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INTO THE GOD FAMILY AND KINGDOM, OF GOD, BORN OF
THE SPIRIT, BORN OF GOD, IMMORTAL, ONE IN GOD, (Gen
1:26-27; Jn 3:21-8; Jn 17:21).
To WARN and TELL to the peoples of the East that the FOUR
HORSEMEN of the Apocalypse now rides with ferocious vigor.
Their long journeys across the millennia beginning from inside
of the GARDEN OF EDEN launched by the lying evil and
wicked serpent,, and will soon climax in the destruction of the
wicked one and his legions as evil and wicked, that old
serpent Satan the devil and his deceived fallen angels, (Rev.
6:2 {white}; 6:4 {red}; 6:5 {black}; 6:8 {pale}.
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That we are NOT out to try to convince, NEITHER to forcibly
try to convert anybody, or anyone, anywhere, anytime. Yet we
must, as commanded by the Apostle and High Priest of our
Profession, teach all men everywhere to repent for the
remission of sins, and to do all things that Christ the Son of
God has commanded us. (Mat 28:19-20; Lk 24:47).
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That we do practice pure religion undefiled before God and
make visits and care for the helpless orphans, the fatherless,
and the widows in their affliction, (Jas 1:27).
That we point to the nations and its peoples, and families, that
the Eternal Creator God has left a window open for the
blessing of health and prosperity to be known if they would be
glad and sing for joy, and PRAISE THE GOD OF CREATION for
all His wonderful works! That they would learn to PRAY and
PRAISE the Everlasting LORD, (Ps 67:1-7; Ps 147:1-20; 148:1-
14; 149:1-9; 150;1-6; Mat 26.30; Mark 14.26; Eph 5.19; Col
3:16; Jas 5:13).
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15-16 QUESTIONS
PART I
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23 YES, YOU MUST BE OCCUPIED IN OVERCOMING
YOUR FOUR ENEMIES
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PART II
PART III
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62 YOU, OF THE END PART OF THE ELEVENTH
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go scare off, and, perhaps, harm her imagined rival for
the affections of the man who may not even love her.
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Such is a sampling of a life reflecting the parallel
pattern of the lives of tens of millions, with their
shades and variations, of others on this planet. Of
lives, aptly defined and observed by one author as
“living lives of quiet desperation.”
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“Make a life!” Or, “Let me make me a life!” Is now the
parting word of wives separating from. or divorcing,
their husbands; vice-versa.
Yet, that slogan may have been derived from the direct
command of the LORD God Almighty who inhabits
eternity (Isa 57:15), preserved in the Holy Scriptures:
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To teach mortals how to make the right choices, He
would present them to men’s finite mind comparisons
and contrasts.
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26And
26And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto
the end, to him will
will I give power over the nations.” (Rev
2:26).
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Part I
The Captain of Salvation who drafted you, and made you a soldier
in the mightiest Spiritual Army of the Lord, is quite aware that you
are but dust. That you are weak. That you are but flesh, and blood.
That you are mortal. That you are finite.
The Word, who was with God in the beginning, and was God,
and is God, (Jn 1:1), who made the worlds and the earth, and
placed man on this same earth, knows all your weaknesses,
alongside your strengths. He is quite aware, therefore, how easily
you can be overcome and taken over.
Satan the devil, and his legions of demons and wicked spirits.
operates from a headquarters. Is it at subterranean levels?, (Rev.
9:11, king of the angels: Satan – angel of the bottomless pit,
abaddon in the Hebrew,i apollyon; Apolluon in the Greek tongue,
#63 Strong’s, a destroyer). UFOS were reported coming out of the
surface of the earth. Because it is but a single, yet invisible wicked
spirit, it can only be in one place, at any one time. It has an
invisible ultra powerful broadcasting facility set up in one specific
point. It has a headquarters broadcasting station from a vantage
point on earth, or underneath the surface of this planet. Because it
was not allowed to directly kill human beings directly and
physically, it devised ways and means to do that indirectly, by proxy.
The scars and the memories lodge in their minds. After the fights
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and wars are over, and long after that the damage of their human
bodies from their mental psyches linger on. Many are never healed.
Limbs that are severed can not be replaced by metal, plastic or
wooden arms or legs. Eyes that are gouged can not be replaced by
artificial marbles.
When it is all over, the leaders and captains of wars, and the peoples
that allowed them to go to war realize, in hindsight, that the wars,
all wars, was not necessary after all. They were violent exercises of
futility.
Here is the surface of the earth. On this same surface, all the
human beings created in the image of God, are walking on the same
planet. Eating the same kinds and types of food for millennia.
Drinking the same kind of water composed of hydrogen and
oxygen (H20) for thousands of years. Breathing the same kind and
manner of invisible air (oxygen) throughout the rolling centuries.
The concept of making the 1st day of the week as a Sabbath was
proposed. Sooner, or later, it was adopted and accepted by the
majority. This is a literal, actual transgression against a test key
commandment of God, the 4th commandment on His Holy Sabbath
of rest on the 7th day, (“REMEMBER,” it commands, and people
forget.) So all who keep Sunday which is the 1st day of the week,
have, and continue, to commit INDIVIDUAL, PERSONAL SIN
every time. And to do this as one congregation of believers, becomes
a COLLECTIVE SIN, AND AN ABOMINATION AGAINST GOD,
THE LORD OF THE SABBATH!
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27 “He shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in
the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to
cease…, “ (Dan 9:27).
3. He remained in the grave three (3) days and three nights. It was
the sign of the prophet Jonah that Jesus showed, who was in the
belly of the great fish, three days and three nights, as unto the grave,
(Jon1:17; 2:1-10; Mat 12:39-40; Luke 11:29-30) Then He was
resurrected from the grave, (Mat 28:6; Mk 16:6, 9; 14; John 2:22;
21:14; 24:34). THIS WAS THE ONLY SIGN HE GAVE TO
DEMONSTRATE TO THAT EVIL AND ADULTEROUS
GENERATION THAT HE IS THE MESSIAH.
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JESUS WAS RESURRECTED AT 3 P.M. SATURDAY, THE
7TH
DAY SABBATH.
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with the other brethren that were having a hard and difficult time
in Jerusalem at that time.
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LAW. Seven words. So simple and clear. It can not be
misunderstood. It can not be misconstrued.
The LAW is the Royal Law of Love. It is the Divine Code. This
Divine Code has TEN POINTS. These points are subdivided into
two. The first subdivision has the first four points of the Ten
Commandments. The second subdivision consists of the following
six points. The first subdivision clarifies WHAT is the LOVE OF
GOD.
So if you really want to know what you must overcome, that are
defined as sin, it is written in the Holy Scriptures.
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All of these are the very things that you must overcome. All
these are the very source and main mover of human activity.
The world around you and the society in which you live.
13I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from
the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have
overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because
ye have known the Father.
14I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him
that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men,
because ye are strong, and the Word of God abideth in you, and ye
have overcome the wicked one.
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15Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If
any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of
the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the
world.
All these four were present in the Garden of Eden. At the exact time
of the temptation of Eve by the lying serpent.
“For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes
shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
“And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that
it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise,
she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her
husband with her; and he did eat,”(Gen 3:5-6).
1. Satan the devil is the lying serpent, uttering the first lie. He has
used deception preceded by wrong fear against all the mortal
inhabitants of the earth ever since, non-stop. This has proved to be
the mother of all evils. The turning against the Creator GOD.
Bringing the wars. Conflicts. Quarrels. Violence. Crime. The
poverty. The famine. The hunger. The dread diseases. The curses.
The misery. The wretchedness. The endless woes.
2. Good for food – lust of the flesh, gluttony, the belly first becomes
men’s god. Hoarding at the expense and denial of the need of others.
This has engendered greed and covetousness. The denial that is
deeply rooted defiance: “I AM NOT MY BROTHER’S KEEPER!”
So man have today become island to themselves; “Me. Myself. I.”
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3. Pleasant to the eyes – lust of the eyes – Taking pleasure in
passing fancies. Vogues of fashion of the present. Inordinate delight
in temporal fun. Glitter. This has engendered covetousness. This
has bred rankling jealousy over what others have. Dissatisfaction
and discontent over what one has already.
4. Desired to make one wise – Vanity and pride in one’s own self-
acquired wisdom, Self-attained knowledge. Attainments in human
wisdom and secular education. Self-exaltation for attainment of
rank, grant of recognition, and acquisition of the power of
command, including political, and religious. In today’s society, the
chain of letters, titles, and degrees before and after one’s name
conferred by men. Authorship of books. Membership in elite clubs,
exclusive honor fraternities, and secret societies. These things are
not evil, and may rightly be blessings if used properly, and humbly.
Yet to the possessor, these bring vanity and pride into the persona
of a mortal, an acknowledged temporary, passing human on the
passageway of time. This has engendered endless competition. To
rise above the corpse of others to rise to the top. This has produced
the rat race in human society. This brought all the anxieties,
pressures, and stress producing all manners of psychosomatic
disorders and physical ailments in 21st century man.
And when it does, what could have been a blessing and good
pleasure turns into a burden and a curse.
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All these four enemies of yours just about totally and completely
covers every aspect of life and living that needs to be overcome.
YOU MUST BE FULLY OCCUPIED, FOCUSED AND
UNREMITTINGLY COMMITTED TO OVERCOMING ALL
FOUR OF THEM. NOT BY YOUR OWN SELF AND OWN
STRENGTH BUT THRU GOD’S HOLY SPIRIT IN YOU, AND
WITH YOU.
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ULTIMATE DESTINY OF EACH AND EVERY MAN GOD HAS
CREATED AND MADE.
Even the most fervent, most zealous believer and practitioner make
mistakes. That no one is really perfect. One is only, truly, human.
THAT IS THE POINT. And that has not been fully grasped.
A man of true believing faith is just like you. Flesh and blood. As
the true disciples and apostles were (Acts 14:15, Jas 5:17).
“For we have not a High Priest which cannot be touched with the
feeling of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we
are, yet without sin,” (Heb 4:15).
So one can sin. But not praticing sin. Not habitually. Not pre-
meditatedly. Not defiantly. Not disobediently. Not rebelliously.
Not sneeringly.
And when one sins, the 100% score is no longer valid then?
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WHAT IS THE ANSWER?
Without God’s Holy Spirit in you in the past, you were just keeping
scores in your determined steps to be good, and perfect. You were
carnal. You were materialistic. You were secular. You were not
living under the loving grace of God. Your life was directed by the
counsel of equally carnal and secular minded individuals, however
wise and holy their words seemed to be. And when you failed, you
felt you had blown it. You were always back on square 1. And you
have to begin all over again. On a fresh start and a clean slate. You
may have had the right heart. But not the right understanding of
what it was all about.
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lives inside of God’s Law of Love, not living in a box, but in
continuing, unbroken flow of Spirit-filled life. There is no spiritual
discontinuity to those who live under the loving, merciful grace of
God, and who walk INSIDE of God’s Law of Love and perfect
liberty, (Ps 1:2; 119:1).
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“TO this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a
contrite spirit and trembleth at My word,”(Isa 66:2).
9 “Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed
to repentance, for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye
might receive damage by us in nothing.
10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be
repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death,” (2 Cor
7:9-10).
The story of his deep sorrow and godly repentance is etched forever
in the Book of Psalms 51:1-19). To encourage and provide true
hope to every truly repentant and forgiven sinner. David became a
man after God’s own heart, (Ps 89:3; 1 Sam 1314 - Acts 13:22).
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Satan the devil is an invisible wicked, evil spirit. He has
superior supernatural powers. Originally created as an archangel,
the Lucifer who was to be a light bringer fell from grace and from
heaven (Luke 10:18), because the iniquity of pride and vanity was
found in him, (Ezek 28:15). Now a twisted devil, his entire
motivation is to destroy the Church of God, and the human family.
He uses invisible impulses. He broadcasts them embedded with
twisted wrong attitudes and perverted ideas in the ether. What
seems empty space is filled with sound wavelengths of bitterness,
hate, anger, jealousy, and lusts. And all manner of deceptions and
urgings to commit all types of evil and unrighteousness. RESIST
THESE. AND CLEAR THEM OUT OF YOUR MIND. And they
will flee from you. Your peace of mind and calm will be your shield.
Yet these
unnatural impulses will attempt to return. Continually reject and
resist such thoughts. A disciplined, strengthened mind can not be a
habitation of evil spirits, and thoughts. They can not attach
themselves to a clean mind.
Your earnest
prayers with fervent supplications drives evil away from you. Your
continual fasting and study of the holy Scriptures (Mat 17:21; Mark
9:21), reinforces you and erects a mighty spiritual wall in and
about you, This rejects and rebuffs all these evil thoughts from
taking hold in your mind and being, an invincible protection
against evil wicked marauders called demons. THIS IS
SUCCESSFUL OVERCOMING!
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The world you live in is the world, the age. The period of humans
living under the sway of Satan the devil ( doing wicked works: Col
1:21).
Apostle Paul discloses this in Ephesians 2:
1 And you hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins;
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this
world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that
now worketh in the children of disobedience:
3 Among whom also we had all had our conversation (behavior,
conduct) in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires
of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature the children of
wrath, even as others.
5 Even when we were dead in sins….” YOU ARE TO RISE ABOVE
THIS, YOUR PAST LIFE, IN THE WORLD OR SOCIETY YOU
WERE ONCE AN INTEGRAL PART OF.
You must be willing to lose your life (in this world’s system and
temptations, thrills, glitter of gold or weight of mammon, celebrity
and glamour, and senseless pleasure, overweening fame and
fortune):
“He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for
my sake shall find it,” (Mat 10:39).
You must learn how to strike the real balance between acquisition
of money and the proper use of money, and not be drowned in the
sorrows that wrong way to acquire it have brought, and the
inordinate love of money, brings. You must truly learn the correct
use of money. Money can be a blessing from the Lord, and God
adds no sorrow to it, (Prov 10:22). “Money anwereth all things,”
(Eccl 10:19; it is also a defense,(Eccl 7:12), lends a sense of security,
and not the oppression of penury. Of demeaning poverty and want.
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Christ warned against the inordinate, addictive lust and love of
mammon, or money.
He would want us to love to do our task and part in God’s Great
Work, and see our joyful willingness to use our money, or part of
our money, to carry out our part in THE WORK OF GOD.
14 “I have given them thy word, and the world hath hateth them,
BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT OF THE WORLD, EVEN AS I AM
NOT OF THE WORLD.
15 I pray not that thou should take them out of the world but that
thou shouldest keep them from evil.
16 THEY ARE NOT OF THE WORLD, even as I am not of the
world.
18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I ALSO SENT
THEM INTO THE WORLD,” (John 17: 14, 15, 16 18).
15 “For thus saith the High and Lofty One that in- habiteth
eternity, whose name is Holy: ‘I dwell in the high and holy place,
with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the
spirit of the humble, and to revive the contrite ones,” (Isa 57: 15).
2 “For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things
have been,” saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to
him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my
word,” (Isa 66:2).
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5 “MORTIFY therefore your members which are upon the earth:
fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence,
and covetousness, which is idolatry:
6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children
of disobedience
7 In the which ye also walked sometime when ye lived in them.
8 But now ye also, PUT OFF ALL THESE; ANGER, WRATH,
MALICE, BLASPHEMY, FILTHY COMMUNICATIONS OUT
OF YOUR MOUTH.
9 LIE NOT ONE TO ANOTHER, SEEING THAT YE HAVE
PUT OFF THE OLD MAN WITH HIS DEEDS;
10 AND HAVE PUT ON THE NEW MAN, WHICH IS
RENEWED IN KNOWLEDGE AFTER THE IMAGE OF HIM
THAT CREATED HIM.
11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision, nor
uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond, nor free, BUT CHRIST
IS ALL, AND IN ALL.
12 PUT ON THEREFORE, AS THE ELECT OF GOD, HOLY,
AND BELOVED, BOWELS OF MERCIES, KINDNESS,
HUMBLENESS OF MIND, MEEKNESS AND LONG-
SUFFERING:
13 FORBEARING ONE ANOTHER, AND FORGIVING ONE
ANOTHER, IF ANY MAN HAVE ANY QUARREL AGAINST ANY:
EVEN AS CHRIST FORGAVE YOU. SO ALSO DO YE.
14 AND ABOVE ALL THESE THINGS PUT ON CHARITY,
WHICH IS THE BOND OF PERFECTNESS.
15 AND LET THE PEACE OF GOD RULE IN YOUR HEARTS,
TO THE WHICH YE ARE CALLED IN ONE BODY, AND BE YE
THANKFUL.
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16 LET THE WORD OF CHRIST DWELL IN YOU RICHLY
IN ALL WISDOM, TEACHING AND ADMONISHING ONE
ANOTHER IN PSALMS, AND HYMNS, AND SPIRITUAL
SONGS, SINGING WITH GRACE IN YOUR HEARTS TO THE
LORD.
17 AND WHATSOEVER YE DO IN WORD OR DEED, DO
ALL IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, GIVING THANKS TO
GOD AND THE FATHER BY HIM,” (Col 3:5-17).
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“I am come that they might have life life and have it more
abundantly.” (John 10:10).
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HOW DID HUMAN NATURE ARISE IN AN INNOCENT BABY?
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by the continual, even continuous, blending of the physical human
brain and the non-physical “spirit in man”, (Job 32:8; Eccl 3:21;
12:7).
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home. Within his family. Or in his social interaction with his
fellowmen.
And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all
things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an
incorruptible.,” (I Cor 9:25).
24 And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla,
which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the
faith in Christ.
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25 And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment
to come, Felix trembled and answered, ‘Go thy way for this time:
when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee,” (Acts 24:24-
25).
5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, and
to virtue, knowledge; 6 And to knowledge, temperance, and to
temperance, patience, and to patience, godliness. 7 And to godliness,
brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness, charity, 8 For if
these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall
neither be barren, nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord
Jesus Christ,” (2Pet 1:5-8).
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WHAT HAS GOD WISELY AND
MERCIFULLY PROVIDED TO HELP
YOU OVERCOME SUCCESSFULLY?
The all wise and merciful Eternal Creator God has provided
THE ONE AND ONLY TRUE WAY.
In His Mercy, Loving kindness, and Wisdom, He provided
you:
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4. He gave you the protection of His holy angels, to
minister to you, and protect you always, (Heb 1:13 - 14).
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THE APOSTLE PETER STRONGLY
ENCOURAGES YOU:
1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers…
2 Elect, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through
sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the
blood of Jesus Christ: GRACE UNTO YOU, AND PEACE BE
MULTIPLIED.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which
according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a
lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
4 TO AN INHERITANCE INCORRUPTIBLE, AND
UNDEFILED, AND THAT FADETH NOT, RESERVED IN
HEAVEN FOR YOU,
5 WHO ARE KEPT BY THE POWER OF GOD THROUGH
FAITH, UNTO SALVATION READY TO BE REVEALED IN
THE LAST TIME.
6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be,
ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
7 That the trial of your faith being much more precious than of
gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found
unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
8 Whom having not seen, ye love, in whom though now ye see Him
not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
9 Receiving the end of your faith even the salvation of your souls.
10 Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched
diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ
which was in them did signify when it testified beforehand the
sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
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12 Unto 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 with the Holy Spirit sent
down from heaven; WHICH THINGS ANGELS DESIRE TO
LOOK INTO.
13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and HOPE
TO THE END FOR THE GRACE that is to be brought unto you at
the revelation of Jesus Christ;
14 As obedient children, NOT FASHIONING YOURSELVES
ACCORDING TO THE FORMER LUSTS IN YOUR
IGNORANCE:
15 But as HE which hath called you is HOLY, SO BE HOLY IN
ALL MANNER OF CONVERSATION.
16 Because it is written, BE YE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.
17 And if ye call on the Father without respect of persons judgeth
according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning
here in fear:
18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with
corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation
received by tradition for your fathers;
19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without
blemish and without spot:
20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world,
but was manifest in these last days for you,
21 Who by Him do believe in God, and raised Him from the dead.
And gave Him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
22 Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth
through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that you
LOVE ONE ANOTHER WITH A PURE HEART FERVENTLY:
23 Being born again {BEGOTTEN, Strong’s # 313 Gk:
anagennao – beget, bear, again}, not of corruptible seed, but
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incorruptible, by the WORD OF GOD, WHICH LIVETH, AND
ABIDETH FOREVER.
24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of
grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
25 But the word of the Lord endureth forever. AND THIS IS THE
WORD WHICH BY THE GOSPEL IS PREACHED UNTO YOU.
2:1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies,
and envies, and all evil speakings.
2 AS NEWBORN BABES, desire the sincere milk of the word, that
ye may grow thereby.
3 If so ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of
men, but chosen of God, and precious,
5 YE ALSO, AS LIVELY STONES, ARE BUILT UP A
SPIRITUAL HOUSE, A HOLY PRIESTHOOD, to offer up
spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ,
6 Wherefore also it is contained in the Scripture, ‘BEHOLD I LAY
IN ZION A CHIEF CORNERSTONE, ELECT, PRECIOUS, AND
HE THAT BELIEVETH ON HIM SHALL NOT BE
CONFOUNDED.
7 Unto you therefore which believe He is precious: but unto them
which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the
same is made the head of the corner.
8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even them which
stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they
were .appointed.
9 But YE ARE A CHOSEN GENERATION, A ROYAL
PRIESTHOOD, A PECULIAR PEOPLE, that ye should show forth
the praises of Him who hath CALLED YOU OUT of darkness
INTO HIS MARVELLOUS LGHT.
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10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people
of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained
mercy.
11. DEARLY BELOVED, I BESEECH YOU AS STRANGERS
AND PILGRIMS, ABSTAIN FROM FLESHY LUSTS WHICH
WAR AGAINST THE SOUL;
12 Having your conversation {conduct, Gk: anastrophe
Strong’s # 391 – behavior}, honest among the Gentiles: that
whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good
works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s
sake: whether it to the king, as supreme;
14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for
punishment of evildoers and for the praise of them that do well.
15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to
silence the ignorance of foolish men.
16 As free< and not using your liberty for a cloak of
maliciousness< but as the servants of God.
17 HONOUR ALL MEN. LOVE THE BROTHERHOOD. FEAR
GOD. HONOUR THE KING,” (I Peter 1:1-25; 2:1-17).
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This is the wisdom of the ages imparted from the Spiritual Rock of
Ancient Israel, who was Christ, (1 Cor 10:4).
1). EAT OF THE TREE OF LIFE - “To him that overcometh will I
give to eat of the tree of life,” (Rev 2:7).
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6). A PILLAR IN GOD’S TEMPLE - “Him that overcometh will I
make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go no more out:
and I will write upon him the name of My God, and the name of
the City of My God, which is the New Jerusalem, which cometh
down out of Heaven from My God: and I will write upon him My
NEW NAME,” (Rev 3:12).
7). SIT WITH CHRIST- “To him that overcometh will I grant to
sit with me in My Throne, even as I also overcame, and am set
down with My Father in His Throne,” (Rev 3:21).
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Part II
The First Part being done, and continually being accomplished, you
will have qualified to go occupy the broader area of true occupation:
TO DO YOUR APPOINTED TASK IN DOING YOUR PART,
YOUR ROLE IN THE GREAT WORK OF GOD.
32 Then Jesus said unto them, ‘Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Moses gave you not that bread from heaven, but my Father giveth
you the TRUE BREAD FROM HEAVEN.
33 For the bread of God is He which cometh down from heaven
and giveth life unto the world.’
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34 They said unto Him, ‘LORD, EVERMORE GIVE US THIS
BREAD.’
35 And Jesus said unto them, “I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE: HE
THAT COMETH TO ME SHALL NEVER HUNGER; AND HE
THAT BELIEVETH ON ME SHALL NEVER THIRST,” (Jn 6:29-
35).
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Romans 8:14-19: 14 “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God,
they are the sons of God.
15For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but
ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba,
Father.
16The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the
children of God:
18For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not
worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Matthew 16:18:
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And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I
will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against
it.
Ephesians 4:11-15:
12For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for
the edifying of the body of Christ:
13Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge
of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the
stature of the fullness of Christ:
15But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all
things, which is the head, even Christ.
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THIS PHASE OF BUILDING PERFECT SPIRITUAL
CHARACTER IS COUPLED WITH A MANDATE FROM THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST TO HIS FOLLOWERS AND DISCIPLES,
HIS SPIRTUAL ARMY IN THE LAST OF THE LAST DAYS:
18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, ‘ALL POWER is
given unto me in heaven and in earth.
15 And He said unto them, “ GO ye into all the world, and preach
the gospel to every creature,
18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing,
it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they
shall recover,”(Mark 16:15-18).
44 And He said unto them, “These are the words which I speak
unto you, while yet I was with you, that all things must be fulfilled
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which was written in the law of Moses, and in the preophets, and in
the psalms, concerning Me.
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1 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus
began to do and teach,
2 Until the day in which He was taken up after that He through the
Holy Spirit had given commandments unto the apostles whom He
had chosen:
5 For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with
the Holy Spirit not many days hence.
8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Spirit is come
upon you: AND YE SHALL BE WITNESSES UNTO ME both in
Jerusalem, and all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost
part of the earth,” (Acts 1:1-5, 8).
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17 For the Scripture saith unto Pharaoh, “Even for this same
purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show my power in thee,
and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth,”
(Rom 9:17).
24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one
receiveth the prize? So run that ye may obtain.
25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all
things. Now they do to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an
incorruptible.
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29 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, so fight I as, not as
someone that beateth the air”
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23 “Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak to you as a fool,) I am
more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in
prisons more frequent, in deaths oft,”(2 Cor 11:23).
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PART III
WHAT THEN IS YOUR
SPECIFIC TASK TO DO IN
THIS PHASE OF THE GREAT
WORK OF GOD?
1 “For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an
householder, which went out early in the morning to hire laborers
into his vineyard.
2 And when he had agreed with the laborers for a penny a day, he
sent them into his vineyard.
3 And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing
idle in the market place.
4 And said unto them: ‘Go ye also into the vineyard, and
whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.
5 Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did
likewise.
6 And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others
standing idle, and said unto them, ‘Why stand ye here all the day
idle?
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7 They say unto him, ‘Because no man hath hired us.’ He said unto
them, ‘Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that
shall ye receive.’
8 So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his
steward, ‘Call the labourers and give them their hire, beginning
from the last unto the first.’
9 And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour,
they received every man a penny.
10 But when the first came, they supposed that they should have
received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.
11 And when they had received it, they murmured against the
goodman of the house.
12 These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made
them equal unto us, which hath borne the burden and heat of the
day.
14 ‘Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last,
even as unto thee.
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16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called,
but few chosen,” (Mat 20:1-16).
SECOND was the time frame of Noah, who walked with God,
before, and after the Great Flood.
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prophets Isaiah. Jeremiah. Ezekiel. The prophet Daniel in Babylon,
with Meshech, Shadrach and Abednego. The men and women of
faith listed in the book of Hebrews, chapter 11.
THE FOURTH, and last, thru the last 2,000 years of the New
Testament Church of God:
It began with John the Baptist. Linked to the time of the original
12 apostles, who were sent by the Lord Jesus Christ to the Lost
sheep of the House of Israel {The Lost Ten Tribes, (Mat 10:5;
15:24).
And the earliest faithful believers and practitioners of the faith once
delivered to the saints (Jude 3), that time Pentecost 31 A.D., thru
20 centuries, till the 21st century. They comprise the beginning
minutes, and the ongoing moments of the eleventh hour.
Then at the extreme end part of the eleventh hour, in the very last
of the last days, in the final minutes of the time of the climax of
human history, are the Churches of God, the branches (that came
out of the 20th century prophesied and fulfilled apostasy – the
1990’s) of the VINE, the Lord Jesus Christ (Jn 15:5), who keep the
Commandments of God and have the Testimony of Jesus Christ
(Rev 12:17), The workers in the Work of God – 21st Century are
part of that very end time team of laborers and workers, the very
elect, in the VINEYARD of the GOD THE FATHER, THE
HUSBANDMAN.
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The original apostles thought the end of the age was to come in
their day.
The Holy Bible reveals their number: 144,000. They will be the
FIRSTFRUITS.
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3. To accomplish that colossal task, His Body has to perform and
carry out the Task thru a DIVERSITY OF OPERATIONS, (I Cor
12:6) imbued with diverse spiritual gifts:
c. To another FAITH.
f: To another PROPHECY.
But as the BODY IS ONE, hath MANY MEMBERS and all the
members of that ONE BODY, BEING MANY, ARE ONE BODY;
SO ALSO IS CHRIST,” (I Cor 12:1-12).
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28 And GOD hath SET SOME in the Church, first APOSTLES,
secondarily, PROPHETS, thirdly TEACHERS, after that
MIRACLES, then GIFTS OF HEALINGS, HELPS,
GOVERNMENTS, DIVERSITIES OF TONGUES.
29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all
workers of miracles?
30 Have all the gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all
interpret?
“Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye
may prophesy,” (1 Cor 14:1).
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These are the JOB DESCRIPTIONS of the 0FFICES OF SERVICE
(NOT RANKS OF EXALTATION neither LORDSHIP, nor as
BENEFACTORS, (Luke 22:25) and CARING (HELPERS OF THE
BRETHREN’S JOY, {2 Cor 1:24}, that YOU CAN DO IN the
GREAT WORK OF GOD.
Search yourself. Examine your heart. Are you willing, and therefore,
now must prepare and train yourself to be ready, and therefore, able
to DO YOUR TASK IN THE GREATEST COMMISSION IN ALL
THE WORLD INSIDE OF GOD’S GREAT WORK?
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TAKE HEED, BRETHREN, WHAT THE
SPIRIT SAYS TO THE CHURCHES.
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Scripture
Reference Index
3 PART I
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Luke
11:29-30;
6 Matthew
28:6; Mark
16:6,9,14;
John 2:22;
21:14;
24:34
6 Luke 4:16
7 Luke 24:53
7 I
Corinthians 16:2
8 I John 3:4
8 Romans
6:23
9 I John 2:13-
16
11 Matthew
6:27;
Luke 12:25
14 JESUS CHRIST IS
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OUR EXAMPLE Psalms 1:2;
119:1
14 Zechariah
4:6
15 Isaiah 66:2
15 2
Corinthians 7:9-10
15 2 Samuel
12:1-14;
Psalms
51:1-19
15 HOW WILL YOU THEN
OVERCOME? James 4:7;
Ephesians
6:11, 13
16 Luke 10:18
16 Ezekiel
28:15
16 Matthew
17:21;
Mark 9:21
17 Col. 1:21;
Eph. 2:1
17 Matt. 10:39
18 Proverbs
10:22;
Eccl. 10:19;
7:12
18 John 17:14-
18
18 HUMILITY IS MOST
ESSENTIAL AND
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RECOGNIZED BY THE
HIGHEST Isaiah
57:15
19 Isaiah 66:2
19 HOW CAN YOU OVERCOME
YOURSELF,
YOUR HUMAN NATURE? Col. 3:5-17
20 THE LORD JESUS
CHRIST STRAIGHTENED
THIS MISCONCEPTION
FROM THE START: Matt.
19:27-29;
John 10:10
21 Gen. 1:31;
Psalms
139:13-18
22 Job 32:8;
Eccl. 3:21;
12:7
23 2 Tim.
3:15,16;
Prov. 22:6
24 BALANCE, MODERATION
AND TEMPERANCE ARE
THE KEYS Prov.
16:32;
I Cor. 9:25;
Acts
24:24-25;
2 Pet. 1:5-
8
25 WHAT HAS GOD WISELY
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AND MERCIFULLY
PROVIDED TO HELP
YOU OVERCOME
SUCCESSFULLY? Jn.
6:63; Matt. 4:4;
Luke
4:4
25 I Pet.
1:3,23;
Eph.
2:1; 1Pet.3:18;
Jn.
6:63
25 1 Cor.
10:17; 8:6;
12:48,
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25 Heb.
1:13-14
26 Jn.
21:15,16,17;
Acts
20:28;
I Pet.
5:2
26 Matt.
1:28-31;
2 Cor.
3:5; 9:8
26 Matt.
6:9; Eph. 6:11-18
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26-28 THE APOSTLE PETER
STRONGLY ENCOURAGES
YOU: 1 Pet.
1:1-25
28-29 1 Pet.
2:1-17
29 Matt.
7:24-25
29 1 Cor.
10:4
30 REWARDS TO HIM THAT
LOVERCOMES
TRIUMPHANTLY Rev.
2:7,11,17,26-28; 3:5
31 Rev.
3:12, 21
32 PART II
DO YOUR APPOINTED
PART AND TASK IN
GOD’S GREAT WORK Jn.
6:29-35
33 HOW CAN YOU DO
YOUR APPOINTED
TASK IN GOD’S
DIVINE WORK? Gen.
1:26; Jn. 17:21;
Rom.
8:16-18;
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Rom 8:14-19
34 Jn.
17:11; Ac.20:28;
1
Cor. 1:2; 10:32;
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Acts
26:5; Phil 3:5
40 2 Tim 6-
8
40 2 Cor
12:12; 11:23
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Matt
24:14;
Mark
13:10;
Matt
16:19;
Matt
28:19-20;
Mark
16:15-18;
Luke
24:47-53;
Acts 1:1-
8
44 1 Cor
12:6
45 1 Cor
12:1-12;
1 Cor
12:27-31;
1 Cor
13:13;
1 Cor
14:1
46 1 Cor
14:3,6
1 Cor
14:12
Luke
22:25
2 Cor
1:24
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