10-12-2019
Joseph Awe
SPIRITUAL GROWTH.
'And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
1 Corinthians 4:12, 14-18, 20-21? ?KJV?)
John 3:17 reads: for God sent not his son not the world to condemn the world; but that the world through the might be saved.
18: He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already.
Verse 19: And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Verse 20: For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds be reproved.
Verse 21: But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that are wrought in God.
Many Christian Jargon today isn't filled with the spirit of truth. Where there is truth, the Spirit of truth is present. false prophets gives a word but a prophet of God
shows and points to the word; Jesus Christ. The spirit of truth is the one that reproves and convicts the world of sin.
Isaiah 5:20 reads: woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness, that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
But today the truth has been changed unto bitterness/Lie and bitterness/Lie to truth, no more reproving of the Holy Spirit, no more Judgement, no repentance.
The love of God is tough and hard. For God loves his son Jesus Christ but condemned him to cross and nailed the sin of the world on him.
If God spared not his son, he will spare no one that refused his reproving. Romans 8:32 reads; He that spare not his own son, but delivered him up for us all. Prosperity gospel
and earthly desires without reproving and judgement are doctrines of devils. See 1 Timothy 4:1-2. Who think gain, riches, wealth, fame is Godliness (1 Timothy 6:5-7).
This was played out when Satan tried to tempt Jesus in the wilderness in Matt 4, Luke 4. The devil has nothing to offer other than platitudes, earthly glory, prosperity, riches,
pleasure of the flesh and fleshly satisfaction. There's no spirit of truth in him. So he only has one thing to offer to man; pleasure!
Jesus was afflicting his flesh, spirit and soul in the wilderness (Life of a child of God), according to the commandments in Leviticus 23:27: Also on the tenth day of the seventh month
there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls.
Leviticus 16:31 reads: it shall be a Sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statues for ever.
Truthful, the plan of God for us is to prosper and inherit eternal glory, in Jeremiah 29:11: For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the LORD, the thoughts of peace,
and not of evil, to you an expected end. The scriptures are filled with God promises but there's a catch/twist which is overlooked.
Matthew 6:30-34.
Verse 33 reads:
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Also see 19-20.
The spirit of truth, which is the Holy Ghost, reproves sin and unrighteousness.
John 16, from verse 7 reads:
Nevertheless I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I go not away: for if I go not away, the comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
Verse 8: And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of Judgement. Where there's no reprove there's no spirit of truth (Holy Ghost) be not deceived.
Sin is powerful and clings like a bad stench, decay of the flesh. A powerful and strong cleanser is need to kill the stench. The devil is described as a lion, an attitude of a devouring beast,
that tears and reaps flesh and bones to pieces and it devours decaying corpse, untrained wild beast like a Lion cannot be pet or played with. Something stronger, like the power of the spirit,
is needed to tame and banish the beast, only the Holy Ghost can tame the beast, portrayed through Daniel lions. Daniel was filled with the spirit of excellence (Holy Ghost Daniel 5:12).
Also See 1st Peter 5:8.
In the medieval times, when a murderer was punished, they would strap the murdered/dead corpse to the murderer to kill that individual by the foul smelling, decaying corpse, as a death sentence.
Sin is a decaying flesh strapped to anyone in sin. It kills the soul, it attracts insects (Beelzebub, Lord of the flies (Luke 11:15), crawling creatures, rodents (other sinful nature: Matt 12:43-45).
Jesus illustrate this by his strong accusations of the Sanhedrin, scribes and Pharisees. In Matt 23.
Verse 25: Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye Make clean the outside of the cup and of platter, but within they are filled of extortion and excess.
Verse 26: Thou blind Pharisees, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
Verse 27: Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye are like whites sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
These were leaders and teachers of Israel being accused by the Spirit of Truth. Oh yes if we say there's no sin us we lie (1 John 1:8). Every one has (a)sin or tendencies by of our decaying
and sinful flesh. We are strapped to a decaying/perishing corpse (2 Corinthians 4:16), that's why this flesh is not pleasant, worthy, good enough to inherit the kingdom of God. Every Saint
of Christ Jesus MUST be changed at his return. 1 John 3:2 reads, Beloved, now we are the sons of God, and it not doth yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear,
we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
1 Corinthians 15: 52: In a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53: for this corruptible 'must' put on incorruptible. This flesh isn't good enough for heaven; it is earthly, made out of dust, decaying, spent, dead in sin, that's why every living soul
sometimes craves sin, even the saved ones do, sometimes, crave sin (1 John 1:8, Romans 7:21-23). It is the first enemy! That's why Christ Jesus' flesh was beating and destroyed
on the cross, which shows the state of the body of the believers.
Finally the word of God is sharper. Islam/Quran sharp, Book of Mormons is sharp, false gospel is sharp, watch-tower is sharp, NIV is sharp, other watered down/distorted scriptures are sharp,
Prosperity gospels are sharp, vain Christian platitudes/Jargons are sharp, other religious books are sharp, they pierce the flesh but not the spirit of man (2 Corinthians 4:16), the inner man.
Truly, they get converts and followers, believers, but the word of God which is Jesus Christ (John 6:35) is sharper.
In Hebrews 4:12: For the word of God is quick (the spirit quickenth, resuscitate: Romans 8), and powerful, and 'SHARPER' than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder
of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
The word of God is sharper, than any thing known to man, it kills, destroys that strapped decaying flesh and not only the flesh but the inner man that will make the kingdom of God.
The word of God does inner circumcision, surgery. Therefore Repent and be baptised, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. (Acts 2:38).
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