Voices

Mitt Jeffords

October 2007

I had these recurring dreams that were almost identical; about the only thing
that was different from one dream to the other was the locations. This is what
each dream had in common. First of all, it was always night time; and
secondly, I found myself always on the run, like some kind of escaped convict
or dangerous criminal that was relentlessly being chased, and I felt as though
I was always running for my very life. In one dream, I was running through the
woods; in another, I was running through city streets; in another, I was
running though a neighborhood; and in another, I was running through
farmland.

No matter which dream it was, I was always thirsty, exhausted and very
weary. Even so, I hardly felt like I could spare a moment to stop and rest, or
even take the time to look for some water.

Every now and them, I came across a storage shed, or a empty doorway, or
an old abandoned house that I felt like I could safely hide in and rest for
maybe a moment of two; but in every dream, as soon as I would sit down, I
would immediately begin to hear these voices in the distance, and I knew that
they were the voices of those who were chasing after me. The voices would
quickly get louder as they approached me, as though they always knew
exactly where I was. I would then immediately take off, running as fast as I
could, as though I barely had time to escape. Each time that I awoke from
these dreams, I found myself sweating and physically exhausted, as though
these chases truly happened to me in some realm that I am not familiar with.
My strength would be so completely spent that it would take everything that I
had just to get out of bed.

Then one morning, just after I awoke from another one of these dreams, I did
something that I had not previously done; I prayed and asked, “Lord, what are
these dreams, and who is it that is always chasing me?” The Lord answered
and said, “The voices that you heard in your dreams are the voices of your
“old man”; you remember those voices, don’t you? These are those voices
that you were well familiar with before the day that I called you; in those past
times when you were still your own lord and god. O yes, in those past times,
your “old man” was your constant companion; an intimate lover that
counseled you have to keep control over your own life. He was a personal
guide to your conscience; a confidant in times of trouble, and a counselor in
whom you greatly trusted. O yes, it is your “old man” that assures you that you
are right in all that say and in all that do because righteousness belongs only
to a god. You delighted in making your own decisions because that is what a
god does. You delighted in those things which you did according to your own
will because a god only does his own will. You delighted in making your
opinions to be the truth because truth belongs only to a god. You delighted in

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making a reputation for yourself because a god should have fame. You
delighted in the precious image that you made for yourself because a god
delights only in the work of own his hands. You delighted in exalting your own
name above all other names because there should be no other names before
a god. Surely, you remember those old days, don’t you? You do remember
the voices of his voice, don’t you?

I Corinthians 4:5 “Judge nothing before the time until the Lord comes and
brings to light the hidden things of darkness and the counsels (the voices)
of the heart; and then shall every man have praise of God.”

Your “old man” is pursuing after you to woo you; to seduce your heart with
sweet words and to entice you with past remembrances; and he relentlessly
pursues after you as a jilted lover who desires to have his love back. He it is
who seduces you to yield to the counsels of his voice; to those voices that you
knew well when you had no other counselor but him. He desires to bring back
into your remembrance the “good old days”; for you to look back at your old
life and remember how delightful it was when you daily satisfied his desires
for you to be your own lord and god. That’s right; your “old man” has no desire
for me to be your Lord or your God, for it is impossible for a man to have two
masters. He is coming after you, to tempt you with those past remembrances
so as to win your heart back so that he might regain his throne over your heart
and mind. He is coming after you to win back your heart with new devices that
arouse in you these “old desires” to be your own lord and god. O, you do
remember which is written where I said, “You are gods”. Your “old man” seeks
to do this for his own preservation; that is, your “old man”, he is only your “old
man”; he is no one else’s “old man” but yours.

Ecclesiates 7:10 “Do not say, "Why were the old days better than these?"
For it is not wise to ask such questions.”

John 10:34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law that I said,
“You are gods?”

Psalm 97:7 “Let all be put to shame who serve graven images (opinions),
who boast of idols. Worship Him, all you gods.”

Galatians 4:8-9 “Howbeit then when you did not know God, you did service
unto them which by nature are not gods. But now, after that you have known
God, or rather are known of God, why do you turn again to the weak and
beggarly elements, which you desire again to be in bondage?”

He is coming to remind of how easy and satisfying it was in those days when
you did all things according to your own will. He wants to remind you of how
simple it was in those days for you to just say and do those things that
seemed right in your own eyes. Your “old man” wants to remind you of how
wonderful those times were when you felt like you were in control over the
circumstances and situations in your own life. He wants to remind of the old
days when you felt free to make your own opinions to be all the truth that you
needed to know. Your “old man” wants to remind you of those old days when

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you never had any weaknesses or faults because you always had a reason or
an excuse to justify them with. O, how sweet and enticing are the voice of his
words which call out to you from the darkness. Have you not heard his voice?
Have you not known that all of your temptations come forth from the voices of
your “old man”? O, he comes after all to arouse old desires with enticing and
seducing voices that he cleverly disguises.

James 1:14 “But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own
desires and enticed.”

Now let me remind of that which is written, for you have a choice to make; a
choice of whose voice you are going to yield your heart to believe and obey;
for in truth, there is only one Lord and one God; and he is a jealous God who
will not have the voice of any other gods before him. I have called you out of
this world, and you are no longer a citizen of this world; you are no longer
your own lord and god. Take heed; and let me remind you of Lot’s wife, how
she was enticed to look back at the life she was leaving behind; and suddenly
she was no more. So also does your “old man” continually tempt you to look
back at the life that I have called you out of; let not your heart be deceived to
save the life of your “old man”; a life filled with the idolatry of “self”. It is now,
and it is no longer yesterday, so your “old man” has devised new plans to
arouse old desires; and he is coming after with voices of filled with sweet
words and false doctrines.

Luke 17:30-33 “Thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed;
for in that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the
house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let
him likewise not return back. Remember Lot's wife. Whoever shall seek to
save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

Genesis 19:24-26 “Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah
brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven; and he overthrew those cities,
and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon
the ground. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a
pillar of salt.

Luke 9:61-62 “And another also said, “Lord, I will follow you; but first let me
go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house. And Jesus said unto
him, “No man, having put his hand to the plow and then looking back is fit for
the kingdom of God”.

Philippians 3:13-14 “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but

this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching
forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize
of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”

1 Timothy 4:1-2 (AMP) “But The [Holy] Spirit distinctly and expressly
declares that in latter times some will turn away from the faith, giving attention
to deluding and seducing spirits and doctrines that demons teach, through the

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hypocrisy and pretensions of liars whose consciences are seared
(cauterized).”

Now hear and understand and I will show the mystery of your “old man”. But
first, answer me this question? From where does sin come from? Does it
come from Satan, that old Devil who is the father of the “old man”? What was
the sin of Lucifer, and from where was it conceived? Was it not conceived out
of his own wisdom when it was corrupted with the desires to make himself to
be as God? And once Lucifer had deceived himself with this lie, what lie then
did he speak to the angels that so easily overcame 1/3 of them into believing
that they also could become as God? And then upon earth, did not Satan use
the same voice of words to deceive Adam and Eve with that he had used to
deceive himself and 1/3 of the angels in heaven with? I told you before, and I
tell you the truth; there is only one God and one Lord, and all others come
forth as illusions of lies. Do you now see, that sin of the “old man” is the same
sin as Lucifer, his angels, Adam and Eve; the desire for one to make himself
to be his own lord and god?

Isaiah 14:12 “How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!
How are you cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations! For you
have said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above
the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the
sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like
the most High.”

Genesis 3:1-6 “Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field
which the Lord God had made; and he said unto the woman, “Yea, has God
said, “You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” And the woman said to
the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit
of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, “You shall not
eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.” And the serpent said to the
woman, “You shall not surely die; for God knows that in the day that you shall
eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing
good and evil.” And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and
that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise,
she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and then gave it also unto her
husband; and he did eat.”

Your “old man” is a child of this world; a child of darkness who is completely
alienated and separated from any fellowship and communion with the Father
of Light. Your “old man” is only subject to the desires of his father, the Devil;
and the Devil only desires to be his own lord and god. The children of
darkness are his deceived children who continually exercise themselves in
these same desires to be their own lord and god. The darkness is the dwelling
place for these ignorant beasts that have no comprehension of the “being” of
God, nor do they understand the divine nature of God. Your “old man” is such
a beast because he does not know God. Remember that which you once
said, “I know the Lord”; but I questioned you and said, “O yes, you do know
me as your Savior, but do you know me as your Physician? Do you know me
as your Teacher? Do you know me as your loving Father who instructs and

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corrects his sons? Do you know me as your Redeemer? Do you know me as
your Provider? Do you know me as your Deliverer? Do you know me as your
friend? Do you know me as your protector? Do you not know that all such
ignorance is darkness?

Ezekiel 28:2 (AMP) “Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre (the spirit of man
from which comes the desire for one to be their own lord and god), “Thus says
the Lord God; because your heart is lifted up and you have said and
thought, “I am a god”, I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas;
yet you are only man [weak, feeble, made of earth] and not God, though
you imagine yourself to be almost more than mortal with your mind as the
mind of God”
(The prince of Tyre is the son of the king of Tyre, who is Satan (fallen Lucifer);
like father, like son)

John 8:42-44 “Jesus said unto them, “If God were your Father, you would
love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither did I come of
myself, but he sent me. Why do you not understand my speech? Is it because
you cannot hear my word? You are of your father the Devil, and the desires of
your father you will do (the desires to be lord and god)”.

Psalm 73:21-25 “My heart was grieved, and I was troubled in my mind. I was
so foolish and ignorant; I was like a beast before you. Nevertheless I am
continually with you; you hold me by my right hand. You will guide me with
your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. Whom do I have in heaven
but you? And there is none upon the earth that I desire besides you.”

Ephesians 5:14-17 Wherefore he says, “Awake you that sleep, and arise
from the dead, and Christ shall give you light’. See then that you walk
circumspectly (accurately), not as fools, but as wise; redeeming the time
because the days are evil. Wherefore, do not be unwise, but understanding
what the will of the Lord is.”

So then, who is your “old man”, and unto what desires is he subject to that
allows for sin to have dominion over him? Remember, I came into this world
to save your soul, not your “old man”. Your “old man” does not trust God. Your
“old man” does not love God. Your “old man” does not obey God. Your “old
man” will not seek counsel from God. Your “old man” will not diligently seek
for God, though he will seek for him as is convenient to him. Your “old man”
does not believe God. And neither will your “old man” receive instruction or
correction from God. Just as the darkness has no desire to fellowship with the
light, and just as lies have no desire to commune with truth, so also your “old
man” does not have any desire for you to have any fellowship or communion
with God. As the flesh is contrary to the Spirit, and Spirit contrary to the flesh,
so also are the desires of your “old man” contrary to the desires of the “new
man”. Now I humbly ask you, “Who are you? Whose child are you? Whose
desires are you subject to: the desires that delight in doing your own will, or
the desires that delight in doing Father’s will? Whose identity are you clothing
yourself with? Are you willing to put off the sinful desires of the “old man” and

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put on the new man, which is Christ Jesus manifest in you? I am the “new
man” that saves your soul from the sinful nature of the “old man”.

Hebrews 10:39 “But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition, but of
them that believe to the saving of the soul.”

Ephesians 4:21-24 “If it be so that you have heard him, and have been
taught by him, then as the truth is in Jesus, you put off concerning the
former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the
deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and put on the
new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness
(holiness of the truth).”

James 1:13-16 “Let no man say that when is tempted, “I am tempted of God”:
for God cannot be tempted with evil and neither does he tempt any man. But
every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own desires and enticed.
Then when desire has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is
finished it brings forth death. Do not err, my beloved brethren.

Matthew 7:21 “Not everyone that says unto me, “Lord, Lord”, shall enter into
the kingdom of heaven; but only he that does the will of my Father which is in
heaven.”

Psalm 40:8 “I delight in doing your will, O my God; for your law is in my
heart.”

I am the “new man”, I am the “new man” that is raised up in those who take up
their cross to crucify their “old man”. You are not Christ Jesus; I am Christ
Jesus in you, the incorruptible nature. I did not come into this world as a Lord
or God, but instead, I came off of my throne and came in the likeness of sinful
man: the “old man” who is subject to the desires to be his own lord and god. If
I had come as Lord and God, then I would have come into this world in
fullness of my Father’s glory, and I would not have been despised or rejected
by men. Though I came in the likeness of sinful man, I did not come as a man
who sought to do his own will, but I sought to do my Father’s will. When I
found myself to be clothed in the fashion of the “old man”, I took up my cross
daily to crucify these worldly desires to be my own lord and god; for the will of
my “old man” was contrary to my Father’s will. I did not come as a Lord or
God who desires to be served, but I came as one who serves out of love; for
such is the nature of the true God of love. I did not come to exalt myself in my
own judgments or in my righteousness, but I came in the righteousness of
faith, and belief, and honor, and trust, and love, and loyalty towards my
heavenly Father. When I found myself clothed in this worldly fashion, I knew
that there was nothing that I could do of myself to please my heavenly Father;
but because I believed on my Father’s words, and because I had the faith that
stands in the power of his love, I surrendered my heart and my mind into his
hands. It was then that I heard his voice speak from heaven saying, “This is
my son in who I am well-pleased”.

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John 5:30-31 “I can of my own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my
judgment is just; because I do not seek to do my own will, but the will of the
Father who has sent me. If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.”

Romans 8:3 “For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened
by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful
man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh in order that
the righteousness of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live
according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit… 5 Those who are of
the flesh are mindful of the things of the flesh (the desires of the “old man”);
but they that are of the Spirit (the “new man”, who is Christ Jesus) are mindful
of the things of the Spirit… 13 If you live after the flesh (the “old man”), you
shall die, but if you, through the Spirit, do mortify the deeds of the body, you
shall live.”

John 10:17-18 “Therefore does my Father love me because I lay down my

life that I might take it again. No man takes it from me, but I lay it down of
myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This
commandment have I received of my Father.”

I Corinthians 13:5 “…Love does not seek its own…”

Hebrews 11:6 “Without faith, it is impossible to please God; for he who

comes to God must believe that he is, and that he rewards those who
diligently seek for him”.

Matthew 3:16-17 And Jesus was baptized, and when came up out of the
water, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God
descending like a dove, and lighting upon him, and lo a voice from heaven
said, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased”.

I came into this world to be an example for all those who follow after me; to show that the only
way to escape death and destruction is to surrender your heart and your minds into my
Father’s power and love; though your “old man” waits to deceive with many voices that will
tempt you to put forth your own hands to do the best you can. It was for this reason that I came
in the likeness of sinful flesh so that my heavenly Father might show the greatness of his
power and his love towards all who are clothed in the fashion of the sinful man. I also was
compassed about with the desires and the weaknesses of the “old man”; and though I was
tempted in all things to be my own lord and god, just like you, I never bowed my heart to any of
the lies that tempted me to take control over my own life, to do things according to my own
will? Did you see how my “old man” was contending with me even to the end, when I went into
the garden in Gethsemane to pray? Do you see how I was so tempted to yield to his lies that I
actually sweat drops of blood, the life-blood of “old man” that I resisted to yield to? I waited
until my Father sent his Spirit to mortify the deeds and the desires of my “old man”. I never
once sought to save the life of my “old man”, but I continued in fervent prayer until my salvation
came from above. My Father showed to me the faithfulness of his love when he sent his
angels to overthrow the powers, the principalities, the rulers of darkness, and the wicked spirits
that rule over the “old man” with corrupted and deceitful desires and affections. Again, when I
came into this world, I came just as you were when you were your own; and when I found
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my own life, but I took up my cross and surrendered my life into my Father’s hand, asking for
him to send his Spirit, which mortifies the deeds of the “old man”.

John 13:15 Jesus said, “I have given you an example, that you should do as I
have done”.

Hebrews 4:15-5:9 “For we do not have a high priest who cannot be touched
with the feeling of our weaknesses, but was tempted in all things like as we
are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace so
that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. 5:1 For
every high priest who is taken from among men is ordained for men in things
pertaining to God so that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins; for
who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the
way except he who also was compassed with weaknesses…6 As he said also
in another place, “You (Jesus Christ) are a priest forever after the order of
Melchisedec; who in the days of his flesh (the “old man”), when he had
offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him
who was able to save him from death (the carnal mind), and was heard in that
he feared; and though he was a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things
which he suffered; and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal
salvation unto all them that obey him.”

John 10:17 Jesus said, “Therefore does my Father love me because I lay
down my life so that I might take it again. No man takes it from me, but I lay
it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it
again. This commandment have I received of my Father.”

Philippians 2:5-9 “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ
Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with
God. But made himself to be no reputation, and took upon himself the form of
a servant and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as
a man (citizen of this world), he humbled himself and became obedient unto
death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also has highly exalted
him and given him a name which is above every name.”

Romans 8:13 “If you live after the flesh (the desires of the “old man”), then
you shall die; but if you, through the Spirit, do mortify the deeds of the body,
you shall live.”

Luke 22:41-43 And when Jesus had withdrawn from them about a stone's
cast, he kneeled down and prayed saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove
this cup from me; nevertheless not my will, but your will be done. And
there appeared an angel unto him from heaven strengthening him.”

It is those old times that your “old man” desires to keep you in remembrance
of; those times when you delighted in doing all things according to your own
will; those old times when your soul was completely surrendered to the illusion
that you were your own lord and your own god. You remember those old
times when felt like you had some power and influence among those who
were around you; for does not a god have these things? You remember those

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old times when you delighted in exercising your judgments of other men; for
should not a god sit in the seat of judgment? You remember those times when
you delighted in taking control over the situations and circumstances that
arose in your life; for should not a god should have authority to do so? You
remember those times that you delighted in receiving glory and praise when
you did good in the sight of men; for do not all gods receive their own glory
and praise? You remember those times when you made a name for yourself
according to those things you accomplished for yourself; for should not a god
have his own fame? You remember those old times when you whined and
complained when things did not go your way or according to the plans you
made; for should not a lord and a god have the right to do so? You remember
those times when you were honored and esteemed by others for the
reputation that you had made for yourself; for should not a god be treated with
respect? You remember these old times and how you delighted in all things
that were of your own; in your own confidence, in your own deeds and
accomplishments, in your own strength, in your own self-image, in your own
righteousness, in your own wisdom, in your own power and control, and in
your own glory and honor because these are the things that belong to lords
and gods. Have you not heard his voices tempting you? Has not your “old
man” sought to parade through your thoughts these old things to tempt you
with? Now you know, these are the natural desires that all of the citizens of
this fallen world are subject to; and by reason of their blindness, they are not
able to see any foolishness or wickedness in any of these counsels. Where is
the man who sees the truth of these vain thoughts; vain imaginations that
suppose that vain men can become good, and faithful, and understanding,
and great, and righteous of himself? Foolishness and wickedness delights
itself in the thinking of the “old man”; for no man has received any authority or
power that allows for him to be a lord or a god; though all seek to satisfy such
desires.

Philippians 2:21 “For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus
Christ's.”

Romans 3:10 “As it is written, “There is none righteous,; no, not one. There
are none that understand, and there is none that seeks after God. They are all
gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that
does good, no, not one.

Psalm 94:11 “The Lord knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity”.

II Timothy 3:1-5 “In the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall
be lovers of their own selves….lovers of pleasures more than lovers of
God, and having a form of godliness (lords and gods over their own
Christianity), but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”

Hebrews 11:24-25 “By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to
be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction
with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.”

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Isaiah 58:13-14 “If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your
own pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the
Lord, honorable; and shall honor him, not doing your own ways nor finding
your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words; then shall you delight
yourself in the LORD; and I will cause you to ride upon the high places of the
earth, and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the
Lord has spoken it.”

Psalm 37:4-7 “Delight yourself in the Lord; and he shall give you the
desires of your heart. Commit your way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and
he shall bring it to pass. And he shall bring forth your righteousness as the
light, and your judgment as the noonday. Rest in the Lord (the true Sabbath),
and wait patiently for him: fret not yourself because of him who prospers in his
way (those who take pleasure in being their own lords and gods) because of
the man who brings wicked devices to pass.”

It is as it written, that all those who follow after my voice, they shall not wrestle
with any flesh and blood, but they shall wrestle against the voices that come
forth from this world: voices that come forth from the powers and principalities
of this world, from the rulers of the darkness of this world, and from the wicked
spirits that have all ruled over the kingdom of this world with sin and death.
Sin and death rule over the thinking of all who are carnally minded; for in the
carnal mind, the darkness appears as the enlightenment of man: and it is in
this enlightenment that the light of your “old man” shines forth, showing
himself to be his own lord and god. In truth, the enlightenment of the “old
man” is the enmity of the carnal mind; the enmity in which the spirit of
antichrist moves and dwells in to make the “old man” to be the sovereign ruler
over his own world. It is as it is written, that those who submit to the voices of
this world are of the world; and the world hears and understands them when
they speak because all of the citizens of this world are subject to the same
desires. None of these desires are of God, but they are of this world; for there
are no desires in the “old man” that delights in God being your Lord and your
God. Remember the sin of Lucifer, of his angels, and of Adam and Eve.

Ephesians 6:11-13 “Put on the whole armor of God so that you may be able
to stand against the wiles of the devil; for we do not wrestle against flesh and
blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the
darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in the heavenly places.
Therefore take up the whole armor of God so that you may be able to
withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.”

II Corinthians 10:3-6 “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after
the flesh: for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through
God to the pulling down of strong holds and casting down imaginations, and
every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God (which is
every thought that desires for you to be lord and god), bringing into captivity
every thought to the obedience of Christ; and having in a readiness to
revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.”

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I Corinthians 4:5 “Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord
come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will
make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have
praise of God.”

Luke 11:35 “Therefore take heed that the light which is in you is not
darkness.”

Luke 16:15 “Jesus said, “….for that which is highly esteemed among men is
abomination in the sight of God.”

Romans 8:6-7 “For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually

minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for
it is not subject to the law of God, and indeed, neither can it be”.

James 5:4 “You adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that the
friendship of this world is enmity with God? Whosoever will be a friend of the
world is an enemy of God.”

For all have sinned; for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. If
any man says that he has no sin, he is a liar because he has been deceived
by his “old man”, and the truth of the “new man” is not in him. All have sinned.
All have been conceived in sin; for the man of sin, the son of perdition
(destruction), he is the “old man”; for sin dwells in the vessels that are fitted
for destruction. When sin abounds; when the desires of the “old man” abound,
do also does my grace abound even more. What? Does this have any
meaning to you? When your “old man”, the man of sin, that son of perdition,
stands in the temple of your body, to exercise himself in satisfying his worldly
desires to show himself to be his own lord and god, then the grace of my love
shall abide even greater; for greater is he who is in you than he who these
worldly desires inhabit. Who are you? Who is greater: the “old man” or the
“new man”? Are the sins of the “old man” greater than the love of God? Do
you not know that greatness only belongs to him who you ascribe greatness
to; that is, it is whose voice that you esteem and believe that you allow to
have dominion over your heart. To those who willingly surrender their hearts
to the desires of the “old man”, to believe the lies of Satan, and who take
pleasure in being their own lord and god, then they become those children of
darkness that sin takes dominion over to keep blind to the truth of God. When
sin has dominion, then blindness rules, and when blindness rules, who shall
be ashamed of his sins? Who shall repent of those things which he highly
esteems? When the darkness blinds the heart, where is the sin: “What have I
done wrong, O Lord?”

Romans 5:12 “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and
death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.”

Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is desperately wicked and deceitful above all
things; who can know it?”

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Psalm 51:5 “Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother
conceived me.”

Romans 9:22-24 “What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his
power (and his love) known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of
wrath fitted to destruction so that he might make known the riches of his glory
on the vessels of mercy, which he has prepared before unto glory, even us,
whom he has called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?”

Romans 6:12-16 “Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you
should obey it in the desires thereof; and neither yield your members to be as
instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as
those who are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of
righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are
not under the law, but under grace. What then? Shall we sin because we are
not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. Do you not know that it is to
whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom
you obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?”

I John 3:8-9 “He that commits sin (satisfying his desires to be his own lord
and god) is of the Devil; for the Devil sinned from the beginning (through
these same ungodly desires). For this purpose the Son of God (the “new
man”) was manifested so that he might destroy the works of the devil (the
works of iniquity; those self-righteous works that men do to show themselves
to be lord and god over their own Christianity). Whosoever is born of God (the
“new man” in Christ Jesus) does not commit sin; for his seed remains in him:
and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.”

Romans 5:13-20 “But when sin abounded, grace did much more abound.”

1 John 4:4 “You are of God, little children, and have overcome them because
greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world (the “old man” with his
worldly desires).”

John 9:39 “Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world so that they
which do not see might see; and that they that see might be made blind”. And
some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words and said unto
him, “Are we blind also?” Jesus said unto them, “If you were blind, you should
have no sin: but now because you say, “We see (we know what is right)”;
therefore your sin (the desires to be their own lord and god) remains.”

Jeremiah 8:6 “I hearkened and heard, but they did not speak right: no man
repented himself of his wickedness saying, “What have I done?” Every one
turned to his own course as the horse rushes into the battle.”

Now there are those who sin has dominion, and there are those who are
captive to sin. Those who sin has dominion over, they are the children of
darkness that are blind to see the sins in their hearts or minds. These are they
who are wretched, miserable, naked, blind, and poor in Spirit, but they do not
know it. Now the children of light who walk in my truth, they see the evil works

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of the “old man”, that man of sin. These are the children of light that will
not willingly bow their hearts to his lies, and neither will they willing bow
their hearts and worship the idolatry of their own lordship and godship.
These are they who are under grace; children of faith who are patiently
waiting for me to come, to redeem them from this wretched body of sin and
death. They have been tempted in all things, and they know that regardless of
what my light reveals, nothing will cause my love to depart from them; for
even the man of sin is not able to exalt himself to separating the hearts of my
people from my love for them. Who is greater but the voice of him who you
willingly surrender your heart to obey? Who has power over you but he whose
voice you choose to believe? Those who know to do good, but do not do it, it
is accounted unto them as sin; but when sin abounds, so also will the grace of
my love abound even greater….and my grace is sufficient for them because
they know that my love for them is greater than the sin that inhabits the world.
Does it mean anything to you that my love for you is greater than the sin of
the “old man”? I told you before, and I will tell you again, that many will not be
able to stand in the days ahead because they do not know, nor understand,
nor believe in the power of my love.

Romans 7:15-22 NKJV “For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I
will to do, that I do not do; but that which I hate is that which I do. If then I do
that which I will not to do, then I agree with the law that it is good. But now it
is no longer I (my soul) who does it, but sin (the man of sin; that “old man”)
that dwells in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh; my “old man”)
dwells no good thing; for to will is present with me, but how to perform that
which is good I do not find. For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the
evil I will not to do, that I do. Now if I do that which I will not to do, it is no
longer I who do it but sin that dwells in me. I find then a law that evil (the “old
man”; that spirit of man) is present with me, the one who wills to do good.”

II Timothy 2:24-26 “And a servant of the Lord must not strive but be gentle to
all, able to teach, patient, in humility instructing those who oppose themselves
(the “old man”), if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may
know the truth, and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare
of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.”

There are three desires that are of this fallen world that keep its citizens in
bondage to the sins of the “old man”. The first desire is the desire of the flesh;
which is the desire that is written in the hearts and minds of all men for
divinity. This is the affection and desire that the man of sin has to do all things
according to his own will. He only delights in doing those things which please
himself; and even in the things that does, he only delights in doing them in the
manner that he desires to do them, when he desires to them, where he
desires to them, and how he desires to them. When your “old man”, that man
of sin, finds himself under the authority of another’s will, he is only able to
begrudgingly submit himself unto it. The man of sin has no delight in
submitting neither to the authority or to the instructions of others. Those who
put off this corrupted desire of the “old man”, that put me on, the Lord Jesus
Christ; they will suddenly find that they are able to delight in doing Father’s
will.

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I John 2:15 “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves
the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world: the
desires of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the
Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the desires of it;
but he who does the will of God abides forever.

Matthew 7:21 Jesus said, “Not everyone who calls me “Lord, Lord”, shall
enter into the kingdom of heaven; only he who does the will of my Father in
heaven.”

John 18:36 Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world….”

Matthew 6:10 “Your kingdom come; your will be done on earth as it is in

heaven”.

Psalm 40:8 “I delight to do your will, O my God; yea, your law is within my
heart.”

Proverbs 15:10 “Correction is grievous to him that forsakes the way: and he
that hates reproof shall die.”

1 John 5:3-4 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments:
and his commandments are not grievous. For whatsoever is born of God
(Jesus alone was born of God; that which is being birthed in us is the new
man; Christ in us) overcomes the world (these 3 worldly desires).”

Secondly, there is the desire of the eyes; this is that vision that is peculiar to
each citizen of this fallen world; a vision where each man believes that the
way he sees and interprets all things is the right way those things should be
seen and interpreted; for it is as it is written, that every way of a man is right in
his own eyes. There is no greater desire than the desire of the eyes: the
desire for one to be more righteous in his beliefs than all others are in their
beliefs. It is by reason of this peculiar vision, and the desire to be more right
than others, that the “old man” seeks for occasions to exalt himself in his own
righteousness. He will argue, he will roll his eyes, he will go to war, he will
slander, he will make light of, he will refuse, he will fight, he will justify, he will
contend, he will scorn, he will reject, he will divorce, he will strive, he will kill,
he will despise, he will condemn, he will mock, or he will hate any man, or
even God himself, just to defend that which he believes to be right in his own
eyes. This disillusional vision only belongs to the citizens of this fallen world;
for the truth is, “There are none who are right; no, not even one.” How can
the citizens of this world each believe that he is his own lord and god except
that he first believes that we he sees things is more righteous than the way
others see those things. By a man’s vision he will establish for himself that
which he believes to be right and wrong; or that which is good and evil; or that
which is truth and lies? Even so, every man’s vision is that which keeps him
blind to the righteousness of God, the life of God, the truth of God, and the
being of God. Has any man ever repented of that which he believes to be
right?

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Proverbs 21:2 “Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord
ponders the heart.”

Romans 3:10 “As it is written, “There is none righteous; no, not one.”

Job 40:8 Lord speaking to Job, “Will you disannul my judgment? Will you
condemn me so that you may be righteous?”

Thirdly, there is the pride of life; and surely you know that this is the same
pride that is abomination in the sight of God. What man does not believe that
the life he chooses to live is so right that he judges all other lifestyles
according to his own? Does not a man make a name and a reputation for
himself according to the way he lives his life? Is not his name and reputation
established upon those things which he perform and accomplishes for
himself; according to the wealth and possessions that he acquires for himself;
as well as the opinions of words that he speaks before others? Does not your
“old man” delight himself in the image of his own goodness and his own
righteousness? Seeing then that your “old man” is proud of those things that
he makes for himself, then know also that he is also proud of the opinions that
he forms for himself; for his opinions reveal his beliefs; that which he believes
concerning the issues of life: religion, food, politics, health, children, clothing,
finances, marriage, friends, traditions, and occupation. For it is in these things
a man shows forth his manner of life, and that he himself is lord and god over
his own life. O how the “old man” desires to give his own counsel to others
concerning these issues of life; freely giving his own advice to others on how
they ought to live their lives. There is nothing the “old man” is more proud of
than living a life that is free from any help or assistance from others,
especially from God.

Psalm 10:4 “The wicked, through the pride of his own appearance (image),
will not seek after God; for God is not in all of his thoughts.”

Proverbs 16:5 “Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to the

Lord…”

Isaiah 30:1 “Woe to the rebellious children”, says the Lord, “that take counsel,
but not of me….”

Revelation 3:16,17 “So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor
hot, I will spew you out of my mouth because you say, “I am rich, and
increased with goods, and I have need of nothing”; but you do not know that
you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.”

These are the desires of this world that are written in the hearts and the minds
of the “old man”; the desires for all to be lord and god over their own world.
These are the desires that men seek to satisfy so that they can take control
over the world around them. Do not men feel a sense of power when they feel
like they are in control over their own circumstances and situations? Do not
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others? Do not husbands desire to control their wives, and wives desire to
control their husbands? Do not parents desire to control their children, and
children desire to control their parents? Will not a man use intimidation,
threats, fears, lies, judgment, or force in their attempts to gain control? Do not
politicians desire to control the peoples with their laws; laws that they
themselves are not able to keep? Do not men desire to have more wealth and
influence so that they may obtain more control? Does not one wolf fight with
another wolf another for control over the pack; or a lion fight another for
control over the pride; or a horse fight another for control over the herd? Do
not false teachers desire to be lords over the flock rather then to be
examples? This is the spirit of this world; the spirit that holds the creatures of
this world captive to the desires for one to be his own lord and god.

1 John 4:4-6 “You are of God, little children, and you have overcome them
because greater is he that is in you than he (the “old man” with his desires to
be lord and god) that is in the world. They are of the world; therefore they
speak of the world and the world hears them. We are of God; and he that
knows God hears us; he that is not of God does not us. Hereby know we the
spirit of truth and the spirit of error.”

I Peter 5:2 “Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight
thereof willingly, not by constraint; not for filthy gain, but of a ready mind;
neither be as lords over God's heritage, but be examples to the flock (one
who takes up his cross daily).”

John 17:15-17 “I do not pray that you should take them out of the world, but
that you should keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I
am not of the world. Sanctify them through your truth: your word is truth.”

I do not hear the words of those who speak of this world; the words of those
who ascribe greatness to the man of sin, who delight in satisfying the desires
of the “old man”. Two men went into the temple to pray, the one was clothed
in the fashion of this world, and he ascribed greatness to the creature rather
than the Creator. The other man was clothed in the grace of my love, and he
ascribed greatness to his heavenly Father. The one who was a citizen of this
world, he proceeded to boast of himself as he worshipped the idols of his own
lordship and godship; proclaiming, “I am glad that “I Am” not like other men. I
do not smoke or drink; I do swear; I watch what I eat; I am not an thief, nor an
adulterer, and neither am I a murderer. I go to church; I preach the gospel; I
have done many wonderful deeds; I fast; I pray; I am a good guy; I give my
tithes, and my faith is seen in the righteous works I do and in the good words
that I speak; and “I Am” especially glad that I am not like this weak and
miserable sinner.” I tell you that this is the man of sin who defiles my temple,
who stands in temple of his heart showing himself to be his own lord and god.
This is he who defiles my temple with the uncleanness of his own
righteousness and who fills my temple with the idolatry of his own lordship
and godship. I will not hear this man’s voice, for it is abomination to my ears”,
says the Lord.

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Isaiah 47:10 “You have trusted in your wickedness and you have said, “There
are none who see me”; your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you,
and you have said in your heart, “I Am; and there is none else besides me.”

Isaiah 64:6 “But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness is
as filthy rags. We do fade as a leaf and all of our iniquities, like the wind, have
taken us away.”

Romans 1:22-26 “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and

they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like
corruptible man …Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness
(Isa.64:6), in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among
themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and
served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
For this reason God gave them up to vile passions (to be the lords and gods
over their own Christianity)”.

Matthew 15:7-11 “You hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you saying,
“This people draw near to me with their mouths, and they honor me with their
lips; but their heart is far from me. In vain they do worship me teaching for
doctrines the commandments of men. And he called the multitude and said to
them, “Hear, and understand: It is not that which goes into the mouth that
defiles a man but it is that which comes out of the mouth that defiles a man.”

Psalm 66:18 “If I regard iniquity (the works of self-righteousness) in my heart,

the Lord will not hear me.”

Isaiah 59:1-2 “Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save;
nor His ear heavy that it cannot hear. But your iniquities have separated you
from your God and your sins (being your own lord and god) have hidden His
face from you so that he will not hear.”

Psalm 80:3 “Turn us again, O God, and cause your face to shine; and we
shall be saved. O Lord God of hosts, how long will you be angry against the
prayer of thy people?”

They that are of this world, they speak of this world; they speak of their own
works and their own righteousness, and their own goodness, the things that
they have done to satisfy their worldly desires to be lords and gods over their
own Christianity. All such words are abominations in my ears. I will spew them
out of my mouth because they delighted in the sins of the “old man”; the sins
that have dominion over them because of the blindness in their eyes, in their
heart, and in their mind. They are not even able to agree with or to believe my
words which testify that I see their blindness, their misery, their nakedness,
their wretchedness, and their poverty of the things of Christ. If any man thinks
that he is not a sinner, then he is a liar who has not sought to know the truth,
but is own pride has deceived him. These are they who even provoke me to
anger with the words of their prayers; whose words do nothing but ask for
those things which satisfy the desire of the “old man”. These are they who add
sin upon sin to their sinful desires to be their own lord and god.

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1 John 4:5-6 “They are of the world: therefore they speak of the world, and
the world hears them. We are of God: he that knows God hears us; he that is
not of God does not hear us. Hereby we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit
of error.”

1 John 1:8 “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the
truth is not in us.”

Obadiah 6 “The pride of your heart has deceived you…”

Now this other man, the one who was despised and rejected by the one who
exalted himself; this man who was an unwilling captive to the man of sin, he
was clothed in the grace of my love; and my love covers a multitude of sins.
Can there be any garment more beautiful than the garment that is able to
cover all of the uncleanness, all of the evil, all of the wickedness, all of the
perverseness, and all of the filthiness of the sins of your “old man”? There are
many fashions that are of this world that men use to try to cover these things
with, but I am able to see through them all. There are no good intentions, no
excuses, no righteous works, no reasonings, or any best efforts that are able
to hide from my eyes the sins of the heart”, says the Lord. “It is as it is written,
“Man looks on the outward appearances but God looks on the heart”. Only my
love is able to cover your heart. Remember that which I showed you, that your
victory is in my love; for my love conquerors all. I hear the words of those who
know this truth. I hear the words of the humble. I hear the words of those who
need my help. I hear the words of those who cry unto me saying, “Father, be
merciful to me; for I am a sinner, and I can do nothing of myself. Forgive me,
Lord, and cleanse me from the filth of my own righteousness.” I hear this man,
and though he has allowed for me humble him, stripping him of all his worldly
fashions that he once used to keep his sins hidden, I will clothe him with my
blood; the garment of my truth and my love for him. Though he is a captive of
sin, sin no longer has dominion over him because the light of my love has
shined upon him; I have forgiven him and my truth has sanctified him, and he
knows in his heart that there is only one Lord and one God. I love the words of
those who are of a broken and contrite heart; for they are the words of those
who have hated the idol worship of “self”: their own lordship and godship.

Proverbs 12:17 “He that speaks truth shows forth righteousness, but a false
witness (the “old man”; the hypocrite) shows deceit.”

Isaiah 58:1-2 (AMP) “CRY ALOUD, spare not. Lift up your voice like a
trumpet and declare to my people their transgression and to the house of
Jacob their sins! Yet they seek, inquire for, and require me daily and delight
[externally] to know My ways, as [if they were in reality] a nation that did
righteousness and forsook not the ordinance of their God. They ask of me my
righteous judgments and they delight to draw near to God [in visible ways].”

Isaiah 61:10 “I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my
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me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with
ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.”

Romans 8:37 “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through
him who loved us.”

I beseech you and ask for you to consider these questions within your heart.
What does it mean to you to become an alien in this world? Does it mean
anything to you that I said that you are my workmanship? What does it mean
to you when I say that I am alone am your Creator and your Maker? Does it
mean anything to you when I say that I alone am your Lord and your God and
that I will not have any other lords or gods before me? It is written that I said,
“Is there anything to hard for God”; but what meaning does this word have
concerning your life? What does it mean to you when I say, “Prove me, and
see if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and greatly bless you”? Is
it not written, “It is impossible for God to lie”? Have you proved me to be
faithful to my words or have you proved me to be a liar? Will it matter to you
when you stand before me and I ask for you to declare before me all that
which you have proved me on? Remember that which I taught you, that by the
blood that has been shed for you on Calvary, and by the faith and the belief
that is in me, Christ Jesus in you, and nothing that you have done of yourself,
you have received authority to come into my presence; into the presence of
my love, my power, my grace, and my goodness. Does having this authority
mean anything to you? Do you have any desire to come into my presence?
Did I not say that when I send forth my word, it will always accomplish the
purpose which I send it to perform? Do you not understand the authority that
has been given to you; that if you ask anything of me that is according to my
will, then I will send forth my word on your behalf, and it shall accomplish that
which I purpose for it to accomplish. Does this mean anything to you? Is there
any word that is to hard for me to speak? I am the Word of God; by me were
the heavens and the earth created. I am the Word which all things were
created by. I am the Word that cast out demons; that healed the sick; that
gave sight to the blind; and that raised the dead. I am the Word that
accomplishes my Father’s will. Does it mean anything to you that in me, Christ
Jesus in you, you have authority to ask for me to send my words to do things
for you? You live in a world where all believe themselves to be their own lord
and god, yet who among you is able to speak and it is?

Isaiah 55:10-12 “For as the rain comes down and the snow from heaven, and
return not there until they have watered the earth, making it to bring forth and
bud so that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater: So shall my
word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me
void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in
the thing that I send it to. For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with
peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing,
and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.”

SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD: supreme power; the unlimited power of God,

who has sovereign control over all the heavens and earth.

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Lamentations 3:37 ‘Who is he that says, and it comes to pass when the Lord
has not commanded it?”

I am your Lord and your God. I am sovereign over all powers, over all
principalities, over all spirits, over all flesh, over all sicknesses and diseases,
over all your situations and circumstances; and there is nothing that is able to
withstand the move of my Spirit; for I am that Spirit. I am the Word that is life
and that is Spirit. I am your Lord and your God, and my banner over your life
is love; and my love yearns to send forth my words to perform great and
mighty things for you. Does this mean anything to you? Have you believed my
words? How can anything mean anything to you except that you actually
believe that which I written and spoken unto you? Have you come before my
throne, praying fervently in belief, not ceasing until I have come and shown
you great and mighty things? Who is he that is great and mighty? I desire to
do all things for you because of the love that I have for you; not because you
have proved yourself before me but because you allow for me to prove myself
to you by believing the testimony of my words. Does it mean anything that
authority has been given to you that allows for you to come before the throne
of the only true God and Lord who loves you? Do you believe that I will
perform all things for you; that I will truly send forth my word on your behalf?
Does this mean anything to you? My word, which never fails, will accomplish
that which I send it forth to perform; and neither shall my word return to me
void; for it shall be accompanied with your thanksgivings and your praises as
you delight yourself in knowing that the true Lord and God is your Lord and
God, and that he sends his words on your behalf. Does this mean anything to
you? My words cannot be believed on by your “old man”, and my words and
promises are meaningless to those who only delight in making themselves to
be great and mighty in their own eyes.

Song of Solomon 2:4 (AMP) “He brought me to the banqueting house, and
his banner over me was love [for love waved as a protecting and comforting
banner over my head when I was near him].”

Psalm 57:2 “I will cry unto God most high; unto God who performs all
things for me.”

Job 23:14 “For he performs the things which are appointed for me; and many
such like things are with him.”

I came into this world, and I overcame this world; triumphing over all the
desires of this world and the lies of the “old man”. I am the “new man”; the
man who came in the likeness of sinful man, but was made free from all sin.
Who then shall overcome the world except those who believe my words and
have faith in the power of my love? Who shall find victory over the worldly
desires of the “old man” except those who I manifest myself in; the
manifestation of the “New Man”? The wise know; I said, the wise know that
what you sow is not made alive except it dies first. Shall the “new man”, the
life of Christ, come forth in those who seek to save the life of the “old man”?
Does this mean anything for you? Will you ask for me to release my love for
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“old man”? Does it mean anything to you when I say, “I love you, and you are
the object of my affection; even when you are clothed in the fashion of the “old
man”? But who among you is willing to lay down his citizenship in this fallen
world so that my love can mean something for them? I cannot give myself
completely to you until you are first willing to give yourself completely to me. I
will not force myself upon you and neither will I take that which is not given to
me. Who will ask for me to send the sword of my word to sever all
relationship, all friendship, and all communion between their soul and the
spirit of man? Who is willing to receive my nature, my character, and my
authority: the name that I delight in giving to those who delight in me? Who
will come boldly before my throne to ask for my help instead of choosing to
help themselves? I alone am your Lord and your God, and I will not put my
hand to that which you put your hand to, lest you deceive yourself and steal
my glory for yourself. I do not help those who help themselves because they
already have themselves to be their own lord and god. Does it mean anything
to you when I say, “I will not share my glory with any other”?

I John 5:4 “For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is
the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith. Who is he that
overcomes the world but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?”

Luke 2:35 “Yea, a sword shall pierce through his own soul (Jesus) also; and
the thoughts of many hearts shall be revealed”.

Romans 8:13 “If you live after the flesh (the “old man”), then you shall die; but
if you, through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of your body, then you shall
live.”

Isaiah 42:8-9 “I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to
another, neither my praise to graven images. Behold, the former things are
come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you
of them.”

Galatians 5:26 “Let us not be desirous of vain glory…”

Lucifer fell to his desires for glory, and he declared, “I will be like the most
high God!” He thought that I would share my glory. Did it come to pass? Did
he become Lord and God? Were any of Lucifer’s angels able to become Lord
and God? Did Adam or Eve become Lord and God? If then Lucifer, the most
powerful and beautiful angel that God has created, was not able to bring to
pass the words that he declared, then what about the lowly man who proudly
declares, “I will be like Jesus Christ”? Shall he be able to bring his words to
pass? Can the “old man” make himself to be the “new man”? I am the “new
man”. Can a man that is of this fallen world change himself into the image of
that which is in heaven? From where comes this wisdom that corrupts one
with these deceitful desires that one should have his own glory? O the
foolishness! So why would any listen to the lies of the “old man” who proudly
proclaims, “I will be like Christ”. For as the sin of Lucifer and his demons are,
so also are the sins of the “old man”. For all have sinned; for all have said in
their hearts, “I am; and I delight in doing my own will. For all have sinned in

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their hearts and said, “I am; and I will do that which is right in my own eyes”.
For all have sinned; for all have said in their hearts, “I am; and I will do the
best that I can.” For all have sinned and said in their heart, “I will follow the
counsels of my own heart”. For all have sinned and said in their hearts, “I will
justify myself with my own words and deeds”. For sin is the work of the Devil,
and those who are of the Devil are subject to sin; subject to the desires of
their father the Devil who only desires to be his own god and lord. The god of
this world is the Devil, and as his desires are for sin, to be his own lord and
god, so also are the desires of all his citizens for sin. For all have sinned and
fallen short of the glory of God. The glory of man is the corruption of man.

Isaiah 14:12 “How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!
How are you cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations! For you
have said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above
the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the
sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like
the most High.”

Genesis 3:1-6 “Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field
which the Lord God had made; and he said unto the woman, “Yea, has God
said, “You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” And the woman said to
the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit
of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, “You shall not
eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.” And the serpent said to the
woman, “You shall not surely die; for God knows that in the day that you
shall eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods,
knowing good and evil.” And when the woman saw that the tree was good
for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make
one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and then gave it also unto
her husband; and he did eat.”

Isaiah 47:10 “You have trusted in your wickedness and you have said, “There
are none who see me”; your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you,
and you have said in your heart, “I Am; and there is none else besides me.”

Hosea 10:13 “You have plowed wickedness (your own wisdom and
understanding), you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten the fruit of lies
because you did trust in your own way….”

Isaiah 65:2 “My hands are stretched out all the day long to people who walk
in a way that is not good; after their own thoughts.’

Judges 21:25 “In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that
which was right in his own eyes.”

Psalm 9:19-20 “Arise, O Lord; let not man prevail. Let the heathen be judged
in your sight. Put them in fear, O Lord: that the nations may know
themselves to be but men. Selah.”

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Ecclesiates 3:17-18 “I said in my heart, “God shall judge the righteous and
the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work. I
said in my heart concerning the estate of the sons of men that God might
manifest unto them so that they might see that they themselves are beasts.”

Remember that which you have been taught, that as the Holy Spirit is to God,
so is pride unto Satan; for pride is that power that burns with desire for a man
to be his own lord and god. Pride is that spirit that goes before a fall because
it lifts the heart up above the measure of that which God created man to be.
Do not forget that pride is the power of the “old man” that is used to resist any
subjection or surrender into the hands of the only true God. Do not forget that
pride is the substance of darkness, the strength and power of the “old man”.
There is no light in pride; only darkness that appears as the enlightenment of
man. Pride is only conscious of “self” and it bathes itself in its own glory, its
own honor, its own praise, and its own name. Also remember this; Lucifer fell,
his angels fell, and Adam and Eve fell because their hearts were lifted up and
they said, “I will be like the most high God”. Again, let me remind you as I
have reminded you before; there is only one Lord and one God, and this
honor or glory shall not be given unto any other, neither now, nor in eternity. Is
it not enough that I should give my kingdom to you? Is it not enough that I
should fill you with my Spirit? Is it not enough that you are truly the object of
all of my affection? Are not my promises enough for you? The heavens
proclaim, “You are my workmanship”; but the “old man”, that spirit of
antichrist, comes to tempt you to put forth your own hands, to lift up yourself in
the works of your own hands; to fashion yourself after an image that your own
hands are able to make, thus perverting the entire plan that God has for you.

Proverbs 16:18 “Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a
fall.”

Leviticus 26:18-19 “And if you will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I
will punish you seven times more for your sins. And I will break the pride of
your power…21 And if you walk contrary (you being your own god and lord) to
me, and will not hearken to me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon
you according to your sins.”

Isaiah 2:10-12 “Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust for fear of the
Lord, and for the glory of his majesty. The lofty looks of man shall be humbled
and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be
exalted in that day. For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon everyone
that is proud and lofty, and upon everyone that is lifted up; and he shall be
brought low.”

1 John 3:8-10 “He that commits sin is of the Devil; for the devil sins from the
beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested so that he might
destroy the works of the Devil. Whoever is born of God does not commit sin;
for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin because he is born of God. In
this the children of God are manifest and the children of the Devil: whosoever
does not do righteousness is not of God, neither he that does not love his
brother.”

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John 8:43-47 Jesus said, “Why do you not understand my speech (voice)? It
is because you cannot hear (understand) my word. You are of your father the
Devil, and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the
beginning, and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him. When
he speaks a lie (his voice), he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the
father of it. And because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me. Which of
you convinces me of sin? And if I speak the truth, why do you not believe me?
He that is of God hears God's words (voice): you therefore cannot hear them
because you are not of God.

Now hear and understand; there is that which the “old man” has great need of
so that he can show himself “to be like Christ”, and that is the scriptures; the
very words which testify of the life of Jesus Christ. How can your “old man”
imitate the life of Christ except that he uses the scriptures as a pattern to copy
the works that I did and the words which I spoke? How can your “old man”
receive the praise and the glory that he desires except that he shows his
works and his words to be like unto those that are like Christ? Do not marvel
at this but remember that Satan transforms himself to appear as an angel of
light, and his demons change themselves to appear as ministers of
righteousness. Did not Satan also use the scriptures to tempt me when I was
led into the wilderness, to have me show myself to be Christ? The kingdom of
God does not come with an outward show. Have you not had others tempt
you saying, “Well, if you are Christian, you will do this or you will do that”? Do
these not use the scriptures in the same manner that Satan used the
scriptures, to tempt you to follow after the instruction of their voice rather than
the voice of God? My sheep hear my voice, and they will follow after me; they
will not follow the voice of stranger, even when that stranger uses the
scriptures to tempt them.

II Corinthians 2:17 “For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God:
but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.”

John 10:4-5 “And when the shepherd puts forth his own sheep, he goes
before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a
stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the
voice of strangers.”

Is it not written, that you are the servants to whose voice that you obey? The
words that you believe, these are the words that you allow to have power over
your life. Have you not observed how Israel, took the law that was given unto
them, then joined it with their natural desires, which then deceived them
into believing that righteousness is that which man can obtain through the
works of the law? Who told them that this was so, seeing that it is also written
that “Righteousness belongs to God”? Did they become servants of the law or
servants unto God? Do see how they came to trust the law rather than God?
Do you see how the people of Israel were deceived by their own natural
understanding of my words? Just as it is with the law so also is it with letter of
the word, the rest of the scriptures that interpreted with man’s natural
understanding; for these words only have power to arouse the desires of the

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“old man”. The “old man”, just like Israel, has a zeal for God, but according to
his own righteousness, which is aroused by the letter of the word. Do you see
how the law and the letter of the word both work in all those who lean to their
own understanding? They are both words that have proceeded out of my
Father’s mouth, but they have been filled with the natural and not the spiritual.
I am the Word made flesh. I am the truth of my Father’s words. I am the truth
that the people of God cannot comprehend when they hear the voice of my
Father’s words. I am the truth that is only given to those who seek and ask to
know my truth. I am the voice of my Father’s words that the citizens of this
world cannot hear and comprehend; for spiritual truths can only be
comprehended with spiritual understanding. Your “old man”, he is the voice of
this world; the voice that speaks of the abilities of the “old man”: man’s
wisdom, man’s power, man’s justification, man’s love, man’s goodness, man’s
control, and the righteousness of man. Now consider this word; “What does it
mean to you when I say to you, “Put off the “old man” and put on the “new
man”?

Romans 6:16 “Do you not know that to who you yield yourselves servants to
obey, his servant you are to who you obey; whether of sin unto death or
obedience unto righteousness?”

Daniel 9:7 “O Lord, righteousness belongs unto you, but unto us confusion of
face….”

Romans 10:2 “For I bear them record that they (Israel) have a zeal of God,
but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God’s
righteousness, and have gone about to establish their own righteousness, and
have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.”

II Peter 2:18 “For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure
through the desires of the flesh (the desires to be your own lord and god),
though much wantonness. Those that were clean escaped from them who live
in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of
corruption (natural desires to be their own lord and god); for of whom a man
is overcome, of the same is he brought into bondage.”

Galatians 4:3-5 “Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under
the elements of the world (the abilities and desires of the “old man”); but when
the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman,
made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might
receive the adoption of sons.”

Job 33:14 ‘For God speaks once, yea twice, yet man does not perceive it.”

Psalm 62:11 “God has spoken once; twice have I heard this, that power
belongs to God.”

II Corinthians 3:14-17 “Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great
plainness of speech; and not as Moses, who put a veil over his face so that
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abolished. But their minds were blinded; for until this day remains the same
veil untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament; which veil is done
away in Christ. But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon
their heart. Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken
away. Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is
liberty.”

Every lord and god needs to have his own religion; a religion that is
established upon a doctrine that defines how that lord and god should be
served and worshipped. The letter of the word is just such a doctrine; a
doctrine that is formed and established upon each man’s own interpretation of
the scriptures. The letter of the word is that form of doctrine that allows the
“old man” to exercise all of his natural desires to be his own lord and god, to
show himself in appearances to be like Christ; yet, neither the law nor the
letter of the word is able to reveal any truth about the divine nature or the
being of God. When the “old man” tries to define God, he is only able to
translate him into definitions that the natural mind is able to comprehend, but
there is no truth in any such definitions because it is impossible for the natural
mind to comprehend God. In the natural realm, the things that are seen are
the things which appear as truth; for I myself was accused of being the Devil
even though I told them that I was the truth about God; the truth that defied
and contradicted that which is truth in the natural realm. Was it not those who
thought that the truth was the things that are seen of this world that then
sought to crucify him who brought the truth from the spiritual realm?

II Corinthians 2:17 “For we are not as many, which corrupt (deal deceitfully)
the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God we
speak in Christ.”

Matthew 23:1-5 “Then Jesus to the multitude and to his disciples saying, “The
Pharisees and the scribes sit in Moses' seat: Therefore whatsoever they bid
you to observe, observe all and do; but you do not do after their works: for
they say, and do not; for they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to bear,
and they lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move
them with one of their fingers. But all their works they do for to be seen of
men.”

There is no agreement between the natural and the spiritual; and neither is it
possible for the natural to understand the truths of the unseen God. It is for
this reason that the world does not know me, and my people Israel despised
and rejected me. I spoke in parables to keep a separation between the clean
and the unclean; to keep a separation between the righteous who understand
the truth and the workers of iniquity who think that they are righteous because
they believe that the letter of the word is truth. I am the truth, and only I am
able to reveal the spiritual truths of God; truths that cannot be reasoned or
imagined, even with the most educated thoughts of the natural mind. For the
truth does not concern itself with intellectual or theological knowledge, but
rather it is the revelation knowledge of the being and divine nature of God,
written in the hearts and minds of his people. The truth cannot be expressed
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even describe rightly the spiritual things of God. God is spirit, and those who
worship God must worship in spirit and in truth; not after the deceitful lies of
the letter of the word; for by the letter of the word, many will honor God with
his lips and praise him with his mouths, but their hearts are far from him
because the love for their “old man” burns in their hearts and minds.

Galatians 1:11-12 “But I certify you brethren, that the gospel which was
preached of me is not after man; for I neither received it of man, neither was I
taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.”

I Corinthians 2:11-15 “For what man knows the things of a man except the
spirit of man which is in him? Even so, no man knows the things of God
except the Spirit of God. Now we have not received the spirit of the world but
the spirit which is of God so that we might know the things that are freely
given to us of God; which things we also speak, not in the words which man's
wisdom teaches but that which the Holy Spirit teaches; comparing spiritual
things with spiritual. But the natural man (the “old man”) does not receive the
things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he
know them because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual
rightly judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no man. For who
has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the
mind of Christ.”

When the letter of the word is joined in agreement with the natural desires of
the “old man” to be his own lord and god, then comes forth hypocrisy and the
works of iniquity; the deeds and the works that men do to show themselves
“to be like Christ”. All of the works done by the workers of iniquity are works
that are done to show themselves to be righteous; they are works that do not
come forth out of love for God, but works that come forth out of the love for
the “old man”. It is impossible for the works of iniquity to come forth from the
heart that is filled with the love of God. The pretentious words that are spoken
out of hypocrisy, they are only vain lies that are spoken to give to others the
appearance of righteousness. The letter of the word, this doctrine of the “old
man”, is only able to bring forth images of the truth, of righteousness, and of
godliness; false images that the natural uses to imitate the spiritual; and when
the natural imitates the spiritual, the only things that come forth are hypocrisy
and iniquity; crafty illusions that deceive all who walk by sight and not by the
faith that stands in the power of God. Those who are under the letter of the
word, they account their hypocrisy and their iniquity to be the “new man”; and
these think that when they should be separated from the world; that they
should be separated from the heathen of the world rather than the heathen of
their worldly desires to be their own lord and god. I loved the prostitutes, the
tax collectors, and the drunkards; and not once did I ever seek to separate
myself from any of them. As the letter of the word works to bring forth
hypocrisy and iniquity, the truth of God comes forth to set a man free from
works of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Matthew 23:27 “Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you
are like unto whited tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but within
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so you also outwardly appear righteous unto men but within you are full of
hypocrisy and iniquity.”

Hypocrite: pretender; play actor

Matthew 24:11-12 “And many false prophets shall rise and deceive many
(with the letter of the word); and because iniquity shall abound, the love of
many shall grow cold.”

Hypocrisy is the best the “old man” can do to imitate the life of Jesus Christ;
but this form of imitation only agrees with that outward appearance that is
defined in the letter of the word. The hypocrite is the wolf dressed in sheep’s
clothing; the “old man” imitating Jesus Christ. The heart of him who imitates
never agrees with the heart of him who is imitated; for if there was agreement
between the hearts, there would be no need to imitate because their would be
oneness. Truly, imitation is the best form of flattery; but God hates flattery.
Even so, the “old man” continues to pretend to love his brother with his words,
but when his weak brother sins, especially a brother who he does not approve
of, he will then show forth either accusation, or mockery, or rejection, or
judgment, or disappointment, or scorn, or condemnation; for it is not in the
heart of the hypocrite to show forth forgiveness, or longsuffering, or
compassion, or mercy because these things come forth from my love.
Because the “old man” is never able to correctly interpret the spiritual nature
of God, he then uses his natural senses to imitate the spiritual things of the
Lord; his love, his truth, his mercy, his humility, his peace, his authority, his
belief, his life, his righteousness, or his faith. Because the hypocrite lives to
the lies of his pretense, he is always fearful that the truth is going to come and
reveal his natural identity. I said, “Follow me”; I never said, “Do the best that
you can to imitate me”; for those who try to imitate me are those who say in
their heart, “I shall be like Jesus Christ”. There is only one Christ; all else are
only vain imitations and illusions. I Am; and I am real; I am not an imitator.
The voices that come after you from the darkness, they are voices of lies; lies
that tempt you to surrender to hypocrisy; to walk in those appearances and to
speak those words that please and satisfy your “old man”.

2 Peter 1:4 “Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious
promises: that by these you might be made partakers of the divine nature,
having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust (the deceitful
lust of the “old man” that says, “I will be like Christ”).”

1 Timothy 4:1-2 “Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times
some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines
of devils, speaking lies in hypocrisy….”

Isaiah 32:6 “For the fool will speak foolishness, his heart will work iniquity,
and he will practice hypocrisy to utter error against the LORD…”

Iniquity is all of those good works that your “old man” tempts you to perform of
yourself; works that are done to prove yourself to be lord and god over your
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letter of the word that says that man is proven to be a Christian by his own
works; while the true faith says that a man is proven to be a Christian by the
works that God does in that man. All of the works that come forth from the
instruction of the letter of the word, they come forth to satisfy the lie that says,
“I will be like Jesus Christ”. Hypocrisy and iniquity are nothing but the dead
fruits that come forth from hearing the voice of the letter of the word; while the
righteousness of belief and faith are the fruits that come forth when one is
able to hear the truth of the word. It is as it is written, “As your faith is, so let it
be done unto you”; it is not, “As your faith is, so do it of yourself”. The faith
that stands in the wisdom of man, it brings forth the vain works of hypocrisy
and iniquity; the best that man can do. The faith that stands in the power of
God, it brings forth the abundant life that is in me; the life of Jesus Christ, the
best that God can do.

II Timothy 2:19-21 “Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure, having

this seal: “The Lord knows them that are his”. And let everyone that
names the name of Christ depart from iniquity. But in a great house there
are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and
some to honor, and some to dishonor. Therefore, if a man will purge himself
from these (his iniquities), he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, and
ready for the master's use and prepared unto every good work.”

Matthew 7:21-23 “Jesus said, “Not everyone who calls me, “Lord, Lord”, shall
enter into the kingdom of heaven; only he that does the will of my Father
which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, “Lord, Lord”, have we not
prophesied in your name? And in your name have cast out demons? And in
your name done many wonderful works?” And then will I profess unto them, I
never knew you: depart from me you that work iniquity.”

II Thessalonians 2:3-12 “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day
(the coming of the Lord) shall not come, except there come a falling away
(pride) first, and that man of sin (the “old man” who desires to be his own lord
and god) be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposes and exalts himself
above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he (the “old man”)
as God sits in the temple of God (our body), showing himself that he is God.
Remember you not that when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And
now you know what withholds that he might be revealed in his time. For the
mystery of iniquity (the righteous works done to show that man is his own
lord and god) does already work: only he who now lets will let, until he be
taken out of the way. And then shall that wicked shall be revealed, whom the
Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the
brightness of his coming; even him, whose coming is after the working of
Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all the
deceivableness of un(self)righteousness in them that perish; because they did
not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause
God shall send them strong delusion (the letter of the word) so that they
should believe a lie; that all might be damned who did not believe the truth,
but had pleasure in un(self)righteousness.”

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Psalm 90:8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the
light of your countenance.

Proverbs 16:6 “By mercy and truth iniquity is purged.”

John 14:6 “Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.”

Acts 3:26 “Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, then sent him
to bless you in turning away everyone of you from his iniquities.”

Psalm 39:5-6 “….truly, every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
Surely every man walks in a vain show…”

I Corinthians 2:4-5 “And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing
words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that
your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.”

Matthew 9:29 “Then Jesus touched their eyes saying, “According to your faith
be it unto you.”

What has God required of you beyond that which faith and belief will bring to
you from above? It is your faith and belief that allows your Father in heaven to
show his love for you in performing the great and mighty works that he has
promised you. The letter of the word only allows for the “old man” to become
great and mighty through the works and the deeds that he does of himself,
while God himself becomes great and mighty through the works that he
performs for those who come to know the truth. When the “old man” exercises
his own wisdom and understanding, his own strengths, as well as the best of
his own abilities to perform his own works, he denies Christ who said,
“Without me, you can do nothing to please God”. The letter of the word also
allows the “old man” to perform his own works when he wants to perform
them, how he wants to perform them, and where he wants to perform them so
as to satisfy his desires to be lord and god over his own Christianity. These
are they who believe that the liberty that has been given to them allows for
them to worship and serve God in the manner that is pleasing unto
themselves rather than in the manner that is pleasing unto God. These are
the voices of the “old man” who chases after you, continually tempting you
with the old works of hypocrisy and iniquity. Iniquity and hypocrisy are both
well devised plans created by Satan with the intent of overthrowing the faith of
those who do not love the truth. Hypocrisy and iniquity are only illusions that
seem right in the natural realm.

Romans 4:4-5 “Now to him that works is the reward reckoned of debt, and
not of grace; but to him that does not work, but believes on him that justifies
the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.”

Matthew 13:58 “And Jesus did not do many mighty works there because of
their unbelief.”

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For all sinned. For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. For all
have been conceived in sin and brought forth to do iniquity. For all come forth
with desires to sin and to work iniquity. For all come forth with the desire to
believe the lies that they can be lord and god over their own lives. Behold the
disorder of this fallen world; the disorder where fallen man, the man of sin, is
exalted to sit upon the throne of the heart to be lord and god. Behold the
perversion of the darkness; the perversion where the greatest desire in the
hearts of men is to control and rule their own world. Just as the darkness is
contrary to the light, so also is order of this world contrary to the heavenly
order.

I beheld the earth; and lo, it was void of any life; for there were none who
lived, and moved, or had any of his being in communion and fellowship with
Father God. Behold the dysfunctional disorder that does not allow for God to
be God. For all have sinned; for all have surrendered to his own desires to be
lord and god; the desires that allow for sin and death to take their rule over the
hearts and the minds of the citizens of this world. Behold the disorder in the
kingdom of sin; the kingdom where God is neither Lord nor king. I alone am
your Lord and your God; you are neither my lord nor my god. It is only in this
world of disorder and darkness that men will mock me, will make light of my
words, will doubt my love, will direct me with instructions as to what and how I
ought to function. Only in this world of disorder will men not believe my words,
will refuse to hear my instruction, will dictate to me, or hate me for who I am.
The “old man” hates to subject himself under authority; yet he takes great
pleasure in trying to take authority when no authority has been given to him.
The “old man” loves to direct God in what to do, how to do it, and when to do
it; as though God needed his help. For the sin of man is seen in the disorder
of his own desires to be his own lord and god. This is the disorder that
conceives and births all other disorders. So then, do not marvel that I said that
a man must be born again; for that which is of born of this world is disorder
and perversion.

Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God”.

Psalm 51:5 “Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother
conceived me.”

John 3:6 “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the
Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto you, “You must be born again.”

Jeremiah 4:22-23 “For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they
are senseless children and they have no understanding. They are wise to do
evil and to do good they have no knowledge. I beheld the earth (earthy man),
and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light
(light of life).”

Isaiah 47:10 “For you have trusted in your wickedness; and you have said,
“None see me”. Your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you;
and you have said in your heart, “I am”, and there is none else besides
me.”

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Your “old man” is born of the flesh; and all who are born of the flesh use the
scriptures to showcase their hypocrisy and iniquity. All who are born of the
flesh use the scriptures to judge, to accuse, and to condemn the sins, the
weaknesses, the mistakes, and the faults of others; then twist the same
scriptures to justify their own sins, and weaknesses, and faults, and mistakes.
All who are born in the flesh will use the scriptures to find ways to glorify
themselves. All who are born in the flesh will use the scriptures to establish
their own righteousness. All who are born in the flesh will use the scriptures
as a playground where they can form their own opinions; and then use their
opinions to change the image of God into an image like unto their own
imaginations. All who are born in the flesh will use the scriptures as they sit in
the seat of judgment over the lives of others; determining who to blame and
accuse, and who to forgive and excuse. All who are born in the flesh will use
the letter of the word as their basis to persecute those who are born of the
Spirit. All who are born in the flesh will use the scriptures as a means to
declare their own goodness. These are the works of iniquity that come forth
from all who were conceived in sin. These are the works of those who allow
the “old man” to stand in the temple of their heart, to show themselves to be
their own lord and god; to show that they are sufficient unto themselves; and
to show that they have no need for any of God’s help. As the darkness is
contrary to the light, so also is that which is born of the flesh contrary to that
which is born of the spirit; for it is only he who is born of the spirit that delights
in surrendering his heart and mind into the hands of God for change; to put off
the “old man” who is born of the flesh; and to put on the “new man” who is
born of the Spirit.

Galatians 6:8 “For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption;
but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.”

Zechariah 4:6 “This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel saying, “Not by
(your) might, nor by (your) power, but by my Spirit”, says the Lord of hosts.”

I Corinthians 15:36 “You fool, that which you sow is not made alive except it
first die.”

Galatians 3:1-4 “O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you so that you
should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been evidently
set forth, crucified among you? This only would do I want to learn of you: “Did
you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?” Are
you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the
flesh?”

Romans 2:14-15 “For even the Gentiles, which do not have the law, do by
nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law
unto themselves: which show the work of the law written in their hearts,
their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile
accusing or else excusing one another.”

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Galatians 3:10 “For as many as are of the works of the law are under the
curse.”

Galatians 6:12-13 “As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they
will also compel you to be circumcised, lest they should suffer persecution for
the cross of Christ. For they themselves who are circumcised do not keep the
law, but they desire to have you circumcised so that they may glory in your
flesh (these are they take control over the flock by using the letter of the
word).”

From where does this knowledge come from, these voices of words, that so
pervert the scriptures? Where does this knowledge come from that is able to
twist the truth of God into powerless and vain doctrines? From where comes
this knowledge come from that so many trust to be true because it seems
right in their own eyes? From where does this knowledge come from that has
no power to bring forth abundant life? From where comes this knowledge that
so deceives my people that they put their trust in their own doctrines rather
than to trust in me? From where does this knowledge come that only focuses
on the works, the strengths, the wisdom, the understanding, the
righteousness, and the abilities of fallen man, rather than on the wisdom, the
power, the wisdom, and the abilities of God? From where comes this
knowledge come from that arouses so much unbelief, reasonings, doubts,
arguments, excuses, and distrust against me? From where comes this
knowledge that satisfies all of the desires of the “old man” to be lord and god
over his own Christianity? From where comes this knowledge, this letter of the
word, that kills; the letter that led my own people to crucify the only begotten
Son of God?

II Corinthians 3:4-6 “And such trust we have in God through Christ; not that
we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves; but our
sufficiency is of God; who also has made us to be able ministers of the new
testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit
gives life…. 12-18 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great
plainness of speech; not as Moses who put a veil over his face so that the
children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is
abolished: But their minds were blinded: for until this day remains the
same veil that has not been taken away in the reading of the old
testament; which veil is done away in Christ. But even unto this day,
when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart. Nevertheless when it
shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. Now the Lord is that
Spirit (the spirit of the knowledge of the truth), and where the Spirit of the Lord
is, there is liberty (from the fleshy desires to be our own lord and god). But we
all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed
into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”

Luke 24:45 “Then Jesus opened their understanding so that they might
understand the scriptures.”

John 6:63 “It is the Spirit that makes alive (that we should live, and move, and
have our being unto God); the flesh (fleshy knowledge of the scriptures)

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profits nothing. The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are
life.”

From where comes the knowledge of this world; this knowledge that deceives
and corrupts all of the citizens of this world? In the beginning, in the midst of
the garden of God, there stood a tree, a forbidden tree: the “Tree of the
Knowledge of Good and Evil”. It was this tree that Satan seduced Eve with his
lies to eat from, saying that all who ate of its fruits would become empowered
to be his own lord and god. And when Adam and Eve overcome with their
own desires to be their own lord and god, they took of the fruit of that tree and
ate; and of that tree, all of the knowledge, and the understanding, and the
wisdom that is of the darkness had entered into them, bringing with it all
manner of wickedness, and evil, and uncleanness, and perversity. Also
coming with it were all of the spirits of sin and death to their rule over the
imaginations of their thoughts and the intents of their hearts. Mortality and
corruption also took their reign over their bodies. Is it not a saying among
men, “You are what you eat”?

Genesis 2:17 “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not
eat of it: for in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die.”

Jeremiah 4:22 “My people are foolish, for they do not know me. They are
senseless children who have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, and
to do good, they have no knowledge.”

I Corinthians 8:2 “If any man thinks that he knows anything, he knows
nothing yet as he ought to know.”

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, they were transformed; the light of life
was extinguished and the darkness of death clouded their hearts and their
minds. What fellowship does light have with darkness? What communion do
lies have with the truth? What agreement does life have with death? Though
they had knowledge, they hearts became ignorant of God as well as all things
that are of God. They had eyes, they became blind to see the things of God;
and though they had ears, they became deaf to hear the truth and understand
the voice of their Creator’s love. Their heavenly Father who they had walked
with, communed with, fellowshipped with, and whom they had loved had
become unto them as some unknown alien who they were now greatly afraid
of. They had become what they had eaten; and that forbidden tree, that Tree
of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, it could no longer be found in the Garden
of God, but rather it was now rooted in the intents of their heart and in the
imagination of their thoughts; and all of it’s fruits, the lies that say that you can
be your own lord and god, became the natural desires and affections of their
life. God is an unknown alien to the citizens of this world.

Romans 8:5-7 “For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on
the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of
the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life
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subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the
flesh cannot please God.”

Romans 12:2 “And do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by

the renewing of your mind so that you may prove what is that good and
acceptable and perfect will of God.”

Colossians 3:10 “And put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge
after the image of him that created him.”

I Corinthians 15:34-35 “Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some do not
have the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame. But some man will
say, ‘How are the dead (carnally minded; the “old man”) raised up? And with
what body do they come?”

No, do not look any longer for the “Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil” to
be in the garden of God, but look for it in the consciousness of all who are
carnally minded, in the citizens of this world; for from the “Tree of the
Knowledge of Good and Evil” comes forth the law of sin and death that rules
over the thinking of all who are carnally minded. Look around you; can you not
see that the harvest is ready? Cannot you know see evil and wickedness
nearing full bloom? Did I not say, “Your thoughts are not my thoughts”? How
then could that knowledge which is natural to man agree with the knowledge
of God? The desire for one to be his own lord and god has so blinded the
carnally minded that no man is able to see the evil in his imaginations; the
imaginations that arouse the desires within to dream and hope for those
things which when they are obtained, will allow for a man to be exalted into
godlike status: such things as glory, and fame, and power, and security, and
honor, and righteousness, and wealth, and authority, and influence, and
control, and the respect of men, and wisdom, understanding, and knowledge.
These are those worldly treasures that your “old man” desires to have; those
treasures that exalt a man to be more esteemed and greater than other men.

Genesis 6:5-6 “And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the
earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts (the voices of the “old man))
of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord repented that he had made
man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.”

II Timothy 3:1-8 “But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:
For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud,
blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving,
unforgiving, slanderers, without control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors,
headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a
form of godliness but denying its power (a form after the letter of the
word). And from such people turn away! For of this sort are those who creep
into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins,
led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the
knowledge of the truth.”

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Luke 16:15 “And Jesus said to them, “You are they which justify yourselves
before men; but God knows your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed
among men is abomination in the sight of God.

All of the citizens of this world are born with these worldly desires written in
their hearts and minds; and the inward hopes and dreams of those who are
carnally minded is to achieve some manner of exalted status in this life that
does not include God. Those who seek to satisfy these worldly desires will
follow after their hopes and dreams to make a name or reputation for
themselves among men; and these are they who also see that there is one
thing that is necessary for them to achieve this god-like status, and that is
money. In this world, hopes and dreams can be bought. None of the dreams
or the hopes of the “old man” allow for me to be Lord and God. All those who
are carnally minded see money and wealth as the pathway that leads to fame,
to power, to influence, to greatness, to respect, to security, to honor, to
independence, to glory, to that which can even be used to make a man
righteous, and a solution to problems. It is as it is written, “The love of money
is the root of all evil”; for those who love money are those whose hopes and
dreams are rooted in becoming their own lord and god, independent of any
need for God. Yes, worldly possessions and monetary wealth are able to
satisfy worldly desires, but satisfying desires does not bring forth abundant
life. None of these hopes and dreams are able to deliver a man from his sin or
free his soul from death. How much would it cost for a man to atone his soul
from his sin? How much would a man pay to redeem his life from death? How
much would a man give to have the abundant life that all desire? Is it possible
to purchase abundant life with anything that is dead? O how contrary the
thinking of the carnal mind is to the thinking in the spiritual mind.

Matthew 16:26 “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world,
and lose his own soul? What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”

Matthew 6:19-20 Jesus said, “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures upon
earth, where moth and rust do corrupt, and where thieves break through and
steal; but lay up for yourselves treasure in heaven, where neither moth nor
rust do corrupt, and where thieves cannot break-in or steal.”

I Timothy 6:9-10 “But they that will be rich fall into temptation (the desires of
the “old man”), and in a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which
drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all
evil: which while some coveted (lust/desire) after, they have erred from the
faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”

Proverbs 23:4 “Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom (the
wisdom which births the desires of the “old man” to be his own lord and god).”

Just as it is in this world, so also is it in my church when my people bring with

them the hopes and desires of being their own lords and gods. These are they
who refuse to put off this deceitful and corruptible “old man”, who continue to
love money; who see it as a means to buy their fashion of Christianity; a
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Jesus”. O how hard it is for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Those who deny me, they shall remain clothed with in the riches of their own
hypocrisies and iniquities; those outwardly beautiful appearances that seem
right in their own eyes. Those who deny me, I shall deny before my Father.
Those who love the “old man” will deny the “new man”; and those who deny
the “new man” deny me because I am the “new man”. When my people deny
me, then they will follow after the voices of their wicked desires to establish
their own church that is independent of God; a church that is established on
religious doctrines that work to satisfy the hopes and the dreams of the “old
man”, working to exalt and to glorify the creature in his works rather than the
Creator in his works. Just like the world, these see money as one of the main
avenues necessary to achieve their hopes and dreams.

Matthew 19:23-24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, “Verily I say unto you
that a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. And again I say
unto you, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a
rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.”

Revelation 3:15-17 “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I
wish that you were cold or hot. So then because you are lukewarm, and
neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth because you say, “I am
rich, and increased with goods, and I have need of nothing”; and you do not
know that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.”

Matthew 10:33 “But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also
deny before my Father which is in heaven.”

II Timothy 2:12 “If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he
also will deny us.”

Remember, Satan is always seeking and devising plans to hijack my

purposes, to turn the love and affection of people away from me, and unto
themselves; and the love of money, accompanied with the dreams and hopes
for glory, for power, for security, for praise, for control, and for the status that it
can bring, easily ensnares many to fall into the desires and the affections of
their “old man”. Just like the desires of the “old man”, when it is joined with the
letter of the word, it brings forth sin and death…and so also will the love of
money, when it is joined with the letter of the word, it also will bring forth sin
and death. Your “old man” is he who tempts you to bring forth sacrifices and
tithes of money as though it was of this earthy possession that I would be
pleased with; when it truth it is when offers unto me the earthy possessions of
their “old man” that I am pleased with: his pride, his wisdom and
understanding, and his worldly desires to be his own lord and god. Those
under the letter of the word, just like the Pharisee, they seek for an
opportunity to boast of their tithes and offerings, even if he only boasts within
himself, so that he might obtain the favor of God and men. There are many
who have so deceived themselves that they believe that with their monetary
tithes and offerings, they can even purchase for themselves my grace, or my
favor, or my blessings, or my acceptance, or my gifts, or my salvation, or my
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offerings can be exchanged for their Christian service. Just as Satan delights
in hijacking my purposes, so also will your “old man”, that man of sin, seek to
use his love of money to turn the plan of God into his own plan.

II Timothy 4:3-4 “For the time will come when they will not endure sound
doctrine; but after their own desires they shall heap to themselves teachers,
having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and
shall be turned unto fables.”

Jeremiah 5:30-31 “An astonishing and horrible thing is committed in the land:
The prophets prophesy falsely and the priests bear rule by their own means;
and my people love to have it so. But what will you do in the end thereof?”

Love gives while the love of money exchanges. The “new man” freely gives
without ever having any expectation to receive anything in return; while on the
other hand, the “old man” gives of his money, whether it be in tithes, or in
offerings, or in donations, or in gifts, but always with the intention that he is
going to receive something in exchange; something that will satisfy the
desires of his “old man”. When the “old man” gives, he looks to receive in
return either glory, or recognition, or exaltation, or influence, or honor, or the
praise of men. And when the “old man” receives these things in exchange for
his tithes and offerings of money, he then believes within himself that his
money was able to purchase for righteousness and goodness. The “old man”
will give in exchange for righteousness. The “old man” will give in exchange
for a goodness. The “old man” will give in exchange for honor and glory. The
“old man” will even give of his money in exchange for his service to God, as
though his money was that which I require. Can a man redeem (give in
exchange) his life with tithes and offerings of money? Can the God be
bought? The “old man” is so corrupted in his thinking that he even thinks that
the more money he has, the better Christian he will be; that is, the more he
money he has, the more he is able to tithe and offer; and the more he is able
to tithe and offer, the more he can receive in return; and the more he can
receive in return, the better Christian he will be.

Matthew 16:26 “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world,
and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”

Have you not heard the voice of your “old man” saying, “Give your money, it is
the right thing for you to do”? Can you not see the temptation in this voice of
words? Give in exchange for righteousness. Love gives without ever having
the thought that it was the right thing to do. Love gives because that is the
heart’s desire of love. Love never gives without ever expecting anything in
return. The “old man” gives out of a corruptible heart; love gives out of a pure
heart. A corrupted heart gives to be righteous while the righteousness of God
is the love that freely gives. I am the righteousness of God. I am the
righteousness of the “new man”. I am love. I am the “new man” who freely
gives. Freely you have received, freely give without having any expectations
in return. Do you see how the “old man” uses the love of money to corrupt the
tithes and offerings? Do you see how the “old man” desires to tempt you with
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you can purchase your Christianity; that is, that you can be lord and god over
your own Christianity? Who provoked me to anger? Whose tables did I
overthrow? I hated the moneychangers who profited in exchanging the
offerings of God for money. But what shall a man give in exchange for my
life?” says the Lord. “What shall a man give in exchange for my glory?

Romans 8:32 “He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us
all, how shall he not with him, also freely give to us all things?”

Matthew 10:5-8 “These twelve Jesus sent forth and commanded them
saying, “Go not into the way of the Gentiles, nor into any city of the
Samaritans, but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as ye
go preach saying, “The kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Heal the sick, cleanse
the lepers, raise the dead, and cast out devils: freely you have received, freely
give.”

I came into this world to establish a new covenant; and with a new covenant
comes a new priesthood, not like the old Levitical priesthood that received
tithes and offerings that were according to man’s earthy possessions. I say
unto you that these are not the tithes and offerings that are pleasing in my
sight; for I see that a man’s possessions consists of all those things which
believes in and trusts on; for these are the real treasures of man’s heart. I am
the gift from God; I am the treasure of Father’s heart; I am the gift of the “new
man” who is well-pleasing in the sight of God. I am all that you have need of. I
am the “new man” who sets you free from all the deceitful desires the “old
man”. I am the “new man” who makes you free from the law of sin and death.
I am the perfect gift of God; the gift that perfectly delights in giving with a pure
heart. I am the perfect Son who only delights in allowing my heavenly Father
to be Lord and God. Gold and silver I have none; but what I do have, I freely
give unto you. I give myself completely unto you. What will you give me
exchange? Can I be purchased with the tithes and the offerings of your
money? What cost shall man pay to obtain me? What will give in exchange for
a new heart and a new mind? Can abundant life be redeemed with offerings
and tithes of money? What will it cost a man to save the life of his “old man”?
Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s; render unto God that which is
God’s. Do you not know that you are not your own, but that you have been
bought with a price? Render unto me the heart and mind of your “old man”,
and I will render unto you my heart and my mind. Let this mind be in you
which was also in me, for I never thought that it would be robbery to be equal
with God. Render your “old man” unto me, and I will send fire upon him; fire
that will burn up the desires and affections of the old. I make all things new.
My fire is to be a witness unto you that I have accepted your offering; your
dispossessions of the earthy possessions of your “old man”. When I baptize
you with my fire, I cleanse you of all your earthy possessions, your worldly
desires and affections to be your own lord and god. Out of the fire…out of the
fire comes the new man. My fire is your salvation and freedom, and it is sent
unto you to show you how pleased I am with your offering.

Hebrews 7:11-12 “If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for
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another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called
after the order of Aaron? For the priesthood being changed, there is made of
necessity a change also of the law.”

Romans 12:1 “Therefore I beseech you brethren by the mercies of God, that
you present your bodies a living sacrifice; holy and acceptable unto God,
which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but
be you transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is
that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”

Malachi 3:8 “Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you say,
“Wherein have we robbed you?” In your tithes and offerings!”

I Corinthians 6:19-20 “What? Do you not know that your body is the temple
of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have of God, and you are not your
own? For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and
in your spirit, which are God's.”

Mark 12:41-44 “And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and he beheld how
the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in
much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites,
which make a farthing. And he called unto him his disciples and said unto
them, “Truly I say unto you that this poor widow has cast in more than all they
which have cast into the treasury: for they all did cast in of their abundance;
but she of her lack did cast in all that she had, even all her living.”

Matthew 3:11-12 John said, “I indeed baptize you with water unto
repentance: but he that comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am
not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire;
whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor and gather his
wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

Can you pour new wine into an old wineskin? Give your “old man” to me, and
I will you can receive a new heart and a new mind; a new heart and a new
mind that allow for you to receive a new life; a life in communion and
fellowship with Father God. I have told you before that I desire to give my all
unto you, but I cannot do this unless you are first willing to give your all to me;
for willingness is that which allows the old to become new. There can be no
new if there is not first a willingness to change the old. How much does it cost
for one to purchase a willing mind? Many will praise me with their lips and
honor me with their mouths, but their hearts are filled with unwillingness to
surrender their old hearts and minds into my hands, to allow for me to change
them. Away with these tithes and offerings that come from the desires of the
“old man”; tithes of money and offerings of one’s time and works whereby he
thinks he is able to purchase his Christianity. Do you see how the love of
money goes hand in hand with the desires of your “old man”? Do you see how
many use the love of money to purchase their own lordship and godship; to
make themselves to be lords and gods over their own Christianity?

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II Corinthians 8:12 “For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted
according to that which a man has (the Spirit), and not according to that which
he has not (money).”

Isaiah 1:13-20 “Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto

me; the new moons the sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away
with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your
appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to
bear them. And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from
you: yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of
blood. Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from
before mine eyes; cease from doing evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment,
relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now,
and let us reason together”, says the Lord. “Though your sins are as scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be
as wool. If you be willing and obedient, then you shall eat the good of the
land; but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the
mouth of the Lord has spoken it.”

Psalm 110:3 “Your people shall be made willing in the day of your power (one
of the mighty works of God performed in those who ask for the Lord to work in
them)…”

Where did the knowledge of these words come from that entices my people to
love, to believe in, and to trust in their money more than they love, more than
they believe in, and more than they trust in God. The love of money is the root
of all evil; and the roots of these desires come forth from the roots of the “Tree
of the Knowledge of Good and Evil”; for love of money works hand in hand
with the desires of the “old man” to be his own lord and god.

Where comes forth the lies that tempt you saying, “You could make yourself
to be a better Christian if you had more money to give; for the more money
you had, the more offerings, and tithes, and gifts you could give to others”.
Can money really make you better? Can money change one who is evil into
one that is good; seeing that it is written, “There are none good, not one”?
Can tithes and offerings make one righteous when it is also written, “There
are none who are righteous; No, not one”? Is there a bad beloved Christian
and a better beloved Christian? O, do you see how Satan is able to use the
love of money to bring the grace of God to nothing; the grace that covers the
bad and the bad that appears as the better. The root of all evil is the “love for
money” because of the things that men believe that they are able to perform
with their money; and this love is rooted in foolishness that comes from the
“Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil”. O, the deceitful riches of the
wisdom and knowledge that comes forth from the “Tree of the Knowledge of
Good and Evil”. From where comes the riches that deceives a man into
thinking that he has no need of God? From that which a man eats; for those
who eat the lies of “Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil”, they shall follow
after the voices of their “old man”; always striving to be their own lord and
gods. You shall know them by their fruits.

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I Corinthians 8:1,2 “Now concerning touching things offered unto idols, we
know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. And if
any man thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he
ought to know.”

I Corinthians 3:1 “And I brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual,
but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and
not with meat: for until now you were not able to receive it, and neither now
are you able. For you are carnal (man’s understanding, wisdom, and
knowledge) because there is still among you envying, and strife, and
divisions; are you not carnal, and walk as men?”

Can a man cease from his thinking? Can you change the desires that your
thoughts arouse? Has anyone ever hated his “old man”? Did I say that your
freedom from the desires of your “old man” would come when you ceased
from eating the fruits of this forbidden Tree? No, I said that your freedom
would come when you came to know the truth of my words; the words that
come forth from the Tree of Life; the truth that reveals to your heart and your
mind the sovereignty of the being of God as well as the divine nature of God.
In this fallen world, the truth also reveals the darkness that appears like the
light, and the iniquity that seems like righteousness, and the hypocrisy that
appears as holiness. My truth is the only antidote for poison of lies that come
from the “Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil”. I am the truth. I am the
Word of truth. I am the truth of the knowledge of God. I am the understanding
of the truth. I am the wisdom that loves the truth. My wisdom, my
understanding, and my knowledge are the roots of the “Tree of Life”. He that
bears the root brings forth the fruits of life. I am the Tree of Life. I am the way,
the truth, and the life. I am the Word that is living and powerful. I am the Spirit.
I am the spirit of the new man. I am the Spirit of the word that gives life unto
the dead. I am the Word of Life. I am the Word made flesh. Unless you eat my
flesh and drink my blood you shall not be able find the life that I created for
you to be partakers of. I am the light of the knowledge of God that dissolves
the darkness of your ignorance. I know the Father; no man knows the Father
except the Son, and he who the Son reveals the Father to. I am the new man
who knows Father.

Matthew 12:33-35 “Either make the tree good and his fruit good; or else
make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. O
generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of
the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. A good man out of the good
treasure of the heart brings forth good things; and an evil man out of the evil
treasure of his heart brings forth evil things. But I say unto you that every idle
word that men shall speak, they shall give an account of in the day of
judgment; for by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall
be condemned.”

Jude 10 “But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever
they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt
themselves.”

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Romans 11:16 “For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the
root be holy, so are the branches.”

John 15:1-9 Jesus said, “I am the true vine, and my Father is the
husbandman. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away: and
every branch that bears fruit, he purges it so that it may bring forth more fruit.
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken (the voice of the
Lord) unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of
itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can you, except you abide in me. I
am the vine, you are the branches: He that abides in me, and I in him, the
same brings forth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing. If a man does
not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather
them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If you abide in me, and
my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto
you. Herein is my Father glorified that you bear much fruit; so shall you be my
disciples. As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you: continue in my
love.”

Colossians 1:9-10 “For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not
cease to pray for you, and to desire that you might be filled with the
knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, so that you
might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good
work and increasing in the knowledge of God.”

I then asked, “Lord, how do I eat from either the “Tree of the Knowledge of
Good and Evil” or from the “Tree of Life”? What is this eating?

It is the words that you choose to believe that determines which tree that you
eat from. Remember that which I told you before, “It is what you believe that
has power over you”. If you desire to be your own lord and god, and you
surrender your heart to believe the counsels of your “old man”, then you are
eating from the “Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil”. Every time you
form your opinions, then you are eating from the “Tree of the Knowledge and
Good and Evil”. Every time you justify your sins, your weaknesses, and your
faults with excuses and reasons, then you are eating from the “Tree of the
Knowledge of Good and Evil”. Every time you choose to lean on your own
understanding or to be wise in your own eyes, then you are eating from the
“Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil”. Every time that you choose to walk
in the ways that seem right in your own eyes, then you are eating from the
“Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil”. Every time you judge others
according to what you naturally believe to be good and evil, then you are
eating from the “Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil”. Every time that you
glorify and exalt “self”, then you eating from the “Tree of the Knowledge of
Good and Evil”. All who work iniquity and do hypocrisy, eat from the “Tree of
the Knowledge of Good and Evil”. Every time you seek to do things according
to your own will, then you are eating from the “Tree of the Knowledge of Good
and Evil”. He who eats of the forbidden tree is he who sin has dominion over;
and he who sin has dominion over is he who sees no evil in doing those
things which allow for him to be his own lord and god. It is this sin as well as
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eat from the Tree of Life are those who love the truth, and peace and life shall
rule over their hearts and their minds.

Isaiah 47:10 “You have trusted in your wickedness; and you have said in your
heart, “None see me”. Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you
and you have said, “I am; and there is none besides me”.

Proverbs 3:5-7 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart; and do not lean on your
own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy
paths. Do not be wise in your own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.”
is a way that seems right but the end thereof is the way of death.”

Hosea 10:12 “Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up

your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and rains
righteousness upon you. You have plowed wickedness (the letter of the
word), you have reaped iniquity (self-righteous works); you have eaten the
fruit of lies because you have trusted in your own way (the way that
allows for you to be your own lord and god)…”

Colossians 3:15 “And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which
you are also called in one body; and be you thankful.”

Do you yet understand? Adam and Eve never had any desire to eat the
forbidden fruit of the “Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil” until they were
overcome with desires to be their own lord and god; and as it was then, so
also is it today; for only those who desire to establish their own lordship and
godship will eat of this tree. The voices of the “old man”, they are not your
own but rather they are nothing but lying spirits that call out to from the “Tree
of the Knowledge of Good and Evil”. These lies seek to diminish the
sovereignty and power of God so that they may entice you to exalt yourself in
your own strength and power. These lies seek to pervert the truth about the
goodness, the grace, the righteousness, the love, as well as the mercy and
severity of God so that your love for God may diminish. Your “old man” loves
to sow the lies of unbelief and doubt so as to hinder you from drawing near
unto God, to keep you from asking him to perform his words and his promises
for you. Fearful spirits will come forth speaking lies to you that say such things
as, “God has forsaken you, and he will not be there for you to be your Lord
and your God in times of distress, or need, or trouble in the circumstances
and situations that arise in your life”; or, “You have failed God”…or “You have
disappointed God”….or, “You do not measure up”….or, “There is no hope for
you”….or, “You are not good enough for God”…. or, “Surely God is to blame
for this situation that you are in”; or, “Only a fool would trust in the Lord in a
time and in a matter so crucial as this one”…lies, lies, lies. For all of the
wisdom, and knowledge, and understanding that comes forth from the “Tree
of the Knowledge of Good and Evil” are nothing but lies. There is no truth in
the Devil, and neither is there any truth in the forbidden tree that he tempts all
to eat of. I loved you before you loved me. I loved you when you were poor,
miserable, blind, naked, and wretched. I loved you when you were ignorant of
me. I love you when all your thoughts were vanity. I loved you when you loved
the affections and desires of your “old man”. I loved you when you did not

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believe or trust me. I love you because I am love, and no lie will ever have
power to stop me from loving you. Satan has no power to overcome my love,
but he will tempt you with the desires and affections of your “old man” in his
attempts to cause your love for me to grow cold.

Nahum 1:11 “There is one (the “old man”) come out of you that imagines
evil against the Lord, a wicked counselor.” Thus says the Lord, “Though
they are quiet and likewise many, yet shall they be cut down when he shall
pass through. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more. For now
will I break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds apart.”

Job 42:7-8 “And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto
Job, the Lord then said to Eliphaz, “My wrath is kindled against you, and
against your two friends because you have not spoken of me the thing
that is right, as my servant Job has. Therefore take unto you now seven bulls
and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a
burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest
I deal with you after your folly, in that you have not spoken of me the
thing which is right, like my servant Job.”

Matthew 24:11-13 “And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive
many. And because iniquity shall abound (the works of the letter of the word),
the love of many shall grow cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the
same shall be saved.”

The great storm came up, and it tossed and turned that boat until it was
swamped out with water. Then my disciples yielded their hearts to the lies of
the “old man”, and they came to me saying, “Lord, do you not care that we are
perishing?” They did not know the truth about your love. And Israel, when all
those Egyptian soldiers were coming thundering down upon my people, and
there backs were up against the Red Sea, and suddenly the voice of the “old
man cried out, “Surely the Lord has brought us into this wilderness so that he
might destroy us”. They did not know the truth about my love. And when all of
the great and mighty men of Israel cowered in fear when Goliath appeared;
they did so because they did not know the faithfulness of my love nor the
power of my love. Did I forsake them? Did I abandon them? If they had known
me, that is, the truth about my love for them, would they not approached unto
me and ask for me to be their Lord and their God? But in their ignorance, they
bowed their hearts to eat the fruit of the fearful lies of the “old man”. Never
does the voice of the “old man” scream louder in the thoughts in men that in
times of adversity and affliction; in those times where strength and power is
required that the “old man” does not have. Never does the love of God shine
so brightly on those who believe and trust on him in the times of adversity and
affliction; for these are they who call upon my name, and I hear them, and I
deliver all of them.

Psalm 9:19-20 “Arise, O Lord; let not man prevail. Let the heathen be judged
in your sight. Put them in fear, O Lord: that the nations may know
themselves to be but men. Selah.”

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Psalm 60:11 “Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man (the “old
man”).

Psalm 34:17 “The righteous cry and the Lord hears and delivers them out of
all their troubles.”

Isaiah 40:29-31 “He gives power to the faint; and to them that have no might
he increases strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the
young men shall utterly fall, but those that wait upon the Lord shall renew their
strength and they shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run and not
be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”

Do you not see clearly that in these times of adversity, all of the lies of the “old
man” are stripped away; and then a man sees the truth about his own
strengths and power, that they were only illusions of foolish lies; lies can only
be believed in and trusted on as long as circumstances and situations stay
within the boundaries of one’s own control and strength. It is in these times
that you will hear the voice of the “old man” coming to, tempting you to curse
God, or to doubt God, or to blame God, or to accuse God. When I correct a
man, I open his eyes so that he can clearly see that he is nothing but a man;
and all of his strength, and all of his works, and all of his power, and all of his
own righteousness is nothing but vanity. I correct him so that he may know
that I alone am the only Lord and the only God, and I will gladly help in the
times of trouble and adversity. Those who love the “old man” will hearken to
his voices, and they will grow bitter and hard towards me, even in the times of
adversity and trouble; the times that I delight in showing myself great and
mighty on behalf of those who resist the voices of the “old man”, and call upon
me in the times of tribulation.

Nahum 1:11 “There is one (the “old man”) come out of you that imagines
evil against the Lord, a wicked counselor.” Thus says the Lord, “Though
they are quiet and likewise many, yet shall they be cut down when he shall
pass through. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more. For now
will I break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds apart.”

Job 2:9-10 “Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast to your integrity?
Curse God and die!" But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish
women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not
accept adversity?" In all these things Job did not sin with his lips.”

Isaiah 57:12 “I will declare your righteousness and your works; for they shall
not profit you.”

My kingdom is not of this world; for in my kingdom I alone am worshipped as

Lord and God. My kingdom is not of this world; for the citizens of this world
have enmity written in the hearts and minds, and they have no desire for me
to be their Lord and their God. By reason of this enmity, when I did come into
this world, my own people despised me, rejected me, mocked me, spit on me,
rejected me, scorned me, cursed me, persecuted me, beat me, and killed me
because I was not a citizen of this world. The darkness had blinded their eyes,

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and I who loved them was treated as an unknown alien come to do them
harm. I did not come into this world as Lord or God, but I came off of my
throne and took upon myself the form of a servant and came in the likeness of
sinful man; as a citizen of this world. I came into this world to be example; an
example of what my Father’s love and power is able to accomplish in all those
who will humble their hearts and come off their throne, laying down all their
desires and affections to be their own lord and god. Though I have called
many, only a few choose to surrender their hearts and their minds into the
mighty hands of God.

John 13:15-17 “For I have given you an example that you should do as I have
done to you. Verily, verily, I say unto you, “The servant is not greater than his
lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him”. If you know these
things, happy are you if you do them.”

Matthew 23:12 “And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he
that shall humble himself shall be exalted.”

Luke 19:12-14 “Jesus spoke this parable, “A certain nobleman went into a far
country to receive for himself a kingdom, and then return. And he called his 10
servants, and delivered them 10 pounds, and said unto them, “Occupy till I
come”. But his citizens hated him (the enmity), and they sent a message to
him saying, “We will not have this man to reign over us”.

I myself overcame the enmity through the power of my Father’s spirit; and I
learned obedience through the things which I suffered. I suffered the loss of
my life, my right in this world to be my own lord and god. I acknowledged my
heavenly Father in all my ways, allowing for him to lead me and guide me. I
sought first to know what was right in my Father’s eyes rather than to walk in
the way that seemed right in my own sight: the wide and easy way that leads
to death and destruction. Is there anything easier for a man to do than to do
that which comes naturally? I always sought to do my Father’s will rather than
my own will. I did not seek to glorify myself, but only my Father in heaven. I
did not speak of this world, that is, I did not speak of my own works and
deeds, of my own goodness, of my own strengths, of my own abilities, of my
own accomplishments, of my own rights, of my own opinions, or of my own
righteousness. If I had spoken of these things, then world would have heard
me; but I spoke of my heavenly Father, of his love, of his power, of his mercy,
of his care, of his righteousness, and of his forgiveness; the world did not hear
me. Those who are of this world cannot understand the voice of my words
because they have no desire to hear or to know about the one and the only
true Lord and God; the only one who will ever really love and care for them.
He that is of this world speaks of the world (self), and the world hears him. But
you are of God, and you hear my voice because you are laying down your,
the life of the “old man”, to follow my voice, calling me, “Lord and God”.

John 5:30-31 “I can of my ownself do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my

judgment is just because I do not seek mine own will, but the will of the Father
which has sent me. If I bear witness of myself my witness is not true.”

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Mark 10:18 And Jesus said unto him, “Why do you call me good? There is
none good but one, that is, God.”

Proverbs 20:6 “Most men will proclaim each one his own goodness; but who
can find a faithful man?”

Acts 10:38 “God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with
power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of
the devil; for God was with him.”

John 14:10 “Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me?
The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own authority; but the
Father who dwells in me does the works.”

Mark 16:16-18 “He that believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he that
does not believe shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that
believe; In my name shall they cast out demons; they shall speak with new
tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall
not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”

He that speaks the truth of my Father’s love glorifies the being of God the
Father; he that speaks the lies that glorify the “old man” that he loves, he
speaks of those corrupt things which he knows naturally. He speaks visions of
his own heart, how he sees and interprets the things of God: interpretations
that are rooted in the understanding, the knowledge, and the wisdom that
comes forth from “Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil”. Many worship me
their mouths and honor me their lips, but they worship in vain because they
worship the images and shadows of the truth, the letter of the word which
glorifies only the being of man. Does it mean anything to you that I said, “God
is Spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in Spirit and in truth”?
He that speaks truth worships and serves the Creator because he has been
set free from the lies that worship and serve the creature. Those who serve
the creature walk in the same darkness that all hypocrites walk in, the
darkness that enlightens the goodness and the righteousness of being of
man, and not the being of God the Father. These are they who are of the
world, and the world sees and hears them; and the world will honor and
esteem them for their appearances.

John 5:31 Jesus said, “If I bear witness of myself, then my witness is not
true.”

John 7:18 “He that speaks of himself (that is, of his own wisdom and
understanding) he seeks his own glory; but he who seeks the glory of the one
who sent him is true and no unrighteousness is in him”.

Jude 10 “But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever
they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt
themselves.”

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John 7:24 Jesus said, “Judge not according to the appearance, but judge
righteous judgment.”

Isaiah 29:13 “Wherefore the Lord says, “Forasmuch as this people draw near
to me with their mouth, and with their lips they do honor me, but they have
removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the
precept of men; therefore, behold, “I will proceed to do a marvelous work
among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of
their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall
be hid (The natural wisdom and understanding that comes forth from the Tree
of the Knowledge of Good and Evil).”

John 4:24 “God is Spirit; and they who worship God must worship him in
spirit and in truth”.

Do you see how the scriptures, when they are enlightened with the
knowledge, the wisdom, and the understanding that comes forth from the
“Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil”, it brings forth the letter of the word.
And when the letter of the word is joined with the desires for one to be lord
and god over his own Christianity, it brings forth the works of hypocrisy and
iniquity; and these are the works that appear as righteousness and holiness in
the sight of the children of darkness. This is that false enlightenment, that
strong delusion that is sent by God, to all those who do not seek nor love the
truth. For those who do not love the truth love to surrender their hearts to the
wicked lies of the “old man”, that man of sin that stands in the temple of God,
glorifying himself as lord and god. Men are not deceived by the darkness, but
they are only deceived when the darkness takes on the appearance of
enlightenment; and so it is with all those who think within themselves that they
are righteous. The man of sin, your old man, he is the man who is deceived
by this false enlightenment; this strong delusion whereby he truly believes that
God is pleased with him being his own lord and god. The “old man” greatly
delights in sitting upon the throne of your heart, glorifying himself in temple of
your body because you have bowed before him to believe his lying words.

II Thessalonians 2:8-12 “And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the
Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the
brightness of his coming. Even him who comes after the working of Satan with
all of his power, and signs, and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of
unrighteousness (the works of iniquity & hypocrisy) in them that perish;
because they did not receive the love of the truth so that they might be saved.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion (the letter of the word)
so that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed
not the truth but had pleasure in their self-righteousness.

Romans 1:21-25 “Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him
not as God, neither were thankful. They became vain in their imaginations
and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they
became fools, and they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into
an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed
beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to

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uncleanness (self-righteousness: Isa,64:6) through the lusts of their own
hearts (to be their own lords and gods) to dishonor their own bodies between
themselves: who changed the truth of God into a lie (the letter of the word)
and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is
blessed for ever. Amen.”

Galatians 5:26 “Let us not be desirous of vain glory….”

O, how confident the man of sin is that his own interpretations of scripture is
the truth of God? He is so confident of this that he believes that God not only
agrees with his own interpretations, but he believes that the image of God is
like unto his own interpretations of God. Because the man of sin approves of
his interpretations, he is confident that God approves of him. Because the
man of sin approves and accepts all the works that he does according to the
letter of the word, he is also confident that God approves and accepts his
works as righteousness, not even knowing that they are the works of iniquity.
He is also confident that when he does things that are pleasing to men, that
God also will be pleased with him. The man of sin thinks that when he is
angry with others, that God is surely angry with them also. He thinks that how
he judges men, it is the same manner that God also judges them. He thinks
that when others are in disagreement with him that they are surely in
disagreement with God also. He thinks that when he is offended by others,
then God will surely be offended at them also. He thinks that when he play-
acts, to show himself to be like Christ, that God will surely accept his best
efforts. The man of sin thinks that God is pleased with his prayers as he
directs God what to do, not realizing that his prayers only tempt God to bow
down to his own will. He thinks that those who he approves of are those who
God will also approve of; and he thinks that those who he rejects are those
who God will reject. The man of sin is so confident that he is righteous that he
will judge, hate, persecute and kill the true worshippers with either the blade
of the sword or with sword of his mouth; and he will then think God will be
pleased with his service; not knowing that he himself was only acting as an
instrument of Satan, who uses him to steal, to kill, and to destroy all those
who do not submit to the voices of the “old man”. These do not know me, and
I do not know them because they did not draw near.

I Samuel 16:6-7 “And it came to pass that when they were come, that Samuel
looked on Eliab, and said, “Surely the Lord's anointed is before him”. But the
Lord said unto Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his
stature because I have refused him: for the Lord does not see as man sees;
for man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.”

Psalm 80:3-4 “Turn us again, O God, and cause your face to shine; and we
shall be saved. O Lord God of hosts, how long will you be angry against the
prayer of thy people?”

John 16:1-3 “These things have I spoken unto you so that you should not be
offended. They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time comes that
whosoever kills you will think that he does God service. And these things will
they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.”

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Who is your “old man”, this man of sin? Is he you? Is he a spirit? Is he your
soul? Have I given vain instruction that says, “Put off the “old man”? If the “old
man” is you, then how can you put off the “old man” and you still be you? Who
would be left after the “old man” is gone? Your “old man” is neither your soul
nor is he the spirit of man that dwells in you; but rather your “old man” is that
relationship of oneness that exists when your soul and the spirit of man are in
agreement with one another. The spirit does not know God, and neither does
it understand the things of God; therefore, it is impossible for any godly
counsel to come forth from the voice of the spirit of man because the spirit of
man does not know nor comprehend the things of God. O yes, the spirit of
man is able to supply opinion after opinion that seems like it fits God, but
those fashions only fit man’s images of God. The spirit of man is only familiar
with the things of this world; the world where all desire to believe that they are
their own lord and god; and when your soul agrees with the counsels of the
spirit of man, then comes forth your “old man” that is a citizen of this world.
The spirit of man is not the spirit that was breathed into Adam, otherwise,
Adam and I would not have been able to walk together, commune together,
and fellowship together, because it is as it is written: “How can two walk
together except they agree?” No, spirit of man is that ignorant spirit of
darkness that came in to inhabit his heart and mind after he fell to the desires
to be his own lord and god. Again, the spirit of man is only half of the
relationship that exists in your “old man”, with your soul being the other half.
Your soul is you, and it is one with that spirit of darkness when you agree
with, believe on, trusts in, and obey the voices that pursue you in the
darkness. Those who are of this fallen world of darkness, they hear the voices
of this world, they believe and trust those voices, and they one with them.
Again, these are blind to see shame or evil in being their own lords and gods;
for it is their delight and pleasure to do so.

I Corinthians 2:11-15 “For what man knows the things of a man except
the spirit of man which is in him? Even so, no man knows the things of
God except the Spirit of God. Now we have not received the spirit of the
world but the spirit which is of God so that we might know the things that are
freely given to us of God; which things we also speak, not in the words which
man's wisdom teaches but that which the Holy Spirit teaches; comparing
spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man (the “old man”) does not
receive the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him:
neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned. But he that
is spiritual rightly judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no man.
For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we
have the mind of Christ.”

Romans 6:12-17 “Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body that you
should obey it in the desires thereof; neither yield your members to be
instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as
those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of
righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are
not under the law, but under grace. What then? Shall we sin because we are
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whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to
whom you obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto
righteousness? But God be thanked, that you were the servants of sin, but
you have now obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine (not the letter of the
word, but the truth) which has delivered you.”

Psalm 1:1 “Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly
(the voices of the “old man”)….”

John 10:4-5 “And when the shepherd puts forth his own sheep, he goes
before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a
stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the
voice of strangers.”

Psalm 19:7 “The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul…”

Hebrews 10:38-39 “Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back,
my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back
unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.”

The spirit of man is that spirit that has directed your thoughts since the day
you came forth from your mother’s womb; on the day that you were conceived
in sin and brought forth to work iniquity. From even that time, the oneness of
relationship existed between your soul and the spirit of man. For from your
birth, your “old man” had no other desire except for him/you to be anything
other than your own lord and god. For this reason, your “old man” continues to
relentlessly chase after you, constantly tempting you with past remembrances
of how wonderful your life was when you took control over the situations and
circumstances in his/your life. He also wants to remind of those old days when
you sought for life out satisfying his/your own pleasures and desires. Your “old
man” wants to remind you of how secure you felt in his/your confidence and
strength those days when you refuse to show any weakness because you
were your own god. O, the “old days”, when he/you delighted in your own
plans and in your own dreams which never included any fellowship or unity
with God. Does his voice sound familiar to you?”

Psalm 51:5 “Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother
conceived me.”

I then asked the Lord why he used the phrase “his/your” in these sentences:
and the Lord said, “This is that which I desire for you to clearly see and
understand. The “his/your” represents the union, the friendship, and the
oneness that you experience when your soul is joined in agreement with the
spirit of man; for the spirit of man is the spirit of wisdom, knowledge, and
understanding that your “old man” knows by nature. When you were joined in
unity and agreement with the spirit of man, there was no hatred, or contention,
or rejection, or rebellion, or argument, or refusal of any of his wicked
imaginations that came into your thinking to direct you with his counsel. The
only thing that the spirit of man is familiar with is how to lead you with these
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control over the circumstances and situations that arise in your life. The spirit
of man opposes every move of my Spirit because my Spirit leads you to
surrender your soul into my mighty hand; unto my power, unto my works, unto
my fellowship, unto my love, and unto my life.

James 1:14-16 “But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own
desires, and enticed. Then when desire has conceived, it brings forth sin: and
sin, when it is finished, brings forth death. Do not err, my beloved brethren.”

James 4:4 “You adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that the
friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be a
friend of the world (the worldly desires to be your own lord and god) is the
enemy of God.”

Psalm 41:9-11 “Yea, my own familiar friend (the spirit of man), in whom I
trusted, which did eat of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me. But you,
O Lord, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them. By this
I know that you favor me because my enemy (the carnal mind) does not
triumph over me.”

When I had leaned on my own understanding, I used to believe that this verse
was referring to Judas. But then the Lord showed me that though he loves us
all, he never trusted in any man: Jeremiah 17:5; Job 4:18 “Behold, he put no
trust in his servants…”

Now consider this: Lucifer and his angels were cast out of heaven because
they desired the glory that comes with one being his own lord and god; do you
think that it would be any different with those who are deceived with the same
lies, who give themselves over to the desires for their own glory, or their own
honor, or their own greatness? Would it be just for me to cast Lucifer and
angels out of my kingdom, and then turn around allow those in who delight in
satisfying these same desires? I have told you before, and I tell you again,
there is only one Lord and one God, and there shall never be more than one
Lord and one God; so let not your heart be deceived by these seducing
voices. I am your Savior and your Deliverer. I am your Redeemer; and only I
am able to redeem you from the lies that come forth from the Tree of the
Knowledge of Good and Evil. I am the truth. I am the Spirit of the Lord. I am
the Tree of Life from which come the spirit of wisdom, the spirit of God’s
counsel, the spirit of the revelation knowledge of God, and the spirit of
understanding that bring forth the fruits of truth. I am the “Tree of Life” that is
given to all those who seek and ask for me. I am the law of the spirit of life
that sets you free from the law of sin and death. I am the light of life that
silences the voices that cry out for you from the darkness; the darkness that
desires to have you back for it’s own.

Matthew 7:21 Jesus said, “Not everyone who calls me “Lord, Lord” shall enter
into the kingdom of heaven; only those who do the will of my Father who is in
heaven.”

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Galatians 5:24 “And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh (“old man”)
with the affections and desires….26 “Let us not be desirous of vain glory…”

Isaiah 11:2-3 “The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom
and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and
of the fear of the Lord; and it shall make him of quick understanding in the fear
of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes and neither he
reprove after the hearing of his ears.”

My sheep are filled with my Spirit, and when they hear my voice, they
understand my words, and they follow me. My word is the truth. My word
sanctifies you from the lies of the “old man”. My word is able to separate your
soul from the counsels of the spirit of man. My word will lead you to divorce
your “old man”; to sever that relationship of unity and agreement that you
once had with the spirit of man, that wicked counselor of the carnal mind that
is enmity against me”, says the Lord. “I came into this world to bring the sword
of my Father’s word; a powerful word that is well able to separate your soul
from its oneness with the spirit of the “old man”. My word is able to separate
you from the purpose of your “old man”; to live, and move, and have your
being as your own lord and god. You are neither Lord nor God. I am Lord and
I am God, and I created you for my purpose: to love you, to walk with you, to
give to you, to bless you, to be friends with you, to commune with you, to
fellowship with you, to show you that you are the object of all of my affection. I
desire to make you my bride: to bring you into oneness with my Spirit, thus
making in you one “new man” that does not have any disagreement, or strife,
or contention, or complaints with Father. I came into this world to save you
from the religion of the “old man”; the false religion whereby Lucifer and his
angels were cast out of heaven. I am the Spirit that yearns to be joined to your
soul, to establish a relationship of “oneness” between you and your heavenly
Father: a oneness in a love, and loyalty, and trust, and understanding, and
faithfulness. I am the Spirit of the Lord; I am the spirit that will join itself in
“oneness” with your soul when you divorce your “old man”. I am the “new
man” who is one with Father. In me you will find the purpose you were created
for: to receive the kingdom of God, to be the object of his affection throughout
eternity. I am that Spirit that will allow you to love your Father God with all
your heart, and soul, and mind. I am the way for you to escape the empty,
vain purposes of this world. Those who follow my voice will gladly take up
their crosses to crucify the oneness of their relationship with their “old man”;
the “old man” that is enmity against the Father who loves you.

Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than
any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and
of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of
the heart.”

John 17:17 “Sanctify (a separation unto God) them through your word; your
word is truth”

Matt 16:24-26 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, “If any man will come after
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and his soul), and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save
his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake (the nature of
the “new man”) shall find it. For what shall it a profit a man if he shall gain the
whole world (become his own lord and god) and lose his own soul? Or what
shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”

Remember that I told you that there is only one thing that Satan and I have in
common; and that is we both desire to have you? I desire to have you
because I love you; you are not an object of my lusts, but you are the object of
all of my affection. My love yearns for you to allow for me to prove my love
towards you. My love desires to bless you and to do you good. My love
yearns for you to allow for me to increase my Spirit in you. My love desires to
fill all of your thoughts with life and peace. My love desires to perform all my
words for you. My love desires to fulfill all of my promises for you. My love is
always there for you. My love desires to finish all of the works that I have
started in you. My love yearns for you to surrender your heart into my hands.
My love desires to deliver you from the worldly desires and affections of your
“old man”. My love desires to cast out all of your fears, doubts, and unbelief.
My love desires to justify your weaknesses, your faults, and your sins with the
blood which was shed for you. My love desires to reveal the intimate secrets
of my heart to you. My love desires to walk with you, to commune with you, to
fellowship with you, and to protect you. My heart desires for you to receive my
love so that I might give unto you my entire kingdom; the kingdom that my
love won for you. I am love, and everything I do for you I do because of the
love in my heart for you. Your victory is in the belief of the love that I have for
you. I have called you, and you are no longer your own lord and god; even so,
because Satan desires to have you, he will continue to send your “old man” to
seek after you and to tempt you with his desires for you to return to your
former state; to turn you away your love for your Father in heaven who loves
you so much. Those who eat of his lies will see their love and affection for
God grow colder and colder; and in this decrease, the desires and affections
of the “old man” to be lord and god shall increase.

Luke 22:31 “Jesus said, “Simon, Simon, Satan desires to have you so that
he can sift (separate) you as wheat.”

Romans 8:2 “The law of the Spirit of life has set me free from the law of sin
and death…6 The carnal mind is death but the spiritual mind is life and
peace.”

I John 4:18 “There is no fear in love; for perfect love casts out all fear
because fear has torment. He that fears has not been made perfect in love.
We love him because he first loved us.”

James 5:6 “Humble yourself under the mighty hand of God so that he may
exalt you in due time.”

I John 5:4 “For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is
the victory that overcomes the world (I John 2:16: the desires of the “old
man”), even our faith (in his love).”

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Romans 8:35 “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? (These are now
the things that Satan relentlessly brings upon us in his attempts to separate
us from the love of God, so that he might deceive us into saving the life of the
“old man”) Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are killed all
the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these
things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am
persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor
powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any
other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Acts 14:21-22 “And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had
taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch,
confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the
faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom
of God.”

Now I want to remind of some of those things which your “old man” does not
want you to be reminded of. There are two powers and principalities that
come forth when one eats the lies that come forth from the Tree of the
Knowledge of Good and Evil. The first is the power of sin; that is, the lies that
tempt you to be your own lord and god. The second is death; the death that
rules over the thinking of the carnal mind. Satan only entices you to believe
his lies about your lordship and godship because these are the lies that do
nothing but open the door of your heart and mind so that death can enter in
and takes it rule over the thinking of the carnal mind. Consider how many
become addicted to alcohol, or tobacco, sex, or food, or drugs, or anything
that was initially done for pleasure, but then turns into bondage and
oppression. They all first heard that one voice: that voice that says, “Oh, I will
try this just once. Truly I will not allow for anything to take control over me”;
words that entice them as though they could be their own lord and god, and
they could resist that which they had no power to resist. Satan hates all men.
Satan lives, and moves, and has his being in hating all men; especially those
who I have called. He is never a lover or a friend, though he continually
disguises his voices to appear as so. He hates all of my creation. There is
nothing more that Satan loves to do than to torment the souls of men with
death; but before death must come sin.

Romans 8:5 (AMP) “For those who are according to the flesh and are
controlled by its unholy desires set their minds on and pursue those things
which gratify the flesh (“the old man”), but those who are according to the
Spirit, and are controlled by the desires of the Spirit, they set their minds on
and seek those things which gratify the [Holy] Spirit (fellowship, love,
faithfulness, and communion with God). Now the mind of the flesh [which
is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit] is death [death that comprises all
the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter]. But the mind of the
[Holy] Spirit is life and [soul] peace [both now and forever]. Because the mind
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does not submit itself to God's Law (the law of the Spirit of life that is in
Christ Jesus); and indeed it cannot. So then those who are living the life of
the flesh [catering to the appetites and impulses of their carnal nature] cannot
please or satisfy God, or be acceptable to Him. But you are not living the life
of the flesh, you are living the life of the Spirit, if the [Holy] Spirit of God [really]
dwells within you [directs and controls you]. But if anyone does not possess
the [Holy] Spirit of Christ, he is none of His [he does not belong to Christ, is
not truly a child of God]. [Rom 8:14.] But if Christ lives in you, [then although]
your [natural] body is dead by reason of sin and guilt, the spirit is alive
because of [the] righteousness [that He imputes to you].”

Romans 6:16 “Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves
servants to obey, you are that one's servants to whom you obey, whether of
sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?”

Satan deceived himself with the same lie that he deceived one third of the
angels in heaven and Adam and Eve with; and it is always with these same
lies that he continually seeks to deceive you because he knows that you
become the servant of him whose voice you obey; and a man will obey that
which seems right and appears good to him. Even so, all his lies are only a
scam; for once his lies are believed, then comes that which Satan delights
in…death. Look at the world around you; cannot you see how much Satan
bitterly hates all men? It is only sport for Satan to torment the citizens of this
world with the miseries of death: those miserable thoughts that constantly
trouble with fears, anger, confusion, anxieties, unbelief, frustration, loneliness,
guilt, worries, depression, jealousy, evil suspicions, unforgiveness, vanity,
disappointments, stress, self-condemnation, pride, bitterness, uncertainty,
envy, hate, dissatisfaction, emptiness, as well as many other such like
miserable thoughts that he can torment your soul with. This is what your “old
man” does not want you to be reminded of. As long as a man takes pleasure
in seeking to satisfy his own desires, then death will surely rule over him; for
death only accompanies the sin that entices a man to be his own lord and
god. Again, I want to remind of that which I have told you before; “My thoughts
are not your thoughts; for my thoughts are life and peace”. I want to remind
you that your “old man” is nothing more than a wild beast that is subject to the
emotions and feelings of death; a life that is completely desolate of the
abundant life that I created man to be partakers of; for death is death, and
there is no life in death; only illusions of death that appear as life.

Ephesians 4:17-24 “This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you
henceforth walk no longer as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of
God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of
their heart: who being past feeling have given themselves over unto
lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness (self-righteousness) with greediness.
But you have not so learned Christ; if so be that you have heard him and have
been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: that you put off concerning (that
which comes through the darkened understanding that comes forth from the
Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil) the former conversation the “old
man”, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed

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in the spirit of your mind that you put on the new man, which after God
is created in righteousness and true holiness (the holiness of the truth).

Psalm 94:11 “The Lord knows the thoughts of man that they are all vanity
(worthless)”.

Jeremiah 23:16 Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Do not hearken to the words
(the letter of the word) of these prophets that prophesy unto you (telling you
what you need to do to be lord and god over your own Christianity); the make
you vain. They speak a vision of their own heart (how they see the scriptures;
their own opinions), and not out of the mouth of the Lord (Prov. 2:6).”

I want you to remember that your “old man” is a liar, and that he can do
nothing but speak the lies of his opinions. He is a liar and subject to the same
desires as his father the Devil is, he is not able to speak anything that is not
rooted in the lies that a man should be lord and god over his own Christianity.
For this reason, your “old man” seeks to woo you with his deceitful lies that
tempt you make yourself to be “like Christ”; to make the “new man” to be after
the image that is seen in the letter of the word. How else could your “old man”
preserve his life in you except that he is able to disguise himself with
hypocrisy and works of iniquity so that he appears in your sight as the “new
man”? Your “old man” will deceive you with your own zeal for God; to make
you think that the works and deeds that you have performed by your own zeal
to appear as though it was a move of the Spirit. I am the truth; I am love; I
love you with a pure heart, a heart without any pretenses, or lies, or imitations,
or falsehoods, or illusions”, says the Lord.

John 8:44 “You are of your father the Devil, and the desires of your father you
will do. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not dwell in the truth
because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speak of his own
(understanding and wisdom). He is a liar and the father of it.

Romans 3:4 “…Let (allow) God be true, but every man a liar….”

Romans 10:2-3 “For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not
according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness have
gone about to establish their own righteousness, and they have not submitted
themselves unto the righteousness of God.”

I want to remind you of how powerless and weak your “old man” is. Your “old
man”, though he is great and mighty in his own eyes, hates the light because
the light reveals the truth about his self-image; about the idolatry of his own
lordship and godship. There is nothing that transgresses the darkness more
than the light that reveals the truth about the darkness: the darkness where
lies are able to appear as truth; where hypocrisy is able to appear as holiness;
where opinions appear as knowledge; and where iniquity is able to appear as
righteousness. Your “old man” is weak to the light; he squeals, he flees, he
makes excuses, he rejects, he shuts his ears, he blames, he hides, he
justifies, he reasons, he fears, he defends, he runs away, or his knees will
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man” is a liar, and he flees from the light to cover his lies with more lies. Your
“old man” thinks that he is so strong within himself, yet he cannot even stand
in the light of my truth. He hates the light because it not only reveals his sins
and his faults, but because it is also reveals his fears and his weaknesses to
accept and agree with the truth. Many will not endure my correction because
they hate the light that spoils the image they have of themselves. Remember
that which was asked and showed to you? “Who will abide in the day of my
coming? Who shall stand when he appears?” Those who stand corrected
(The Steel Mill Vision).

Ecclesiastes 3:16 “And moreover, I saw under the sun the place of judgment,
that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was
there.”

Matthew 26:41 “Watch and pray, that you enter not into temptation: the spirit
indeed is willing, but the flesh (the “old man”) is weak.”

John 3:19 “And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world,
and men loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were
evil (lords and gods over their own Christianity). For everyone that does evil
hates the light, and neither does he come to the light, lest his deeds should be
reproved. But he that does truth comes to the light so that his deeds may be
made manifest that they are wrought in God.”

Zephaniah 3:5 “The just Lord is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity.
Every morning does he bring his judgment to light; he fails not; but the unjust
do not know any shame.”

John 7:7 Jesus said, “The world cannot hate you but it is me that the world
hates (the enmity) because I testify of that the works thereof (hypocrisy and
iniquity) are evil.”

Isaiah 30:9-11 “This is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not
hear the law of the Lord: which say to the seers, “See not”; and to the
prophets, “Do not prophesy right things unto us, but speak unto us smooth
things, prophesy deceits. Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path,
and cause the Holy One of Israel (the light) to cease from before us.”

Again, I want to remind you that there is no righteousness, no strength, no

goodness, no truth, no faith that stands in the power of God, no
understanding, no belief that all things are possible with God, no abundant
life, nor is there any love of God in the thinking of the “old man”; yet, your “old
man” will have you to think and believe within yourself that you are rich in all
of these things, as though you were lacking nothing. Does not my word say
that the heart is deceitful above all things? I want to remind you that your “old
man” is not going to be able to stand before God and justify himself with his
own works, with his own reasoning, with his good intentions, with his excuses,
with his crafty doctrines, and neither will he be able to justify himself by
declaring that he did the best that he could. I want to remind you that your “old
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your sins and weaknesses be revealed, and you cannot show yourself to as a
god or to be “like Christ”. I want to remind you that all who hide their sins
reject me; for my love forgives you of all your sins, and only my blood are your
sins cleansed. I came into this world to correct you, to cleanse you, to change
you, to justify you with my Spirit, so that I could make all things new. I want to
remind you that those who choose to cover their sins with the hypocrisies and
iniquities of the “old man”, they are going to fade away into eternal
forgetfulness where there is no remembrance of any of there works or deeds,
nor is there any remembrance of those things which they glorified themselves
in, and neither is there any remembrance of the those who had their names
blotted out of the Book of Life. I want to remind you that unless a man comes
off of his throne as his own lord and god, and takes up his cross to dispossess
his “old man”, and humbles himself as a little child, then he shall never taste,
nor touch, nor see, nor enter into the kingdom of God. I the Lord have spoken
these words, and my words shall stand because I AM; and there is no other.

Romans 3:10 “As it is written, “There is none righteous; no, not one. There is
none that understands; there are none that seek after God. They are all gone
out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that
doeth good, no, not one. 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways, and the
way of peace have they not known.”

Psalm 39:5-6 “…truly, truly, every man at his best state is altogether vanity.
Selah. Surely every man walks in a vain show…”

Ecclesiastes 1:14 “I have seen all the works that are done under the sun;
and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.”

Isaiah 57:12 “I declare your righteousness and your works, for they shall not
profit you.”

Galatians 4:29 “He that was born after the flesh (the “old man”) persecutes
him that is born after the Spirit, and so it is now…. 6:12 As many as desire to
make a fair show in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised, lest they
should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.”

Romans 6:6-9 “Know this that our “old man” is crucified with him so that the
body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For
he that is dead is freed from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe
that we shall also live with him, knowing that Christ being raised from the
dead, dies no more; death (the carnal mind; the thinking of the “old man”) has
no more dominion over him.”

I want to remind you how powerless your “old man” is to tame your own
tongue or to free you from your fears and dreads. I want to remind you of how
powerless your “old man” is to change death into life. He is powerless to bring
light out of darkness. He is powerless to bring forth the truth that divides soul
from spirit; the truth that sets a man free from his citizenship to this world. He
is powerless to bring good out of that which is evil. He is powerless to help
you in times of need. Seeing then that your “old man” is powerless to change

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anything, know that it is he who will send multitudes and multitudes of lying
counsels that tempt you to resist any change; for change comes by my power
and the change that I send brings the demise of your “old man” with it; for
there is nothing “old” in that which is made “new”. Yes, your “old man” hates
me because I am the new. I also want to remind you that though your “old
man” exalts himself to be as lord and god, deceiving you with illusions that
appear as though you are in control over your own world; yet it is he who will
betray and abandon you in the very moment you find yourself in
circumstances and situations that go beyond the boundaries of your own
power and strength. Yes, your old lover and friend will betray you right into the
hands of death when adversity strips him of his lies; and when death comes in
and takes control, it then subjects you to all those miserable thoughts that
torment me you in times of need: thoughts of helplessness, stress, loneliness,
frustration, anxiety, confusion, fear, despair, evil suspicions, failure, panic,
hopelessness, bitterness, or worry. Yet, when the trouble passes, many will
return to fornicate with the counsels of their “old man”. He who loves the “old
man” is he who loves to be betrayed and hurt of himself; for your “old man”
knows not how to have mercy or compassion for your soul; he just turns you
over to the death that rules over all who are the carnally mind. I am the truth. I
am love. The truth is that my love will never betray you. The truth is that my
love will never leave or forsake you, regardless of your circumstances or
situations you find yourself in, because I AM; and I AM sovereign over all your
circumstances and situations. I AM when you come off of your throne.

Jeremiah 13:23 “Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots?
Then how may you do good who are accustomed to do evil?”

John 15:5 Jesus said, “I am the vine, you are the branches: He that abides in
me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit: for without me, you can do
nothing.”

Jeremiah 30:14 “All your lovers have forgotten you; they seek you not; for I
have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a
cruel one, for the multitude of your iniquity (the works you do to show yourself
as lord and god); because your sins were increased.”

I am Jesus. I am the Son of the “living” God. I am your Messiah. I am your

Redeemer. I am your Christ. I come to make all things new in you. I am the
life. I am the Resurrection and Life. I overcame the world. I overcame the
world which has no relationship with Father. I overcame the death of the
carnal mind; I overcame the enmity of the thinking of the “old man”. I
overcame all imaginations that opposed Father being my Lord and my God. I
am the light of life that destroys the darkness of death. I am come to bring life
to the dead. I am the way, the truth, and the life. Your “old man”, with all of his
worldly desires, was crucified with me; but will you choose to crucify the
desires of your “old man”? Will you choose to come off of your throne? The
“old man” only has power over you when you choose to let him have power
over you. I am the sovereign Lord and God; I am sovereign over all the
desires and the lies of the “old man”. I have authority over the spirit of the “old
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relationship and communion with Father. I am the resurrection of relationship
and communion with Father. I am the spirit of the “new man” that reconciles
your soul unto Father. I am the Spirit of Life that sets you free from the rule of
sin and death.

Ephesians 4:17-18 “This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you
henceforth walk no longer as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God
through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart.”

Ephesians 2:14-18 “For he is our peace who has made both one, and has
broken down the middle wall of partition between us; having abolished in his
flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for
to make in himself of the two one new man, so making peace; and that he
might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the
enmity (the desires of the “old man” to be his own lord and god) thereby: and
came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were
nigh. For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.”

I John 5:4-5 “For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is
the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith. Who is he that
overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God (not
the “old man”).”

Revelation 12:11 “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by
the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives (the life of the “old
man” unto the death.”

I am the life of the “new man”. I know Father. I love Father. I trust Father. I
obey Father. I believe Father. I seek after Father. I agree with Father. I hope
in Father. I honor Father. I think on Father. I understand Father. I am loyal
and faithful to Father. I am surrendered unto Father. I fellowship and
commune with Father. I live, and move, and have my being with Father. I am
the relationship that exists between Father and the “new man”. I am the
reconciliation that makes the “new man” to be one with Father. No man can
come unto Father except through me. I reveal myself to all those who desire
to commune and fellowship with Father. Those who desire relationship with
Father will follow my voice as they take up their cross, disown their desires to
be their own lord and god, and crucify unto themselves their relationship with
the “old man”. Who will lay down the desires and affections of his heart so that
I might give unto him the affections and desires that are in my heart? Love
gives. I delight myself in Father. I am the Son who is well-pleasing in the sight
of Father. I am the spirit of the “new man” that is manifest in you; the “new
man” who is well-pleasing in the sight of my father. I am the resurrected life
that lives in oneness with Father. I am the gift of God; and I am freely given to
all those who desire relationship with Father. I will freely give all of myself unto
all those who freely unto me all of their “old man”. I am the spirit of God that
redeems you from the lies and the desires of the spirit of man. I am Jesus. I
am Father’s gift to you. Do you want my heart? Do you need my Spirit? Will
you take up your cross and follow me? Will you let me lead you as sheep to

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the slaughter, to crucify your “old man”? Will you decrease in the “old man”
nature so that I, the divine nature of the “new man”, might bring be revealed in
you? Did I leave out anything? Father has made me to be all things for you so
that all that is in you may be of God. I am the gift that consists of countless
gifts. As I have told you before, you have many gifts here, but you have not
asked for them. Remember, all that you do not have is because you have not
asked; I am the gift that you have not asked for.

Ephesians 2:13-19 “But now in Christ Jesus you who were sometimes far off
are made near by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who has made
both one, and has broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
having abolished in his flesh the enmity (the carnal mind), even the law of
commandments (counsels of our imaginations) contained in ordinances; for to
make in himself of the two, one new man, so making peace; and that he
might *reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the
enmity (the carnal mind) thereby. He came and preached peace to you who
were afar off and to them that are near. For through him we both have access
by one Spirit unto the Father. Therefore now you are no more strangers and
foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and with of the household of
God”.

*reconcile: to be made first

II Corinthians 5:17-18 “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new

creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new; and
all things are of God, who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and
has given to us the ministry of reconciliation”.

Galatians 6:14-16 “God forbid that I should glory except in the cross of our
Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me and I unto the
world. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything, nor
uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this
rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God”.

Romans 8:35-39 “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall
tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or
sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are killed all the day long; we are
accounted as sheep for the slaughter”. Nay, in all these things we are more
than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that
neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things
present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature
shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our
Lord.”

Multitudes, multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision; voices, voices,

voices; whose voice will you choose to surrender your soul unto? I lay before
you this day a choice between the voices of sin that lead unto death, or the
voice of truth that leads unto life. If you choose to surrender your heart to
those seductive voices that tempt you to be your own lord and god, then you
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shall you find the rest your soul desires unless you first choose to refuse to
believe the voices of the “old man”? Even so, many will refuse to resist my
truth and choose to put their rest in the letter of the word: to rest in their own
wisdom and understanding, in their own abilities, in their own goodness, in
their own righteousness, in their own works, in their own justifications, and in
the vain doctrines that focus on the rituals, the traditions, and the efforts of
man. Many will stand before me on that day saying, “But Lord, have I not cast
out demons in your name! But Lord, have I not faithfully given to you my
tithes! But Lord, have you not taught us in our churches! But Lord, have I not
preached the gospel to others! But Lord, have I not prayed often! But Lord,
have I not performed many wonderful works in your name!” These are those
many that have mocked me, who have denied me and given their love and
their trust to the “old man”; who deceived them into making themselves to be
lords and gods over their own Christianity. I never knew these workers of
iniquity because they never drew near to me, thinking within themselves that
they had no need for me. They have not because they asked nothing of me;
that is, of my heart and of my Spirit. These are those vessels of dishonor who
allowed themselves to be deceived, and who chose not to crucify unto
themselves the desires and affections of the “old man”, but choose to bow
their hearts and follow the voices that allowed them take control over their
lives, as well as over me”, says the Lord. “Shall you be able to take control in
the Day of Judgment? There shall be much, much weeping, much gnashing of
teeth, and much hating of self when they find that they chose not to follow
after my voice.

II Timothy 2:19-21 “Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure, having

this seal: “The Lord knows them that are his”. And let everyone that
names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also
of wood and of earth; and some to honor, and some to dishonor. Therefore, if
a man will purge himself from these (his iniquities), he shall be a vessel unto
honor, sanctified, and ready for the master's use and prepared unto every
good work.”

Matthew 7:21-23 “Jesus said, “Not everyone who calls me, “Lord, Lord”, shall
enter into the kingdom of heaven; only he that does the will of my Father
which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, “Lord, Lord”, have we not
prophesied in your name? And in your name have cast out demons? And in
your name done many wonderful works?” And then will I profess unto them, I
never knew you: depart from me you that work iniquity.”

If you choose to hear my voice, and follow me, then I will surely lead you into
that place of rest where the Lord only will be your Lord and your God; a place
of rest and quietness where you will no longer hear any of these voices that
have so relentlessly chased after you. Come unto me all you who have
labored in your own works and are heavy laden with the responsibilities that
come with being your own lord and god; come unto me and you will find rest
for your souls. I will care for you; I will supply for you; I will protect you; I will
increase you; I will deliver you; and I will provide for all your needs. My yoke is
my Spirit, and my Spirit is life. I am that Spirit. Take my yoke upon you, for I

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am meek and humble. Take my yoke upon you so that you may fulfill your
destiny; for Father predestined you all to be conformed to my image; the
image that Father said was well pleasing in his sight. Take my yoke upon you
that my life may be manifest you. Take my yoke upon you so that you may be
converted into a child; that meek and humble child that trusts his father, that
esteems his father, that boasts of his father, that loves his father, that obeys
his father, and that puts all of his faith in his father. Did you not know that my
heart is the Spirit of the child? Will you, Mitt Jeffords, take my yoke upon you;
to love and to cherish; to trust in and lean upon; to surrender to so that you
may allow your soul to be joined in holy matrimony to my Spirit? Will you take
my yoke upon you so that the two may become one “new man/child”? I am
the Spirit of the new man. I am the Spirit of the child; the child in whom all
things are new, where nothing old is able to dwell. I am the Spirit of the bride
that Father is well pleased with. Will you surrender your soul to be the soul of
the bride that Father is well pleased with?

Romans 8:29 “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be

conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many
brethren.”

Matthew 18:3 “And Jesus said, “Truly I say unto you that except you be
converted and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom
of heaven.”

Take my yoke upon you; for the yoke of my Spirit believes all things are
possible with Father; for Father has sworn in his wrath that no man shall enter
his rest except he who believes to follow after his voice. I am the way that the
leads into life. I am the way that leads into that rest. Take my yoke upon you,
for I am meek and humble; and the meek and the humble will follow my voice
as a little child follows so trustingly after his father. Unless you are converted
and become as little children, you shall not clothe yourself with meekness and
humility. Take my yoke upon you, for only my yoke is able to convert you.
Take my yoke upon you; for my yoke is life and peace. I am the spirit of life
and peace. I am the yoke of peace with God that is resurrected when the
enmity of the “old man” is crucified. Will you take my yoke upon you, for it is
the gift of God? I am gift of God, the yoke of peace, agreement, and unity. I
am the belief that is accompanied with peace and joy. I dwell in peace with
Father because I only believe the voice of my Father. Though I heard the
many voices of my “old man” that were come to tempt me in all things, I never
once yielded to his voice to believe on myself. Let your soul be joined in
oneness with my Spirit; for only by my Spirit shall your soul find rest. Only by
my Spirit shall you find the belief that is accompanied with joy and peace. I am
the life and peace that inhabits the thinking of those who are spiritually
minded. I am the life and peace that is yoked in oneness to the soul that is
joined to my Spirit; for I am the Spirit of life in whom there is no death. In me
you shall rest when you find the purpose for your being, the purpose you were
created for, to be one with Father. Enter into the rest of my presence where
there are no voices of sin to tempt you or any miseries of death to torment
you. Enter into my presence where I love you now; and you will find rest in my
love now.

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Romans 15:13 “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in
believing by the power of the Holy Spirit, that you may abound in hope,”

The poor you will have with you always, but me you will not always have. The
heart of the child is a broken and contrite heart, a heart that has been
circumcised of all “old things”. I treasure the heart of a child above all things;
for the broken heart belongs only to the soul of him who has broken off and
divorced all of the desires and voices of his “old man” so that he might win my
heart. No greater love is there than that soul that will lay down the spirit of his
“old man” so that he might have mine, the spirit of the “new man”. The broken
and contrite heart is your entrance into my rest; for the broken and contrite
heart belongs to the soul of him who only follows my voice; for he who is of a
broken and contrite heart has overcome the enmity: the voices of reasoning
and excuses that magnify themselves to be more important than the voice of
my word; the voices of unbelief and doubt that seek to turn away from the
voice of my instruction; the voices of ignorance that confuse the hearers; the
voice of fears that seek a place to hide from my voice; the voice of self-
righteousness that condemns my voice; the voice of pride that hardens itself
against my voice; the voice of frustration that will not wait to hear my voice;
the voice of the hypocrisy that mocks my voice; and the voices of false
prophets and false teachers that come to make themselves to be lords and
gods over my flock. These are all of the voices that have chased after you in
your dreams; the voices of your “old man” that comes to woo you back, to
have you for his soul-mate, to lead you into death and destruction. Can I say it
one more time? Come unto me and take my yoke upon you, and you will find
rest for your soul; a rest from all these ungodly voices. In the heart of a child,
you shall not find any voices that grieve the Holy Spirit; I am that Spirit. In the
heart of the child, you shall find the heart of the “new man”; the new creation
that moves in complete surrender and unity with the Spirit of the Father, which
I, Christ Jesus in you and you in me. Come, follow me to into the marriage of
life; for all those who are born of the Spirit will flow in complete surrender to
gentle breeze of my voice; and where my voice leads them, no one knows, no
one cares, no one questions, for they know that they go in the presence of my
love, of my power, of my care, and in my fellowship. The heart of the child is
the heart of my Spirit; and those who walk in my Spirit have been freed from
the voices of past remembrances: from all of the voices of idolatry, cares,
pride, worldly wisdom, unbelief, doubts, and fears….and they follow me.

Philippians 3:7-8 “But what things were gain to me, those things I counted
loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, I count all things but loss for the excellency of
the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of
all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.”

John 3:8 “The wind blows where it will, and you hear the sound thereof, but
you cannot tell from where it comes or where it goes; so is it with everyone
that is born of the Spirit.”

Contrite: Destroyed, crushed, broken to pieces

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When the Lord finished speaking these words, the Spirit of the Lord
immediately brought into my thinking that which is written in Philippians 4:13
“I can do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthens me”; but before I
had a chance to even meditate on this word, I found myself suddenly taken in
the Spirit into what seemed like a very large sanctuary in what had to be in an
extremely large church or temple of some kind. I found myself standing in the
midst of a very large congregation of people; and from their looks and
reactions, they had just arrived in this place at same time as I, seeing that we
were all gazing around wondering where we were and for what purpose we
had been brought into this place. We were all in speechless in awe. There
were so many of us that I could hardly see in any direction; and so I just
looked up. Just as I started to admire the exquisite beauty of the walls and
ceiling, I began to hear the voice of man speaking. As I listened intently to
hear what he was saying, I realized that I must be in the midst of a marriage
ceremony because these were the words that I heard: “Will you take him to be
your lawfully wedded husband, for now and all of eternity; to have and to hold,
to love and trust with all of your heart, with all of your mind, and with all of
your soul? Will you honor and obey him? Will you care for and comfort him in
love? Will you forsake all others, to be faithful and loyal to him with all of your
being? Then whoever was speaking ceased from his talking, and suddenly my
mouth opened and I said, in perfect unison with everyone else that was in that
sanctuary, “I do”. Then that vision was over.

As I considered what I had just seen, and partaken of, I suddenly realized why
the Spirit of the Lord had quickened unto me Philippians 4:13; for it would not
have been possible for any of us to say “I do” to this marriage except that
Jesus Christ himself had become the Spirit that our souls were now joined to
in unity and oneness; for it was Jesus who had given unto us his heart, the
heart of child that is surrendered and loving. I then remembered that which
the Lord had previously said unto me, “I am the life of the “new man”. I
know Father. I love Father. I trust Father. I obey Father. I believe Father. I
seek after Father. I agree with Father. I hope in Father. I honor Father. I
think on Father. I understand Father. I am loyal and faithful to Father. I
am surrendered unto Father. I fellowship and commune with Father. I
live, and move, and have my being with Father. I am the relationship that
exists between Father and the “new man”. I am the Spirit of the Bride” I
knew that without Christ, this wedding could never take place; for he came
into this world to prepare a people for this very moment. Then the Spirit gave
me understanding as to why Jesus spoke these things unto me concerning
his relationship with Father; that as his relationship is with Father, so also
shall it become our relationship with Father when our souls are completely
joined to his Spirit. I understood also that all of these things that Jesus spoke
about that were in his heart, they were the things which Paul was also
speaking of in Philippians 4:13; and it would be impossible for any who are
carnally minded to say “I do” because the carnal mind is so full of the enmity
that only says, “I will not”. I then realized that not one of us could say “I do”
who does not have the first and greatest commandment written in his heart,
“To love the Lord our God with all of our heart, with all of our mind, with all of
our strength”, by the Spirit of “new man” who is in Jesus Christ/and Christ
Jesus in us.

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Until this moment, I had previously seen this word in Philippians as only
meaning doing things that pertain to this life; things like ministering, or casting
out demons, or loving my brothers as well as my enemies, or forgiving from
the heart those who sin against me, and many other such like things that are
impossible for me to do of myself. But now my eyes were opened to see that
this word is also speaking about the complete restoration of my relationship
and communion with my heavenly Father; for “all things” means “all things”. “I
can” love Father through Jesus; I can believe Father through Jesus; I can
understand Father through Jesus; I can be loyal and faithful to Father through
Jesus; I can seek Father through Jesus; I can live, and move, and have my
being with Father through Jesus. My eyes were now opened to see that every
measure of Jesus Christ that becomes manifest in us brings us into a new
measure of restoration and reconciliation in our relationship with our heavenly
Father. Only through Jesus, who is that Spirit of the Lord, that spirit of the
“new man”, can any of us come into that relationship of “oneness” that our
heavenly Father so yearns to have with each one of us.

The Spirit of the Lord then quickened unto me that which Jesus said, “Be
ready; for you do not know the day or the hour that your Lord comes”; and
immediately understanding came unto me that said, “Are you ready for the
marriage? Are you ready to give your heart and your soul unto him who has
called you for the purpose of this very moment, to take you as his bride for
eternity? Is your heart surrendered completely unto him; unto him whose
heart is completely surrendered unto you? I then also realized that only those
who have crucified the “old man”, and then put on the “new man”, which is
Christ Jesus in us, would be ready and able to say, “I do”….for all of eternity.

Word given to Mitt Jeffords

CatsmittIV@aol.com

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