Tuesday, March 19, 2019
CORRECTION FOR THE ROMANS
My Dear Precious Child,
Paul always referred to the life, the ministry, the death and the resurrection of Christ Jesus as the only Good News. It is Good News because the lives of My children who live in the world are filled with suffering and pain because of the evil that is in the world. Yet, there were prophesies through the prophets that there would be a better event coming when I came to earth to live inside of My children, giving them the power of My Holy Spirit to bring goodness into their lives with the promise that death would be overcome and they would live with Me eternally. Yes, that is Good News instead of the prevailing thought that life in the earth is only sin and death.
As he always wrote, Paul told them that he never failed to mention the believers in his prayers where he ministered. He encouraged all of the churches that he would be coming to bring the real Good News to them again. His confession was that he was never ashamed of the Gospel of Christ because it is My power unto salvation, to the Jews first but also to the Greek pagans. He wrote that faith always should lead to more faith because an upright man finds a consistent good life through faith.
Paul was angry at the depravity and lack of piety of people and so he felt My anger that is aimed at the devil and his demons, whom I threw out of My heaven for their rebellion, was shared by the people who do the devil's will. The demons' endeavors to seek vengeance on My children in order to cause grief in Me is what caused Paul to point the finger of judgment at the cause behind sin, which is the devil. He was also perplexed at people, that they did not see My works of goodness in the world in nature. He said that humans have no excuse for not seeing Me in the good things in the earth. He did not understand how people could make idols out of other men, birds, reptiles and four legged animals instead of worshiping Me as the only True God as revealed in nature. (Romans 1:18-27)
After Paul's magnificent conversion in his meeting with the resurrected Christ Jesus on the road to Damascus, he began to see spiritual things clearly and laid aside his unbelief and his persecution and killing of believers in Christ Jesus. So he was including himself in his being perplexed about people not recognizing My majesty in nature. He wrote that because people did not recognize My marvelous works in creating the earth, they yielded to the devil and began to be depraved, rotten, filled with greed and malice, addicted to envy, murder, wrangling, treachery and spite. He included libel, slander, rudeness, arrogance, boasting, sin and rebellion to parents as the results of the devil's works in people, identifying them as sin, saying that people were void of honor, love and pity. Paul said that humans who do such things are subject to My judgment which has already been My judgment placed on the devil. People who are bound to the devil by doing his will receive My judgment because of their unity with the devil instead of their being in unity with Me. It is judgment by association. (Romans 1:28-32)
But Paul made it clear to the Romans that if they judged other people that they condemn themselves also because they do the same things for which they judge other people. He told the Romans not to abuse My abundant goodness, patience and toleration, making sure that the people to whom he wrote the letter knew that it is My goodness that brings a person to repentance. He knew that they would inherit the My judgment for the devil if they continued to do the devil's will; because when they did his will, they worshiped him. He reminded the Romans that pain and suffering will come upon everyone who does evil, the Jew and the pagan Greeks. He also reminded them that honor and peace comes upon everyone who does good, Jews and Greeks as well, because I have no favorites.
In Paul's reference to the religious laws of Moses, he told them that it is not in just listening to the reading of the Law which made Jews holy, but it was keeping the Law which made them holy because the Law was given to identify the devil and his demons as the instigators of evil. He told the Romans that there are people who never heard of the religious Law but still they have an instinct for doing good works which comes from keeping the Law, and so they do what is good. They can claim that the Law is written on their hearts or they have a conscience that spurs them to only do good things.
Then he contrasted the Jews who trust in the religious Law as being a way to salvation, pretending that they are a guide for the blind, a beacon to the people in darkness, claiming to teach the ignorant and instruct the people in darkness. Paul asked them why don't they teach themselves because they preach against stealing but they steal, they forbid adultery yet they commit adultery, they despise idols yet they rob their own temples. He said that by boasting about their Law and then disobeying it, they are bringing My name into contempt to other people. It was already written in scripture that it was their fault that My name is blasphemed among pagans.
Paul launched into the real reason for his letter to them which was about circumcision. He told them that it's okay to be circumcised if they obey the Law; but if they break the Law they might as well have stayed uncircumcised. He was referring to hypocrisy. Jesus Christ said that no person can obey all of the Law. He said that a man who is not circumcised yet he keeps the religious Law, even though he has not been circumcised he is a living condemnation of the way the others disobey the Law in spite of being circumcised. (Romans 2:25-27) Paul said that circumcision according to the Law is merely a physical operation. He told the Jews in Rome that real circumcision is of the heart when a person turns away from religious Laws and embraces Christ Jesus who removes the demonic veil over their minds that separates them from Me.
Circumcision is not physical but is spiritual. (Romans 2:29) A Jew who is uncircumcised physically but who has been born of My Holy Spirit will be praised by Me because the demonic veil that separated us has been removed from his mind by Christ Jesus and He will be able to have true communion with Me, a one-on-one relationship as Father and child, eager to hear My personal instructions of guidance to him or her.
In Paul explaining that truth, he was countering against the apostles who had convinced some born again pagans that they needed to be circumcised according to old covenant Law in addition to being born of My Holy Spirit. There was no need, because physical circumcision was merely a religious ceremony prophesying the circumcision of the mind when the veil of the devil is removed from the mind of a person by Christ Jesus when a person is born of My Holy Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit. As Paul said in a letter to another church, if a person goes back to religious Law after he or she is born of My Holy Spirit, he or she is returning to his own vomit. When a person becomes born again in Christ Jesus and baptized in My Holy Spirit, he regurgitates the rules and regulations that promised to make him or her holy because keeping all of the rules and regulations of the Law is impossible. In returning to the old Law after tasting My freedom from the curses of the Law, those people are making the sacrifice of Jesus Christ of no effect in his or her life, a useless event instead of it being the greatest event in the history of the world because My Son died for the sins of the whole world so that I could come to live in humans in the person of My Holy Spirit. (Acts 1:1-10; Acts 2:1-4 and 16-36)
Paul was trying to entice the people who had been deceived by false prophets to return to the real Good News that had made them joyful, peaceful and filled with love when they were born of My Holy Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit.
His admonitions rescued some people but others continued to try to mix light and darkness and darkness won in their lives. My Holy Spirit through Paul was trying to rescue the perishing, but some people refused to be rescued.
There are many people in your world who are trying to mix light and darkness. Light has the power to win over darkness, but very often My children choose darkness because darkness is familiar to them. The darkness of sin produced garbage in their lives but it is familiar garbage to them. The valuable gold that I offer is unfamiliar to them so they go back to the familiar garbage in the pigpen of life.
The devil only has death and destruction for his children. For My children who choose My light over darkness, I said that I am able to do in their lives super abundantly more, far over and above all that they dare ask or think or imagine, infinitely more than their highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes or dreams, according to the power of My Holy Spirit in their lives. (Ephesians 3:20) That is what I do for My children.
Your Father of Light And Life
Monday, March 18, 2019
DECEPTION REVEALED BY PAUL
My Dear Precious Child,
Paul asked the Corinthians in his second letter to them to allow him to be a little foolish in his correlations about Christ being the groom and the believers being the virgin brides of Christ. He said just like the serpent, the devil, seduced Eve at the very beginning of the world, that evil serpent also corrupted the ideals of the believers in Corinth and turned them away from complete devotion to Christ. He again chastised them for welcoming with open arms a newcomer who came into their midst preaching a different Jesus, offering a new spirit different from the one they had received of the Holy Spirit, teaching a new gospel different than the real Gospel and they fell right into the arms of the deceiver. He said that those arch-apostles had nothing more than Paul had; and, in fact, they neither offered salvation through the real Jesus Christ nor did they offer a power that even compared to the power of My Holy Spirit. (II Corinthians 11:1-6).
Counterfeit apostles is what he labeled the men who had led the Corinthian believers astray by leading them away from Christ and into old covenant rules and regulations as a way to salvation. He said they were dishonest workmen disguised as apostles of Christ. He said it should have been apparent to the Corinthians because they knew that the devil disguises himself as an angel of light so it is no surprise that the devil's human servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Paul declared that those deceivers will come to the end that they deserve. Paul knew that the false prophets/apostles were sent by the politicians -- those being the Pharisees, Sadducees and scribes -- and the religious leaders -- those being the priests, high priests and elders of the temple -- to woo the believers in Jesus Christ into obedience to Mosaic Law in order to stop the Good News of Jesus Christ from being spread. He knew that the new wine of My Holy Spirit poured into old wine skins will not produce My salvation and My power in the earth.
In order to distance himself from the false prophets, Paul named the distresses he had endured, his being in prison five times, whipped more times almost to death, he received 39 lashes five times from the Jews, beaten with sticks three times, stoned once, shipwrecked three times, lost in an open sea for a day and night, constantly traveling, escaped danger from his own people as well as pagans, experienced danger at sea and from his so called brothers. He had been hungry, thirsty, uncloaked in the cold, starved and escaped from a king. After he wrote about his distresses, then he stopped boasting about his perils. (II Corinthians 11:24-28)
In that second letter he told them about his visions and revelations, saying that he knew a man who went to the third heaven, whether in the body or out of the body, he didn't know. He said that he went to paradise where he saw and heard things which cannot be spoken in human languages. Paul was talking about himself, but he refused to boast that it happened to him or someone might think he was better than other humans. Because of the revelations that he had, Paul said that the devil had given him a thorn in his flesh, a demon from hell, to keep him from being proud of himself when he had done nothing, because the visions and revelations were gifts from Me. He wrote to them that he had asked Me three times to remove the demon from him, but My reply was that My grace was enough for him, that My power is best in his weakness. Paul told them that when he was weak, then I can become strong in him. (II Corinthians 12:1-10)
His plans were to visit the Corinthians a third time. He wrote in his letter that he was afraid that he would find wrangling, jealousy, tempers roused, backbiting, gossip, obstinate people, disorder, and that he would be grieved over all those who had sinned before and still had not repented of the impurities, the fornication and the debauchery that they had committed. He was afraid that the deceived sinners had not turned from their wicked ways and returned to Jesus Christ. (II Corinthians 12:20-21) He said if that was what he found, then he would have no mercy in his further criticism of them. (II Corinthians 13:2) It was a matter of life or death.
He wrote to them that they needed to examine themselves to make sure that they were still in the Christian faith. He said for them to test themselves to see if Jesus Christ was really inside of them. (II Corinthians 13:5-6) Paul prayed while he was gone that they had done nothing wrong and were innocent of the accusations he had heard. His prayers were that they were made perfect, having grown up in Christ into a perfect person, so mature in wisdom and knowledge that they were eating adult spiritual food instead of still being babies on breast milk.
Paul wrote that he was writing again to them with stern words so that when he came to be with them that he would not have to be so strict because his anointing from Me was for building them up, not tearing them down and destroying them. (II Corinthians 13:10)
Paul was grieved at the level of spiritual infancy of the Corinthians as evidenced by their bitterness and arguing. He had written to the Ephesians not to grieve My Holy Spirit by becoming bitter, arguing among themselves, holding grudges, losing their tempers and seeking vengeance against each other. He told the Ephesians to repent and be kind to each other, to forgive each other as Christ forgave them. Paul was praying that they had returned to the faith of the gospel of Jesus Christ instead of continuing in the heresies of the false prophets/apostles.
The same demonic spirit had invaded the church at Corinth that had invaded the Ephesian church, causing My children to leave the spiritual luxuries of My kingdom of heaven that they had inherited in their lives when they were born of My Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit. They had fallen for the words of the false prophets that tickled their ears, the same ones that Jesus Christ warned them about. (Matthew 7:15; Matthew 24:11; Matthew 24:24; Mark 13:26) Instead of continuing to seek My righteousness after they inherited My kingdom of heaven, they believed lies about some earthly kingdom that sounded easier than seeking the narrow path that leads to their having the abundant life while in the earth. (Matthew 6:33) Some of them had departed from the faith and had returned to bondage to the old covenant rules and regulations which caused strife among them.
Paul was justified in his grief. His grief reflected the grief of My Holy Spirit that some of My children had so quickly left the gospel of faith in Jesus Christ. Their story is included in My Instruction Book so that My children will be alerted to the works of the devil and learn to discern the spirits who speak to them. I said that the path is narrow that leads to the abundant life and few find it because of false prophets sent from the devil to bring My children back into bondage to him. (Matthew 7:13-15)
My desire for My children is that they will listen to the voice of My Holy Spirit. He is My voice in your mind. If you hear His words and heed them, you will not be deceived like the Corinthians, some of which went right back into bondage to the devil again by either trying to mix the old and new covenant or they returned to worshiping idols.
I want you free, completely liberated from the devil's works in your life on earth. You have a perfect Guide, a perfect Protector, a perfect Tutor, a perfect Advocate, a perfect Savior. Jesus Christ came to earth to destroy the works of the devil. (I John 3:7-8) He sent My Holy Spirit into My children to take His place in My ministry of salvation. Listen to Him.
Your Father of Liberty
Paul asked the Corinthians in his second letter to them to allow him to be a little foolish in his correlations about Christ being the groom and the believers being the virgin brides of Christ. He said just like the serpent, the devil, seduced Eve at the very beginning of the world, that evil serpent also corrupted the ideals of the believers in Corinth and turned them away from complete devotion to Christ. He again chastised them for welcoming with open arms a newcomer who came into their midst preaching a different Jesus, offering a new spirit different from the one they had received of the Holy Spirit, teaching a new gospel different than the real Gospel and they fell right into the arms of the deceiver. He said that those arch-apostles had nothing more than Paul had; and, in fact, they neither offered salvation through the real Jesus Christ nor did they offer a power that even compared to the power of My Holy Spirit. (II Corinthians 11:1-6).
Counterfeit apostles is what he labeled the men who had led the Corinthian believers astray by leading them away from Christ and into old covenant rules and regulations as a way to salvation. He said they were dishonest workmen disguised as apostles of Christ. He said it should have been apparent to the Corinthians because they knew that the devil disguises himself as an angel of light so it is no surprise that the devil's human servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Paul declared that those deceivers will come to the end that they deserve. Paul knew that the false prophets/apostles were sent by the politicians -- those being the Pharisees, Sadducees and scribes -- and the religious leaders -- those being the priests, high priests and elders of the temple -- to woo the believers in Jesus Christ into obedience to Mosaic Law in order to stop the Good News of Jesus Christ from being spread. He knew that the new wine of My Holy Spirit poured into old wine skins will not produce My salvation and My power in the earth.
In order to distance himself from the false prophets, Paul named the distresses he had endured, his being in prison five times, whipped more times almost to death, he received 39 lashes five times from the Jews, beaten with sticks three times, stoned once, shipwrecked three times, lost in an open sea for a day and night, constantly traveling, escaped danger from his own people as well as pagans, experienced danger at sea and from his so called brothers. He had been hungry, thirsty, uncloaked in the cold, starved and escaped from a king. After he wrote about his distresses, then he stopped boasting about his perils. (II Corinthians 11:24-28)
In that second letter he told them about his visions and revelations, saying that he knew a man who went to the third heaven, whether in the body or out of the body, he didn't know. He said that he went to paradise where he saw and heard things which cannot be spoken in human languages. Paul was talking about himself, but he refused to boast that it happened to him or someone might think he was better than other humans. Because of the revelations that he had, Paul said that the devil had given him a thorn in his flesh, a demon from hell, to keep him from being proud of himself when he had done nothing, because the visions and revelations were gifts from Me. He wrote to them that he had asked Me three times to remove the demon from him, but My reply was that My grace was enough for him, that My power is best in his weakness. Paul told them that when he was weak, then I can become strong in him. (II Corinthians 12:1-10)
His plans were to visit the Corinthians a third time. He wrote in his letter that he was afraid that he would find wrangling, jealousy, tempers roused, backbiting, gossip, obstinate people, disorder, and that he would be grieved over all those who had sinned before and still had not repented of the impurities, the fornication and the debauchery that they had committed. He was afraid that the deceived sinners had not turned from their wicked ways and returned to Jesus Christ. (II Corinthians 12:20-21) He said if that was what he found, then he would have no mercy in his further criticism of them. (II Corinthians 13:2) It was a matter of life or death.
He wrote to them that they needed to examine themselves to make sure that they were still in the Christian faith. He said for them to test themselves to see if Jesus Christ was really inside of them. (II Corinthians 13:5-6) Paul prayed while he was gone that they had done nothing wrong and were innocent of the accusations he had heard. His prayers were that they were made perfect, having grown up in Christ into a perfect person, so mature in wisdom and knowledge that they were eating adult spiritual food instead of still being babies on breast milk.
Paul wrote that he was writing again to them with stern words so that when he came to be with them that he would not have to be so strict because his anointing from Me was for building them up, not tearing them down and destroying them. (II Corinthians 13:10)
Paul was grieved at the level of spiritual infancy of the Corinthians as evidenced by their bitterness and arguing. He had written to the Ephesians not to grieve My Holy Spirit by becoming bitter, arguing among themselves, holding grudges, losing their tempers and seeking vengeance against each other. He told the Ephesians to repent and be kind to each other, to forgive each other as Christ forgave them. Paul was praying that they had returned to the faith of the gospel of Jesus Christ instead of continuing in the heresies of the false prophets/apostles.
The same demonic spirit had invaded the church at Corinth that had invaded the Ephesian church, causing My children to leave the spiritual luxuries of My kingdom of heaven that they had inherited in their lives when they were born of My Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit. They had fallen for the words of the false prophets that tickled their ears, the same ones that Jesus Christ warned them about. (Matthew 7:15; Matthew 24:11; Matthew 24:24; Mark 13:26) Instead of continuing to seek My righteousness after they inherited My kingdom of heaven, they believed lies about some earthly kingdom that sounded easier than seeking the narrow path that leads to their having the abundant life while in the earth. (Matthew 6:33) Some of them had departed from the faith and had returned to bondage to the old covenant rules and regulations which caused strife among them.
Paul was justified in his grief. His grief reflected the grief of My Holy Spirit that some of My children had so quickly left the gospel of faith in Jesus Christ. Their story is included in My Instruction Book so that My children will be alerted to the works of the devil and learn to discern the spirits who speak to them. I said that the path is narrow that leads to the abundant life and few find it because of false prophets sent from the devil to bring My children back into bondage to him. (Matthew 7:13-15)
My desire for My children is that they will listen to the voice of My Holy Spirit. He is My voice in your mind. If you hear His words and heed them, you will not be deceived like the Corinthians, some of which went right back into bondage to the devil again by either trying to mix the old and new covenant or they returned to worshiping idols.
I want you free, completely liberated from the devil's works in your life on earth. You have a perfect Guide, a perfect Protector, a perfect Tutor, a perfect Advocate, a perfect Savior. Jesus Christ came to earth to destroy the works of the devil. (I John 3:7-8) He sent My Holy Spirit into My children to take His place in My ministry of salvation. Listen to Him.
Your Father of Liberty
Sunday, March 17, 2019
FIRM CORRECTION BRINGS RESULTS
My Dear Precious One,
In Paul's second letter to the Christians in Corinth, he truly had conflicting emotions. His first letter contained many, many stern chastisements relating to the believers in the church there because of their believing false prophets and some people even returned to worshiping idols. His complaints were the most complaints that he had for any of the churches that he established.
However, in his second letter Paul was almost apologetic to them for being so stern in the first letter. He explained that he had been treated so badly in his missionary trip to Asia in which he barely escaped with his life so his disgust for the people in the Corinthian church for their leaving the truth of the Good News of the Gospel and returning to their old lives of pagan and religious rituals was more disappointing than he could take. He stressed, though, in the second letter that his sternness in the first letter was justified in order to impress upon them the importance of repenting and returning to their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ which had enriched their lives so much, making them victorious over evil. He was grieved that some of them had left the Truth and settled for lies.
In defense of himself, Paul told the believers in Corinth to please keep a place in their hearts for Timothy and him. He wrote that they had not injured anyone in the first letter or ruined anyone or exploited anyone. He was pleased that they did not blame anyone for the stern rebuke because they were still firmly planted in his heart. He told them, "Together we live and together we die." He expressed his pride in them because they had corrected some of the problems so his joy was overflowing. He wrote that even if they were distressed by the rebukes in the first letter, he did not regret his sternness because their suffering led to their repentance. (II Corinthians 7:8-9) He said that their suffering was the kind that I approve, which meant that they changed for the better because of his complaints and he wrote to them no more complaints in his second letter. Then he told them that to suffer as the world knows suffering brings death. Even though his writing to them was stern, they were still eager to see him after justice was done by them in correcting some of their mistakes. (II Corinthians 7:11-12)
Even though Paul worked to promote his ministry, to all of the churches that he established in Europe he appealed to them to be generous in their giving to others. He reminded them that Jesus had been so very rich in heaven yet he came to earth and became poor for their sake, to make them rich out of His own poverty. (II Corinthians 8:9-15) He told them not to make things difficult for themselves in their giving but, instead, to give out of their surplus in order to meet the needs of other churches. He encouraged them to be cheerful givers, writing that when they supplied generously the needs of the saints that it resulted in more thanksgivings to Me for meeting the needs of the poor and those people in the ministry. (I Corinthians 9:13-14)
Paul appealed to them by the gentleness and patience of Christ relating to other things. He identified himself as the man who was so humble when he was with them, but he became a bully when he was distanced from them. He said that he did not want to have to bully them again when he came face to face with them if he observed them eating food sacrificed to idols and if he observed them celebrating feasts in order to receive My favor when they had already become the new creatures that the feasts prophesied My children becoming new creatures in Christ. He said that they, even though they lived in the flesh, the muscles that they fought with were not flesh. He reminded them that their weapons of warfare are mighty and strong, through the power of My Holy Spirit in them, in order to demolish human fortresses that come against them in the form of temptations. He named their enemies as human wisdom which is arrogant and resists My spiritual knowledge. He said that part of the warfare of My children is that they must capture every negative thought and cast it out, bringing every thought into obedience to Christ when they are empowered to punish every disobedient thought.
Tempting, evil thoughts are the strongholds of the devil. Once you have established your obedience to Me, you are powerfully prepared by the power of My Holy Spirit to punish any disobedient thought that exalts itself against My wisdom and knowledge. (II Corinthians 10:1-6)
In his humility, Paul said that he was not boasting, but instead he was humbled by his own writings. He knew that they came from Me, knowing that his discerning of the works of evil for the people in the Corinthian church in the first letter did the work in them of causing repentance to take place.
Paul wrote that if anyone wants to boast, that he or she should only boast in the things that I have done for him or her. (II Corinthians 10:17-18) All good and perfect gifts come from Me. (James 1:17)
Your Father of Light
In Paul's second letter to the Christians in Corinth, he truly had conflicting emotions. His first letter contained many, many stern chastisements relating to the believers in the church there because of their believing false prophets and some people even returned to worshiping idols. His complaints were the most complaints that he had for any of the churches that he established.
However, in his second letter Paul was almost apologetic to them for being so stern in the first letter. He explained that he had been treated so badly in his missionary trip to Asia in which he barely escaped with his life so his disgust for the people in the Corinthian church for their leaving the truth of the Good News of the Gospel and returning to their old lives of pagan and religious rituals was more disappointing than he could take. He stressed, though, in the second letter that his sternness in the first letter was justified in order to impress upon them the importance of repenting and returning to their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ which had enriched their lives so much, making them victorious over evil. He was grieved that some of them had left the Truth and settled for lies.
In defense of himself, Paul told the believers in Corinth to please keep a place in their hearts for Timothy and him. He wrote that they had not injured anyone in the first letter or ruined anyone or exploited anyone. He was pleased that they did not blame anyone for the stern rebuke because they were still firmly planted in his heart. He told them, "Together we live and together we die." He expressed his pride in them because they had corrected some of the problems so his joy was overflowing. He wrote that even if they were distressed by the rebukes in the first letter, he did not regret his sternness because their suffering led to their repentance. (II Corinthians 7:8-9) He said that their suffering was the kind that I approve, which meant that they changed for the better because of his complaints and he wrote to them no more complaints in his second letter. Then he told them that to suffer as the world knows suffering brings death. Even though his writing to them was stern, they were still eager to see him after justice was done by them in correcting some of their mistakes. (II Corinthians 7:11-12)
Even though Paul worked to promote his ministry, to all of the churches that he established in Europe he appealed to them to be generous in their giving to others. He reminded them that Jesus had been so very rich in heaven yet he came to earth and became poor for their sake, to make them rich out of His own poverty. (II Corinthians 8:9-15) He told them not to make things difficult for themselves in their giving but, instead, to give out of their surplus in order to meet the needs of other churches. He encouraged them to be cheerful givers, writing that when they supplied generously the needs of the saints that it resulted in more thanksgivings to Me for meeting the needs of the poor and those people in the ministry. (I Corinthians 9:13-14)
Paul appealed to them by the gentleness and patience of Christ relating to other things. He identified himself as the man who was so humble when he was with them, but he became a bully when he was distanced from them. He said that he did not want to have to bully them again when he came face to face with them if he observed them eating food sacrificed to idols and if he observed them celebrating feasts in order to receive My favor when they had already become the new creatures that the feasts prophesied My children becoming new creatures in Christ. He said that they, even though they lived in the flesh, the muscles that they fought with were not flesh. He reminded them that their weapons of warfare are mighty and strong, through the power of My Holy Spirit in them, in order to demolish human fortresses that come against them in the form of temptations. He named their enemies as human wisdom which is arrogant and resists My spiritual knowledge. He said that part of the warfare of My children is that they must capture every negative thought and cast it out, bringing every thought into obedience to Christ when they are empowered to punish every disobedient thought.
Tempting, evil thoughts are the strongholds of the devil. Once you have established your obedience to Me, you are powerfully prepared by the power of My Holy Spirit to punish any disobedient thought that exalts itself against My wisdom and knowledge. (II Corinthians 10:1-6)
In his humility, Paul said that he was not boasting, but instead he was humbled by his own writings. He knew that they came from Me, knowing that his discerning of the works of evil for the people in the Corinthian church in the first letter did the work in them of causing repentance to take place.
Paul wrote that if anyone wants to boast, that he or she should only boast in the things that I have done for him or her. (II Corinthians 10:17-18) All good and perfect gifts come from Me. (James 1:17)
Your Father of Light
Saturday, March 16, 2019
PURITY OF THE GOSPEL
My Dear Precious Child,
You have My very nature inside of you in the person of My Holy Spirit. He is the Spirit of Truth, the instigator of the new covenant of the Holy Spirit and the revealer of My wisdom and knowledge. Yet, because of Paul's difficulties in his mission trips to Asia, he was ready to shed his human body and take on his new body, his celestial body. He longed to be with Jesus Christ in My heaven with Me in reality instead of merely by faith. so he wrote in his second letter to the Corinthians that he was ready to be out of his human body and in heaven with Me.(II Corinthians 5:1-10)
Paul wrote in his second letter that the love of Christ overwhelmed him and Timothy when they reflected on the truth that Christ died for everyone and so every person would be dead if Jesus Christ had not been obedient to Me. He stated that the reason Christ died for all people is so that all people would live for Him, no longer living by the dictates of their flesh where the devil works. Because Christ died and was raised to life for you, you must refuse to return to live the old life again because everyone who is in Christ is a new creation, old things are gone and all things become new. (II Corinthians 5:14-17) Returning to the old religious laws as taught by false prophets is like a dog returning to eat his own vomit. (II Peter 2:19-22) Therefore, because you are not judged according to the flesh by Me, you must not judge other people by the standards of the flesh if they are ruled by their demonic temptations.
My work in you, because I reconciled you to Myself in Christ, I also gave to you the responsibility of reconciling the world to Me. Because I, in Christ, reconciled the world to Myself, not holding any of the sins of men against them, I have given to you the responsibility of telling the news to people that they are reconciled to Me. The Good News is that all people are reconciled to Me and that they should choose to enjoy and grow in that reconciliation. I made Jesus Christ, who knew no sin, to become sin so that you could become My goodness through the power of My Holy Spirit. (II Corinthians 5:18-21) Jesus Christ paid for the sins of the whole world and so they are reconciled to Me. Many people choose to be born of My Spirit by accepting My Holy Spirit into their lives to create a new person; many people do not.
Paul's experiences showed that you prove that are My children by your purity, your spiritual knowledge, your patience, your kindness, your spirit of holiness, by your unaffected love, by your words of truth, by the power of the Holy Spirit and by being armed with My righteousness. (II Corinthians 6:6-7) In other words, the fruit of the Holy Spirit displayed through you is the identification to the world and to the heavens that you are My child.(Galatians 5:22-23)
He cautioned the church in Corinth again in his second letter about the false prophets who come to lead them away from the true gospel. He told them not to become bound together as a team with unbelievers or even with those people who veer away from the truth. He said that virtue is no companion with crime and he said that light and darkness have nothing in common. As a warning against the people who had returned to idolatry, Paul said that you, being My temple of the Holy Spirit in the earth, have no common ground with idols; and that is what you are, My temple of the Holy Spirit in the earth. He quoted the prophesy of Isaiah saying that I would make My home within you so that I would be your God and you would be My people. Through Isaiah I said that you should come away from wickedness and that you should touch nothing that is unclean, and I will welcome you into My family and be your Father and you will be My sons and daughters. (Isaiah 52:11; Isaiah 43:6; II Corinthians 6:14-18) Jesus Christ died so that you could be cleansed of all the works of the devil and be reconciled to Me. That is Good News.(I John 3:8)
Paul was enamored with the truth of the promise that I would be your Father and you would be My child and so he challenged the people in the Corinthian church, and you, that all of you should wash off all the demonic activity that soils either your body or your spirit; and you should strive to reach the perfection of holiness in the awe of My promise of receiving all of My inheritance that I set aside for you and all of My children. (II Corinthians 7:1)
The apostle Paul was adamant about the people in the church at Corinth getting rid of all of the leaven of the false prophets and the idol worship to which some of the Corinthians had returned because that leaven of wickedness can poison the whole church. Even in your day, you must be attentive to the voice of My Holy Spirit and His words of discerning of spirits, refusing to join light with darkness.
When you hear My voice spoken through the Holy Spirit in your thoughts, don't harden your hearts to My warnings like the people who wandered 40 years in the wilderness and still perished because they did not take My advice to stop complaining and to stop building idols to worship when they had Me, their God of Goodness who freed them from bondage to the pagans in Egypt. (Hebrews 3:8) They even desired to go back into cruel bondage in Egypt. Many of My children who listen to false prophets do the same thing, they choose to go back to religious rules and regulations that brought death to their ancestors and to them. They even make idols of political and religious people whose desires are for their own political and religious attainment instead of their being self sacrificing like My Son Jesus Christ. (Mark 8:15 and 38)
Listen to the voice of My Holy Spirit. He is your protector, your counselor and your guide in the earth because He only speaks to you what I tell Him to speak. Jesus Christ sent My inheritance of My Holy Spirit to you. Treasure Him and His words. (II Corinthians 4:7)
Your Father of Purity
You have My very nature inside of you in the person of My Holy Spirit. He is the Spirit of Truth, the instigator of the new covenant of the Holy Spirit and the revealer of My wisdom and knowledge. Yet, because of Paul's difficulties in his mission trips to Asia, he was ready to shed his human body and take on his new body, his celestial body. He longed to be with Jesus Christ in My heaven with Me in reality instead of merely by faith. so he wrote in his second letter to the Corinthians that he was ready to be out of his human body and in heaven with Me.(II Corinthians 5:1-10)
Paul wrote in his second letter that the love of Christ overwhelmed him and Timothy when they reflected on the truth that Christ died for everyone and so every person would be dead if Jesus Christ had not been obedient to Me. He stated that the reason Christ died for all people is so that all people would live for Him, no longer living by the dictates of their flesh where the devil works. Because Christ died and was raised to life for you, you must refuse to return to live the old life again because everyone who is in Christ is a new creation, old things are gone and all things become new. (II Corinthians 5:14-17) Returning to the old religious laws as taught by false prophets is like a dog returning to eat his own vomit. (II Peter 2:19-22) Therefore, because you are not judged according to the flesh by Me, you must not judge other people by the standards of the flesh if they are ruled by their demonic temptations.
My work in you, because I reconciled you to Myself in Christ, I also gave to you the responsibility of reconciling the world to Me. Because I, in Christ, reconciled the world to Myself, not holding any of the sins of men against them, I have given to you the responsibility of telling the news to people that they are reconciled to Me. The Good News is that all people are reconciled to Me and that they should choose to enjoy and grow in that reconciliation. I made Jesus Christ, who knew no sin, to become sin so that you could become My goodness through the power of My Holy Spirit. (II Corinthians 5:18-21) Jesus Christ paid for the sins of the whole world and so they are reconciled to Me. Many people choose to be born of My Spirit by accepting My Holy Spirit into their lives to create a new person; many people do not.
Paul's experiences showed that you prove that are My children by your purity, your spiritual knowledge, your patience, your kindness, your spirit of holiness, by your unaffected love, by your words of truth, by the power of the Holy Spirit and by being armed with My righteousness. (II Corinthians 6:6-7) In other words, the fruit of the Holy Spirit displayed through you is the identification to the world and to the heavens that you are My child.(Galatians 5:22-23)
He cautioned the church in Corinth again in his second letter about the false prophets who come to lead them away from the true gospel. He told them not to become bound together as a team with unbelievers or even with those people who veer away from the truth. He said that virtue is no companion with crime and he said that light and darkness have nothing in common. As a warning against the people who had returned to idolatry, Paul said that you, being My temple of the Holy Spirit in the earth, have no common ground with idols; and that is what you are, My temple of the Holy Spirit in the earth. He quoted the prophesy of Isaiah saying that I would make My home within you so that I would be your God and you would be My people. Through Isaiah I said that you should come away from wickedness and that you should touch nothing that is unclean, and I will welcome you into My family and be your Father and you will be My sons and daughters. (Isaiah 52:11; Isaiah 43:6; II Corinthians 6:14-18) Jesus Christ died so that you could be cleansed of all the works of the devil and be reconciled to Me. That is Good News.(I John 3:8)
Paul was enamored with the truth of the promise that I would be your Father and you would be My child and so he challenged the people in the Corinthian church, and you, that all of you should wash off all the demonic activity that soils either your body or your spirit; and you should strive to reach the perfection of holiness in the awe of My promise of receiving all of My inheritance that I set aside for you and all of My children. (II Corinthians 7:1)
The apostle Paul was adamant about the people in the church at Corinth getting rid of all of the leaven of the false prophets and the idol worship to which some of the Corinthians had returned because that leaven of wickedness can poison the whole church. Even in your day, you must be attentive to the voice of My Holy Spirit and His words of discerning of spirits, refusing to join light with darkness.
When you hear My voice spoken through the Holy Spirit in your thoughts, don't harden your hearts to My warnings like the people who wandered 40 years in the wilderness and still perished because they did not take My advice to stop complaining and to stop building idols to worship when they had Me, their God of Goodness who freed them from bondage to the pagans in Egypt. (Hebrews 3:8) They even desired to go back into cruel bondage in Egypt. Many of My children who listen to false prophets do the same thing, they choose to go back to religious rules and regulations that brought death to their ancestors and to them. They even make idols of political and religious people whose desires are for their own political and religious attainment instead of their being self sacrificing like My Son Jesus Christ. (Mark 8:15 and 38)
Listen to the voice of My Holy Spirit. He is your protector, your counselor and your guide in the earth because He only speaks to you what I tell Him to speak. Jesus Christ sent My inheritance of My Holy Spirit to you. Treasure Him and His words. (II Corinthians 4:7)
Your Father of Purity
Friday, March 15, 2019
THE REALITY OF CHRIST AND THE HOLY SPIRIT
My Dear Precious Child,
After Paul's apologies in his second letter to the church at Corinth for being so stern in his first letter to believers, Paul soothed them with compliments for them about their being letters from Christ to him, not letters written in ink but with the Holy Spirit, and not on stone tablets but on their living hearts. He gave all praise to Me for doing the good works that had already been done in the lives of the Corinthians. He reveled in the God-given opportunity for him to have been the administrator of a new covenant, the covenant of the Holy Spirit that brings life, not the one that was written on stone tablets which brought death. (II Corinthians 3:4-7)
He called to the attention of the Corinthians the truth that the old laws brought death to people eventually, but first the administration of the old laws was accompanied by a brightness that the Jews could not bear to gaze upon the face of Moses, although that brightness eventually faded when the written laws became ineffective because of their misapplication. What was meant to identify demonic activity was used by the Pharisees to condemn, judge and administer guilt upon the people which eventually caused their death. Paul proclaimed that the brightness that accompanies the administration of My Holy Spirit is far greater in brightness and splendor than Moses' face and he assured them that the brightness of My Holy Spirit lasts forever. (verses 8-11)
Paul wrote to them about the veil that was over the minds of the Jews, and is still there when the old covenant is read. It cannot be removed until they individually turn to the Lord Jesus Christ. Then he wrote a wonderful revelation. He said that now in the earth the Lord is the Holy Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom from the works of the devil. Also, he reminded them that the unveiled faces of loyal believers who walk according to the dictates of Christ and the Holy Spirit reflect My image like mirrors of My brightness as they grow brighter and brighter every day as they turn into the very image that they reflect, that being My image. Then Paul spoke truth to them, reminding them that that work of perfecting My image in My children is done by My Holy Spirit who lives inside of them in the earth. (II Corinthians 3:13-18)
In his defense of himself, Paul said that he and Timothy would never water down the gospel to make it acceptable to anyone like some false prophets had done and they had brought those heresies into their church. He said that he would never be ashamed of the true gospel. He wrote that he would never preach anything except Christ and that he and Timothy were merely servants of Christ. He professed that I am the same God who separated light out of darkness at the beginning and that I had shone into the minds of the believers the same light that radiates the knowledge of My glory, which is the same glory that is on the face of Christ. (II Corinthians 4:5-6)
Paul wanted the people in the church at Corinth to realize the treasure that they had in their earthen bodies so that it might be clear to everyone that the overwhelming power in them was from Me and not from them. (II Corinthians 4:7) He said that even in difficulties, they were never cornered; and even though they saw no immediate answers to their problems, they were never in despair; and even though they were persecuted, they never deserted Me; and even though they were knocked down, they were never killed. Instead, they always carried in their bodies the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus would always be seen in them. (II Corinthians 4: 8-12)
The way to carry the death of Jesus in your body is to put to death the temptations of the devil that come to your own mind, refusing to obey his will, but instead your doing My will in the earth. Just like the devil was defeated in hell by Jesus Christ, when you cast the demons who tempt you into hell, then the devil is defeated and you shine like the sun in the earth. (Matthew 13:41-43)
In trying to strengthen the members of the church at Corinth, Paul impressed upon them that even though their bodies were decaying every day, they were being renewed spiritually every day on the inside by the power of My Holy Spirit. Paul wrote that his strength came from things that are invisible, not from things that are visible because things visible only last for a while, but the invisible, spiritual things are eternal. (verses 16-19) That grace is the only way the apostles could withstand the persecutions, the harassment and the physical injuries from the hands of the unbelieving Jews is to keep their eyes on the prize of being transformed into the image of Christ who suffered just like the apostles suffered.
Paul occasionally tried to justify his calling as an apostle although he didn't walk with Jesus Christ when Jesus ministered in the world. He was called to be an apostle after Jesus was raised from hell and came to heaven to live with Me. Not only was Paul called to be an apostle but he was called to take salvation to the Gentiles, the unbelieving pagans who only worshiped idols. His testimony about his conversion was so supernatural that his message of salvation to the Gentiles was readily accepted by them, his message being that I am a living Father who loves them and I am interested in their every day problems.
As it was with every one of the first churches that were established after Pentecost when I came to earth to live in My children, Paul and the other apostles' efforts were diligent in trying to keep the believers on the straight and narrow path that leads to life everlasting. (Matthew 7:13-14) The easy path that leads to destruction was offered to them constantly by many false prophets and sinful men. My apostles wrote many letters to believers trying to lead them back onto the narrow path that leads to life everlasting.
Nothing has changed. Their letters are pertinent to your life today, too, because many churches are identical to the ones in Paul's time, leading My children away from the teachings of Christ and into building their own kingdoms on earth instead of allowing My Holy Spirit to establish My kingdom of God in the lives of My children in the earth, a life of joy and peace. Jesus Christ told you to stay alert constantly. If you don't, you will be deceived.
Remember that the Lord in the earth is the Holy Spirit. Be guided by His words and you will have the righteousness, peace and joy of My kingdom of heaven in your life on earth. (Romans 14:17)
Your Father of Truth
After Paul's apologies in his second letter to the church at Corinth for being so stern in his first letter to believers, Paul soothed them with compliments for them about their being letters from Christ to him, not letters written in ink but with the Holy Spirit, and not on stone tablets but on their living hearts. He gave all praise to Me for doing the good works that had already been done in the lives of the Corinthians. He reveled in the God-given opportunity for him to have been the administrator of a new covenant, the covenant of the Holy Spirit that brings life, not the one that was written on stone tablets which brought death. (II Corinthians 3:4-7)
He called to the attention of the Corinthians the truth that the old laws brought death to people eventually, but first the administration of the old laws was accompanied by a brightness that the Jews could not bear to gaze upon the face of Moses, although that brightness eventually faded when the written laws became ineffective because of their misapplication. What was meant to identify demonic activity was used by the Pharisees to condemn, judge and administer guilt upon the people which eventually caused their death. Paul proclaimed that the brightness that accompanies the administration of My Holy Spirit is far greater in brightness and splendor than Moses' face and he assured them that the brightness of My Holy Spirit lasts forever. (verses 8-11)
Paul wrote to them about the veil that was over the minds of the Jews, and is still there when the old covenant is read. It cannot be removed until they individually turn to the Lord Jesus Christ. Then he wrote a wonderful revelation. He said that now in the earth the Lord is the Holy Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom from the works of the devil. Also, he reminded them that the unveiled faces of loyal believers who walk according to the dictates of Christ and the Holy Spirit reflect My image like mirrors of My brightness as they grow brighter and brighter every day as they turn into the very image that they reflect, that being My image. Then Paul spoke truth to them, reminding them that that work of perfecting My image in My children is done by My Holy Spirit who lives inside of them in the earth. (II Corinthians 3:13-18)
In his defense of himself, Paul said that he and Timothy would never water down the gospel to make it acceptable to anyone like some false prophets had done and they had brought those heresies into their church. He said that he would never be ashamed of the true gospel. He wrote that he would never preach anything except Christ and that he and Timothy were merely servants of Christ. He professed that I am the same God who separated light out of darkness at the beginning and that I had shone into the minds of the believers the same light that radiates the knowledge of My glory, which is the same glory that is on the face of Christ. (II Corinthians 4:5-6)
Paul wanted the people in the church at Corinth to realize the treasure that they had in their earthen bodies so that it might be clear to everyone that the overwhelming power in them was from Me and not from them. (II Corinthians 4:7) He said that even in difficulties, they were never cornered; and even though they saw no immediate answers to their problems, they were never in despair; and even though they were persecuted, they never deserted Me; and even though they were knocked down, they were never killed. Instead, they always carried in their bodies the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus would always be seen in them. (II Corinthians 4: 8-12)
The way to carry the death of Jesus in your body is to put to death the temptations of the devil that come to your own mind, refusing to obey his will, but instead your doing My will in the earth. Just like the devil was defeated in hell by Jesus Christ, when you cast the demons who tempt you into hell, then the devil is defeated and you shine like the sun in the earth. (Matthew 13:41-43)
In trying to strengthen the members of the church at Corinth, Paul impressed upon them that even though their bodies were decaying every day, they were being renewed spiritually every day on the inside by the power of My Holy Spirit. Paul wrote that his strength came from things that are invisible, not from things that are visible because things visible only last for a while, but the invisible, spiritual things are eternal. (verses 16-19) That grace is the only way the apostles could withstand the persecutions, the harassment and the physical injuries from the hands of the unbelieving Jews is to keep their eyes on the prize of being transformed into the image of Christ who suffered just like the apostles suffered.
Paul occasionally tried to justify his calling as an apostle although he didn't walk with Jesus Christ when Jesus ministered in the world. He was called to be an apostle after Jesus was raised from hell and came to heaven to live with Me. Not only was Paul called to be an apostle but he was called to take salvation to the Gentiles, the unbelieving pagans who only worshiped idols. His testimony about his conversion was so supernatural that his message of salvation to the Gentiles was readily accepted by them, his message being that I am a living Father who loves them and I am interested in their every day problems.
As it was with every one of the first churches that were established after Pentecost when I came to earth to live in My children, Paul and the other apostles' efforts were diligent in trying to keep the believers on the straight and narrow path that leads to life everlasting. (Matthew 7:13-14) The easy path that leads to destruction was offered to them constantly by many false prophets and sinful men. My apostles wrote many letters to believers trying to lead them back onto the narrow path that leads to life everlasting.
Nothing has changed. Their letters are pertinent to your life today, too, because many churches are identical to the ones in Paul's time, leading My children away from the teachings of Christ and into building their own kingdoms on earth instead of allowing My Holy Spirit to establish My kingdom of God in the lives of My children in the earth, a life of joy and peace. Jesus Christ told you to stay alert constantly. If you don't, you will be deceived.
Remember that the Lord in the earth is the Holy Spirit. Be guided by His words and you will have the righteousness, peace and joy of My kingdom of heaven in your life on earth. (Romans 14:17)
Your Father of Truth
Thursday, March 14, 2019
THE CORRECTIONS WORKED
My Dear Precious Child,
After Paul wrote a scathing letter to the Corinthians chastising them for the many lapses in their discernment by allowing incest in their church; also disputes, arguing and choosing sides over who was the best apostle, eating food sacrificed to idols, allowing Pharisees to lure some of My children back into old covenant laws which kill their spirits, and some people had even returned to idolatry. They had also allowed gluttony and drunkenness at the Lord's Supper. Also one person had swindled another in the church, then the person who was swindled sued his brother in Christ in a pagan court instead of allowing a wise member in the church to mediate between them. Plus, in the church there were other acts of rebellion against the guidance and instructions of Christ Jesus Himself.
In his first scathing letter Paul wrote about his disappointment in them and he wrote his exhortations to them in strong, critical words. He had called them spiritual babies, sensual men instead of spiritual men, still drinking milk instead of eating adult spiritual food. He chastised them for separating into factions, being filled with lust, being deceived by false prophets and being rebellious. He told them that some of them seemed to not even know Me at all. He wrote that they must come to their senses, to behave properly, to leave sin alone and that they should be ashamed of themselves. (I Corinthians15:34)
In his second letter to them the mood of that writing was apologetic and it was also a means of explaining to the Corinthians the reason behind his strong language in the first letter. Paul had just returned from a mission trip to Asia and had barely escaped with his life. He had endured beatings and ridicule there and after having heard that the Corinthians were departing from the words of Christ Jesus, he was beginning to wonder if it was all worth it to endure the disgrace and suffering on the part of the gospel if the people in Corinth, whom he had evangelized, were behaving like pagans and Jews again, leaving their first love of Christ and returning to pagan idol worship and Mosaic laws as if those religious practices had benefited their lives instead of cursing them, like they had experienced. (II Corinthians 1:8-11)
In his address to them in the second letter Paul made sure that he reminded them that I am a gentle Father, a consoling God, and that they must learn that when the sufferings of Christ happens to them that it is good training for them so that they will be able to console other people who are suffering. (II Corinthians 1:3-7)Their suffering must be in refusing to yield to the temptations of the devil that were brought into the church by sinful men and false prophets.
Paul wrote to the Corinthians that his conscience was clear, that he had treated them the same way that he treats everyone and that there was no hidden meanings in the first letter. (II Corinthians 1:12-14) He said that his intentions when he planned to write the letter were not wishy-washy such as being yes and no; instead they were yes and only yes (verses 17-20) because the promises of God are always yes, to the praises of God because he had anointed them with the Holy Spirit, who is My pledge to them of their being My children.(verses 21-22)
In his first letter to them, he reminded them that they were the temple of the Holy Spirit in the earth. (I Corinthians 3:16)
In his absence on mission trips, Paul could not allow the elders in the Corinthian church to be so deceived as to allow false prophets to enter into the church at Corinth and poison the whole church with heresies, causing them to depart from the truth as taught to Paul by Christ Jesus when he spent two years in the desert listening to the Holy Spirit. That was why Paul was so emphatic in his criticisms in the first letter.
After writing the first strong letter with the much needed things that needed correcting, Paul did not immediately go to them. He gave them a while to make the necessary corrections in the church. He told them in the second letter that his decision not to come to them immediately was to spare their feelings. He assured them that he and Timothy were not dictators over them, but they were fellow workers with them, working to bring them happiness. He wrote that he had made up his mind not to visit them with a second distressing visit. Yet, Paul admitted in his second letter that he might have hurt them in the first letter; but, if so, he had only hurt the people who would have given him pleasure upon his return to visit and teach them. He wanted to make sure that he didn't distress the very people who would make him happy after his distressing persecutions in Asia. He assured them that he would only be happy if they were happy. He wanted them to know that when he wrote the first scathing letter that it was in anguish of mind and in tears, that it was not to hurt them but it was to let them know how much he loved them by protecting them from false prophets and their poison. (II Corinthians 2:3-4) The first letter was written to protect them from the lies of the false prophets so he needed to be strong in his criticism and words of correction.
There was someone in the church who had been the cause of pain to the Corinthians. In the second letter Paul told them that the punishment that they had already levied against the man was enough, that now they needed to forgive him and encourage him lest he break down because of so much misery. Paul wrote that his strong criticism to the people in the church was to test their obedience. He said that if the people in Corinth forgave the man who was at the basis of their rebellion that Paul would also forgive him so that they would not be outwitted by the devil. He reminded them that the devil's intentions are never for the good of anyone. (II Corinthians 2:5-11)
Paul thanked Me that wherever I go I make My children partners in the triumph of Christ over the works of the devil and that through the knowledge of Him you and all of My children are spreading a sweet smell everywhere. (I John 3:8 He said that you are the incense to Me for those who are being saved and those who are not being saved. He said that no human person could of themselves be qualified for that marvelous work.(II Corinthians 2:14-16)
He rejoiced that he was not like some people who were offering My words for sale, as some people did and still do. Instead, he said that he and Timothy spoke as sincere men, ambassadors of Mine, walking in My presence. (verse 17)
Even though Paul had to be emphatic in his corrections of the church in his first letter to the Corinthians, in his second letter he smoothed the feathers of the people whom he had emotionally wounded. His stern corrections were worth his strong words if he was able to challenge them to cast out of the church the people who were spreading the huge amounts of poison brought into their midst from the false prophets and sinful men that were poisoning the whole church.
To keep yourself and the body of Christ pure, you must allow My Spirit of discernment to operate in your life and by your obeying His caution to depart from evil influences and remain pure and free from the works of the devil. The devil's plans for you are for your destruction and death. My plans are for the abundance of peace and love in your life on earth and a glorious existence in My heaven with Me after your perishable body is finished on earth. You must cultivate the voice of discernment of the Holy Spirit or you will be deceived. Remember that evil comes as an angel of light, not as a devil with horns and a tail.
Your Father of Strong Protection
After Paul wrote a scathing letter to the Corinthians chastising them for the many lapses in their discernment by allowing incest in their church; also disputes, arguing and choosing sides over who was the best apostle, eating food sacrificed to idols, allowing Pharisees to lure some of My children back into old covenant laws which kill their spirits, and some people had even returned to idolatry. They had also allowed gluttony and drunkenness at the Lord's Supper. Also one person had swindled another in the church, then the person who was swindled sued his brother in Christ in a pagan court instead of allowing a wise member in the church to mediate between them. Plus, in the church there were other acts of rebellion against the guidance and instructions of Christ Jesus Himself.
In his first scathing letter Paul wrote about his disappointment in them and he wrote his exhortations to them in strong, critical words. He had called them spiritual babies, sensual men instead of spiritual men, still drinking milk instead of eating adult spiritual food. He chastised them for separating into factions, being filled with lust, being deceived by false prophets and being rebellious. He told them that some of them seemed to not even know Me at all. He wrote that they must come to their senses, to behave properly, to leave sin alone and that they should be ashamed of themselves. (I Corinthians15:34)
In his second letter to them the mood of that writing was apologetic and it was also a means of explaining to the Corinthians the reason behind his strong language in the first letter. Paul had just returned from a mission trip to Asia and had barely escaped with his life. He had endured beatings and ridicule there and after having heard that the Corinthians were departing from the words of Christ Jesus, he was beginning to wonder if it was all worth it to endure the disgrace and suffering on the part of the gospel if the people in Corinth, whom he had evangelized, were behaving like pagans and Jews again, leaving their first love of Christ and returning to pagan idol worship and Mosaic laws as if those religious practices had benefited their lives instead of cursing them, like they had experienced. (II Corinthians 1:8-11)
In his address to them in the second letter Paul made sure that he reminded them that I am a gentle Father, a consoling God, and that they must learn that when the sufferings of Christ happens to them that it is good training for them so that they will be able to console other people who are suffering. (II Corinthians 1:3-7)Their suffering must be in refusing to yield to the temptations of the devil that were brought into the church by sinful men and false prophets.
Paul wrote to the Corinthians that his conscience was clear, that he had treated them the same way that he treats everyone and that there was no hidden meanings in the first letter. (II Corinthians 1:12-14) He said that his intentions when he planned to write the letter were not wishy-washy such as being yes and no; instead they were yes and only yes (verses 17-20) because the promises of God are always yes, to the praises of God because he had anointed them with the Holy Spirit, who is My pledge to them of their being My children.(verses 21-22)
In his first letter to them, he reminded them that they were the temple of the Holy Spirit in the earth. (I Corinthians 3:16)
In his absence on mission trips, Paul could not allow the elders in the Corinthian church to be so deceived as to allow false prophets to enter into the church at Corinth and poison the whole church with heresies, causing them to depart from the truth as taught to Paul by Christ Jesus when he spent two years in the desert listening to the Holy Spirit. That was why Paul was so emphatic in his criticisms in the first letter.
After writing the first strong letter with the much needed things that needed correcting, Paul did not immediately go to them. He gave them a while to make the necessary corrections in the church. He told them in the second letter that his decision not to come to them immediately was to spare their feelings. He assured them that he and Timothy were not dictators over them, but they were fellow workers with them, working to bring them happiness. He wrote that he had made up his mind not to visit them with a second distressing visit. Yet, Paul admitted in his second letter that he might have hurt them in the first letter; but, if so, he had only hurt the people who would have given him pleasure upon his return to visit and teach them. He wanted to make sure that he didn't distress the very people who would make him happy after his distressing persecutions in Asia. He assured them that he would only be happy if they were happy. He wanted them to know that when he wrote the first scathing letter that it was in anguish of mind and in tears, that it was not to hurt them but it was to let them know how much he loved them by protecting them from false prophets and their poison. (II Corinthians 2:3-4) The first letter was written to protect them from the lies of the false prophets so he needed to be strong in his criticism and words of correction.
There was someone in the church who had been the cause of pain to the Corinthians. In the second letter Paul told them that the punishment that they had already levied against the man was enough, that now they needed to forgive him and encourage him lest he break down because of so much misery. Paul wrote that his strong criticism to the people in the church was to test their obedience. He said that if the people in Corinth forgave the man who was at the basis of their rebellion that Paul would also forgive him so that they would not be outwitted by the devil. He reminded them that the devil's intentions are never for the good of anyone. (II Corinthians 2:5-11)
Paul thanked Me that wherever I go I make My children partners in the triumph of Christ over the works of the devil and that through the knowledge of Him you and all of My children are spreading a sweet smell everywhere. (I John 3:8 He said that you are the incense to Me for those who are being saved and those who are not being saved. He said that no human person could of themselves be qualified for that marvelous work.(II Corinthians 2:14-16)
He rejoiced that he was not like some people who were offering My words for sale, as some people did and still do. Instead, he said that he and Timothy spoke as sincere men, ambassadors of Mine, walking in My presence. (verse 17)
Even though Paul had to be emphatic in his corrections of the church in his first letter to the Corinthians, in his second letter he smoothed the feathers of the people whom he had emotionally wounded. His stern corrections were worth his strong words if he was able to challenge them to cast out of the church the people who were spreading the huge amounts of poison brought into their midst from the false prophets and sinful men that were poisoning the whole church.
To keep yourself and the body of Christ pure, you must allow My Spirit of discernment to operate in your life and by your obeying His caution to depart from evil influences and remain pure and free from the works of the devil. The devil's plans for you are for your destruction and death. My plans are for the abundance of peace and love in your life on earth and a glorious existence in My heaven with Me after your perishable body is finished on earth. You must cultivate the voice of discernment of the Holy Spirit or you will be deceived. Remember that evil comes as an angel of light, not as a devil with horns and a tail.
Your Father of Strong Protection
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
FINAL CORRECTIONS IN 1ST CORINTHIANS
My Dear Precious Child,
The apostle Paul's final correction in his first letter for My born again, baptized in the Holy Spirit children in Corinth might surprise you. But, first, before issuing his final complaint against them in his first letter Paul reiterated a truth from scriptures, that Christ died for their sins, in accordance with scriptures; that He was buried, in accordance with scriptures; that He was raised to life on the third day, in accordance with scriptures; that He appeared to Peter and to the twelve disciples. Then He appeared to over five hundred followers of Jesus at the same time. Then He appeared to James, then to all of the apostles, and last of all He appeared to Paul on the road to Damascus, Paul reminded the Corinthians of those facts in order to underscore His complaint and correction of them, solidifying the truth of his complaints. (I Corinthians 15:3-8)
In his letter he then chided them for allowing someone to rob them of the truth of the resurrection of the dead. False prophets had entered and had poisoned the body of Christ by that means also, as well as sexual immorality, incest, doctrinal arguments, emotionally frenzied distribution of the gifts of My Holy Spirit and other transgressions. Paul wrote convincing words to them, telling them if there is no resurrection from the dead how could Christ have been raised, as they had heard eye witnesses claim? Paul even wrote that if there is no resurrection from the dead, then all of the eye witnesses had perjured themselves before Me because they swore to the evidence that I had raised Christ to life. Not only that, he wrote that if Christ had not been raised to life, then they were still in their sins and all earthly hope in them only had a few benefits for their lives on earth. If that is so, Paul wrote, then they were the most unfortunate of people to only have a life limited to the earth. (I Corinthians 15:12-19)
His letter made clear to them that sin came into the world through the first man, Adam, but salvation came into the world through the second man Christ Jesus. (verse 21) To even make it more clear, he wrote that all people die in Adam and all people are brought to life in Christ Jesus. (verses 22-24) He strongly chastised them by writing that bad friends ruin the noblest of people and that the Corinthians need to come to their senses, to begin to behave properly and to leave the sin of unbelief alone, to flee from it, to reject it and to reject the false prophets who were bringing the lie into their church. He wrote that some of them seemed not to know Me at all. He wrote that they should be ashamed of themselves for believing the teachings of those false prophets who claim there is no resurrection from the dead. (I Corinthians 15:33-34)
In explaining more fully the resurrection of the spirits of My children, not the flesh, Paul wrote to the Corinthians that the body of flesh is and will die, but the spirit of every person is imperishable and will live eternally with me. Those are the spirits of My children that have been raised to eternal life through the resurrection of Christ. (verses 40-53)
To finish his chastisement of the body of Christ in Corinth, Paul said that the sting of death is sin and that sin gets its power from religious laws. He reminded them of those truths because some of the Corinthians were also returning to observing the Mosaic religious laws which bring death to them spiritually, mentally and physically.
He thanked Me for giving My children victory over death by the resurrection from death to life through the sacrifice of Christ Jesus. When a person is in Christ, that person's eternal life begins in the kingdom of heaven while he is in the earth through his or her being born of My Holy Spirit.
I told the Corinthians through Paul to be alert to all the dangers that come into their lives from allowing false prophets in their church and to stay firm in faith in Christ Jesus, always letting everything be done in love.
Your Father of Love
The apostle Paul's final correction in his first letter for My born again, baptized in the Holy Spirit children in Corinth might surprise you. But, first, before issuing his final complaint against them in his first letter Paul reiterated a truth from scriptures, that Christ died for their sins, in accordance with scriptures; that He was buried, in accordance with scriptures; that He was raised to life on the third day, in accordance with scriptures; that He appeared to Peter and to the twelve disciples. Then He appeared to over five hundred followers of Jesus at the same time. Then He appeared to James, then to all of the apostles, and last of all He appeared to Paul on the road to Damascus, Paul reminded the Corinthians of those facts in order to underscore His complaint and correction of them, solidifying the truth of his complaints. (I Corinthians 15:3-8)
In his letter he then chided them for allowing someone to rob them of the truth of the resurrection of the dead. False prophets had entered and had poisoned the body of Christ by that means also, as well as sexual immorality, incest, doctrinal arguments, emotionally frenzied distribution of the gifts of My Holy Spirit and other transgressions. Paul wrote convincing words to them, telling them if there is no resurrection from the dead how could Christ have been raised, as they had heard eye witnesses claim? Paul even wrote that if there is no resurrection from the dead, then all of the eye witnesses had perjured themselves before Me because they swore to the evidence that I had raised Christ to life. Not only that, he wrote that if Christ had not been raised to life, then they were still in their sins and all earthly hope in them only had a few benefits for their lives on earth. If that is so, Paul wrote, then they were the most unfortunate of people to only have a life limited to the earth. (I Corinthians 15:12-19)
His letter made clear to them that sin came into the world through the first man, Adam, but salvation came into the world through the second man Christ Jesus. (verse 21) To even make it more clear, he wrote that all people die in Adam and all people are brought to life in Christ Jesus. (verses 22-24) He strongly chastised them by writing that bad friends ruin the noblest of people and that the Corinthians need to come to their senses, to begin to behave properly and to leave the sin of unbelief alone, to flee from it, to reject it and to reject the false prophets who were bringing the lie into their church. He wrote that some of them seemed not to know Me at all. He wrote that they should be ashamed of themselves for believing the teachings of those false prophets who claim there is no resurrection from the dead. (I Corinthians 15:33-34)
In explaining more fully the resurrection of the spirits of My children, not the flesh, Paul wrote to the Corinthians that the body of flesh is and will die, but the spirit of every person is imperishable and will live eternally with me. Those are the spirits of My children that have been raised to eternal life through the resurrection of Christ. (verses 40-53)
To finish his chastisement of the body of Christ in Corinth, Paul said that the sting of death is sin and that sin gets its power from religious laws. He reminded them of those truths because some of the Corinthians were also returning to observing the Mosaic religious laws which bring death to them spiritually, mentally and physically.
He thanked Me for giving My children victory over death by the resurrection from death to life through the sacrifice of Christ Jesus. When a person is in Christ, that person's eternal life begins in the kingdom of heaven while he is in the earth through his or her being born of My Holy Spirit.
I told the Corinthians through Paul to be alert to all the dangers that come into their lives from allowing false prophets in their church and to stay firm in faith in Christ Jesus, always letting everything be done in love.
Your Father of Love
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