The Mystery of Unbelief

Pictures drawn, metaphors, crafted images, symbols, old wives tales, quotes, devotionals, one liners, poems, music lyrics, analogies, catch phrases, elephants or gorilla's in the room all speak when we want them to, yet what are any of them when we can't get them to say what  we WANT them to say?

Are not all the above only mediums used in order for the soul to (ex-press) reach "Out" from the otherwise silent confines of our being?

Can the same thing be asked of God's words?

Think for a moment about the words of God. Though we perceive them as though leather bound sitting silently on our night stand, when do those words get the opportunity to speak?

We have the highest opinion in all things available to us as believers, yet how often do we seek out that same opinion?

Do we refuse them because we have no one to interpret them? Is it that we do not have access to our preacher in our moments of need? Are you on a waiting list to receive their counsel, but you need answers NOW?

We'll go ask one or two friends what they think about our situation, we'll sift through and take what we want to hear from them and then go out and do whatever is we decide within ourselves.

Why are so many seemingly addicted to other peoples opinions? Is that we know ourselves well enough that we will eventually need someone else to blame when plans do fail?

Where is a word of knowledge in the moment? Where is discernment and the need for it? Where is interpretation when we do not know (trust) the wisdom that's been stored within ourselves over time?

Religion and it's poor history has all but shut off the avenues where such things were originally intended to find their way into our lives. By way of discounting said, "Gifts given" to the church by way of the spirit that were intended for her edification, what has been thrown out with the bath water?

When does Gods word get to speak as though a friend? Is that even a fair question if we prove ourselves by way of the friends we ourselves also choose?

The words of God declare they are "Alive and Active". In terms of their ability to cut or slice it's also said they are sharper than any two edged sword. In terms of division it's said they are able to divide thoughts and attitudes of the heart, joints and marrow and spirit and soul.

When would one's soul need to be divided from a spirit that's not a friendly spirit? When would the words we've allowed into our minds need to be divided one from another? How do we grow familiar with the sound of but one voice and that of the Holy Spirit?

Ps 83:5
With one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against you
NIV

Said believers that claim once they have been "saved" and now have the Holy Spirit living on the inside of them, "They" are then no longer capable of succumbing to demonic influence. Where then is faith as the need for the leading of the Holy Spirit from on moment to the next?

If you believe that, you've been deceived once more and are now more of a threat to yourself and the body of Christ than you were when you saw yourself a sinner that needed saving.

Basically you've become a door without a hinge or a doorway that has no door that can be closed if it needs to be closed.

We all want to be heard, right? We all want to be understood and accepted, yet what about the "WHY NOT" factor?

Where is silence given the opportunity to invite wisdom? What does the venue look like when wisdom does enter the room? Do we alone get to decide what shape and form wisdom inhabits when it does come?

Where's the strength found in words such as commonality, mutuality or plurality?

As such that somehow serves in the capacity that would otherwise "Unite" that same inner silence that's said to be in all of us as a Christ creation?

A man says something straight forward yet what is heard? A child says something and what is heard?

Now apply a "wise' man says says something or the "innocence" of child says something? Now what do we then hear?

Is the essence of what's heard derived from what's "Known" about the one that's speaking instead of the substance of what's actually said? When we sift a persons words, what are we using for a filter screen?

How do we convey that we don't trust someone in our relationships? Enough that it's something universally understood and accepted as though validation of the person we're trying to convince ourselves that we also know?

When a Father and son (parent/child) effectively communicate, how often does context need to be established before both know what's being understood between them?

How many conditional questions do you need answered before you find yourself able respond to that question just asked? Do you find your self needing to know more about this father and son before you do comment?

How does the stealthy notion of "Divide and Conquer" get in and then have its way ?

Ps 83:4
"Come," they say, "let us destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel be remembered no more."
NIV

Who is the Us and who do we consider to be "Them" when we base all the above on what we as if alone then believe?

Wasn't it once said of Israel, they are God's chosen people"? Who said such a thing?

Was it God or did the people claim the same God as their own or did each claim each other?

Once again, how many questions do you need answered before you in turn can respond?

Ps 25:3
No one whose hope is in you will ever be put to shame, but they will be put to shame who are treacherous without excuse .
NIV

What truly takes place when a child feels the need to hire the mother (to campaign) as though intercessor to the father? Is it only because the father has been considered a tyrant?

As such that only knows how to dole out the word "No"?

2 Cor 1:20
For no matter how many promises God has made, they are "Yes " in Christ. And so through him the "Amen " is spoken by us to the glory of God.
NIV

Just because we were accepted the way we were, should not also cause us to rely on our own history in order to conclude our present condition as though activities of our own choosing we are trying to consider acceptable.

Is it even possible to truthfully consider ourselves without outside "Help"?

How many times do we ask ourselves, "How many times do I have to do this or that before I figure out it still hurts when I do it"?

Until we reach the conclusion that we are broken beyond self being able to fix us, only then have we taken our first steps out of darkness.

Ask your self, who "helps' you choose what you do? Now ask your self "Who helps you choose, and then that choice made doesn't always turn out to be helpful?

How soon do we forget who's who as our enemies or our helpers?

What is it within our relationships that governs what's being interpreted as though conclusions that get drawn in advance ? Is it simply a quick survey of our historical interaction with each other? Does the results of that survey then mandate what the future holds in store?

How do WE or can WE approach the things we do have in common instead of working harder to insist OR convince others to accommodate what WE do NOT hold on to as though mutually inter-rest-ing?

Now allow this if you will, is it only You that's been able to enter Gods rest OR is their room so that WE can enter into Gods rest?

In an earthly relationship some might say that the father is in control or is Lord over His family, but IS that an accurate assessment being made? Is that just something the Father alone states as if about himself or does the family hold to that same assessment because it's been mutually understood?

Do we treat what we're trying to accuse as if a family as though a democracy instead?

At what phase does every member acquire equal voting rights? Is it only when everyone agrees with the father or when the ballots are all collected and counted?

Back to the child that hires mom to campaign for them, does the child know that the mom knows as though the way into the fathers heart or are both mother and child confirming to each other what THEY mutually already know?

Who was Jesus' intercessor and why did He not need one?

Is it as simple as observing a common interest as though "One"?

John 5:19
 "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing , because whatever the Father does the Son also does.
NIV

If Jesus had been found guilty of sin as though an offense to God, what would have been the root cause?

He was found guilty among men that "Assumed" they not only knew God, but this same God they thought they served also justified everything that they saw fit to do.

Why though?

Why was it possible for God NOT to find Jesus guilty of sin, yet said Holy men of god DID find Jesus guilty of blasphemy and Sin?

Some today having the advantage of time and what assumed they've acquired as knowledge, might say that is was because they (father and Son) had a special telepathy working for them.

Someone else might hide behind the "Blind" of  what they say they do not understand as if to say, "What you're asking is something that man doesn't have the answer to"!

If we don't, then why would God ask that we be like Him?

Does God tell us to be like him only to see us fail, or so that we will ALL eventually come to see (Ob-serve) Him to be the only one that is "Righteous"?

If that is thought to be true, then why prepare a placed called "Hell"?

When is Jesus a liar? When is God as a father unapproachable?

Believers in Christ willing to accept that the Apostle Paul received his wisdom (revelation) from the Lord, yet was that wisdom ONLY for Paul's benefit?

As many more are willing to accept that every personality that performed great things throughout the recorded stories in the bible (miracles or people that heard directly from God) all had a special gift from God because God chose them.

Is this true? Yes,  I personally believe it is, BUT were any of them prefect in what they were doing at the time when He did call them to serve in the capacities we get to read or be told about today?

that was "For their eyes and ears only which then enabled them  alone to do great things. 

If Jesus did not have or need an intercessor in His relationship with His Father and we can accept the simplicity of His response when He was asked why He did what He did while here, what might one conclude?

That He could see and or hear what no one else could?

2 Cor 4:18
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal .
NIV

Now ask yourself, "What am I NOT able to see"?

The Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy as though a son.

Paul never wrote to the likes of Timothy, "I'm proud of you son". Instead Paul addressed Timothy on equal terms with more divine words.

In one letter he wrote, Paul opens with and addressed Timothy as "Man of God".

1 Tim 6:11-16
But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness. Fight the good fight of the faith.

What they had was a common vision, a common hope, a common and divine vocabulary enough that both understood each others speech because it always pertained to the same thing, "Eternal Matters".

I've only been able to find one mention in Paul's writing where he spoke about his parents. I've also only heard him mention one time his admired teacher that had indoctrinated in terms of him also being a Pharisee (Gamaliel).

When a Father and son communicate how often does context need to be established before they both know what's being said or asked?

Once again the rule of context rushes in.

Is it any wonder why today, when two people communicate there almost has to be a remedial course of spirituality presented as though context in order for the next thing that comes out of our mouth is ALSO received as though a spiritual communication we want to be "Heard".

The road for such words are usually prefaced with, "Now, I'm serious when I say this"!

God is spirit and His words are Life and this life is the life that's been given.

The question is, "Do we seriously "Observe" words the same way the One we call Lord does or only when we find them conveniently introduced as part of what we say and do?

Why can't this said "Man" respond to the question being asked among mere men the "Way" it's presently being dispensed?

Is it because it's the "Way" it's being presented or because we use what we know about each other as our defensive shield? How could perfection penetrate such a strong heritage of imperfection it having united and convinced itself there's nothing more to be done?

I believe there is no terminal shame in having a demon, yet refusing to acknowledge there's one in our refusal to have it removed speaks to so much more.

Jesus was teaching on hypocrisy and suggested the need to remove the plank from our own eye so that we CAN see. He wasn't also suggesting that we learn to live with a plank in our own eye. Instead so that WE can be of use to our brother.

Maybe spiritually because we are all claiming to still be under the influence of sin, what is seen is that everybody is walking around with a 2 x 10 in both eye's with a pair of tweezers in hand.

We need to contemplate why Jesus did ask, Will I find faith when I do return as well what could cause the love of many to grow cold towards the end?

Surely we can NOT prevent true prophecy from coming to pass, yet those who do believe and Can see should put to GOOD use the clear evidence we do see it coming and soon.

How often is context NOT clear in our daily conversations in terms of "What we see, "Who' Is teaching and "Why" so many have failed clearly understands the mutual need to listen?

It must be concluded that we're only considered righteous when WE are FOUND to be in Christ and only then are we justified in what we say or do.

I think it's clearly understood that God is a big God, yet that should not also make Him to be the target we blame when we fail to see what He says we need to righteously "Ob-serve".

If you do sin (and we all do) confess it as "Sin" then sincerely repent in keeping with the evidence that's God alone consider's believe-Able.

Heb 10:26-27

If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.
NIV

1 John 1:8-10

If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives.
NIV

1 Tim 3:16
Beyond all question, the mystery of godliness is great:

He appeared in a body, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was preached among the nations, was believed on in the world, was taken up in glory.
NIV

So who is it that's asking all the questions these days and why is so important we know the type person that's asking?

If it were accepted and then understood that we are only tempted where we lack self control, then would that not also explain why eternal matters are always just beyond what we've failed to truthfully consider?

Is what you can't see, also unbelief or is it just the dominate voice of what you choose to ignore having claimed to have know the truth?

What do you see because of what others have failed to observe? Now judge yourself.......

Heb 3:18-19
And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief .
NIV

Who are you and what's been accredited to your account?

If our whole life experience were intended to provide the evidence that we were ALL at some point in time lost without a savior, what have any of us learned from our experience enough that we don't repeat certain "Episodes" of uncertainty (doubts about what we've believed) over and over?

When is someone truly Lost and how are they saved?

If you don't know that you are lost or how a person CAN truly be saved or what they are saved from, what hope that is also real do we have in doing the will of God as it pertains to anything or anyone else?

Especially when we've primarily been taught that finding "Ourselves" saved and to then protect that hope so that we go to heaven, what's has that naked notion made this life is all about?

How could we see anything else if it crossed our paths if the whole event is about making sure that our repeat offending personage somehow remains saved enough to where we go to heaven?

Many make too small the importance of a mans integrity.

Paul wrote as though he'd never been married and for that matter it's insinuated that he'd never slept with woman or desired sex enough to take for himself a wife.

How so? He said so, yet do we believe Him if only we compare Paul to our personal history in order to somehow see His person as though the least of us?

Look at this way, If Paul could be proved a liar on any point of his writings and by anyone else but Christ who actually does forgive us our sins, what would that do to the rest of his testimony concerning Christ in the minds of men today as if part of our hope while believing the testimony of this witness?

Once proved a liar what hope should any of us have today while struggling to believe everything that he tells us about another named Jesus the Christ?

(Sounds like a modern day attorney talking doesn't it?)

Jesus took the time to make certain in the minds of His Apostle's in that they "Knew" their mission enough that He (Christ) knew they not only understood despite their past living, but could also be trusted with the power that's also given as part of their (commission) mission moving forward.

God commended them because they also believed the person they were sent of and In whose Name they were sent so that they too might find enjoyment in their commission concerning the truth without respect to the circumstance they were placed in by the leading of the Holy Spirit

If you can't hear what I just suggested by way of what Paul wrote, then I don't know what else could be said about His devoted integrity towards Christ Jesus unless we allow him to testify on his own behalf. Everything else we know (read) about Paul is what he used to do before Christ undeniably called him to service.

In my own struggles to find myself beyond what mere man have taught me, I must also be truthful in what I ask of God. I'm still stuck with what to ask, how to ask and what to expect when I do muster the courage to ask.

In terms of throwing the whole kitchen sink at Him as though full of request, what good is all the asking if I don't take inventory periodically except maybe every other full moon?

I used to wonder why I was reluctant in my youth to go and DO for God the things everyone else seemed to be telling me to do. They would say "You need to be doing this and You need to do that", but I was still stuck with me and how little I truly understood in the midst of all that said "Going and Doing".

It's one thing to be asked to do something, yet it's a completely different consideration when asked to "Go and Do" after you've been completely convinced of your identity in Christ/God and that identity then goes with you in order that you can GO beyond doubting.

I don't know if you've ever heard the phrase "Winging it" before but that's how I still feel at times. Should I have any real hope if theirs nothing to gain and that only for the sake of myself as well My own eternal future?

In my short spiritual history I've been told more about what I should NOT expect because of "What I do" than I was that all things that are possible when you "Go WITH God".

My present day summary would be, you can forget the American express card, "But don't ever leave Home without the Lord" wherever you Go!

I can all but hear, "So what's your point dude"?

My point is, If you haven't  been prepared before assuming you're sent, then don't Go until you have been made ready" (doubt).

If you haven't  been called then don't answer until you know you've been called, and if you're not being called then "Go" ask someone that knows you better than you know yourself.(doubt)

The trouble these days is that most don't know who to ask in part because few are trusted enough with such vulnerability.Why? Because of the innumerable reasons that can be drawn upon, few truly don't know you that well. Hmmm... then again maybe they do? (trust)

The other part is due to pride much like the student that refuses to raise their hand in class when they don't have clue about the bigger picture as to the "Why" they are in the class to begin with. (ignorance)

Why as though without power should I then believe that I will see GOD"S glory (power/virtue) show up if I did "Go" where I say that believe I've been lead and sent if I'm not sure that I've been called, prepared and sent by God?

Should I not consider the evidence of what is missing or do I blame someone else? What are the humble beginnings and what do they look like as we hope to move forward and IN Christ? Do I rely on mere men for that evidence who look just like me?

Do I hang on the words of just anybody as though My personal cross or do I place my trust in what's been given as though from the mouth of God that tells me where I should go, who I should expect to meet there and what I should expect from Him?

A Christ that is without Power? No thanks but that's not the God I place my hope in.

Don't let yourself be duped into believing that Christ is not for you. If the the Christ (savior) that's being preached is one that is also a silent said savior or one that can only be heard through the mouth of man then don't waste your time listening.

Still don't believe in miracles? Still not willing to believe the greates miracle of all is yet to come and usher you into paradise?

Do you still stand firm in your claim that you can't can't hear His sweet voice or that God does not talk to mankind today?

He's not asking you to be perfect, He's asking you to be willing to be MADE perfect as if a work that's still in its progressive stages.

You can now claim you've not been told, but will that claim still be the truth when asked face to face?

Read on friend..read on

John 10:25-30

Jesus answered, "I did tell you, but you do not believe. The miracles I do in my Father's name speak for me, but you do not believe because you are not my sheep . My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand. I and the Father are one."  
NIV
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John 5:39-40
You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life. 
NIV

John 10:14-15
"I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— just as the Father knows me and I know the Father — and I lay down my life for the sheep.
NIV

Selfish Saints

I want to begin this in saying that it is never my intent to coddle those that choose to read nor attract critique's who take delight in bashing others or other specific groups of people.

I'm also not recruiting members to my said "Church" nor am I attempting to organize an institutional entity of any kind. No, my plea is to those that claim Jesus as their Lord to begin to focus on the "True" purpose for the redemption of those that chose to believe IN Him.

There are times when a said "fleshing out" needs to take place, yet only when the motivation for participating is also for a healthy outcome.

Let's begin with the question "What does the word Dubious conjure in your mind when heard? Now let's add context in the form of what most believe to be applicable in the life of a said believer in Christ.

Just how much of what we say we believe soon becomes a derivative of  how much of ourselves we're willing to make available and for the sake of Christ?

Now ask yourself the same question except this time substitute the word Christ with the "Gospel"?

More often when the word "heart" is heard people generally associate that to mean the "Whole" person.

When we hear someone say, "Put your heart into it" as if a motivational plea or "Your heart's just not in it", wouldn't that suggest something that's not being applied? An even more specific use of this word can be seen when we want to be HEARD, "You and I need to have a heart to heart discussion"!

Think about it, the physical body can be present and surely the brain still resides in the confines of the cranium? We can still breath, eat, drink, drive cars, watch TV and even TALK without our heart being an active participant in those events can't we?

Now add to that thought "Your treasure is where your heart is".

Mark 14:38
Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing , but the body is weak."
NIV

In terms of rounding up or down, what happens when we then consider the participation of our soul, our mind and strength as part of the whole (heart)?

What is the athletic coach suggesting as they scream from the side lines to their players "Focus", or the school teacher that sends a report home with your child whose comments read, "Failure to focus" or consider the symphony conductor that taps his instrument as if the gesture made in hopes of being able to  "Conduct"?

What if the said "heart" instead of it being considered as the whole person were broken down into smaller participants which make up the "Whole" (heart), what might one see? Let's put that consideration in color for the sake of hi-lighting the thought.

Mark 12:30
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. NIV

If you will, now let me ask a question about commitment based on percentages and the above criteria, "Who or What has become your personal God"?

What are we suggesting when we use the word "Personal"?

We can ask our friends about their new relationships by inferring something specific when we ask, "Just how personal is this relationship" only then to hear our suspicion confirmed "We've become intimate"

We can use this word to thwart forward questions when we choose NOT to directly respond, "That question is too personal"! We'll even hear people use this word when they are talking about store bought items with respect to their shielded privacy items?

We hear specific words used all the time which remove doubts in others with RESPECT to being clearly understood.

Has Christianity been robbed of the meaning of all our words that are used in order to express a divine thought while communicating with this world? Is the world now using what used to be specifically defining words against us?

You ever watch one of those movies or shows where the convicts of a prison make weapons out of just about anything? I've even seen one where a tooth brush handle was shaved down to a point to be used as a dagger.

Which of your words when used against you end up defining who your enemies are?

Ps 64:3
They sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their words like deadly arrows.
NIV

Now let's consider a few choice words to hi-light this point. What about when we hear words such as Faith, Gospel, Church, God, Saint(s), Angels, Spirit, Soul, Heart, Evil, Righteous, or Righteousness?

Often times this passage gets reserved for the admonishment of preachers when the accusation is made concerning the use of God's word to profit the preacher. Think on it this way, are they the only ones that have a testimony concerning Christ in their daily lives while in this world?

Words these days don't seem to mean to much to humanity, yet we must remember that our creator through the exercise of speaking "Words" created what we see and who do we also believe that we are as His heirs?

2 Cor 2:14-15
But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him.

For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.

To the one we are the smell of death ; to the other, the fragrance of life. And who is equal to such a task? Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, like men sent from God.
NIV

Think how often you hear the surrounding world that has not accepted Christ as Lord using such words to hi-light the point (perspective) they're hoping to suggest from a worldly perspective?

Where today is the divine perspective being heard? Where is that place where devine "Words" have the affect on the hearer as the reason they were spoken to begin with?

More importantly what is it about their presentation that could possibly suppress (obscure) the truth which is their strength?

What do divine words conjure in the mind of a listening audience?

Maybe believers (in Christ) are not focused on what we're saying because we have lost sight of our TRUE "concern"? More concerned that is for what we are broadcasting as though our (owned) personal gain while being "Read" by the world around us?

Maybe what's been said to be a "heart to heart" visit is in order?

2 Cor 3:2-3
You yourselves are our letter, written on ---> our hearts, known and read by everybody. You show that you are a letter from Christ, ----> the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
NIV

Maybe because we've been more concerned with our personal view points to where we've become so desperate wanting to be heard that we've had to borrow from words which were traditionally used in order to express a specific and divine understanding?

Now copy and paste that same context to the place where one can observe the overall participation within an institutional setting such as maybe a corporate setting. Now consider just how long it might take before the decision makers pick up on the said "Non-participants" whose hearts are not in the matter at hand?

Is the church of this day suffering a loss in terms of its faithful attending membership OR is it's membership growing strong because of what it now finds acceptable from its members?

What seems to be the resounding message from the pulpit each week? You're going to heaven with no concern for what we now do?

Being saved is not like a purchased ticket given to you so that you get into an amusement park. Being saved is to suggest that you're not presently being judged for your sins committed.

Being is an active word, yet if your over all being is not also a willing participant, what does that say about what you've placed your faith having only skimmed over the truth of the matter?

Jesus in the only righteous one, yet we have been justified by the shedding of His Blood.

We too must be weighed by the truth. Believers have been justified but for what reason?

So that the evidence is found to be True upon whom our hope has been placed and only seen as the Christ of humanity.

Have you been saved so that you can look and act like the world and those that love it so who have a destiny to be burned with unquenchable fire?

Wake up! Just because you say it doesn't make it true no matter how many times you say it.

You've been justified for the sake of love and not for the sake of a selfish soul which daily refuses the spirit of God that looks to transform us into a living epistle which testifies to the Gospel God sent in the form of His son.

Signs that get ignored

There are signs in this world and there are SIGNS that are not of this world.

How much of what we do see from one moment to the next has spiritual application and how much gets missed and ONLY later it's attempted to then get re-applied to what happened as though spiritually applicable?

We spend too much time talking about our words and many other things being taken out of context, but what about our "Post" assessment of ourselves?

How do we make sense of what we do see from one moment to the next?

Do we really vacillate that much in our attention span from one point of interest to the next? What is interest and what is an investment and that of ourselves?

I personally don't think being spiritually minded is ONLY about how we see ourselves as spiritual beings. That consideration could be lassoed and corralled by the words "High Minded".

I think being spiritually minded is to be in such a place where the importance as though the being that is the "Mind of Christ" which then dominates our every consideration that passes our physical line of sight and ear shot.

Maybe because our primary investment made is One day or two at best a week in our "Formal Training" do we then find ourselves inept and lacking.

As spiritual beings what do we need in order to experience, encounter or put off this world as though "Primarily" a spiritual existence instead of a being that's focused on how the world see's physical personage as though we alone have hand "Crafted" it?

Some say and accuse in their saying "You're Being is TOO spiritual (or spiritually minded) while trying to understand and find enjoyment in this world"!

Are they not really speaking the truth while leaving OUT a couple of word in that, "Your Being is  TOO spiritual so much that I can't hear where you're coming from"?

The Apostle Paul "Attempts" to speak in his time while here on earth to those left to his care by God. We can read him through and only by way of what he wrote as though studying his person OR we'll try to visualize the ones he was speaking enough that we hope to familiarize ourselves (get comfortable) enough to where we think we understand what he's saying.

How can the unspiritual mind accept what Paul does have to say as though he is a form of a father here on earth? Especially when that same mind that's reading him knows (understands) themselves the same way?

No Church wants to be found like the Church of Corinth do they? If no what must they do in order to hear differently?

Not only What but also How do we see ourselves today as compared?

Which is it though while we "Try" to examine this said "Spiritual minded person" Paul was writing about? Is Paul with us today?

Can you truly answer that without first qualifying whether he is in spirit or physically present?

We can catch a glimpse of this person that needs to be heard in another passage of holy writ, yet only if we're focused on what it is we're looking for. How does someone focus on an invisible spirit if they don't KNOW what they're looking for?

Sometimes the glaringly obvious needs to momentarily fade so that we CAN SEE what may only be being WHISPERED.

I hope that it eventually gets asked though, "How does one SEE what they can ONLY hear?

Acts 8:28-29
The Spirit told Philip, "Go to that chariot and stay near it."   NIV

Acts 8:34
The eunuch asked Philip, "Tell me, please, who is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?" NIV

First one must answer, is God spirit and does His spirit still speak to men today in any form? The next thought should be "Can I know what His appearance will ALWAYS be LIKE when he does speak"?

As believers we need to know that God is present when his said angels speak. How? Because His angels are only true to HIM and because of that they can only speak what He tells them otherwise they are NOT of Him.

Yet where doubt seems to RULE and steal the moment is in the question, Is God's spirit a direct extension of His person in any form that simply CLAIMS to be speaking for Him?

Are we now without Hope because of what we seem to know better about what our enemy is capable of above and beyond a God we "Say" we know?

There is no other mention of this particular eunuch mentioned in the bible that I've found, yet what are we left to assume that happened in his life beyond his encounter with the words and baptism preented by God's faithful servant in the moment "Phillip"?

Friends taking the time (taking  = wasting time) to assume is a risky investment. Often times such that consumes the true value in being able to hear the voice we NEED to hear which CAN rob from the gift hearing itself.

There are times when the inquiry must be made, but just as important the one we're asking must be entrusted with our spiritual set of ears so that our spiritual eyes can see? 

Not such an easy task these days is it, especially in a world of when and where so many different sounding voices are stating what they claim is the same thing in the Name and for the sake of said unity to be found In Christ (a corporate Being that's compelled by the voice of one mind)?

Is Christ divided? Absolutely Not! 

Did Christ come to to divide? 

We must individually decide if that's what He truly said to our spiritual existence and as if for the futures sake of our Soul we personally love to "Love" so much more.

When we leave something or a place behind what does that suggest we've done? We've left for the sake of  "What"? 

Now ask the same question about the same thing yet only differently, "Did we abandon something having left it behind as though open acknowledgement to our claim of ownership? 

How important then does our "Intent" in doing so rush into that same consideration? How can we hide our intent? 

Who will know "Who" we were thinking about should our intention(s) be found out?

Humanity will only follow his own logic so far, yet at what point does it prove to be "wisdom" where we've abandon the logic that lead us to where are?

It is written that Jesus the Christ the Son of God that was crucified IS the Power and WISDOM of God. 

Are we now without excuse for what we are as though absent the availability of true wisdom in ALL things? 

Can we say in all truth when we do what we do, "I did not Know" or is the truth "I denied Knowing as if the HOPE that I would not be found OUT? How long will we deny Christ through our claims made concerning what we all seem to know better then the Christ we say we serve?

John 17:3

Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

NIV

Found "Out" of what though? 

That we've been out of a cage like some wild animal or "Out of The will of God as though our truthful life and eternity In Him depended on it"? 

Surely there is repentance and thank God daily for it too, yet we've not only been called to repentance have we? What about acceptance of what we once were and who we now ARE having been first made AWARE of having been found to BE IN CHRIST and Christ In us?

If what we say is True in that we simply forgot when we do sin, what have we confessed and just confirmed with our own words? Do we then become the poster child of forgetfulness who continues in that forgetfulness as though rulers in a world of insanity?

Are we simply reading words on paper? Are we being told what words on paper are REALLY saying above and beyond what the spirit of God is saying? Take a little here and add a little there to take the edge off the sword?

Are we as believers being trained to hear the voice that is trying to speak to us AND be HEARD above and from beyond all voices that are speaking at what seems to be the same time?

If you understand God the way He's explained Himself by way of ALL and through ALL that He's created, you can hear a blade of grass tell you what you need to know in any moment He's also given.

Put away your dull sword

2 Cor 3:14
But their minds were made dull , for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read.
NIV

The bible records a radiance (glory) that shown from the face of Moses when He came down the mountain after being in the presence of God.

Have you ever asked "What could make the radiance on the face of Moses as though a symbol of something that's also found itself in need of being covered"?

Was it only because he'd vacated the presence of God?

Could it have been in part for the sake of those He found himself in the midst of a who struggled to find themselves accepted of God?

Is it possible his placement of a veil over his face was just as important for us today who read the apostle Paul where He mentions something He calls the "The Same Veil"?

Read the following words from a man also known as the "Teacher". Read this passage and then ask yourself, would not the wise man (teacher) "Sharpen the Ax" before attempting to cut wood with dull edge?

Eccl 10:10

If the ax is dull and its edge unsharpened, more strength is needed but skill will bring success.

NIV

If the teacher is thought wise and if the teacher is trying to teach a lesson, would it be a fair question to ask if this particular lesson is one on "How to cut wood"?

I've also heard the following quoted as though all true, simply because of where the following words can be found.

Eccl 10:19
.....money is the answer for everything.
NIV

Why doesn't the interpretation always reveal wisdom?

Wisdom doesn't need context in order to teach because wisdom is surrounded by context at all times. 'The wise" needs only for the student to remain willing to be sharpened and to hold true for whose sake wisdom has been dispensed.

Surely the sword of Goliath which we later find in the hands of a young man named David was not dull. At least up to Goliath's encounter with David, his sword had never failed to serve him or his intentions enough that he was feared abroad.

Let's take a look at the said "Sword of the Spirit" along these same lines.

Many can accept the claim made that the words emphasized in red within the bible were also spoken from the mouth of a person named Jesus. An even smaller number can accept the thought that the spoken and written words of the Apostle's were given (assigned) to them by the Holy Spirit.

Much like the sword taken from Goliath that had failed to slay David, why do those same words (as though a sword) find themselves virtually inept (powerless) once placed in the possession of the said "believers" personality today?

Many will say, "They had something back then that is no longer available today" or "Such displays of power passed away with the Apostles"!

I refuse to apologize for what you're about to read, but I can't accept that at face value unless we first ask and truthfully answer, "What is it about those their Godly filled personalities that's missing today"?

Clearly they made it a point to declare it was not "Their" power being put on display whenever we read about God doing things through them.

IF what they declared concerning the display of power is true, then once again I'll ask only about the residuals that are left to consider, "What did their personalities have that we don't have today?

When I ask that question I mean as compared to the life (personality) of a believer today that claims to have "Encountered" and know well enough to give their savior "Jesus THE Christ" the glory?

If not openly let's at least be honest in our semi private thought life.

Let me ask this, "As compared to then has sin decreased today? Also compared to the first century attributes of the body of Christ has said "Faith" been on the constant increase to this day?

How does one measure either?

Did Jesus address them the way He did because they had just met Him or was it that they had been with Him longer than a day?

Matt 15:16-20

"Are you still so dull ?" Jesus asked them. "Don't you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? 

But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man 'unclean.' For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what make a man 'unclean'; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him 'unclean.'"  

NIV

The book of Jude is relatively small if volume were the only comparative, yet is the Holy Spirit capable of indwelling all that believe in Christ at the same time?

Jude 5-7
Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe. (who are the those he's talking about? In this writing was he only speaking of those from antiquity that fell in the desert?)

And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their own home — these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day. (Who are the "these" and "They's" he keeps drawing our minds to in order to compare?)

In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire. (How can "They' serve those of the US group who say that we believe and are found in Christ"?) NIV

Here we find these same personalities he keeps describing. He doesn't give them specific names, instead he pronounces the title they've captured from their hearers.

Jude 12-13
These men are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm — shepherds who feed only themselves.

They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted — twice dead. They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
NIV

He doesn't call them fellow sheep, instead he calls them men, blemishes and refers to them as "Shepherds who feed only themselves".

Far to often the smaller things go undetected. How does that compare to what we refuse to revisit concerning what we say we no beyond doubt?

Is there such a thing as false humility?

Wouldn't we first need to know what "True" humility looks like in terms of a personality placed on display?

Many enjoy being "First" in their daily business here on earth, yet there's only ONE original in everything that's that's considered "New".

Though the in coming king can still do what the "Old" (departed) king did (rule), can the "New" King that has promised to make all things new be removed from his throne?

I suppose he could IF that kings begins to take on the likeness of the old King.

Many can train their voice to sound like another or even groom their features to appear as another.

With respect to "Sincerity" how frequently does this quality get turned on and off in order to serve the moment at hand in our lives?

Jude 14-16
Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men: "See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones to judge everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly acts they have done in the ungodly way, and of all the harsh words ungodly sinners have spoken against him."

These men are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage.
NIV

We will blame the demise of an Ecosystem on the ones that are in charge (headship). When the teacher puts up their best defense we'll find OURSELVES blaming parents when we see THEIR kid doing bad things.

But can we as believers that are also being Truthful blame God when we find ourselves being poor interpreters of His word?

Who do we then turn to IF it's all His doing? Who could we blame if we've been busy being about God business while going to work and or raising a family?

Consider the food chain or the chain of command of an army, whose to blame when followers don't find themselves where they don't WANT or THINK they SHOULD be?

Honestly ask yourself, who else is there to blame for what you say you don't when you find yourself living in a world of hurt where God is at the controls of everything that takes place in our lives.

What more need be said for the need of a savior that is More than able?

Wake up you creation of God Most High and let the light of truth shine upon you!

Preservation of truth

"Those which deny divine wisdom as part of their history are bound to repeat it"

Okay so I changed or added a few words to it, but did it redirect the essence of the message sent?

I guess the weight of that answer would depend on who's judging our motives.

What if our assumed motives for being where ever it is that we find ourselves from one moment to the next were "Wrong"? 

What if our thought life turned out to be the seed(s) from which our actions were conceived and then given birth into this world? 

How much of what we do has been prompted and continues to be directed by the voice of the Lord and how much of our thoughts have stemmed from a corrupt thought life (approach to life)? 

More pointedly, who is the beneficiary of our words and actions?

If it were true, for what reason(s) would you suppose that the book of "truth" is not found here in the earth? 

Why does Holy writ place truth not only at the right hand of God that also resides in Heaven? Not that truth hasn't visited us, but much like an original copy of anything thought valuable, where is such usually kept?

What if the claim is made that our implicit day to day activities as though the the NET result(s) of our being, were never informed that YOU are wrong? Who do we then blame? 

Do we blame those that did NOT teach? Should the full weight of that question fall squarely on the shoulders of those that were not willing to listen?

Where is the presence of truth here in the earth and how does one search for it if it's rarely found?

In terms of accountability, "Blame" is simply a revised wording for the mismanaged potential of "Shame". It's real simple, just swap the first two letters. 

Seriously though, in this world when there is no shame present, is it even possible for someone to convict themselves of a wrong? At what point does the dynamics of Shame cease to be considered a "Good" thing?

What could cause a persons reasoning to lead them into behavior which God might interpret as the "Suppression" of the truth? 

How could the reasoning behind someones behavior hold out in the hope, that their perpetuated behavior would also eventually result in its acceptance?

There are times when what follows directly behind the word "Because", should be taken seriously yet only when such an inquiry has been based upon "By whose authority"?

Rom 1:18-20
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse .

NIV

Is what God considers and has termed to be "Evil" taken too lightly these days? Are we becoming more guilty OR less often convicted each day of somehow "Suppressing" that which was and still is true in Heaven?

What could hope to stand in opposition to the presentation and performance of the "Truth"?

What if someone were looking for a "WAY" to take the edge off of or maybe the bite out of the word "Evil"?

How might they go about it? 

If being found to be "Wrong" were to interpret in the mind of a righteous God to be something that is evil, what would that assessment then "Re-define" as we go about our daily "Affairs"? 

Would it redefine the inner activity of our thought life? Would that candle only be held up next to our chosen actions that we hope are also the only ones being observed? 

Under that premise of constructive criticism, could holding ones peace concerning what God has to say about what is "Wrong" with us also be considered "Evil"?

Yeah, I know I can hear it now, "But who likes a critic"? 

Where then does Love that only God defines and IS, come into the room as a voice to consider?

Just how deep of an examination of ones own life does that opening phrase suggest?

Especially when it's clearly understood that the essence of pride when accompanied by ignorance can become our own worst enemy?

How does one prove that they "believe" anything that's been said? 

Who then becomes the center stage as if the venue of a performance which also "Proves" to be in agreement with what's been said?

What truly has the "Actor" (performer) rendered while on stage?


John 8:15-16
You judge by human standards; I pass judgment on no one. But if I do judge, my decisions are right, because I am not alone. I stand with the Father, who sent me. NIV

Is the essence of that passage written in red also your life mandate?

If you neglect to receive the spoon that feeds the inward desire as if the Hope of being seen as a son (child) of God, can you ever "Truthfully" expect to hear (receive) wisdom in the moment from Him?

 Revered counsel as though He is your trust worthy heavenly Father that is also willing to give a more excellent counsel that is also above what you presently might NOT be in possession of?

Firstly, how can a person ever come to know Him (or anyone for that matter) as if that part of them that is real and ALIVE that same said "being" deny's? 

The part of them that desires to exist and be seen as alive, active and sharper than any two edged sword?

Jesus as the Christ (anointed savior of mankind) was and still is "The Prime Example" of a Father and Son relationship, yet what "Continues to confirm that same relationship enough to where it's is known by others to be "True"?

True enough to where that same example will prove to be "Undeniable" when everything to include our spoken words will be judged?

Food for thought or Food that has zero nutritional value?

In the event of the Life you've been "Given", the opportunity to decide who is right in everything you look to do IS part of that gift?

Always remember when considering the evidence of what God has said as to whether YOUR opinion has reflected or rejected His own words. Yet, also remember that same evidence you're hoping to present can and will be used against you if you were "Wrong".

"What does the evidence of Your life prove"?

Is God right in every instance or has any part of your performance refused to change while hoping to somehow prove "wrong" that which is said to be "Right"?

Self governance is not always the response, unless of course you hold the reigns on that which is :right.

Thank God that he didn't ask us to "Make" the Tree, but in His tender mercy He has allowed us the opportunity to become the Fruit!

Could the beginning of our story among the "Trees" have always been about which one(s) we should not eat from?

Some questions simply remain "Bound" in time which becomes our hsitory, yet know first and foremost that God requires a life as a "Being" that is being lived in such a manner that it proves Him as the only Righteous One.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him.
NIV

Matt 12:33-37

"Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit.

You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him.

But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned."
NIV

Why all the "Fuss" over the use of words?

When a person discovers the real power behind the use of words, there should be a time of serious reflection as to what those words look like in a persons future that is void of God. (SW)

Forever is a long time yet only a small percentage of that time is "Being" enjoyed as though an eternal reality which has been "truly" lived. (SW) 

As long as there are E-motions that are also human in their nature, the demand placed upon words will never be diminished. (SW)

The man that remains convinced that Gods "Way" was intended to remain a mystery, what hope should he then have of putting to Godly use the gift(s) he has been given. (SW)

The lack wisdom will eventually suffer when "Truth" is not accepted as though it were never dispensed. (SW)

When asked, "What possessed you to say such a thing", that person should consider it a serious question from above about what has been stated as though assumed to be "Truth". (SW)

Is there such a thing as a "Lie" that comes from above everything that is an eternal matter. (SW)

God does not confuse men, yet men confuse what God intended to be from the same heart. (SW)

When is the blood of another NOT found on the hands of the innocent and when is that assumption considered to be true in the eyes of God. (SW)

1 Peter 4:11
If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. NIV

The promotion of this passage is not to suggest that one go about simply verbalizing King James scripture. 

Instead it's being suggested that such a person remain willing to strive for and live as though an exhibit of what these words were intended to manifest as to then "Be" expressed.

How hard is it to give away something that is not yours as well take it home (to heart) if it's not a righteous gift.

That's not to mention what might have been wrongfully "Taken" from someone else to include their spoken "Words"

Western "Culture" would have the likes of Socrates, Plato and Darwin feed our understanding, yet are they not just men equipped with a  mind, imagination and the gift of questioning which hopes to expound upon their own reasoning?

Just suppose for a moment that these men individually missed their eternal calling and that same calling was their responsibility to discover the truth and for the benefit of others they found listening to them?

Meaning they each may have put to use their God gifted abilities, but NOT according to what God intended for them to be as if for the dispensation of something more as a divine intention..

Granted, they each had something at their disposal in the form curiousity and strong will enough to where they found themselves broadcasting their thought life as though absolute (truth), yet what fueled their seeming success?

Is it not simply the appetite for the answers to the "Unknown" as though the solving of a mystery?

The Apostle Paul makes mention in scripture concerning the inclusion of an "Unknown God" as though it were a gesture (idol) that had been crafted just in case something got left out of the God factoring.

What did the Apostle Paul do prior to his revelation received concerning what he whole "Heartily" believed and committed himself to?

Was he thoroughly convinced that he was presently doing Gods (bidding) business here in the earth while sternly ordering and watching Christians be imprisoned and be put to death? When I read what Paul spoke of himself and his resume, what I hear is that of a man that was "All In" meaning fully invested.

If those 3 men mentioned above DID miss their (Divine) calling, how might their lack of divine contribution now effect (or infect) "Our" mutual history as though the result(s) which stemmed from their verbalized and recorded beliefs?

A belief system that did NOT come from the specific voice that has "Made" it His practice since the beginning to broadcast only that which is "True"?

Why would God who is also incapable of lying, suggest that some would be held accountable for blood shed of those that He sent to warn mankind?

In terms of responsibility and participation, how could He "Hold" them responsible since the event of their blood shed took place "before" they were even physically born?

Luke 11:49
Therefore this generation will be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world, NIV

Now back to the three personalities mentioned in mankind's history, where is God in the midst of their philosophical approach as though a more precise discovery portal through which others might follow in order to find what is "True"?

Just how narrow is the way through which God intends to lead mankind to the "Truth"?

Is that way not only through the precise, undiminished and prescribed terms of acceptance concerning the "Net" results of a life lived by one man? Namely God the "Christ"?

Today how much residuals would you suppose still exist of what these three men committed to our social mindset through the use of words? 

(As a side bar, the above question as narrow as it is was not drafted with the intent to somehow excuse the multitude of other voices that cry out from antiquity to the contrary of all that truth is and does while here in the earth).

How much of what they broadcast (preached) actually interferes with the mandate which governs truth that also holds time in its grip which visited humanity in the form of this Man named Jesus?

Just how important is "One" life that's been "Truthfully" lived?

Just how much concerning truth helps shape and form (Inform) any "Beings" Identity whether human or not?

Is it simply what many agree with in the form of a legacy left behind? If yes can that legacy be manipulated by the scribe enough so that it somehow changes all that's "Being" recorded in Heaven?

Could it be that a mans identity IS his "Present" life that's "Being" lived? Divinely so as such which gets recorded "Accurately" and is left undisturbed?

Is it only what one believes that makes them "Who" they are or is it what gets recorded about them that makes it true?

Is it simply the "Who" a man assumes that he is as compared to the "Truth" OR is a man only "What" His creator has "Proven" him to be which is then witnessed by others?

How does one show themselves "Approved" by God while at the same time find themselves approved by "Men"? Jesus "Performed" miracles yet ALL that "Witnessed" them were not convinced of His identity.

How much would a mans ability to relate to others also "Prove" to be a prerequisite concerning His identity that is also "True"?

John 1:11-13
He (Jesus) came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him .

Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God. 
NIV

2 Cor 2:15-17
For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.

To the one we are the smell of death ; to the other, the fragrance of life. And who is equal to such a task?

Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit.

On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, like men sent from God.
NIV

The importance of knowing a mans origins play a major role as though a participant in what that same man believes, says and does.

All of which as mentioned falls short of just how influential those 3 then prove to be as though the power to influence others as the "need" to turn to God for the truth..

1 Peter 1:23
For you have been born again , not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
NIV

Just think how lofty a man could think of himself today if he also believed his origins began as that of an ape or a fish?

Without the consideration of his creator, would he then survey his history to then reach the conclusion which speaks, "Look how far I've come" and without a said "God"?

Is it still any wonder why "History" will not release its grip upon the hearts and minds of men?

That grip to mean such that presents itself as though a gift, yet places conditions upon such a gift "Before" it gets completely released?

History should NOT be our teacher, instead the Holy Spirit directed by the words of God should be.

WWJD (What Would Jesus Do) sounds good on paper as such that finds itself able to conjure a thought, yet as such that is void of what God has to say, what truly does one hold onto as though an image of themselves?

I find it fascinating that the eyes of a man will never behold his own image outside of that which gets presented in the form of a reflection. Glass though it may be an inanimate mirror, it's still only able to reflect the image of a being.

Believing in anything requires the harmonious alignment of a mans will (the gate keeper of the mind) which finds itself in agreement with the "said" evidence that's being presented..

Just how powerful are words that are void of the energy of our "Emotions"?

Especially when that question trails on the heels of the notion that might suggest, "Emotions are the energy produced" based on all that we've believed which then compels us to take action (Perform) in a "Specific manner".

What of the word "Zeal" or "Spirit" when they're used to express the energy found behind a given series of words sequenced together as the utterance?

Exactly where are the origins (the essence) of a mans emotional fervor?

Are emotions simply responses derived from the combined chemistry of the things consumed by a man that have taken up residency within his body?

I might agree with that philosophy as long as the essence of what is "Heard & Seen" are included in the list of things "Consumed' (Namely the heart of God in the form of His words consumed).

Jesus attempted to make clear that "It" is NOT what goes into a man that makes him unclean. Instead it's what comes out of a man's "Mouth" that makes him unclean (sinful).

Matt 15:11
What goes into a man's mouth does not make him 'unclean ,' but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him 'unclean .'"
NIV

Is a persons life (being) the combined outward responses of "Only' the body or does a persons reasoning weigh in at some point?

What has shaped (informed) that reasoning as though an "Ability" that's been dispensed?

Even as the Lord came as a 3 part being into the realm of this world, so too is our earth bound reflection of Him that is "Now" supposed to be dominated by the re-born spiritual man birthed within (Christ In You).

The tough question (here it comes), Where's the evidence that event (birthing) took place?

Is the presence of such a rebirth evidenced by words alone which testify to the presence of that new identity found within?

Or is that presence born as though a silent and deaf presence (mute)?

Jesus said, 'My sheep hear my voice" as well He says below.

John 15:9-12

"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. 

My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
NIV

What commentary that is also "Effectual" could possibly argue on behalf of the personage that has proven themselves to be as though someone that is deaf, dumb and or blind?

In the light of having accepted all that truth says that He is, it still leaves the question on the table, "which part of that 3 part being is the dominate voice which compels your over all "Presence" (being) to act in a specific manner?

Do we truly believe, 'You are what you eat" or that our body responds to "What we eat"?

Have we been reduced to "What we are is the manifested result of what we've believed or is there a more accurate assessment (being) made from above?

I suppose one would have to at least be willing to accept there is a God and that God came to mankind in the same form.

Does what you personally believe about that same God also cause Him to manifest as truth in your life that you also revere or maybe highly esteem?

A 'Philosophy" outside of truth that's founded upon mans experience is a farce, yet a philosophy that's governed by the Truth has been deemed worthy of a never ending investigation.(SW)

The phrase "Christ compels me" gets used allot these days, yet how much of what gets accredited to the accounting methods of Christ is actually true?

Have you ever said something to someone and later discovered (or justified) after realizing it was perceived as "Offensive" that it was simply put, "Taken" the wrong way"?

How much of what we do say and do, eventually proves to be something Christ has said that'e been "Taken" from Christ the wrong "Way"?

Would that make Him or you a foreigner each of which are located at the same address?

If it could ever be established in ones mind that the truth is "Never" wrong how easy would it be for someone to over step their boundaries as if an "Abuse" of that same power?

There's power to be found at the end of your arm.

Next time you remember who YOU claim also lives inside of YOU also remember you have a hand that is capable of covering YOUR mouth that's speaking.

If the author of the following words were believed to be from Christ also spoken by Christ from within the confines of a man, what else might be seen, heard and understood?

Christ In You?

Ps 34:1-5
I will extol the LORD at all times; his praise will always be on my lips.
My soul will boast in the LORD; let the afflicted hear and rejoice.

Glorify the LORD with me; let us exalt his name together.

I sought the LORD, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears.
Those who look to him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame.
NIV