© 2021.  All rights reserved.  Bible study updated Friday.  Some excerpts are taken from Jesus Christ: The Word of God and The Lamb of God—The Alpha and Omega of my faith in God.  All scriptures are from the hebrew, aramaic, and greek texts of the KJ Standard Bible, according to Strong's reference numbers.

Prayer

(Core study verses: Acts 1:25)

Glory to God—our Heavenly Father and Saviour—The God of matchless, unsearchable power;  and incomparable, eternal love;  and absolute, unchanging truth.  And we don't want to hack His words or contradict His Name, either (see also the hebrew text of Gen 1:1, Ex 34:5-7, 1 Chron 29:11-12, Ps 62:11, Isa 45:5-7, Isa 48:13, Ezek 20:27, and Ezek 22:1-31;  and the greek text of Matt 17:20, Luke 17:6, 2 Pet 3:16, 1 John 4:6,18;  Rev 4:8, and Rev 3:7-12).

Glory to God—our Heavenly Father and Saviour—The God of terrible, uncompromising holiness (we can only approach Him through Jesus Christ, The Lamb of God - He's our Attached Cord [Tikvah] to God—our Mediator, as Paul put it - our Great High Priest, as the writer of Hebrews put it - see also the hebrew text of Ex 28:1 and Lev 19:1-2;  and the greek text of John 14:6, 9;  John 10:30, John 16:22-27, 1 Tim 2:5, Heb 4:14, Rev 1:5-6, and Rev 7:9-17);  and inexorable, rightening-out judgment;  and incomprehendibly vast intelligence (see also the hebrew text of Deut 32:4, and Ps 145:3;  and the greek text of John 1:1-3, John 16:7-11, Col 2:2-15, Heb 8:6, Heb 9:15, and Heb 11:35).

The God of our Salvation is one Person, but His Name—Y'hovah 'Elohiym Shamayim—Which is above all names in heaven and on earth—is like the facets upon the great Cullinan diamond that is in the british crown scepter.  The God of the Holy Bible is, was, and ever shall be The God of incomparable lovingkindness.  But He is not one-dimensional.  Woe to the logician who thinks he's found an inherent theological flaw in God being The God of love on the one hand and The God Who throws people into the lake of fire on the other (see also the greek text of Luke 12:4-5)!  The God Who created this whole universe and everything that is in it was not formed between the anode and the cathode of some preacher's cockeyed logic!  His spiritual laws are as relentless in their effect as His physical laws.  We either live by every word that proceeds out of His mouth or we die in the lake of fire.  Period.  End of story.

God told His prophets:  My people are going to know My Name (see also John 17:1-3, John 14:21, Matt 11:27, and Matt 7:21-23).  .  . They're all going to know Me.  .  . And the people that do know [yada'] their God and fasten [chazaq] themselves to Him are going to do ['asah] eye-popping, mind-boggling signs and wonders and miracles of healing and salvation and deliverance and resurrection and provision—and exercise authority over all things just like Jesus did—which is in the dynamite power of God—not in the power of the flesh, hence, the name Israel (see also the hebrew text of Gen 32:28, 1 Kings 8:38-39, Isa 49:1-3, Zech 10:6-7, 11-12;  and Mal 4:2;  and the greek text of John 15:1-16 and Rev 3:19).  They're going to glitter like the blazing stars in the starry night sky when darkness is plumping everybody else on earth like the gloom of a lowering sky!  Is that cool, or what?

When we're a new creature in Christ, all we know about our Heavenly Father is that He's The God of incomparable love and unspeakable joy and dynamite power.  That's about all our baby eyes can see.  But when we make up our mind to live His Word 24/7, He reveals all the rest of the facets of His dynamite-powerful Name to us (see also the hebrew text Deut 28:9-10, Gen 18:14, Isa 29:10-14, and Ps 111:10;  and the greek text of John 7:15-17, John 14:15-23, John 17:26, and Phil 3:1-21)!

That's also when we start learning that we can't be gracious, or patient, or compassionate—that we can't think rationally and creatively—that we can't even good-speak (see also the greek text of Matt 3:17 and 1 Cor 12:3)—and most especially when we're under pressure—unless our Heavenly Father and Saviour is dynamite-powering on the inside of us to do it (see also the hebrew text of Jer 13:1-11)!

Without Jesus, we're like a guarded city whose walls have been broken down.  Diabolos and his crew can assault us from any direction, at any time, in any number of ways—and win every time (see also the greek text of Acts 10:38, 2 Tim 2:24-26, and John 1:29)!  People are being marked and gathered up into bundles to be burned in the lake of fire—just like Jesus said it would happen in Matt 13:24-30, 36-43.  Let all God's children therefore cling to our Heavenly Father for dear life.  Let nothing take away His praises (i.e., t'hillah's - the things/songs/testimonies that make God's Name clear [halal] - see also the hebrew text of Ps 22:3 - the songwriter wrote:  the powers of darkness fear when this sweet chant they hear:  May Jesus Christ be praised!).  He's bringing His blind people down a path we've never seen before—one that generates holiness!  We don't want to do or say anything that would separate us from The God Who routinely does the impossible and the unimaginable with the highly unlikely and the throughly improbable (see also the greek text of Heb 12:1-17).  This fight is not about the kaleidoscope of ad hoc flesh and blood issues.  Let's not get sidetracked by political red herrings (see also the greek text of Rev 14:18-20).  Let us stay in The Word of God—which is the absolutely true, razor-sharp, double-edged, stabbing Sword of The Holy Spirit.  This warfare is spiritual—and it is totally about who will and who won't keep and do the 1st and 2nd great commandments (see also the hebrew text of Ex 20:1-11,12-17;  Lev 19:1-2, 18;  Num 12:7, Deut 6:4-5, and Josh 1:1-9;  and the greek text of Matt 22:35-40, Luke 10:25-28, and 2 Cor 10:3-5)!  God is “balancing the books” and culling all the haters—without regard to race, nationality, tongue, age, gender, religion, political, or social standing—from His millennial kingdom, which is at the door, even as we speak (see also the greek text of Eph 5:1-7 and 1 Cor 15:20-58,  and the hebrew text of Nah 1:6-11).

But our God is a consuming fire [Y'hovah 'Akal 'Esh].  Who can abide His coming (see also the hebrew text of Ezek 14:13-14, Ezek 21:1-4, Ezek 22:1-31, Isa 33:14-16, Hab 3:1-18, and Zeph 3:1-9; and the greek text of Matt 5:1-12 and 1 Pet 4:8)?  Given the current state of un-readiness in the church that we can see from where we're standing, we suspect Christ Jesus is going to find a lot of good church folks like He doesn't want—and a lot of us are going to find Him like we wish we hadn't when He comes.  The hebrew text of Deut 7:23 tells us that God puts a nation that He has determined to destroy into a twisted-together uproar!  We're there.  In fact, every nation in this whole world order is there.  But God is going to liberate His people in a way that hasn't been seen since Moses' day, when He got a Name for Himself by turning the might of imperial Egypt every whichaways but loose!  Since we're aiming for John 14:23 immediately and Rev 21:22-23 ultimately, let's see to it that we fear none but The God of the Holy Bible as we go through this mother of all separations, and keep ourselves out of the Matt 13 bundles of false wheat that God's angels are presently speaking together!

It may take a little while, but when we finally realize that we're fighting a shooting war on two fronts simultaneously, and the enemy of our soul is using real bullets—we then hold out our hands [yadah] like little toddlers and call out [qara'] for everything we need—spiritual, mental, physical, and material—to our Father God [that's Y'hovah 'Ab], The God of our Salvation [that's Y'hovah Y'shuw'ah]:  the priceless, beautiful Pearl in our ugly, little oyster-shell vessel (see also the greek text of 2 Cor 4:7);  the crystal-clear, brilliant, fiery Diamond in our little handful of ugly, black carbon;

the purest, transparent Gold in our little bucketful of loose ore;  the incomprehendibly vast Wealth of mental, spiritual, physical, and material riches in our little clay tabernacle (because of which indwellling Paul testified that he held not even one thing, yet he was making many rich - see also the greek text of 2 Cor 6:10, John 14:10-23;  Luke 12:42-44, Col 2:1-9, and Matt 6:19-21;  and the hebrew text of Ex 19:5-6, Ex 34:10, and Lev 26:1-12);  the refreshing Rest for the laboring, heavy-laden soul;  The God Who holds dynamite power over every mind (see also the greek text of Phil 4:7, Matt 16:18-19, and Luke 4:24-30;  the hebrew text of Gen 19:1-11, 2 Kings 6:8-20, Job 5:13, and Prov 21:1;  and the aramaic text of Dan 4:1-37);  The Supreme All-Governmental Ruler God [Kurios Theos Pantokrator] (see also the hebrew text of Gen 1:1, Ps 19:1, and Ps 24:1;  and the greek text of John 1:1-3 and Rev 4:8);  The KING of kings and LORD of lords;

the unshakable Stability in our falling-apart world;  the marvelous, unbeatable E Pluribus Unum of the body of Christ;  The Great Emancipator;  the unwavering Firmness in the ebb and flow of our life;  the rock-solid Persuasion that created—and has sustained and regulated—this whole universe from grid zero to now;  the brilliant Light in our stygian darkness;  the glorious Fragrance in our sea of fetid stink;

the vigorous Good Health in our sin-sick world;  the cool, refreshing Oasis in the middle of our blistering hot desert;  The God of our Rocky Mountain highs and our Death Valley lows;  the compassionate Alongside-Caller Who sends out His alongside-announcers (the ministering angels are on the outside - The Holy Spirit and The Word are on the inside) to wait on His people menially (see also the hebrew text of Dan 11:1);   The Mighty Fortress that the wise person hies to for refuge;  the tempered Steel in our backbone;  The Burly God (see also the hebrew text of Gen 17:1 - He makes superman look like a 98-lb weakling);  The Peace that passes all understanding;

The Anchor of our soul in the terrible storms of life;  The Strength of our brains, our breathing creature, our spirit, and our body (see also the greek text of John 15:5);  our Shield and exceedingly Great Reward;  our impervious Surrounder;  our unspeakable Joy;  The God Who makes the grieving heart Laugh;  our Great Provider;  The Holy Spirit Baptizer;  our Song in the night (see also the greek text of Acts 16:19-26);  The Sweet Psalmist of Israel;  The God Who sees and hears everything;

our razor-sharp, double-edged Sword;  our unbeatable Commander-in-Chief;  our inexhaustible Dynamo;  The God of the yea and the amen (blessed are they who ask Him - see also the greek text of Matt 7:7-11, Luke 11:9-13, and John 15:7, and the hebrew text of Isa 65:16);  The Great Fisherman;  The Master Herdsman;  The Beautiful Shepherd of the sheep;  The Great Veterinarian;  The Great Agronomist;  The Great Horticulturist;  our Mighty Counselor;  our Great Judge-Advocate;  our Brilliant Teacher;  The Great Architect;  The Master Builder;  The Great Chemist;  The Great Astronomer;  The Great Physicist;  The Great Electrician;  The Great Biologist;  The Great Botanist;  The Great Entomologist;  The Great Geologist;  The Great Mathematician;  The Great Engineer;  The Great Geneticist;  The Great Microbiologist;  The Great Speaker;  The Great Communicator;  The Great Historian;

The Great Physician:  The Great Dentist;  The Great Orthodontist;  The Great Ophthalmologist;  The Great Otologist;  The Great Osteologist;  The Great Orthopedist;  The Great Dermatologist;  The Great Neurologist;  The Great Cardiologist;  The Great Pulmonologist;  The Great Oncologist;  The Great Hepatologist;  The Great Gastro-Enterologist;  The Great Nephrologist;  The Great Hematologist;  The Great Endocrinologist;  The Great Surgeon;  The Great Chiropractor;  The Great Podiatrist;  The Great Psychiatrist;

The Great Nutritionist;  The Heavenly Manna and Living Water;  The Master Chef;  our inexhaustible Artesian Spring;  The God of the Resurrection;  the only God Who can make dead things live—indeed, The God Who holds the keys of death and hell in His hand.  What our God shuts, nobody opens.  And what He opens, nobody shuts.  Even the vilest offender has hope of making it into that Rev 21 kingdom—if he will repent of his sins and come to Jesus Christ (see also the greek text of John 3:16-18, 36;  John 6:26-63, John 5:21, 24-29;  John 15:1-16, Luke 13:1-5, Luke 24:44-47, Matt 16:18, 24-27;  Rom 10:11-15, 1 Cor 3:9, and Rev 22:10-17;  and the hebrew text of Jer 29:10-14, Ezek 3:16-21, Ezek 18:1-32, Joel 2:23-32, and Zeph 3:1-9);

the abundant Life, Liberty, Equality, Prosperity, and Happiness that we all want to have more of;  and all the Goodness that we may ever know or have—and ask Him to dynamite-power on the inside of us 24/7!  Them that ask, receive!  Them that don't, get exactly nothing!  And when we quit our hard-breathing toiling (God expects us to be gracious—even pleasant—when we're going through tough places - see also the hebrew text of Ps 107:10-12, Eccl 9:11-12, Jer 5:1-5, Jer 20:14-18, Ezek 3:20-21, Hos 6:4, Zeph 3:1-9, Num 23:19-24, and Lev 26:40-45;  and the greek text of Matt 5:44-48, Rom 12:1-21, 1 Thes 5:1-24, 1 Pet 1:13-16, 2 Pet 2:1-22, and Rev 2:3), and allow Christ Jesus to take over and fight all our battles (see also the hebrew text of Eccl 8:1-8), great and small, the powers of darkness are defeated and God's people cease being dynastied-down under Diabolos and his crew (see also the greek text of Luke 11:17-22, Matt 18:23-35, Acts 10:38, and Rev 13:10).  The liberty is glorious!  Where there is no offense (by graciousness of manner and act, are we safe - see also the hebrew text of Ezek 14:12-21, Eccl 9:11-12, Amos 9:10, Zeph 1:12, Mic 2:1, Mic 3:11, Jer 7:9-11, Jer 9:23-24, Isa 53:3, Gen 6:8, and Jer 50:20;  and the greek text of Matt 5:22-25, John 15:7-17, Acts 26:9-11, Rom 6:1-23, Rom 9:31-33, Rom 10:3, Eph 2:8-10, and Rev 22:12-15 - the person who practices perversity, abomination, and lawlessness—aka, sin—is not safe), there is no condemnation, and Diabolos' authority to kill, steal from, and destroy ceases (see also the greek text of Luke 21:28)!  Can we all let that one sink in?  In the greek text of Matt 6:34, Jesus advised His learners:  Don't fall to pieces accordingly [merimnao oun me merimnao] into [eis] the morning breeze [aurion], for [gar] the morning breeze will fall to pieces [aurion merimnao ho] (of) itself [heautou].  (Let Me be your) warding-off [arketos] (in) the day [hemera] (of) Self-worthlessing [kakia Autos] (note:  all that happened to Jesus in the crucifixion are examples of Self-worthlessing - see also the greek text of Matt 26:62-68, Matt 27:25-44, Luke 21:34-36, Matt 16:24-27, John 1:29, Rom 8:28-36, 2 Cor 12:9-10, Phil 3:1-14, Phil 4:13, 1 Tim 6:6, Heb 2:9-15, Heb 5:5-9, and Rev 12:11).  So let us exercise our mind intensely with [metanoeo] The God of terrible, uncompromising holiness in The Word, and exercise our gut down [kataphroneo] on all the gut-churning, gut-upheaving, debilitating, demoralizing, destabilizing, paralyzing, seducing, dangers, toils, snares, pratfalls, and stumblingblocks that so abundantly line our road of judgment, and step on up into Jesus' glorious liberty.

When we begin living God's Word 24/7, we also begin learning that The God of the Holy Bible really is The GOD of gods, The KING of kings, and The LORD of lords.  He is The Supreme All-Governmental Ruler God [Kurios Theos Pantokrator] (see also the greek text of Matt 6:13).  There is nothing The Absolute Creator does not rule over—from the affairs of human beings, to the winds, the waves, the weather, the tectonic plates, the polar magnetic fields, the icebergs, gravity, the atmosphere, the sun, the moon, the stars, the planets, the comets, the asteroids, the meteors, the galaxies, and every other thing—great and small—in inner and outer space.  All lower-tier matter stand at attention when The God Who only has power to create and destroy matter, speaks.  And every human being on the face of this earth is going to be tested to see whether they believe this foundation truth enough to constrain their totally Self-absorbed body of death to live by it.  God told His people:  Don't fear the gods of other nations.  Don't prostrate yourselves before demons, devils, unclean spirits, or ugly faces.  You fear and prostrate yourself before Y'hovah 'Elohiym Shamayim only (see also the greek text of Luke 12:4-5, Rev 12:10-11, and Rev 21:1-8, and the hebrew text of Ex 20:1-17)!   I am The God Who heals you and turns off sickness and disease from you (see also the hebrew text of Ex 15:26, Ex 23:24-25, Deut 7:11-15, Deut 28:58-62, Deut 32:4, Isa 1:16-18, 25-27;  and Isa 58:1-14;  and the greek text of John 5:14, John 15:7, 16;  Acts 10:38, 1 Thes 5:16-18, and Heb 11:35).  I am The God Who makes you clean (see also the greek text of Rom 8:30-33 and the hebrew text of Isa 1:18 - note:  the stuff that clogs up our arteries and veins is unclean).  I am The God in Whom only you live and move about and have your being.  I Am The Beautiful Shepherd Who restores your soul and leads you into green pastures alongside of crystal-clear waters.  I am The God Who opens your prison doors and gives you authority [exousia - this is chain of command stuff, and it runs from Y'hovah 'Elohiym Shamayim at the top, through Christ Jesus, to whomsoever is arranged under The Lord Jesus - see also the greek text of Matt 28:18, Luke 6:46, Matt 10:1, Luke 9:1-2, Luke 10:19, Luke 11:21-22, John 1:29, and John 15:1-5, 7-16] over all the dynamite power [dunamis] of the hater (see also the greek text of John 1:29)!  Only those who call out [qara'] to The Name of Y'hovah are going to be smooth [malat] as a polished, oiled, diamond egg when they're going through tight places (see also the hebrew text of Joel 2:32 and Ex 12:13, 23;  and the greek text of 1 John 5:18).

And the Standard Operating Procedures Manual of God's kingdom is The Holy Bible—the unwavering theme of which is love for God and love for neighbor—in that order (see also the greek text of Matt 22:35-40, Matt 10:34-39, Luke 10:25-28, Rom 12:1-21, Rom 13:10, Rev 17:14, and Rev 19:16;  and the hebrew text of Gen 9:6, Ps 89:30-32, and Jonah 2:8).

{Let all God's people be careful that they don't reverse that order!  Loving Self more than neighbor, and loving neighbor more than God, gets us into the peer-pressure trap—which is the old-timey name for political correctness—and that's not where we want to be when we have to stand and be counted in the day of rightening-out judgment (see also the greek text of Matt 7:21-27, Matt 26:69-75, John 5:44, 2 Cor 6:14-18, Phil 1:21, Rev 2:10, Rev 3:2, Rev 13:1-4, and Rev 14:6-11).  Nor do we—in the name of “love, harmony, and peace”—want to be found guilty of excusing the unrepentant, highly-fed adulterous, autolatrous lifestyles of religious and secular neighbors who are walking in hostility toward The Almighty God—and subordinating The Word and The Lamb of God to their abominations, perversity, and lawlessness.  God fired the OT priests (He called them intertwiners because they mixed The Word with the world) who compromised His holiness by doing that very same thing in Ezekiel's day (see also the hebrew text of 2 Kings 16:10-16 - the message from The Lord is REPENT - TURN AWAY from your abomination, perversity, and lawlessness - EXERCISE YOUR MIND WITH GOD in The Word on top of everything, for the kingdom of God is at hand)}!

We need to let the uncompromised Word of God sink into and exercise governmental control over all our thoughts and words and deeds as we walk our road of judgment through this valley of tears, because The Just Judge of the whole earth loves neighbor just as much as He loves us—but without His help and His instruction, we can't love neighbor like He expects us to (see also the greek text of John 5:44, Matt 16:24-27, Rom 7:14-Rom 8:14, Rom 12:1-21, Luke 9:56, and Luke 19:10).

Every human being on the face of this earth has got to learn to do two things as they walk through this realm of rightening-out judgment:  (1) Love Y'hovah 'Elohiym Shamayim first—with all their heart and soul and mind—and (2) love neighbor second—even as they love themselves, for starters (see also the greek text of John 13:34).  Unless Almighty God and The Word is the 1st love, we can't keep the 2nd love—and most especially when we're dealing with hateful and odious people (these are the folks who don't keep God's commandments at all—nevermind, strictly - there is no fear—or love—of God in them - see also the greek text of John 1:29, John 14:15, John 15:4-5, John 7:7, Rom 1:16-32, Rom 5:20, and Rev 9:20-21;  and the hebrew text of Mic 7:3, Hos 6:4, Hab 1:1-4, Eccl 9:11-12, and Prov 18:3)—because He's got to dynamite-power on the inside of us—both to determine, and then to actually do it (see also the greek text of 1 Cor 3:9-17, Phil 2:13, and Phil 4:13)!

We may be dumb as a bucket of dirt when we start walking with The LORD in the light of His Word—but our Heavenly Father doesn't want us to stay that way.

He expects each one of us to exercise our mind [metanoeo]—i.e., think—with Him in The Word on top of everything that comes or goes in our life—like a mathematician thinks through complicated problems with the laws of mathematics (see also the hebrew text of Josh 1:1-9, Ezek 18:1-32, and Dan 12:1-11;  and the greek text of Matt 3:1-12, Matt 4:12-17, Luke 13:1-5, and Rom 1:16-32), and exercise our gut down [kataphroneo] on all the gut-churning hurts and abuse and offenses and rude treatment that the enemy of our soul so abundantly, unceremoniously, dumps on top of us.  Blessed indeed is the person who has been doing that, for they are putting the dynamite-powerful Word of God in their heart by faith.  They are laying the unshakable foundation and building the spiritual house that can withstand any storm.  And when The Word takes root in them, He's going to take them from glory to glory to glory—and they're going to leave their Egypt behind, and they're not coming back to that place ever again in their life.

And God said through His prophet Isaiah in the hebrew text of ch 51:

(You) hear [shama'] (Me, you people who) are running after moral rightness like a hostile pursuer [radaph tsedeq] (and) searching for [baqash] Y'hovah.  Scan [nabat] the towering cliff [tsuwr] (that you) were carved [chatsab] (from with) a perforating hammer [maqqebeth]—the pit hole [bowr] (from which you) were quarried [naqar]!  (Isa 51:1)

Scan [nabat] 'Abraham, (your fore)father ['ab], (and) Sarah, (who) twisted and whirled in childbirth [chuwl] (when she was 90 years old!  When I) called out [qara'] (to them, they were just) one ['echad] (family, but they obeyed My voice and kept My commandments, so I) kneeled (everything) down [barak] (to them and) increased [rabah] (them - see also the hebrew text of Gen 18:17-19 and Gen 26:1-5;  and the greek text of Matt 6:24-33)!  (Isa 51:2)

{Y'hovah is sighing [Y'hovah nacham] (for) Tsiyown.  (He) is sighing [nacham] (for Tsiyown's stunned) drought places [chorbah].  (He is going) to put [suwm] 'Eden (in their) wilderness [midbar 'Eden]—the garden (of) Y'hovah (in their) desert region ['arabah gan Y'hovah]!  Gladness [sasown] (and) joy [simchah] (are going) to come forth [matsa'] (again).  Out-held hands [todah] (and) the voice [qol] (of) instrumental songs [zimrah] (are going to be seen and heard in Tsiyown again)}.  (Isa 51:3)

Prick up (your) ears [qashab] (to My voice, My) people ['am]!  Broaden out (your) ears ['azan] (to My voice, O) gathered community [lom]:  (My) Torah (is going) to go out [yatsa'] (from Tsiyown like it did in David's day.  I) am tossing (you) violently (with rightening-out) judgment [mishpat raga'] (because you are to be) the people (of) The Light ['Owr 'am] (see also the hebrew text of Lev 19:1-2, Isa 26:9-11, Isa 66:1-14), Jer 30:15, Jer 31:27-40, and Ezek 28:20-26;   and the greek text of Matt 5:1-16)   (Isa 51:4)

(and) moral rightness [tsedeq], {(but I will be) approachable [qarowb] (to you - see also the hebrew text of Zech 8:20-23)}.  Wide open freedom [yesha'] will be brought out [yatsa'].  (My) out-stretched arms [z'rowa'] (see also the greek text of John 1:29-36, John 3:1-18, John 10:1-11, John 8:31-36, 2 Cor 3:17, 2 Cor 5:10-11, and Acts 15:1-11) shall judge [shaphat] the people ['am].  (All) the habitable spots ['iy] (of the land are going) to bind (themselves) together [qavah] (with Me, and upon My) out-stretched arm [z'rowa'] shall (they patiently) wait [yachal] (see also the greek text of Gal 4:1-2)!   (Isa 51:5)

Lift up [nasa'] (your) eyes ['ayin] (to) the lofty skies [shamayim].  Scan [nabat] the land ['erets].  The lofty skies [shamayim] (are going) to be salted [malach] (with) smoke ['ashan] (in that day).  The land ['erets] (is going) to fail [balah] (like a moth-eaten wool) covering [beged] (see also the hebrew text of Isa 24:1-23;  and the greek text of 1 Thes 5:1-9, Rev 6:12-17, Rev 11:1-19, and Rev 16:12-21).  (All the morally wrong who) are sitting down [yashab] (on top of the land at that time are going) to die [muwth] like [k'mow] the blood-sucking insects [ken] (of the Mitsrayim plague - see also the hebrew text of Ex 8:16-18).  (But My) Y'shuw'ah (and My) moral rightness—(from) concealed out of sight ['owlam ts'daqah]—(have sustained the person who) doesn't prostrate [chathath] (himself to the rude treatment and word hacking of morally wrong persons - see also the hebrew text of Josh 1:1-9, Ps 56:3, and Isa 54:1-17;  the aramaic text of Dan 3:1-30 and Dan 6:1-28;  and the greek text of Matt 10:16-33, Matt 11:28-30, John 9:1-39, Heb 2:14-18, Heb 11:6, Rev 12:1-17, and Rev 21:1-8)!   (Isa 51:6)

Hear [shama'] (Me, you people who want) to know [yada'] moral rightness [tsedeq]—(you) people ['am] (who have put My) Torah (in your) heart [leb Torah]:   Do not fear [yare'] the rude treatment [cherpah] (of bad) male persons ['enowsh], nor prostrate [chathath] (yourselves before their) word hackings [gidduwph] (see also the greek text of Luke 12:4-5, Rom 8:9-39, Gal 2:11-17, Eph 6:10-18, Heb 2:14-15, Rev 13:1 - Rev 14:12, and Rev 21:1-8;  the hebrew text of Prov 29:25 and Isa 40:1-31;  and the aramaic text of Dan 3:1-30 and Dan 6:1-28)!   (Isa 51:7)

A moth ['ash] shall eat ['akal] (them like a wool) covering [beged].  The agile moth [cac] shall eat ['akal] (them like) shaggy wool [tsemer]!  (But My) moral rightness [ts'daqah] (is from) concealed out of sight ['owlam] (and My) Y'shuw'ah (is from) revolution of time [dowr] (to) revolution of time [dowr] (see also the greek text of John 1:1-3, John 3:16, John 5:24-29, John 11:25-26, John 14:12-23, and Rev 14:1-13;  and the hebrew text of Isa 45:1-7, 22-25;  and Ezek 28:20-26)!   (Isa 51:8)

Make (your) eyes bare ['uwr]!  Make (your) eyes bare ['uwr]!  Wrap (yourself) about [labash] (with) the strength ['oz] (of) Y'hovah's out-stretched arm [z'rowa' Y'hovah] (see also the greek text of John 6:25-63, John 14:10-14, John 15:1-16, Matt 16:18-27, Acts 1:5-8, Acts 2:1-4, 2 Cor 12:1-10, Eph 6:10-18, Phil 2:1-13, and Phil 3:1-21).  Make (your) eyes bare ['uwr]!  (From) the projecting [qedem] days [yom] (of) concealed out of sight revolutions of time [dowr 'owlam], (Y'hovah) has (always) carved [chatsab] the urger [rahab] (and) bored holes in [chalal] the amphibious monster [tanniyn]!  (Isa 51:9)

(Y'hovah) parched [charab] the roaring sea [yam] waters [mayim] (of) the abundant [rab] abyss [t'howm] (and) put [suwm] (in) the depths [ma'amaq] (of the papyrus reed) roaring sea [yam] a road [derek] (for those He) had redeemed [ga'al] to cross over ['abar]! (Isa 51:10)

(When His exiles) have been severed [padah] (from their spiritual debts—no more spiritual IOU's - see also the hebrew text of Jer 50:20)—(by) Y'hovah, (they're going) to turn back [shuwb] (and) come [bow'] (into) Tsiyown (with) shouts [rinnah Tsiyown] (of joy!  They're going to have) concealed out of sight ['owlam] joy [simchah] (upon their) head [ro'sh].  (They're going) to reach [nasag] gladness [sasown] (and) joy [simchah]!  Grief [yagown] (and) sighing ['anachah] (are going) to flit away [nuwc] (from them - see also the hebrew text of Isa 65:17-25, Ezek 16:1-58, Ezek 38:1 - Ezek 39:29;  Joel 3:1-21;  and Zech 14:1-5, 6-21;  and the greek text of Matt 16:18-27, Matt 18:21-35, John 8:31-36, John 16:20-27, 2 Cor 5:1-11, Gal 4:1-2, Gal 6:1-10, Rev 6:9-11, Rev 7:1-17, Rev 13:10, Rev 17:14, Rev 21:1-8, and Heb 12:1-17).   (Isa 51:11)

(But Y'hovah) sighs [nacham] (when you) fear [yare'] a male person ['enowsh] (who is going) to die [muwth]—a son [ben] (of) 'adam (who is going) to be given [nathan] (to) the courtyard grass [chatsiyr] (see also the greek text of Rev 21:8 - the dreaders head the line-up of losers)—   (Isa 51:12)

(and) mislay as in forget [shakach] Y'hovah, (The God Who) made ['asah] (you—Who) stretched out [natah] the lofty sky [shamayim] (like a tent and) laid the foundation [yacad] (of) the land ['erets] (with His mighty right hand - see also the greek text of Luke 12:4-5 and the hebrew text of Prov 29:26).  (You're going) to panic [pachad] continually [tamiyd] (every) day [yom] (before) the face [paniym] (of the cramper when his nose) heat [chemah] pressures [tsuwq] (you - see also the hebrew text of Ps 44:1-26).  (The one) who ['aher] erects [kuwn] (a prepared thing) to rot [shachath] (his victims) pressures (them with his nose) heat [chemah tsuwq]   (Isa 51:13)

(in order to find one he can) tip over and spill out [tsa'ah]—(who) will flow like water [mahar] (to get his prison doors) opened wide [pathach], (so that he) may not die [muwth] (in) a rotten place [shachath], nor lack bread [lechem chacer] (see also the greek text of Rom 8:1-39, 1 Cor 15:31, Gal 2:20, Phil 1:1-30, Heb 2:14-15, Heb 12:1-17, Rev 13:1-18;  and the testimony of Louis Zamperini  (Unbroken).   (Isa 51:14)

(But I am) Y'hovah, The Gods ['Elohiym] (Who) violently tosses [raga'] the roaring sea [yam] rolling things [gal] (we can't even imagine the height of an ocean wave that would be kicked up by the impact of a football-field size asteroid traveling at mach speeds - but Habakkuk saw Rev 8:8-9 and Rev 16:16-21—and wrote about them in the hebrew text of ch 3) (and causes them) to make a loud humming noise [hamah] {Y'hovah Tsaba' (is My) Name [Shem]}.   (Isa 51:15)

(I) put [suwm] (My) words [dabar] (in) the mouth [peh] (of My slaves as I) am plumping [kacah] (them under) the shadow [tsel] (of My) hand [yad].  (I am going) to strike (them) into the lofty sky (like) a plant [nata' shamayim]—(just like I struck them in when I) laid the foundation [yacad] (of) the land ['erets]!  (I'm going) to say ['amar]:  (These) desert [tsiyown] people ['am] (are Mine - see also the hebrew text of Isa 49:1-3, Isa 59:19 - Isa 60:22;  Jer 24:1-10, Zech 8:1-8, and Zech 13:8-9;   and the greek text of John 3:1-16, Luke 10:17-20, Luke 21:28, 1 Cor 15:19-58, 2 Cor 6:14-18, and Heb 1:1 - Heb 2:18)!   (Isa 51:16)

Make (your eyes) bare ['uwr]!  Make (your eyes) bare ['uwr]!  Rise up [quwm] (from your sleep, O) Y'rushalaim—(the city that) has drunk [shathah] (from) Y'hovah's hand [yad Y'hovah'] the cup [kowc] (of His nose) heat [chemah] (see also the hebrew text of Zech 12:1 - Zech 14:9;  and the greek text of Matt 24:4-39, Luke 21:5-36, and Rev 22:12).  (You are going) to drink [shathah] the covered [qubba'ath] cup [kowc] (of) reeling [tar'elah] (and) suck out [matsah] (the last drop).   (Isa 51:17)

None (of) the sons (she) has begotten run with a sparkle [nahal ben yalad] (note:  the men of persuasion ran with a sparkle).  None (of her) sons have fastened (their) hand upon [chazaq yad ben] (Y'hovah - see also the hebrew text of Isa 1:27, Isa 66:1-14, and Ezek 37:1-14) (or) twisted (themselves) together (with Me) [gadal].   (Isa 51:18)

The two [sh'nayim] (of them—Tsiyown and Y'rushalaim—are going) to encounter [qara'] (bad news—{and who) will nod [nuwd] (their heads with them?)}:  swelling-up [shod] (destruction), fracture [sheber], famine [ra'ab], (and) the drought-maker [chereb] (see also the hebrew text of Jer 15:1-7 and Ezek 14:1-21;  and the greek text of John 5:44, Rev 3:1-5, 7-13;   Rev 6:1-17, and Rev 13:1 - Rev 14:13 ).  (I) sigh [nacham]   (Isa 51:19)

(for) the sons [ben] (who) veil (their eyes) ['alaph] (from My words, for they) shall lie down [shakab] (their) heads [ro'sh] (in) places separated by a wall [chuwts] (see also the hebrew text of Jer 5:1-5 and Ezek 32:1-32).  (They're like) an antelope [t'ow] (snared in the hunter's) intertwined thing [makmar] (see also the hebrew text of Josh 23:11-13, Judg 2:1-3, Ps 141:9, and Eccl 9:11-12;  and the greek text of Rom 12:1-21, 2 Pet 2:1-22, Rev 13:10, and Rev 16:15).  (They're going) to be full [male'] (of) Y'hovah's (nose) heat [chemah Y'hovah]—(full of) the chiding [g'arah] (of) The Gods ['Elohiym] (of the lofty sky).  (Isa 51:20)

(But you) hear [shama'] (Me, you) eyed ones ['aniy] (who) are drunk [shakar]—(but) not (with) wine [yayin].  (Isa 51:21)

(Thus) says ['amar] The Lord ['Adown]—Y'hovah 'Elohiym (Shamayim—Who) tosses [riyb] (morally wrong) people ['am] (see also the hebrew text of Isa 3:10-11 and Nah 1:6-11;  and the greek text of Rev 22:12-15):  (I) am taking [laqach] (out of your) hand [yad] the cup [kowc] (of) reeling [tar'elah]—the covered [qubba'ath] cup [kowc] (of My nose) heat [chemah] (see also the hebrew text of Jer 25:1-38).  (You) shall not augment [yacaph] drinking [shathah] (out of it).  (Isa 51:22)

(I'm going) to put [suwm] (that cup in) the hand [yad] (of those who) are grieving [yagah] (you—who) said ['amar] (to your) breathing creature [nephesh]:  (You) prostrate [shachah] (yourself before us while we) cross over ['abar]!  (And you) put [suwm] (your) back [gev] (under their feet like it was) the land ['erets].  (And they) crossed over (you and put you in) a place separated by a wall [chuwts 'abar] (e.g., a concentration camp - see also the hebrew text of Ps 44:1-26, and the greek text of Luke 21:5-28 and 2 Cor 5:10-11).  (Isa 51:23)

Let them that have ears, hear the man of God and The Word of God with both of them (see also the hebrew text of Ps 27:1-14).

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1. Glory to The God Who so loved all the judgment-enslaved sons and daughters of 'Adam—without regard to race, nationality, tongue, age, gender, religion, or social standing—that He gave His only-begotten, beloved Son:

2. Iesous Christos in the greek text—or Jesus The Anointed One in plain english—or Y'shuw'ah ham-Mashiyach in the hebrew:  The Word of God and The Lamb of God most precious and holy—The Way, The Truth, The Life, and The Resurrection—

3. The Alpha and Omega of our faith in The Almighty God of the Holy Bible—that whosoever—God is no respecter of persons—everybody is standing on level ground at the foot of Jesus' cross—whosoever unique, sovereign entity would dare to believe in Him even enough to turn away from transgression and abomination and iniquity,

4. and ask Jesus to forgive them of all those things and come into their heart to live as KING of kings and LORD of lords (see also the greek text of Luke 17:20-21 and Rev 3:20)—Jesus does not play 2^nd fiddle to anybody or anything, and He never comes into our heart uninvited—we have to ask Him,

5. and be begotten from above by God's Holy Spirit and deny Self and lift up their cross and follow Jesus (the enemies of the cross actually preach that this is living in defeat and bondage - but Paul testified that the whole message of the cross is the power of God unto salvation—and we see that it really is, because Jesus not only cleanses us from all our unrighteousnesses when we deny self and lift up our cross and follow Him—He also leads us straight into the dynamite-powerful John 14:23 marriage relationship with Y'hovah 'Iysh Milchamah—The God Who never has lost a battle and never will - see also the hebrew text of Zeph 3:7-9, Zeph 2:1-3, Nah 1:6-11, and Deut 30:1-7;  and the greek text of Rev 19:1-9, 11-21;  and Heb 11:35), not only should not perish in the lake of fire with Diabolos and his crew,

6. but also should have abundant good health persistently, and every blessing [b'rakah—the kneeling-down—note:  camels kneel down [barak]—that God instituted in Gen 1:26-28 and enlarged upon in Deut 28:1-14] of God—as well as the fullness of God's kind of power in their life on this earth—

7. and then everlasting life in God's glorious kingdom among God's glorious royalty by the time that last day arrives.

8. For it was not possible for the blood of sacrificial animals or religious rituals or charitable good works or philanthropic donations—as good as those things may be—to lift God's wrath up off of a habitually disobedient, morally wrong, spiritual felon, and reconcile the inside of him with The God of terrible, uncompromising holiness (see also 1 Pet 4:18).

9. If it had been, it would not have been necessary for Jesus to die on the cross at Calvary (see also the greek text of John 3:3-20 and Heb 9:22, and the hebrew text of Isa 59:1-19).

10. External things cannot transform a rank sinner into a saint—no matter how much we might wish they could.  The sinner's problem is internal.  He has a rotten body of death that metastasizes sin like an oat cell cancer (see also the greek text of Matt 18:23-24, Rom 7:14 - Rom 8:39;  Rom 6:23, Eph 6:10-18, John 3:19-20, and John 6:44;  and the hebrew text of Jer 17:1, Jer 13:23, and Jer 30:15).  And sin dynasties him down under Diabolos—whose aim is to reduce him to a hulled-out husk of humanity (see also the greek text of Matt 3:1-12, Luke 21:28, and Acts 10:38)!

11. Nothing less than a soul-shaking encounter with and marriage to the in-working God Who created—and then redeemed—him can destroy that Self-inflating (i.e., the Big I and the Mighty Me) body of death.  And just for the record, no other god in this universe can scrape a rank sinner up off the bottom of the sewer, generate him a new creature in Christ, transform the redeemed into a completely whole and well saint of God, and bring the saint forth into the mind of Christ and the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ!  Diabolos and his crew put themselves forth as angels of light, but the faultless Lamb of God judged them throughly when He demonstrated at His crucifixion that they are murderers and thieves to the core of their being (see also the greek text of John 14:30-31, Luke 11:21-22, and Col 2:9-15).  If they could have, they would have killed The Almighty God Himself!  They only come to kill, steal from, and destroy everything that is good (see also the greek text of John 16:1-14).  But Jesus came so that we might have life, and have it more abundantly—not just for 30 years or 60 years or 90 years, but into the eons of revolutions of time!  Let us get a handle on God's great time line and deliver our souls from the sadducees among us (see also the greek text of Luke 9:51-56, Luke 20:27-38, Luke 24:47, John 3:16, John 5:24-29, John 6:47-63, John 10:10-11, John 11:25-26, John 14:16-17, Acts 10:38, Rom 5:8-10, Heb 11:35, 2 Pet 3:9, and Rev 20:14;  and the hebrew text of Hab 1:1-4)!

12. Neither was it possible for the blood of bullocks and rams or religious rituals or psychiatric therapies or mind-altering substances or fantasies whatsoever to purge man's consciousness (see also the greek text of Heb 9:12-22 and Heb 10:1-4) of all the hurts and offenses and rude treatment and other demonic assaults that had torn him to shreds with anger and hatred and resentment and fears, rendering him dead to God on the inside and alive to offense on the outside (see also the hebrew text of Job 2:3-5)—leaving him completely incapable of loving either God or neighbor—and guaranteeing thereby that he would spend his whole life on this earth piling up sins like garbage in a landfill, forward to being ground under the devil's heel in ever worsening, more destructive, rightening-out judgment (but see also the greek text of John 1:29 - glory to God and to The Lamb forever!).

13. Neither was it possible for the blood of goats and lambs or religious rituals or psychiatric therapies or mind-altering substances or fantasies or educational systems whatsoever to transform man from the habitually disobedient, morally wrong, spiritual felon that he was—into the mind of Christ and the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ that he had to become before he could take his place in the kingdom of God among the royalty of God that John saw in the 21st and 22nd chapters of the Revelation.

14. The God of inexorable, rightening-out judgment is determined to have a church that is without spot, wrinkle, or blemish (see also Rev 6:9-11, Rev 13:10, Rev 19:6-9, Rev 21:1-8, Eph 5:1-7, 27;  and Lev 19:1-2).  So He's bringing His church through the purging fire and the deep water (see also the hebrew text of Jer 30:15, Jer 46:27-28, Jer 50:20, Ezek 28:20-26, Zeph 3:1-9, Zech 13:8-9, Ps 75:8-10, and Psalm 66:12;  and the greek text of Matt 7:21-27 and Matt 24:29-30).  There's not going to be any ambivalence or unbelief toward, or ignorance of, Almighty God and The Word and The Lamb in God's kingdom (see also the hebrew text of Isa 11:9 and Hab 2:14).  No Word-hacking.  No God contradicting.  No hole-boring of God's great commandments.  No f-bombing, no verbal abuse, no physical abuse, no murder, no more-holding, no hatred, no anger, no bitterness, no unforgiveness, no grudging, no perverseness, no treachery, no lying, no cheating, no stealing, no slander, no blasphemy, no adultery, no drug worship, no sex-organ worship:  heterosexual, homosexual, or any other kind of sexual;  no idolatry of any kind, no down-hurling, no flesh-exalting, no self-inflating—or any other vile, oppressive thing that comes out of the pit of hell and generates instability.

15. Under the blood of The Lamb of God, Michael and his angels threw Diabolos and his crew out of heaven—and they're not riding back in on any human vehicle (see also the greek text of Rev 12:1-11 and Rev 19:11 - Rev 20:15)!

16. The only folks who make it into that kingdom are going to be the folks who love God enough to obey Him with all their heart and soul and mind—this is the first love—and love neighbor—this is the 2nd love—enough to be gracious and patient and kind to them, just like Jesus was when He walked the earth among men as a man (see also the greek text of Rom 12:1-21 and Heb 5:8).  And that's a TALL order, folks.

17. It's easy to love them that love you.  Even the pharisees could do that.  The tough part is finding wherewith even to be gracious to them who hate you vehemently and busy themselves trying to snatch the crown of life off of your head, and put your lights out, and unplug your meter (see also the greek text of 2 Thes 2:3-4, Heb 12:1-17, Rom 12:1-21, Eph 4:26, Luke 22:31-34, John 1:29, Acts 1:5-8, and Rev 16:12-15)!  But Paul testified in the greek text of Phil 4:13:  I exercise force over all things in Christ Jesus (not in Browning, or Colt Arms, or Glock, or Ruger, or Smith & Wesson, or Winchester, or the US Constitution, or IQ, or brute force, or technology, or education, or religion, or politics, or international treaties, or biology, or chemistry, or psychiatry, or medical science, or technology, or astronomy, or pills, or potions, or appliances, or dietary regimens, or exercise routines, or fuzzy-feelgoods—but in Christ Jesus), Who dynamite powers on the inside of me (see also the hebrew text of Gen 32:28, Isa 49:1-3, Ezek 3:16-21, Zech 4:6, and Zech 10:6-7, 11-12;  and the greek text of Matt 16:24-27, Luke 17:20-21, John 1:29, and John 14:10, 20)!  That's powerful.  Let all God's people hear the man of God and do our diligence to come into that kind of relationship with The Supreme All-Governmental Ruler God [Kurios Theos Pantokrator].

18. How hardly we learn that it's not by the power of our brains or by the power of our brawn, but by Almighty God and The Word dynamite-powering on the inside of us, and The Lamb of God tenting on top of us, that we exercise force [ischuo] over Diabolos and his crew on the outside and exercise governmental power [krateo] over our totally Self-absorbed, flesh-exalting, pleasure-addicted, comfort-driven, sex-organ worshipping, substance-abusing (see also the greek text of John 15:1-16 and Luke 10:19 - note also:  fear feeds on Self-consciousness), more-holding, body of death on the inside—forward to conquering Self [nikao Autos] and the father of Self (that's Diabolos - see also the greek text of John 8:44)—as we walk our road of judgment through this valley of tears!  We see in God's Word some glorious promises lying outstretched before us, but we've got to conquer Self if we want to take hold of them (see also the greek text of Rev 2:1 - Rev 3:21 and Rev 21:1-8)—even if that means laying aside every shred of human dignity that we have for Jesus' sake—just like Jesus did when He went to the cross for us (see also the hebrew text of Job 2:4-5 and Isa 53:3, and the greek text of John 14:30-31)!

19. But the blood which Jesus Christ—The Lamb of God—shed upon the cross at Calvary blots out—like a thick cloud—the handwriting of ordinances that were against the repentant sinner when he comes to Jesus' cross asking forgiveness (see also the hebrew text of Ex 12:13, 23;  Ex 20:24, Isa 44:22, Isa 43:25, Isa 53:1-12, Jer 31:1-34, Ezek 18:1-32, Ezek 33:1-20, and Ezek 36:16-28;  and the greek text of Matt 11:28-30, Luke 13:1-5, Luke 24:46-47, John 1:1-36, John 3:1-21, 1 John 1:7-9, John 10:11, John 5:24-29, John 11:25-26, 2 Cor 5:17-21, 1 Thes 5:9, Col 2:14, 1 Tim 2:5, Heb 4:14, and Heb 12:1-3),

20. lifting God's terrible wrath up off of his rotten carcase and reconciling the inside of him with the God of terrible, uncompromising holiness—clearing the way for God to give him a brand new heart and a brand new spirit into which The Word of God—which is the seed royal—has been born, and the earnest of God's Holy Spirit—which is the down payment on God's divine nature and dynamite powerful, Holy Spirit anointing—has been poured out!

21. And simultaneously with that reconciling, the blood which Jesus shed upon the cross at Calvary purges the repentant sinner's consciousness of and sets him free from all the hurts and offenses and rude treatment and other demonic assaults that had torn him to shreds with anger and hatred and resentment and fears, and rendered him completely incapable of loving either God or neighbor (see also the hebrew text of Ps 7:1-2 and Ps 103:1-4;  and the greek text of John 1:12-17, 29-36)!

22. In an instant of time, The Lamb of God does this work of emancipation—and I'm here to tell you that the rank sinner knows the exact moment Jesus does it—that marks the first day of all the rest of their life in this realm of existence—giving the new creature in Christ power to love both The God Who is altogether lovely and the neighbor who is altogether unlovely (see also the hebrew text of Isa 52:6-10, and the greek text of Rom 5:20-21 and Rom 12:1-21).

23. That's the dynamite-powerful good news of the cross.  Through persuasion in The Lamb of God, we are translated out of eternal death into eternal life (see also the hebrew text of Ex 12:1-13 and Jer 31:31-34;  and the greek text of John 5:14, 24-29;  John 10:10-11, 30;  John 11:25-26, John 17:1-3, John 20:30-31, Rom 6:23, 1 John 3:14-15, and 1 John 5:1-12).

24. And when The Word of God comes into our heart, He brings the dynamite power of The Almighty God alongside of us to help us make it through every danger, toil, and snare—and I don't know which are worse:  the stygian black ones, the middling grey ones, or the slightly off-white ones—between our pig sty and His palace—with victory and with power over Diabolos and his crew.  Let the newborn child of God beware.  You are now a walking battlefield.  If Diabolos can't wipe you out with his bloody violence and sewer sludge and rattlesnake poison—get ready honey, because the next things he's going to throw at you are going to be the flatterers and the pity-partyers and the panderers and the more-holders and the highly-fed adulterers and the alongside-walkers and the easy-workers and the fetishizers and the self-worshipers [autolaters] and the bitter-mouthers and the scoffers and the arrogant overshiners and the cheating false-speakers in hypocrisy and the liars on the other end of his spectrum of bad news!  The former in your face assault strategies keep us on combat alert, but the latter sneak attack strategies latch on to our body of death when we least expect it.  The child of God has got to be on combat alert 24/7 in order to avoid being devoured by the enemy of his soul and reduced to lion poop (see also the greek text of Rev 16:15, 1 Pet 2:6-8, 1 Pet 5:8, 2 Pet 2:19, Luke 11:21-22, Matt 10:16, and Matt 16:24)!

25. The bad news of the cross—and that's the one we all have to carry because we're all spiritual felons—is that it represents the wages of sin (see also the hebrew text of Isa 53:3, Ezek 3:16-21, Jer 5:1-5, and Ezek 18:1-4;  and the greek text of Matt 11:28-30, Matt 16:24-27, Rom 8:10, Rev 11:9-17, and Rev 12:10-11).  This is the message of the cross that nobody likes to preach or teach—even though we protest loudly that we are doing both!  Out of one side of our mouth, we proclaim the infallibility of the holy scriptures.  But out of the other side of our mouth, we word-hack, ignore, and/or cover up the scriptures that we don't want to hear—which always turn out to be the scriptures dealing with God's rightening-out judgment—e.g., Matt 16:24-27:  the true message of the cross—because those scriptures contradict our tried-and-true cash cows, our pet fuzzy-feelgoods, our denominational doctrines, customs, and traditions;  and nail our favorite sin habits!

26. We have all fallen short of God's glory in this world of judgment that we live in—and some of us are doing really hard time as we walk through this valley of tears (see also the hebrew text of Ps 11:3-7, Lam 3:1-47, and Jer 30:15;  and the greek text of Matt 11:28-30, John 8:31-36, and Rev 22:12).

27. In our staggering ignorance of and unbelief toward God's Way, God's Truth, God's Life, God's Resurrection, and God's kingdom, we can quite literally dish out more bad than we can stand to eat in a lifetime (see also the greek text of Rev 22:12-14).  So if we don't like what's being served up on our plate now, we need to get with God's program before what's on our platter gets worse (see also the hebrew text of Ezek 28:1-19)!

28. The persistent—underline that word persistent—carrying out of God's every commandment, His every desire, His every instruction—is what unfailingly brings us into that place of life, liberty, unity, abundance, equality, happiness, goodness, holiness, stability, safety, prosperity, lovingkindness, intelligence, truth, moral rightness, complete wellness, unspeakable joy, unflappable peace, unshakable persuasion, strength, courage, boldness, and dynamite power—which is where we all want to be forever.

29. With that miracle of fondling compassion, The Sower sows The Word in the heart of a highly-fed adulterous [zanan] (see also hebrew text of Deut 8:1-20, Ezek 16:1-63, Ezek 14:1-21, and Ezek 20:27;  and the greek text of Mark 4:1-25), idolatrous, totally Self-absorbed, pleasure-addicted, comfort-driven, God-contradicting, Word-hacking, flesh-exalting, Self-shining (Jesus always honored The Heavenly Father on top of everything and made Him The Shining One - see also the greek text of Matt 12:16), more-holding, bitter-mouthing, hard-breathing, face-grabbing, good opinion of neighbor seeking, judgment-enslaved, death-guilty, blasphemous, sex-organ worshiping, substance-abusing, throughly unholy, spiritually clueless, son or daughter of 'Adam (see also the greek text of John 3:1-16, Mark 4:1-25, and 2 Cor 5:20-21).

30. We see that The Almighty God is now with them to help them make it through every danger, toil, and snare of rightening-out judgment that they must go through, because He has forgiven them of their perversity and abomination and lawlessness in Jesus' Name.  Without forgiveness, The Holy God is not with us—and without repentance, there is no forgiveness (see also The Word of God in the greek text of Matt 18:21-35, Luke 24:47, and Rev 12:10-12).  But forgiveness doesn't set aside rightening-out judgment—contrary to what some preach today.  What God has decreed is going to happen (see also the hebrew text of Ezek 3:16-21, Ezek 18:20-32, and David's testimony from 2 Sam 12:1-13 throughout the rest of the OT;  and the greek text of Rom 8:1-39, 1 Thes 5:1-24, Acts 22:1-22, 2 Cor 11:18 - 2 Cor 12:10;  Rev 2:8-10, Rev 3:1-5, 19;  Rev 6:9-11, Rev 13:10, Rev 20:12, and Rev 22:12-14).  We're going to go through it—preferably with The God Who never has lost a battle and never will.  He has broken the chains of their sin slavery.  They are now God's approaching [qereb] people ['am] (see also the hebrew text of Ex 19:5-6, Lev 19:1-2, Jer 29:11-14, and Zeph 3:3;  and the greek text of James 4:8, John 1:1-12, Heb 10:22, Heb 7:1-9, Heb 11:6, and Luke 15:11-32)—as Moses put it all throughout the hebrew text of Deuteronomy.  They are new creatures in Christ.  They are yoked together with Jesus.  Their sins are covered with the blood of The Lamb of God (see also the hebrew text of Ex 12:13, 23).  Their name has been written in The Lamb's book of life.

31. Now they've got to step out of the herd mentality and do something entirely different:  think independently—whether doing so is politically correct and popular or not.  They've got to begin (1) comparing what's written in the ancient hebrew, aramaic, and greek texts of the Holy Bible from Genesis to Revelation to what they're hearing speakers say in their ears, (2) analyze the message critically—and then (3) discard everything that doesn't line up with what's written in these holy scriptures.  This is a lifetime course of study and analysis.  We can call it Applied Faith 101.  Diabolos has more angles from whence to attack God's people through ignorance of and unbelief toward the holy scriptures than Carter has little liver pills, and he's been polishing his act for a long, long, time.  He's a real pro.  For Diabolos, balling us up is like snatching a piece of candy from a baby (see also the greek text of 2 Tim 2:21-26)!  As spiritual babies, we quite literally see through a glass darkly—as Paul put it in the kj text of 1 Cor 13:12.  But we learn—if we are exercising our mind with [metanoeo] God in The Word and exercising our gut down [kataphroneo] on all the gut-churning hurts and offenses and rude treatment—one incident at a time, one day at a time—and our Great Teacher pulls all the holy scriptures together mentally for us as we push forward on our road.  He turns our full-length belly-flops into stepping stones up into His glory!  Truly, if the righteous scarcely be safe, where do the ungodly sinners stand (see also the greek text of 1 Pet 4:18, 1 Pet 2:6-8, and Rev 21:8;  and the hebrew text of Ezek 9:1-11 and Jer 5:1-5)?  Ans:  Up the creek without a paddle, and drifting precipitously toward a roaring waterfall that's plunging over a 500' escarpment!

32. But if the new creature in Christ will make up his mind to trust God with all his life enough to obey Jesus Christ—The Word of God—all the rest of his life with every thought that he thinks, every word that he speaks, and every work that he does, he will discover that the blood of Jesus Christ—The Lamb of God—is steadily cleansing him from all his unrighteousnesses (see also the hebrew text of Ex 12:13, 23;  Deut 30:1-7, Deut 32:4, Ezek 22:30-31, Ezek 28:20-26, and Zeph 3:1-9;  and the greek text of John 15:16, 1 John 1:7-10, Rom 6:1-23, Heb 2:9-18, Heb 9:1 - Heb 10:23;  and Rev 7:9-17)—

33. and The Word of God is steadily supplanting all his old sin habits—the devil's works—the rotten body of death that has been housing-down in him since whenever—so that he now finds himself becoming transformed—like the tiny acorn is transformed into the mighty oak tree (how long does that take?)—

34. from the powerless, clueless, faithless, morally wrong, death-guilty, totally Self-absorbed, flesh-exalting, comfort-driven, pleasure-addicted, sex-organ worshipping, substance-abusing, more-holding, habitual spiritual felon that he used to be—into a throughly furnished, seamlessly integrated member of the body of Christ—and throughly arranged up under the Head Man of the body—that is, Jesus Christ—all the way into Rev 21:22-23, which is our heavenly home!

35. And if the redeemed will persevere in trusting God with all his life enough to obey Jesus Christ—The Word of God—all the rest of his life (see also the hebrew text of Ps 37:23-33, Job 13:15, and Ezek 18:20-28, and the greek text of John 15:16 - John 16:4), he will also discover that Jesus is his Great High Priest (see also the hebrew text of Ex 28:1 and the greek text of 1 Tim 2:5), and Jesus' cross is his most holy altar (see also the greek text of Heb 13:10;  and the hebrew text of Ex 20:24, Ex 30:10, and Lev 4:1-35), to which he is privileged to come at any time—he doesn't have to wait for the church doors to open—and bring all the hurts and offenses and rude treatment and demonic assaults that he now runs into as he walks all the rest of his road of judgment through this valley of tears (see also the greek text of John 17:9-15, Rom 7:14 - Rom 8:39;  Phil 3:1-14, and Rev 21:1-7)—

36. and put them under the blood of Jesus Christ—The Lamb of God—so that the anger and hatred and resentment and fears and abominations that those things are designed to generate in a body of death never again establish a beachhead in his brains, his breathing creature, his spirit, his heart, or any other operating system in his tabernacle of clay (see also the greek text of Matt 18:21-35, Matt 12:29, 36-37;  John 1:29, John 5:14, 24-29;  Acts 10:38, Rom 12:1-21, 2 Tim 2:25-26, Heb 12:1-17, 1 Pet 2:6-8, 2 Pet 2:1-22, Rev 7:9-17, and Rev 12:10-11;  and the hebrew text of Ex 23:24-25, Ex 15:26, Deut 7:11-15, Deut 28:1-68, Job 2:1-7, Jer 50:20, Ezek 21:23-24, and Ezek 28:20-26)!

37. Glory to The God Who so loved for making a way where there had been no way for the judgment-enslaved sons and daughters of 'Adam to become holy like He is holy (see also the hebrew text of Lev 19:1-2), when He provided for remission of sin through the blood of The Lamb of God for all who would repent and dare to believe upon The Word of God (see also the greek text of Luke 24:47 and Rev 1:18)!

38. We are continuing on with our Bible study of the millennial kingdom of God on earth—over which Jesus Christ is about to begin ruling and reigning as KING of kings and LORD of lords for 1000 years from His throne in Jerusalem, Israel.  This is the kingdom we want to be citizens of when this eon of the sons of 'Adam shuts down (see also the greek text of 2 Pet 1:1-11).  This 1000 years is going to be a time of exponential spiritual growth into the mind of Christ and the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ (see also the greek text of 1 Cor 15:20-58).  Diabolos is not going to be there.  God's people are no longer going to bear the perversity, abomination, and lawlessness—aka sin—of the world (see also the greek text of Matt 5:38-48, Matt 16:24, Matt 18:7, Rom 8:10-39, Luke 21:28, John 1:29-36, and Rev 21:1-7;  and the hebrew text of Isa 49:1-26, Isa 54:1-17, and Joel 3:1-21)!  Let all of God's blood-bought, blood-washed, Holy Spirit-begotten children therefore humble ourselves diligently under the hand of The God Who is meek and lowly in heart, and use these last days of this eon to utterly contradict Self and get completely out of sin with a great getting-out, get in The Word of God with a great getting-in, get under the blood of The Lamb of God with a great getting-under—and stay there, no matter how bad it gets from now on—forward to putting on the whole armor of God with no gaps or chinks anywhere (see also the greek text of Matt 24:4-13, John 21:14-22, Eph 6:10-18, 1 Thes 5:1-18, 2 Thes 2:8, 2 Tim 3:1-9, Heb 2:9-18, and Rev 16:15), and entering into the spiritual authority and dynamite power that Jesus exercised!  It's fixing to get rough like we've never before seen rough in this country—even when we were 13 spindly-legged colonies along the east coast fighting off the french and the indians.  And this is a war that we absolutely must win.  Our eternal life depends upon it (see also the greek text of Rev 13:1 - Rev 14:13;  Rev 12:10-11, Rev 3:10-12, Rev 21:1-8, and Rev 20:11-15).  The little day-to-day battles we fight are just practice for the up-coming really big one.  Rev 13 is settling in all over this world like the gloom of a lowering sky.  Those who don't conquer Diabolos and his crew now are written in the lake of fire!

39. Our Heavenly Commander-in-Chief is systematically judging every sacred cow—every idol from A to Z—that our present hostile, totally Self-absorbed, pleasure-addicted, comfort-driven, religious and secular worlds (see also Matt 24:9 and Matt 13:24-30) have erected—just like He judged Egypt in Moses' day, and the whole Mediterranean region in Jeremiah's day.  And He is taking His people out into deep water on a shake-down cruise.  We have entered into the hour of putting-to-the-proof (see also the greek text of 1 Cor 3:9-13 and Rev 3:10).  The day of Self-worthlessing is before us (see also the greek text of Rev 13:1-18, and the hebrew text of Eccl 9:11-12, Nah 1:6-11, and Zeph 3:1-9).  The Word and The Lamb is going to separate those who exalt Self and fasten themselves to the demons and devils and unclean spirits spirits that are swarming this sewer that we live in—from those who abase Self and fasten themselves to Almighty God and The Word.  He's going to separate those who will exercise their mind with Him in The Word on top of everything from those who exercise their mind on top of everything under the sun—including denominational doctrines and secular philosophies—except The Word.

40. He's going to separate those who will trust and obey Him from those who will not.  He's going to separate the totally Self-absorbed from the lovingkind and the meek and the lowly in heart.  He's going to separate those who will study The Word and build their persuasion upon the whole counsel of God from Genesis to Revelation, from those who cherry-pick through the scriptures, and study everything under the sun but God's Word, and build their persuasion upon the arm of the flesh.  He's going to separate the face-grabbers who seek glory alongside of one another (note:  peer pressure feeds on face-grabbing and glory-seeking alongside of neighbor - see also the greek text of Luke 20:21, John 5:44, and Matt 7:26-27) from those who seek God’s face and glory alongside of their Heavenly Father and Saviour (see also John 8:31-32).  He's going to separate alongside-walking, easy-working, false-speakers in hypocrisy from those who know Him because they are living every word that proceeds out of His mouth.  He's going to separate those who build their faith on lies from those who build their faith on The Truth.  He's going to separate those who call out to His Name for everything from those who call out to everything under the sun except His Name.  He's going to separate those who are focused upon their body of Death and the world-view of the kosmos, from those who are focused upon The Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus and the world-view of Y'hovah 'Elohiym Shamayim.  This is The Lord's doing, and it is truly marvelous to behold.  All aboard!  We're on a mighty mission.  There's no more time to stand around a'wishin' we were living in some other century!

41. And we are now looking at the compacting of Jesus' millennial kingdom by the Holy Spirit anointed royal priesthood—which work includes getting rank sinners begotten from above by God's Holy Spirit (see also John 1:12-14, John 3:3-7, Luke 1:17, Luke 17:20-21, John 21:15-17, Rom 8:9, Eph 4:1-32, 2 Thes 2:8, 1 Pet 2:6-9, Rev 17:14, Isa 35:1-10, and Isa 53:10 - joining the church is not the same as being begotten from above by God's Holy Spirit), and getting new creatures in Christ living God's Word and walking God's Road—forward to receiving the same dynamite-powerful, Holy Spirit anointing that Jesus had when He walked the earth among men as a man.

42. And that's not a cakewalk.  The cross is the symbol of christianity because it represents God's determination—through the dynamite power of The Word and The Lamb of God—to destroy the totally Self-absorbed, flesh-exalting, pleasure-addicted, comfort-driven, sex-organ worshipping, substance-abusing, more-holding body of death that has stood like a thick lead curtain between us and God since whenever—and transform every rank sinner who will accept God's rightening-out judgment upon his perversity, abomination, and lawlessness into the mind of Christ and the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ (see also the hebrew text of Ps 25:9-10, Isa 28:22-29, Isa 53:1-7, Jer 5:1-5, and Deut 30:1-6;  and the greek text of Matt 11:28-30, John 14:5-6, Rom 7:24 - Rom 8:10, Heb 2:9-18, Heb 12:5-17, and Rev 3:7-12).  We don't come into John 14:23 and Rev 21:1-7, 22-23;  without going through Matt 16:24!

43. As our Great High Priest and Mediator was and did, so His disciples must prepare themselves to become and do—without exception (see also the greek text of Rom 8:29-32 and Eph 6:10-18).  What God required of His only-begotten Son, He requires of The Holy Spirit-begotten sons and daughters of Adam.  Jesus is our Example—our Goal traveled toward.

44. Whether our name is written down in The Lamb's book of life when we're 8 years old or 98 years old and lying on our death bed, we've still got to come into the mind of Christ and the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.  And—like it was for the thief on the cross—there's no better place or time to start than right where we're at, right now.

45. Nobody's going to wave a “magic wand” over us and transform us instantly from an ugly frog into a handsome prince or beautiful princess (see also the hebrew text of Jer 17:1-13 and the greek text of Matt 3:1-12).  That kind of stuff only happens in cartoons and fairy tales, and we're living in a very real world opposite a very real enemy whose aim is to make us just as ugly as he is—and he's gotten away with altogether too much for altogether too long because of our ignorance of and unbelief toward Almighty God and The Word and The Lamb and The Son and the kingdom of God.

46. When that last day gets here—and only God knows when that is—we're either going to be filled with The Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus, or we're going to be filled with the body of death that we got from Diabolos in the garden of Eden—whichever one we have built up as we pass through this valley of tears (see also the hebrew text of Ezek 28:1-19;  and the greek text of John 10:10, Matt 3:1-12, Heb 11:35, Rev 6:9-11, and Rev 13:10).  There is no equilibrium between Life and Death.  They are mutually antagonistic conditions.  If one is increasing, the other is decreasing.

47. Moreover, per Jesus' own words, we have to be counted worthy to obtain a place in the resurrection eon of the sons of God.  We don't drift in on flowery beds of ease and we don't ride in on somebody else's coattails.  We enter into the kingdom of God through much pressure—or polus thlipsis—as Paul told the disciples in the greek text of Acts 14:22.  We have to get out there in this ugly world and run the race that is set before us.  Nobody else can run it.  Our race has been designed exclusively to uproot and destroy the totally Self-absorbed, flesh-exalting, face-grabbing, good-opinion-of-neighbor-seeking, down-hurling, up-mounting, on-top-of hard-breathing, pleasure-addicted, comfort-driven, powerless, faithless, clueless, morally wrong, sex-organ worshipping, substance-abusing, more-holding, body of death that has been housing-down in us since whenever—and establish The Word of God and the mind of Christ in its place (see also the greek text of Matt 13:36-43, Luke 20:34-36, Rom 8:1-39, 1 Cor 3:9-17, 2 Cor 5:10-11, Gal 5:16-21, Eph 4:1-32, Eph 5:1-7, 1 Thes 5:16-18, Heb 12:1-8, 2 Pet 3:8-9, 1 John 1:7-9, Rev 6:9-11, Rev 7:1-17, Rev 13:10, and Rev 21:1-7)!

48. Our road of judgment may not be as long and hard as Paul's was, but let us all humble ourselves 24/7 before The Just Judge of the whole earth when He corrects us (see also the hebrew text of Psalm 51, Prov 3:5-18, Ezek 36:16-38, and Mic 6:8;  and the greek text of Heb 5:8, Heb 12:1-15, and Rev 3:19)—and get a more perfect grip on His Word—and keep on pressing toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus (see also Rev 21:1-7, 22-23 and Rev 22:1-5).  The God Who prunes His fruitful branches and gives good gifts to them who ask Him for them, crushes the yoke of rightening-out judgment with the John 14:23 anointing, and lifts up the burden when we finally reach the point He has determined as a limit [telos] for our cleansing (see also the hebrew text of Lev 26:13, Isa 1:25-28, Isa 49:1-3, Isa 57:15, Jer 1:5, Jer 50:20, Ezek 16:57-58, Ezek 28:20-26, and Dan 12:1-10;  and the greek text of Matt 24:8-13, Rom 8:28-39, Gal 4:1-2, Phil 3:1-14, Heb 11:35, and Heb 12:1-17)!

49. But them that worthless out and turn loose of God when the going gets tough—and quit pressing toward John 14:23, Luke 12:42-44, Eph 4:13, 2 Thes 2:8, Rev 1:6, Rev 17:14, and Rev 21:1-7—are never going to reach the point that God has determined as the limit for their cleansing from death-guiltiness (see also the hebrew text of Isa 28:22-29, Isa 51:11, Jer 1:5, Jer 5:1-5, and Jer 50:20;  and the greek text of Mark 1:4, Rom 7:14-24, Rom 8:10, 30-33; 1 Cor 3:9-13, 2 Tim 4:7-8, Heb 12:1-17, 1 Pet 2:6-8, 2 Pet 2:1-22, 1 John 5:16-17, Rev 6:9-11, Rev 7:9-17, Rev 13:10, and Rev 21:1-8).  They're never going to know the glory of standing on top of everything [epistates]—of binding Satan and plundering his house like Jesus did—and being clean, versus the abasement of Diabolos and his crew perpetually standing on top of their body of death (see also the greek text of Matt 18:21-35, Matt 12:29, John 14:30, Luke 11:21-22, Acts 10:38, 2 Tim 2:24-26, and Rom 8:10;  and the hebrew text of Job 2:4-5, Ezek 3:16-21, and Ezek 22:1-31).  They're never going to know the glory of being loosened off [apoluo] from their body of death and never having to die again (see also the greek text of John 5:24-29, John 11:25-26, Luke 20:34-38, Luke 21:28, Rom 8:10, 1 Cor 15:20-58, and Rev 20:10-15)!

50. In order for us to even see or enter into God's kingdom, we not only have to turn away from our bad roads, we also have to be begotten from above by God's Holy Spirit.  There is no other way for a son or daughter of 'Adam to become a son or daughter of God (see also the greek text of Matt 3:1-12, Matt 4:17, John 1:12-13, and John 3:3-7).  There's no other way for the kingdom of God to be established in us (see also the greek text of Luke 17:20-21, Matt 20:1-16, and Matt 6:10).  {It's going to come with a great shaking, but God is mercifully giving the people in this country an 11th hour, dynamite-powerful, eye-popping, mind-boggling, Holy Spirit/Word of God revival—like the one He conducted in Israel for 3-1/2 years and continued on in the book of Acts through the apostles (see also the hebrew text of Isa 26:9-11 and Isa 66:7-8)}!  All God's children have also got to learn (1) to exercise our mind with God [metanoeo] in The Word on top of everything, and (2) to exercise our gut down [kataphroneo] on all the gut-churning, gut-upheaving, debilitating, demoralizing, destabilizing, seducing, paralyzing, hurts and offenses and rude treatment that Diabolos and his crew continually heap upon all who are doing their diligence to walk with The Lord in the light of His Word 24/7 (see also the greek text of 2 Tim 3:10-12 and Luke 6:26, and the hebrew text of Amos 3:3).  These are the two great exercisings that root The Word of God in the heart by the faith that conquers Self and overcomes the world (see also the greek text of 1 John 5:4).

51. But Jesus was God's Son from the moment of conception by God's Holy Spirit in the virgin Mary's womb.  God—not 'Adam—was His natural Father (see also the greek text of Luke 1:26-38)!  Contrary to what some preach, Jesus would never need to be born again.  That's why He called Himself the only-begotten [monogenes] Son of God.  There never has been and never shall be another like Christ Jesus (see also the greek text of Rom 8:29 and Gal 1:8-9).

52. He was The Word of God, and He was with God, and He was God (see also the greek text of John 1:1-3, John 14:9, and John 10:30;  and the hebrew text of Deut 6:4-5).  But when The Word took on Him the seed of Abraham and became The Son of God (see also the greek text of Luke 1:31-35), He laid aside all the terrible powers of the Godhead in order to submit Himself to—and overcome—through The Heavenly Father dynamite-powering on the inside of Him—all the hindrances and limitations of the flesh that you and I know so very well (see also the greek text of John 14:10, Rev 3:21, Heb 2:9-15, and Heb 4:14 - Heb 5:9).  And having been tempted in all points just like we are, Jesus knows exactly what we need in order to come into that place where Almighty God and The Word and The Lamb will be pleased to dynamite power in and tent on top of each one of us—with all Their untracked-out riches in glory.

53. For the first 30 years of His life, Jesus simply grew—physically, spiritually, and mentally—alongside of God and man—getting ready for His earthly ministry—just like our Heavenly Father expects all the rest of His Holy Spirit-begotten children to do (see also the greek text of Luke 2:52, Luke 3:23, Luke 12:45-48, Matt 9:36-38, Matt 10:16-39, Matt 13:33, John 8:28-29, John 15:1-16, Gal 4:1-2, and 2 Pet 3:18;  and the hebrew text of Isa 49:1-3, Isa 63:4-6, Jer 23:1-32, Ezek 13:5, and Ezek 22:30).

54. Jesus was such an ordinary person, His neighbors in Nazareth would never believe He was anyone other than the firstborn carpenter son of Mary and Joseph.  Even His own brothers wouldn't believe that He was The Son of God (see also Matt 13:54-58, Luke 1:28-35, Luke 4:14-22, John 6:42-44, and John 7:1-10)!

55. But Jesus' life changed radically after He was baptized by His cousin, John the Baptist, in the Jordan river (see also the greek text of Luke 1:5, 36; - let us digress for a moment:  Mary and Elizabeth were blood relatives [suggenes] - the house of David {David's Seed came from God - He keeps all the RNA/DNA data banks - see also the greek text of Luke 1:26-35 and Rev 22:16;  and the hebrew text of Ps 89:1-37, Ps 139:14-16, and Zech 6:9-15} and the house of Aaron merged in Jesus Christ - He is both King, Priest, and Prophet).  When Jesus came up out of the baptismal waters, The Heavenly Father poured out His Holy Spirit without measure upon—and began dynamite-powering in and tenting on top of—His lovingkind [agapetos], only-begotten Son (see also the greek text of Matt 3:1-17, John 1:31-34, John 14:10, John 16:7-11, Acts 1:5-8, and Acts 19:1-7;  and the hebrew text of Zeph 3:14-17 - Jesus got both baptisms at the same time).

56. From that point in time, Jesus entered into the public arena as the dynamite-powerful Christ—The Anointed One—in Whom all God's vast, untracked-out riches in glory were deposited (see also the greek text of Luke 3:21-23, John 3:34, Rom 8:29, and Col 2:9;  and the hebrew text of 1 Sam 10:6-7, Isa 49:1-3, Zech 3:8-9, and Zech 10:6-7, 11-12)!  And that's when Jesus went about healing all kinds of sick bodies, cleansing all kinds of lepers, casting out all kinds of demons, devils and unclean spirits;  raising the dead, causing blind eyes to see clearly and with fine resolution, causing deaf ears to hear clearly and with fine resolution—and sick ears to be well;  making the maimed whole, restoring sound, healthy teeth to toothless gums;  healing paralytics, quadriplegics, and hemiplegics;  restoring complete circulatory, cardiac, pulmonary, lymphatic, neural, cranial, endocrine, renal, hepatic, digestive, skeletal, dermal, and muscular systems to proper balance, and clean, vigorous good health;  setting all kinds of captives free, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, teaching the scriptures, generating Holy Spirit-begotten children of God, exercising authority over all of God's creation, and generating provision for the hungry.  {These are the signs that God does when He exercises His great warrior power [gabar] in and through His true apostle (see also the greek text of Matt 4:23-25, Matt 10:1, Luke 9:1-2, Luke 10:19, John 1:11-17, John 3:1-2, John 5:20, 30;  John 14:10-12, and Acts 10:38;  and the hebrew text of Zech 10:6-7, 11-12).

57. The authority to do these things separates God's true wheat from the false wheat—the ichabod from the true anointed one.  The false wheat cannot generate wheat grains when they reach maturity because the wheat germ is not there.  Never was there.  Likewise, when the glory departs, the (once upon a time) “anointed” apostle can no longer generate new creatures in Christ, or impart the baptism of The Holy Spirit by the laying on of hands, or do miracles (see also the hebrew text of Lev 22:1-3 and 1 Sam 16:13-14; and the greek text of Luke 11:24-26, John 1:12-13, John 3:1-2, John 15:4-7, Acts 19:1-6, and Rev 2:2).  But the ichabod won't repent.  Having put themselves above The Word, they are invariably resting their Self-inflating body of death upon their “laurels”.  They are twice-dead, plucked up by the roots, wells without water, promising much but delivering nothing (see also the greek text of Jude 1:8-13 and the hebrew text of Ps 106:15).  As Jesus' learners, it is imperative that we guard our daily in-session time of prayer and Bible study with God jealously—see also Mark 1:35—for the sake of those who are depending on us to faithfully carry out the hebrew text of Lev 10:8-11 and Mal 2:4-7;  and the greek text of Luke 1:17, Luke 12:42-44, John 1:12-17, John 21:15-17, and 1 Tim 4:16—and show them God's Way, God's Truth, God's Life, God's Resurrection, and God's glorious kingdom!}

58. For said He: . . . The Son⁵²⁰⁷ can^{1410, 3756} do⁴¹⁶⁰ nothing³⁷⁶² of⁵⁷⁵ Himself¹⁴³⁸, but³³⁶² what⁵¹⁰⁰ He seeth⁹⁹¹ The Father³⁹⁶² do⁴¹⁶⁰:  for¹⁰⁶³ what things soever^{3739, 302} He¹⁵⁶⁵ doeth⁴¹⁶⁰, these⁵⁰²³ also²⁵³² doeth⁴¹⁶⁰ The Son⁵²⁰⁷ likewise³⁶⁶⁸ (see also the greek text of John 1:1-3, John 8:38-47, John 10:30, John 14:9, John 15:7-8, Luke 19:13;  and the hebrew text of Ps 89:9).  (John 5:19)

59. For¹⁰⁶³ as⁵⁶¹⁸ The Father³⁹⁶² hath²¹⁹² life²²²² in¹⁷²² Himself¹⁴³⁸;  so^{2532, 3779} hath He given¹³²⁵ to The Son⁵²⁰⁷ to have²¹⁹² life²²²² in¹⁷²² Himself¹⁴³⁸ (i.e., both to generate new creatures in Christ and raise the dead - see also the greek text of John 11:25-44, John 5:24-29, John 6:35-63, John 14:20, Matt 17:20, Luke 17:6, and Rom 8:14, 29);  (John 5:26)

60. And²⁵³² hath given¹³²⁵ Him⁸⁴⁶ authority¹⁸⁴⁹ to execute⁴¹⁶⁰ judgment²⁹²⁰ also²⁵³², because³⁷⁵⁴ He is²⁰⁷⁶ The Son⁵²⁰⁷ of man⁴⁴⁴.  (John 5:27)

61. I¹⁴⁷³ can¹⁴¹⁰ of⁵⁷⁵ Mine own self¹⁶⁸³ do⁴¹⁶⁰ nothing^{3756, 3762} (and neither can the rest of us Holy Spirit-begotten children of God, so Jesus said:  occupy until I come—and then we drop everything and follow wherever He leads - see also the greek text of John 3:27, Luke 1:17, Luke 12:47-48, and Acts 1:5-8) . . .  I seek²²¹² not³⁷⁵⁶ Mine own¹⁶⁹⁹ will²³⁰⁷, but²³⁵ the will²³⁰⁷ of The Father³⁹⁶² which hath sent³⁹⁹² Me³¹⁶⁵.  (John 5:30)

62 . . . the flesh^{4561, 3756} profiteth⁵⁶²³ nothing³⁷⁶²: (see also the hebrew text of Dan 8:23-25;  and the greek text of Matt 16:26, Matt 7:21-27, and 2 Tim 3:1-9).  .  . (John 6:63)

63 .  .  . I do⁴¹⁶⁰ nothing³⁷⁶² of⁵⁷⁵ Myself¹⁶⁸³; but²³⁵ as²⁵³¹ My³⁴⁵⁰ Father³⁹⁶² hath taught¹³²¹ Me³¹⁶⁵, I speak²⁹⁸⁰ these things⁵⁰²³.  (John 8:28)

64. And²⁵³² He that sent³⁹⁹² Me³¹⁶⁵ is²⁰⁷⁶ with³³²⁶ Me¹⁷⁰⁰:  The Father³⁹⁶² hath^{863, 0} not³⁷⁵⁶ left⁸⁶³ Me³¹⁶⁵ alone³⁴⁴¹; for³⁷⁵⁴ I¹⁴⁷³ do⁴¹⁶⁰ always³⁸⁴² those things that please⁷⁰¹ Him⁸⁴⁶ (Jesus did not teach or preach unmerited favor - we must learn to do and be like Jesus was and did if we want Almighty God and The Word to permanently abide in us - two cannot walk together except they be agreed—and God has got to be The Boss in every two-some - see also the greek text of Heb 5:8 and Heb 12:1-13;  and the hebrew text of Lev 26:1-12; Josh 1:1-9, 1 Chron 28:9, 2 Chron 32:31, Ps 50:16-23, Ps 106:15, Eccl 8:8, Isa 53:3, Jer 17:1-13, and Amos 3:3).  (John 8:29)

65. I¹⁴⁷³ have^{2980, 0} not³⁷⁵⁶ spoken²⁹⁸⁰ of¹⁵³⁷ Myself¹⁶⁸³; but²³⁵ The Father³⁹⁶² which sent³⁹⁹² Me³¹⁶⁵, He⁸⁴⁶ gave¹³²⁵ Me³⁴²⁷ a commandment¹⁷⁸⁵, what⁵¹⁰¹ I should say²⁰³⁶, and²⁵³² what⁵¹⁰¹ I should speak²⁹⁸⁰ (see also the greek text of John 16:13-14, and the hebrew text of Ezek 2:1-10 and Ezek 3:10-11,16-21).  (John 12:49)

66. . . . whatsoever³⁷³⁹ I¹⁴⁷³ speak²⁹⁸⁰ therefore³⁷⁶⁷, even as²⁵³¹ The Father³⁹⁶² said²⁰⁴⁶ unto Me³⁴²⁷, so³⁷⁷⁹ I speak²⁹⁸⁰ (see also the greek text of John 16:13).  (John 12:50)

67. . . . the words⁴⁴⁸⁷ that³⁷³⁹ I¹⁴⁷³ speak²⁹⁸⁰ unto you⁵²¹³ I speak²⁹⁸⁰ not³⁷⁵⁶ of⁵⁷⁵ Myself¹⁶⁸³: but¹¹⁶¹ The Father³⁹⁶² that dwelleth³³⁰⁶ in¹⁷²² Me¹⁶⁹⁸, He⁸⁴⁶ doeth⁴¹⁶⁰ the works²⁰⁴¹ (and He speaks the words - when Jesus opened His mouth to speak, The Almighty God was speaking—and blessed were they who heard The Voice within His Voice - The Father is naturally greater than The Son, but The Father and The Son are One (Person) - see also the greek text of John 14:9, 28;  John 10:29-30, John 1:1-3, 12-13;  John 3:3-7, John 14:12-23, John 15:1-10, John 17:1-23, Matt 3:17, Luke 11:52, Luke 12:42-44, Acts 1:5-8, Acts 2:1-4, Acts 19:1-6, Rom 8:14, 29;  2 Cor 6:10, 14-18;  Gal 4:1-2, Eph 4:13, Phil 4:13, 2 Thes 2:8, 1 Tim 3:16, Rev 5:1-14, Rev 17:14, and Rev 21:1-7, 22-23;  and the hebrew text of Deut 6:4-5, Deut 7:21-22, and Ex 19:5-6)!  (John 14:10)

68. And then Jesus went on to say:

69 . . . He that believeth⁴¹⁰⁰ on¹⁵¹⁹ Me¹⁶⁹¹, the works²⁰⁴¹ that³⁷³⁹ I¹⁴⁷³ do⁴¹⁶⁰ shall he do⁴¹⁶⁰ also²⁵⁴⁸; and²⁵³² greater works than³¹⁸⁷ these⁵¹³⁰ shall he do⁴¹⁶⁰ (this statement is absolutely mind-boggling, considering all that Jesus did);  because³⁷⁵⁴ I¹⁴⁷³ go⁴¹⁹⁸ unto⁴³¹⁴ My³⁴⁵⁰ Father³⁹⁶².  (John 14:12)

70. And^{3739, 2532} whatsoever^{3748, 302} ye shall ask¹⁵⁴ in¹⁷²² my³⁴⁵⁰ name³⁶⁸⁶, that⁵¹²⁴ will I do⁴¹⁶⁰, that²⁴⁴³ the Father³⁹⁶² may be glorified¹³⁹² in¹⁷²² the Son⁵²⁰⁷.  (John 14:13)

71. If¹⁴³⁷ ye shall ask¹⁵⁴ any thing⁵¹⁰⁰ in¹⁷²² my³⁴⁵⁰ name³⁶⁸⁶, I¹⁴⁷³ will do⁴¹⁶⁰ it . (John 14:14)

72. If¹⁴³⁷ ye love²⁵ Me³¹⁶⁵, keep⁵⁰⁸³ My¹⁶⁹⁹ commandments¹⁷⁸⁵ (see also the hebrew text of Ex 20:1-17, Ex 34:10, Deut 6:4-5, Lev 19:1-2, 18;  Jer 5:1-5 and Hos 6:4 - is this word plain, or what? - forget about the legalism/works bromide - we know very few people who actually keep or do the 10 great covenant commandments—nevermind keeping and doing the levitical rituals of the Torah—all of which kosher works were forever replaced by the blood of Jesus and His cross anyway - keeping God's commandments is not legalism works - it is the love link that lifts God's approaching people up out of the crab pot of rightening-out judgment and sits us down in heavenly places through persuasion in Christ Jesus - see also the hebrew text of Ex 12:13, Ex 20:1-17, Deut 28:1-68, Josh 1:1-9, Eccl 9:11-12, Jer 50:20, Ezek 3:16-21, Ezek 14:13-21, Ezek 22:30-31, and Ezek 28:20-26;  and the greek text of Matt 5:19, Matt 19:16-26, Luke 10:25-28, Luke 11:21-22, John 15:16, Rom 2:11-13, Gal 5:13-21, Eph 6:10-18, 1 Tim 6:12-14, 2 Tim 2:5, 1 Pet 2:6-8, 1 Pet 4:8, Rev 12:10-11, 17;  and Rev 22:12-15).  (John 14:15)

73. And²⁵³² I¹⁴⁷³ will pray²⁰⁶⁵ The Father³⁹⁶², and²⁵³² He shall give¹³²⁵ you⁵²¹³ another²⁴³ Comforter³⁸⁷⁵, that²⁴⁴³ He may abide³³⁰⁶ with³³²⁶ you⁵²¹⁶ for¹⁵¹⁹ ever¹⁶⁵;  (John 14:16)

74. Even The Spirit⁴¹⁵¹ of Truth²²⁵;  Whom³⁷³⁹ the world²⁸⁸⁹ cannot^{3756, 1410} receive²⁹⁸³, because³⁷⁵⁴ it seeth²³³⁴ Him⁸⁴⁶ not³⁷⁵⁶, neither³⁷⁶¹ knoweth¹⁰⁹⁷ Him⁸⁴⁶:  but¹¹⁶¹ ye⁵²¹⁰ know¹⁰⁹⁷ Him⁸⁴⁶;  for³⁷⁵⁴ He dwelleth³³⁰⁶ with³⁸⁴⁴ you⁵²¹³, and²⁵³² shall be²⁰⁷¹ in¹⁷²² you⁵²¹³ (see also the hebrew text of Hos 13:13-15, Mic 7:15-17, Zeph 3:14-20, and Zech 10:6-7, 11-12;  and the greek text of Luke 17:20-21, John 3:1-16, John 4:23-24, Acts 1:5-8, Acts 2:1-4, Phil 4:13, Rom 1:16-32, and 2 Thes 2:1-12).  (John 14:17)

75. He that hath²¹⁹² My³⁴⁵⁰ commandments¹⁷⁸⁵, and²⁵³² keepeth⁵⁰⁸³ them⁸⁴⁶, he¹⁵⁶⁵ it is²⁰⁷⁶ that loveth²⁵ Me³¹⁶⁵ (see also Luke 6:46 and Luke 10:25-28):  and¹¹⁶¹ he that loveth²⁵ Me³¹⁶⁵ shall be loved²⁵ of⁵²⁵⁹ My³⁴⁵⁰ Father³⁹⁶², and²⁵³² I¹⁴⁷³ will love²⁵ him⁸⁴⁶, and²⁵³² will manifest¹⁷¹⁸ Myself¹⁶⁸³ to him⁸⁴⁶ (and Jesus really does - He doesn't deviate one iota from this—or any of these other Rx's - the Holy Bible is a book of persuasion - that's why the Bible is a dense fog to those who have not been begotten from above by God's Holy Spirit, and to the redeemed who are not living John 14:21 - see also the greek text of 1 Pet 2:6-8 and Rev 12:10-17, and the hebrew text of Isa 29:10-14 and Ps 111:10).  (John 14:21)

76 . . . If¹⁴³⁷ a man⁵¹⁰⁰ love²⁵ Me³¹⁶⁵, he will keep⁵⁰⁸³ My³⁴⁵⁰ words³⁰⁵⁶: and²⁵³² My³⁴⁵⁰ Father³⁹⁶² will love²⁵ him⁸⁴⁶, and²⁵³² We (that's both Father and Son—Almighty God and The Word) will come²⁰⁶⁴ unto⁴³¹⁴ him⁸⁴⁶, and²⁵³² make⁴¹⁶⁰ Our abode³⁴³⁸ with³⁸⁴⁴ him⁸⁴⁶ (see also the hebrew text of Lev 26:1-12 and Jer 29:11-14 - this is as straight up and down as it gets - note also:  The Holy Spirit illuminates The Word like electricity illuminates the filaments of an incandescent light bulb - no Word, no Light - a little Word, a little Light - a lot of Word, a lot of Light - all Word, all Light - and we want to be totally immersed in that deep, crystal-clear, sparkling, dynamite-powerful, Ezek 47 River of life that only flows from the throne of God—so that when we touch or speak, Almighty God and The Word is touching and speaking through us - see also the hebrew text of Ezek 47:1-12, Mal 4:2, and Ex 4:12;  and the greek text of John 3:1-2, John 7:37-38, Luke 11:24-26, and Rev 21:22-23).  (John 14:23)

77. At¹⁷²² that¹⁵⁶⁵ day²²⁵⁰ ye⁵²¹⁰ shall know¹⁰⁹⁷ that³⁷⁵⁴ I¹⁴⁷³ am in¹⁷²² My³⁴⁵⁰ Father³⁹⁶², and²⁵³² ye⁵²¹⁰ (are) in¹⁷²² Me¹⁶⁹⁸, and I²⁵⁰⁴ (am) in¹⁷²² you⁵²¹³.  (John 14:20)

78. Abide³³⁰⁶ in¹⁷²² Me¹⁶⁹⁸, and I²⁵⁰⁴ (will abide) in¹⁷²² you⁵²¹³ (this is a sine qua non conditional - see also v.6 below and the greek text of Luke 11:24-26, Luke 19:12-27, Matt 3:11-12, Rom 1:18-32, and 1 Cor 9:24-27;  and the hebrew text of Josh 1:1-9, 1 Chron 28:6-9, 2 Chron 26:1-6, 16;  and 2 Chron 32:25-31).  As²⁵³¹ the branch²⁸¹⁴ cannot^{3756, 1410} bear⁵³⁴² fruit²⁵⁹⁰ of⁵⁷⁵ itself¹⁴³⁸, except³³⁶² it abide³³⁰⁶ in¹⁷²² the vine²⁸⁸; no more^{3761, 3779} can ye⁵²¹⁰, except³³⁶² ye abide³³⁰⁶ in¹⁷²² Me¹⁶⁹⁸.  (John 15:4)

79. I¹⁴⁷³ am¹⁵¹⁰ the vine²⁸⁸, ye⁵²¹⁰ are the branches²⁸¹⁴:  He that abideth³³⁰⁶ in¹⁷²² Me¹⁶⁹⁸, and I²⁵⁰⁴ in¹⁷²² him⁸⁴⁶, the same³⁷⁷⁸ bringeth forth⁵³⁴² much⁴¹⁸³ fruit²⁵⁹⁰ (i.e., new creatures in Christ—the sweet grapes - see also the greek text of Matt 7:15-23, Mark 4:8, 20;  and John 1:12;  and the hebrew text of Isa 5:1-8 and Isa 54:1-17);  for³⁷⁵⁴ without⁵⁵⁶⁵ Me¹⁷⁰⁰ ye can¹⁴¹⁰ do⁴¹⁶⁰ nothing^{3756, 3762} (see also Zech 4:6, 2 Chron 20:1-30, John 16:7-15, Luke 24:47-49, Acts 1:5-8, Acts 2:1-4, Gal 4:1-2, and 2 Tim 3:1-17)!  (John 15:5)

80. If^{3362, 0} a man⁵¹⁰⁰ abide³³⁰⁶ not³³⁶² in¹⁷²² Me¹⁶⁹⁸, he is cast⁹⁰⁶ forth¹⁸⁵⁴ as⁵⁶¹³ a branch²⁸¹⁴, and²⁵³² is withered³⁵⁸³; and²⁵³² men gather⁴⁸⁶³ them⁸⁴⁶, and²⁵³² cast⁹⁰⁶ them into¹⁵¹⁹ the fire⁴⁴⁴², and²⁵³² they are burned²⁵⁴⁵ (see also the greek text of 1 Cor 9:24-27 and Rev 3:1-5 - there's no such thing as once saved—always saved - if a person turns loose of Christ Jesus, he's a goner—unless he repents of his apostasy and gets back in The Word and under the blood of The Lamb - see also the hebrew text of Ezek 3:16-21, Ezek 18:21-32, and 2 Chron 7:12-22;  and the greek text of Luke 11:24-26, Luke 19:11-26, Matt 3:12, and Heb 10:15-27).  (John 15:6)

81. If¹⁴³⁷ ye abide³³⁰⁶ in¹⁷²² Me¹⁶⁹⁸, and²⁵³² My³⁴⁵⁰ words⁴⁴⁸⁷ abide³³⁰⁶ in¹⁷²² you⁵²¹³ (i.e., through the good, the bad, and the positively ugly), ye shall ask¹⁵⁴ what^{3739, 1437} ye will²³⁰⁹, and²⁵³² it shall be done¹⁰⁹⁶ unto you⁵²¹³ (see also the hebrew text of Lev 26:40-45, Deut 30:16-20, 2 Kings 8:38-39, 2 Chron 6:28-31, Jer 5:1-5, Ezek 3:20-21, and Hos 6:4;  and the greek text of Matt 16:24-27, Matt 24:13, Mark 4:5-7, John 5:19-30;  John 8:28-29, 31-36, 49-50;  John 15:16, Acts 8:5-17, Rom 12:1-21, Eph 6:10-19, Phil 3:1-14, Phil 4:7, 13;  Col 1:1-23, 2 Cor 12:1-10, James 5:16, Heb 11:6, 35;  3 John 1:2, Matt 18:18-20, and Matt 10:16).  (John 15:7)

82. You [humeis] didn't speak Me out [eklegomai ou eklegomai Me] (of the orderly system).  On the contrary [alla], I [Ego] spoke you out [eklegomai humas], and [kai] (I) have put [tithemi] you [humas] (where you're at) in order that [hina] you [humeis] lead (yourself) under [hupago] (My words - i.e., 24/7 on top of everything—great and small - no jutting-out over parts anywhere—totally concentric and congruent - see also the greek text of Matt 11:28-30, Matt 10:1, Matt 16:18, 24;  Luke 9:1-2, Luke 10:19, Luke 11:21-22, Gal 4:1-2, Col 4:12, 2 Thes 2:8, Matt 12:29, and Rev 17:14;  and the hebrew text of Lev 26:1-12;  Num 23:11-26, and Joel 2:26-32), and [kai] bear [phero] (beautiful) fruit [karpos], and [kai] (that) your [humon] fruit [karpos] should stay [meno] (see also the hebrew text of Gen 18:17-19, Gen 26:1-6, 2 Chron 7:12-22, Isa 54:1-17, Jer 17:1-13, and Hos 6:4;  and the greek text of Mark 4:1-20), in order that [hina] what [hos] soever [an] which thing [hostis] (you) shall ask [aiteo] The Father [Pater] in [en] My [Mou] Name [Onoma], (He) may give [didomi] (it to) you [humin].  (John 15:16)

83. Is that plain, or is that plain?  Let them that have ears, hear John 15:7 and John 15:16,  This is the powerful kneeling-down [b'rakah] that God first spoke in Gen 1:26-28 and enlarged upon in Deut 28:1-14, which is comparable to the greek epistates.  We stand on top of what God kneels down to us.  And we have no spiritual authority under the second half of John 15:7 if we are not living the first half.  We also see from the OT and NT scriptures that the prayers of a morally right person exercise much force, and we see that the prayers of the great body of God's saints exercise the force of a fully equipped and manned field army.  Let us therefore do our diligence to deny Self and lift up our cross and stay in The Word and let Him stay in us, so that He can dynamite-power on the inside of us and raise up that same spiritual authority that Christ Jesus exercised when He walked the earth among men as a man (see also the hebrew text of Deut 30:1-7 and the greek text of John 3:1-2, 34).  We've got to have it in order to make it through this time of great pressure with victory and with power over Diabolos and his crew.  We don't want to be found in the middle of Dan 8:13-24, Hos 6:4, Jer 5:1-5, Matt 7:21-23, 26-27;  Mark 4:5-7, 2 Thes 2:9-12, Eph 5:1-7, and/or 2 Tim 3:1-9;  when Jesus is executing Ex 19:5-6, Ex 34:10, Lev 26:1-12;  Isa 60:1-5, Isa 63:4-6, Ezek 13:5, Ezek 22:30, Dan 8:25-26, Dan 12:1-6, Nah 1:6-11, Zech 10:6-7, 11-12;  Matt 7:24-25, Matt 10:32, Matt 13:36-43, Matt 24:1-13, Mark 4:8, Luke 12:42-44, Rom 8:28-39, Rev 13:1-18, Rev 7:1-17, 2 Thes 2:8, and Rev 17:14!

84. And Jesus continued:  If¹⁴³⁷ ye keep⁵⁰⁸³ My³⁴⁵⁰ commandments¹⁷⁸⁵, ye shall abide³³⁰⁶ in¹⁷²² My³⁴⁵⁰ love²⁶; even as²⁵³¹ I¹⁴⁷³ have kept⁵⁰⁸³ My³⁴⁵⁰ Father's³⁹⁶² commandments¹⁷⁸⁵, and²⁵³² abide³³⁰⁶ in¹⁷²² His⁸⁴⁶ love²⁶  (John 15:10).  Is that plain, or is that plain?  Can we see that our spiritual authority is out of (the Law) [exesti], and it is directly proportional to the degree that we keep and do God's great covenant commandments (see also the hebrew text of Ex 20:1-17, Ezek 3:16-21, Deut 28:1-68, Josh 1:1-9, Isa 45:5-7, 15;  Isa 48:18-19, Jer 9:23-24, Jer 30:15, Mal 2:4-7, Dan 12:1-6, Dan 8:23-26, Ex 20:1-17, and Ex 19:5-6;  and the greek text of Matt 19:16-26, Luke 10:25-28, Luke 1:46-55, Luke 6:46, Luke 12:42-44, John 8:44, John 15:7, 16;  Rom 2:11-13, 2 Tim 3:1-17, Heb 11:6, Rev 2:8-10, Rev 3:7-12, Rev 12:10-17, and Rev 22:12-15)?  Let all God's children hear The Word of God with both ears and exercise our mind diligently with Him on what He said in these scriptures.  If Jesus kept God's commandments, we might as well know in our knower that God expects Jesus' followers to keep His commandments—just like Jesus did!  These are issues of faith.  The little mustard seed has “mountain-moving” faith because it “knows” in its knower that it is, was, and always shall be, a mustard seed.  You'll never find a mustard seed producing goat heads or tumbleweeds or cholla cactus.

85. But altogether too often, a christian has an ambivalent witness (see also the greek text of Matt 7:15-20, Luke 6:46, and Rom 7:14-24).  He contradicts his Heavenly Father because he can't decide whether his spiritual father is The God of power and love—or the totally Self-absorbed, Self-exalting, Diabolos!  So he says that his spiritual father is God—but he acts like his spiritual father is Diabolos—so his faith (and consequently his spiritual authority) wavers.  Then he enters into a putting-to-the-proof to establish who, in fact, his spiritual father really is (see also the hebrew text of Job 2:1-7, Ps 11:1-7, Zeph 2:3, Zeph 3:8-9, Zech 13:8-9, and 2 Chron 32:31;  and the greek text of Luke 6:46, 1 Cor 3:9-17, James 1:6-8, Titus 1:15-16, Rev 3:7-12, and Rev 13:1-18).  When all else fails, read and follow The Instructions—which in our case is The Word of God from Genesis to Revelation—and Jesus is the Example we follow in the keeping of them!  In our day of putting to the proof, we want to be utterly dead to every Word-hacking, God-contradicting, flesh-exalting, Self-inflating, face-grabbing, good opinion of neighbor seeking, group-thinking, group-speaking, down-hurling, up-mounting, more-holding, blasphemous, on-top-of hard-breathing, comfort-driven, pleasure-addicted, sex-organ worshiping, substance-abusing spirit that's presently swarming this sewer that we live in (and some of us in this country have become so totally given over to graft, and child/adult sex trafficking, and body parts trafficking, and drug trafficking, and sexual perversion, and violence, and casual/routine murder, and lies, we are actually making Sodom and Gomorrah look good - see also Ezek 16:52, Rev 9:13-21, and Rev 18:1-8), and totally alive unto Jesus Christ—the only-begotten Son of God, and The Word of God, and The Lamb of God, and The Almighty God—and the kingdom of God!

86. We get the earnest of God's Holy Spirit—the down-payment anointing—when He begets us from above.  But that joint coming and indwelling of John 14:23 is where we enter into holy matrimony with The Almighty God and tap into His dynamite-powerful anointing—which is known in other places in the NT as the baptism of The Holy Spirit (see also the hebrew text of Lev 7:35, Lev 19:1-2, Lev 20:26, 2 Chron 7:1-2, Isa 49:1-3, Isa 54:1-17, Ezek 16:1-15, Ezek 47:1-12, and Joel 2:23-32;  and the greek text of Matt 3:1-12, Acts 1:5-8, Acts 2:1-11, and Acts 19:1-7).

87. That's when The Supreme, All-Governmental Ruler God comes and does eye-popping, mind-boggling signs and wonders and miracles of healing and salvation and deliverance and resurrection and provision;  and exercises authority and dynamite power over all forms of matter—from A to Z—in this realm of existence (see also the greek text of Rev 4:11) through us—just like He did through Jesus and Peter and John and Paul!

88. The whole of creation has been groaning and travailing in pain together to this very day—waiting for the sons and daughters of God to quit grabbing hold of Diabolos' tar baby (see also 2 Tim 2:24-26, 1 Tim 3:1-9;  and the hebrew text of Ezek 3:16-21 and Ezek 22:1-31), and come on into that place of holiness where Almighty God and The Word will be pleased to come and make Their permanent abode with each one of us on this earth (see also the greek text of Matt 12:28-29).  When that happens, Diabolos and his crew are out of here (see also Matt 25:41 and Rev 12:7-12)!  Where there is no more sin, there will be no more need for rightening-out judgment.  Death will be swallowed up in victory at last, and the Law—which was written for spiritual felons—will no longer be needed!

89. If Jesus ever spoke in other tongues either when or after He was baptized in God's Holy Spirit, we don't know it from the scriptures.  But from various scriptures in the NT, we see that the Acts 2:1-4 Holy Spirit-begotten sons and daughters of God did speak in other tongues—as The Holy Spirit gave them utterance, that is—and they spoke in clearly discernible languages when that dynamite-powerful anointing came upon them (see also the hebrew text of 1 Sam 10:6-7 and Num 11:1-29, and the greek text of Acts 19:1-7).

90. But we also see that not all God's Holy Spirit-begotten sons and daughters receive the gift of speaking in tongues and interpretation.  To some, God may give the gift of the word of wisdom.  To others, He may give the gift of the word of knowledge.  To yet others, He may give the gift of faith (see also the greek text of Luke 18:1-8), or the gift of healing.  And to yet others, He may give the gift of dynamite powerful in-working [energema dunamis], or the gift of prophecy, or the gift of discerning of spirits.  To coin a king james-ism:  The great body of Christ is fitly joined together by what each part supplies!  And these gifts of The Spirit that Paul outlined in 1 Cor 12 are by no means exhaustive.  Our Heavenly Father's treasury of gifts is just as inexhaustible as His greatness is unsearchable.  He has a lot of gifts to give to His children (see also the hebrew text of Ps 145:3;  and the greek text of Matt 7:11, John 7:37-39, 1 Cor 12:8-10, Eph 4:11-16, and James 1:17)!

91. But whatever gift our Heavenly Father gives us, let us give thanks to Him for that, and put it directly up under His authority and keep it there at all times—just like Christ Jesus did (see also the greek text of John 15:16).  For the gifts of The Spirit are not for our own personal use and aggrandizement.  Neither is the dynamite power of God's Holy Spirit for hefting worthlessness or inflating Self.  The gifts and the power are strictly for (1) re-generating and house-building and perfecting the saints into the mind—and the measure of the stature of the fullness—of Christ, (2) for binding Satan forward to throughly plundering his house (let us understand how Matt 18:21-35 and Matt 12:28-29 work together - unforgiveness keeps the grudge-holder powerless under Diabolos' heel - needless to say, somebody under Diabolos' heel cannot stand on top of his head in the gap with God—or bind Satan and plunder his house—like Jesus did - see also the greek text of Matt 6:12-15, Luke 11:21-22, Acts 10:38, John 14:30, 2 Tim 2:24-26, and 2 Tim 3:1-9;  and the hebrew text of Ezek 22:1-31), and (3) for glorifying and magnifying and exalting our Heavenly Father and Saviour 24/7 in the doing of it all.

92. Paul counseled the easy-working, alongside walking corinthians:  Don't be generated [ginomai me] different-yoked [heterozugeo] (with) un-persuaded (ones) [apistos], for [gar] what [tis] holding with [metoche] (does) moral rightness [dikaiosune] and [kai] lawlessness [anomia] (have)?  Moreover [de], what [tis] sharing [koinonia] (does) light [phos] (hold) forward to [pros] darkness [skotos] (see also the hebrew text of Lev 19:1-2, Lev 20:26, and Dan 12:1-12;  and the greek text of John 3:19-20, John 8:12, and John 15:18-25) (2 Cor 6:14)?     Moreover [de], what [tis] sounding-together [sumphonesis] (does) Christos (hold) forward to [pros] Belial (see also the greek text of Gal 1:1-9)?  Or [e] what [tis] part [meris] (does) a persuaded (one) [pistos] (hold) with [meta] an unpersuaded (one) [apistos] (2 Cor 6:15)?     Moreover [de], what [tis] together put-down (thing) [sugkatathesis] (does) God's dwelling place [naos Theos] (share) with idols [meta eidolon]?  For [gar] you [humeis] are [este] the dwelling place [naos] (of) The Living God [Zao Theos] (see also the greek text of Luke 17:20-21, John 1:1-3, 11-17;  John 14:10-23, John 17:1-26, Rom 8:1-14, 1 Cor 3:9-17, Phil 2:13, Col 1:29, Rev 1:1-18, and Rev 21:22-23;  and the hebrew text of Gen 1:1, Lev 19:1-2, Ps 115:1-8, Ps 135:15-21, Isa 44:1-20, and Isa 45:1-25)—down which how [kathos] God [Theos] has said [epo] that [hoti] (I) will in-house [enoikeo] in [en] them [autos], and [kai] (I) will tread about in (them) [emperipateo], and [kai] (I) will be [esomai] their [autos] God [Theos], and [kai] they [autos] shall be [esomai] (to) Me [Moi] a people [laos] (see also the hebrew text of Ex 19:5-6, Lev 20:26, Lev 26:1-12, Deut 7:3-6, Deut 14:2, Deut 28:9, Deut 26:16-19, Deut 32:10-11, Judg 2:3, 11-12;   Psa 41:1-3, Zech 8:1-8, 23;  and Zech 13:8-9;   and the greek text of Rev 21:1-7, 22-23) (2 Cor 6:16)!

93. Through which thing [dio], come out [exerchomai ek] (of) the middle [mesos] (of) them [autos], and [kai] be horizoned away from (them) [aphorizo], speaks [lego] The Lord [Kurios], and [kai] don't attach (yourself) [haptomai me] (to any) unclean (thing) [akathartos], and I [Kago] will receive you into (My house) [eisdechomai humas] (see also the greek text of Rev 18:4) (2 Cor 6:17),     and [kai] (I) will be [esomai] into [eis] you a Father [Pater humin], and [kai] you [humeis] shall be [esomai] into Me, sons and daughters [Moi huios eis kai thugater], speaks [lego] The Supreme [Kurios] All-Governmental Ruler [Pantokrator] (God - let them that have ears, hear the man of God and The Word of God) (2 Cor 6:18)!

94. Supremely happy is the person who will both hear—and receive—The Word with enough persuasion to begin under [huparcho] and stay under [hupomeno] Jesus' yoke through the good, the bad, and the positively ugly—until the mind of Christ and the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ has become an inseparable part of their being (see also the greek text of John 17:1-23, 2 Tim 1:12, John 8:28-29, 31-36;  Matt 10:1-16, 32-39;  Matt 16:16-27, Matt 24:13, Matt 11:28-30, Mark 4:1-8, 20;  Luke 9:51-62, Luke 12:32-44, Luke 18:9-14, Luke 21:28, Acts 10:38, Acts 14:22, Rom 1:16-32, Rom 7:14 - Rom 8:39;  Eph 4:1-32, Gal 4:1-2, Phil 3:1-14, 1 Thes 5:9-24, Heb 11:35, Heb 12:1-17, 2 Pet 1:10, Rev 1:18, Rev 21:22-23;  and Rev 22:12-15;  and the hebrew text of Lev 22:3, Ps 11:3-7, Ps 19:14, Ps 25:9-10, Eccl 9:11-12, Ezek 22:1-31, Mic 2:7, Zeph 2:3, and Zeph 3:7-9).

95. For without Almighty God and The Word dynamite-powering on the inside of us—and The Lamb tenting on top of us—the christian is just another religious opinion among jews and muslims and buddhists and hindus—and whatever else out there is doing their best to justify their religious or secular point of view.

96. But with Almighty God and The Word dynamite-powering on the inside of us, and The Lamb tenting on top of us, not only does Diabolos not have any weapons (e.g., fear, hatred, anger, jealousy, violence, pain, ridicule, peer-pressure, death, greed, lies, drugs, sex, confusion, over-shining arrogance, sickness, poverty, starvation, dehydration, self-consciousness—the war implements he uses with such great skill to kill, steal from, and destroy God's clueless children - see also the greek text of John 1:29, Luke 11:21-22, and 2 Cor 10:1-5)  that can mold [yatsar] the obedient son or daughter of God like a potter molds clay (see also the hebrew text of 1 Sam 30:6-8 and Isa 54:17;  and the greek text of Matt 16:16-18 and Luke 10:19),

97. the christian becomes incontrovertible testimony to all other religious and secular persuasions that The Holy God of the Holy Bible really is Who He says He is, and the kingdom really does belong to Him—and His Law really does govern everything in this universe,

98. and Jesus Christ—The Word of God and The Lamb of God—really is His only-begotten [monogenes] Son, and the only Name in or under heaven whereby rank sinners (and holier-than-thou sinners) may approach the throne of God (see also the greek text of John 14:6, John 10:29-30, and John 14:9), be pardoned of their sins, begotten from above by God's Holy Spirit,

99. healed of all their sicknesses and diseases (see also the hebrew text of Ex 15:26, Ex 23:22-25, Deut 7:1-15, Deut 28:58-62, and Isa 58:1-14), cleansed from all their unrighteousnesses, saved out of the lake of fire, empowered to exercise authority and dynamite power over all forms of matter—from A to Z—in this realm of existence (see also the hebrew text of Gen 1:26-28;  and the greek text of Matt 10:1-10, Matt 28:18, Luke 9:1-2, Luke 10:19, Luke 12:42-44, John 1:1-3, Phil 2:5-13, and Rev 4:8, 11),

100. and finally counted worthy to obtain the resurrection eon of the sons of God—which is where we all want to be after the dust has settled and the crying and the shouting are over (see also the greek text of Matt 5:19, Luke 20:27-38, Rev 16:12-21, Rev 19:11-21, Rev 20:12-15, Rev 21:1-8, 22-23;  and Rev 22:12-14;  and the hebrew text of Isa 65:1-Isa 66:24, Mal 4:1-6, Dan 8:1-26, and Dan 12:1-12).

101. The other place is unthinkable.

102. Let's pick up where we left off last week with the greek text of Acts 1:24, and go on into the kj text of Acts 1:25 today.  And Luke tells us:

103. These [houtos] all [pas] were [en] strong forward to [proskartereo] same hard-breathingly [homothumadon] good wishing forward to (God) [proseuche] and [kai] self-binding [deesis]—together with [sun] the women [gune], and [kai] Maria, the mother [meter] (of) Iesous;  and [kai] together with [sun] His [Autos] brothers [adelphos].  (Acts 1:14)

104. Also [kai] in [en] those [tautais] days [hemera], Petros stood up [anistemi] in [en] the middle [mesos] (of) the learners [mathetes] as well, (and) said [epo te] {the names (of) the throng [ochlos onoma] on top of [epi] him [autos] were [en] which how [hos] a hundred [hekaton] (and) twenty [eikosi]}:  (Acts 1:15)

105. Men [aner], brothers [adelphos], (it) was binding (that) this writing [taute graphe dei] be fulfilled [pleroo], which [hos] The Holy [Hagios] Spirit [Pneuma] through [dia] the mouth [stoma] (of) Dabid before said [proepo] about [peri] the Ioudas [Ioudas ho] (who) was generated [ginomai] a road-leader [hodegos] (of those who) took hold of Iesous together with [sullambano Iesous] (him),  (Acts 1:16)

106. because [hoti] (he) was [en] numbered down [katarithmeo] together with [sun] us [hemin], and [kai] (he) was allotted [lagchano] dice [kleros] (with) this [taute] menial table waiting [diakonia] (duty roster).  (Acts 1:17)

107. {Indeed [men] accordingly [oun], this one [houtos] got [ktaomai] a little spot of ground [chorion] out of [ek] (his) pay [misthos] (for) moral unrightness [adikia], and [kai] being generated [ginomai] leaning forward [prenes], (his) middle cracked open [lascho mesos] and [kai] all [pas] his [autos] bowels [splagchnon] poured out [ekcheo].  (Acts 1:18)

108. And [kai] (this thing) was generated [ginomai] known [gnostos] (by) all [pas] (who) were housing-down [katoikeo] (in) Hierousalem.  Which how as well [hoste], that one [ekeinos] little spot of ground [chorion] is called [kaleo] (in) their [autos] own [idios] dialect [dialektos], Akeldama—that is [toutesti], the bloody little spot of ground [chorion haima]}.  (Acts 1:19)

109. For [gar] (it) is written [grapho] in [en] the book [biblos] (of) Psalms [Psalmos]:  Let his on-top-of courtyard be generated [ginomai autos epaulis ginomai] a wilderness [eremos], and [kai] let (there) be no (man) [esto me] to house down [katoikeo] in [en] it [autos], and [kai] let a different one take his on-top-of watch [autos episkope lambano heteros lambano]!  (Acts 1:20)

110. Accordingly [oun], (of) these [touton] men [aner] (who) have gone with [sunerchomai] us [hemin] all [pas] the space of time [chronos] in [en] which [hos] The Lord [Kurios] Iesous went out and came into (the house) [exerchomai eiserchomai kai exerchomai] on top of [epi] us [hemas]—   (Acts 1:21)

111. beginning [archomai] from [apo] the immersion [baptisma] (of) Ioannes until [heos] the day [hemera] (in) which [hos] (He) was taken up [analambano] away from [apo] us [hemon]—(it) is binding [dei] (for) one [heis] (of them) to be generated [ginomai] a witness [martus] together with [sun] us [hemin] (of) His [Autos] standing-up again [anastasis].  (Acts 1:22)

112. And [kai] (they) stood [histemi] two [duo] (out of them):  the Ioseph, (who) was called [kaleo] Barsabas—who [hos] on top of called (himself) [epikaleomai] Ioustos—and [kai] Matthias.  (Acts 1:23)

113. And [kai] (they) prayed forward to (God) [proseuchomai], saying [epo]:  You [Su], Lord, [Kurios] (are) the heart-knower [kardiognostes] (of) all [pas].  Show up [anadeiknumi] which [hos] one [heis] out of [ek] these [touton] two [duo] (we have selected that You) have spoken out [eklegomai],  (Acts 1:24)

114. That he may take²⁹⁸³ part²⁸¹⁹ of this⁵⁰²⁶ ministry¹²⁴⁸ and²⁵³² apostleship⁶⁵¹, from¹⁵³⁷ which³⁷³⁹ Judas²⁴⁵⁵ by transgression fell³⁸⁴⁵, that he might go⁴¹⁹⁸ to¹⁵¹⁹ his own²³⁹⁸ place⁵¹¹⁷.  (Acts 1:25)

115. And²⁵³² they gave forth¹³²⁵ their⁸⁴⁶ lots²⁸¹⁹; and²⁵³² the lot²⁸¹⁹ fell⁴⁰⁹⁸ upon¹⁹⁰⁹ Matthias³¹⁵⁹; and²⁵³² he was numbered⁴⁷⁸⁵ with³³²⁶ the eleven¹⁷³³ apostles⁶⁵².  (Acts 1:26)

116. The greek verb which the kj translators rendered as That he may take at the beginning of v.25 is lambano—which Strong's reads as to take (and we also read as to take hold of).  Let's read this lambano as to take hold of.

117. The greek noun which the kj translators rendered as part at the beginning of v.25 is not meros—as we may have imagined, but kleros—which Strong's tells us means a die—as in the singular of gambling dice.

118. The greek indefinite pronoun which the kj translators rendered as of this toward the middle of v.25 is taute—which Strong's tells us is the dative case, feminine, singular of houtos—which he reads as this or that (one or thing).  Let's read taute as this.

119. The greek noun which the kj translators rendered as ministry toward the middle of v.25 is diakonia.  Strong's tells us that this noun is derived from the noun diakonos—which is derived from the verb diakoneo—which means to wait on like a menial.  We derive our word deacon from this greek root.  Let's read this diakonia as a menial table-waiting (duty roster - see also the hebrew text of 1 Chron 23:1 - 1 Chron 27:34 for sundry OT duty rosters).  Humility is such a beautiful thing—but so hard to come by!  If we want to do our menial table waiting job beautifully, we have to reach in there with both hands, and grab hold of our totally Self-absorbed body of death, snatch it up by the roots, and throw it out of our biosphere.  The greek text of the Revelation tells us that we all reign as kings [basileuo] (all chiefs—no indians) in God's kingdom, so nobody lords it over anybody else (see also the greek text of Rev 5:10, Rev 11:15, Rev 20:6, and Rev 22:5)!   But the writer of Matthew tells us in the greek text of ch 20:  Then [tote] came forward to [proserchomai] Him [Autos] the mother [meter] (of) Zebedaios' sons [huios] with [meta] her [autos] sons [huios], (and) groveled forward to (Him) [proskuneo], and [kai] asked [aiteo] some (thing) [tis] alongside of [para] Him [Autos] (Matt 20:20).     So [de] (Iesous) said [epo] (to) her [autos]:  What (thing) [tis] have (you) determined [thelo]?  (She) spoke [lego] (to) Him [Autos]:  Say [epo] in order that [hina] these [houtos]—my [mou] two [duo] sons [huios]—sit down [kathizo]—one [heis] out of [ek] Your [Sou] right (hand) [dexios] and [kai] one [heis] out of [ek] (Your) good-named (hand) [euonumos]—in [en] Your [Sou] kingdom [basileia] (Matt 20:21)!     So [de] Iesous (graciously) judged off [apokrinomai] (and) said [epo] (to James and John):  (You) don't see [eido ou] what (thing) [tis] (you) are asking [aiteo].  Do (you) have dynamite power [dunamai] to drink [pino] the cup [poterion] which [hos] I [Ego] am intended [mello] to drink [pino], and [kai] be immersed [baptizo] (in) the immersion [baptisma] which [hos] I [Ego] am immersed [baptizo]?   (And they) spoke [lego] (to) Him [Autos]:   (We) have dynamite power [dunamai] (Matt 20:22)!