That humankind ever hoped for Jesus Christ is the sum of everything. Jesus is the Evidence of that which the writer wrote in Hebrews.

Hebrews 11:1 (KJV) Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

In this verse, there is a lot said, we talk about faith.

A measure of faith to profit withal we do know that everyone is given.

Romans 12:3 (KJV) For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

We see here in this verse that Paul makes a statement. Not of his own, but through the Grace that was given to him.

 He was saying to each of us, “not to think too highly of ourselves"

If we are not to think too highly of ourselves, are we to exalt others in the flesh?

 What do we see multitudes doing today? We see those running here and there and saying that if you want to experience the Joy of the Holy Ghost, that you must read this book or watch this TV program and that some great preacher is on and did you see that last night? Great: that was.

I have to get one of his tapes. Then off you send your money to someone you do not even have an idea as to what character is hiding behind that robe of righteousness that is portrayed. Jesus warned that we are to be careful and even those that followed warned repeatedly to be not deceived. Satan being an Angle of Light, can, and will deceive you and he will take what God has given him and use it on you, if you are not filled with the Holy Ghost, you will fall victim to his devices. Remember that we are not wrestling with flesh and blood.

Ephes. 6:12 (KJV) For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Satan has from the time that he devised the plan to entrap Eve and Adam in the Garden of Eden into thinking that, he was the one with the answers for humanity.

Satan has caused men and women to fall into his devices and when he gets you in one of his devices, he will squeeze the very spirit of God out of you, it you allow him too.

The flesh of our body is just a temple of God.

We build buildings and meet there, and place a name on the building, and we identify ourselves with that name. We come together and we form a creed that we are to adhere to, and we say to those that oppose us, that they are wrong.

We say they are not of us, and that we want them to either change, or get from our mist.

into thinking any other way, We do not want to be changed.

Other than that way, we have determined to be the right way. Now if this is, and the creed that we have established is ordained of God through the Holy Ghost, it will stand when the world is on fire, as the saying goes. But on the other hand, even if we do agree together and we can find enough support, the thing, whether it is of God or not, it will endure, and may endure to the time that when Jesus comes back to get his church. So, do not think, just because that it looks right, that it is right. Satan has his church and he can wear the robe of righteousness and has the ability to transform his ministers into the ministers of righteousness.

2 Cor. 11:14-20 (KJV) And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

[15] Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

This makes us stop to think. What then, what can I believe? This is what you must realize: Anything that Glorifies the flesh is not, and I say, “Is Not Of God’.

[16] I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.

What Paul is saying is this:

1 Cor. 4:10 (KJV) We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.

He is saying that while he lives in this body, and is Filled with the Holy Ghost, that the enemy hates him with a passion, Satan is causing him to suffer, just as he caused Christ to suffer, and that to boast in anything, Paul boasted that he was counted worthy to suffer for Christ.

Romans 8:18 (KJV) For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

What credentials that we possess, when we are tormented by Satan. What are your credentials? Do you have any stripes on your back? Has Satan come against you today? Remember if he has left you alone and doesn’t bother you, it could be that he has sugar coated your belief into thinking that you are doing just what God wants you to do. It might be that the God that you think that you are pleasing, just might be the God of this world, and his name is Lucifer. Listen to me, from experience, Satan wants the highest position in church and that is the pulpit. The pulpit is where he can do the most destructive damage.

Psalm 48:2 (KJV) Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

Isaiah 14:13 (KJV) For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

»Strong's Help tsaphown, Hebrew 6828, Strong's tsaphown, tsaw-fone'; or tsaphon, tsaw-fone'; from Hebrew 6845 (tsaphan); properly hidden, i.e. dark; used only of the north as a quarter (gloomy and unknown) :- north (-ern, side, -ward, wind).

Christ was a mystery, especially to those who followed Satan, and to those who would not seek after God through faith.

Many people today think that God does not want them to understand the Bible; the reason is that, they do not want to search the Scriptures themselves, and will run to a great preacher to find all the answers.

Not run here and there We are told.

 when they say that Christ is here or there, We are told to Search the Scriptures.

John 5:39 (KJV) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

Even when we read the Bible, we like to make out of it what we want to hear and when we hear a preacher we want him or her to tell us good things and not to rock our boat.

Matthew 12:34 (KJV) O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Ezekiel 21:2 (KJV) Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,

We just do not want to hear anything that goes against what we believe. Israel, when Christ came to bring them the truth, they did not want to hear the truth. Israel rejected, that is the Israel that Satan had Control of, Which is the Israel of the Flesh, they wasn’t interested in what the Father had to say, they were in agreement with Hell.

Isaiah 28:18 (KJV) And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.

Why do so many religious people today, have their hope based on the Israelites over there in Jerusalem? Those that are there is doing the same as they did when Jesus stood in front of them when he was walking in the flesh. They had not the understanding that he was the Son of God and that God had chosen them to make his Name Great among the nations, and they could then, just as now, make the choice that Paul made, they didn’t want to change and be converted. Paul said that God has not forsaken Israel and that All Israel will be Saved.

Romans 11:26 (KJV) And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

If you can’t understand what he is talking about, let me open, or rather let the Holy Ghost, open your understanding as to what Paul was talking about. Israel is not of the outward man. Israel is that which is of above.

Galatians 4:26 (KJV) But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

"The Israel from above" Jesus was. Yet the Jews that was of the flesh, stood there claiming to have Abraham as their father.

Matthew 3:9 (KJV) And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

We think like those that claimed to be the children of Abraham, that we can please God by fulfilling the will of the flesh. This is what the Pharisee’s did. Remember that Abraham believed God.

James 2:23 (KJV) And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.

Yes they were the children of Abraham: Abraham had two sons, one was the son by promise, and the other was of the bond woman.

The two sons is an allegory.

An allegory is something that is to be compared.

Galatians 4:22-31 (KJV) For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.

[23] But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.

when we compare these two sons, we can see that when we follow after

the flesh we will despise the things of God and in doing so, God has to withhold good things from us.

Jeremiah 5:25 (KJV) Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

Jesus was not, and the Holy Ghost was not poured out upon those that rejected Jesus.

This is why that the Law was given on Mt Sinai.

Those Jews that are there, and those that follow after the Law that was given on Mt Sinai will not receive the truth in their hearts.

They are blinded to the truth. Just as those Jews were blinded, and the judgment of God has judged them already.

 just as it took around seventy or more years for the judgment to come on them and the judgment has never left their house. When they cried that his blood be upon them and their children, they did not realize what the impact of the words that they spoke would be.

[24] Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.

The Jews there in Jerusalem, as long as they reject Jesus Christ, they are the children of Agar, and are in bondage to the Israel of Above. We as Christians that have the Testimony of Jesus Christ are the real Jews, even though we were by nature Gentiles.

Romans 2:29 (KJV) But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

[25] For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

[26] But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

[27] For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.

Listen to what Paul is saying to the Gentile, the Jew, alike, those that have come to Jesus and have had their sins washed in the blood.

[28] Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

[29] But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

Today, those who reject the Holy Ghost and go about in the flesh, who follow after the commandants of the Law and say to you that you have to do this and that, they want to constrain you to do as they do.

They reason is; that they can gain a great recondition. They, while they promise you liberty, are the servants of Satan.

2 Peter 2:19 (KJV) While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

They are the servants of the flesh and they glory in the flesh and they need all the support of everyone that they can muster up to be able to hold onto that power. Paul said that this corruption must put on incorruption.

1 Cor. 15:53 (KJV) For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

[30] Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman.

If we follow those, we like those, will be cast out of the presence of God.

[31] So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

We are no longer under the law, we are under the law of Christ, for Christ was the end of the Law to them that believe.

Romans 10:4 (KJV) For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth.

Paul went on to say that he had power over many things and that he could exercise that power, but after Paul found Jesus as his Lord, that power was not used to get what his flesh wanted, as it was when he knew not Jesus as his Lord.

1 Cor. 9:5 (KJV) Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

Paul was saying that he could get married anytime he wanted and have a family and there would not be anything wrong with that. What Paul did after he met Jesus, he choose to make a difference and to be different that that he was as a Pharisee. Paul found freedom in Jesus Christ.

In addition, God now was his power.

Paul kept his body under subjection, that is he denied the body any glory and refused for anyone to Glorify him. This is the whole point that I want to convey to those that read these words, The flesh cannot please God, and is not subject to the Spirit.

Romans 8:8 (KJV) So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

If we being in the flesh, cannot please God, where does that leave us?

Everything that we cannot be This is where we must realize that Jesus Christ is.

When David cried out and said that the enemy was surrounding him and that if God did not Quicken him, that he would go to the grave with no hope, David was speaking the word of faith, and in doing so, Jesus, being what Hebrew chapter one said. Faith is the Substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. David, as long as he saw the enemy encamping around him and failed to see through Faith, he was swallowed up by the Evil. The key to David was, as the Scripture says. He had a heart after God. Our abilities to accomplish God’s will is insufficient and we cannot do the things that we desire. Now I am talking about doing the things by the will of the flesh. Paul again said that he found that when he would do good, that evil was present.

Romans 7:21 (KJV) I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

How does this evil present itself to us? As long as we look to the flesh for the answer, we cannot do that which we would do. Now if we are led by the flesh and desire to do the things of the flesh, then we are not the children of God, we become the children of disobedience. Disobedience was what the first Sin that was committed by Eve. Simply, she just disobeyed God’s commandant. Satan was present there in the Garden of Eden and she found, as Paul, that when she was supposed to do right that she found that she did that which was not right. Satan, standing there talked to her and showed her that she could do the things that she as a free moral agent, she could become like Gods, or, could satisfy her desires for the time being. What Satan was able to put into her was Lust and Pride. Lust and pride was the reason of Satan’s fall.

1 John 2:16 (KJV) For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

Eve saw that the fruit was good and to be desired, that it would make one wise.

Genesis 3:6 (KJV) And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

What was the fruit?. They say it was an apple from a tree. We need to see that the tree was Satan himself. Ezekiel 31:18 (KJV) To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.

God here has named him Pharaoh. We must understand that as Pharaoh placed bondage upon the children of Israel, and there had to be a great cry from the people because of the bondage, at that time God sent to them Moses, which is a type of Christ, to deliver them from that bondage. Let God open your eyes and your understanding to just what was happening to the children of Israel, the same bondage was put on Eve and Adam there in the Garden of Eden. Pharaoh represents the type of fleshly bondage that we are brought into as we come into this world. This is why Jesus was brought to the cross, His flesh was the Vale that stood between God and Man, When Adam and Eve sinned they were driven away from God and their sorrow and pain came and was multiplied. A curse was upon the whole world.

Genesis 3:17 (KJV) And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

Satan was made Low at that point.

Genesis 3:14 (KJV) And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

Satan like a snake lurks around the earth and was brought so low that he had to crawl around and eat of the dust. Crawling around meant that he had been robbed of his Glory and eating the dust meant that his portion was very dry, and void. Now you can understand that of how the earth became void and darkness was upon the deep.

Genesis 1:2 (KJV) And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Satan had been decorated by god with great honor. Satan let pride and lust take root in his existence.

Ezekiel 31:2 (KJV) Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?

The prophet is speaking about Satan in the flesh.

Ezekiel 31:4-5 (KJV) The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.

Yes the earth was void, and Darkness was upon the deep. This void that was upon the deep, this is what Satan did to the Earth and the Deep represents the minds of the people, as he blinded the eyes of Eve and Adam , he has blinded the eyes and understanding of untold millions and billions of men and women along with the little children. This is what Paul was saying when he said that he had a messenger of Satan left to buffet at him.

Just as Eve was confronted there in the Garden of Eden, we are confronted every day of our lives and the sentence of death is placed upon the body that we inhabit. Sin plays Havoc on our bodies and sickness comes to us on every side and this is why that the scientists continue to do research on how to combat the diseases of the world.

It seems that it is a never-ending battle. God has a antidote for all of this, only if we could find the answer to how to overcome. Paul found the answer and he did not receive it from the other Apostles or from the Head church at Jerusalem.

Paul went to the back side of the Arabian desert and got along with God.

At his weakest moment there while he was fasting and praying, no doubt that Satan came to him and began to tell him how that he has made a fool of himself and that if he would obey his voice and serve Satan as he had before, that he would restore all that he had before and then some.

As Paul could not find in himself the means to overcome: neither can we.

We cannot, in ourselves find the answer.

What Paul did was look beyond his inability and look to the one he saw on the road to Damascus and placed his all upon him and said as he said when Jesus spoke to him on the road to Damascus, “Acts 9:6 (KJV) And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do. “

Here is the answer to each of us. We must say to the Lord, “what will you have me to do?” When we can come to that decision, then, and then only, can Jesus use us.

The Holy Ghost will have free course in our lives. God left the messenger in Paul to keep him from exalting himself above measure.

2 Cor. 12:7 (KJV) And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

When we receive an abundance of revelations, we can get out of control, as do many preachers.

When God grants them Gifts and they begin to exalt themselves instead of exalting Jesus Christ.

This is why we see many take a fall and so sad that sometime they never are able to get up again and lose their respect of the people. I have said to the members at the churches where I was pastor, do not set me on a pinnacle. I know that if people place you upon a pinnacle, then the lord can only do that which is best and cast you down and the fall is a great fall.

When the fall comes, it takes many people with it.

[5] Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.

The flesh gives Satan his Power. Satan does not have any power concerning the spiritual things of God. Satan cannot enter into the presence of God anymore. Satan was kicked out into the Earth and this is his place of his Kingdom and he thinks that if he can persuade us to follow him then we are the multitude of the waters. The waters is the people that Satan has control. Satan caused darkness to come upon the deep. this deep is the people of the earth and those that follow after Satan and the trees is the evil spirits that stand to resist us and to come to us and cause us to listen to Satan’s voice. Satan was that tree of knowledge of good and Evil. God had make him great and he turned and took all the knowledge that God had given to him and convinced one third of the Angels to follow and by doing so they fell with him. Those evil spirits are in this world and they are very busy trying to keep you and I from doing what God wants us to do.

Ezekiel 31:8-9 (KJV) The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

[9] I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.

Satan was envied by all of the Angles that he convinced to follow his pernicious ways.

Ezekiel 31:14-16 (KJV) To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

[15] Thus saith the Lord God; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

God speaks of the end of Satan here when the time comes and I want you to know that in Jesus, from the foundations of the world, there was in Jesus the existence of everything and as the scriptures said that nothing was created without him and it was created for him and by him.

Col. 1:16 (KJV) For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

Jesus was not just crucified at the cross, He was crucified from the foundations of the world.

Rev. 13:8 (KJV) And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

When Cain killed Able, then was Jesus slain also. As I said about David calling to the lord when he was compassed, that the Lord came to deliver him from all his troubles and the Lord became what David felt. Jesus took all of our pain and placed it upon himself and took it to Hell with him and let captivity captive and gave Gifts to men.

Ephes. 4:8 (KJV) Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

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[16] I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.

Ezekiel 31:18 (KJV) To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.

Romans 7:9-21 (KJV) For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

[10] And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

[11] For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

[12] Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

[13] Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

[14] For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

[15] For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

[16] If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

[17] Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

[18] For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

[19] For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

[20] Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

[21] I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

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[17] That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

[18] Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.

[19] For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.

[20] For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.

Acts 17:27 (KJV) That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:

John 16:24 (KJV) Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.

[9] But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.

[10] And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.

[11] Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.

[12] But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.

[13] Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

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[39] But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

1 John 4:16 (KJV) And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

»Strong's Help musterion, Greek 3466, Strong's musterion, moos-tay'-ree-on; from a derivative of muo (to shut the mouth); a secret or "mystery" (through the idea of silence imposed by initiation into religious rites) :- mystery.

[52] In a moment, in the 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 incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

[54] So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

[55] O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

[56] The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

[57] But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Can anything good come out of Nazareth? This was the question that was asked when Nathanael received word from Phillip about finding him that was spoken of by Moses.

John 1:45-46 (KJV) Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.

[46] And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.

Breakthrough November 16, 2002

Luke 3:8 (KJV) Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

»Strong's Help lithos, Greek 3037, Strong's lithos, lee'-thos; apparently a primary word; a stone (literal or figurative) :- (mill-, stumbling-) stone.

Now we see through a glass darkly:

1 Cor. 13:12 (KJV) For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

I was laying on my bed this morning thinking upon the things of God.

I guess I could say that I was in the spirit, God began to reveal to me from the thoughts of my mind things that I feel will be a great breakthrough.

To, not only me, It will be to those who read these words.

I want to say to you, the reader, that this, as Paul said, did not come from man.

Galatians 1:12 (KJV) For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

I have been saved by the Grace of God since nineteen hundred and fifty nine and throughout my Christian life, I have encountered many situations that have, at times, threw me off course. I have found as Paul, that when I would do good that evil was present with me.

Romans 7:21 (KJV) I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

I can relate to what Paul was warring against. One of the things that we, when we are born as a little child, is to put our trust in those around us, especially our parents, after all this is all that we know. and we should be able to trust those that are able to nourish us up into the type of citizen that we should be.

Paul could and did not find the answer that he was seeking for in, neither himself, or those around him. After that I was saved and baptized, I thought that those that were elders in the church should be able to give me an answer to every question that I had, and to be able to direct me in the way more perfectly in the Lord. I only found the more that I inquired of them, and at the same I was searching the word of God, this I thank God that he did, when I came to Jesus, put within me the desire to know and to read the Bible, in fact, I would read sometimes all night until the wee hours of the morning. I found that, as I read the Bible, that those around me, were not teaching all of the Bible. They were taking parts from the Bible and building their hope on those certain parts. Now, I am not discrediting them for what they were building upon, what I found to be troubling to me was, If God wrote it in the Bible, then it must have been there for me. Someone has said that God does not want you to know certain things in the Bible. I find that, that remark only give that individual the excuse to sear his or her conscious to the truth. As Paul did, I did the same and thought that I would be able to work out everything in my own mind and self. Throughout the years, I found that like Paul, I became a man of most miserable. This bring me to what the spirit revealed to me this morning.

The spirit revealed, not man, that, we are like have from God, a vast amount of data, like that of a computer, we have access to everything, and in our lives, when we sit down to the computer, we can extract from that computer, that is if we are on line with the world wide web, a vast amount of knowledge, some of it can be harmful and distasteful to a Christian and we also have the ability to withdraw information that will be useful in our everyday lives. What I want, for you the reader to understand is, that God has, In his word, placed into existence a never-ending vast amount of knowledge, and that is available to those who will seek him with all of their hearts.

Luke 11:9 (KJV) And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

The trouble with us is, we look in the wrong places for the answers. Now I am not saying that, when we preach, we are not able to draw from the preaching, knowledge and those things that will benefit. Yes we are commissioned to preach the Gospel.

Mark 16:15 (KJV) And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

God has anointed men and women to preach the Gospel,

Luke 4:18 (KJV) The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

God, from the beginning of the world, has, given humankind the ability to draw from him total ability to exist in Happiness and security. He made the world and all the things that exist.

Genesis 1:1 (KJV) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Most of us, especially when we are ignorant to the word, believe that he was talking about a certain time in which humankind began to exist. We must realize that when he said, the beginning, that he is not referring to the beginning of our existence, he is referring to Jesus Christ, his son, which was the word,

John 1:3 (KJV) All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.

Jesus said himself, I am the beginning and the end. Rev. 22:13 (KJV) I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

There are ninety references of the beginning. Until you realize that the beginning is Jesus Christ, you will never be able to withdraw the full amount of knowledge and will not ever know him and who he is. God is in his word and his word is in him, therefore, when we have the word in us, we have God, we have the Beginning, Jesus Christ and God the Father at our disposable. I want you to understand that when God spoke this world and everything into existence, he, God through Jesus Christ, placed everything that existed then and through eternity, that we need to bring us into his presence and to be in fellowship with him. God is Love and we know him when we know that we love one another.

1 John 3:14 (KJV) We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abides in death.

It is hard to find the total love that we should have to each other, and we are condemned for the actions that we are guilty of at times as we come into each other's presence. This is where we must realize that we are incapable of loving each other, as long as we relate to each other according to the deed of the flesh. We know, as Paul sais, that there is no good thing in us, that is the flesh,

Romans 7:18 (KJV) For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

The question is this, How do I do good, We know that God will grant and not withhold any good thing from us.

Psalm 84:11 (KJV) For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

How in this tabernacle can we come to the place that we can walk uprightly?. I want to let you know, first of all, God doesn't’ deal with us accordingly to the flesh that we reside in.

Peter hit the nail on the head, as the saying goes.

1 Peter 3:4 (KJV) But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

Here is what God revealed to me, this is a revelation of God. Here you and I have the knowledge to know how to love one another. You and I, as we walk in the flesh, cannot please God.

1 Cor. 15:50 (KJV) Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

Most of the time, as we walk with each other and among each other, we only look on the outward man, and not on the Hidden Man.

I will be the first to admit, I just do not like what I see in many people, and this goes for those that stand in the church and do the things that stick in my craw. And, this has been the thing that has caused divisions and turmoil in God’s place of worship. We have wrestled with this problem and will continue to wrestle with this problem until the Lord comes and catches us up and takes us out of this tabernacle of flesh. This flesh, no matter how much you have a face lift or tuck, or how much money that you spend to make yourself look good, and some of you do and can make yourself look beautiful and there is nothing wrong in looking your best. The Pharisees went to a lot of trouble to make themselves presentable to the eye of the people and by giving themselves to this great effort, they, missed the whole plan, and they gave up the right to access the throne of God, for the most important beneficial things that God had prepared for them from the foundations of the world, Notice that what God had implemented into his humans and world material creation, It was, and came, and stood in front of them and would have disposed, not only from the beginning of the world, and wanted to dispose to them, all the good things that was prepared in Christ Jesus. What a shame that they thought that they could be supplied with everything they wanted and told Jesus that they had Abraham the father. They were looking at Abraham for their security. Abraham longed to see Jesus' day and he saw it.

John 8:56 (KJV) Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.

Abraham, was just the same as each of us, He, was an exception though, and that exception is the same exception of those who look to God and wanted to see the Day that Jesus would come to this world and redeem him and take him back to God the Father. You see, Abraham was caught in this tabernacle just like we are, Abraham, decided to know God, not through the flesh, but he chose to see God through faith. Hebrew 11th chapter reveals those who looked not on the outward appearance, but looked to the Hidden Man of the Heart, as Peter wrote that we should look to. That seed that was there in the beginning, Jesus Christ, that all things exists in, and by him all things exists. that seed was implemented into humankind as a measure of faith.

Romans 12:3 (KJV) For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

Jesus is a light, and he is the light that lights every man that cometh into the world.

John 1:9 (KJV) That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

Notice that the writer wrote that he was the true light. Now, we know that

Satan is an Angle of Light, so we can conclude that he as a light, is able through the flesh to light the path of those that want to follow him. This is not the true light that is spoken by John. When God said in Gneisses, let there be light,

Genesis 1:3 (KJV) And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

This light was Jesus Christ, This light was what divided the Darkness from the Light, you see when God had created, there in the beginning, Jesus Christ, in the origin of the world, God created Satan and adorned him with vast amount of beauty and authority. Satan was give the world to have as a possession, God gave him greater abilities and wanted him to rule over the host of Heaven and to Govern the according to the plan of God. Satan took this vast amount of beauty and strolled all over Heaven and Earth and with Pride in his Heart. begin to think of himself as one that had need of nothing. After all, God had given him everything, or at least he thought to himself. God when he put the earth and everything into existence he made it all in Jesus Christ before it began to exist in real shape and form.

Genesis 2:4-5 (KJV) These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

[5] And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

We are commanded to grow up in the Lord, and like those that were there before they grew, they had to have rain in order to grow. God, placed man in paradise and man through the influence of Satan, missed the mark, and was driven out from the presence of God. Even when God took Adam out of the Earth, the Earth was nothing but a dry void and could not produce anything. We know, from the word, that when God created the world and the Heavens, that he said when he looked upon it was good. When he looked at the light, he said,

Genesis 1:4 (KJV) And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

I believe that God did not create or wanted anything that he made to be any other thing but good and beautiful. Why would God, who is Perfect in every way, create anything that would be ugly or goof for nothing?. It just does not make any sense. The only conclusion to the matter is , that something went wrong somewhere and sometime. I believe that, that went wrong was when Satan, who beholding the creation, looking into this to see what God was up to, begin to say to himself, that he would not be the one that everyone would look to for advice and that he would have to take a back seat to those things that God was creating. He saw that God had potential to do whatever he pleased and that He just could not trust God any more to lead him.

'ring A bell In our lives :Doesn’t this?

How many of us, like Satan, just cannot trust God to be the Lord of our lives. We, like, Satan go about to gain recognition from others and we like Satan want to be the leader of the pack. We are like a pack of wolves, and I believe this is what the Bible refers to when it says that, inward they are like raving wolves.

Ezekiel 22:27 (KJV) Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

They call it, “Dog eat Dog”.

Is not it a terrible place to live in this world, How can and who can be saved?.

Matthew 19:25-26 (KJV) When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?

[26] But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

Jesus had just told those there that it was easier for a camel to go through a eye of a needle that a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Thank God that he did not stop and went to explain that with men it is impossible.

This is the whole point that I want you to understand. You cannot get, or see clearly the way to Heaven, and the Kingdom of Heaven by running to humankind for your answers.

 Your acquaintances will disappoint you. You will enter into the House of God and you will find those that love to have preeminence among you and who love to lay before, traditions and you will find that they will lay grievous burdens upon you, and the yoke that they place upon you will drain every bit of your joy from you and, to you, there will be disappointment on every side. This is what they will do to you,

Luke 11:46 (KJV) And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.

Jesus has said to those that they should take his yoke upon them.

Matthew 11:29 (KJV) Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

We are drawn away from the full potential of those things that God has in store for us by our own lusts and temptations.

Amos 6:13 (KJV) Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?

Is it any wonder that we have to suffer things and find ourselves wanting?

understand: We just do not.

Our sins of omission have caused the Lord to withhold good things from us.

Isaiah 59:2 (KJV) But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

Jeremiah 5:25 (KJV) Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

We wonder why there is no revival in the church and we are lucky, if that is what we call it, to have a survival meeting instead of revival.

Satan wants and is doing what he has set out to do, He will whisper to us and cause us to think highly of ourselves and to make us think that what we have received, that we received it of ourselves.

Acts 17:29 (KJV) Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

We think and compare the God Head to that of How great of a building that we have built in the community and want to brag to each other and declare to the community that we have really done God’s will perfectly.

God does not dwell in temples made of stones, wood, or any other material of this world. God dwell in temples that are not made of Hands.

Ye are the Temple of the Holy Ghost. If you defile that temple, God will destroy it.

1 Cor. 6:19 (KJV) What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

1 Cor. 6:17 (KJV) But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

That which is in you, this is not of the world and this is not given by man, this is from the other side and was there in the beginning, in Jesus Christ, he is the beginning and like a computer, we can withdraw from him that which we need to sustain us and make out of us exactly what God wants us to be. I say plainly, that what God is in you, cannot be seen with the physical eyes, Our lives is read, even by those who know not God and are walking around dead in their trespasses. To see God and all that he is, we must see Jesus. not the Jesus in the body that died, that is to be remembered certainly, but like the bible tells us,

2 Cor. 5:16 (KJV) Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.

I think it is meet to give you several scriptures that contain to those things whereby that we think that we can trust in the flesh more that trust in the spirit.

John 8:15 (KJV) Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.

Romans 8:1 (KJV) There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Romans 8:4-5 (KJV) That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

[5] For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

Romans 8:12-13 (KJV) Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

[13] For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

1 Cor. 1:26 (KJV) For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

1 Cor. 10:18 (KJV) Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?

2 Cor. 5:16 (KJV) Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.

2 Cor. 10:3 (KJV) For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:

2 Cor. 11:18 (KJV) Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.

Galatians 4:23 (KJV) But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.

Galatians 4:29 (KJV) But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

2 Peter 2:10 (KJV) But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

These scriptures tell us that, as I have said over and over, that you will not fine then answers to a successful life as a Christian, by looking to mankind for your answers. You must look to God through the spirit, and Let me make it clear that Preaching and Testifying is of a great value and is not to be ignored and we will preach and testify as the lord permits and will be involved in solving the problems of others as other will be involved in our problems, but the truth of the matter is, that, when it comes to know God and his Divine Plan for our lives, we can only find this, as Paul did, on the back side of the Arabian desert. Now I am not telling you to go to Arabia and go to the back of that desert, what I am telling you that you must get along with God and steal away in a place away from the influence of man and talk to God alone and by doing so, you will, as Paul said, and as I have, receive a revelation of God and he will reveal to you the truth and led you into the depth of the Spirit and show you things that will make you want to rise above all of the troubles that comes to you as you journey through this world. You have this same vast amount of revelations, as did Paul, and the same revelation is there for everyone that will seek the face of God. you too, can be caught up and carried away in the Spirit and will find like Phillip, after he witnessed to the Ethiopian Eunuch, that he was caught up and found in Azotes'.

Acts 8:39 (KJV) And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing.

When we get into the will of God so much that the Holy Ghost has its way, we too can be caught up into the spirit and carried away from all of the troubles that Satan would launch. You see, I believe, had not the Spirit caught up Phillip, that Satan would have come to steal the joy from the Eunuch, but instead, the Eunuch went his way rejoicing. One could say that Phillip was the one that was rejoicing, you would be right, I believe they both went away rejoicing. There is a sermon in this passage and incident. One could preach and shake the foundations of Hell in this message and by the Lord’s help maybe I will be fortunate to be able to deliver this message in a sermon to someone like the Eunuch. Maybe to a lot of Eunuch’s .

There is something that I need to reveal to you the reader, that the Spirit revealed to me this morning as I was walking the Pet that I have the pleasure of sharing our home with.

What I am talking about is that of Stones, God showed that in the Bible the reference to stones were given to mean more than that of a rock or of that of something of value here in this life. We are told that when we build a house that we are to build upon the rock. I have and am at this time building a home here that is on the very top of a mountain and have the privilege to live at the same height that the bald Eagles do. I can watch the nest where they raise their Eaglets in. From my back deck on my home we, my family, can see them continually and we have come to know how they survive in the wild. The Eagles is referred to in the bible also as a symbol of strength, just like the Lion is referred to strength.

Thank God I do not have any lions running around these hills, or at least I have not seen any yet.

Getting back to the Stones, there is one hundred fifty eight references to the word stones. And at the word Stone there is one hundred seventy six references to the word stone.

That is a lot times to mention the word, or words, We know that Jesus is the Chief Corner Stone.

Matthew 21:42 (KJV) Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes?

Let us go to Psalms and read what David Said about the Stone that the builders rejected.

Now this brings up the point I have been trying to make clear to you, How did David know that this Stone would be rejected, and how did he, or did he know that this Stone was Jesus Christ?. This is a good question and it deserves out consideration.

When God made this world, and everything in it, and when he created all living things, including humankind, what he did, and this I want you to really pay attention, and not miss the point.

In the beginning, Now as I said, In Jesus, which is the Beginning, God put into him every solution to all that was and was to be.

Please understand one thing that I, yet not I, but the Spirit, want to make perfectly clear to the reader. Everything was there in Christ. And I mean Everything.

If you want to know why we do not get the things that we think that we should have, then this is the reason why. We expect God to do or create whatsoever we ask, or want, as though God only will do it at that precise moment when we ask.

We do not realize that the answer is already there and that the time for it to take its place is also built into the Stone. This is why it is said that blessed are they that wait on the lord.

Psalm 27:14 (KJV) Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.

This is the secret that David found when I came to getting from the Lord. David ‘s outside man was everything but what God expected. In fact I am convinced that if God did according to the David of the flesh, that David would be in Hell today. If God does according to our flesh, we all would be in Hell. David, in his time was able to tap into Gods vast data base, so as we think today with all the computers that help to run our society.

As the writing of Peter stated, let it be the Hidden Man of the Heart. This was David’s mystery and the mystery that those who trust in the flesh will never be able to withdraw from God any revelations that God has in store for them.

The stones were used every since the beginning of time as a symbol. Sometime it was to make an alter. When the old testament saints erected a stone alter, they were, whether they really knew, It was referring to Jesus Christ. We have only one Alter and that Alter is Jesus Christ. When we erect Alters in the House of God, I am convinced that we believe that we can place any and everything upon that Alter and demand of God that he find in us a special being, and that God will honor us according to that we think that we have a right too. When we are coming to that Alter, it symbolizes that we are coming to The Throne. We need to realize that first that when we build an Alter, that we need to recognize that this represents not what God is going to do for us, It represents of that What God Has Done For Us Already.

David, even in his days, spoke of the things that god had prepared for him.

the twenty-third Psalm Look at.

Psalm 23:5 (preparest KJV) Thou a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

That is why Jesus said;

Rev. 1:4 (KJV) John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;

Can you, the reader understand that Jesus was there, and is the beginning and the end. In him all things consist.

2 Peter 1:3 (KJV) According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

Can’t we ever understand that to every trial and everything, from blessing to healing was provided and revealed to us at the Cross, He did not come to this world to start a new thing, he came to show us The Father, and what the Father is and has been from the very first word that was spoken there in Geneses.

Jesus said to the Father; Psalm 22:21 (KJV) Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

Psalm 118:21 (KJV) I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation.

These passages are past tense. not future tense. Hebrews chapter one reads as follows;

Hebrews 11:1 (KJV) Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Now Faith, not faith that will be if God does what we ask. Some have to see a miracle to believe, I ask the question. Are you then in your sins? If you cannot believe without a miracle, you have not believed that God has heard you. We say that God will hear our prayers. Daniel prayed for Twenty one days, when the answer came, it was made clear that the prayer that Daniel prayed was heard from the very first Day that Daniel Prayed. In fact God heard Daniel’s prayer in the beginning of the world and knew that Daniel had a need then and not at the time that Daniel, himself, uttered the words. We limit God to our time that we live in. God understands us and knows that we are limiting and will, I believe, honor us as he can. God has honored and has exalted us long before that we ask of him.

Matthew 6:8 (KJV) Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

The reason that he knows is that he has, in Jesus Christ, from the start of this word, or wherever he started, made provisions in Jesus, everything and has knowledge of our needs from the foundations of the world. He has mastered the plan and all we need to do is read the blue print. If you don’t know how to read the blue print, you need to go to Gods School and find out what the blue print has drawn up for the building of you existence.

The Blue Print came and was hanged on a tree on old Golgotha, There it was stained with his blood. There Satan thought that he would do away with what seemed to him as the only thing that would keep him from ridding God of any authority of this world and it’s kingdoms. God took that Blue Print and made it three dimensions. God Gave You and I the Holy Ghost and with the Holy Ghost we will be able to read this new Blue Print and will be able to read in three dimension the Plain that God created in Christ Jesus at the foundations of the world. I will have to say so myself that this is as good as I gets. I myself have not heard such things. No wonder he said that;

1 Cor. 2:9 (KJV) But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

I am starting to see spiritual the things that he has revealed to those that have loved him.

I want to bring the other verse into this that follows and this verse brings a most interesting point.

1 Cor. 2:10 (KJV) But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

When Job was being attacked by Satan and God allowed him to be refined so as by fie, he made a statement that I think is fit and useful to make my point clear to the reader.

Job 27:1 (KJV) Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

Job 28:7 (KJV) There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:

A path that Job is referring to is the Path of The Holy Ghost, Satan cannot and no one who does not have the Spirit, can enter into. I wonder if that when the trumpet sounds, that it will be, that many will think that they have worked out their salvation on the terms they have presented to God, rather than that which God has prepared.

Job’s friends had great instructions for Job, they could point out every fault that he had and even dived into what they had imagined in their heart, they concluded that Job had gotten what was coming to him. Job answered them and stood on the fact that it was not his fault that the thing that was happening to him, had come on him. After all the talking, then God spoke, When God spoke, Job laid his hand upon his mouth. This is what I believe it is time to do, We need to come into the House of God and Lay our hand upon our mouth and let the Holy Ghost run the show, at the saying goes. When Jesus was talking to Moses and Elijah, and Peter looked on, God was saying, I believe, that things are this way and when he wrote the law and gave the Prophets the words to speak, God had written in the plan, the Mercy that endures for ever:

Psalm 138:8 (KJV) The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.

Jesus was overriding the law and the curse that Malachi had spoken and was putting a delay on the destruction of that which God had brought to the promise. This is that Moses, who stood between God wrath and he, Moses, said to God,

Exodus 32:32 (KJV) Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.

If a man can stand between God’s judgment and hold God from performing the thing that he thought to do. how much more, Jesus, being God in the flesh, How much more would he do. After all, God is not like we are and takes no pleasure in seeing anyone perish. Thank God that he is not like us.

When it looked like the end of all flesh had come before God at the time of Noah, God remembered one man that was righteous in this earth. He took Noah and gave to him a Blue Print on how to save himself and his whole house. God destroyed all, except what Noah took into the Ark. God was going to destroy all again there at the time of Calvary and again he took not a man of this world, you see it says that there was none worthy, God looked all over Heaven and all over the Earth to find one that could die for the Sins of mankind and to defeat the Devil,

Rev. 5:2 (KJV) And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?

Rev. 5:4 (KJV) And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.

Rev. 5:9 (KJV) And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;

The seals that was to be opened was to be opened and the great wrath was once again to be poured out on humanity.

Before that this was to take place, God had a mission to go on, and that mission was the one that would defeat Satan and rid him from the face of the earth, God, instead of taking his wrath out one mankind along with Satan, he took the plan that was in Jesus Christ from the foundations of the World, that plan had been hidden from the princes of this world. 1 Cor. 2:8 (KJV) Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

He could not even let Daniel reveal the truth of what was going to take place. At this time, it would not be good for Satan to be able to read the Blueprint of Gods plan. God at this time when he was talking with Moses and Elijah, was going to set Moses and Elijah down for awhile and let them see what God had in store for those that loved him.

God took the first three and half of the tribulation and he placed it upon his son instead of that which was spoken of by Malachi the prophet.

He spoke of the curse to come. Jesus became the curse.

Galatians 3:13 (KJV) Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

Jesus became that Curse, and therefore we are to escape the curse and have already escaped. When you go to the Law to get the authority to do and hold power over your brothers and sisters, you are in essence, fallen from Grace. Many Preachers like to use the old testament for a tool that they can hold dominion over the body of Christ.

Paul wrote about a man called Diotrephes about loving to have preeminence. 3 John 1:9-10 (KJV) I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.

[10] Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church.

When there is those that love to be higher in position than their acquaintances, you can rest assured that there will be a division in the church. Paul said that when there is divisions in the church, that the people were carnal.

Romans 8:7-8 (KJV) Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

[8] So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

As long as there is a carnal mind, then the enmity that was put between the seed of woman and the seed of God, will hinder the spirit and cause a division among those in the church. God told Satan in the Garden that he would put enmity between his seed and the woman’s seed.

Genesis 3:15 (KJV) And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

From this verse we can see that Satan has a seed. Cain was the first seed of Satan.

1 John 3:8 (KJV) He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

1 John 3:10 (KJV) In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

Why is it so hard for us to love one another? and if we love one another we will prefer our brother before ourselves. I am convinced that Satan has his followers that are walking among the saints and many a time those that are of Satan will enter into the church and position themselves into some of the offices and they are able to cause the body of the church to be in an uproar so that souls will not enter into the kingdom. Remember that he has his ministers and they are transformed into ministers of righteousness. 2 Cor. 11:14-15 (KJV) And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

[15] Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

When Judas was one of the twelve, he was able to transform himself into a minister of righteousness, The other eleven did not know that he was of the Devil. They began to ask the question, ‘is it I, when the Lord said that one was a devil.

Mark 14:19 (KJV) And they began to be sorrowful, and to say unto him one by one, Is it I? and another said, Is it I?

Here we have eleven men that is of the seed of God and one is the seed of the devil. Not one of the other eleven disciples could discern who it was that was of the devil. It seems that Judas himself did not know that he was doing the will of Satan, Judas ask the Lord also, ‘is it I?

Matthew 26:22 And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I?

Is it possible that Satan can deceive us to the point that we ourselves cannot or do not know that we are following him. Paul said that when he persecuted the church he did it and was blameless.

Philip. 3:6 (KJV) Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

It seems today that when a criminal is arrested, the criminal has more rights than the victim. A law is only good as the one that is administering the law. We can see the results of what becomes law when the law falls into the wrong hands, the Pharisee’s was an example of what the law can do to keep away those that want to enter into the kingdom of God. The law became a middle wall of partition. The Pharisee’s used that which God had given to make man knowledge of his sins and that he needed to have a savior, the Pharisee’s took the letter and begin to disqualify those who didn’t meet their criteria.

John 11:41 (KJV) Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.

Psalm 118:22 (KJV) The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.