Heart issues—
Why becoming mature in Christ is crucial;
many are called— few are chosen.
(there be many foolish virgins)
[Video link to this teaching with commentary: https://youtu.be/EERmxK8qcRQ]
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Romans 8:29
“For whom he did foreknow (knew ahead of time), he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son— that he might be the first born of many brethren.”
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There is a false identity that humanity has embraced from the beginning— that the church needs to relinquish, cast down, and step out of; because all things are possible in Christ now, especially the New Man creation— that puts off the works of darkness now, and conforms us into the image of Christ (which is why we are to be in Christ, and New Creation by being in him now).
DO NOT DENY THE POWER!
“Beloved– NOW– we are the sons of God.” (1 John 3:2)
NOW, not later, NOW.
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Christ will come and manifest himself through his messengers, or ambassadors; they will be his first fruits company, or manchild company spoken of in his revelations to John: when he shall come with his messengers of power.
[credit to Doug Barret for some of these scripture references, and being a catalyst of the Holy Spirit in his latest video— spurring me onto what Christ was birthing forth in me, pertaining to the 144,000 first fruits company— and coming into maturity in Christ.]
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2 Thessalonians 1:10-11
“When he shall come to be glorified in his saints [sacred, physically pure— morally blameless, ceremonially consecrated, holy ones], and to be admired [to wonder and marvel] in them all— who believe [credit and entrust one’s well being to Christ, commit to trust in him] (because our testimony among you was believed) —in that day.
Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count [deem, entitle you, desire and think] you worthy of this calling [invitation], and fulfill all the good pleasure [purpose and satisfaction of] of his goodness [virtue], and the work [toiling and labor] of faith [conviction of truth] with power.”
2 Timothy 3:5-7
“Having a form [appearance or semblance] of godliness [the gospel scheme]— but denying [contradicting, rejecting and abnegating— to renounce or deny] the power [force of miraculous power, ability and abundance of might, wonderful workings] thereof —from such turn away [deflect and avoid].
For of this sort [of persons] are those who creep into houses [residences, abodes (literal or figuratively, and where is the house of the Lord now?)] —and lead captive silly women [foolish women], laden with [pilled up with in heaps] sins [offenses] — (who are) led away [driven and induced, bringing forth and carried] with divers [vary in character— motley— varied in appearance or character, in congruent— of mixture] lusts [longings for what is forbidden, strong desire]— Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge [recognition, discernment, acknowledgment] of the truth [what is verity— true principle or belief].”
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Scheme— a particular ordered system or arrangement; root definition— mid 16th century, from Latin and Greek— schema... An early sense was ‘diagram of the position of celestial objects’, giving rise to ‘diagram, outline’, whence the current senses. The unfavorable notion ‘plot’ arose in the mid 18th century.
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So, there is a people, who have the ‘outline’ of a doctrine, or a teaching— but they are devoid of walking it out; they live not the truth in their hearts, and their fruits line up with the world, and with powerlessness— of which is impossible in and with Christ: Lukewarm, noncommittal.
We have ALL THINGS POSSIBLE TO US NOW, in Christ Jesus, for— Philippians 4:13 — “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
Genesis 18:14
“Is anything too hard for the LORD? ...”
Luke 1:37
“For with God nothing shall be impossible.”
1 Corinthians 10:13
“No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But (instead) when you are tempted— he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.”
Matthew 19:26
“Jesus looked at them and said— With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
1 Corinthians 6:14
“And God has both raised up the Lord— and will also raise up us by his own power.”
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WE CANNOT DENY THE POWER THEREOF TO REFORM US— and have a vain faith, empty, and powerless— only having an ‘outline’ of the true faith; and we cannot remain babes, never coming into the full stature of Christ, and forsake coming to the Table of the Lord ourselves.
Remaining babes, or coming into
the fullness of the stature of Christ in us?
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Romans 2:20
“An instructor (Pharisees) of the foolish [mindless— not thinking or concerned about, ignorant— lacking awareness and uneducated, egotistical— self centered and absorbed in self, unbelieving— do not believe what they have been told and are skeptical, doubting, suspicious, unwise— not sensible, foolish] —a teacher of babes [infants, simple minded—does not have the ability to use reason and understand, immature Christians]— who has the form [appearance or semblance] of knowledge [knowing] and of the truth [verity— true principle or belief] in the law [general regulation— rule or directives made and maintained by an authority, and principles].”
1 Corinthians 3:1
“And I, brethren— could not speak to you as unto spiritual (speech) —but as unto carnal (speech) —as unto babes in Christ.
I have fed you with milk— and not with meat: for you were not able to bear it— neither now, are you yet able.
For you are yet carnal: for there is among you envying, strife [quarreling, debates and variance], and divisions [disunion and dissension, sedition— rebelling against a king] —ARE YOU NOT CARNAL, and you walk as men?”
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We are to be walking as/like God, not mortal men— if we are conformed to his image, the image of his only begotten Son— in whom we find our being.
Acts 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.”
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Here Paul was saying that that hypocritical people, will be knowers of the truth, but unable to understand that it must be walked out with a living faith— a living faith in the truth; a living faith, as by the definition of faith in the Strong’s of the Greek above in scripture references is— conviction of truth, and the truth in Strong’s above, is— verity— true principle or belief.
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Romans 8:1
“There is therefore now no condemnation → to them who are in Christ Jesus— (and those be them) who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”
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So, in order to not be one who knows ‘scripture,’ and is studied in memorizing it, but never comes into the knowledge of it, and does not walk in the ‘truth,’ because they are not led of the Spirit who brings us into all truth, as only the Spirit can discern the things spiritual…
We must have a living faith (faith without works is dead, that’s actions that prove your living faith in Christ and the truth), and that is conviction of the truth; and conviction means, as described in Strong’s G1651— convinced— which means to believe firmly in (or resolutely); root definition— mid 16th century in the sense ‘overcome, defeat in argument’: from Latin convincere, from con- ‘with’ + vincere ‘conquer’.
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John 16:13
“Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth…”
1 Corinthians 2:14
“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”
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Carnal man— is not part of the Romans 8 manifesting sons or daughters, nor is the carnally minded, silly, foolish man— the 144,000 manchild company, first fruits; the first fruitlings of Christ— will walk out as spiritual mature ones, of the meat of the Word, living the truth of the scriptures, by the lead and convincing of the Holy Spirit of God (those led of the Spirit of God, are the sons of God, Romans 8), walk in a living faith with fruits/proofs/works of their faith, studying AND SHOWING THEMSELVES approved.
And why?
Because babes cannot be trusted with POWER FROM ON HIGH— only the mature can be on the front lines of a war, and trusted with great power.
When Christ appeared to them after his resurrection— to witness to them: and that they shall also witness him.
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Luke 24:48-49
“And you are witnesses of these things.
And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry in the city of Jerusalem— until you are endued with power from on high.”
Acts 4:33
“And with great power the apostles gave witness— of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.”
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Overcomers— a person who overcomes something : one who succeeds in dealing with or gaining control of some problem or difficulty, defeats an opponent (in this case— the carnal nature of doubt, unbelief, fear, etc), over + power (overpowers an opponent).
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Revelation 12:9-11
“And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan— who deceived the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven— Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
And they overcame him (satan, which is a title) by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony (their witness); and they loved not their lives unto the death.”
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Note here, not only was satan, as in the devil how we know him cast out of heaven, into the earth— but so was the fallen, self led, disobedient and rebellious Adam— cast out of Eden; full circle turnaround, through honest repentance, bringing back those that are willing under the obedience of God— those will be reconciled, invited back in to heaven, through Christ, and changed back into the image of God— from whence they were fallen: mended and stitched back together through his refinement process.
The 144,000 will be those who walk not after the carnal flesh nature any longer, listen NOT to the voice of the ‘fallen’ any more (self leadership, by gaining the wisdom to be ‘like’ God, but not led of God, nor submitted to him in truth and fear of the Lord); they will be fully mature in the Lord God, submissive, discipled as a disciplined one under him.
They will come to the table of the Lord and partake in what HE has for them, and not eat from the table of satan any longer.
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Psalms 23:5
“You prepare a table [a meal] before me in the presence of my enemies [adversary]: you anoint my head with oil [perfumed richness, an ointment]; my cup runs over [satisfaction, wealthy].”
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They will be discerners of spirits, namely those that have been familiar and worked through them and others before them— and will be delivered of them, by the power of the blood of the Lamb and his name— UPHELD IN THEIR LIVES, casting off the works of darkness and subduing and casting out the enemy from among them; and they will see satan crushed under their feet, as they undergo the Refiner’s fires— and kick against the pricks of that refinement— NOT.
They will be those of his first fruits, who overcame, and gained the victory in conquering the soul within, by the Spirit of God, and not denying the power thereof in excuses— but upholding, warring and not entangling himself with carnal world affairs any long: becoming mature in Christ, mature in their faith, and a mighty, righteous oak.
These are his messengers, ambassadors, who walk the strait (confined conduct) and narrow paths of righteousness with their God; they loved not their lives— and died to self in order to exalt God as Most High within their temples: a clean house: they with God created a clean heart within, fit for the King of little kings— and made him Lord there.
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1 peter 2:2-3
“As newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the word, (in order) that you may grow, thereby: If so it be you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.”
Isaiah 61:1-4
“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek [low and humble (they are not resistant to the Lord)]; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness— that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
And they shall build the old wastes— they shall raise up the former desolations— and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.”
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The 144,000 caliber manchild of the Lord— whom he himself is birthing out into this world, through their laid down lives, loving them not unto the death of their own lives and desires— will be fully mature ones; these are they who do great exploits with their God.
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Daniel 11:32
“...The people that do know their God shall be strong— and do exploits.”
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And these, the 144,000 are those who will assist the Holy Spirit in deliverance of the lukewarm, unsaved, lost and babes in Christ— during God’s tribulations; Tribulation being defined in Strong’s as— to crowd and throng, suffer; and also— pressure, affliction, anguish, burdens, persecutions and trouble that comes.
Tribulation— is the mercy and love of God, unto a people who would not be reformed otherwise; better they go through tribulations and reformation— than not come home to God at all after this lifetime: hence— the mercy and love of God.
The 144,000 said YES to this process willingly, and accepted it, and worked with God— not kicking against his pricks, prods, reformations, corrections, disciplines or character reformations; and they were obedient, submissive— pliable in his hand as he worked his workmanship in them, and desired to ‘be as he is,’ and to loose the image of the world from their lives: satan, self leading, and being a self carnal nature God— who is God holy’s enemy.
They worshiped not the beast, or the image of the creation, man, himself— and leading himself, as the ‘fallen one’ does; but instead, came back to the Lord, literally spiritually— recalled they are spiritual beings, and needed to walk in the newness of the Spirit given to them.
And as the Lord has said to me time and time again…
“A ‘spirit,’ in its simplest of terms is— The breath of the inner man who speaks, with conduct, principles, and attitude; when aligned with me, listening to my Spirit— one will be conducted as/like I conduct myself, because they will be led of the Spirit of the holy God.
But one led of an inferior spirit (impostor and fallen) will conduct himself according to the counsels of satan— self, the fallen nature and what that ‘spirit’ (attitude, conduct, reasoning, and principles) tells them to: choose this day whom you will serve— self and the ‘dead’ spirit in your lead— or my Spirit— the Spirit of Life in Christ, who conducts himself by the Law Nature of God holy.”
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So, if we desire to be of the caliber manchild that is the 144,000, or the caliber manchild of the Lord that is a manifesting Romans 8 son or daughter of his, even now— we will fall in line under the only true God, and we will grow up into the full maturity in Christ— that our Father has dreamed of— and in whom he will glorify upon and in this earth realm.
He is the one who presides over all of his creation, and he will rule in vessels willing to return to him, from whence we fell in the garden— by rebellion, self rule and reasoning, and became little ‘gods’ of our own wisdom, leading self; his children— will become obedient, pliable to be turned in their reins (easily steered of the Lord in their character and actions— not rebellious and stiffnecked), and will be disciplined under him, being led by him: all others will have remained denying his Power to reform them, and in the image of the first Adam— who is fallen— not coming into the Second Adam (Christ) and growing up into his stature.
Stature— importance or reputation gained —by ability or achievement; root definition— Middle English: via Old French from Latin statura, from stare ‘to stand’. The sense— ‘importance’ dates from the mid 19th century.
Stature in Strong’s— maturity (G2244),
Many say we don’t need to ‘do anything,’ Christ did it all; these are greatly, and gravely mistaken and deceived by the antichrist spirit— we need to take him seriously, and obey— we need to come full circle from our rebellion in the garden (symbolically the heart and minding of him), and return to be ruled, schooled, raised and reproved of him— as he raises us up in the way— and then— WE DON’T DEPART FROM IT, or HIM, and his leading of us.
We are to have a living faith, not dead— as faith (or religious belief) without actions, or workings (works) is dead.
We are to be DOERS, not just hearers or readers, DOERS OF THE WORD, he said: that requires action.
Remember…
2 Corinthians 5:10-11
“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to what he has done— whether it be good or bad.
Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord— we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.”
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Are we truly fearing the True God within, and have made him ruler over us in all our ways, trembling before him? For devils do, but man is REBELLIOUS and SEARED in his own leading.
The terror of the Lord it says above— that is holy reverence for the one that holds all lives in his hand, according to his judgment.
I trust we see the seriousness of giving God a TRUE (pure) and WHOLE HEART??
We will become mature one way or the other in Christ Jesus, for he has a work to finish in us; either willingly being refined through the strongest of fires— or through great tribulations and shaking our lives up— until we come before him and finally kneel, submitting— not desiring to be our own ‘god’ any longer, but get real with him.
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Romans 14:10-12
“...For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
For it is written— As I live— saith the Lord— every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.”
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The mature manchild, whom the Lord is birthing out right now— has willingly cleansed herself with him, and by him; she made herself ready, she sanctified herself— as he said to, by the CLEANSING OF THE WORD OF TRUTH (meaning— they walked it out, no excuse, and assimilated it, rooted it into their hearts— with him).
She became a disciplined one (not rebellious any longer) under him, was soft and pliable (easy turned about by the reins) in his hands, stopped kicking against his pricks (prodding to change), become reconciled ones unto him [in reconciliation, and in Strong’s reconciled means— to change FULLY ‘mentally, and mutually,’ being DIFFERENT— to conciliate— make compatible (G2644 & G1259)], and were no longer estranged, nor noncommittal: they were SOLD OUT, RESOLUTE, and FULLY COMMITTED TO THE HAND, HEART and WILL OF THEIR LORD GOD.
These are his first fruits of, and in Christ Jesus— and these will assist God in the last days in ‘pulling others out of the fire.’
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Jude 1:23
“And others save with fear— pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.”
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We will be bound up by satan, and the carnal nature— until we grow up in Christ— and cease to be babes on the milk of the word— and choose to grow up into the meat of the word, and thereby, mature in Christ.
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Ephesians 4:13-15
“Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God— unto a perfect [whole and complete in labor of growth, mental and moral— of full age] man— unto the measure [portion and degree] of the stature [maturity] of the fullness [completion that fills— what is filled in the container, and performance] of Christ:
We, henceforth be children no more— (that are) tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine [instructions of teaching], by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive— BUT SPEAKING THE TRUTH, IN LOVE— (that we) may grow up [enlarge and increase] into [set at one again throughout] him— in all things— who is the head [one who seizes and takes hold of]— Christ.”
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Is he literally the head or principle one over you?
Every man will face this now, or at the judgment seat of Christ; but every knee will bow and confess the truth.
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“For those that have spiritual eyes— that see, and spiritual ears— that do hear,” he said; “See and hear what the word of the Lord is showing and saying.”
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Malachi 2:13-15
“And this have you done again— covering the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and with crying out— insomuch that he does not regard the offering anymore, or receives it with good will— at your hand.
Yet you say, Wherefore (or why)?
Because the Lord has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously: yet she is your companion— and the wife of your covenant.
And did not he make you one? Yet he had the residue of the spirit. And wherefore (why) one?
That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.”
[Is he the bridegroom, and are we dealing treacherously with him,
or honoring him? He honors his wife and bride:
honor matters in covenant.]
1 Thessalonians 4:3-5, 7-8
“For this is the will of God— your sanctification [purity and purification]— that you should abstain from fornication [harlotry, adultery, idolatry]:
That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor— Not in the lust of concupiscence [forbidden longings], as the Gentiles —who know not God.
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For God has not called us unto uncleanness [impurity morally]— but unto holiness [purification, purity, sanctification].
He therefore who despises (holiness, purity), despises not man— but God, who has also given unto us— his holy [sacred, pure, blameless, consecrated, saintly] Spirit.”
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The undisciplined, the rebellious, the stiff necked and hard hearted— will not acquiesce to the Lord, or have another Lord in their lives— but remain stubbornly serving self, unto their own hurt.
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Psalm 15:4
“He who swears to his own hurt— does not change.”
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He who is STAUNCH and does not change (that mutual change needed in reconciled’s definition) —is promising, swearing— to his own hurt, in the end.
Those willing to return to the Lord, literally SPIRITUALLY SPEAKING (as we are truly spirit beings, not dirt beings)— will walk out the New Creation found only in living as one with Christ Jesus; no longer this man will fight against him— but will willingly submit, and commit his life into his hands— truly being bought with the purchase, paid for— by his blood.
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John 6:53-56
“Then Jesus said unto them— Verily, verily, I say unto you— Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood— you have no life in you.
Whoso eats my flesh, and drinks my blood— has eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
For my flesh is meat (meat of the word, not milk) indeed, and my blood is drink (figuratively, spiritually and symbolically speaking— living waters that bring life) indeed.
He that eats my flesh (meat of the word), and drinks my blood (the new wine that flows within— his blood— the life source that creates an entirely NEW PERSON, the old/former being done away with)— dwells in me, and I in him.”
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Mature ones— are doing this now; they are coming to him in sincerity and truth as his scripture stated in Joshua 24:14, and they are not denying his power to reform them into the New Creation— but bowing to his sovereign rule over all things (and his full capability to change them) in his Almightiness— as well as his POWER.
“Now, therefore, fear the Lord and serve Him in sincerity and truth; and put away the gods (idols) which your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt (in bondage, not free)— and serve the Lord.”
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2 Corinthians 10:5-6
“Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God (he’s attempting to train us up) and bringing into captivity every thought —to the obedience of Christ;
And having, in a readiness to revenge— all disobedience— when your obedience is fulfilled.”
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The mature manchild company— will be, and are those— who are fully matured in Christ; they died to everything, and everyone else (not following ‘man’ counselors, but have returned to being led of the Spirit of God: the idols of men, of little ‘gods’ —namely self leadership and reasoning, and are led now fully— by the Spirit of the Father, as like Christ— their brother who went ahead of them, first.
The brother who is the first born of many brethren who said to follow him; FOLLOW ME (that’s follow his lead— or follow what he did, AND by his lead now).
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John 10:27
“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.”
John 10:5
“And a stranger they will not follow— but will flee from him...”
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The Mature in Christ— are fleeing from every other form of godliness that denies the power to reform them (no excuses because they walk with the living God spiritually)— and every other voice that is not the Lord God holy himself: they are obedient children who love him in the way he said to: in obedience.
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John 14:15-17
“If you love me— keep my commandments.
And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter— that he may abide with you forever— the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive (the carnal), because it sees him not (won’t live spiritually from the unseen God leading them), neither knows him: but you know him— for he dwells with you, and shall be in you.”
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These are allowing the Spirit of God to reform them first,
reconcile them— and then lead them in all their ways: who follow the ancient paths of righteousness— and their obedience— is counted unto them as righteousness.
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Acts 15:16
“After this I will return and build the tabernacle of David— which has fallen down; and I will build against the ruins [that in which was destroyed] thereof— and I will set it up [straighten it up, make it straight]: that residue of men might seek after [investigate, search him out, worship and enquire diligently] the Lord.”
WITNESSES
There is a reason why he will manifest through us, and it’s unto the world— in his last attempts to reconcile the lost unto himself, as he has reconciled the world unto himself; he manifests himself in the earth once again, through his children— who have gone through the metamorphosis, being reconciled— mutually changed; who have abstained from the pollution of idols.
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