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The apostle Paul LISTED all the tools of the armour of your holy priesthood, but forgot to mention the BIBLE. Noticed he listed first TRUTH.
So TRUTH listed first helps us understand the importance of sanctified stewardship to lay that foundation in the heart for the other elements to be defined and used with the skills of a well trained soldier.

1.TRUTH: one must be instructed in this element first by a competent elder. Truth doesn’t come by personal study.
2.RIGHTEOUSNESS: regarding the condition of the conscience.
3.GOSPEL OF PEACE: putting order in your understanding of labour for His rest.
4.FAITH: the daily exercise of your priesthood with the sanctified tokens.
5.SALVATION: the work of regeneration in the soul, and circumcision of the heart.
6.WORD OF GOD: the divine knowledge which is packaged in His grace is a power/gift of reward.
7.PRAYER: central activity of Spiritual fellowship and exchange which removes the vail for us to behold the face of God.

AND by ALL these things we overcome Satan, OURSELF, and THE WORLD. Nothing of THE LAW of Moses is mentioned.

The RULES of our faith are not designed by spontaneous passions or the slighteous inclinations which is impressed on the mind, but the Spirit of God prepared these things (TOOLS:Gov;truth;Spirit/gifts) with our sanctification in mind.

Can a person be saved apart from these things, No!
That person is bringing God down to the level of their ignorance for fellowship, and we can not serve God in ignorance as Peter said;
1 PETER 1:14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your IGNORANCE:
And the apostle Paul said;
1 CORINTHIANS 12:1 As concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you IGNORANT.

Eph. 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
11. PUT ON THE WHOLE ARMOUR of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
13. Wherefore take unto you the WHOLE ARMOUR OF GOD, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
15. And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
16. Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
17. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
18. Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

Think on these things.

In His grace

Apostle Eric

ss: The gift that brings salvation is not of man nor by man, but by the Spirit of God.

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 When the saints cannot distinguish between the voice of the signature and the Voice of the Lord, they lump together the knowledge of God and their religious prejudice into their own brew of doctrine. This mind-set will disagree with the Spirit of God, and they will wrestle the heart into a form of agreement with the conscience.

Because the conscience is defiled by Satan’s wiles, it stands as its own testimony not carrying the true memorial of Christ in the Divine Power. Now their whole goal of salvation is to keep a balance between the soul and the spirit by will-worship and good works of the carnal nature.

COLOSSIANS 2
23 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in WILL WORSHIP, and humility, and neglecting of the body: not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.

By will-worship the conscience is bent by the WILL for approval, and confirmation, by the honor of man.  This desire and projection of the imagination becomes the scales of discernment and the consent of the principle adds additional weight for justification. The Law of Moses is used to measure the motives in the heart (self-examination) in place of grace and truth. Sinners are always repenting because of this conflict in the heart, and to resolve this for peace and rest.

ROMANS 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;)

Paul brings to our attention another ELEMENT called the WORD OF God being the Divine knowledge for faith, which gives Witness only to Christ, as Jesus said “another Comforter” will assist the transition of the soul and circumcise the heart. The work will not stand independant of His Record. Unconverted believers will claim the testimony of God and yet stand against the Record of God. Jesus knew that many will profess Him out of their own imagination of Him, professing themselves to be wise and yet defiled in the conscience.Titus 1:15-16

JOHN 16
13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he SHALL NOT SPEAK OF HIMSELF; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

JOHN 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:

God will not give His glory to another, as the prophet Isaiah said; Which means the Lord will not confirm the idols of the imagination.

The Holy Ghost wil not confirm the aspirations of man as righteousness, but those that are not of faith have to create their own witness, which is of man.

HEBREWS 4
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of SOUL AND SPIRIT, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Truth lays the heart open for discernment, which is seen in the temperament; as Paul writes about in GALATIANS 5:22
Be blessed

In His grace

Apostle Eric

ss: The Voice of the Lord carries the Word of God to the heart for to tether the soul to the Throne of God.

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The purpose of this article is to discuss why the Berean Method of scripture interpretation falls short of God’s expectations. When the study of scriptures is weighed on tradition for equity, then the preaching of that knowledge becomes a prejudice of thought in the minds of the unlearned, which when challenged by TRUTH, is defended as the token truth of that denomination.

Every religious system claims some kind of divine valid token of being real. This is seen in the claiming of these things;
1. Answer to prayer
2. healing
3. deliverance
4. angelic visitation
5. Dream
6. Vision

God in His compassion authorizes the joy of these things to all His creatures, but the creatures themselves, for the purpose of this, bring the visitation into the realm of a boast, not understanding the True source of Christ is to draw the soul into repentance for to begin the transformation of the soul.

These manifestations are sent to the vessel for to tutor and tether the soul by His word.

Matthew 7:20 -24

20. herefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have CAST OUT DEVILS? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

FRUITS: being the temperament of the kingdom they are tethered to.
KNOW: able to discern by the TRUTH and the fellowship of knowledge
THE WILL: the assigned task of the Throne by covenant
NAME: authorized kingdom and sanctified title of Jesus Christ
WONDERFUL WORKS: an activity that fills the aspirations and brings false equity and false piety
BUILT: as a form of labor that is either self-referencing or glorifying the value of His virtue in you
HOUSE: either that of Satan (treasures of the flesh), or that of Christ, (treasures of His powers)

The Berean Method is self-referencing, because the substance of the knowledge is not born of the anointing, but formed by the logic and study of doctrine. Jesus made to His apostles the distinction of both, that of the anointing and that of the letter. The church needs apostles today to reference the church to God.

MATTHEW 16:6,11-12
6 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and BEWARE OF THE LEAVEN of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
11 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should BEWARE OF THE LEAVEN of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
12 Then understood they how that he bade them not BEWARE OF THE LEAVEN of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

When there are no living apostles guiding the church in doctrine today as in the early church, believers fall into the same state as Israel without the light of God. The Pharisees had the Torah and the other ancient writings for themselves to decide what is TRUTH. But couldn’t see the Face of Truth Himself. False doctrine marrs the image of God in the soul so that His visage is not recognizable. Only grace can wipe the blood of offence away.

2 CORINTHIANS 3
13 And not as Moses, which put a VAIL over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same VAIL untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which VAIL is done away in Christ.
15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the VAIL is upon their heart.
16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the VAIL shall be taken away.

Be Blessed

In His grace

Apostle Eric

ss: The wisdom of God directs the heart to build His House and to prepare His table

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What God has provide for us for the Fulness of Christ to manifest; He gave of Himself in a form of a covenant.

2 CORINTHIANS 5:19 To wit, that God was in Christ, RECONCILING the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

The apostles communicated this Word of Salvation in a form of preaching. This reveals a tethering to the Steward which is joined to Christ who is in the Father’s Bosom. If you honor the knowledge of the Stewardship in the reciprocation of sacrifices in the priesthood, this honors the Father that sanctificed it and glorifies the Son, which provided this union of faith in the blood of His covenant.

In His grace

Apostle Eric

ss: To run the race lawfully, those of faith observe the law of grace and remain within the boundries of the testament of Christ

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