BLESSINGS IN LEARNING EXPERIENCES

My Dear Precious Child,
     In Paul's informative first recorded letter to the Corinthians he contrasted Israel's curses from their lack of adherence to the Law to the glories inherited from My kingdom of God and its blessings.  He used the children of Israel who were led out of slavery by Moses as an example and he used the examples of Mosaic laws which became their own lords because the people who did not obey every law were subject to condemnation and guilt by the devil, which usually led to a lifetime of curses and then eventual death.  He wrote in his letter that the Corinthians should think about Israel in the flesh and how those people who ate the sacrifices shared in the altar.   He went on to write that, for the Gentiles, the food sacrificed to idols is not really offered to the idols, they are sacrificed by Gentiles to the demons who are empowering the idols.  Paul made it clear that he did want the Corinthians to return to sharing in the curses of those demons.  His explanation was that he did not want them to share in the table of the Lord Jesus Christ and also share in the table of demons.  Paul asked that they not provoke Me to anger and that surely they did not consider themselves to be stronger than Me.  (I Corinthians 10:18-22)  
     In covering so many of the problems derived from people worshiping idols, Paul declared to the Corinthians that even though the Corinthians were free from guilt and condemnation by the blood of Jesus Christ and all things were legal to them, he emphasized that not everything was advantageous to them.  In order to curb the desire to make earthly things into idols, Paul advised the people not to seek their own selfish interests but instead to think of their neighbors and their interests first, that being a good way to curb the selfish interests with which the devil tempts people.  He told them to eat anything that is sold in the marketplace without raising any thoughts of guilt and condemnation.  However, he advised that if anyone comments that what you are about to eat is food that has been sacrificed to idols that you should cease from eating it for the sake of the conscience of the person and not yourself.  In other words, don't let your liberty restrict the conscience of another person.  If your eating of the food sacrificed to idols was blessed and you have thanked me for it, then you must consider if you have influenced someone to sin who is under Law and subject to the devil's guilt and condemnation.  Paul wrote that My children must not do anything which would be offensive to either Jew or Gentile by seeking only to their own advantage but instead they must seek everything for the advantage of others so that the other people might be saved by your yielding to the Spirit of Love instead of yielding to the demons of self advantage.(I Corinthians 10:23-33)
    Paul had been alerted to many actions of selfishness and self interest in the congregation of the Corinthian Christians which were contrary to the teachings of Jesus Christ and of Paul.  Because Paul was imprisoned and could not immediately travel to give them personal instructions on getting rid of the infantile self interests and self concerns of the Corinthians, he had to write long letters of instructions, exhortation, guidance and chastisement to them in order to spur them to reject the devil's temptations of selfishness, jealousy and strife which were cursing the entire church.
   His words are as appropriate today as they were in Paul's letters to the Corinthians.  There are spiritual babies in My kingdom of God whose actions deny their commitment to Me and My loving virtues.  They confess with their mouth devotion to Me and to Jesus Christ, but when temptations and trials come from the devil's persecution and harassment, their devotion switches from their being devoted to Me to their being devoted to the idols in the earth which are so easy to obey, which are the demons of self interest and selfishness.  A person is devoted to whatever occupies his or her time and interests.  Paul wrote in his letter that the Corinthians must imitate him and his devotion to Me just like Paul imitated Christ and His devotion to Me.   It is to your advantage to remain loyal and devoted to Me.  My blessings are the rewards.
    Your Father of Loving Devotion and Loyalty

BLESSINGS FROM CONFIDENCE IN CHRIST

My Dear Precious Child,
    In Paul's recorded letters to the believers at Corinthians he first criticized them for their having remained spiritual babies instead of continuing on in eating spiritual meat by their hearing revelations from Me.  He reminded them that all of their spiritual ancestors on the way to the promised land were under a Cloud provided by Me, that they all passed through the sea and that by the Cloud and the sea they were baptized unto Moses.  They also all ate of the same spiritual food and drank the same spiritual drink, that being Christ; yet the Corinthians knew that I was not pleased with most of them because they were struck down by the devil in the desert.  In other words, he emphasized to them that those events were an example of the wicked desires of the ancestors who, even though they were blessed with My protection and My wonderful provisions, some of them became idolators, and he emphasized that the same thing was happening to some of the Corinthians.  They indulged in sexual pleasures and religious idol practices just like some of the Jewish ancestors had done on their journey to the promised land of milk and honey.  (I Corinthians 10:1-5) 
   Some of your teachers also teach that I tested the Jews in the wilderness, even though I intended for it to be a straight path to the promised land but they were defeated by their yielding to the devil's lewd desires which kept some of them from entering the promised land and instead they died in the wilderness, having been destroyed by snakes.  I DID NOT TEST THEM.  THEY TESTED ME AT EVERY TURN.   Even though I had given them the guidance not to depart from loyalty to Me and build idols, they did the opposite.  Then they grumbled that I had not protected them when it was the seeds that they had sown to the demons from hell that had cursed them.  Those events happened as an example to My children of My New Covenant of the Holy Spirit not to engage with evil temptations, those people upon whom the end of the old covenant has come and My covenant of Love is in full effect. (I Corinthians 10:6-11)
    Paul wrote this truth to the Corinthians to warn them and also you to be cautious that when you think you are standing firm that you are actually falling for the wiles of the evil demons and their temptations.  He wrote that no temptation from hell has come upon people that had not come upon all people in the past.  Besides, he wrote, I WILL NOT ALLOW MY CHILDREN TO BE TEMPTED BEYOND THEIR ENDURANCE because when the testings comes from hell I will provide a way out so that you will be able to not only endure it but to also overcome it.  (I Corinthians 10:12-13; John 16:33; I John 5:4-5)
    In distinct and stern words Paul wrote to the Corinthian Christians to CEASE FROM THE WORSHIP OF IDOLS.  He addressed them like a person speaks to sensible people.  He told them to judge what he was writing to them.  He asked them if the blessings that I sent into their lives were as a result of their sharing in the blood of Christ?  He asked if sharing in the bread of communion is not also participating in My blessings and sharing the body of Christ?  He made it clear that they were all one loaf of bread, one body because they all partook of the one loaf of the body and blood of Christ Jesus. (I Corinthians 10:17)
    In his letter to the churches, Paul included many of the temptations from hell that the devil sends to jerk My children backward and downward into being guided by him and his demons so that they will be kept out of My promised land, which is My kingdom of God, while they are living in the earth.  Instead, because of their binding themselves to the devil by yielding to his temptations, many are cursed in every area of their lives because of their having bound themselves again to the same demons who cursed Adam and Eve and have continued cursing My children since that time.  They have missed out on My blessings while they are still in the earth because of their yielding to the temptations from hell.
     As always I tell My children that they have the choice between blessings and curses, life and death while they live in the world.  Reject evil, choose my blessings and you will live in My promised land of blessings while you live in the earth. 
    In the first recorded letter to the Corinthians Paul definitely had My words and My warnings which he wrote to put them back onto the path of righteousness that leads to LIFE AND SOUL PEACE. (Matthew 6:33; Psalms 23:3)  Heed them in your life on earth.
    Your Father of Clarity of Mission   

BLESSINGS ACCOMPANY TRUTH

My Dear Precious Child,
     In Paul's first recorded letter to the Corinthians he defended his right to be considered an apostle, a conflicting accusation that some of the other apostles preached.  Because he had not walked with Jesus and listened to His teachings with human ears, some of the other apostles were doubtful that he was truly called by Me.   His claims to being an authentic apostle were that he had seen and heard the Lord Jesus Christ when He appeared personally to Paul on his trip to Damascus.  He asked the Corinthians if he was not completely free, had he not personally seen Jesus, and were they not his work in Christ Jesus?  He wrote to them that even though he might not be an apostle to other apostles, he was certainly an apostle to the Corinthians.  He claimed the Corinthians as an example of his being a rightful apostle.  He was not only persecuted by the Jews but he was also persecuted by his own brothers in Christ.  (I Corinthians 9:1-3)  
    In his letter that he wrote to them he asked them did he not have a reason to eat and drink, to marry a believing woman like the rest of the apostles, other brothers of the Lord and also Peter?  He asked if it was only Barnabas and himself who were led to work for a living while the other apostles lived off of the charity of the churches?  He insinuated that soldiers in the field do not work for a living, a person who plants a field eats of his own labor and a shepherd drinks the milk of his labor.  Paul professed to using mere human reasons to prove that he had chosen not to be a burden to anyone and so he also added that scriptures say that a man should not muzzle his oxen while harvesting grain but instead allow them to eat the grain.  He added that he and Barnabas had spiritually sown seeds in their lives and they had the right to have a material harvest from those crops.  However, he reminded them that neither he nor Barnabas had exercised the right to having a financial harvest, that they never asked anyone for that right.  He wrote that the two of them had suffered many hardships so as not to place a burden upon the believers in the churches to support them.  After all, his logic was that the people who work in the temple are supported by the contributions to the temple and that those men who minister at the table in the temple also share in the offering at the altar.  He added, likewise, that the Lord Jesus, Himself, had said that those men who preach the gospel should live by the gospel. (I Cor. 9:3-14)
    Paul exempted himself from those rights and neither did he write these things to entice their financial support.  He professed to choosing to die rather than have someone rob him of his boast in being self supporting so as not to be a burden to anyone.  Preaching the gospel was a pleasure to him, not as an opportunity to boast.  He wrote that he was entrusted from Me to preach the gospel and so he preached it free of charge and not to make use of the office of authority over people that preaching the gospel gave to him.  (verses 15-18)
    Paul relished in his position of not being bound to anyone, but instead he had made himself a slave to everyone in order to win over as many people as possible to the Lord Jesus Christ.  He professed to becoming like a Jew in order to win the Jews, to appear to be a fan of the law in order to win over the people who were bound to the law so that he could have at least won over some of them.  To the people not under Law, he became as one not under law.  To the weak he appeared to be weak in order to win over the weak.  He had made himself like other people in order to save some of them. In fact, he wrote that he did everything for the sake of the gospel of Christ so that he might share in its blessings.(verses 19-23)
    He was known for relating to ministry as running a race, writing that all the runners start out at the same time but the one to win is only one person.  That person runs to win.  He knew that athletes deny themselves many things in an effort to win a crown of leaves but he wrote that he did it to win a crown that is imperishable.  He wrote that he did not run like a man who loses sight of the finish line, not like a shadow boxer.  Instead, he wrote that he disciplined his own body and mastered the devil's temptations for fear that having preached to other people he should be rejected. (I Corinthians 9:24-28)  Losing the imperishable crown was never in Paul's mind.  His determination was to not only win the battle over the devil but to also partake of My Crown of Life.   Boasting about the people that he had saved was never his intention.   Defeating evil in his life so that he would be completely free of temptation and sin was Paul's purpose in life and in his ministry.
     Paul never considered winning over people.  Instead, he wanted to win over the temptations in his flesh in order to be completely free of evil influences in his life.
     His heart was always dedicated to Me and My gospel of peace.  Make peace your aim, like Paul, so that you will rein in life without conflict.
     Your Father of Forever Peace              

BLESSINGS OF GODLY PARENTAL ADVICE

My Dear Precious Child,
   In Paul's human guidance for the Corinthians he approached the matter of marriage, whether a man should marry or not.  Because Paul was preoccupied, as were all of the apostles, with what they called the second coming of Christ, they wanted people to be strictly obedient to the admonitions of Jesus Christ in his teachings when he walked the earth.  Paul was especially concerned about whether people should marry or not since he thought that Jesus was coming to set up an earthly kingdom in Jerusalem.  All of the apostles were blinded to the fact that My kingdom was evident in Jesus Christ as a spiritual kingdom of the Holy Spirit and that I desired that it become evident in His followers, not as an earthly kingdom like Israel.  The apostles neglected to encourage their followers to let Christ grow inside of them by the power of the Holy Spirit so that they would be able to defeat the devil in every generational curse that he had instituted in their lives.  Instead, some of the apostles had become single minded in making sure that their followers were virtuous enough to present to Jesus when he set up an earthly kingdom as a reflection of their discipleship authority.  Many years have passed and the earthly kingdom for which they were so anxiously awaiting has still not happened because My spiritual kingdom of God has already come inside of My children in the person of the Holy Spirit, who is My very own Spirit, therefore He is Jesus Christ and He is Me.  I am waiting for the born again, baptized in the Holy Spirit children of Mine to become molded into the image of Jesus Christ and judge the devil's demonic angels in their world who have cursed their world since Adam.  (Matthew 13:36-43)  That is My judgment of the evil that's in the world, through the disciples of Jesus Christ who assume the same position that He had in the earth, one of judging the demons for Me by the power of My Holy Spirit.
     However, since Paul was still erroneously awaiting the coming again of Jesus Christ in human form, he was disappointed that people were going on doing their usual practices of marrying and having children.  He told the men that if they had a virgin in their lives that they  
should do right by her to marry her but he will not be sinful if he does.  The person who does not marry his virgin, he is doing right also since they were convinced of the soon coming of Jesus.  However, Paul's opinion was that they not marry.  (I Corinthians 7:36-40)  He wrote that he was sure that he had the mind of the Holy Spirit on that advice.   
    When Paul wrote in his letter to the Corinthians about eating meat sacrificed to idols he wrote that they all knew not to do it, but that mere knowledge inflates the ego but wisdom from Me will change a person's attitude and actions.  He wrote that they know that there is only one God, not many idols.  Even though there are many so-called gods in the heavens, those being spiritual beings or angels, there are no real idols.  But if a person eats meats sacrificed to idols, it's not going to kill him if he is not condemned.  He wrote that there were many of them who had previously, being pagan, eaten meat sacrificed to idols and had occasionally done it again, and so their consciences were weak and condemned.  He made it clear that food of any kind does not bring a person close to Me.  He wrote that neither does eating food sacrificed to idols make a person closer to Me nor does not eating food sacrificed to idols bring a person closer to Me.   However, he wrote that they needed to be careful because if a person sees a Christian exercising their freedom and eating food sacrificed to idols, he might be influenced to also eat food sacrificed to idols and have a guilty conscience later and dies, that being a brother for whom Christ died.   Because of your being free of condemnation, your eating meat sacrificed to idols did not allow the devil to condemn you, but your brother did not have the knowledge of his being free from guilt and condemnation so your freedom caused him to sin against his conscience and experience death, so you sinned against Christ by influencing the brother to eat food sacrificed to idols which he considered sinning.  If his conscience convicts him, you have caused him to sin.  Paul wrote that, as for himself, if his actions toward food caused a person to sin, then he would never eat meat again so that he would never be an occasion for someone's sinning and being condemned. (I Corinthians 8:1-6)
    Paul's advice about marriage and eating food sacrificed to idols were written to help alleviate the concerns about the many occasions that people have the opportunity to sin and in sinning experience separation from Me.  (Isaiah 59)  Paul, who considered himself the father of his former pagan converts to Christianity endeavored to school the Corinthian converts in their positions of being free from condemnation but advising them to not allow their freedom to be an occasion for them to influence someone else to sin and be condemned.  It is the devil's condemnation and guilt that kills a person.  The person's freedom is not the problem.  It's his influence upon other people that is the problem.  If his freedom causes someone else to sin, then he has also sinned. (I Corinthians 8:7-13)
   Follow Paul's advice which he wrote to the people in the Christian church.  The ones he attributes to the Holy Spirit will mirror the teachings of Jesus Christ.
    Your Father of Wise Counsel (Psalm 1)                        

BLESSINGS IN VALUABLE ADVICE

 My Dear Precious Child,
    In Paul's first recorded letter to the believers in Corinth Paul besides including stern words of correction from Me regarding their spiritual immaturity, he included some advice from himself.  He wrote that a man is much better off if he never has sexual relationship with a woman.  But, to avoid immorality, he wrote that every man should have his own wife and every woman her own husband.  The husband should have sexual obligations toward his wife and the wife have sexual obligations toward her husband.  Paul included his own thoughts by saying that a wife belongs to her husband, not to herself and a husband does not belong to himself, but to his wife.  He advised that neither one deprive the other of sexual pleasure unless it is by mutual consent to devote themselves to prayer.  Then return to one another so that the devil not tempt them through their lack of self control.  Then Paul admitted that he was giving that advice from his own knowledge, not by a command from Me.   Paul wrote that if it were his own command he would ask them to be like he was, without lust.  He said that it was his gift from God to be chaste. His advice was in the context of Jesus Christ coming back to earth. (I Corinthians 7:1-6)
    He wrote to the unmarried and widows that it would be better if they remained as they were, even as he did, as unmarried.  However, he advised them that if they could not exercise self-control that they should marry rather than to be on fire with lust.  Then Paul wrote that the married couples should remain like they were, as a command from Me, that they should not separate from each other.  If the wife does separate from her husband, then she must remain single or reconcile with her husband; and also that a man should not separate from his wife.  (I Corinthians 7:7-11)
    In continuing with his own advice, Paul told men that if their wife is an unbeliever who is  willing to live with him, they should not divorce her, and if a woman has a husband who is an unbeliever she should not divorce him, either.  He wrote that an unbelieving man is consecrated by his believing wife and vice versa.   He wrote that if the family is intact that the children are holy.   However, he advised that if the unbelieving mate wants to separate, that he or she should be allowed to do it.  He wrote that the believing husband or wife is not bound to an unbeliever because I have called My children to live in peace.  The believing husband might save his wife, or he might not.  Peace is the desired atmosphere.
He wrote that each person should lead the life that I have assigned to him or her, continuing in the life in which he or she was engaged when born into My kingdom. (verses 8-16)   
    Then Paul gave a rule concerning circumcision.  He wrote that if a man is circumcised that he should not hide it.  But if the call to become circumcised comes after he has been born again, then he should not be circumcised.  He clearly wrote that circumcision counts for nothing and not being circumcised counts for nothing, also.  What matters is keeping the commandments of Jesus Christ in his teachings and the Holy Spirit's personal guidance.  Everyone should remain as he or she was before being called into a relationship with me.   Paul wrote that if a person was a slave when he or she became born again, that the person should make the most of his slavery.  He professed that a slave is a free person in Me just like a person who is a free man is a slave of Christ.   He wrote that they were bought with a price and they were never to become a slave to people.   Again Paul advised that whatever state they were in before they were called, to remain in that state.  (verses 17-24)
     Referring to virgins, Paul said that he had not received from Me any commandment so he decided to give his opinion.  He said if a person is bound in marriage, they should not seek to be free.  If a person is free, he or she should not seek a mate.  However, if a person does marry he or she is not committing sin.  (verses 25-28)  
    Paul added to that advice that if a person marries, he or she will have trials in life and staying unmarried will spare the person of the trials.   Because Paul was convinced that Jesus Christ would appear soon, he wrote that men without wives should live as though they had none, that those who weep should live to continue weeping, those who rejoice should continue rejoicing, that buyers should act as though they owned nothing and those who make use of the world should continue because he was convinced that the coming of Jesus was soon. (verses 29-31)        
   In his advice portion of his letter to the believers in Corinth, Paul wrote that he wanted people to be free of worries.  He knew that the unmarried man is busy doing My work, pleasing Me.  He also knew that the married man is busy with My affairs but is also occupied with his wife's demand so as to please his wife.  Under that circumstance, the man is divided.  He surmised that the virgin, the unmarried woman, has My concerns at heart in pursuit of holiness in body and in spirit.  Yet, the married woman has the cares of the world to bear and also her husband to please.  He admitted that he was going into these writings to promote good among them, not to restrict them in any way. He wanted to help them in making their lives easier.  (verses 32-38)
    His writing included advice that a man is bound to his wife as long as he lives.  If he dies, the wife may marry but must marry a believer.  Paul wrote that in his opinion a woman should remain unmarried and he felt he had My preference on the matter.   He felt that he had My Spirit's opinion on the matter.(verses 39-40)
   These problems arise regularly in the body of Christ.  Paul tried to give his opinion on them so as to encourage the believers to live in peace and to do My will.  He was writing to people whom he considered spiritual babies, people who could not discern Truth relating to their own situations. (I Corinthians 3:1-4) To the mature Christian, he or she can hear My voice concerning his or her situation so as to have My peace by hearing My individual instructions to each person.  
     Your Loving Father with Good Personal Advice   
          

BLESSINGS IN POWER VER REVEALED EVIL

My Dear Precious Child,
    Paul had heard that some Jewish Christians from Jerusalem had come into Galatia after he left with the desire to entice the men to be circumcised and become obedient to the many Laws of the Jews in order to be justified before me.  Paul clearly told the Galatians that they had been bewitched with a spell cast over them, people who had actually seen Jesus Christ crucified on the cross.  Not only did he tell them that they had been bewitched but he wrote that he had a question to ask them, that being how had they received the Holy Spirit, whether it was by observing Jewish law or by having faith in Jesus Christ?  (Galatians 3:1-4)
    He asked them in the letter how they could be so stupid, after beginning in the Spirit they had succumbed to being justified by the Jewish Law.  He asked them if they had had such a wonderful experience of the Holy Spirit for no purpose at all?  He put them to a test of asking them again if it was because of their observance of the Law or because they had faith was the reason that I had lavished My Holy Spirit upon them and done wonderful works in their behalf?  He reminded them of Abraham who believed Me and it was accounted to him as being righteous, that meaning that believers are like sons of Abraham.  He quoted scripture to them that the justifying of the Gentiles was by faith and not by observing the Laws. (Galatians 3:5-9)
     Paul spoke truth when he wrote that people who depend upon observance of the Law are under a curse because it's written that, "Cursed is everyone who does not abide by everything written in the book of the law and carry it out."  (Genesis 12:3)  He wrote that it should be obvious that no one is justified in My sight by the Law because I said that, "The just man shall live by faith."  (Hebrews 2:4)  He stated that the Law does not depend on faith in Me but instead depends on the person obeying the Law.  Faith is by Me and the Law is by man. 
    Christ Jesus delivered people from the power of the Law's curse by himself becoming a curse for us as it is written, "Curse is anyone who hangs on a tree." ( Deuteronomy 21:23)  It happened so that through His sacrifice for the sins of the world that His actions might cause the Gentiles to inherit all of the blessings that I set aside for Abraham, making it possible for the Gentiles to receive the promised Holy Spirit through faith and not by observing any laws. (Galatians 3:10-13)   To explain it, Paul wrote that words cannot be added to a man's will after he dies or words added to change it.  It has already been validated.  Paul wrote that the promise says that promises were spoken to Abraham and his descendant, as if it applies to many, but the promise applied to only one, Christ.  He affirmed that a promise made to Abraham's descendant applied only to Christ.   So a legal document set aside by Me cannot be set aside by anyone 430 years later, nor can His promise be nullified.  He wrote that if a person's inheritance came through the Law, it no longer is conferred upon the person by a legal promise.  It was by My promise that I granted Abraham his promise, meaning Christ Jesus was the promise.  (Galatians 3:14-18)
    So what was the purpose of the Law?  It was given to reveal the transgressions of the devil and his angels to be valid only until the person came to earth to whom the promise was made, Jesus.  So the Law is not opposed to My promise.  No.  If the Law was given so that it would bring My life to live in people, then it would be because of the Law, not faith.  The promise is because of faith, not observance of Law.   Before faith came into being with Jesus Christ, everyone was under Law, under a monitor of the Law to reveal the works of the devil as being evil, but now that faith is here it's no longer necessary to use the Law as a monitor.  Every person is a son of God because of their faith in Me because you have been born of My Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit.   All of you have clothed yourself with Christ.  There does not exist among believers a Jew or Gentile, a man or woman, a slave or a free person.  All are One in Me.  Paul wrote that if you are a believer and belong to Christ, then you are a descendant of Abraham because of My Holy Spirit living inside of you, so you are a descendant of Abraham and are able to inherit all of My promises.  (Galatians 3:19-29)
    No person can "obey" his or her way to inheriting My promise of the Holy Spirit.  He is a gift, a promise that I made to My children.
    Your Father of Glorious Promises

BLESSINGS FROM JUDGING EVIL

My Dear Precious Child,
    Paul also chided the people in the church at Corinth about their suing each other and then also taking their spiritual brothers to human court.  He was perturbed that no one in the congregation seemed to be wise enough to settle the differences.  He could not understand why they could trust people outside of the church to settle differences between themselves as spiritual brothers instead of trusting people in the church to have spiritual wisdom to mediate between spiritual brothers and sisters.  He said he was not shaming them, he was merely amazed that there were no brothers with the wisdom to mediate the problems between them.  He was amazed that brothers must drag other brothers before unbelievers in court to settle differences.  He asked if one person in the congregation could not put up with injustice done toward himself or herself and forgive the injustice.  He asked them if they realized that the unholy men who were representing them in court could then, and still cannot, not inherit My kingdom of heaven, not fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, sodomites, thieves, misers, drunkards, slanderers or robbers, so how could they trust unholy men to wisely mediate between spiritual brothers who are supposed to have My wisdom and insight into matters?   He reminded the people in Corinth that some of them had previously been unholy but had become holy when they were baptized into My kingdom of God, having been justified in the name of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of God. (I Corinthians 5:4-11)
    As is said in your world, Paul let the believers in Corinth have it with both barrels, continuing with on a teaching about sexual immorality and the sanctity of the human body which had become the body of Christ with the presence of the Holy Spirit living inside of their human bodies   But, first, Paul told them in his letter that he was free to do anything, but not everything would be beneficial for him to do because he could become enslaved to temptations of the devil.   He wrote that food is necessary for the stomach and the stomach for food, but the body is not made for immorality.  The body of people was made for the Holy Spirit, the Lord, to live inside; and the Lord, the Holy Spirit is for the body, to instruct and guide the person.  He assured them that I would raise up their body by My power.  (I Corinthians 6:12-14)  
   Paul continued to remind the Corinthian Christians that their bodies were members of Christ.  He wrote to them asking if they would prefer for Me to make them the body of a prostitute, adding that I strictly forbid it.  He reminded them that a man who is joined with a prostitute is one body with her instead of with Me because a person who is joined to Me becomes one Spirit with Me.  Therefore, he advised the people in the church at Corinth to run from lewd conduct.  He said that every other sin committed by people commits it outside of the body, but the fornicator and adulterer sins against his or her own body.  
    Again Paul assured the Corinthians that their bodies were a temple of the Holy Spirit because they had received into their bodies the Holy Spirit who is from Me.  He wrote that they were not their own; that they were bought with a price, the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.  Therefore, he wrote that they should glorify Me in their bodies by keeping themselves pure, neither joining themselves to fornicators nor to adulterers.  (I Corinthians 6:15-20)
    Paul's letter to the Corinthians was full of heavenly advice in an effort to outline for the Corinthians the road to righteousness that brings unending blessings into their lives on earth.  His advice is pertinent to your life on earth, also, with the same advice being beneficial for your day.
    Your Father of Godly and Beneficial Advice         

BLESSINGS FROM OBSERVING MORAL INSTRUCTIONS

My Dear Precious Child,
     In his first letter of exhortation to the Corinthian church Paul shifted to another criticism from his first criticism of their divisive and denominational claims of some claiming to be spiritual students of Paul and some being spiritual students of either Peter or Apollos which labeled the body of Christ as being fragmented, which was erroneous and fleshly instead of being spiritual.  The second criticism was that the members of the church were letting a man in the church live with his father's wife in incest, calling it lewd conduct. (I Corinthians 5:1)  He wrote in his letter that that conduct was even more reprehensible than conduct found among pagans.  He commented that he had heard that the elders of the church were self satisfied instead of grieving and getting rid of the offender.  Paul wrote that as an apostle he had already passed sentence upon the man who was doing the deed, even though he was absent in body.  Then Paul wrote his sentence on the man, that he had already turned the man over to the devil so that the man's spirit would be saved on the day of the Lord.  
    Paul wrote that the boasting of the men of the church was wrong that everything in the church was according to the teachings of Jesus Christ because there was an ugly thing happening in their midst.  He gave the scriptural teaching of Jesus Christ to them that a little yeast has a multiple effect through a measure of dough.  He told the elders to get rid of the yeast so as to make fresh dough, as unleavened bread; Christ having been the Passover that was sacrificed.  He wrote that they must not celebrate the reality of Passover with corruptness and wickedness in their midst and instead to celebrate the reality of Passover with the unleavened bread of Truth and Sincerity.
    Then Paul wrote to the Corinthians the reminder that he had told them not to associate with immoral persons, let alone allow them to be accepted as Truth seeking members of Christ's body.  He repeated the admonition that he had given to them when he had earlier written a letter to their church from his distant ministry to other Gentiles.  He wrote that he had not told them not to associate with immoral people of the world.  What he wrote in his earlier letter was for them not to associate with "brothers" in the church who were immoral, covetous, an idolater, an abusive person, a drunkard or a thief. 
    Paul wrote in this letter that he or they had no business to judge outsiders of the church, but that it was insiders in the church for whom they must judge the actions, whether the actions are of evil or of My Good.  He wrote that My judgment would come upon the unbelievers who were living incestuous lives, but that the church members must expel the incestuous man from their church if he refused to repent from his incestuous relationship after they had confronted him about it.
    In Paul's strict adherence to the teachings of Jesus Christ, he was speaking a truth about discerning between good and evil actions, teaching that allowing evil relationships in the church polluted the church.  If the elders appeared to accept an incestuous relationships in the church of born again and Holy Spirit baptized people, then the actions of the elders gave the impression of their turning a blind eye to  the sin as being acceptable, their appearing to approve of incestuous relationships. (I Corinthians 5:9-13) 
   In that letter to the church of Corinth Paul established a spiritual truth in My body of Christ, that My children must judge the actions of the people inside the church who are born again and baptized in the Holy Spirit by doing what Jesus Christ taught them to do.  Jesus taught them to go to a person in the church who was sinning and lovingly confront him or her about the sin which has disastrous results for the sinners.  If the person refuses to listen, then Jesus taught to take another person or two more people with him to confront the sinner as confirmation that more than one person is concerned about the person's participation in sinning.  If the sinner still refuses, after being confronted by two or more elders in the church, then he is to be brought up before the entire community of the church for loving correction.  If the sinner persists in choosing to sin, then he must be exorcised from the church before that sinful behavior is considered acceptable by others in the church.    
    Paul's reminder about the teaching of Jesus about exorcising the poisonous action from the church was explained by him as being Paul's refusal to accept some sinner who chooses not to mend his or her sinful ways as turning the sinner over to the devil so that his soul would be saved after the devil was finished his judgment of him and the person turns back to Me, which is called repentance.  (Matthew 18:15-19)It's like a defiant child who refuses to accept the loving discipline of his parents and continues in hurtful behavior which injures himself or herself.  Very often, after repeated chastising the child the parent takes his or her hand of protection off of the child and lets the child's hurtful behavior cause pain and discomfort to the child.  The child has chosen to learn by experiencing pain instead of by the loving guidance of the parent.  The lesson finally learned by the child was the way to avoid pain was by correcting his or her behavior that caused the pain.  The child could have learned the same lesson by honoring the loving correction of the parent instead of choosing to learn the lesson by continuing the actions what caused painful results.
     Paul's instructions were necessary in order for the church at Corinth to display the teachings of Jesus Christ and remain virtuous and unpolluted.  Tolerating a little sin from hell pollutes entire churches and evil actions increase with speed.
    Your Father of Discerning Good from Evil 

BLESSINGS IN MINISTRIES OF CORRECTION

My Dear Precious Child,
    In Paul's first recorded letter to the Corinthians, he advised the people in the church to judge the ministers in their administration of My mysteries.  My instructions have always been that you must judge the people in the body of Christ but to never judge people outside of the body because of the lack of spiritual knowledge of the unbelievers.  If you do not discern the spirits that the ministers are exhibiting you are liable to be deceived and become bewitched by false prophets like the Galatians and Corinthians had done.  (I Corinthians 4:1; Galatians 3:1))
    He wrote that the first thing that they must judge in a minister is that he or she must prove to be trustworthy.  Paul wrote that it didn't matter to him whether any human court passed judgment on him or not because he had nothing on his conscience so he didn't pass judgment on himself.  However, he didn't declare himself to be completely innocent because Christ the Lord was his Judge and his Redeemer so they must refrain from passing judgment before His return because His judgment would bring to light what is hidden in darkness and would manifest the intentions of his heart.  He said that when Christ brought evil into the light that everyone would receive his reward from Me.  (I Corinthians 4:2-5)
    In addressing the church members as brothers, Paul wrote that he had applied everything that he had written to himself and to Apollos as an example for their benefit.  He wrote that they should use what he had written down as examples to learn so that no one would grow self-important by reason of his or her association with one person rather than another one.  He asked them who among them confers any distinction on them?  In fact, he wrote that they should name something they had that had not been given to them by Me so they should not boast about it being of their own as derived from human knowledge.  He observed that they had grown rich and completely satisfied, that they had attained their reign over evil with no help from the apostles.  He wished that they had begun their reign over evil as mirroring the virtues of the apostles so that the apostles would also be reigning with them.  (I Corinthians 4:6-8)
    Paul wrote in his letter that in his view I had put the apostles at the end of the line, men doomed to die.  He observed that they were spectacles in the universe to men and angels alike, their being fools on Christ's account.  He wrote that the church members had become strong while the apostles had become weak with people honoring the church members while they sneered at the apostles.  He admitted that even at that present hour that he was writing in the letter that the apostles had gone hungry, thirsty, were poorly clad, were treated roughly, wandering around like homeless people while they worked hard at manual labor.  He wrote that when the apostles were insulted that they responded with a blessing to those people who sneered at them.  He admitted that persecution came the way of the apostles which they bore patiently.  He wrote that when they were slandered that they tried to bring peace, that they had become the world's refuse, the scum of the earth, admitting that that was the present affairs of the apostles. ( I Corinthians 4:9-13)
    In Paul's defense of himself and the other apostles he wrote the truth not in an effort to shame the people in the church of Corinth but to instead to admonish them like a father does with his children.  He admitted that they had ten thousand guardians in the church but only one father, himself, who had caused them to be born again through his preaching of the gospel.  So he begged them to imitate him, that that was the reason that he sent Timothy to them, Timothy being his beloved and faithful son in the Lord.  He wrote that Timothy would remind them of the virtues of Christ just like Paul taught them while he was with them and taught in the churches.  Because of his imprisonment he could not join them in person, but he reminded them that he would soon come in person, if I was willing, and find out how the gospel was being lived in their lives. (I Corinthians 4:14-19)
    In his closing, Paul wrote that My kingdom does not consist of human talk but My kingdom consists of their having and using My power over evil along with their exhibiting righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.  (I Corinthians 4:20) Paul's disappointment in the divisiveness and other demonic actions in the church was apparent in his writings so he asked in his letter if they preferred that he come to them with a verbal rod of correction or with love and a gentle spirit?(I Corinthians 4:20-21)  Paul's disappointment in how far the Corinthian Christians had fallen from My grace was apparent in his letter of correction. Just like with the Galatians, after Paul left to further his ministry of taking the Good News to the Gentiles the devil had sent false prophets into their church at Corinth to lead them into the evils of division and strife, neither of which is welcome into My body of Christ.   They are from hell, not from My kingdom.
    Paul's correction reserved no words.  He had left them in good hands when he left, but evil had sown seeds of destruction in My body of Christ which had multiplied and polluted the entire church.   Paul was not shy in his corrections and his exhortations, per My instructions to him.   Jesus had told His own disciples that they had been pruned by His words, meaning they had been exhorted and corrected after their wandering off of the paths that lead to righteousness.   The devil is a cruel taskmaster and his temptations in your thoughts  lead to destruction and death.  My words lead to life and soul peace.  It's always your choice which words to follow.
     Your Father of Wise Instructions and Corrections               

BLESSINGS IN BEING SPIRITUALLY MATURE

My Dear Precious Child,
    Paul's exhortation of the Christians in Corinth included an insult saying that he could not talk to them as spiritual people because they were men of flesh, infants in Christ.  Previously, while he was ministering to them, he had merely fed them with the milk of the Gospel, not with solid food because they were not ready for spiritual food.  He told them in his first recorded letter that they were still not ready for spiritual food by being very much in the same spiritual place of being infants.  Then he identified the actions of the flesh that labeled them as being infants in the kingdom of God as there being jealousy and quarrels among them, saying that those activities are of the flesh, not of the Spirit.  He wrote that those actions are of ordinary people, not of people who had been born of My Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit.  He said that when some people claimed to be of Paul and others claimed to be of Apollos, that it is clear that they are still behaving after the dictates of their flesh, not the guidance of the Holy Spirit. (I Corinthians 3:1-4)
     In his letter to the church at Corinth, Paul asked the people who is Paul and who is Apollos?  He wrote that they were merely ministers through whom the church members had become believers, each only teaching what I had assigned to him.  He made clear the ministries by writing that he himself, Paul, had planted the seed of the gospel of Jesus Christ and that Apollos had watered the seed, but that I had make the seed grow.  So, therefore, neither the person who planted the seed nor the person who watered the seed is of any special importance because only I, as God, makes the seed grow.  He who plants seed and he who waters both work toward the same end, each receiving the same wages in proportion to the degree of work, both being co-workers while the converts are My cultivation and My building. (I Corinthians 3:5-10)
    Paul thanked Me for the favor that I showed him in allowing him to lay the foundation as a wise builder might do but now someone else must be careful how he or she builds the building of faith.  He stressed that no one can lay a foundation other than the one of Jesus Christ and that a different one built on that foundation that is of gold, silver, sticks, precious stones, hay or straw, that their work will be made clear in the times of persecution.  He said that that day will disclose which kingdom has been built, that they would be tested by fire and the ones who endure under the tests of the devil will be saved but he who succumbs to the fire will suffer loss.  He or she will be saved but only as one who had fled the fire.
    Then Paul offered the truth of the foundation of My kingdom of God, that being that they were My temples in the earth because My Spirit lived inside of them.  He wrote that if anyone destroys the temple of God that he will be destroyed because they were My temple of God and My temple is holy.  (I Corinthians 3:11-17).
     Paul asked that the Christians in Corinth would not be deluded by themselves and that anyone who thinks he or she is wise in worldly wisdom that they should all become foolish in earthly wisdom.  In that way, the person is able to become really wise with My wisdom because the wisdom of the earth is illogical to Me.   He quoted a scripture of Job in verses 5:13 and wrote again that I know the emptiness of the thoughts of those people who are worldly wise.  Therefore, Paul wrote, that he and I desired that there would be no boasting about any people and their ministries, but instead they must appreciate the fact that all things are theirs, whether it be of Paul, Apollos or Peter or the world or of life or death, or the present or the future because all things belong to them, because they are Christ's and Christ is My Son.  (I Corinthians 3:18-23)
    It is apparent from Paul's first letter to the Corinthians that he was upset with the church because of their divisiveness and their having made choices on what to believe, whether Paul's teaching, Apollo's teachings or Peter's teachings.  His opinion was that he had planted and Apollos and Peter were to water the seeds of belief.  The water must be the Truth of the Gospel of Christ and His resurrection and gift of sending the Holy Spirit to live in the lives of people who believe in His death on the cross and His resurrection from the dead.  He proved the faith of Jeremiah when he wrote, "Thy mercies and compassion are new every morning; and great is thy faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:22-23)
    My children in your day and age must heed the warnings in Paul's letter to the Corinthians that My body of Christ should never be fragmented and as a result be separated from Me.  Instead, the words of My Holy Spirit unite My children in the Oneness for which Jesus Christ prayed before He went to hell for the sins of the world.(John 17:20-26)  It is in being one with Christ through the ministry of the Holy Spirit that you become one with Me, not fragmented like people who are motivated by fleshly passions.
    Your Father of Unity in Spirit

BLESSINGS FROM REVEALED TRUTH

My Dear Precious Child,
    When Paul wrote to the Corinthians his first recorded letter, he had sternly corrected them for being divisive, some claiming to be from Paul's church, others from Peter's church, others from Apollo's church.  He told them that the body of Christ was not cut into parts.  Paul told the people at Corinth that when he brought the Good News to them that he preached Jesus Christ and Him crucified, not in some words of earthly wisdom.  He admitted that when he ministered the Good News to them that he did it with fear and dread because of their reputation for being so genuinely pagan.  He said that his words of Good News were not with worldly wisdom but by the power of My Holy Spirit.  As a result, he wrote that their faith was not from the wisdom of men but from My power.  (I Corinthians 2:1-5)
    He wrote to them that there is a real wisdom in which the apostles spoke to people who were spiritually mature.  Those words were not words from that age or from the rulers of that age who were headed for destruction.  He assured the people of Corinth that what he spoke was My wisdom, which he called a mysterious, hidden wisdom that I planned for him to speak which none of the pagans knew the mysterious wisdom because if they had known it they would not have crucified Jesus Christ, the Lord of Glory.  Paul wrote that My wisdom was identified as wisdom that eyes had not seen, ears had not heard, nor had it dawned upon any man what I had prepared for those people who love Me, which he quoted as coming from the prophet Isaiah.(Isaiah 64:3; I Corinthians 2:6-9)
    Paul went on in his letter to affirm to the believers in Corinth that by the Holy Spirit that I had revealed the wisdom that had previously been hidden from human beings, as was quoted by Isaiah.   He revealed that My Holy Spirit is privy to all truth, even the deep things of My mind.  As an example he explained that no person knows the thoughts of a person's innermost self except the man's spirit and so no man knows the depths of My wisdom and thoughts except My Holy Spirit. 
    He affirmed that the Spirit that they had received from Me was not from the world but He is from Me, helping people to recognize the gifts of wisdom that I have given to them through My Holy Spirit.  Only with the Spirit of Life that was in Christ can a person discern spiritual wisdom.  The natural man cannot accept spiritual truths from Me because he considers them absurd and ridiculous.  However, the spiritual person can value and accept spiritual truths but he or she cannot be judged by anyone.  The spiritual person has the mind of Christ with His insights into spiritual truths as revealed by the Holy Spirit.  (I Corinthians 2:11-16)
    Paul was also as upset by the divisiveness of the Christians in Corinth as he was upset with the ones in Galatia who had become deceived by false prophets who had manipulated them into adopting the Mosaic Laws relating to circumcision and perceived justification by observing the Law.  He did not reserve his words but in both instances he spoke truth in accusing them of having believed another gospel other than the True Gospel of the kingdom of God as having been bought and paid for by Jesus Christ in his sacrifice on the cross for the sins of the whole world and his sending My Holy Spirit to live inside of people in order to bring My kingdom of God into their lives on earth.  (Matthew 6:10) 
    Paul did not leave converts to Christianity in the dark when they digressed from the straight path.  He exhorted them and set them on the right path that leads to righteousness and soul peace.  His words and warnings are as true today as they were when he wrote them.  You must allow the Holy Spirit in you to discern which words of Paul's are of flesh and which are of Spirit, as revealed by My Holy Spirit.   He identified some of his guidance as being from his flesh, meaning they were from the traditions of men.
   Your Father, Your Guardian of Peace 

BLESSINGS IN UNITY OF PURPOSE

My Dear Precious Child,
     In Paul's first letter to the Corinthian Christians, instead of complimenting them on their love or virtues, he expounded upon the love of Jesus Christ and My virtues displayed toward all people.  Because of the disorder and disagreements between the Christians in Corinth, Paul could not honor them with compliments.   When he ministered the Good News of Jesus Christ to them years earlier, he was appalled at their level of sexual sins, the level of disorder in their politics and their religious prostitution.  However, when he witnessed their faith and Christian virtues after their conversions, he left them to continue his missionary journeys with confidence in their life changes.  Yet, eventually their quarreling among themselves became known to other converts and Paul decided to write letters of correction to them concerning their sinful practices of jealousy and division in the entire body of Christ.  Some people claimed to be converts to the gospel of Paul, some to the gospel of Apollo, some to the gospel of Peter and some to the gospel of Christ. (I Corinthians 1:1-12)   
    My wisdom given generously to Paul in his first letter inquired if the body of Christ was divided into parts?  He asked in his first letter if his own body had been crucified for them or was it in the name of Paul that they had been baptized?   He did claim to have baptized several people but he wrote that it was not in his name of Paul that he did it, that it was in the name of Jesus Christ.  He assured the Corinthian Christians that he had not been called by Me to baptize people but instead to preach the gospel to the pagans in simple truth instead of wordy human wisdom like the philosophers speak.  He proclaimed the gospel of Jesus Christ in simple terms so that the cross of Christ would not be interpreted as being void of meaning. (I Corinthians 1:13-17)
    Paul reminded the Corinthians that the message of the cross of Jesus Christ was ridiculous to the unbelievers but to the believers it is MY POWER UNTO SALVATION FROM EVIL.  Years before the immaculate conception of Jesus Christ I prophesied through Isaiah that I would destroy the wisdom of the wise and thwart the cleverness of the clever.  (Isaiah 29:14)   Paul asked the Corinthians in his first letter where the wise men had gone and he wrote that I had turned the wisdom of men into folly instead of saving the world through human wisdom but instead I saved the world through the simplicity of the preaching of the gospel of Christ which is My wisdom and My power.  He observed that the Jews seek for signs and the Greeks seek for wisdom, and that the gospel of Jesus Christ became a stumbling block to the Jews and ridiculous words to the Greeks, but to those Jews and Greeks who embraced the gospel of Christ, it is My wisdom and My power.  He claimed that any folly of Mine is wiser than any wisdom of men and that any weakness in My plans are much more powerful than the strength of men.  (I Corinthians 1:18-24)  
     After Paul had gotten the strict attention of the Corinthians by correcting their actions of division and jealousy, he said that as brothers of his that they were personally called by Me even though they were not known for their human wisdom and none of them were influential and none were born into royalty.  He observed that it was through their simplicity that I shamed the wise and that I had used the weak men of the world to shame the strong humans.  Paul wrote that it was themselves as lowly born people, people who accounted for nothing, who reduced to nothing the unbelievers who thought highly of themselves. He wrote that it was My plan of using My wisdom through humanly unwise people that I reduced to nothing the people who thought they were something so that no one can boast before Me of their human wisdom.  He proclaimed that it was Me and only Me who had given My Life to you in Christ Jesus.  
    Paul, in his observations of the nothingness of the wisdom of human beings, he professed that I had made Christ your wisdom, your justice, your sanctification and your redemption, not any human being or any apostle.  He quoted Jeremiah who prophesied to let any person who boasts only boast in the Lord because it is I, and only I, who brings about justice in the world. (I Corinthians 1:25-31; Jeremiah 9:23)
    It was Paul's disappointment in the Christian converts in Corinth that led him to write such a scathing letter of bringing to the light their denominationalism and division.  Remember that in an equation it is the denominator that divides into the numerator.  I can only work in situations where there is unity because I am the Uniter.  The devil is the divider.  The Corinthians had allowed evil to enter into their gospel of peace and divide them.   My Holy Spirit caused Paul to bring to the light the Corinthians' yielding to the demons of division and denominationalism which prevails even in your world to this day.
    Your Father of Oneness and Unity

BLESSINGS OF UNITY OF SPIRIT

My Dear Precious Child,
   After Paul wrote his scathing letter to the people in the church at Galatia about their being deceived and "bewitched," as he put it, by the Christian Jews who succeeded in bringing them into the doctrine that the Jewish religion taught of trusting in the Law would be necessary to enhance the Good News in bringing them into a relationship with Me, which was impossible, he later wrote a letter of correction to the people of Corinth.  The unity of the Corinthians had been destroyed by jealousy and envy, some claiming to be disciples of Paul, some of Peter and some of Jesus exclusively.  The demon behind that division was the demon of denominationalism, with each group thinking they were the only way to enter into My salvation from the evil in the world while, in fact, they were all claiming special superior wisdom from Me.  They had no moral power to even correct a man who was living in an incestuous relationship.  Some members were suing other members in civil courts while others had revived the practice of religious prostitution and sacrifices in the temples of other gods. 
    Some of the people of the church at Corinth were suspicious of Paul's apostleship, questioning his refusal to accept the support of the community, insisting on not being a burden to the churches.  Some women were appearing at worship without head coverings and the women quarreled over being refused to speak at the meetings.  Other members appeared at the meetings drunk with wine and refused to allow the poor to join their membership.   The ecstatic prayers and messages in tongues were more highly valued than the ministry of charity to the poor and the ecstatic worship was disordered and ridiculous in many ways.  There were also some members who had veered from the truth of the resurrection of Jesus Christ and had adopted philosophies against the resurrection of the body of Christ.
    In his letter to the Corinthians, Paul referred to every wavering belief and unbelief, even to their eating meat sacrificed to idols, rules relating to sex in marriage, and the attitude of some people toward not marrying since the belief of Jesus coming back to earth was expected  soon.  Paul insisted on telling about his own anointing of the Holy Spirit on his ministry while referring to his ministry as his being a servant of Mine.   However, Paul claimed that he retained his authority of the Corinthians Christians because he had brought them to a knowledge of the Good News and even threatened a direct confrontation with the sinners if things were not corrected.
   Paul condemned the separation of the believers into factions with each faction claiming loyalty to a particular apostle instead of claiming loyalty to Me and to the Lord Jesus Christ, with each faction claiming to have the full truth.  In his letter he gave correction relating to each digression of false doctrine from My Truth.  Paul's disgust at their falling for the lies of false prophets is apparent in his letter to the Corinthians, and the truths of his corrections must be incorporated into My body of Jesus Christ in your world because the same lies prevail in the churches today in your world.
    Heed the corrections of Paul and become attentive to the words of My Holy Spirit in your relationship with Me.  There are even more corrections by the Holy Spirit that must be made in order for My children to experience the heaven on earth that I promised to you. 
    Your Father of Loving Corrections          

BLESSINGS OF FATHERLY ADVICE

My Dear Precious Child,
      In Paul's letter to the Galatian Christians, and to you, he was explicit in his exhortation and instructions about how to stay on the path that leads to righteousness and My blessings.  As he closed out his letter he instructed that if anyone in your church is sinning that they, and you, should gently set the person on the right path, avoiding any trap set for themselves, and you, to fall also into temptation. (Galatians 6:1)
    He wrote that it is every person's calling is to try to help other people by helping to carry their burdens, also.  However, he wrote that if anyone thinks that he is somehow better than other people when he is in fact nothing, he is deceiving himself.  Every person much check out his or her own condition to assess whether he or she is engaging in sins and whether he or she has reason to boast because the only reason to boast is if he has refused to yield to sin, and not because of the condition of someone else.  He reiterated that each person should carry his or her own responsibility toward the Gospel of Jesus Christ.(Galatians 6:2-5)
     Paul encouraged the Galatians that if anyone is instructed in the Word of Jesus Christ that he or she should share that truth with his or her instructor, making sure that the person knows that no one makes a fool out of Me, and that every person reaps what he or she has sown.  If the person has sown to the flesh then her or she will reap a harvest of corruption; but if the seed that he has sown in the earth is of My Spirit, then the person will reap a harvest of blessings from My Life.  He wrote that a person should never get tired of doing good and if you continue to sow seeds of goodness in your life that you will reap a harvest of goodness and blessings in your life on earth.  So he reiterated again that while you have the chance to do good to all people that you should take the opportunity, especially to your fellow Christians.  (Galatians 6:6-10)
    At the end of his stern letter, Paul wrote to the Galatians that the men who were trying to force them to be circumcised were making a play for human approval, hoping to escape persecution from the Jews for their being bound to the truth of the cross of Christ.  He accused the false prophets who came among them of being hypocrites because even though they were Judeo-Christians they did not follow the Law themselves, nor did they follow the prompting of My Holy Spirit.  He surmised that the false prophets wanted the Galatians to be circumcised so that the false prophets could boast about their physical observances of the Law, even though it is opposed to the gospel of grace in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. (Galatians 6:11-13)  
     Also in his closing remarks to the Galatians, in his letter Paul professed that the only thing of which he, himself, would boast is the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ.  He wrote that it is through it that he had been crucified to the world and the world had been crucified to him. (Galatians 6:14)
    To sum up the truth in his letter Paul wrote that to be circumcised or to not be circumcised means nothing.  He wrote that the only thing of importance is that a person is born of the Holy Spirit and baptized in the Holy Spirit.   He finished his letter to them by writing that peace and mercy would come upon everyone who followed that rule of Life.  (Galatians 6:15-16)
    Paul signed the letter as one who bore the marks of Jesus in his own body, meaning the scars of beatings by the Jews, and he blessed them by praying that My favor and the favor of Christ Jesus would always be with them and be with you.  So Be It, Amen.  (Galatians 6: 17-18)
    Your Father of Perpetual Truth

BLESSINGS OF STEADFASTNESS

My Dear Precious Child,
    In Paul's letter to the Galatian Christians who had been so easily manipulated by Judeo-Christians to add obedience to Mosaic Law to their miraculous and power filled faith of the Holy Spirit, his correction remained firm and stern because he knew the devil would curse their lives if they continued in trying to obey all of the Law.  He reminded them that it was for their own liberty that Christ freed them from the curses of the Law.  He admonished them to stand fast, therefore, in Christ's liberty and do not take on themselves the yoke of slavery a second time.
    In an effort to fully get their attention to the Truth, he wrote that if they allowed themselves to be circumcised under the Law that Christ was no use to them.  He put it again more clearly that to all who had become circumcised that they are bound to the Law in its entirety.  He wrote that to anyone who sought justification in the Law had severed themselves from Christ and had fallen from My favor.  More clearly he wrote that it's by My Holy Spirit that they receive justification, and that only faith can guarantee it.  In Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the lack of it counts for anything, only faith in Christ Jesus which expresses itself in love justifies anyone. (Galatians 5:1-6)
     He complimented them in a way by telling them that they were doing so well when he left them and asked whoever had diverted them from the Truth?   Paul assured the Galatians that I am not the one who enticed them.  He told them that a little yeast can affect the whole dough.  He said that he trusted them not to take a different view from him.  Paul was so perturbed that he wrote that he wished condemnation upon whoever had diverted them from the truth and caused them to be unsettled.  In fact, Paul wrote, if circumcision was preached by him, then why do the men who bewitched the Galatians attack him?   He said that if he preached circumcision to them that the cross would be a stumbling block no longer to the Judeo-Christians.  Paul's anger was so serious that he wrote that he wished that the men who were troubling the Galatians with returning to the Law would go and castrate themselves.  
    It is impossible to once taste complete freedom from binding laws and then desire to return to them as a means of salvation.  There cannot be soul satisfaction to be under laws that condemn and rob a person of joy and peace.  Paul was right in his disgust for the false prophets whom he had warned not only the Galatians but all of the churches to whom he ministered not to allow the false prophets to come and minister in their midst.  He knew that certain disciples of Jesus Christ were people pleasers and would yield to the devil's temptation to return to ineffective laws which accomplished nothing for humans except curse their lives.
    My children of promise must always be alert, being constant watchmen who are keen on discernment so that their antennas are always alert in sniffing out false prophets, even ones who look like dedicated disciples of Jesus Christ.  His warnings to be on the alert to discern them as being from hell instead of from Me are still valid in your day in the earth. The devil cannot stand for you to be free from the bindings of the Law so that he can rain his curses down upon your life.  
    Your Father of Loving Warnings and Exhortations

BLESSINGS MULTIPLY WITH WISE CORRECTIONS

My Dear Precious Child,
     Paul warned the Galatians about the Judeo-Christians who had enticed some of the Galatians to put new wine into old wine bottles by incorporating the old covenant of obeying Mosaic Law along with their newly miraculous faith that came from being born of the Holy Spirit and baptized in the Holy Spirit.  He warned them that the men who manipulated them by courting their favor were not doing it for a generous, loving reason.  He wrote in his letter to them that what those men really wanted to do was exclude the Galatians from being fully molded into the image of Christ so that they could, themselves, exclude them because of their complete devotion to Christ and the blessings that followed that union.  Paul said that their being manipulated for the right reasons, for their straining toward winning the prize of the high calling of Christ, that was what he had enticed them to do while he was with them.  Yet, he wrote that their yielding to the evil bewitching of the false prophets had caused Paul to be put in labor pains again until Christ was formed in them, which was impossible when they had embraced the Law again as a way to gain salvation.  He wrote to the Galatians that they had made him at a complete loss to understand their foolish motivation.
     In his letter Paul asked the Galatians if they really wanted to be subject as slaves to obeying the Law again?  If so, he told them that they must look again at what the Law said, that Abraham had two sons, one of Hagar, the slave girl and one of Sarah, his legal wife.  He explained that the son of the slave girl had been born of human sexual desires, but that the son of the free wife had been born because of a promise from Me.  Paul told them that it's an allegory with the two women standing for two covenants; one who brought forth children for slavery, being Hagar of human motivation and representing the human Jerusalem of that time, and the other covenant being one from My heavenly Jerusalem with freedom for all of My children of promise; and he wrote that it is she that is the real mother of My children, the new Jerusalem that comes down from Me when the children of promise are born of My Holy Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit.  He reiterated that the Galations were children of promise until they chose to return to obeying the Law of Moses for their salvation, but there never was any salvation under the Mosaic Law, only curses.  He wrote that the children of the Law persecute My children of promise just like the Jews had persecuted, harassed and even killed Jesus because they can't stand to see people who are completely free from curses and so they pursue new Christians in order to bewitch them into incorporating the Law in with their newly found freedom, fooling the new Christians into believing that the Law was necessary for the completion of their walks of freedom under My grace and favor.  Paul stressed that the actions of the false prophets who were Judeo-Christians was all a trick to cause the Galatians to return to the curses of the Law.   He stressed that the Galatians were not children of the slave girl, meaning the Law, but they were My children of the mother who is free, being My New Jerusalem, which is spiritual, with all of My promises pertaining to them.
    Paul had personally taken the "falling away" of his converts as a failure on his part, which was one of the reasons for the false prophets pursing the Galatians, because they couldn't stand the Galatians to be free, so their reintroduction to slavery to the Law was accomplished by the false prophets bringing some of the newly converted Galatians into again becoming slaves under the Law, their having once enjoyed complete freedom from the curses of the law.
   The devil is constantly endeavoring to bring My children back under slavery to him by sending false prophets to them to bewitch and manipulate them to return to the Law by their  counting on it to be a shortcut to being molded into the image of Christ.  It only molds people into being slaves to sin and its curses. 
    Your Father of Complete Freedom  

BLESSINGS IN STERN GUIDANCE

 My Dear Precious Child,
    When Paul wrote his letter to the Galatians, he minced no words.  He spoke truth and then explained in full why he warned them about the Judeo-Christians who couldn't stand that the Galatians were free of every religious law and each person was subject only to My Holy Spirit's personal guidance for himself or herself.  They were subject to the civil laws of the land, but as far as religious laws, only My personal words were spiritually advantageous to them.  In teaching them the difference between being subject to Mosaic laws and being subject to the voice of My Holy Spirit, Paul explained the difference perfectly.
     Paul called the Galatian believers "Brothers" and wrote to them that as long as as a perosn is heir to his father's goods but is not mature, being a juvenile, he or she is not maturely equipped to handle the inheritance because of his or her immaturity, so the person is subject to guardians until he or she reaches maturity and can wisely handle the responsibilities.  He wrote that Jews are subject to the Law as their guardians, similar to being slaves, with the Law indicating to them that evil temptations were all around them, and the Law indicates which temptations were to be avoided.  But when the Jews reach spiritual maturity and can hear My personal guidance they are no longer subject to written religious laws but they become in unity and in tune with Me and they can follow My personal words of guidance.   That is possible because, in the fullness of time, I sent My Son, born of a woman so He was born under the Mosaic Law in order for Him to deliver from the Law everybody who was subject to the Law.  He accomplished it by dying on the cross, sending My Holy Spirit to live inside of them, and then whoever believed in his ministry also became children of Mine.  The proof to them is that I sent My Holy Spirit into their hearts and they profess Me as Abba, meaning Father; and they, as believers, are no longer slaves to the Law, but they are My children. (Galatians 4:1-7)
     He told the Galatians that in the past they did not acknowledge Me but served as slaves to gods who were not really divine because of the Law.  He asked them that now that they had come to know Me, and to be known by Me, how could they return to powerless, worthless, earthly elements to which they were willing to enslave themselves again?  He told them that they were, once again, returning to ceremonial observances of days and months, seasons and years, which were prophetic of things to come, trusting in them to save them from evil instead of My Holy Spirit being their Guide and Protector.  Paul wrote that he was afraid for them that all of his efforts for them  had been wasted.  
    To make his words even more stinging, Paul wrote that that he had wanted them  to become like him, even though he had had a bodily ailment that first made it possible for him to bring the Gospel to them.  He complimented them for their having received him as an angel, even as Christ Jesus, himself.   He asked them what had happened to their kind hearts and open spirits?  He asked if he had become their enemy where before they would have plucked out their eyes and given them to him.  
    Paul was genuinely wounded in spirit that some of the Galatians had been fooled into being deceived into uniting with the Law and trusting in it for salvation, having been mesmerized into believing the Law needed to be added to their miraculous life of being born of My Holy Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit which had brought My kingdom of heaven into their lives.  He asked if he had become their enemy just because he told them the truth? (Galatians 4:12-16)
    Again, the truth of the teaching of Jesus Christ relating to putting new wine into old wine bottles applies to the foolishness of the Galatians in their trying to put the truths of My new covenant with humanity into the bottles of the old covenant which broke the bottles and made the power of My new covenant null and void.   They left aside a spiritual, supernatural world of miracles which purified them and they had returned to a powerless, foolish world of human spiritual ignorance which cursed their lives.  Paul was right in his stern exhortation to them.  His stern attitude resulted in some people being enlightened to their having been  manipulated with lies which caused them to leave My truth.
     Your Heavenly Father of Liberating Spiritual Truths  
    

BLESSINGS EVEN IN CORRECTION EXHORTATIONS

My Dear Precious Child,
    The gift of exhortation was abundant in the life of Paul, the apostle.  After the people in the church of Galatians had listened to and obeyed the false prophets from Jerusalem and had incorporated circumcision for men into their religious lives, which was an ordinance in the Law of Moses, Paul wrote a stern letter to them calling them foolish, senseless Galatians.  He asked them who had cast a spell over them, the very people who had seen Jesus Christ die on the cross.  He increased the scorn by asking them if they had received the Holy Spirit by obeying the Law of Moses or through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ?  He asked them in the letter how they could have been so stupid to have begun their walk with Me in the Spirit but ended up in the flesh? (Galatians 3: 1-4)
    Paul let all of his disgust and disappointment flow in the letter to the Galatians.  He asked them in the letter if they had such a marvelous experience with My Spirit for no real purpose, if the experiences were actually purposeless?  He asked them if it was because of their observing the Law or because they had faith in Me that I had lavished My Holy Spirit on them and had done works of wonder in their midst?   He reminded them of Abraham who had merely had faith in Me and it was accounted to him as being righteous.  Scriptures made it clear in advance that My way of justifying Gentiles would be through faith, as having foretold that Good News through Abraham.  (Galatians 3:5-9) I foretold through prophets that the entire world would be blessed through Abraham's descendant, His being Jesus Christ,  who would also be a Man of Faith.
    Paul was very precise in his condemnation of anyone who counted on the Law of Moses to justify himself.  He wrote in his letter that it was written in the Law that anyone who did not keep ALL of the Law were under curses because the devil uses the Law to condemn people.   The Law does not depend upon faith in Me.  It depends upon your own faculties.  He wrote that Christ delivered us from the power of the Law's curse by Himself becoming a curse for us when He hung on the cross so that through Jesus Christ the blessing bestowed on Abraham might descend on the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, making it possible for us to receive the promised Holy Spirit  through faith in Jesus Christ. (Galatians 3:10-18) 
      He went further in his letter of exhortation to the Galatians when he explained further that nothing can be added to a man's will after it has been declared valid.  He explained that My promises were spoken to Abraham and his Descendant, that being a single Descendant, that being Christ.   Therefore any promise made by Me, like as to Abraham, is not set aside or nullified when laws come years later, like the Law came through Moses.  If your spiritual inheritance came through your obedience to the Law, then it was no longer conferred upon you by My promise, but was conferred by your obedience to new laws.  That was impossible.  It was by the way of My promise that the Holy Spirit was given through faith in Jesus Christ and not by obeying any laws, especially ones that carried a curse if even one law was broken.  Paul's explanation was thorough and clear.  
    In his letter of explanation and revelation, Paul wrote that the reason for the Law was to highlight the works of evil in the world, not to institute a way of salvation.  The Law being given only as a way for My children to identify the devil's evil temptations in their mind, it was only a mediator until Abraham's Descendant emerged in the earth about whom the promise had been given.  Now in the age of My New Covenant of the Holy Spirit, there is no mediator when I am the Person involved.   I am One and My promise was for you and all of My created children, all of whom had yielded to evil.  (Galatians 3:19-22)
    Paul wanted the Galatians to realize that My way of salvation does not mean that the Law is evil or opposed to My promises.  He wrote that that idea was unthinkable.  If the Law was given so that it would impart life, then justice would come from obeying the Law, but it is impossible to obey all of the Law so My way of salvation is limited to faith in the Holy Spirit and His power that I impart to you when you are baptized in My Holy Spirit.  Now that faith is possible to be imparted to My children, then you are no longer trained by the Law but you are trained and tutored by My Holy Spirit.  Each person is My child because of his or her faith in Christ Jesus.  I wrote through Paul that in Me there are no male and female, Jew and Gentile, slave or free man, but all people are one in Christ Jesus.  He wrote that, furthermore, the believers in Galatia who belong to Christ were descendants of Abraham, inheritors of all of My promises. (Galatians 3:23-29)
      My way of salvation from evil was clearly described by Paul in his letter to the Galatians, of which many had been deceived and had been influenced by Judeo-Christians to depend upon obedience to the Law for salvation.  It can't happen by obedience to any law because it's impossible to keep all of the Law that was introduced by Moses.  Depending upon religious Law after having been given a new life by My Holy Spirit nullifies the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, Paul wrote, in order to entice the foolish people who had been deceived to repent of their dependence upon observance of the Law instead of their faith in Jesus Christ.(Galatians 3:15-29)
     Paul was stern, but it was necessary because the false prophets were relentless in their desire to return the Galatians to the Law in order to enslave them to the devil.  The false prophets were jealous of the freedom of the Galatians so they wanted them to be brought back under the curses of the Law.  Paul set them straight in his letter to them.
     Your Father of Prophesied New Beginnings          

BLESSINGS IN UNFOLDING REVELATIONS

My Dear Precious Child,
    As usually happened, when Paul had left Galatia after evangelizing there,  the devil sent Judeo-Christians to Galatia to entice the people to incorporate the Law of the Jews along with their conversions based on faith.  Paul, having previously been a devout Pharisee, knew the dangers of putting the new wine of the new covenant into the old bottles of the old covenant, that the bottles break and the wine is wasted.  However, the Jews who had also accepted some of the teachings of Jesus Christ, wanted to dominate the new revelations of Paul's followers of the Gospel so they flooded into the communities after Paul left and poisoned the purity of the truths of the new covenant in the minds of Paul's converts.  They were jealous of the freedom which the Gentile believers enjoyed, those freedoms being because their relationship with Me was of faith and not of observing the Law.  It was a replay of the devil's temptations of Adam and his manipulation of Eve which polluted the minds of My children at the beginning, causing a separation between us. 
    The Christians who were still under Jewish Law could not stand for Paul's Gentile converts to be completely free from the curses that the devil brought into the lives of My children by using the Law, so they came in right behind Paul and began to lasso the new believers with the lie that they must become obedient to all of the Jewish laws in order to operate in faith.  They were in error, so Paul wrote his brilliant revelations to the Gentile believers to help deprogram them from the erroneous teachings of the Judeo-Christians.
    It was Paul's usual habit in his letter to praise the people in the cities that he had led to believe in Jesus Christ but Paul's letter to the believers in Galatians was more direct.  He immediately chided them for deserting Christ and going over to another gospel, as he called it.  Then he told them that there was only one Gospel and none other.   He wrote that there were some people who wanted to alter the true Gospel and he accused them of confusing the Galatian Christians.  He even wrote to them that if an angel from heaven should preach a gospel not in accordance with the one that he and his fellow disciples preached, then it would be a curse upon the person.  Paul wrote that he was not trying to please men but he was trying to please Me, and if he was trying to please men, then he would not be serving Christ.
    Paul assured the Galatians that the Gospel that he preached was not man-made, nor was he educated in it.  He professed that all of his knowledge came by revelation from Jesus Christ, Himself.  He reminded the Galatians about their having heard his testimony about his former mode of living where he persecuted Christians to the extreme and even tried to destroy the movement.  He reminded them also that he was well schooled and loyal to the Jewish Law and with zeal he lived out all of the traditions of his religious ancestors.   However, he also reminded them that I had set him aside since birth and that he was called by My favor of choosing to reveal Christ to him so that he might spread the Good News of the Gospel of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles.  Paul also reminded the Galatians that he had immediately, without seeking human guidance, separated himself from other believers and went alone to Arabia, being schooled by My Holy Spirit for three years, later returning to Damascus, but not conversing with the other apostles at all.  (Galatians 1: 15-17)  Not until three years later did he go to Jerusalem to meet with Cephas, the new name of Peter who had been called to minister to the Judeo-Christians in Jerusalem.  He told the Galatians in his letter that he stayed with Cephas (Peter) for 15 days and did not meet with any other apostles except Jesus' brother James.  Paul declared that all of those facts that he wrote were true.  He said he was such a stranger to the believers in Judea that they had no idea what he looked like, they only knew that he had formerly persecuted Christians and was currently preaching the faith that he was formerly trying to destroy, and those believers gave glory to Me on Paul's account.  (Galatians 1:18-24) 
     Then after 14 years, Paul went with Barnabas to Jerusalem prompted by a revelation.  He laid out for the scrutiny of the other apostles the teaching and preaching that he delivered to the Gentiles so that the leaders of the apostles would be apprised of what he was teaching.  He told the leaders that certain other ministers had wormed their way into the Gentile believers' meetings to spy on their freedom that they enjoyed in Christ Jesus and those men tried to make slaves of the Gentiles to the Jewish Law.  He told the leaders of the apostles that he and his fellow believers were not swayed in any way to yield to the efforts of those false prophets to lay aside their Good News of faith in Jesus Christ being the only way to have complete freedom from evil.  He wrote that not even the most important Judeo-Christians did not sway the Gentile believers and Paul added nothing to the Gospel, continuing to preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified, for there is no other Gospel.
     Paul explained in the letter that he was called to minister to the uncircumcised and Peter was called to minister to the circumcised.  He wrote that when he conferred with the other apostles in Jerusalem that they had confirmed his ministry to the Gentiles and James, Peter and John extended to Paul and Barnabas the hand of brotherhood, signifying that Paul's ministers could go to the Gentiles and let them go to the Jews.  The only stipulation that they insisted upon was that they be mindful of the poor.  In his letter Paul told the believers in Galatia that Peter had definitely been wrong in his previous insistence that the Gentiles become circumcised and that Paul had stood up to Peter.  He told them that Peter had been eating with the Gentiles but when James and other apostles arrived, he drew back in order to avoid trouble with the circumcised.  Paul said that some Gentile believers were swept away with Peter's dissembling and even Barnabas was deceived until Paul told the Gentiles that the Judeo-Christian apostles were not being straightforward with truth of the Gospel to the Gentiles.  Paul had told Peter in the presence of other believers that if he was a Jew living like a Gentile rather than a Jew, why would he force Gentiles to adopt Jewish ways?
    He wrote to the Gentile believers the logic that if they were Jews by birth, not Gentile sinners originally, knowing that a man is not justified by observing the Jewish Law but instead by faith in Christ, because no person could ever observe all of the Law.  However, if  Paul were to build up the very thing that he had previously demolished, then he would be a transgressor of the Law.  He wrote that it was because of the Law that he died to the Law, choosing to live for Me.  He proclaimed with certainty that he had been crucified with Christ and that the human life that he currently lived was not even his own life, but it was a life of faith in the Son of God, who loved him and gave his life for him. (Galatians 2:15-21)  He declared in his letter that he would not treat My gracious gift as pointless and of no effect.  Then he summed it all up by writing that if justice was obtained by the Law, then Jesus Christ died for no purpose.
     Paul had vehemently defended his own conversion and calling by Me in the letter.  He also professed that I did not require the Gentile believers to become bound by Jewish Law but instead that faith in Jesus Christ was the only Good News with no added Laws that were the Laws of another race, the Jewish race.
     Paul rescued many Gentiles from being loaded with curses that came from their trying to obey the Jewish Law.  He warned them to stand fast in the liberty wherein Christ had made them free and he commanded that they not become in bondage to anyone or any laws, only continuing to be in unity with Jesus Christ and Me by the power of the Holy Spirit.  He saved them from bondage to another gospel other than the Good News of Jesus Christ.
    Your Father of Inclusion