What man is not able to see without the spiritual placement of the eyes and ears that are in the favor of the Lord, is the "True" image of his combined being as his own spirit, soul and body.
"True" meaning as God see's them.
Despite what popular opinion might suggest I think it important to hear, "There are still the same number of letters in the English alphabet yet only God and those which choose to believe know their value".
Those same letters having been shaped and formed into the words He spoke. Words which we also "Hear" enough to where we respond accordingly.
There are seemingly endless reasons why people can't seem to find the "Way" to relate to each other much less agree upon any one thing at any given moment, yet there is only one reason that's also true why man can not find himself able to relate to the Lord at any given moment.
Their differences as seen through the uniqueness of the individual should also prove that to be true. Enough to where one finds themselves at odds at nearly every turn with the very creatures God also created.
All the more because each hasn't found themselves apply fitted as the "Way" his words have gone to great lengths to express that same image of agreement (what Unity was intended to manifest as according to the will of God).
If all men have been created equal, then every man's words and actions would then prove and point to the "Way" of the Lord.
What does man more often look to as the reason(s) so many seem so different? Does man look to his own imperfection he's gone to great lengths to repeatedly make "Himself" aware of? What happened to putting such things to death by way of the leading of Gods Spirit having remained willing to die to self?
Imperfection to mean the combined thought(s) of humanity he alone has invested energy and time into shaping the who and how God see's him in his own mind. Man has become more confident in the impulses of his own "Imperfection" that he has forgot the task at hand.
The task which only the Lord Jesus can accomplish having become your LORD and Savior.
What task might that be? The same task the Lord said that He came to accomplish which was to "Destroy the works of the Devil". Where man needs to begin in his own task oriented "Mission" is to first consider his own actions that might have been motivated by the voice of a mutual and eternal enemy.
First conceived as a thought to then be given into through birth by way of his own responsive actions (as if the life that's been given over or handed over to the seeming demands of temptation).
Notice he doesn't say the devil who goes on sinning because some where else it's recorded that he (devil) has been sinning from the beginning. What does Gods word say though?
1 John 3:8-10
The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work. No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.
This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother.
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How so one might ask? Allow the Lord to sweep your house clean to then allow his ministering servant(s) sent to protect the household of the Lord that's yielded their own will to Him.
This requires reverent trust, yet a "trust" as something that is impossible to see without faith towards God and his will for you to include any hope filled thoughts of His protective angelic beings created for just that.
Luke 11:24-28
"When an evil spirit comes out of a man, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, 'I will return to the house I left.' When it arrives, it finds the house swept clean and put in order. Then it goes and takes seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that man is worse than the first."
As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, "Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you."
28 He replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it."
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All men have not been created equal with respect to their abilities much less finding themselves able to hear from the Lord without having been drawn to Him. There is little hope of being able to continually hear from Him as Lord unless one is born again having become a new creation in Christ as if He is their savior.
There is however a level playing field where each are considered as equal. That playing field then becomes the equally vested interest in all that God has to say as if there is NO other way.
While attempting to understand anything the Lord has to say, it must first be understood as a more exact picture to whom He continues to speak to.
In order to hear his words the way He intended them to be received it must also be understood as if an identity when we read the words "They, Their, Your Fathers and That Generation" which are speaking to you at some point of the time line of a life which has been given and lived.
Was it only "They" that went through a rebellion"? Was it only "Their" plight as the reason they did rebel? Was it only "Your Fathers" fault as the reason you have rebelled? Was it only "That Generation" that did or has rebelled against what the Lord does have to say?
The eternal reality is that the "They" are the "Them" of today. We are the same as the "They" back then in terms of the family of God, that is when we respond today the same "Way" they did in "their generation".
The said "They" will not enjoy His rest if we all have not responded to Him the one and the same 'Way" the Lord pre-scribes.
Heb 3:7-11
So, as the Holy Spirit says:
"Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert, where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did.
That is why I was angry with that generation, and I said, 'Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways .' So I declared on oath in my anger, 'They shall never enter my rest.'"
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Don't allow yourselves to be deceived. Find the one that is true and listen to Him.
This proverb is not describing the child of God that DOES believe every word which comes from His mouth.
Instead it's describing the mindset of an orphan that doesn't know who his father is or where his next meal will come from with any degree of confidence as if that same voice of confidence was also speaking the "Truth".
Prov 28:21
To show partiality is not good — yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.
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Know the "Way" that He depicts and not some fabricated "Way". Such a way to where man alone can somehow convince himself that he remains in control over the "Way" which leads to the one and only "Heavenly Father".
Mere men without the counsel of the lord have been busy building the tower of their own understanding as they hope it will reach to the heights of the heaven they hope to enter and then possess.
Does the statement "No one comes to the Father except through me" sound as if man has control over that process?
In terms of what is True, man does maintain one thing and that is his own will whether to live or die according to the intent and purposes the lord has set forth which His word will accomplish having been received (and then conceived).
John 14:6-7
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him."
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The lives of the patriarchs as if our Father(s) was used as the instrument and as our example so that today we might also come to 'Know" the way into the land that has been "Promised". That promise as such that will come to pass, yet the question remains will YOU get to enjoy its presentation?
Deut 30:15-18
See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.
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Now ask yourself in a moment enjoined with the truth, how important is the family of God realized "Today" once placed in that perspective?
How beautiful is the message of the New Order that's been paid for in full as the message of reconciliation we now find enjoyment in today?
Begin your quest for the "Truth" and ask not only yourself but the Lord that can save you. Start with the examination that only He can provide. That examination will lead you to the only answer where you will more than realize "Jesus Is Lord of all".
Ask of Him for ears that CAN hear so that the eyes of your soul can then see why you do need a savior. He will lead you into all truth and HE will baptize with the spirit of truth and power that will lead you to the salvation that He has promised.
There is only one place to begin and that is to "Begin" with His word(s), because in them can be found His living will and power that will deliver the promises contained within them.
You will recognize the one that was appointed as Lord by what He wears. When you know Him you will also understand why His name has been endowed with the power that proves Him as "The Lord".
Being born again and becoming a new Creation would suggest that a New seed is required in order for this creation first be conceived.
Once born of His spirit his word will not remain a riddle or parable unless you reject or resist the nourishment found in it. Much like the small child that needs to eat, you too will hunger and thirst for more as does all the true children which belong to Him.
Luke 8:11
This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God
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Rev 19:13
He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God.
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