Focus on the Being in Christ

Do not focus on "doing" focus on "being" because Christ lives in us and the doing will come as He directs.

When God Makes Two People One

When God makes two people one it is a spiritual matter and cannot be undone by man. It's not a contract it is a melding together of two spirits into one and only is broken at death. It is God's covenant for the marriage.

Mark 10:8-9

"And the two shall become one flesh; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate".

Here it says "let no man separate" but the original meaning is "no man can separate what God has joined. The "let" is old English and means "not allowed" or "impossible" or "hinder." It can also mean "do not permit."

Marriage cannot be severed except by death. It is easy to see when someone marries they still maintain their own bodies and personalities and genders, the only thing this passage could mean is the spirits melding together.

This is why God said;

Luke 16:18 "Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery".

Divorce by the law of the land does not sever the marriage bond. This is why God did not recognize divorce. The Matthew passage that is used "except for fornication" refers to the Jewish custom of requiring a divorce from the engagement or betrothal before marriage when the woman was considered married before she had vows and before she lived with the man. This was the only allowance for severing the relationship. It was not yet a marriage only a promise to marry.

This is also why God said not to remarry, because the original two people were melded by the spirit.

Once the marriage occurs, the vows are proclaimed and they began living together there was no provision for divorce or remarriage.

Everyone 80 years ago knew this, it was only in the last 50 years the seminaries began teaching the exception clause. We must go to the Holy Spirit and those who love Christ rather than ungodly educated men who have been trained to grow their gatherings through compromise of the Word of God.

What did God say; "if you divorce you sin" and "if you remarry you are committing adultery", not a one time event but an ongoing state of adultery.

This is one of the most hated truths among the apostate churches than any other since the gatherings are full of divorced and remarried people who defend it adamantly. The pastors will not preach on it and if they do they preach wrongly to justify it.

May the eyes of many be opened to this problem of divorce and remarriage in the church.

God Hears Those Who Seek Him

Most choose not to believe what they have been told about God. In my experience the "Christians" I know do not believe most of the Bible but claim they revere it. They cherry-pick what they want to believe and twist the rest of it.

Most "Christians" do not even read their Bibles and the others that do never ask God to show them the truth, they just believe what their teachers and "pastors" tell them to believe.

The "pastors" are consulted about matters and the Holy Spirit is not consulted. When appearing wise to men is the goal of many Christians they will be led astray into false doctrine while elevating men above God.

There is no greater teacher than Jesus Christ Who lives in those who have trusted in Him.

I have had more people tell me what their pastor told them than say they heard from the Holy Spirit through His Word.

The only way for a heart that seeks man to recover is for him to repent and seek Christ alone.

Hebrews 11:6 "6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him."

The Detestable Gifts of the Rebellious Heart

I really hate it when someone treats me disrespectfully all the time and then brings me a gift on my birthday.

I don't care anything about my birthday, I would rather be treated with respect and love without a birthday gift.

God has shown me how He must feel when we "do things for Him" with our own desire to be elevated, and ignore His truths and principles in His Word.

Isaiah 1:11-17

11 “What are your many sacrifices to Me?”

Says the Lord.

“I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams

And the fat of fattened cattle;

And I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls, lambs, or goats.

12 When you come to appear before Me,

Who requires of you this trampling of My courtyards?

13 Do not go on bringing your worthless offerings,

Incense is an abomination to Me.

New moon and Sabbath, the proclamation of an assembly—

I cannot endure wrongdoing and the festive assembly.

14 I hate your new moon festivals and your appointed feasts,

They have become a burden to Me;

I am tired of bearing them.

15 So when you spread out your hands in prayer,

I will hide My eyes from you;

Yes, even though you offer many prayers,

I will not be listening.

Your hands are covered with blood.

16 “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean;

Remove the evil of your deeds from My sight.

Stop doing evil,

17 Learn to do good;

Seek justice,

Rebuke the oppressor,

Obtain justice for the orphan,

Plead for the widow’s case."

When the holidays roll around as they do every year Christians will have pagan symbols in their house alongside symbols they think are of Christianity. They will mix God with paganism and claim it was for God.

The truth of these false displays of love is that they are entirely based on the desire to love something God hates but claim it was for Him.

Psalm 40:6

"Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require."

Proverbs 15:8

"The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight."

Proverbs 21:3

"To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice."

Those who love the Lord with all their heart can recognize a gift for what it is not by the gift itself but by the behavior toward them all the rest of the year.