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How Big Is Your Chair:Prophetic Insight Nov.09

Charisma Magazine

My comments to the Revelation are as follows: Though angelic activity is part of the Christian experience, there is a exhortation which the apostle Paul says: 

COLOSSIANS 2:18Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, INTRUDING into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

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There are some that deny angels and there are those that accept the biblical fact of their presence and history. My point is not the proof of them but discerning testimonies about them.
When the Lord gives direction to the church it will be first given through His sanctified steward and then so preached to the Body seen in Revelation 1:1. 

Other confirming revelations will be forth coming in confirmation of that record as we see in the functioning of God’s government in Acts 15:32. 

It is because of His grace that our faith remains tethered to the Godhead by this Spiritual communion.  

EPHESIANS 3:10To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places MIGHT BE KNOWN BY THE CHURCH the manifold wisdom of God, 

And again Peter says: 

1PETER 1:12Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things THE ANGELS DESIRE TO LOOK INTO. 

The grace of God will not work with false knowledge, or the imagination of man, it works in the covenant for your salvation to be worked out through the activity of the Christian priesthood after Melchisedec. 

Having said this we can examine the exhortation: “HOW BIG IS YOUR CHAIR”. 

The writer says:
Several weeks ago I (Mahesh) was sitting in my library when I suddenly heard a noise behind me. I turned and saw an angel right there. He was young-looking, majestic, awesome, and full of strength, joy, and vigor. He was smiling, but there was the fragrance and atmosphere of battle all around him. He was a warring angel, and he had just come from battle.

I had the impression that I was not his assignment. He was literally coming from one battle and heading off to another one. But in between he landed momentarily, looked at me, smiled and asked, “How big is your chair?” Then, just as suddenly as he appeared, he departed. END

2TIMOTHY 3:16
 ALL SCRIPTURE is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

1. Will this revelation give direction to the Church?
2. Does it bring correction?
3. It is a new doctrine?
4. Is there reproof?
5. What is expected of the Body, and how is this applied to your faith?
6.  Is this a token for my covenant priesthood?

This minister’s experience is a perfect example of lack of Apostolic Governance. There is no counsel of the Spirit, but you can see how he is drawing upon his imagination those things which his flesh desires.  Man is ever looking for the secret to conquer his fears. The reflection is reminiscent of history and presents challenges to the Church, but is absent of the needed grace to build the house of God.

Here is where the anointing is needed for the craftsmanship of the faith to be made perfect in the heart and the activity of the priesthood.

But this angelic testimony does not draw from the anointing and is a good example of an undiscerning sound.

1CORINTHIANS 14:7
 And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a DISTINCTION in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

Paul points out that there must be “distinction in the sounds” for faith in the priesthood to be perfect. The true steward speaks the word and the Body walks in rhythm by charity being of one mind and by one mouth glorifying God.

In this angelic testimony we see a perfect example of the destruction caused by open stewardship, where every man or woman carries his own stone and builds a ministry/shrine in their own name.

Many step forward with a revelation and claim apostolic stewardship. But under that kind of ministry the saints are left naked, wandering around wondering, “Ok, what do I do with this.”

The experience of this man is a good example of how the church drifted during the 6^th week when pastors ruled the body in place of apostles. No Stewardship, no direction, no building of the House of God, but a uncertain sound perhaps to again entertain those lost to His grace. Galatians 5:4. The true knowledge of God is closed to them for they are ever seeking the flattery of the imagination.

EZEKIEL 33:32 And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a PLEASANT voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.

Be not unwise, but understanding what is the will of the Lord. To give credibility to him.

In His Grace

Apostle Eric

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The Main SIGN Of The Apostasy And It Is Here

That is what Paul said in;

 Hebrews 10:27-28

 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
A fearful judgement awaits those that despise government as Paul writes, using Moses as a warning to those of his time as so today. Many will fall into perdition called the great apostasy.

 2 THESSALONIANS 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;

 
One of the main signs of our time is this mindset of the FRS. The house of Baal refuses to abandon their riotousness towards dignities of the faith.

 2 PETER 2:10

 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of DIGNITIES;

This is because of false knowledge that rules the untamed soul.

 
2 PETER 2:13

 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to RIOT in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

These being absent of any covenant priesthood replaced their faith with the fair words of  FABLES  and viewing truth in Christ as being narrow minded and burdensome. But these will take to task themselves with study to discover truth claiming revelation for their logic of the precept.

2TIMOTHY 4:4

And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be TURNED unto fables.

2TIMOTHY 3:7
 EVER LEARNING, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Truth is not discovered; it is revealed by the Spirit through the sanctified stewardship.

In His Grace

Apostle Eric

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Throw those old books away!
In response to this writer;
Writer says;

“I am reading a powerful book by Charles and Frances Hunter called How to Heal the Sick. Yes the book refers to healing the sick but the principles that they are discussing apply to more than that.In Mark 11:23 it says ,” For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall SAY unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he SAITH.”

Let us see if the apostle Paul agrees with Charles and Frances.

PHILIPPIANS 2:26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been SICK.27 For indeed he was SICK nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

And again in Timothy, Paul writes;

2 TIMOTHY 4:20 Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum SICK.

Paul must have forgotten his healing handkerchief. Now what about Peter’s approach to this problem . Was it imitation or faith?
1 CORINTHIANS 12:11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as He will.

Peter learned to work with the Spirit listening to Jesus’s instruction;
JOHN 8: 38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father.

Not seeking a formula or ritually speaking.
ACTS 19:12 So that from his body were brought unto the sick HANDKERCHIEFS or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.

Or maybe it was a cloudy day for healing shadows.
ACTS 5:15  Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the SHADOW of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.

The apostles never taught ‘ EVENT THEOLOGY’ where they would copy or imitate biblical events to establish a witness of their beliefs. Jesus discerned that as the spirit of this world.
LUKE 9:54 And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? 55 But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of SPIRIT YE ARE OF.

During the time of darkness in the church, being absent of apostolic governance, and when the pastoral leadership ruled in place of true apostles many people took it upon themselves to publish doctrine for the church. Because the covenant priesthood was not understood nor functioning in the assemblies it was replaced with talents , the prophetic, tithing, and healing books as well as numerous inspirationals.
But none of these ministers were chosen by God to the apostles calling with the evidence of that grace equal to those of the first century.
It was during this time that the popularity of the ‘prosperity message’ grew and many HOW-TO books were written which included those mentioned herein.
There was a race for printing these kind of doctrines that caused much confusion and more books were written to untie and rebuild the theories of HOW-TOs.
Paul warned of these kind of pursuits to Timothy as those here;
2TIMOTHY3:7  EVER LEARNING, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

But FABLES were popular and still is because there was no responsibility to covenant stewardship nor to the priesthood of Jesus Christ, and the church suffered under false knowledge and many more became sickly and died.
Truth does not hypnotized with promises but subdues the boasting of the aspirations which the world confirms as good but God calls it evil. Satan plunders by promise, but God builds the soul through the covenant priesthood.
Writer says;

“There is a big difference between saying and praying! When you say, you are commanding. The Bible teaches that you are to speak with authority at all times if you want to see miracles happen. When you pray you are asking God to do something. When you SAY, YOU are commanding something to do happen. Is there something going on in your life that needs change and you have prayed already? Now it is time to speak to that situation. I have a friend that has a baby who is breach. Today I told her that now she needs to speak to her child and tell him that he is going to turn his little head to the birth canal, NOW, in the name of Jesus. That child already knows her voice! She needs to speak to that situation and believe! “

The healing of the soul and all the promises of God are IN HIM, meaning this, that the covenant of Jesus Christ provides the direct fellowship you seek for in your sanctified priesthood which is joined to the Godhead. Then this SEAL will provide the foundation for your faith to be made perfect, and you will experience the fullness of God apart from all the spiritual gimmicks the False Religious System provides for YOUR imagination to predict outcome by.
2 CORINTHIANS 10:5 CASTING DOWN IMAGINATIONS,and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

That ‘high thing’ Paul speaks of is the idols of the false knowledge of this world, Satan uses to exhaust the soul and bruise the will blinding the eyes to truth, and vexing with more questions.
TITUS 3:9 But avoid foolish QUESTIONS, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

By coming into the second covenant and walking according to His commandments all these things are made clear and you grow in wisdom and Spiritual understanding building the House of God by the Spirit.
In His grace

Apostle Eric

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“Take Possession Of Your Land!” By Cindy Trimm

Cindy Trimm quotes James Allen saying he,” wrote in his timeless classic As a Man Thinketh, “All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.”

When Christians cannot tell the difference between the Human signature and Covenant Faith, they mix the activity of the soul and its aspirations with the promises of God and take the Name of God in vain.
Solomon said in Ecc.3:10,” I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. He hath made everything beautiful in his time: also he hath set THE WORLD in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.”

The “SIGNATURE” of the soul is the pre-set activity for their common and natural lives which they will follow in something like an old phonograph record where the needle follows the grooves. So also the soul follows the inclinations for success in the world and labours for completion and increase.

Paul said, in 1 Cor.2:11” For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the SPIRIT OF MAN WHICH IS IN HIM? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.”
When you are crucified with Christ, then it is the Spirit of God that we glory in and not the boast of man. We put-on the new man by the covenant priesthood looking at those things which are above where Christ sits at the right hand of God.
Paul said in 1 Cor.1:31, “ That according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him GLORY IN THE LORD.”
We are not to covet after the things of this world man, but the power of God in your Christian priesthood.

2 Cor.4:18” While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen.”

Apostolic government guides the saints into Christ’s fullness so that at the coming of the Lord we rejoice with Him for those gifts which are eternal.
These measureless tokens work for us a far more and eternal weight of glory.
2 Cor. 4:17 “ For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and ETERNAL WEIGHT of glory.”
Those of faith take on the true Abrahamic perspective of the heavenly inheritance and not the earthly dominion.
Heb.11:10 “ For he looked for a CITY which hath foundations whose BUILDER and MAKER is God.”
This is the true Christian perspective so that we do not covet after earthly tokens which will drown the soul in perdition.
Be blessed in Him
In His grace
Apostle Eric
Ss: Those that covet after the Spirit will increase in His grace and die to the boasting aspirations of sinners.

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The KEY word is REGENERATION; TITUS 3:5
The suffering of the saint is in connection with regeneration.
Apart from this divine work those that suffer will only endure the pain with no benefits of salvation.
The suffering of the world works death because there is no divine reciprocation taking place in the soul.

The CHASTENING of the Lord is not His wrath. The WICKED suffer His wrath for their idolatry, molding the soul with the aspirations of the world. The righteous suffer the chastening of circumcision for renewing of the mind as a result of regeneration.

Sinners desire God to reward their suffering while God only rewards faith in covenant.

HEBREWS 12:5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the CHASTENING of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

Regeneration is in the work of the saints priesthood where God circumcises the heart by His baptism. Peter said to ADD to your faith, VIRTUE which is the result of His Spiritual baptism.

1 PETER 3:21 The like figure whereunto even BAPTISM doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

 
2 PETER 1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, ADD TO YOUR FAITH virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

And Paul said; circumcision and baptism.

COLOSSIANS 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:

COLOSSIANS 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.

This is the protocol of the priesthood of the believer.

Now Jesus suffered the CONTRADICTION of sinners. When we put-on Christ we endure the longsuffering of the pull of the aspirations of the world and the power of our principle is put to death.

COLOSSIANS 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the RUDIMENTS of the world, and not after Christ.
20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the RUDIMENTS of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

By the power of Christ;
We replace our aspirations of life with FAITH;
We replace our principles of life with TRUTH;
We replace our coveteousness with MODERATION of Fruit.

This is the DIVINE POWER (resurrection of Christ) which we put-on through the covenant priesthood not of man but of God.

HEBREWS 12:3 For consider him that endured such CONTRADICTION of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

By the effectual working of the Spirit our perception of life changes so we won’t faint in our minds or lose the SEAL of Christ. For the PEACE of God assists us through the transition from darkness to His Light. This is the true term for salvation.

Be blessed in Him

In His grace

Apostle Eric

ss: The fountains of life pour through the lips of the righteous springing up from the soul filled of His Word 

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Every epistle is written from the position of the calling and grace of the apostles stewardship which God gave them for the Church.
When the epistle is studied outside of that oversight then the understanding will rest in the prejudice of the reader.

Discernment is given to the Church through the sanctified stewardship, which the Spirit of the Lord will confirm.
Discernment is not left up to the prudence of each individual or group as each determines right from wrong by their own studies.

Notice that those whom Paul was addressing were under his present stewardship, as also the Apostle John mentioned.

The “ANOINTING” is not suspicion nor is it found in ambiguity.

Paul said in 1 CORINTHIANS 14:7 And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is PIPED OR HARPED?

This shows that the apostles stewardship defines  the doctrine and the priesthood of the believer confirms the sound.

The ANOINTING is through living apostles for the saints to measure truth by. Jesus said the same thing when He identified Himself as the TRUTH and not the letter of the law. For the apostles measured His words by the grace of His calling, but the Pharisees used the precept of the law. They plundered the hearts of the people by the letter, while Jesus built His kingdom by the Spirit.

The Spirit was given to each for the profit of all to build the House of God by the Spirit. Now this comes through the callings and priesthood.

Many are trying to weigh truth on their own scales of the moral code. Satan (a false imitator of God) then enters the results which is to oppose anything that is strange or different than previous religious instructions. Satan will always stay within the boundries of ones prejudice to avoid detection. But he will also set personal challenges to cancel the guilt in the conscience and to justify the journey of good will with promises.

1John2:26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.

The “THEM” are those outside of His government stewardship. Paul calls them ‘unconverted believers’.
ACTS 21:20 And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which BELIEVE; and they are all ZEALOUS OF THE LAW: 

This is what Jesus warned his apostles about, that the Pharisees were the religious eyes for the people, and used the KEY of office to aspire to the goals of their own religious aspirations. The blind are leading the blind.

1 JOHN 2:27 BUT THE ANOINTING which ye have received of him abideth in you, (those instructed by an apostle) and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie,(is not the record of man) and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. (by the priesthood of Jesus Christ)

Seduction comes from those not understanding what the will of the Lord is, and for not having the foundation of truth laid in the heart by God’s stewardship. We must accept Isaiah’s testimony. He was the steward in his time.

Isaiah had his own prophets school and spoke in defence of his calling and stewardship; saying we are those signs which God has sent to Israel to help her see God’s direction for them. He confirms the temple in Zion AND the covenant given by God to Moses. He was not acting as a “religious maverick“preaching his own interpretations of the Torah, as we see many of today are trying to imitate called ‘Event Theology’.

Read Isaiah’s testimony:

Isaiah 8:18
Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not ACCORDING TO THIS WORD, it is because there is no light in them.

The “WORD” is that which God revealed to him for the direction of Israel.
But those religious leaders of his time listened to only those prophets which prophecied words in regard to solving their personal issues and problems. Same today in the false prophetic movement.

They speaking by the spirit of the world seek to turn God’s people from the covenant to function in the failing system of their religion and receive the wrath of God.

Many false prophets say good things, as Balaam, Saul, and Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah. Notice that ‘discernment’ was not the vessel but the words. Even the Beast in Revelation 13 will quote from the Bible and confirm the temple (not the covenant of Christ).

NUMBERS 24
1Samuel 10
2 CHRONICLES 18
1 KINGS 13

DEUTERONOMY 13:1 If there arise among you a PROPHET, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that PROPHET, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. (in Covenant not outside of it)

Notice that  in 1 KINGS 13 an old prophet used certain knowledge to misquide a true prophet. Where was his discernment?
Was it the man, or the words? Neither!

Read his testimony
11 Now there dwelt an OLD PROPHET in Bethel; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father.
25 And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where the OLD PROPHET dwelt.

29 And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the OLD PROPHET came to the city, to mourn and to bury him.

Look at the carnel minded discernment of the Pharisee named Gamaliel in Acts 5:34. Many christians will follow this pattern and will error in judgment. Because it is in the Bible they think it is a safe practice. Sounds Berean doesnt?

Without the true eyes of sanctified stewardship the Church is wandering into many snares of Satan. True discernment is what the Spirit speaks through His government and confirms. Not the floating revelations which carry the soul away with the currents of the prince of this world.

And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:
But if it BE OF GOD, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.

Only the Spirit of God can open the eyes of your understanding. When the temple was built in Solomon’s days there was great rejoicing.
 
So when the House of God is completed today, the saints will shout for joy.

Those under Satans spell will refuse the Light, Gal.3:1, for God is seperating the Tares from the Wheat at this ‘Hour of Temptation’.

Christian Pharisees, (those of tradition) desire the old wine skins to the Sweetness of His truth.
As the Jesus said, “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.”

Be blessed  in His grace.
The face of Christ is seen in the stewardship of His grace and the manifold wisdom of God. Our Father’s visitation of His people confirming these things is also a manifestation of His grace witnessed by angels and men.

Prepare your heart to receive His grace.

In His grace

Apostle Eric

ss:
Sinners yoke themselves with carnal things and so quench the Spirit of God, but the righteous dine at the table of the Lord building His House

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Recently I read a rather disturbing article in Charisma magazine that focused again on the stuggle of women in the Church to find their identify in Christ. Here again the Church was reduced to a social club where women are called upon to act like politicians rather than elders of the Church.

I posted this comment in response:

Here is another example of gross error that is being introduced to the Church through Pastoral Governance. Not understanding the functions of the 2nd Covenant priesthood, the knowledge of faith is now used to find a “ministry” for ‘gender’. The Priesthood of the believer is neither male nor female, in Christ Jesus.

When the Church accepts Apostolic governance then God will restore understanding and virtue to His people.

In addition to this thought…

When a ministry is separated from the Godhead it takes on its own personality and temperament instead of the likeness of Christ. This is seen in the fashion of the delivery and style. A search is made in the scriptures for doctrines that address the issues. But the challenging goals will always fail in lasting results, and so is the loop of death unto death.

About every 10 to 20 years Satan re-introduces these topics for the Church to discuss and resolve and another round of books are then published addressing health, wealth and well-being.

Paul warned of these philosophies which become traditions of men, and then used as a fulcrum for discernment, which when challenged by truth will adamantly resist shielding their envy and bitterness behind slogans as ‘contending for the faith’.
These things are Satan’s wiles to keep the Church unproductive in eternal things.

Apostle Eric
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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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