Life Learning Series

When we paused, we shared information on the absence of a gifted privilege of receiving a negative response, as from the LORD. (Yes, sometimes, people do look for the gift of a negative action from God.)

The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying, What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.

Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

(Ezekiel 18:1-4)

Let us go further, and take note of a time of absence of a gifted privilege of receiving a positive response, as from the LORD. The gift, in this case, is life, and it must be retained by moving in accordance with righteousness.

But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right, And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour’s wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman, And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment; He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man, Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD.

(Ezekiel 18:5-9)

Moreover, let us take note of the absence of a gifted privilege of passing on to another person a like-kind weight of responsibility, as from the LORD.

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– The Fullness of David: Part Two –

There is, in the world of today, a group of people who think that they want to access the privilege of two of the servants of God, Moses and David, as far as the management of their indiscretions. In these events of the Bible, they see a way to lay claim to automatic dismissal of the consequence of their sins, as they expect to receive it from God. In other words, they say that they are entitled to forgiveness for a host of sins, now, because God apparently overlooked, in a sense, the sins of these men, of their respective variances from modern understanding of sound religiosity. Some will even go so far as to pray in the manner of the first of these two men, a Pharisee.

Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.

(Luke 18:10-12)

One of the two men had the right attitude about our place in the service of the LORD, while the other one failed at being humble in God‘s sight. Rather than have you guess, here is the answer.

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– The Fullness of David: Part One –

To move in this new reality, we need to accept the conversation of the Son that is written below. Think of the words as being a reminder of the new reality (we call it, the New Age) that we have inherited.

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

(John 14:1-12)

What does it mean, “I am the way, the truth, and the life“; and how do we move in this way? Those are very good questions: here is a good explanation.

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Let Us Make Man: Part Seven (Naked Nevermore)

In order to take control of an army, one needs to establish marching orders. The gathering of people into the collection that forms the church of Christ is no different from an army; in fact, they are referred to as being in an army: this is not a new concept for a New Age. This is the same concept that the LORD taught us in the birth of the nation of Israel. Israel was not born to proselytize the world; Israel was born to teach us how to properly fight the spiritual war that the world forces us to enter and wage.

And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

(Numbers 1:1-3)

To stress the point that Israel was to be ready to promote the way of the Spirit, by the exercise of physical force; the LORD placed them in an environment that gave them no choice but to do so.

Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan; Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof; Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.

(Judges 3:1-4)

The nation of Israel is an excellent example, and image, of the necessity for full commitment of our total life to the LORD; however, the election of the congregation of Israel as a peculiar treasure of the LORD was only the first step in commitment. Beyond the gathering of Treasure, the instillation of the law of Moses was the next step in the Making of Man into the spiritual powerhouse that we need to be. By this Law of God, the LORD presented the need to start fighting spiritual battles, as being both precedent, and superlative, to physical ones. The stakes are very high in this endeavor.

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– Moving Toward Understanding Us: Part Six –

In his day, one of the apostles of God, and a most noble ambassador of the way of the Lord Jesus Christ, told us about the conclusion of the first stage of the mission of the Son. (Please note that there are a few more stages that need to be completed, so do not let your heart breathe that sigh of completion, yet.) This is how that apostle described the revealed part of the Making of Man that is the mission of the Son.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus: Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

(Ephesians 1:1-14)

The means of accomplishing this consolidation into Christ is a most glorious part of the history of man. So, we will move through it, in a somewhat uninterrupted fashion. Please forgive us if we just cannot restrain our self from adding a few words; or, not. It begins with some final instructions to the world, as the preparation for a major transference is just about to happen. But before we start with the progression, here is a word from some of the people of that day about what the transference was designed to accomplish.

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– Moving Toward Understanding Us: Part Five –