, surrounded though he was by all the other apostles, had to go a lonely way, because this revelation was to him something so personal. It does mean that: understand that; and probably some of you do understand it in your experience. It will put you very largely into a lonely position, so far as the majority of other Christians are concerned, if you are going this way. By T. Austin-Sparks from: The Fight of the Faith - Chapter 4
  23. Eze. 34:2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God unto the shepherds, Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flocks? Jude 11-13 Woe unto them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran speedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to who is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. Proverbs 16:19 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
  24. Pick on the ignorant sinners. What about many christians and their favorite 'Oh my God' here and 'Oh my God there'. Is that not in vain?
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