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Christ Jesus is Everything 

Rohnel

The Beginning and the Ending

Rohnel, and my beloved husband, Peter, angels and servants of God and Christ, unto the little children scattered in the world beloved of God, called to be saints, called to be faithful: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Job 37:5  God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend. 

Job 37:6  For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength. 

Job 37:7  He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work. 

Psa 66:8  O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard: 

Psa 66:9  Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved. 

Keep My Commandments and Live

Joh 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments. 

Rev 14:12  Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. 

Rev 14:13  And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours [we stop accusing and excusing within ourselves]; and their works do follow them. 

Christ Jesus is Everything

Christ tells us He is the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End:

Rev 22:13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

Christ is the I AM, and He is which WAS, and He is which is TO COME, and beside Him there is no other God. Christ is One with the Father.

Rev 1:8  I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. 

Ecc 3:15  That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past. 

Isa 45:5  I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:

Isa 45:6  That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. 

Joh 10:30  I and my Father are one. 

Christ is the Lord, the I AM of the Old and New Testaments.

Exo 3:14  And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

Joh 8:58  Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. 

When you see Christ, you see the Father because He is the express image of God, the Father’s Person.

Joh 14:8  Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. 

Joh 14:9  Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? 

All things are of God, the Father, through Christ, is mentioned by few and believed by even fewer.

Pro 26:10 The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors. 

Eph 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

Rom 11:36  For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen. 

God, the Father, says Christ, His Son, IS God:

Heb 1:8  But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. 

Heb 1:9  Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. 

Few are given to know who the true Christ is and to be brought into the inheritance of age-enduring life, which is knowing Christ and the Father, being intimate with them in vessels of clay. The exclusion of the majority does not change the immutable truth of who Christ is and what He is doing in the lives of all men.

Dan 4:35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

Isa 40:12  Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? 

Isa 40:13  Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him? 

Isa 40:14  With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?

Isa 40:15  Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. 

Christ was in the beginning of all things because He IS the Word of God.

Joh 1:1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 

Joh 1:2  The same was in the beginning with God. 

Joh 1:3  All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 

Christ IS the Word of Wisdom, and He was from the beginning.

Pro 8:23  I [Word of Wisdom] was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. 

Pro 8:24  When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. 

Pro 8:25  Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: 

Pro 8:26  While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. 

Pro 8:27  When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: 

Pro 8:28  When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: 

Pro 8:29  When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

Pro 8:30  Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; 

Christ is the Beginning and the End, and He created and IS creating all things through the Power that God the Father gave Him. The Power of His Word holds all things together. The Power of His Word is His Commandments. Who can know it? The Commandments are the mystery that was hidden, and this is now being revealed to the true children of God.

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

Col 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

1Co 8:6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

What constitutes all things, and the depth of Christ being the Alpha and Omega, is far larger and more profound than the natural man within us is able to comprehend, until the Day comes when the Lord opens the eyes of our understanding to see Him as He is. Our seeing and understanding is His mercy to us, His true children, in this age and in every age since Christ.

Eph 1:17  That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 

Eph 1:18  The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, 

Eph 1:19  And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, 

Eph 1:20  Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, 

Christ is far above anything, and He fills all in all. Christ is His Body, the fullness that fills all in all. It pleased the Father that in Him all fullness dwells.

Eph 1:21  Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: 

Eph 1:22  And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, 

Eph 1:23  Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. 

Col 1:19  For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; 

Heb 1:3  Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; 

All that happens and all that anyone does are from the Lord. All men are first a living soul, Adam, and are being remade into the Lord from heaven, a quickening Spirit, in time and order. First comes the man of sinful flesh through Christ, and then comes the new man, a quickening Spirit through Christ. Flesh and blood were never intended to inherit the kingdom of God.

Isa 45:9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker [the first man Adam]! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

1Co 15:43 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:

1Co 15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

1Co 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

1Co 15:46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

1Co 15:47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven [the first and the last].

1Co 15:48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

1Co 15:49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly [the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end].

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

All things have been written in the Lord’s Book of Life before there were any such days. Christ made the earth, and created man upon it, and the hosts of heaven also. He did and does all of His desire as it is this day. Our days are already determined, and He has appointed our boundaries.

Psa 139:16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

Job 14:5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

Isa 45:12  I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded. 

Isa 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

Christ is our Creator, and this includes our initial marred in the flesh, rebellious and sinful state. There are no exclusions to His sovereignty. Many do not believe that Christ is the Creator of all, through God, the Father’s design, even the hardening of our hearts as it is this day.

Isa 63:17 O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

Psa 90:3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

Isa 40:28  Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

Rom 1:25  Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

1Pe 4:19  Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

Here is the vision of what Christ, the Potter, is making and the process He has ordained for it. Man did not fall in the Garden of Eden, but instead was created in bodies of sinful flesh on purpose. And this is how all of Israel [humanity] are being saved in the end, in a specific order and times appointed. Think spiritually. Israel is not physical Israel out there, but Israel within. Christ speaks in parables.

Jer 18:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

Jer 18:2 Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.

Jer 18:3 Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.

Jer 18:4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

Jer 18:5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Jer 18:6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.

Bodies of sinful flesh, that is to say, our carnal minds and hearts of stone, are being changed into sons of God in every age and in every age since Christ. Many are called, few are chosen, and fewer are being made faithful [perfect]. Sons of God have the mind of Christ and strive to keep His Commandments.

Mal 3:6  For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. 

Rom 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

Rom 8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

Rom 8:21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

Rom 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

Christ first gives us the experience of good and evil on purpose. This experience teaches us to discern between good and evil. In Christ’s higher ways, our own wickedness is used to correct us.

Jer 2:19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

Luk 19:22  And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow: 

Through the process of judgment, we learn good and evil, and we are taught the righteousness of Christ, which is to know and obey Christ’s Commandments, making us a holy and a separated people unto Christ and unto God, the Father.

Isa 26:9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

Jhn 9:39  And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.

Jhn 12:31  Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.

Jhn 16:7  Nevertheless, I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. 

Jhn 16:8  And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

Knowing that all things occurring are not mere happenstance but are for the sake of God’s chosen is a humbling thought. As we mature in Christ, we look back and see how the Lord is working out everything in our lives, whether good or evil.

2Co 4:15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

1Pe 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

In the Book of Revelation, John turns to see the true Christ, the written Word of God, the Word of His Grace, and many more. John saw Christ with spiritual eyes.

Rev 1:10  I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, 

Rev 1:11  Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. 

Rev 1:12  And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; 

Rev 1:13  And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. 

Rev 1:14  His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; 

Rev 1:15  And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. 

Rev 1:16  And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. 

Rev 1:17  And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:

Rev 1:18  I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. 

We are being brought to our wits’ end in our Day of the Lord, and being taught that of our own striving, we are not able and are not conquering anything. We are all first fools and incapable of stopping our sinning despite the outwardly clean cups. Then the Lord IS come to bring judgment upon our house, destroying the man of sin within.

Psa 107:17 Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

Psa 107:18 Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat [the true Gospel]; and they draw near unto the gates of death.

Psa 107:19 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses [when we come to see we ourselves are beasts and nothing good dwells in us].

Psa 107:20 He sent his word [causes us to hear His Word spoken by the angels of God], and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.

This process begins in Christ, when we see and understand who and what the abomination of desolation is, sitting in God’s Temple.

Mat 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

2Th 2:3  Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 

2Th 2:4  Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 

Once this happens, victory comes little by little. This is the Lord’s work in us to bring salvation and to give us deliverance. We are being brought to Mount Zion [Christ’s Commandments] and are being raised from spiritual death, which is the letter of the law for the lawless. We are being raised through the Power of His Commandments, Christ doing all. The nations are within us.

Deu 7:22  And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee. 

Deu 7:23  But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.

Deu 7:24  And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them. 

Rom 7:6  But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

2Co 3:6  Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

We all live the experiences of thinking it is up to us to save ourselves, yet we realize that we miserably fail. On our Day of Judgment, we learn quickly that Christ is everything, and that we can do nothing of ourselves [John 15].

Psa 107:23 They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters [carnal works, flesh].

Psa 107:24 These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.

Psa 107:25 For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.

Psa 107:26 They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.

Psa 107:27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.

Psa 107:28 Then [when we see we are the abomination and in need of a physician] they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.

Psa 107:29 He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.

Psa 107:30 Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.

It is when we are given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God [the land within us] that we bow before the Lord, knowing He is working all things after the counsel of His will. Then we understand what working out our own salvation with fear and trembling means, knowing that it is God, through Christ, and not us, who works in us to will and to do according to His good pleasure.

1Jn 4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

Mat 13:16  But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. 

The Lord is the One who first makes our paths crooked, and then, in due time, comes and straightens them. He is doing it all, the First and the Last, and everything in between our lives. We draw near heavenly Jerusalem through His work in us.

Isa 45:1 Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;

Rev 22:12  And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. 

Rev 22:13  I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

Rev 22:14  Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. 

The sons of God know that Christ is doing it all. He holds our right hand [we are His workmanship, mere clay in His hand], He subdues kings [the sins, false doctrines, and idols of the hearts we believe in], He opens doors and gates and gives us ears to hear and eyes to see. His Word does not fail to accomplish what it has been sent to do. If we are Cyrus in this age, a type and symbol of His true people, the Lord goes before us to make our crooked paths straight. He always goes before us; that is to say, Christ is our example to follow.

Isa 45:2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:

Mat 26:32  But after I am risen again [within you] I will go before you into Galilee. 

We come to know He IS the Lord when He brings judgment upon us and pours out His wrath on our carnal lusts and desires, the law of sin in our members, accusing and excusing within ourselves. All things in our lives are brought into His marvelous Light. Nothing escapes His judgments that are the Living Commandments.

Joe 2:2  A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. 

Joe 2:3  A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. 

Isa 45:3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.

Mat 4:16  The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up. 

Mat 4:17  From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. 

Christ’s Name, which are His Commandments, are written into our minds and hearts. Christ does this within His elect remnant in every age since Pentecost. He comes to save the true Israel of God, chosen before the world was even formed. Only a remnant escapes from spiritual Jerusalem to this day. Who has eyes to see and ears to hear? His Words are spiritually discerned.

Isa 45:4 For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

Isa 45:5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:

Rom 11:4  But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. 

Rom 11:5  Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

Rom 11:6  And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work. 

We are taught by abiding in the Lake of Fire, which is Christ. We live and move and have our being in Him. We learn a new appreciation for what the fear of the Lord [obedience to the Lord] means, and the completeness of what His sovereignty means. Christ gives life and breath to all things.

Act 17:24  God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; 

Act 17:25  Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; 

Act 17:26  And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; 

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

Act 17:28  For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. 

The sons of God, through experience, learn good and evil and speak and show others that it was not us but Christ who is causing all the evil in our lives. We prophesy and speak about these things:

Isa 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Amo 3:6  Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it? 

Amo 3:7  Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

Amo 3:8  The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy? 

And when a door to our inner heavens is opened to these truths, then the pure doctrine, the pure unadulterated Gospel falls from the sky and comes to our earth, and the crops and fruit of the Lord begin to blossom within us, which is the righteousness of the saints. We are the tender herbs of the Lord, that is to say, if we are chosen in this age.

Deu 32:2  My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

Deu 32:3  Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. 

Isa 45:8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.

The salvation of all men is sure in its appointed time and order. It only awaits the timing that the Father has already declared. All things are of the Lord. Those with God’s Spirit, His Commandments dwelling in them, know and believe these truths.

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

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

Enjoy the Lord’s feast. Do not forget the Lord. Be ready when He comes. Be in His Word, know His Spirit, which are the Commandments of Christ. Christ comes spiritually, like a thief in the night, through His Christ, who are those chosen for salvation and who are sent forth to preach the Gospel. Go to the truthinscripture.com website and to the subtitle: Commandments. Read the verses below, the Lord speaks to us, those of us reading and writing. Think spiritually, think within.

Jer 7:25  Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them: 

Jer 7:26  Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. 

Jer 7:27  Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee. 

Jer 7:28  But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

Jer 7:29  Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath. 

We take heed, Lord, and we hear Your marvellous Voice speaking to us. Today, if you hear His Voice, do not harden your heart. Do not be afraid, only believe.

Receive ye the Gospel, receive ye the Holy Spirit.

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Our Day of Visitation and Acceptance in the Beloved

Rohnel and Peter, servants of Christ Jesus, according to His will, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called: Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.

Keep My Commandments 

Jer 7:23  But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.

Joh 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.

The Acceptable Year of the Lord

Preaching the true Gospel is the same as preaching the Acceptable Year of the Lord. Coming to understand this helps us know how we are to live our lives henceforth and what to expect as we finish the race set before us. When Christ IS come with His mighty angels preaching the Gospel to us, the Acceptable Year of the Lord IS  begun within us. This is also known as the Day of the Lord and the days of visitation. Please refer to the detailed study: The Wonderful and Dreadful Day of the Lord on the truthinscripture.com website.

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

Luk 4:19  To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

Hos 9:7  The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred [violence in the land, accusing and excusing within ourselves].

Luk 19:42  Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace [the Commandments] but now they are hid from thine eyes.

Luk 19:43  For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,

Luk 19:44  And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

1Pe 2:12  Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

The Acceptable Year of the Lord is the year of the Lord’s favor upon men and is the greatest blessing any man receives in a vessel of clay. The favor towards man is the true grace of God, which is what transforms us and remakes us into His image by the chastening and scourging of our earthly man and beastly way of life. The grace of God is not a substitution of His death for ours, nor is it forgiveness where no suffering or consequences, which teach us as children, are experienced. True grace is the fire, the Commandments of Christ, the wrath of God poured out against our flesh, that is to say, our carnal mindedness being bound to the letter of the law, accusing or excusing within ourselves [Rom 2].

Isa 26:9  With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments [Commandments] are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

Rom 1:4  And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:

Rom 1:5  By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:

Rom 1:6  Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:

Heb 12:6  For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

The wrath of God, Christ’s Commandments, is what teaches us righteousness. The wrath of God is aimed at the first Adam within us, the gentile nations within, who walk after the stubbornness of their own hearts. All of what is described in Ephesians below is what the natural man within us does. Do not think out there, but discern spiritually and think within.

Tit 2:11  For the grace [Commandments, the Word of Grace] of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,

Tit 2:12  Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

Jhn 3:36  He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

Eph 5:2  And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

Eph 5:3  But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

Eph 5:4  Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

Eph 5:5  For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Eph 5:6  Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

We see that the Acceptable Year of the Lord is also known as the Day of Vengeance, the Day of age-enduring fire, that brings about the last Adam, a quickening Spirit, the new man of His righteousness, established by the faith of Christ. Think spiritually within.

Isa 61:1  The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

Isa 61:2  To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

Heb 10:30  For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

Jud 1:7  Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

Christ’s favour towards us is His righteous judgments that come by way of the Word, the Commandments. This is His loving kindness or mercy shown to us that opens our blind eyes and deaf ears. Knowing we are in the Lake of Fire, His Commandments, which kill death within us, that is to say, the carnal mind, is what we receive from our heavenly Father. We are being accepted in the Beloved and being transformed into the image of Christ, going from glory to glory.

Psa 30:5  For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour [H7522 – acceptance, receiving us] is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

Rev 20:14  And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

Eph 1:4  According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

Eph 1:5  Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

Eph 1:6  To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

The restoration of Israel, that is to say the restoration of God’s sons, is accomplished in the Acceptable Year and time the Lord has ordained when He IS come to rule in our lives, establishing a new earth in which His righteousness dwells. We are set free from bondage to the letter. Satan, the devil, our natural father, is cast out of our heavens when the Lord rules in Zion [us] in this Day. This is the true Sabbath’s rest of the Lord we seek and with patience and prayer wait to enter in.

Isa 49:8  Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;

Isa 49:9  That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.

This parable speaks of us being set free from Satan, the spirit that drives our carnal minds, on the true Sabbath day. Satan is the prince of the power of the air [Eph 2:2].

Luk 13:15  The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?

Luk 13:16  And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?

It is in the Acceptable Year of the Lord that we are being made to give an account, and we are being judged every day. Our spiritual progression is advanced from the initial down payment [2 Co1:22] onward toward a mature man of God who does righteousness [1 John 4:12], as the Spirit dwelling in us is righteous.

Act 17:30  And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

Act 17:31  Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

Act 10:35  But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.

Rom 12:1  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

The Acceptable Year of the Lord is not literal. This applies to all of Scripture;  the Lord’s words are spiritual, and flesh profits nothing [Joh 6:63]. Christ speaks in similitudes and in parables [Hos 12:10, Mar 4:11]. Outwardly, the Acceptable Year defines the three harvests of the Lord by which all men are being saved [1Co 15:22-24] in the order ordained. Yet the Acceptable Year of the Lord is also a living event that God’s sons live out inwardly. This Year of the Lord is what is converting us and making us acceptable in the Beloved. The spiritual man is the blessing, coming forth through a progressive and fiery process that is maturing us.

Deu 16:16  Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:

Deu 16:17  Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.

Luk 21:17  And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.

Luk 21:18  But there shall not an hair of your head perish.

Luk 21:19  In your patience possess ye your souls.

The Acceptable Year of the Lord is the same as the three days during which Christ is rebuilding the Temple of God within us, which we have destroyed and profaned, making it a house of merchandising and not of prayer. The result is spiritual death, and the glory of God is not found in the house. We are the Temple of God, and He raises us through His Commandments. We suffer many things before the Lord raises us from death and begins to remake His Temple.

Mat 15:32  Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude [within us], because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.

Mrk 8:31  And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

Joh 2:19  Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

The working of the Lord within us for these three days is the one sign given that the Lord is with us and we are now being conformed into His image and righteousness. It is an evil generation, that is to say, it is an evil mindset, to seek after a sign. We all do this at times appointed for us to do. All is by God’s design.

Mat 12:38  Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.
Mat 12:39  But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
Mat 12:40  For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Our change of heart, done by the spiritual circumcision of the Lord, is the same acceptance process that is consecrating us as priests and bringing forth the last Adam, a quickening Spirit.

Eze 43:27  And when these days are expired, it shall be, that upon the eighth [new beginnings] day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, saith the Lord GOD.

Col 2:9  For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

Col 2:10  And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

Col 2:11  In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

Col 2:12  Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

It is in Christ’s mountain, spiritual Jerusalem, where we are accepted and where all of His righteous work is performed in us. The true Gospel of Christ is separating the little children of God, and it is the savour of death to death, that is to say,  death to our carnal way of thinking.

Eze 20:41  I will accept you with your sweet savour [of death], when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.

2Co 2:15  For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:

2Co 2:16  To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

Dying to death on a tree [Acts 5:30] is how we are being conformed into the image of the Son and is what makes us acceptable to the Lord. This is Christ’s desire and plan, who is working all things according to the counsel of His will [Eph 1:11]. Christ commands us to ‘follow Him’ to death. This is why our death [death to death, the second death] is precious to the Lord.

Psa 116:15  Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.

Ecc 7:1  A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.

1Co 15:31  I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

A New Testament witness explaining the Lord’s view of our death is this:

Col 1:20  And, having made peace [within] through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

Col 1:21  And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

Col 1:22  In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

Those being accepted by the Lord are those bringing judgment to the Gentiles within themselves, that is to say, the rest of the dead within. Those whom the Lord accepts are those in whom He delights when judgment is brought forth.

Jer 9:24  But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.

Isa 42:1  Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth [H7521 – Accepts]; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

Pro 3:12  For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

Rom 7:22  For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

Christ taking pleasure in His people is the same as the Lord accepting His people, as Psalm 149 confirms.

Psa 149:4  For the LORD taketh pleasure [H7521 – accepts] in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.

Psa 149:5  Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.

Psa 149:6  Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two edged sword in their hand;

Psa 149:7  To execute vengeance upon the heathen, [within first] and punishments upon the people;

Psa 149:8  To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron [rule and reign over the inward nations];

Psa 149:9  To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.

Being accepted by God, the Father, and Christ, His Son, means we have been chosen and received by Them [One Spirit] as Their sons. Embracing the true Gospel is embracing the work of Christ’s chastening grace, which scourges the man of sin within and burns up our entire old way of life, making all things new within and without.

2Ti 1:8  Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;

2Ti 1:9  Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

2Ti 1:10  But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:

Today is the Acceptable Year of the Lord. We are hearing the true Gospel being preached to us. We are admonished not to squander it or receive this grace of God in vain.

2Co 6:1  We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

2Co 6:2 For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

Victory is certain, the Baptism of Fire, the place of our death within, the Lake of Fire, is the only way wherein the righteousness of Christ is being established. This is a new heaven and a new earth within us.

2Pe 3:13  Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

2Pe 3:14  Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless;

Col 2:12  Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

In the Acceptable Year of the Lord, being set free from our hard labour, speaking spiritually, we watch lest we enter into temptation. Our enemies within are always there to tempt us, wresting judgment away. Our hard labour is the fruit of our carnal thinking, which produces lies and idols of the heart, the work of our own hands.

Mat 24:42  Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

Mat 24:43  But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

Mat 24:44  Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

2Pe 3:17  Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.

2Pe 3:18  But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

We have every expectation of fiery trials daily as we go through the Lake of Fire now, in vessels of clay to die to death, which is the second death. Think spiritually.

2Co 6:4  But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

2Co 6:5  In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;

2Co 6:6  By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love [Agape – our obedience] unfeigned,

2Co 7:4  Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.

Sons of God no longer abide in darkness in the Acceptable Year of the Lord. The Light of Christ has shone onto our earth, and we ourselves are now enlightened with the light that is the Commandments, which bring judgment to the earth.

Psa 97:4  His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.

Mat 5:16  Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

The Lord is seated in our heavens, and we are become quickening Spirits, and no longer live for ourselves. The Promise IS come for us.

Mar 16:19  So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

Mar 16:20  And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen.

1Co 7:23  Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men [lies].

Eph 5:9  For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth.

Eph 5:10  Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

We grow to fully embrace the suffering and afflictions to which we have been appointed for the sake of the true Gospel of Christ Jesus in this Day of the Lord, the Acceptable Year of the Lord, the Day of our Visitation, and the Year of Vengeance. All the same symbol, the dream is one [Gen 41:26].

Php 1:29  For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;

Col 1:24  Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:

Col 1:25  Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;

The Power of the Spirit, Christ’s Commandments, is working mightily in us. We are now the Lord’s ministering angels sent to those who obtain salvation. Believe the Gospel, and know we, the sons of God, His little children, have been accepted by the Lord, in the Beloved.

Luk 21:28  Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.”

Heb 3:13  but exhort one another daily, while it is called “TODAY,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Heb 3:14  For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end

God is the God of the living. Those chosen and counted worthy to obtain salvation and the resurrection of the dead no longer live for ourselves but are bondservants of the Lord. We become the angels of the Lord, the children of God, by way of the resurrection from the dead.

Luk 20:35  But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:

Luk 20:36  Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.

Luk 20:37  Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

Luk 20:38  For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.

If we be dead with Christ, we shall live with Christ, being one in Spirit with God.

Joh 14:19  Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.

Joh 14:20  At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

In the Acceptable Year of the Lord, we, the sons of God, send portions to those for whom none is prepared. Our garments are white, and our heads do not lack ointment. This is a parable, and it means we wear the white robes of righteousness, that is to say, obedience to Christ’s Commandments, and our heads do not lack the anointing oil of the Commandments. We know them and strive to do them.

Neh 8:9  And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.

Neh 8:10  Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.

Ecc 9:8  Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.

Many studies that summarize the Commandments of the Lord found in the Scriptures can be found by clicking this link to the truthinscripture website:  Commandments

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A New Commandment

Rohnel

Love One Another, as Christ Loves

Rohnel, and my beloved husband, Peter, angels and servants of God and Christ, unto the little children scattered in the world beloved of God, called to be saints, called to be faithful: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Psa 68:26  Bless ye God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the fountain of Israel. 

Eph 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: 

Eph 1:4  According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 

Eph 1:5  Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 

Keep my Commandments and Live

Joh 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments. 

Joh 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. 

A New Commandment

In the letter below, we repeat the point of what godly love is several times. It is the essence of understanding the true Gospel of Christ. Bear with it until you know it in the marrow of your bones. Fearing the Lord means to love Him.

Pro 3:7  Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. 

Pro 3:8  It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. 

According to Christ, the Law and the Prophets hang on these two great Commandments:

Mat 22:36  Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

Mat 22:37  Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

Mat 22:38  This is the first and great commandment.

Mat 22:39  And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Mat 22:40  On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

When Christ comes into our lives, He gives us a new Commandment which makes the two great Commandments perfect. This New Commandment is to love one another as Christ loved us, laying down our lives for one another and keeping His Commandments. Christ fulfilled the Law and the Prophets, making it perfect.

Mat 5:17  Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 

Joh 13:34  A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 

Joh 13:35  By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. 

The Law of Liberty, which is the Law of Christ, is being fulfilled every day in our lives when we love ourselves and our brethren with the love of God, which is the great Commandment. The Law of Christ is His Commandments.

Gal 5:13  For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

Gal 5:14  For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Eph 5:1  Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; 

Eph 5:2  And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. 

Loving your neighbour as yourself is seeking the spiritual wealth and health of our brethren above ourselves. A selfless sacrifice of our lives defines the works and acts of Jesus Christ and His Christ. Being redeemed by the Lord, we belong to Him, and this is our reasonable service.

1Co 10:24  Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth.

Rom 12:1  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

The new Commandment Christ gives us is to love one another as He loved us. Christ gave up His life for us so that the Comforter IS [every day] come to us in our appointed times. The Comforter is the Commandments, the Spirit of Promise is the Wisdom of Christ, and the Understanding of the Father. God is Spirit and Love manifested within us when He comes for salvation. When this Love is in us, we work no ill to our brethren and fulfill the perfect law of Christ.

Rom 13:9  …  Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 

Rom 13:10  Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. 

1Co 13:4  Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 

1Co 13:5  Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 

1Co 13:6  Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 

1Co 13:7  Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.   

1Co 16:14  Let all your things be done with charity. 

Col 3:14  And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. 

When we hear the Gospel, this is the beginning of our walk with Christ. This love is what we are hearing from the beginning, which is the true love of God. Christ is the Word [His Commandments], and He was in the beginning. The true Gospel of Christ is to know and keep His Commandments, which were given to Him by God, the Father.

1Jn 3:11  For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

Joh 1:1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 

Joh 1:2  The same was in the beginning with God. 

From the beginning, we hear the true Gospel being preached to us, after we have been given eyes to see and ears to hear, after we have been raised from spiritual death to see, believe, and confess the Commandments of Christ. This is the beginning of our new life in Christ, the beginning of a new creation [you and me]. Think spiritually.

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

Luk 4:19  To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. 

Mat 13:17  For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them. 

We write again. What is the true Gospel of Christ? The true Gospel is the mind of Christ, and it is the Commandments of the Father, that live in Christ, which speak from our heaven and cause us to love our neighbours as Christ.

Joh 8:28  Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. 

Joh 14:10  Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. 

The Living Commandments is the Spirit of Truth and the Word of His Grace, and this is the Gospel which we hear from the beginning.

Joh 15:26  But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: 

Act 14:3  Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands. 

We know, after being enlightened, that is to say after the Promise IS come to us, what the love of God is versus the false love the world calls love.

1Jn 5:3  For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

Loving God, the Father, and Christ, His Son, by keeping the Commandments, is how we love our brothers and sisters and all of humanity. The OT is a shadow of what is being said in the NT.

Eze 44:24  And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths. 

1Jn 5:2  By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

We have many Commandments commanding us to love one another. It is the essence of Christ’s doctrine. Loving one another is to have mercy, opening blind eyes and deaf ears to teach the true Gospel of Christ and to walk out this Gospel in vessels of clay.

Joh 15:17  These things I command you, that ye love one another.

Eph 3:16  That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; 

Eph 3:17  That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 

We show our enemies this same love. The biblical definition of love is keeping Christ’s Commandments. Thus, loving our enemies, we display and teach them the Commandments of Christ. Loving our enemies, teaching, showing, and walking out the true Gospel of Christ, is the true love of God. It is the same love we have toward every human being.

Rom 12:20  Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. 

Rom 12:21  Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. 

Rom 13:8  Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. 

The sons of God judge themselves to see if they are in the faith of Christ. His Commandments purge our consciences in preparing the temple in which Christ comes to dwell. The faith of Christ is His mind. We have to have this mind first before the Comforter comes to us.

2Co 13:5  Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

Heb 9:14  How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Heb 10:22  Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

If we love and judge ourselves to see if we are in the faith of Christ, we have confidence to love our brothers and sisters without hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is to say and not to do, and it is the leaven of the Pharisees [Luk 12:1].

1Pe 1:22  Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

1Co 5:7  Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: 

1Co 5:8  Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 

To love each other according to Christ’s new Commandment requires us to lay down our lives for one another, according to the measure of faith we have been given. Think spiritually.

Joh 15:12  This is my Commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. 

Joh 15:13  Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 

Joh 15:14  Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. 

Joh 15:15  Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

Joh 15:16  Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. 

We have comfort and hope that is in Christ’s Commandments alone, and thus we speak of things as if they already were accomplished, Lord willing. Our flesh, that is to say, our carnal arguments, withers away in the Day of the Lord. So now we ask: How does Christ, who is not a respecter of persons, see us through His Commandments? How do we see ourselves, and how do we see others?

Rom 2:11  For there is no respect of persons with God. 

1Pe 1:24  For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: 

Christ sees His true sons as a work in progress, His workmanship, spiritual Jews and Gentiles alike. We, therefore, see our brethren in the faith through the same lens. We are not talking about those outside the faith [the world].  Christ works with the world in their appointed times. As the children of God, we are fearfully and wonderfully made, being in the process of being made over to bring forth good works that are obedience to the Commandments.

Eph 2:10  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Psa 139:14  I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. 

Psa 139:15  My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

Tit 2:14  Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. 

Now, after we receive the true Gospel, we lay our lives down for each other, seeing each other and ourselves as God sees us and as Christ sees us, who laid down His life for us. To lay down our lives is to not accuse and excuse within ourselves but to do the Commandments in place of our carnal arguments, lies and idols of the heart.

Joh 6:63  It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. 

Joh 10:15  As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

Christ and His Christ, the sons of God, speak of things that are not yet as if they already are accomplished. Therefore, we travail with brethren until Christ is formed in them.

Rom 4:17  (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. 

Gal 4:19  My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, 

We obey Christ rather than winning the approval of the world of carnal reasoning. Peter and James declare that friendship with the world within and without is enmity with God. Sons of God are staying focused on our calling to love ourselves, our brothers, our enemies, and all the world with the true love of Christ, according to the new Commandment Christ gave us.

Jas 4:4  Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 

Act 5:29  Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

We strive to flee from evil, cling to that which is good, and set an example. We are unworthy servants, and this is our duty.

Luk 17:10  So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do. 

Joh 13:15  For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. 

Joh 13:16  Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his Lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. 

Joh 13:17  If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them. 

The world within and without beholds how we are walking. Does the Spirit stay on us? Are we the lambs of God? Are we projecting the light of Christ to the world as we walk? We are commanded to examine ourselves.

Joh 1:32  And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.

Joh 1:36  And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!

1Co 9:27  But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. 

Our brethren see the fruit of the Tree of Life manifesting in the sons of God, His little children. We strive to continue in Christ’s love. As shepherds of the sheep, those whom the Lord sets in the church are to be the examples of Christ.

Mat 7:17  Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

Mat 7:18  A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

Joh 15:8  Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. 

Joh 15:9  As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. 

1Co 11:1  Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. 

We learn the lessons of the past and reach forth to what is set before us. We focus on today. We forgive ourselves and others, laying down our lives for our friends, which means not to lean on our own understanding but to trust the Lord and do what He commands.

Joh 10:17  Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. 

Joh 10:18  No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

Gal 2:20  I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 

The Commandments, the plumbline, and also the reed of God are the only measures to inspect how we are doing. We see multiple witnesses of angels, symbolizing those with the resurrected Christ in them, measuring the temple and city of God. These are parables telling us to examine ourselves.

Zec 2:1  I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand. 

Zec 2:2  Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof. 

Rev 21:15  And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. 

Laying our lives down and taking them up again is a parable, meaning we become all things to all men to bring the Gospel to all. Paul had become Christ in this world and was an angel of the Lord in preaching the Gospel to those in his path.

1Co 9:20  And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; 

1Co 9:21  To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. 

1Co 9:22  To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. 

We move away from the things that make us sin and move toward the thoughts and actions of Christ that fill us with His Power, His Commandments, which is the joy of the Lord. We strive to maintain good works and thus, by example, stimulate and provoke our brethren to do likewise.

Php 4:8  Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. 

Heb 10:24  And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

The true children of God embrace the mistakes we are making. We know that it is through much endurance and chastening that we are being saved. There are tribulations yet to come that are not written, which we are unable to bear right now [Rev 10:4]. We live by every Word of God, even our failures, the occasion the Lord seeks, to burn out the wood, hay, and stubble within us, making us anew. Within us are vessels [thoughts] both of honour and dishonour. Always apply the spiritual application of the Word.

2Ti 2:19  Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let everyone that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

2Ti 2:20  But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. 

2Ti 2:21  If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.

We are grateful for all things. The Lord wastes nothing, and all things are ours, that is to say, we live the good and the evil and the perfect. We do not know what the future brings except that the Lord’s Promises never fail. Christ does what He pleases.

Isa 55:11  So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. 

Mat 6:34  Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. 

The multitudes are separated from the love of God and have not age-abiding life, as many are called, few are chosen, and even fewer are being made faithful in every age. The blessed few being made faithful are happy to be counted worthy to suffer for His Name’s sake. So, we use pain, frustration, and inconveniences to motivate us rather than to discourage us because we know we are being made perfect in love, a beautiful, sharp threshing instrument in His awesome Hands. This is a process of patience and long suffering.

Isa 41:15  Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. 

Heb 2:10  For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

Heb 2:11  For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

We feed the Lord’s sheep and His lambs when we love them as Christ has and continues to love us. We speak Truth and walk in love. The Lord prepares us well for our calling.

Joh 21:17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.

Eph 4:15  But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

Eph 4:16  From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

Eph 5:2  And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

When we fear, we do not live to our fullest capacity. When we act in unbelief, we act in fear. When we love, we do not fear.

2Ti 1:7  For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

1Joh 4:18  There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

We do not lie to ourselves but speak Truth within and without. We lack confidence when we are not abiding in the Truth the Lord taught us. One cannot speak with integrity about a lifestyle we are not living. Others behold how Christ walked, and thus our hearts tell us instantly if we walk not in love.

1Jn 3:18  My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. 

1Jn 3:19  And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. 

1Jn 3:20  For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. 

1Jn 3:21  Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. 

Peace comes from knowing and doing the righteousness of Christ’s Commandments. We love our brethren through obeying Christ.

Isa 54:13  And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children. 

Isa 54:14  In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee. 

The sons of God pay close attention to their lives. We redeem the time because the days are evil. Distractions are more and more every day; therefore, we stay in the Word, studying, quietly doing our own business so we may feed the flock of God within and without.

1Th 4:11  And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

2Ti 2:15  Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Through the Gospel, we are filled with joy unspeakable. and given the zeal to do all for the Kingdom’s sake. Paul speaks to us this day because, as the son of God, Paul’s words are Christ’s words and never pass away.

Act 20:22  And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:

Act 20:23  Save that the Holy Spirit witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. 

Act 20:24  But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

Php 2:17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.

Php 2:18 For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.

We give to those less honourable, and that is how we love. We express the Power of God, which is Christ, through walking out His Commandments. We give more honour to the less honourable, which, spiritually speaking, are the Commandments of Christ. The Commandments of Christ are not esteemed in the religious world. In the Assembly, it is those who are less honourable that we are commanded to esteem more.

1Co 12:23  And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

1Co 12:24  For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: 

1Co 12:25  That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.

Rom 12:10  Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

The Living Christ is teaching us to love our brethren, and the Lord Himself gives us the increase.

1Th 4:9  But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. 

1Th 4:10  And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more; 

The new Commandment of Christ makes us perfect. Laying our lives down means to obey all the Commandments of Christ. We are doing it only by the Lord’s mercy and indwelling grace, which is the Gospel and the Power of God unto salvation.

1Ki 8:61  Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day. 

Pro 11:5  The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. 

Mat 5:48  Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. 

The new Commandment of Christ to love one another as He has loved is actually an old Commandment. We heard the Commandment when we first heard the Gospel by the mercy of God. We often remind ourselves of these Commandments because they are the essence of eternal life and of God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. If we obey the new Commandment that encapsulates all of them, we abide in the light and love of God, and there is no occasion for us to stumble.

1Jn 2:7  Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning. 

1Jn 2:8  Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. 

1Jn 2:9  He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. 

1Jn 2:10  He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. 

Be often reminded of the Commandments. To be a helper in your joy, the Lord had us write summaries and many articles on the Commandments that are posted at www.truthinscripture.com. There is a subsection in the top menu titled “Commandments.”  Blessed are they who know and obey the Commandments.

Mat 10:27  What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.

Act 4:20  For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard. 

Receive ye the Gospel, receive ye the Holy Spirit.

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Knowing No Man after the Flesh  

Rohnel

Seeing and Judging Through Christ’s Eyes

Rohnel, and my beloved husband, Peter, servants of God And Christ, unto the little children and to the faithful sons of God: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1Co 8:6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. 

Keep My Commandments 

Psa 119:19  I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

Psa 119:32  I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.

Joh 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments. 

1Jn 2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 

Knowing No Man after the Flesh

Everyone born of a woman makes many judgments every single day. As the first man, Adam, we are created this way. We judge men or matters every time we respond, think, and act to the various stimuli; all things, Christ, the Potter, is working in our lives.

Isa 64:8 But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

Eph 2:10  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them

Making decisions means judging, and it means accusing or excusing within ourselves. This is the Law of the Gentiles as Paul tells us in Romans. All of this is by God, the Father, through Christ’s design and plan from the beginning of the world.

Php 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Rom 2:14  For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: 

Rom 2:15  Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another

Christ works all our thoughts, revealing to us our thoughts and intentions of the heart, giving us the very words we speak. The sovereignty of Christ is unknown to humanity and all that is in the world. The world is blinded and is given over to Satan, which represents the spirit that drives our carnal minds [Eph 2:2].

Amo 4:13  For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name. 

Pro 16:1  The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD. 

Isa 45:7  I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. 

Please refer to a detailed study on the sovereignty of Christ and the false doctrine of free will on the truthinscripture.com website.

By coming through the Lake of Fire, that is to say, the Lord’s Commandments, being the firstfruits unto the Lord, the true sons of God learn to trust in the Lord and not to lean on their own understanding. They understand that the Lord is working all things and has predestinated every man’s life, declaring the end from the beginning.

Eph 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

Isa 46:10  Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: 

The title of this study comes from this well-known Scripture that tells of the complete paradigm shift those of the household of faith, the true faith of Christ, are now exhibiting in conducting themselves in vessels of clay. Being made into a quickening Spirit, the last Adam, we know no man after the flesh anymore. We abstain from engaging in our innate fleshly lusts and carnal reasonings in following Christ.

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

2Co 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

1Pe 2:11  Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul 

The precious few given the Spirit of Christ, that is to say His Commandments, are being drawn to Christ and are now walking differently as compared to their former selves and the entire carnal world, being raised from spiritual death, which is being in bondage to the Law for the lawless.

Joh 6:44  No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. 

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

Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

Walking by faith and not by sight, that is to say, the flesh, is transferring us from darkness to light. Walking by faith is to walk after Christ’s Commandments and not judging by reason, that is to say, our carnal minds.

Rom 1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

2Co 5:7 For we walk by faith, not by sight.

With our faith established, true sons of God grow through the many trials the Lord brings, which continue to teach them to see things differently than before and to see all things through God’s eyes. God’s eyes are the Holy Commandments by which we are judged and chastened when the Spirit of Christ comes to us. Christ shows us and leads us to the Father.

Col 2:6 As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,

Col 2:7 rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

Joh 14:8  Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. 

Joh 14:9  Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? 

Contrary to the multitudes trapped by the oldness of the letter bound to the Law for the unrighteous and not seeing the Spirit in all Scripture, the true sons of God come to know and see that the Lord is not a respecter of persons.

Lev 19:15  Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour. 

2Sa 14:14  For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means [The Living Gospel within us], that his banished be not expelled from him. 

Col 3:25 But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.

Spiritual Jews and spiritual Gentiles are viewed the same and given the same judgments and the same reward, and that is life aonios. A Spiritual Jew has studied much, and a spiritual Gentile has the Father’s Name [Commandments] in their foreheads. To the Father and Christ, there is no difference, as salvation has come to the Gentiles also. This is the parable hidden in the Commandments: Judge no man after the flesh.

Rom 10:12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.

Rom 1:16  For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 

Rom 1:17  For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. 

Act 28:28  Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.

The punishments and the rewards, the entire process of salvation is one process that comes alike to the spiritual Jews and spiritual Gentiles in this age and in every age since Christ. There is no respect of persons with God, whether Jew or Gentile. We also remember that Christ is the Saviour of all humanity. This is a basic doctrine and a topic for another letter.

Ecc 9:2  All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean

Rom 2:9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;

Rom 2:10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:

Rom 2:11 For there is no respect of persons with God.

The sons of God are commanded to do what Christ does and follow His example in how we are to judge all things and not all men.

Joh 8:15 Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.

Joh 8:16 And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.

How do we make these judgments every day and follow after Christ, judging no man? Walking by faith and not by sight, according to the Commandments of Christ, rather than the wisdom and logic of the carnal world within us, is how this is accomplished.

Joh 12:47 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

Joh 12:48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

We, who are spiritual, judge each other today by the words of fire we speak, share, and meditate upon. Sons of God are judged by no man but are judged by the living Commandments, that is, Christ in us, the Hope of Glory.

1Co 2:15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

1Co 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

It is Christ, the Living Word within us, that is doing the judging. It is the authority of Christ within us, the Commandments, which we follow in conducting ourselves and judging righteous judgment rather than judging after the flesh. Judging after the flesh is judging according to our carnal reasonings and the idols of the heart, the work of our hands. Think spiritually.

Joh 7:24 Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.

Mat 7:1  Judge not, that ye be not judged. 

Mat 7:2  For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 

With regard to knowing men and how we are making those judgments, we judge the fruit and the Spirit in the man rather than the man. We look inwardly.

1Sa 16:7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

Mar 7:20  And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. 

Mar 7:21  For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 

Mar 7:22  Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

Mar 7:23  All these evil things come from within, and defile the man. 

Old Testament symbols on weights and measures ultimately speak to our faithfulness to the Lord, that is to say, His Commandments, and how we judge all matters of life.

1Co 6:3  Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? 

1Co 6:4  If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. 

Diversity in our judgment, playing favourites or being partial, is using diverse weights and measures, and this is what the first man Adam in all of us does, in justifying carnal reasonings and wresting godly judgment away. It is an abomination to the Lord. The only just weights are the Commandments. Anything else is showing partiality and respect of persons, which is wickedness in the eyes of the Lord. The Commandment to judge righteous judgment is hidden in the shadows of the Old Testament.

Pro 20:10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are an abomination to the LORD.

Deu 25:13  “You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light. 

Deu 25:14  You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. 

Deu 25:15  You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure, that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

Mic 6:10  Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?

Mic 6:11  Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? 

It is the mature sons of God, being made perfect every day in vessels of clay, who are learning to measure all things by the Commandments of Christ, which is how we discern between good and evil. Christ does His work through His true children.

Eze 44:23  And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. 

Eze 44:24  And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths. 

Heb 5:14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

James calls out the church for being partial and for continuing to show respect for persons, knowing men after the flesh.

Jas 2:1 (NKJV) My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with partiality.

James continues to give a seeming outward physical example, yet we remember the Lord’s Words are Spirit, and all of these words are signified.

Jas 2:2 (NKJV) For if there should come into your assembly a man with gold rings, in fine apparel, and there should also come in a poor man in filthy clothes,

Jas 2:3 and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say to him, “You sit here in a good place,” and say to the poor man, “You stand there,” or, “Sit here at my footstool,”

Jas 2:4 have you not shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

Jas 2:8 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF,” you do well;

Jas 2:9 but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

These words are a deep parable that teaches us that it is not only the spiritual Jews who obtain salvation, but also the spiritual Gentiles, as shown in the Scriptures above. Here is one more:

Rom 9:24  Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? 

Rom 9:25  As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. 

We are aware that Christ uses our preferences and partiality for people and all things to test our faith. In the Day of the Lord, the righteousness of Christ shows us the partiality that lies hidden in our hearts. When we apply a different plumbline and let those carnal desires interfere with being obedient unto Christ and His Commandments, we sin.

1Ti 5:21 I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.

Rom 14:23  And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin. 

Spiritual Jews and spiritual Gentiles are all one in Christ after Faith IS come.

Gal 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by [the free gift of] faith in Christ Jesus.

Gal 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Gal 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

The Body of Christ in every age since Christ and in ages to come comes from all nations, tribes, and tongues, there being no respect of any person, creed, race, or nation by the Lord.

Rev 7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;

Deu 10:17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:

Knowing no man after the flesh includes the Command not to worship the angels who show us these things.

Rev 22:8  And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things. 

Rev 22:9  Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God. 

Furthermore, knowing no man after the flesh is not seeking preeminence in the church but rather becoming all things to all men to save them by preaching the Gospel.

Mat 23:11  But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant. 

1Co 9:19  For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. 

1Co 9:20  And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; 

1Co 9:21  To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. 

1Co 9:22  To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. 

1Co 9:23  And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you. 

We are being made perfect in the Day of the Lord. This is the Day the Lord has made, and happy are those to whom the Commandments have come, and we are being saved by doing them.

Psa 118:24  This is the day the LORD has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it. 

Moses, as type and shadow of Christ, teaches the people, and we, the true sons of God, teach ourselves and others the true Law of Liberty, which is the Lord’s Commandments.

Deu 4:5  Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. 

Deu 4:6  Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. 

Deu 4:7  For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for? 

Deu 4:8  And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

Deu 4:9  Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons

1Pe 2:9  But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: 

1Pe 2:10  Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. 

Remember to know and keep the Commandments of the Lord Jesus fervently. Go to the truthinscripture.com website and head to the subtitle “Commandments.” The Living Commandments, Christ, is the inheritance of God’s chosen ones. Aaron is a type and shadow of Christ’s true sons.

Num 18:20  And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel. 

 

1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 

1Pe 1:4  To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 

1Pe 1:5  Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 

1Pe 1:6  Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: 

1Pe 1:7  That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 

Virtually every day, all of us are given trials and tests of our faith as we interact with other people, all of whom are God’s creation. Do we see them through Christ’s eyes, the Commandments, or are we still judging and knowing them after the flesh? It takes practice and many failures to learn to be successful in judging righteously. True sons of God strive to judge like Christ because as He is, so are we.

Receive ye the Gospel. Receive the Holy Spirit.