Deu 11:16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
Deu 11:17 And then the LORD’S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.
Deu 11:18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
Deu 11:19 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Deu 11:20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:
Deu 11:21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
Deu 11:22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;
Deu 11:23 Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.
In the last few weeks we have talked about the frontlet between our eyes and the difference in the way we see the law of the flesh or the law of the spirit. If we are walking in the first Adam, all we can see is the law of the flesh. If we are walking in the spirit, the second Adam, we are walking according to what we see in the spirit. We no longer see the law of the flesh but the law of the spirit.
Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Rom 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Rom 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 8:5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
In our scriptures today we are told to beware that we are not deceived and turn aside and serve other gods and worship them. When we are shown that we are sin, we immediately turn and serve other gods by walking according to the law of the flesh and make an idol of what we believe we should be, an idol that we believe God wants us to be.
Dan 3:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
Dan 2:31 Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.
Dan 2:32 This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
Dan 2:33 His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.
Rev 13:14 And deceiveth them that dwell [walk after the flesh] on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
Rev 13:15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
Rev 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
Rev 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Rev 13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
This image is an image of the carnal mind and an image of mankind. In the making of this image, which all do, is the beginning of the end, for it is as its name implies: the process of judgment which must be done for the destruction of that beast, and that process is 666. This image is a religious image of worship, an image of pride, self-glorification and honor of self. However, this image has a frontlet between its eyes that sees according to the flesh and not according to the spirit. It APPEARS that it is walking according to the laws of God, but inwardly it is glorifying self and his little tongue exposes him for what he is, a beast.
Luk 12:16 And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
Luk 12:17 And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
Luk 12:18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
Luk 12:19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Luk 12:20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
Luk 12:21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
The image that we build of ourselves has a head of fine gold, which tells us that is what we think of ourselves. We think we are the most precious metal of all metals. Our value is of greatness and nothing less than the best can satisfy our beast. This is doing exactly what we were told not to do in verse 16;
Deu 11:16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
Then we are told how to destroy that beast and all that he loves.
Deu 11:18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
Deu 11:19 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Deu 11:20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:
So now, we must ask these questions:
1) How do we lay up these words in our hearts and souls when we are powerless?
2) How do we bind them upon our hand as a sign when we have no power?
3) How do we teach them to our children when we can’t teach ourselves?
4) How do we speak of them when we are sitting in our house, walking by the way, when lying down and when rising up when we have no will to do any of those things?
5) How do we write them upon the door posts of our house and upon our gates, when we do not know how to write?
These 5 questions are vital to understanding the truth about who we are and who we are becoming and these five questions are all in the same place, the temple of God, of which temple we are. If we start off with the truth that we are powerless to do anything while walking in the flesh, we are laying up the commandments in our hearts and soul. We are confessing the truth that scripture says of all of the first Adam’s descendants; that there is not one of them righteous, we are all born in sin and in sin the first Adam will die. For unless he dies, the second Adam is not born in him.
Rom 13:1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
Joh 19:11 Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.
Dan 4:35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
Dan 4:36 At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour and brightness returned unto me; and my counsellors and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto me.
Dan 4:37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
Joh 12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
Joh 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Let’s break down this next verse, and let it explain the point we are discussing. Let’s look back at what we held as truth, see now what we hold as truth, and then look forward to how we will see truth, and all at the same time, in the aorist tense of the Greek. Looking back, seeing the now and the future as ONE truth, Christ is, was and will be the Truth of all that has been, is and will be.
2Co 5:17 ThereforeG5620 if any manG1536 be inG1722 ChristG5547, he is a newG2537 creatureG2937: old thingsG744 are passed awayG3928 [G5627]; beholdG2400 [G5628], all thingsG3956 are becomeG1096 [G5754] newG2537.
I quote this verse in the KJV+TVM on E-sword for the purpose of seeing the action of God and inaction of man. If we are given to be in Christ, everything we see is new. Everything has a starting point, its beginning and ending in the past, before the world began (Eph 1:4). This verse says I am a new creature in Christ, old things are passed away, in the ‘aorist’ tense, and behold, in the aorist tense (which shows the process as this tense carries the meaning of an ongoing action) – behold without relation to past, present or future, all things are become new, in the ‘perfect’ tense – completed once in the past, not needing to be repeated. We have become ONE in the I Am, in the perfect tense, without relation to what we were, are or will be. We are united in the Whole (4) from the whole (4) of humanity, in the completion of the body of Christ from the foundation of the world, 144,000. When I was in Babylon I was deceived because I was created a vessel of dishonor, believing that my relationship with God depended on what “I” did for God and thereby justifying myself to God and validating me as a child of God. Let’s say that again:
“When I was in Babylon I was deceived because I was created a vessel of dishonor, believing that my relationship with God depended on what “I” did for God and thereby justifying myself to God and validating me as a child of God”.
This truth IN ERROR of understanding brings me to a place of self-righteousness, with the caveat that Jesus died on the cross for my sins but I chose to believe He did so my freewill belief in what Christ did invalidates the truth. My supposed freewill validates the truth (as I saw it), that I am so united to sin that I choose my freewill belief over God’s sovereign reign as King. The very fact that I claim a freewill is a validation that I am so overcome with sin that I see myself as a god independent and separate from the true God. If any man be IN Christ, he IS a new creature from the foundation of the world, regardless of his actions in the past, present or future!! What makes him a new creature? Being in Christ from the foundation of the world. Being in Christ we see through the spirit and not the flesh. We see through the eyes of Christ and not the eyes of the idol we built of ourselves. Old things are passed away if you are IN Christ and BEHOLD, ALL THINGS (how many things?), ALL THINGS are become new.
What’s new? I am seeing with the frontlet of the spirit and seeing that all that I was, am or will be is by the hand of my Creator, WHO IS CREATING ME INTO A NEW CREATURE. The old things of me thinking I had a freewill, the old things of thinking I can make myself right with God, the old things of me seeing myself as having any power whatsoever is gone. All things I see of myself, I see as being IN Christ and not IN Dennis. I see myself as a part of something I could never become in the flesh, a part, a member of the actual spiritual Body of Jesus Christ. You, me, and all who make up the symbolic number of 144,000, being in the United (#1) Whole (#4) from the whole of creation (#4) that makes up the completion of the body of Christ (10 to the fifth power=100,000-completion of the flesh by chastening grace), are the actual body of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is commanded to lay up these things in His heart and soul and bind them upon His hand. He is commanded to teach to His children, who were “redeemed” from among men, bought, without relation to past, present or future actions. Our redemption is in the aorist tense – TheseG3778 were redeemedG59 [G5681] fromG575 among menG444….
1Co 12:12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
1Co 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
1Co 12:14 For the body is not one member, but many [144,000 members, symbolically].
Eph 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
Eph 5:24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Eph 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Eph 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
Eph 5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish [He has done all that, not us].
Eph 5:28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Eph 5:29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
Eph 5:30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Eph 5:31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Eph 5:32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Eph 5:33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Rev 14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.
Rev 14:2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
Rev 14:3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
Rev 14:4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
Rev 14:5 And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.
If we are given to believe that we are the actual spiritual body of the LORD Jesus Christ and in Him is no sin at all, then it is easy for us to see how He is teaching His children these commandments. We are His body, and we are His children. The five questions I posed earlier are all the same, because being in Christ they are all fulfilled in the only One Who can keep these commandments.
1Jn 3:5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
Act 9:1 And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
Act 9:2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
Act 9:3 And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:
Act 9:4 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
Act 9:5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
1Jn 3:6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
1Jn 3:7 Little children [the little children being taught the commandments], let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
1Jn 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil [the he, is the flesh]; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil [Destroy the works of the flesh to make oneself righteous by the law of the flesh. Now, listen to the next verse]
1Jn 3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.[Whosoever is born of God, in Christ, does not try to justify self by the law of the flesh, because he is taught the commandment that he was bought by Christ before the world began-in the perfect tense and without relation to my actions from the past, present or future].
1Jn 3:10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
Why does the Spirit add, “neither he that loveth not his brother” (1Jn 3:10)? Because how can you judge your Brother unto condemnation when you are justified by faith just like he is? If you judge your Brother by the law of the flesh, then you have witnessed that you are not resting in the works of righteousness of Christ but in your own fleshly works. We all do it and have done it, but hopefully we are being cleansed from the works of the devil more and more by bringing the flesh into subjection to the Spirit. More and more we are seeing ourselves justified by the works of Christ and not the works of the flesh. We die daily. Christ has laid these commandments up in His heart and mind and bound them upon His hand and is teaching them to us every day, every hour of every day. He is writing them upon the door posts of His house, Whose house we are.
2Co 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Christ has laid these commandments of His Father up in His heart and soul, has bound them to His hand, written them upon the door posts of His heart and is teaching them to His children. Also, He is currently driving out all the nations in the land He is possessing, His people, which is the land He has inherited. We are the promised land to Christ. We are being cleansed from all the nations that have inhabited us, and we are being made into the image of Jesus Christ. We possessed this image before the world began. We were redeemed in the perfect tense, without relation to our actions in the past, present or future. Old things in us, like false doctrines, have passed away, because they were gone before we had them. We were in Christ before we had the false doctrines, therefore their passing away is inconsequential to what we were in Christ before the foundation of the world, before time. All things become new to us, because all that we ever saw as good is now become evil. All that was good is evil, and that was evil is now good. All the evil trials I thought were from the Devil and because of my own bad works, by my own freewill, are now good. These trials are what burn out the false doctrines and allow us to see all is good. All is good, for all things are from the hand of Christ for our good.
Jer 29:10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
Jer 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Jer 29:12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
Jer 29:13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
Jer 29:14 And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.
God the Father has predestined us in Christ to have an expected end in Perfection. That perfected end started before the world began. We were created, before we were created, to be perfect in Christ. It was done not of what He saw we would do in the future, not because WE CHOSE Him, but because He chose us to be UNITED to THE WHOLE, out of the WHOLE creation, by the completion of the flesh through chastening grace (144,000). We are being chastened, and by that chastening we are being formed into the image we were seen as before the world began, before there were any.
Deu 4:32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
Deu 4:33 Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
Deu 4:34 Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Deu 4:35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.
Deu 4:36 Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
Deu 4:37 And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;
Deu 4:38 To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.
Deu 4:39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
We have laid hold of a promise that was given to us before the world began. That promise is not contingent or based upon my actions in the past, present or future but based on the promises of God the Father to Christ. We are, because He has determined we be. Nothing more, nothing less. There is no greater promise than this, that we have been given to see His truths.