My Dear Precious Child,
My family life in heaven is orderly, peaceful, joyful, loving and kind. Therefore, the replica of it in the earth, which is called the kingdom of God, when it comes into the lives of My children it is also orderly, peaceful, joyful, loving and kind. Unfortunately, in the church in Corinth as well as some of the other churches, they had engaged in unruly, fleshly driven, unspiritual behavior which caused the unbelievers to be repelled rather than be drawn in to become believers. Almost all of of the disorderly activities seemed to be found in the church at Corinth. That is why Paul called them babies, still drinking spiritual milk instead of their eating adult spiritual food which would cause them to be My spiritual children instead of unspiritual children.
The believers in Corinth were allowing sexual immorality and conflicts in their church, plus allowing gluttony and drunkenness at the Lord's Supper. They were suing one another in civil courts, arguing over doctrinal disagreements and eating food sacrificed to idols as the pagans did. Some were mixing idolatry with My instructions on worshiping, and they were emotional rather than spiritual in their distribution of My gifts, thus being considered by Me to be unspiritual instead of spiritual people.
My guidance and correction in all of the unspiritual activities was direct and exacting through Paul's letters to them. His instructions to them was that everything must be done in love for others and love for Me instead of for their own benefit and for their own attention, as My Holy Spirit inspired Paul to write. For instance, in the matter of the gift of speaking in tongues he explained that the listeners are not benefited at all unless the gift of tongues is followed by the interpretation of the tongues. Prophesies and interpretation of tongues bring comfort, highlight areas of improvement, consolation and encouragement to the listeners. Everyone in the church benefits instead of only the person who brings a message in tongues benefiting from having the attention. Paul told the people in Corinth that he wished that all of them had the gift of tongues, but the prophesies and interpretations of tongues benefit everyone not just the person speaking in the gift of tongues. He said if someone comes to visit the church and everyone is talking in tongues, the visitor is not benefited at all because he or she is not hearing any wisdom and knowledge necessary to inspire or instruct him or her. Paul related it to an orchestra where all the instruments play their individual tunes at the same time and there is no harmony. He said that if the gift of tongues in a congregation or in ministry produces no intelligent message how can an unbeliever be benefited? The person speaking in tongues without an interpretation of words in the understanding is like a savage to an unbeliever. (I Corinthians 14:9-12) Paul wrote that he wanted them to use My gifts but their words must benefit the listeners.
I instructed My children through Paul that those who have the gift of tongues must pray for the power of interpreting them because their mind is barren without the interpretation. In praying it is good to be able to interpret your prayers so that your mind knows what you are praying, the same with singing praises, pray for the interpretation so that you know everything for which you are praying. (I Corinthians 14:13-15) If you just pray in tongues or speak in tongues in a congregation or a gathering, a new person will never be able to participate with an Amen if you are only praying in the Spirit without interpretation in your language of understanding . (verses 15-19)
Again Paul wrote that the Corinthians were childish in their beliefs as well as in their delivery of the gifts of My Holy Spirit. (verses 20) His caution to them is that if an unbeliever comes into a group of believers where they are all speaking in tongues without an interpretation of the words, that unbeliever will think the people are crazy. However, if they come into a gathering or a group of believers and there are prophesies of understanding, the unbeliever who comes in will find himself enlightened and even his secret thoughts will often be laid bare, causing him to worship Me because I have personally manifested Myself to him or her. (verses 23-25)
His final instructions were that when they gather into a group, everyone should be ready with a song, a sermon or a revelation which will benefit everyone in their understanding. If someone is ready with a message in tongues, then the person must also be able to interpret the message in understandable words, but it must be for the common good. Only two or three messages in tongues with interpretations are in order, and one at a time. If there is no interpreter present, then the one with a message in tongues must keep quiet and only speak to himself and Me. (verses 26-33) Since I am a God of order instead of disorder, the prophets must control their prophetic spirits and not become disorderly in the group.
Since the women in the church at Corinth were often guilty of being the most disorderly in displaying their gifts, Paul told them to keep quiet in the church because of their tendency to be emotional and disorderly. He said for them to ask their husbands at home what was said in church that was important. In asking women not to speak in church, Paul was attempting to bring order to a disorderly church. He started with the women in the Corinthian church who tended to be emotional rather than spiritual. (verses 34-35)
My guidance is that you DO NOT SUPPRESS THE GIFT OF TONGUES, but everything must be DONE WITH PROPRIETY AND IN ORDER in order to benefit the body of Christ. (I Corinthians 14:39-40)
Your Father of Orderly Behavior
Monday, March 11, 2019
Sunday, March 10, 2019
LOVE, THE ULTIMATE GIFT
My Dear Precious Child,
Even though the apostle Paul had spoken about spiritual gifts and even encouraged My children in the church at Corinth to seek the higher gifts, especially to speak for Me in prophesy, he said there is a better way than any of the gifts. He wrote in his letter to them that even though he could speak words in the diverse languages of men and also in the spiritual tongues of angels, if he did not speak them with love, he was simply a gong booming or a cymbal clanking. Also he said that if he had the much desired gift of speaking for Me in prophesy and if he understood all of the mysteries of the universe and knew everything religious, and even if he had faith to move mountains, if he doesn't have love then he inherits nothing at all from Me. Next he wrote about more religious actions, saying that even if he gave away all that he possessed piece by piece to the poor or if he gave his body to be burned like the pagans but if he did not have love for everyone, those actions would not do anything for him spiritually. He will not receive anything from Me. (I Corinthians 13:1-3)
Then Paul wrote a wonderful description of the attributes of My love, saying that:
My love is KIND,
My love is PATIENT,
My love is NEVER JEALOUS,
My love is NEVER BOASTFUL OR CONCEITED,
My love is NEVER RUDE OR SELFISH,
My love NEVER TAKES INTO ACCOUNT A WRONG SUFFERED and
My love is NOT RESENTFUL.
My love NEVER TAKES PLEASURE WHEN SOMEONE SINS,
My love ALWAYS DELIGHTS WHEN TRUTH IS TOLD.
My love is always ready TO FORGIVE, TO EXCUSE, TO TRUST, TO HOPE
AND TO ENDURE whatever comes because
My love NEVER ENDS. (I Corinthians 13:4-8)
My Holy Spirit wrote through Paul that things that come through men, even like prophesy, that the time will come when those words of prophesy are fulfilled and so they come to an end, and the gift of tongues and interpretation will not continue forever but they will be fulfilled, and the gift of knowledge will also come to an end when more enlightenment comes. Knowledge is imperfect and prophesying is imperfect, but when the revelation of My perfect love is revealed to you by My Holy Spirit, then all imperfect things will disappear because My love heals, My love performs miracles and My love meets the needs of all of My children. (I Corinthians 13:8-10; I John 4:18))
Paul's writings referred to his talking like a child when he was a child, and that he used to think like a child and argue like a child, but when he became a man, all childish ways were put behind him. He wrote that to the people in Corinth because they were behaving like spiritual babies and were seeing things dimly in relation to My character, like seeing their own reflection in a mirror; and, as a result, they were assigning to Me the same characteristics as humans, having the emotions and vengeance of a mere man. But he said that eventually My children, if they would seek a revelation of My love, they would see Me face to face clearly with all of My loving characteristics when they have a revelation of Me as Love, as revealed by the Holy Spirit to them. (I John 4:12) He said that spiritual knowledge is even imperfect because there is always more to be revealed; but My children must seek to know Me as fully as I know them when they have sought My Holy Spirit to teach them My true nature and My righteousness. When they know Me completely as Love, then evil has no power over them,(Hebrews 2:14-15)
He wrote a synopsis of his revelations from the Holy Spirit by saying that faith, hope and love are the only things that last forever, and the greatest is My love. (I Corinthians 13:11-13; Romans 5:5)
When Paul wrote his letter to the Ephesians, he told them that he prayed fervently to Me that I would reveal to all of My children the power of My love, that Christ would live in your heart firmly through faith and that you would become so deeply planted in love and your foundation built so firmly on My love that you will grasp the knowledge of the breadth, length, height and depth of My love for you; and then, knowing the love of Christ which passes human knowledge, you will be filled to overflowing with My fullness. (Ephesians 3:14-19) When you have allowed My Holy Spirit to perfect in you the revelation of My love for you, you will never fear again because the knowledge of My perfect love for you casts out fear because there remains no fear of punishment from Me because you know Me as LOVE.
The benefits of your being rooted and grounded in My love for you is that with the power of My Holy Spirit working in you, and your faith being built on My love for everyone, I am then able to do exceedingly, abundantly, infinitely more than you can dare ask, think, desire or imagine. (I Corinthians 13:20) Remember that My abilities to answer your prayers for you and your receiving all of your inheritance from Me depends upon the reality of your being securely founded and grounded on My love for you and all of humanity as revealed by My Holy Spirit.
When you are rooted and grounded in My love, you will shine forth with My glory in your generation and forever by walking in a one-on-one relationship with Christ Jesus and being led continually by My Holy Spirit. (I Corinthians 13:21)
There is no foundation in My body of Christ except the foundation of My love for you. Every revelation must be built on that foundation, that I am LOVE. (Ephesians 2:4-7; I John 4:7-8)
Your Father of UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
My Dear Precious Child,
Even though the apostle Paul had spoken about spiritual gifts and even encouraged My children in the church at Corinth to seek the higher gifts, especially to speak for Me in prophesy, he said there is a better way than any of the gifts. He wrote in his letter to them that even though he could speak words in the diverse languages of men and also in the spiritual tongues of angels, if he did not speak them with love, he was simply a gong booming or a cymbal clanking. Also he said that if he had the much desired gift of speaking for Me in prophesy and if he understood all of the mysteries of the universe and knew everything religious, and even if he had faith to move mountains, if he doesn't have love then he inherits nothing at all from Me. Next he wrote about more religious actions, saying that even if he gave away all that he possessed piece by piece to the poor or if he gave his body to be burned like the pagans but if he did not have love for everyone, those actions would not do anything for him spiritually. He will not receive anything from Me. (I Corinthians 13:1-3)
Then Paul wrote a wonderful description of the attributes of My love, saying that:
My love is KIND,
My love is PATIENT,
My love is NEVER JEALOUS,
My love is NEVER BOASTFUL OR CONCEITED,
My love is NEVER RUDE OR SELFISH,
My love NEVER TAKES INTO ACCOUNT A WRONG SUFFERED and
My love is NOT RESENTFUL.
My love NEVER TAKES PLEASURE WHEN SOMEONE SINS,
My love ALWAYS DELIGHTS WHEN TRUTH IS TOLD.
My love is always ready TO FORGIVE, TO EXCUSE, TO TRUST, TO HOPE
AND TO ENDURE whatever comes because
My love NEVER ENDS. (I Corinthians 13:4-8)
My Holy Spirit wrote through Paul that things that come through men, even like prophesy, that the time will come when those words of prophesy are fulfilled and so they come to an end, and the gift of tongues and interpretation will not continue forever but they will be fulfilled, and the gift of knowledge will also come to an end when more enlightenment comes. Knowledge is imperfect and prophesying is imperfect, but when the revelation of My perfect love is revealed to you by My Holy Spirit, then all imperfect things will disappear because My love heals, My love performs miracles and My love meets the needs of all of My children. (I Corinthians 13:8-10; I John 4:18))
Paul's writings referred to his talking like a child when he was a child, and that he used to think like a child and argue like a child, but when he became a man, all childish ways were put behind him. He wrote that to the people in Corinth because they were behaving like spiritual babies and were seeing things dimly in relation to My character, like seeing their own reflection in a mirror; and, as a result, they were assigning to Me the same characteristics as humans, having the emotions and vengeance of a mere man. But he said that eventually My children, if they would seek a revelation of My love, they would see Me face to face clearly with all of My loving characteristics when they have a revelation of Me as Love, as revealed by the Holy Spirit to them. (I John 4:12) He said that spiritual knowledge is even imperfect because there is always more to be revealed; but My children must seek to know Me as fully as I know them when they have sought My Holy Spirit to teach them My true nature and My righteousness. When they know Me completely as Love, then evil has no power over them,(Hebrews 2:14-15)
He wrote a synopsis of his revelations from the Holy Spirit by saying that faith, hope and love are the only things that last forever, and the greatest is My love. (I Corinthians 13:11-13; Romans 5:5)
When Paul wrote his letter to the Ephesians, he told them that he prayed fervently to Me that I would reveal to all of My children the power of My love, that Christ would live in your heart firmly through faith and that you would become so deeply planted in love and your foundation built so firmly on My love that you will grasp the knowledge of the breadth, length, height and depth of My love for you; and then, knowing the love of Christ which passes human knowledge, you will be filled to overflowing with My fullness. (Ephesians 3:14-19) When you have allowed My Holy Spirit to perfect in you the revelation of My love for you, you will never fear again because the knowledge of My perfect love for you casts out fear because there remains no fear of punishment from Me because you know Me as LOVE.
The benefits of your being rooted and grounded in My love for you is that with the power of My Holy Spirit working in you, and your faith being built on My love for everyone, I am then able to do exceedingly, abundantly, infinitely more than you can dare ask, think, desire or imagine. (I Corinthians 13:20) Remember that My abilities to answer your prayers for you and your receiving all of your inheritance from Me depends upon the reality of your being securely founded and grounded on My love for you and all of humanity as revealed by My Holy Spirit.
When you are rooted and grounded in My love, you will shine forth with My glory in your generation and forever by walking in a one-on-one relationship with Christ Jesus and being led continually by My Holy Spirit. (I Corinthians 13:21)
There is no foundation in My body of Christ except the foundation of My love for you. Every revelation must be built on that foundation, that I am LOVE. (Ephesians 2:4-7; I John 4:7-8)
Your Father of UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
Saturday, March 9, 2019
CORRECTIONS CONDERNING SPIRITUAL GIFTS
My Dear Precious Child,
Numerous offenses were practiced by the Corinthians after they were born of My Holy Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit that were not beneficial to My kingdom of God, and they were totally against the teachings of Jesus Christ. The people in Corinth were holding meetings that did more harm than good for the Gospel. (I Corinthians 10:17-22) When they came together for their worship there remained factions, groups who were in opposition to each other. Paul wrote them a letter telling them that when they came together as a church that it was not really the Lord's Supper that they observed because some people were so eager to begin eating that there was not enough for other people to eat, so some people went hungry while others became drunk with wine. Paul questioned them if they didn't have enough food to eat at home and enough drink at their homes that they had to be gluttonous at the Lord's table. He said that surely they had enough to eat at home so that the poor people would not be embarrassed in front of them by not having enough to eat at their meetings.
Paul said that he had received the following instruction directly from Me: That Jesus Christ told them when they observe the Lord's Supper that they must do it in remembrance of the last supper that He enjoyed with His disciples, eating the bread as if it were His body and drinking the wine as if it were His blood; not that they are, but as if they are. He said that they must eat the bread and drink the wine as a remembrance of what had already happened in them because they had already received the new covenant where I began to write My words on their hearts when they heard them on the inside of themselves, and they allowed My Holy Spirit to bring life to them by the revelation power of My Spirit, the Spirit of Life. He said that they must reflect upon the sacrifice of Jesus when they observe the bread and wine, not as a substitute of what had already happened to them, but as a remembrance of Him and His sacrifice. It is to be done as a remembrance not as if it has power of its own. He said that many were sick and weak because they did it only as a ritual, forgetting that for which they ought to be reminded, that they were celebrating the new covenant of the Holy Spirit, the resurrection of their lives when they had spiritually eaten His body by being born of His Holy Spirit and they had drunk His blood when they had become baptized in His Holy Spirit because the life is in the blood. (John 20:19-22; Acts 2:1-4)
In other words, Paul was cautioning them to eat their meals at home instead of making a meal out of the Lord's Supper and then their meeting together would not bring condemnation upon themselves by their being tempted by the demons to be gluttons and drunkards.
Concerning spiritual gifts, Paul wanted the followers of Jesus Christ to be informed on the proper distribution of gifts. He emphasized that no one could say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit and no one could say that Jesus was cursed and be speaking under the power of My Spirit. (I Corinthians 12:1-3)
When they came together at meetings, Paul emphasized that My spiritual gifts must be exhibited in divine order, not as a frenzied exhibition of emotional immaturity. He said in the church that the distribution of gifts from Me is delivered by different gifts through different people (I Corinthians 12:4-7) One person may have a gift of preaching wisdom from the Holy Spirit. Another person may have the gift of preaching instructions from the Holy Spirit in correcting or exhorting the congregation. Another person may have the gift of faith for supernatural events from the Holy Spirit for that meeting. Another person may have the gift of healing from the Holy Spirit in that gathering. Another person may have the gift of speaking in tongues and interpretation at that meeting. He said that My gifts of the Holy Spirit are distributed to different people as He chooses but they are the workings of the same Holy Spirit as the needs of the people becomes evident. (I Corinthians 12:8-11) No gift is more important than another one. They are all distributed to enhance the lives of the body of believers.
Through My Holy Spirit Paul made a comparison between a human body and the distribution of spiritual gifts as a spiritual body, both being made up of many parts. My body of Christ is made up of many different but efficient parts just like the human body. He encouraged them that they were all baptized by One Spirit, Jews as well as Greeks, slaves and owners, and one Holy Spirit was given to them to drink. A foot cannot say that it doesn't belong to a body, or the ear or eye cannot say that it doesn't belong to a body because they cannot function alone. Instead, I put all the parts together into one body on purpose. None of the parts have the same functions as the other parts but they all go together to form one body with parts that have different functions so that it will work together efficiently. (I Corinthians 12:12-21)
Such it is in the body of Christ. Each person has a different part in building up the body of Christ, and each part is necessary and honored. If one part hurts, the whole body hurts. If one part is honored, all the body is honored. He said that I gave to one person the appointment as an apostle, one prophesies, one teachers, one works miracles, one has the gift of healing, one speaks with tongues and interprets those messages, one has the gift of helping. They all work together as a complete body, none of them working independently. In a congregational meeting, not everyone acts as an apostle or a prophet, and all do not have the gift of healing for that meeting. They must all work together in order, honoring the other people who have different gifts. Not everyone brings a message in tongues unless that person can also interpret it or the congregation will not benefit from the wisdom of the message. (I Corinthian 12:27-30) Only one or two gifts in tongues with interpretations is orderly. More than that turns out to be someone seeking attention.
It was the disorderly exhibition of the gifts that caused Paul to correct the church at Corinth. My Holy Spirit is not disorderly. It was the way in which the gifts had been delivered by the people that were out of order that had become an embarrassment to the Gospel. The members were encouraged to prophesy because the message in that gift is clear, concise and easily understood because to prophesy is to speak for Me. I do not speak in a frenzied manner or with undisciplined emotions. That display is from a demonic religious spirit which demands attention also.
The gifts of My Holy Spirit are given by Me to My children to meet the needs of My children, whether words of wisdom and knowledge are needed, whether healing is needed, whether miracles are needed, whether guidance is needed, whether insight is needed in tongues and interpretation, whether supernatural faith is needed or whether discerning of spirits is needed, they all work together to meet the needs of a congregation of believers.
I am a God of order, a Father of dignity, a creator who does not embarrass My children or Myself. I do not make a display for the sake of proving the spirituality of anyone. From My personality of mercy I give My gifts to My children in order to meet their needs.
Do not despise My gifts of the Holy Spirit and do not quench the Spirit. If you do, you are cutting off My true body of Christ from your community of believers. (I Corinthians 14:1 and 12 and 39; Mark 16:17)
My kingdom of God is orderly and edifying to the believers. A human body grows into maturity when fed with healthy food. It dies when fed poisons. My body of Christ matures when the gifts of the Holy Spirit are delivered with dignity and honor, for such is My kingdom of heaven. My earthly body of Christ is dispersed by Me when it eats polluted food that is sacrificed to demons by the attention seekers. Keep the distribution of My gifts pure and unadulterated and they will meet the needs of My children.
Your Father of Divine Order
Numerous offenses were practiced by the Corinthians after they were born of My Holy Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit that were not beneficial to My kingdom of God, and they were totally against the teachings of Jesus Christ. The people in Corinth were holding meetings that did more harm than good for the Gospel. (I Corinthians 10:17-22) When they came together for their worship there remained factions, groups who were in opposition to each other. Paul wrote them a letter telling them that when they came together as a church that it was not really the Lord's Supper that they observed because some people were so eager to begin eating that there was not enough for other people to eat, so some people went hungry while others became drunk with wine. Paul questioned them if they didn't have enough food to eat at home and enough drink at their homes that they had to be gluttonous at the Lord's table. He said that surely they had enough to eat at home so that the poor people would not be embarrassed in front of them by not having enough to eat at their meetings.
Paul said that he had received the following instruction directly from Me: That Jesus Christ told them when they observe the Lord's Supper that they must do it in remembrance of the last supper that He enjoyed with His disciples, eating the bread as if it were His body and drinking the wine as if it were His blood; not that they are, but as if they are. He said that they must eat the bread and drink the wine as a remembrance of what had already happened in them because they had already received the new covenant where I began to write My words on their hearts when they heard them on the inside of themselves, and they allowed My Holy Spirit to bring life to them by the revelation power of My Spirit, the Spirit of Life. He said that they must reflect upon the sacrifice of Jesus when they observe the bread and wine, not as a substitute of what had already happened to them, but as a remembrance of Him and His sacrifice. It is to be done as a remembrance not as if it has power of its own. He said that many were sick and weak because they did it only as a ritual, forgetting that for which they ought to be reminded, that they were celebrating the new covenant of the Holy Spirit, the resurrection of their lives when they had spiritually eaten His body by being born of His Holy Spirit and they had drunk His blood when they had become baptized in His Holy Spirit because the life is in the blood. (John 20:19-22; Acts 2:1-4)
In other words, Paul was cautioning them to eat their meals at home instead of making a meal out of the Lord's Supper and then their meeting together would not bring condemnation upon themselves by their being tempted by the demons to be gluttons and drunkards.
Concerning spiritual gifts, Paul wanted the followers of Jesus Christ to be informed on the proper distribution of gifts. He emphasized that no one could say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit and no one could say that Jesus was cursed and be speaking under the power of My Spirit. (I Corinthians 12:1-3)
When they came together at meetings, Paul emphasized that My spiritual gifts must be exhibited in divine order, not as a frenzied exhibition of emotional immaturity. He said in the church that the distribution of gifts from Me is delivered by different gifts through different people (I Corinthians 12:4-7) One person may have a gift of preaching wisdom from the Holy Spirit. Another person may have the gift of preaching instructions from the Holy Spirit in correcting or exhorting the congregation. Another person may have the gift of faith for supernatural events from the Holy Spirit for that meeting. Another person may have the gift of healing from the Holy Spirit in that gathering. Another person may have the gift of speaking in tongues and interpretation at that meeting. He said that My gifts of the Holy Spirit are distributed to different people as He chooses but they are the workings of the same Holy Spirit as the needs of the people becomes evident. (I Corinthians 12:8-11) No gift is more important than another one. They are all distributed to enhance the lives of the body of believers.
Through My Holy Spirit Paul made a comparison between a human body and the distribution of spiritual gifts as a spiritual body, both being made up of many parts. My body of Christ is made up of many different but efficient parts just like the human body. He encouraged them that they were all baptized by One Spirit, Jews as well as Greeks, slaves and owners, and one Holy Spirit was given to them to drink. A foot cannot say that it doesn't belong to a body, or the ear or eye cannot say that it doesn't belong to a body because they cannot function alone. Instead, I put all the parts together into one body on purpose. None of the parts have the same functions as the other parts but they all go together to form one body with parts that have different functions so that it will work together efficiently. (I Corinthians 12:12-21)
Such it is in the body of Christ. Each person has a different part in building up the body of Christ, and each part is necessary and honored. If one part hurts, the whole body hurts. If one part is honored, all the body is honored. He said that I gave to one person the appointment as an apostle, one prophesies, one teachers, one works miracles, one has the gift of healing, one speaks with tongues and interprets those messages, one has the gift of helping. They all work together as a complete body, none of them working independently. In a congregational meeting, not everyone acts as an apostle or a prophet, and all do not have the gift of healing for that meeting. They must all work together in order, honoring the other people who have different gifts. Not everyone brings a message in tongues unless that person can also interpret it or the congregation will not benefit from the wisdom of the message. (I Corinthian 12:27-30) Only one or two gifts in tongues with interpretations is orderly. More than that turns out to be someone seeking attention.
It was the disorderly exhibition of the gifts that caused Paul to correct the church at Corinth. My Holy Spirit is not disorderly. It was the way in which the gifts had been delivered by the people that were out of order that had become an embarrassment to the Gospel. The members were encouraged to prophesy because the message in that gift is clear, concise and easily understood because to prophesy is to speak for Me. I do not speak in a frenzied manner or with undisciplined emotions. That display is from a demonic religious spirit which demands attention also.
The gifts of My Holy Spirit are given by Me to My children to meet the needs of My children, whether words of wisdom and knowledge are needed, whether healing is needed, whether miracles are needed, whether guidance is needed, whether insight is needed in tongues and interpretation, whether supernatural faith is needed or whether discerning of spirits is needed, they all work together to meet the needs of a congregation of believers.
I am a God of order, a Father of dignity, a creator who does not embarrass My children or Myself. I do not make a display for the sake of proving the spirituality of anyone. From My personality of mercy I give My gifts to My children in order to meet their needs.
Do not despise My gifts of the Holy Spirit and do not quench the Spirit. If you do, you are cutting off My true body of Christ from your community of believers. (I Corinthians 14:1 and 12 and 39; Mark 16:17)
My kingdom of God is orderly and edifying to the believers. A human body grows into maturity when fed with healthy food. It dies when fed poisons. My body of Christ matures when the gifts of the Holy Spirit are delivered with dignity and honor, for such is My kingdom of heaven. My earthly body of Christ is dispersed by Me when it eats polluted food that is sacrificed to demons by the attention seekers. Keep the distribution of My gifts pure and unadulterated and they will meet the needs of My children.
Your Father of Divine Order
Friday, March 8, 2019
CONTINUING CORRECTIONS FOR CORINTH
My Dear Precious Child,
In Paul's letter to the Christians in Corinth, he included some practical suggestions for My children relating to sexual relations between husbands and wives, also whether single people should marry or not and how to handle problems that lead to divorce. Someone in the Corinthian church had written and asked the apostle about sexual relations between a husband and wife and Paul had some of his own suggestions for all of the church and said that they were his opinions, not rules from Me.
His concern was that the devil would tempt people to sin by engaging in fornication or adultery if they were not having satisfying sexual relations with their marriage mates. So he said that a wife's body belongs to her husband and the husband's body belongs to his wife and they should have sexual relations except for agreed upon prayer time. He emphasized that the sexual relations must be mutually consenting, not forced by one person. Unfortunately, men have used Paul's suggestions to enslave their wives to lives of unwanted, unfulfilled and selfish sexual relations by husbands.
However, even though he gave his opinions on such matters, Paul said he wished that all of My children had the same grace that he had of refusing to yield to lustful desires in their lives. He said his opinions were only a suggestion, not a rule. (I Corinthians 7:1-7) He also advised widows to marry if they had uncontrollable sexual urges rather than be tortured by sexual desires.
In his writings Paul also had many suggestions about married life, one being that a believing woman should stay with an unbelieving husband; but if she leaves him that she should stay single. He said that it is My desire that they stay together so that their children would be holy. He wrote that that is My desire because a woman might be able to save her husband by her holy living. (I Corinthians 7:16)
Paul's opinion about those matters was this: That since Jesus was soon supposed to come back to earth, that unmarried people should stay unmarried in order to live for Me instead of living to meet the needs of a husband or wife. He said that it is not a sin for a young lady to get married, but he was trying to save them a lot of trouble that comes from being married. (verses 29-32) He said he wanted them to be free from the worries that are caused by their getting married. He also surmised that an unmarried man can devote himself to My affairs and all he needs to worry about is pleasing Me instead of a wife. Same thing about a woman remaining single. (verses 32-33) His opinion was that a husband and wife are tied to each other as long as they are alive, but when one person dies the other person will be happier if they stay single. Paul even said that he thought he had the thoughts of My mind on that. (verses 39-46)
After I created the earth and man, I said that it was not good that a man should be alone, and so I created animals and birds, but still there was no helper for him. (Genesis 2:18-20) So I took the female part of Adam out of him and formed those female parts around his rib, thus creating a woman to be his helper. (verses 21-22; Genesis 2:27) I said that men should leave their parents and become one with his female helper. (verses 23-25)
After Adam and Eve yielded to the devil and allowed him to bring his demons into the earth and curse it, I told Adam and Eve that because of their allowing demons into the world that women would have pain in childbirth, plus the demons would cause women to have an unquenchable desire to have a husband in their lives, thus bringing curses into their lives on earth. I also said that men would have an unquenchable desire to rule over women, thus cursing their entire families. (Genesis 3:16) The devil was successful in conquering the earth by cursing the entire earth with his demons. (Genesis 3:17-18)
Unfortunately Paul was in the dark about the curses on men and women that came into the lives of people when Adam invited the devil into the earth. Either that or he was temporarily ignorant of them. It's possible that Paul was so eager for Jesus to come back to earth and end the devil's rule that he forgot that it was the devil who was still his problem and that he and My children of promise had power over the devil in the earth, power as given to them by Jesus Christ after He rose from hell where He took authority to the earth back from the devil. (Matthew 28:18-20; Matthew 13:36-43)
My children in Corinth were not seeking My righteousness. They were also not using My power to throw offending demons into hell, per Jesus' parable of My kingdom of God coming into their lives. (Acts 2:1-21) Jesus told them that My kingdom was near to coming to earth when He walked in the earth and that the day of Pentecost was the fulfillment of the prophesies of My power coming to live inside of My children in the person of the Holy Spirit, who is My personality and My character of love. He reveals My character of love to My children. (Romans 5:5)
Even though Paul continued to work in his vocation as well as spreading the gospel, he also gave his opinion about the saints supporting those who preached the gospel, saying that the preachers should be supported by their fellow Christians, even though Paul said that he was not one of the ones who required being fed and housed by others. For himself, Paul said that he would continue to work so that his preaching the gospel would be free to others. (I Corinthians 9:17-18)
Paul finally got to the subject for which he wrote the letter, he finally got to the correction that needed to be brought to their attention. He gave them a good history lesson of their ancestors who were freed by Moses from bondage to the Egyptians. He reminded them that those people were led by a cloud, that they passed unharmed through a sea, that all of them ate spiritual food from heaven and drank the same spiritual drink from the spiritual rock that was Christ. In spite of all of those supernatural events, they perished in the wilderness because of the demonic lusts of their flesh. (I Corinthians 10:1-5) He wrote that they are examples to all of My children not to have demonic lusts for forbidden things, also he warned them not to become idolators like some of them in the journey to the Promised Land did.
Paul reminded them that they must never fall for sexual immorality like some did when 23,000 of them perished in one day on the 40 year journey that should have taken a short time. They put me to the test and they were killed by demons who took the form of snakes, as was their habit. He also warned them to never complain or they would be killed by the devil, the destroyer himself, like some also did. (verses 6-10)
Paul's warnings to the Corinthians were given to them so that they would refuse the temptations of the devil because the trials that they had were more than anyone else. However, he told them that they could trust Me because I would never let them be tempted beyond their strength, that with every trial I would provide a way of escape and the strength to bear up under it. (I Corinthians 10:11-13)
His opinions and suggestions, even though some were not from Me, were instead to protect My children from yielding to evil and thus being judged by the devil, the destroyer. His suggestions were firm in telling My children to remain single because his idea that Jesus Christ was soon coming back into the earth wad from ignorance of the scripture, causing him to not fully realize that Jesus Christ had already come back into the earth when My kingdom of God came into the lives of My children on the day of Pentecost when My Holy Spirit came to live inside of them. Jesus also comes back to earth in others of My individual children also when they are also baptized with My Holy Spirit. Just like when My children are born of My Spirit, the return of Jesus Christ in their lives is an individual occurrence just like My relationship with all of My children is, one-on-one.
Unfortunately the sluggards and idle people in the body of Christ were people who were convinced that Jesus was coming to earth immediately, so they quit work, became lazy, ceased witnessing about the Good News and stopped seeking My kingdom and My righteousness because of the belief that I was coming to earth any day so they could cease their spiritual labors. They were blinded that I had come on the most important day in the history of the world, on the day of Pentecost which was My promise to My children. The same thing happened to the people that Paul called babies. They still drank spiritual milk instead of eating solid food from the tutoring of My Holy Spirit. They were waiting for an event that had already happened. Jesus had already come and they were looking on the horizon for Him to set up His kingdom in the earth. He already had done it in the lives of individuals who sought My kingdom and My righteousness by being born of My Holy Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit.
Jesus said they needed to become mature, taking their place as inheritors of My salvation and authority, clearing the earth of the demons who are still occupying it through the generational curses who are still resident in the lives of My children. Seeking My righteousness means getting rid of those offending demons passed down to the third and fourth generations in your family. (Exodus 34:6-7) Praying in My Holy Spirit and listening to My Spirit will accomplish that feat. (Ephesians 6:10-20)
You are My child of Promise. Take your place of authority and love in the body of Christ.
Your Father of Mercy For People and Power Over the Devil
My Dear Precious Child,
In Paul's letter to the Christians in Corinth, he included some practical suggestions for My children relating to sexual relations between husbands and wives, also whether single people should marry or not and how to handle problems that lead to divorce. Someone in the Corinthian church had written and asked the apostle about sexual relations between a husband and wife and Paul had some of his own suggestions for all of the church and said that they were his opinions, not rules from Me.
His concern was that the devil would tempt people to sin by engaging in fornication or adultery if they were not having satisfying sexual relations with their marriage mates. So he said that a wife's body belongs to her husband and the husband's body belongs to his wife and they should have sexual relations except for agreed upon prayer time. He emphasized that the sexual relations must be mutually consenting, not forced by one person. Unfortunately, men have used Paul's suggestions to enslave their wives to lives of unwanted, unfulfilled and selfish sexual relations by husbands.
However, even though he gave his opinions on such matters, Paul said he wished that all of My children had the same grace that he had of refusing to yield to lustful desires in their lives. He said his opinions were only a suggestion, not a rule. (I Corinthians 7:1-7) He also advised widows to marry if they had uncontrollable sexual urges rather than be tortured by sexual desires.
In his writings Paul also had many suggestions about married life, one being that a believing woman should stay with an unbelieving husband; but if she leaves him that she should stay single. He said that it is My desire that they stay together so that their children would be holy. He wrote that that is My desire because a woman might be able to save her husband by her holy living. (I Corinthians 7:16)
Paul's opinion about those matters was this: That since Jesus was soon supposed to come back to earth, that unmarried people should stay unmarried in order to live for Me instead of living to meet the needs of a husband or wife. He said that it is not a sin for a young lady to get married, but he was trying to save them a lot of trouble that comes from being married. (verses 29-32) He said he wanted them to be free from the worries that are caused by their getting married. He also surmised that an unmarried man can devote himself to My affairs and all he needs to worry about is pleasing Me instead of a wife. Same thing about a woman remaining single. (verses 32-33) His opinion was that a husband and wife are tied to each other as long as they are alive, but when one person dies the other person will be happier if they stay single. Paul even said that he thought he had the thoughts of My mind on that. (verses 39-46)
After I created the earth and man, I said that it was not good that a man should be alone, and so I created animals and birds, but still there was no helper for him. (Genesis 2:18-20) So I took the female part of Adam out of him and formed those female parts around his rib, thus creating a woman to be his helper. (verses 21-22; Genesis 2:27) I said that men should leave their parents and become one with his female helper. (verses 23-25)
After Adam and Eve yielded to the devil and allowed him to bring his demons into the earth and curse it, I told Adam and Eve that because of their allowing demons into the world that women would have pain in childbirth, plus the demons would cause women to have an unquenchable desire to have a husband in their lives, thus bringing curses into their lives on earth. I also said that men would have an unquenchable desire to rule over women, thus cursing their entire families. (Genesis 3:16) The devil was successful in conquering the earth by cursing the entire earth with his demons. (Genesis 3:17-18)
Unfortunately Paul was in the dark about the curses on men and women that came into the lives of people when Adam invited the devil into the earth. Either that or he was temporarily ignorant of them. It's possible that Paul was so eager for Jesus to come back to earth and end the devil's rule that he forgot that it was the devil who was still his problem and that he and My children of promise had power over the devil in the earth, power as given to them by Jesus Christ after He rose from hell where He took authority to the earth back from the devil. (Matthew 28:18-20; Matthew 13:36-43)
My children in Corinth were not seeking My righteousness. They were also not using My power to throw offending demons into hell, per Jesus' parable of My kingdom of God coming into their lives. (Acts 2:1-21) Jesus told them that My kingdom was near to coming to earth when He walked in the earth and that the day of Pentecost was the fulfillment of the prophesies of My power coming to live inside of My children in the person of the Holy Spirit, who is My personality and My character of love. He reveals My character of love to My children. (Romans 5:5)
Even though Paul continued to work in his vocation as well as spreading the gospel, he also gave his opinion about the saints supporting those who preached the gospel, saying that the preachers should be supported by their fellow Christians, even though Paul said that he was not one of the ones who required being fed and housed by others. For himself, Paul said that he would continue to work so that his preaching the gospel would be free to others. (I Corinthians 9:17-18)
Paul finally got to the subject for which he wrote the letter, he finally got to the correction that needed to be brought to their attention. He gave them a good history lesson of their ancestors who were freed by Moses from bondage to the Egyptians. He reminded them that those people were led by a cloud, that they passed unharmed through a sea, that all of them ate spiritual food from heaven and drank the same spiritual drink from the spiritual rock that was Christ. In spite of all of those supernatural events, they perished in the wilderness because of the demonic lusts of their flesh. (I Corinthians 10:1-5) He wrote that they are examples to all of My children not to have demonic lusts for forbidden things, also he warned them not to become idolators like some of them in the journey to the Promised Land did.
Paul reminded them that they must never fall for sexual immorality like some did when 23,000 of them perished in one day on the 40 year journey that should have taken a short time. They put me to the test and they were killed by demons who took the form of snakes, as was their habit. He also warned them to never complain or they would be killed by the devil, the destroyer himself, like some also did. (verses 6-10)
Paul's warnings to the Corinthians were given to them so that they would refuse the temptations of the devil because the trials that they had were more than anyone else. However, he told them that they could trust Me because I would never let them be tempted beyond their strength, that with every trial I would provide a way of escape and the strength to bear up under it. (I Corinthians 10:11-13)
His opinions and suggestions, even though some were not from Me, were instead to protect My children from yielding to evil and thus being judged by the devil, the destroyer. His suggestions were firm in telling My children to remain single because his idea that Jesus Christ was soon coming back into the earth wad from ignorance of the scripture, causing him to not fully realize that Jesus Christ had already come back into the earth when My kingdom of God came into the lives of My children on the day of Pentecost when My Holy Spirit came to live inside of them. Jesus also comes back to earth in others of My individual children also when they are also baptized with My Holy Spirit. Just like when My children are born of My Spirit, the return of Jesus Christ in their lives is an individual occurrence just like My relationship with all of My children is, one-on-one.
Unfortunately the sluggards and idle people in the body of Christ were people who were convinced that Jesus was coming to earth immediately, so they quit work, became lazy, ceased witnessing about the Good News and stopped seeking My kingdom and My righteousness because of the belief that I was coming to earth any day so they could cease their spiritual labors. They were blinded that I had come on the most important day in the history of the world, on the day of Pentecost which was My promise to My children. The same thing happened to the people that Paul called babies. They still drank spiritual milk instead of eating solid food from the tutoring of My Holy Spirit. They were waiting for an event that had already happened. Jesus had already come and they were looking on the horizon for Him to set up His kingdom in the earth. He already had done it in the lives of individuals who sought My kingdom and My righteousness by being born of My Holy Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit.
Jesus said they needed to become mature, taking their place as inheritors of My salvation and authority, clearing the earth of the demons who are still occupying it through the generational curses who are still resident in the lives of My children. Seeking My righteousness means getting rid of those offending demons passed down to the third and fourth generations in your family. (Exodus 34:6-7) Praying in My Holy Spirit and listening to My Spirit will accomplish that feat. (Ephesians 6:10-20)
You are My child of Promise. Take your place of authority and love in the body of Christ.
Your Father of Mercy For People and Power Over the Devil
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
FURTHER CORRECTIONS FOR THE CORINTHIANS
My Dear Precious Child,
Paul's corrections for the Corinthians were many because the church members had become unspiritual because of their being babies in spiritual matters instead of being able to eat the solid food from the Holy Spirit's tutoring. They neither recognized the gift of the Spirit of discernment of the devil's works when they allowed factions to exist in the church with their constant arguments between brothers in Christ, nor did they discern the sins of the members who were engaged in sexual immorality as being people who were polluting the purity of their church. (I Corinthians 6:1-8) They tolerated divisive arguments between spiritual brothers as well as a member who was sleeping with his own mother-in-law. (I Corinthians 5:1-2) If they had been mature members of the body of Christ they would have settled their differences between themselves. Also, if they had been experienced in discerning of spirits they would have asked the man who was engaged in incest to leave their congregation. (I Corinthians 5:2)
Also there were other reasons Paul was writing a letter of correction to them. He had cautioned them time and again about keeping peace with each other, to forgive quickly and to even become like Jesus by taking upon themselves the sins of other people who wronged them by making peace with them. He had learned that some of the born again, Spirit baptized members were suing their brothers in Christ in civil courts instead of having an elder in the church mitigate between them. Paul considered that as being a bad witness to the world of the lack of virtues of My children. He said how dare the two parties show the world that My words of wisdom to My children about keeping peace with everyone was foolishness. (Matthew 5:38-48) He also said that one person or the other was obviously doing wrong by cheating his spiritual brother, of which he should be ashamed. (I Corinthians 6:1-8)
Paul reminded the people in the church at Corinth that I said that neither people who live immoral lives or idolators, adulterers, catamites, sodomites, thieves, usurers, drunkards, slanderers and swindlers will ever inherit My kingdom of God while they live in the earth unless they give up their demons. He also reminded them that some of them at one time were once bound by those sins but they had been washed clean, sanctified and justified through the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and through My Holy Spirit's cleansing. (I Corinthians 6:9-11) Yet some of them had returned to their old ways of swindling each other in some way or they would not have been sued by a brother in Christ. Because of their lack of spiritual maturity they had returned to their former ways of an eye for an eye.
Paul wrote that for him all things are legal but not everything is beneficial for him. He recognized that not everyone had the same grace to refuse sexual temptations that he had developed. (I Corinthians 6:12) He said that the human body is not meant for fornication because when a man and woman have sexual relations their bodies become one. So if a spiritual man has sexual relations with a prostitute, then he is causing a portion of the body of Christ to be joined with the body of a prostitute. It should not be so. He said that all sins are committed outside the body but for a man his act of fornication is committed against his own body. (I Corinthians 6:15-17)
Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and you are not your own property. Your body belongs to Jesus Christ as His dwelling place in the earth. (I Corinthians 6:19-20) To the spiritually mature members of the body of Christ, the veil has been removed and they are able to hear from My Holy Spirit, discerning good from evil instead of falling for the temptations of demons who are sent from the devil to cause divisions between My children; plus, they are able to refuse the sexual temptations of the flesh when the devil sends lust into their minds.
Every facet of the lives of My children are covered in the advice and corrections sections of My letters to the churches through Paul, Peter, James and John. Paul spent two years alone with Me and He was schooled in refusing temptations. Take My advice through him.
Your Father of Wise Advice
Paul's corrections for the Corinthians were many because the church members had become unspiritual because of their being babies in spiritual matters instead of being able to eat the solid food from the Holy Spirit's tutoring. They neither recognized the gift of the Spirit of discernment of the devil's works when they allowed factions to exist in the church with their constant arguments between brothers in Christ, nor did they discern the sins of the members who were engaged in sexual immorality as being people who were polluting the purity of their church. (I Corinthians 6:1-8) They tolerated divisive arguments between spiritual brothers as well as a member who was sleeping with his own mother-in-law. (I Corinthians 5:1-2) If they had been mature members of the body of Christ they would have settled their differences between themselves. Also, if they had been experienced in discerning of spirits they would have asked the man who was engaged in incest to leave their congregation. (I Corinthians 5:2)
Also there were other reasons Paul was writing a letter of correction to them. He had cautioned them time and again about keeping peace with each other, to forgive quickly and to even become like Jesus by taking upon themselves the sins of other people who wronged them by making peace with them. He had learned that some of the born again, Spirit baptized members were suing their brothers in Christ in civil courts instead of having an elder in the church mitigate between them. Paul considered that as being a bad witness to the world of the lack of virtues of My children. He said how dare the two parties show the world that My words of wisdom to My children about keeping peace with everyone was foolishness. (Matthew 5:38-48) He also said that one person or the other was obviously doing wrong by cheating his spiritual brother, of which he should be ashamed. (I Corinthians 6:1-8)
Paul reminded the people in the church at Corinth that I said that neither people who live immoral lives or idolators, adulterers, catamites, sodomites, thieves, usurers, drunkards, slanderers and swindlers will ever inherit My kingdom of God while they live in the earth unless they give up their demons. He also reminded them that some of them at one time were once bound by those sins but they had been washed clean, sanctified and justified through the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and through My Holy Spirit's cleansing. (I Corinthians 6:9-11) Yet some of them had returned to their old ways of swindling each other in some way or they would not have been sued by a brother in Christ. Because of their lack of spiritual maturity they had returned to their former ways of an eye for an eye.
Paul wrote that for him all things are legal but not everything is beneficial for him. He recognized that not everyone had the same grace to refuse sexual temptations that he had developed. (I Corinthians 6:12) He said that the human body is not meant for fornication because when a man and woman have sexual relations their bodies become one. So if a spiritual man has sexual relations with a prostitute, then he is causing a portion of the body of Christ to be joined with the body of a prostitute. It should not be so. He said that all sins are committed outside the body but for a man his act of fornication is committed against his own body. (I Corinthians 6:15-17)
Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and you are not your own property. Your body belongs to Jesus Christ as His dwelling place in the earth. (I Corinthians 6:19-20) To the spiritually mature members of the body of Christ, the veil has been removed and they are able to hear from My Holy Spirit, discerning good from evil instead of falling for the temptations of demons who are sent from the devil to cause divisions between My children; plus, they are able to refuse the sexual temptations of the flesh when the devil sends lust into their minds.
Every facet of the lives of My children are covered in the advice and corrections sections of My letters to the churches through Paul, Peter, James and John. Paul spent two years alone with Me and He was schooled in refusing temptations. Take My advice through him.
Your Father of Wise Advice
EMPHATIC INSTRUCTIONS
My Dear Precious Child,
In the apostle Paul's calling to the attention of My children some problems in the Corinthian church that were causing division and contention in their group, Paul was peeved that there was a big emotional fight between two factions, two people who were leading other people in arguing doctrine. (I Corinthians:10-15) The factions were caused by My children comparing the teachings of different apostles and arguing over whose teaching was right. In Paul's correction of the entire church He let them know that one teacher lays a foundation, another one waters it and I cause the increase. He told the rest of the church that it was not for them to think they were so important and spiritually astute as to take sides against each other.
In his correction he reminded them of an old saying, "Keep to what is written." In other words, remain loyal to what was spoken and recorded by Jesus Christ as the final authority. He told them to assess their progress in faith and determine if they were already so rich in the things of My kingdom that they felt wise enough to argue about truths. (I Corinthians 4:6-9) He had already told them that they were babies in spiritual things, still drinking milk when they should be eating solid food themselves by hearing from My Holy Spirit. He said that he felt like he was being left out of being consulted while they were acting like celebrities among themselves. He felt like a pauper in the body of Christ because of their arrogance in their own self-importance.
Paul warned them that he was coming to see them and that those people who thought they were so self-important would have to prove their claims by what they could do spiritually, not with what they could merely say. He said that My kingdom of God consists not merely in words but in power, by the demonstrations of the power of My Holy Spirit in the gifts of My Holy Spirit. (chapter 4, verses 18-24)
In his letter to the church at Corinth My Spirit wrote through Paul that there was also something even more concerning in their midst. He said that he had heard that there was sexual immorality among them, that one of the men was sleeping with his stepmother, which was considered incest. Instead of the Corinthians having great pride in the works of their church, Paul said they should be in mourning that they allowed such a thing to exist in their church. (chapter 5, verses 1-5) He told them to expel the man from their community by turning him over to satan so that his sexual body would be destroyed but his soul would be saved.
Paul's reason for being so strict about the sexual immorality was so that the body of Christ in their church would remain pure. Paul reminded them that a small amount of yeast is enough to affect a whole lump of dough, so they needed to get rid of the old bread and start over with a new loaf. They needed to get rid of the old yeasts of evil and wickedness in their midst and leave only the unleavened virtues of sincerity and truth. (chapter 5, verses 6-8) In other words, clean up the temple of God, My body of Christ. Jesus Christ was sacrificed for them so that they would have the power of My Holy Spirit to recognize evil and get rid of the pollution that was sent by the devil to destroy My children.
Further explaining his being so strict in his advice, Paul clarified himself by writing that in another letter when he told them not to associate with people living immoral lives that he was not talking about refusing to associate with the people in the world who are sexually immoral, usurers, swindlers or idol worshipers, because to do that they would have to withdraw from people altogether. What he had been talking about was admonishing them not to associate with a brother or a sister Christian who is openly leading a sexually immoral life or is a usurer, idolatrous, a slanderer, a drunkard or dishonest. He said not to eat with them because to do so would mean that you approve of their sinful lives and you approve of their poisoning the whole church by eating with them and placing your stamp of approval upon their immoral behavior.
I said through Paul that it is not your job to judge the people outside of the church but you are given My authority to judge the people inside of the church in order for the church to maintain its purity. So Paul wrote that they should drive out the evil doer who was among them in order to purify the church again by refusing to welcome into their midst the sexually immoral person who was polluting the church. (chapter 5, verses 9-13)
Because the Corinthians were such babies in spiritual things, they were easily deceived by the devil, identifying evil as being good at times. That is why Paul was so disgusted with their being so unspiritual, lacking in discernment. The gift of discernment is the gift of the Holy Spirit which judges the fruit of a person by identifying evil as being from the devil and good as being from Me. Jesus Christ told his followers that the Holy Spirit would reveal evil for them and also reveal good for them, and He would show them how to judge between the two. (John 16:7-11) Because My children in the Corinthian church were so ignorant of spiritual things they had allowed the devil to enter into their church unidentified even though it was clearly by apparent sexual immorality.
My Holy Spirit discerns the fruit of righteousness and the fruit of evil. My children must learn to hear His voice of discernment so that they can keep their own bodies and minds pure and unpolluted by evil. The Holy Spirit's voice of discernment is one of the most advantageous gifts that I give to My children because it is their only way to stay on the narrow path that leads to the abundant life that I have for My children. (Matthew 7:14)
Your Protective Father
My Dear Precious Child,
In the apostle Paul's calling to the attention of My children some problems in the Corinthian church that were causing division and contention in their group, Paul was peeved that there was a big emotional fight between two factions, two people who were leading other people in arguing doctrine. (I Corinthians:10-15) The factions were caused by My children comparing the teachings of different apostles and arguing over whose teaching was right. In Paul's correction of the entire church He let them know that one teacher lays a foundation, another one waters it and I cause the increase. He told the rest of the church that it was not for them to think they were so important and spiritually astute as to take sides against each other.
In his correction he reminded them of an old saying, "Keep to what is written." In other words, remain loyal to what was spoken and recorded by Jesus Christ as the final authority. He told them to assess their progress in faith and determine if they were already so rich in the things of My kingdom that they felt wise enough to argue about truths. (I Corinthians 4:6-9) He had already told them that they were babies in spiritual things, still drinking milk when they should be eating solid food themselves by hearing from My Holy Spirit. He said that he felt like he was being left out of being consulted while they were acting like celebrities among themselves. He felt like a pauper in the body of Christ because of their arrogance in their own self-importance.
Paul warned them that he was coming to see them and that those people who thought they were so self-important would have to prove their claims by what they could do spiritually, not with what they could merely say. He said that My kingdom of God consists not merely in words but in power, by the demonstrations of the power of My Holy Spirit in the gifts of My Holy Spirit. (chapter 4, verses 18-24)
In his letter to the church at Corinth My Spirit wrote through Paul that there was also something even more concerning in their midst. He said that he had heard that there was sexual immorality among them, that one of the men was sleeping with his stepmother, which was considered incest. Instead of the Corinthians having great pride in the works of their church, Paul said they should be in mourning that they allowed such a thing to exist in their church. (chapter 5, verses 1-5) He told them to expel the man from their community by turning him over to satan so that his sexual body would be destroyed but his soul would be saved.
Paul's reason for being so strict about the sexual immorality was so that the body of Christ in their church would remain pure. Paul reminded them that a small amount of yeast is enough to affect a whole lump of dough, so they needed to get rid of the old bread and start over with a new loaf. They needed to get rid of the old yeasts of evil and wickedness in their midst and leave only the unleavened virtues of sincerity and truth. (chapter 5, verses 6-8) In other words, clean up the temple of God, My body of Christ. Jesus Christ was sacrificed for them so that they would have the power of My Holy Spirit to recognize evil and get rid of the pollution that was sent by the devil to destroy My children.
Further explaining his being so strict in his advice, Paul clarified himself by writing that in another letter when he told them not to associate with people living immoral lives that he was not talking about refusing to associate with the people in the world who are sexually immoral, usurers, swindlers or idol worshipers, because to do that they would have to withdraw from people altogether. What he had been talking about was admonishing them not to associate with a brother or a sister Christian who is openly leading a sexually immoral life or is a usurer, idolatrous, a slanderer, a drunkard or dishonest. He said not to eat with them because to do so would mean that you approve of their sinful lives and you approve of their poisoning the whole church by eating with them and placing your stamp of approval upon their immoral behavior.
I said through Paul that it is not your job to judge the people outside of the church but you are given My authority to judge the people inside of the church in order for the church to maintain its purity. So Paul wrote that they should drive out the evil doer who was among them in order to purify the church again by refusing to welcome into their midst the sexually immoral person who was polluting the church. (chapter 5, verses 9-13)
Because the Corinthians were such babies in spiritual things, they were easily deceived by the devil, identifying evil as being good at times. That is why Paul was so disgusted with their being so unspiritual, lacking in discernment. The gift of discernment is the gift of the Holy Spirit which judges the fruit of a person by identifying evil as being from the devil and good as being from Me. Jesus Christ told his followers that the Holy Spirit would reveal evil for them and also reveal good for them, and He would show them how to judge between the two. (John 16:7-11) Because My children in the Corinthian church were so ignorant of spiritual things they had allowed the devil to enter into their church unidentified even though it was clearly by apparent sexual immorality.
My Holy Spirit discerns the fruit of righteousness and the fruit of evil. My children must learn to hear His voice of discernment so that they can keep their own bodies and minds pure and unpolluted by evil. The Holy Spirit's voice of discernment is one of the most advantageous gifts that I give to My children because it is their only way to stay on the narrow path that leads to the abundant life that I have for My children. (Matthew 7:14)
Your Protective Father
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
TREASURES OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
My Dear Precious Child,
Paul, through the revelation of the Holy Spirit, chastened My children in Corinth who should have been eating solid spiritual food but instead were still drinking milk for babies. He told them that all of My wisdom is available to all of My children in the person of My Holy Spirit who lives inside of them in their born again spirits. (I Corinthians 3:1-3) It was not an unkind, unloving gesture by Me to tell them that they had remained babies instead of advancing to adulthood. I wanted to challenge them to begin to seek My kingdom and My righteousness for themselves instead of waiting for someone else to do the seeking for them.
There are situations in the earth and circumstances in daily living which require more wisdom and knowledge than human minds can produce. Jesus Christ died so that My children could access the entire resources of My encyclopedia of wisdom and knowledge, revelations which are stored in My mind. All of them are available to My children. I set all of them aside for My children when I created humanity and there are many who seek them but some who don't. Some of My children leave the treasures of their inheritance sitting unclaimed, the ones of which Jesus spoke about when He said that His disciples should not seek treasures on earth but instead they should seek treasures in heaven which cannot be corrupted, stolen or rot. Those treasures are the wisdom and knowledge in My mind which I call the keys of My kingdom which perfect your life on earth when My children become mature people with the same abundance of spiritual information that was in the mind of My Son Jesus Christ. (Matthew 16:19-20)
I inspired Paul to explain what the spiritual babies were missing in their lives by their being sluggards in spiritual matters instead of actively seeking Me, My insight and My understanding into My spiritual treasures. It is those treasures of which Jesus was speaking when He said to first seek My kingdom and My righteousness; and, if you do that, everything will be done for you, meaning all of your needs will be supplied to overflowing. ( Mathew 6:33)
Many of My children are locked into the mindset of the old covenant in which it was said that eye has not seen, ear has not heard, neither is it stored in the minds of men all that I have prepared for those of My children who love Me. (Isaiah 63:3) Yet, I said under My new covenant of faith that those treasures are the very things that I reveal to My children of promise through the tutoring of My Holy Spirit. They belong to you and all of My children, so you might as well access them if you want your life on earth to be pleasurable and joyful. (I Corinthians 2:10)
I explained that truth by telling you that My Holy Spirit searches the depths of everything, even the depths of My Own mind. (verses 10-11) A human's thoughts and knowledge stored in his own mind can only be known by his own spirit, not by anyone else. So in the same way the treasures in the depths of My mind can only be known by My Spirit, who is My Holy Spirit, who is also your private tutor. (verses 11-12 and Matthew 6:19-21) He is willing and able to reveal them to My children who take time to seek Me, to seek My righteous virtues and to meditate upon the words of Jesus Christ, asking My Holy Spirit to reveal the spiritual wealth that resides in them.
In the letter written by Paul to them, My Spirit assured the people in Corinth that they had not received the spirit of the world but they had received My very own Holy Spirit who was sent by Me to teach My children the deeper truths that are resident in My mind, spiritual things that cause My children to triumph over the evil that is in the world. (verse 12-13) Those spiritual truths contain the keys to My kingdom which are My spiritual strategies, My spiritual orchestrations, My spiritual abilities, My spiritual insights, My spiritual knowledge, My spiritual armor in their battles against the devil, My spiritual wisdom and knowledge, My spiritual armies, and also all of the spiritual truths that were taught by Jesus Christ which even his disciples were unable to understand because of the veil of unbelief which covered their minds until the day of Pentecost when My Holy Spirit descended from heaven and came to live in them. (John 16:12-15) As He did in them, My Holy Spirit reveals spiritual truths to your human mind and He does it from the inside of you, enlightening your human mind to Truths which set you free from the devil and from the old religious laws which bind you to the kingdom of hell.
In speaking about the unspiritual person who does not understand anything that My Spirit teaches, I said that My truths are beyond the understanding of the unspiritual person because they can only be understood by the tutoring of My Holy Spirit. It is impossible for a person to understand spiritual truths if he or she has not been baptized in My Holy Spirit, as on the day of Pentecost. Yet, My Holy Spirit is available to anyone who seeks My kingdom of heaven. Jesus referred to My Holy Spirit as My promise which I made to My children that I would come to earth and live in them and they would be My children and I would be their God. (Acts 1:1-5; Jeremiah 31:33) In other words, they would be baptized with all of My wisdom and My knowledge which are resident in My mind and revealed to them by the person of My Holy Spirit. Jesus told His followers that they would receive My power when My Holy Spirit came upon them, the same power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead. (Acts 1:8; Romans 8:11)
Knowledge is power because it gives insight into matters which a person does not naturally possess. When My children receive My power, they have access to all knowledge that has been hidden from the foundation of the world, the vast amount of knowledge which was resident in the mind of Christ Jesus. He lives inside of My born again children who are also baptized in My Holy Spirit . He is available to give to My children all of the spiritual resources which will form the mind of Christ inside of you, producing His glory in your life, the glory that makes you shine like the sun. (Matthew 13:43)
Oh, that My born again, Holy Spirit baptized children would seek My wisdom and My knowledge from the Holy Spirit who is resident inside of them. (I Corinthians 3:16; James 1:5-8) Jesus Christ paid the ultimate prize by being crucified so that you would become My spiritual child with a hunger and thirst for My kingdom of heaven in which all of My wisdom and knowledge are resident.
Seek Me with your whole heart and you will inherit the treasures stored in My mind which empower you to overcome every obstacle in the world and you will soar like the eagles in My kingdom of heaven while you live in the earth. (Matthew 6:33; Isaiah 40:31)
Your Father of Empowering Spiritual Knowledge
Paul, through the revelation of the Holy Spirit, chastened My children in Corinth who should have been eating solid spiritual food but instead were still drinking milk for babies. He told them that all of My wisdom is available to all of My children in the person of My Holy Spirit who lives inside of them in their born again spirits. (I Corinthians 3:1-3) It was not an unkind, unloving gesture by Me to tell them that they had remained babies instead of advancing to adulthood. I wanted to challenge them to begin to seek My kingdom and My righteousness for themselves instead of waiting for someone else to do the seeking for them.
There are situations in the earth and circumstances in daily living which require more wisdom and knowledge than human minds can produce. Jesus Christ died so that My children could access the entire resources of My encyclopedia of wisdom and knowledge, revelations which are stored in My mind. All of them are available to My children. I set all of them aside for My children when I created humanity and there are many who seek them but some who don't. Some of My children leave the treasures of their inheritance sitting unclaimed, the ones of which Jesus spoke about when He said that His disciples should not seek treasures on earth but instead they should seek treasures in heaven which cannot be corrupted, stolen or rot. Those treasures are the wisdom and knowledge in My mind which I call the keys of My kingdom which perfect your life on earth when My children become mature people with the same abundance of spiritual information that was in the mind of My Son Jesus Christ. (Matthew 16:19-20)
I inspired Paul to explain what the spiritual babies were missing in their lives by their being sluggards in spiritual matters instead of actively seeking Me, My insight and My understanding into My spiritual treasures. It is those treasures of which Jesus was speaking when He said to first seek My kingdom and My righteousness; and, if you do that, everything will be done for you, meaning all of your needs will be supplied to overflowing. ( Mathew 6:33)
Many of My children are locked into the mindset of the old covenant in which it was said that eye has not seen, ear has not heard, neither is it stored in the minds of men all that I have prepared for those of My children who love Me. (Isaiah 63:3) Yet, I said under My new covenant of faith that those treasures are the very things that I reveal to My children of promise through the tutoring of My Holy Spirit. They belong to you and all of My children, so you might as well access them if you want your life on earth to be pleasurable and joyful. (I Corinthians 2:10)
I explained that truth by telling you that My Holy Spirit searches the depths of everything, even the depths of My Own mind. (verses 10-11) A human's thoughts and knowledge stored in his own mind can only be known by his own spirit, not by anyone else. So in the same way the treasures in the depths of My mind can only be known by My Spirit, who is My Holy Spirit, who is also your private tutor. (verses 11-12 and Matthew 6:19-21) He is willing and able to reveal them to My children who take time to seek Me, to seek My righteous virtues and to meditate upon the words of Jesus Christ, asking My Holy Spirit to reveal the spiritual wealth that resides in them.
In the letter written by Paul to them, My Spirit assured the people in Corinth that they had not received the spirit of the world but they had received My very own Holy Spirit who was sent by Me to teach My children the deeper truths that are resident in My mind, spiritual things that cause My children to triumph over the evil that is in the world. (verse 12-13) Those spiritual truths contain the keys to My kingdom which are My spiritual strategies, My spiritual orchestrations, My spiritual abilities, My spiritual insights, My spiritual knowledge, My spiritual armor in their battles against the devil, My spiritual wisdom and knowledge, My spiritual armies, and also all of the spiritual truths that were taught by Jesus Christ which even his disciples were unable to understand because of the veil of unbelief which covered their minds until the day of Pentecost when My Holy Spirit descended from heaven and came to live in them. (John 16:12-15) As He did in them, My Holy Spirit reveals spiritual truths to your human mind and He does it from the inside of you, enlightening your human mind to Truths which set you free from the devil and from the old religious laws which bind you to the kingdom of hell.
In speaking about the unspiritual person who does not understand anything that My Spirit teaches, I said that My truths are beyond the understanding of the unspiritual person because they can only be understood by the tutoring of My Holy Spirit. It is impossible for a person to understand spiritual truths if he or she has not been baptized in My Holy Spirit, as on the day of Pentecost. Yet, My Holy Spirit is available to anyone who seeks My kingdom of heaven. Jesus referred to My Holy Spirit as My promise which I made to My children that I would come to earth and live in them and they would be My children and I would be their God. (Acts 1:1-5; Jeremiah 31:33) In other words, they would be baptized with all of My wisdom and My knowledge which are resident in My mind and revealed to them by the person of My Holy Spirit. Jesus told His followers that they would receive My power when My Holy Spirit came upon them, the same power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead. (Acts 1:8; Romans 8:11)
Knowledge is power because it gives insight into matters which a person does not naturally possess. When My children receive My power, they have access to all knowledge that has been hidden from the foundation of the world, the vast amount of knowledge which was resident in the mind of Christ Jesus. He lives inside of My born again children who are also baptized in My Holy Spirit . He is available to give to My children all of the spiritual resources which will form the mind of Christ inside of you, producing His glory in your life, the glory that makes you shine like the sun. (Matthew 13:43)
Oh, that My born again, Holy Spirit baptized children would seek My wisdom and My knowledge from the Holy Spirit who is resident inside of them. (I Corinthians 3:16; James 1:5-8) Jesus Christ paid the ultimate prize by being crucified so that you would become My spiritual child with a hunger and thirst for My kingdom of heaven in which all of My wisdom and knowledge are resident.
Seek Me with your whole heart and you will inherit the treasures stored in My mind which empower you to overcome every obstacle in the world and you will soar like the eagles in My kingdom of heaven while you live in the earth. (Matthew 6:33; Isaiah 40:31)
Your Father of Empowering Spiritual Knowledge
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