Beloved, dear and esteemed brethren worldwide:
I have written to you all these past two plus years, not because you KNOW the TRUTH, but because you DO NOT know the TRUTH.
Therefore brethren: if you would be so inclined today…Bow down your ear and HEAR these words and apply your HEART to my knowledge:
PURE RELIGION and pure religious discipline has NO PART unclean.
And therefore is a PURE system of moral principles completely absent of all corrupt desires and is entirely FREE from every admixture of what is FALSE.
Therefore, on account of this: It is PURE RELIGION that should be governing our conduct individually and together in unity as a family in Lord Jesus.
All teachers among you that are widely believed to be RELIGIOUS in another’s opinion, that he is a worshipper of God in his position of leadership, and influences the ways of others with his lips, yet absolutely DOES NOT hold back his tongue and control his speech…this man is destitute of truth, beguiling and deceiving his own HEART.
(Proverb 12:20)
Deceit and betrayal is in THE HEART of them that imagine evil:
The HEART is the seat of our spiritual life, understanding and intelligence. NOT the tongue.
The HEART is the fountain of our thoughts, passions, desires, appetites, affections, purposes and endeavors. NOT our minds.
Therefore: being of this man’s type of religious worship, which is EXTERNAL ONLY and consists of divisions, ceremonies, rituals, customs and traditions, is completely lacking TRUTH and is USELESS, for it absolutely DOES NOT bring forth fruit of God in righteousness.
Let us NOT love in word brethren, neither in tongue; but in ACTION and in TRUTH.
(Genesis 6:5)
GOD saw that the evil wicked THOUGHTS of man was exceedingly great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of HIS HEART was only evil and wicked continually.
Take heed and turn YOUR THOUGHTS to consider this brethren:
Whether there is unbelief in ANY OF YOU because of a corrupt HEART lacking the word of TRUTH.
And for this reason: possessing weakness in your faithfulness to God.
For PURE RELIGION is sincere, genuine, blameless, innocent and UNSTAINED with the guilt of anything.
Clean and pure religious discipline is undefiled in the presence of Lord Jesus and in the presence of GOD the Father.
THIS TRUE SYSTEM of moral principles is NOT centered around INDIVIDUALS.
Nay, rather: providing for the POOR that are lacking in spiritual truth as well as those that are POOR in necessities.
THIS TRUE SYSTEM of moral principles provides and cares for the AFFLICTED and looks after the sick and has NO ceremonies or rituals, rather, love feasts.
Therefore encourage and strengthen one another each and every day, while it is called THIS VERY DAY and apply your HEART towards this brethren:
That you HINDER your thoughts from stubbornly adhering to the worlds OPINIONS that are driven by the DECEITFULNESS of sin.
(Jeremiah 17:9-10)
THE HEART is slowly and subtly HARMFUL and DECEITFUL above all things, and desperately wicked:
Who can know it?
I the Lord examines and searches through THE HEART, I test and try the reins, even to give every man according to the ways of his moral character, and according to the offspring of his labor and actions.
Pure religion and religious discipline attends carefully to take care of, guard and keep itself COMPLETLELY spotless from THE WORLD outside of itself.
And as a result, is completely FREE from official condemnation of others, irreproachable and is ABSENT of all immoral habits.
For we are all made partners of one another in the work and office of Christ, IF ALTOGETHER, we hold firm the origin and the beginning foundation of our confidence with unwavering loyalty to THE END.
This is the RELIGION of Lord Jesus Christ!
And within, is the righteousness of God revealed, for the JUST shall LIVE by FAITH.
FAITH is the EVIDENCE of things NOT SEEN.
The things which ARE SEEN were NOT MADE of things which DO APPEAR.
BEHOLD and witness with your eyes:
The following is that which is SEEN.
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and ending, the first and the last: said the Lord.
Here after is that which is UNSEEN. The absolute meaning of the word of God.
I am (a) the first letter of the Greek alphabet and (omega) the last letter of the Greek alphabet, (arche) the origin of that which commences and (telos) the termination by which that is finished, (protos) the first in time and place, even (eschatos) the last in time and in a series of places.
There is nothing HID, that shall not be made manifest; neither was anything KEPT SECRET, that shall not be KNOWN and come abroad.
If our gospel be HIDDEN, it is HID to them that are LOST.
And if we are lost brethren, then we abide in DARKNESS.
And if we are blind in the NIGHT SEASON, then we are spiritually dead.
And if we are spiritually dead, then our absolute fullness of life is HID with Christ in God.
And Christ is the GREEK alphabet.
Whosoever commits sin TRANSGRESSES also the law of Christ,
For sin is the TRANSGRESSION of the law.
Whosoever TRANSGRESSES and abides NOT in the doctrine of Christ: absolutely DOES NOT have God.
He that abides in THE DOCTRINE of Christ has both the FATHER and the SON!
BEHOLD and witness with your eyes the SOUND DOCTRINE of Alpha and Omega.
(Ephesians 4:17-21)
This thing I (Paul) testify accordingly and declare solemnly in the Lord:
That you (meketi) absolutely NO LONGER (peripateo) regulate your lives in the degree that (loipoy) the rest of the Gentiles who do not worship the true God (peripateo) conduct themselves.
For they make due use of their opportunities through (mataiotes) the falsifications of their minds.
(dianoia) Having their understanding, desires and THOUGHTS (skotizo) covered with darkness, being alienated (zoe) from the absolute fullness of life, both essential and ethical, which belongs to God;
This is because of (agnoia) a lack of knowledge in divine things and moral blindness that is in them through (porosis) the stubbornness of their HEARTS:
Who (apalgeo) have become callous with their emotions and have betrayed their own selves to commit (aselgeia) grossly shocking and very offensive sexual desires towards the performance of all (akatharsia) impure motives of lust, indulging in luxury and extravagantly wasteful living, with (pleonexia) a greedy desire to have more and an unreasonably strong desire to obtain and keep MONEY.
But you have absolutely NOT (houto) in this manner learned Christ.
If so be that you have HEARD him and have been TAUGHT by him, as (aletheia) moral and religious truth is in Jesus.
(Mark 7:14-23)
When Lord Jesus called to himself all the people he said to them:
HEAR ME everyone of you and (suniemi) join together in the mind and understand:
There is (oudeis) NOTHING outward from a man, that (eisporeuomai) entering as food into the mouth into him, that is (dunamai) CAPABLE of making him unclean and defiling him:
Nay, rather (ekporeuomai) the things that project from the mouth of him, those are what makes him unclean and defiles the man.
If any man have ears to HEAR, let him HEAR.
And when Lord Jesus entered into a house away from (ochlos) the crowd of common people, his disciples (pupils) asked him concerning the parable.
And he taught them saying: Are you (houto) in this manner (asunetos) unintelligent and without understanding also?
Do you absolutely not (noeo) perceive in the mind to have understanding, that ALL THINGS outward that enters as food into the mouth of a man, absolutely cannot be capable of making a man unclean or defiling him?
Since it does not enter into his HEART, rather it enters into his stomach and departs into (aphedron) the place where human waste discharges are dumped (katharizo) making clean everything (broma) that which is eaten as food.
Furthermore he taught saying: That which projects from the mouth by a man, that makes him unclean and defiles him.
For from (esothen) within your SOUL, out of the HEART of men and proceeding from the mouth (kakos) are troublesome, malicious and destructive THOUGHTS, (moicheia) adultery, (porneia) fornications, homosexuality, bestiality, the worship of idols, and the defilement of idolatry as incurred by eating the sacrifices offered to idols, (phonos) murders and slaughters (klope) thefts (pleonexia) greedy desire to have more, covetousness and an unreasonably strong desire to obtain and keep money (poneria) depravity, iniquity, wickedness, malice, evil purposes and desires (dolos) craft, deceit and guile (aselgeia) unbridled lust, excess, licentiousness, lasciviousness, wantonness, outrageousness, shamelessness and insolence (ophthalmos) evil eyes of the mind i.e. faculty of knowing (blasphemia) slander, detraction, impious and reproachful speech injurious to divine majesty (huperephania) pride, haughtiness, arrogance: the character of one who, with a swollen estimate of his own powers or merits, looks down on others and even treats them with insolence and contempt (aphrosune) foolishness, folly, senselessness, thoughtlessness and recklessness:
All these evil things come from within the SOUL and make a man unclean and defiles him.
(Matthew 12:34-37)
O generation (echidna) of cunning, malignant and wicked men, (pos) how and in what way, are you
(dunamai) capable of a state of mind, being (poneros) evil, diseased and blind, to speak (agathos) out of a good constitution and nature?
For out of (perisseuma) that which is left over and remains of the HEART does the mouth speak, since the thoughts of a man's soul find verbal utterance by his mouth.
(agathos) An upright and honourable man, out of the good (thesauros) storehouse of collected treasures in the HEART (ekballo) draws out useful, salutary, good, pleasant, agreeable, joyful and happy things.
And an evil, diseased and blind man, out of the evil, wicked and bad storehouse of collected treasures, draws out evil things.
But I maintain to teach and speak out to you:
That every WORD (argos
For out of your WORDS you (dikaioo) will be rendered RIGHTEOUS:
And out of your WORDS you will be pronounced GUILTY and CONDEMNED.
(James 5:19-20)
Brethren, if any with you (planao) is led away by deception and falls away from the TRUTH into error and sin, and a (tis) certain one coverts him back;
Let him know, that (epistrepho) bringing back a sinner (plane) from the road which leads him to commit error, will save and rescue a soul from death and shall cover a great number of sins.
(Acts 15:1-30)
There were certain men that came down from Judaea (katerchomai) to hold discourse with others in order to instruct and teach the brethren in Christ saying:
That unless you are circumcised in the flesh after the instructions, solemn ceremonies and customs of MOSES, you absolutely CANNOT by custom be SAVED.
(oun) Therefore, these things being so:
Paul and Barnabas made no (oligos) small degree (stasis) of conflict and intensity of struggles (suzetesis) in mutual questionings, debates and discussions with them.
And agreed to go up to Jerusalem
Therefore, accompanying them on the way by the Church, (dierchomai) they traveled the road which leads through Phenice and Samaria
And they caused a (megas) great moment that was highly esteemed for its excellence and an occasion of joy and gladness to all the brethren.
Furthermore, (paraginomai) when they came near and approached Jerusalem, they were received of the Church and by the Apostles and by the elders among the Jews and (anaggello) they announced and made known (hosos) how many great things that God (poieo) carried out and executed with them
But (exanistemi) there rose up in an assembly to speak, certain of the sect of Pharisees (pisteuo) that was entrusted with the task saying:
That (dei) it is a NECESSITY of the law and commandments to circumcise the flesh of both the Jew and the Gentile, and declared it to be commanded that the Gentile observe the law of MOSES.
And in addition: The Apostles and the elders among the Jew (sunago) gathered together to meet (eido) in order to determine what must be done about this ONE matter under discussion.
But (ginomai) there began a large amount (suzetesis) of mutual questioning, debates and discussions, so (anistemi) Peter then rose up and entered the conversation and dispute and said to them:
Men and brethren: (epistamai) You did fix your attention on us and do understand, that from the beginning days that originated out of God, (eklegomai) he picked me out himself from among us;
That the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel and believe.
And God which knows the HEARTS bare them witness and gave them the Holy Ghost, even as he did to us.
And made absolutely no (diakrino) separation or distinction between the Jew and the Gentile, purifying their HEARTS by FAITH.
Now, at this present time therefore:
Why do you TEMPT God, to place a (zugos) yoke of burden and bondage upon the neck of the disciples, that neither our forefathers nor we were able (bastazo) to sustain and uphold?
Why do you TEMPT God, to place a (zugos) yoke of burden and bondage upon the neck of the disciples, that neither our forefathers nor we were able (bastazo) to sustain and uphold?
Nevertheless, (pisteuo) we have been persuaded of and placed our confidence in: that through the grace of Lord Jesus Christ, we will be saved, even as they also.
Then all (plethos) the assembled multitude of people (sigao) kept silent and held their peace and (akouo) turned their attention to Barnabas and Paul, (exegeomai) and declared their teaching of the great number of miracles and (teras) progeny that God had performed with the Gentiles by them.
And after they kept their silence and held their peace: James responded to the topic at hand saying:
Men and brethren, HEAR me.
Men and brethren, HEAR me.
Simeon has declared, how God at the first (episkeptomai) did visit the poor and afflicted of the Gentiles to take out of them a people for his name.
And this one (sumphoneo) agrees together with the words of the prophets: as it is written:
After these I will return and build again the tent and tabernacle of David, which (pipto) is fallen down under judgment and condemnation and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up and build anew.
How that whosoever (kataloipos) is left remaining of men (ekzeteo) might seek out and search for the Lord and all the Gentiles upon whom my name is called by them said the Lord, who doeth all these things.
(gnostos) Known and significant enough to deserve to be recorded by God, are all HIS (ergon) deeds and actions (aion) from the beginning of the world to forever.
On account of this: My judgment is that we absolutely DO NOT (parenochleo) cause the them trouble in any matter to annoy them from which among the Gentiles are turned to worship the true God:
But that we write a letter to command them:
(apechomai) To hold one's self off from, avoid and voluntarily do without:
1) (alisgema) The pollution of idols and condemnation (eidolon) of those images of false heathen gods.
2) (porneia) Adultery, fornication, homosexuality, bestiality, the worship of idols and the defilement of idolatry, as incurred by eating the sacrifices offered to idols.
3) (pniktos) Things suffocated & strangled, i.e. deprived of life without the shedding of blood or smothered.
4) (haima) Blood, refers to the seat of life, of those things that resemble blood i.e. grape juice, blood shed, to be shed by violence, slay, murder.
For MOSES out of ancient time has through out every city them that (kerusso) preach him in the open public and (anaginosko) reading him in the Synagogues through out every sabbath day.
(tote) Then at that time, it seemed good and pleased the Apostles and the elders among the Jew with the whole Church to send chosen men out of themselves to Antioch
Judas surnamed Barsabas and Silas, (hegeomai) chief leaders of the brethren.
(grapho) And they wrote an EPISTLE (dia) for the reason of (cheir) preserving and aiding them as follows:
The Apostles, Elders among the Jew and Brethren send our greeting:
To the Brethren which are out of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia :
(epeide) Seeing that (akouo) we have attended to that certain (exerchomai) which came forth out of us that disturbed and troubled you with words, in order to turn your SOULS away from the RIGHT STATE
That it is necessary for you to be circumcised in the flesh and observe the law of MOSES:
Which we absolutely DID NOT order or command.
(dokeo) It seemed good and pleased us, being assembled (homothumadon) with one mind, one accord and one passion to send chosen men to you with our beloved and esteemed Barnabas and Paul.
Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things by mouth.
For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these NECESSARY things.
(apechomai) To hold one's self off from, avoid and voluntarily do without:
1) (eidolothuton) Meats offered to idols
2) (haima) Blood, refers to the seat of life, of those things that resemble blood i.e. grape juice, blood shed, to be shed by violence, slay, murder.
3) (pniktos) Things suffocated & strangled, i.e. deprived of life without the shedding of blood or smothered.
4) (porneia) Adultery, fornication, homosexuality, bestiality, the worship of idols and the defilement of idolatry, as incurred by eating the sacrifices offered to idols.
From which (diatereo) if you continually and carefully keep yourselves, you will perform well.
Farewell.
So accordingly, when they were dismissed, they came to
(1 Corinthians 8:1-13)
Now concerning (eidolothuton) Meats offered to idols, (eido) we know and understand that everyone has knowledge, which signifies a general intelligence and understanding.
And knowledge (phusioo) causes people to be puffed up and to be PROUD, but (agape) brotherly love, affection, good will, love, benevolence and love feasts (oikodomeo) builds a house up from the foundation.
Moreover, if any man (dokeo) is of the OPINION (eido) that he knows or understands anything, he knows and understands nothing, yet just as (die) there is need of him to know.
But if any man (agapao) dearly love God, this man (ginosko) is acquainted with and known by him.
As concerning then (brosis) eating of the soul's food, which either refreshes the soul, or nourishes and supports it, (eidolothuton) Meat offered to idols, we know and understand that (eidolon) an image and likeness of a heathen god called an idol is nothing in the world, and there is no other God but ONE.
For after all, there is those that are called gods, whether in heaven or in the earth. Just as there is gods many and lords many.
Nay, rather, Yea moreover; to us there is ONE God, the FATHER, out of who are all things, and we are in him; and ONE Lord Jesus Christ, through him is all things, even us who are through him.
Nevertheless, there is NOT with everyone that knowledge and understanding:
Moreover, there are some (suneidesis) with the conscience of the soul as distinguishing between what is morally good and bad, prompting them to do the former and shun the latter, commending one and condemning the other, until this very moment (esthio) eat, devour and consume it even as (eidolothuton) Meats offered to idols.
And their conscience being weak are of those who have not kept themselves pure from the defilements of sin, who have soiled themselves by fornication and adultery and are polluted, stained, contaminated and defiled.
But (broma) that which is eaten as meat, absolutely does NOT (paristemi) present us to God: for neither if (oute) we take it as a food and eat it as a meal (perisseuo) do we remain and exist to be at hand in abundance, neither if we do NOT eat (hustereo) are we left behind in the race and so fail to reach the goal, to fall short of the end.
But (blepo) take heed to carefully examine this, lest somehow by any means, this LIBERTY of yours becomes (proskomma) a stumbling block by which the SOUL is caused to sin (astheneo) to those who are weak, without strength and powerless.
For if any man see you that has (gnosis) a deeper and more perfect knowledge (katakeimai) to lie down with the SICK and eat meat in (eidoleion) an idol's temple which is consecrated to idols, shall not the conscience of him that is weak be established to eat (eidolothuton) Meats offered to idols?
And through your knowledge and understanding shall the weak brother (apollumi) give themselves over to death, for who Christ died?
Moreover, when you sin so against the brethren and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
On this very account, if that which is eaten as food make by brother have a stumbling block or puts an impediment in the way, upon which another may trip and fall, I will eat NO flesh while the world stands, lest I make my brother to be enticed to sin.
(Mark 4:21-29)
Indeed Lord Jesus said:
(meti) Which one of the two (luchnos) a lamp that is placed on a stand or a candle on a candlestick (erchomai) that is brought (hina) in order (tithemi) to be put down under (modios) a bushel of the best wheat: a dry MEASUREMENT holding about a peck (9 litres)
Or under a (kline) a couch to recline on at meals and that which a sick man is carried on and absolutely not in order (epitithemi) to put it on a (luchnia) a lamp stand or candelabrum?
For there is absolutely nothing hidden or concealed (tis) by certain people which (phaneroo) will not be manifested by teaching with words or showed by deeds to be made known.
Neither was anything (apokruphos) stored up in secret, Nay, rather, Yea moreover:
So that it should come (phaneros) to be apparent, evident, known and manifested to be plainly recognised.
If any man have ears to HEAR, let him HEAR.
Then Lord Jesus said to them:
(blepo) Examine to look at carefully and TAKE HEED what you HEAR:
By what (metron) instrument used for MEASURING (metreo) that you measure off to give out to others, it shall be measured to you:
And to you that HEAR, (prostithemi) shall more followers join to gather with you.
For whoever he is that has, to him (didomi) shall be given to his advantage, and he that has not (airo) indeed who they have, shall be taken away from them and carried off by he who has.
And then Lord Jesus said:
So is the KINGDOM OF GOD, as if a man (ballo) will scatter, throw and cast the seed of the WORD of God into the ground:
And (katheudo) should sleep normally and wake up night and day, and the seed of the WORD of God (blastano) should bud and sprout forth new leaves to produce and (mekuno) grow up into twice the plants, he knows not how.
For the earth bears fruit of herself, at first (chortos) the blade of green grass as growing crops (eita) next, the EAR of growing grain, after that (pleres) the soul is thoroughly full and complete, lacking nothing in the EAR.
Moreover, as soon as (karpos) that fruit of his progeny (paradidomi) gives itself up and presents itself to him, immediately (apostello) he orders them to go to a place appointed (drepanon) to be reaped as with a sickle, because (therismos) the harvest of gathering people into the KINGDOM OF GOD has come.
(Matthew 24:45-47)
As spoken by Lord Jesus:
Who then (pistos) trusts in the promises of God and is faithful, even an intelligent and wise (doulos) servant devoted to me to the disregard of his own interests, who his Lord (kathistemi) has appointed him a ruler and administrator over his Lord’s (therapeia) household and body, to give them (trophe) meat to nourish the soul (kairos) in due measure and in due season?
Blessed and happy is that servant, who his Lord when he comes find him so doing.
Sure, truly and of a truth I teach saying to you: His Lord will appoint him ruler over all his possessions.
There is MUCH still to be said to you brethren, concerning these NECESSARY things…so until my next posting...I leave you with these following words of encouragement:
The KINGDOM OF GOD
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