Phil3:3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
Ep.6:18 Pray at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,
Mt.6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
The spirit is a PLACE of worship. Why was it so important for Jesus to bring us an ekklesia or synagogue or school of the Bible? Paul told us:
Ph.3:2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
The dogs were male homosexuals and the primary priesthood of pagan Mother Goddess worship. The concision were also devoted to Dionysus whose worship along with Zeus was the abomination of desolation in the holy places in the temple. Not in the vilest pagan temple could singers, musical or speakers enter into the holy precincts. The Holy Place was a type of the body or church of Christ: any performing noise maker who entered would be executed: they were not clean enough to take out the garbage in Hezekiah's reform.
Re.22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
The functionaries of the Mother of Harlots of the end-time religionism will go back into Hell:
Rev 18:22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
The Mark or proof that this has happened is that the Candlestick has been removed. This is the Menorah or the seven spirits of God which would rest on Messiah the Branch. These are all spirits OF truth in Isaiah 11.
Rev 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
The Greek language leads directly to those required to be STAFF INFECTION in almost all churches you can see and hear: sometimes the cops have to be called. The Sabbath was not a day of WORSHIP in the modern pagan church sense but for REST. This meant to hold a holy convocation to read or rehearse the word. This was the Qahal or synagogue or "church in the wilderness" where the triumph or alarm as "musical" was outlawed.
The prophecy of Jesus who would give us REST from the "spiritual anxiety created by religious ritual" and REST is a highly dedicated word applied to say "Stop the speaking, stop the singing, stop the music."
Isa 59:20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.
Is 59:21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD;
My SPIRIT that is upon thee, and
My WORDS which I have put in thy mouth,
shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seeds seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.This is a parallelism: both SPIRIT or WORDS are in our MOUTH for ever. Isaiah does not have to say that the spirit will never depart from us.
Whatever God delivers to mankind is a TEST to weed out the false teachers or prophets?
Is.8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
The TRUE Sabbath or REST for excluded rituals and defined the Qahal or synagogue or school of the Bible in ALL dispensations.
Isa 58:13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
Isa 58:14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Isa 59:1 BEHOLD, the Lords hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
Isa 59:2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Isa 59:3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
Isa 59:4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Isa 59:5 They hatch cockatrice eggs, and weave the spiders web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
Isa 59:6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
Paul defined the SYNAGOGUE in Romans 15:
Rom 15:1 WE then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
Please is the Greek meaning of the lust of the flesh:
Aresko (g700) ar-es'-ko; prob. from 142 (through the idea of exciting emotion); to be agreeable (or by impl. to seek to be so): - please.
Airo (g142) ah'ee-ro; a prim. verb; to lift; by impl. to take up or away; fig. to raise (the voice), keep in suspense (the mind); spec. to sail away (i.e. weigh anchor); by Heb. [comp. 5375] to expiate sin: - away with, bear (up), carry, lift up, loose, make to doubt, put away, remove, take (away, up).
This had the same meaning of EXTERNAL SINGING:
Aoidê 1. art of song, autar aoidên thespesiên, spell, incantation,
Aeidô sing,.hence of all kinds of vocal sounds, crow as cocks, hoot as owls, croak as frogs, hoi tettiges chamothen aisontai, crowing too soon.
Paul warns that those who have denounced the WORD or SYNAGOGUE a school of the Bible have prospered by SPEAKING THEIR OWN THINGS and this is the same fatal flaw the Jews fell into so that Jesus spoke to them only in parables.
Heb 6:1 THEREFORE leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
Heb 6:2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
Heb 6:3 And this will we do, if God permit.
We don't poke out an eye if it offends us, therefore, we need to grasp that when people reject the Word as resource for faith and practice--song and sermon--it means that we cannot have faith in the Word of Christ and therefore no faith in Christ. It is highly unlikely that a believer who decides to come to the aid of Christ can find ANY OTHER remedy.
Adunat-os, I. of persons, unable to do a thing, 2. abs., without strength, powerless, weakly a. men disabled for service, whether as invalids or paupers,
Heb 6:4 For it is impossible for those
.......... who were once enlightened,
.......... and have tasted of the heavenly gift,
.......... and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,These are baptized believers:
WHEREFORE laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, 1 Pet 2:1
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: 1 Pet 2: 2
If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. 1 Pet 2: 3A partaker is not predestinated:
Metochos (g3353) met'-okh-os; from 3348; participant, i.e. (as noun) a sharer; by impl. an associate: - fellow, partaker, partner.
Heb.1:9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Heb.3:1 WHEREFORE, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
Heb 3:10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said,
.......... They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.Heb 3:11 So I sware in my wrath,
.......... They shall not enter into my rest.)Heb 3:12 Take heed, brethren,
.......... lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief,
.......... in departing from the living God.Heb 3:13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day;
.......... lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.Heb 3:14 For we are made partakers of Christ,
.......... if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
Early writers such as Justin Martyr called BAPTISM the ENLIGHTENMENT. That is because the promise of Acts 2:38 is that God will give us A holy spirit.
Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and
.......... be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ
.......... for the remission of sins,
.......... and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
In 1 Peter 3:21 baptism is where we REQUEST A good conscience or consciousness. The Greek word means a co-perception so that with A holy spirit we are able to hear God's Spirit in His Word. Paul in 1 Cor 3 says that the Jews were blinded because of the idolatry at Mount Sinai. They would not be able even to read the Old Testament until they TURNED to to the Lord Who IS that Spirit they rejected. TURNED or RETURNED points to a new birth.
Heb 6:5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
Tasted is to experience something:
1 Pet 3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
Suneidesis (g4893) soon-i'-day-sis; from a prol. form of 4894; co- perception, i.e. moral consciousness; - conscience.
Suneido (g4894) soon-i'-do; from 4862 and 1492; to see completely; used (like its prim.) only in two past tenses, respectively mean. to understand or become aware, and to be conscious or (clandestinely) informed of: - consider, know, be privy, be ware of.
Heb 6:6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
They have:
1) been enlightened,
2) tasted the heavenly gift,
3) been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
4) tasted the good word of God and powers of a coming age,
5) they have fallen away.If you reject the Word of God then you lack faith. You simply cannot repent if you do not believe what you once believed or get paid to preach.
Heb.11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Fall away is:
Parapipto (g3895) par-ap-ip'-to; from 3844 and 4098; to fall aside, i.e. (fig.) to apostatize: - fall away.
Pipto (g4098) pip'-to; a redupl. and contr. form of peto tx pet'-o (which occurs only as an alt. in cert. tenses); prob. akin to 4072 through the idea of alighting; to fall (lit. or fig.): - fail, fall (down), light on
apo-stasia , hê, late form for apostasis,
A. defection, revolt, v.l. in D.H.7.1, J.Vit.10, Plu.Galb.1; esp. in religious sense, rebellion against God, apostasy, LXX Jo.22.22, 2 Ep.Th.2.3.
2. departure, disappearance, Olymp. in Mete.320.2.
3. distinguishing, c. gen., Elias in Cat.119.7.
4. distance, Archim.Aren.1.5.Joshua 22: [19]WEB However, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession of Yahweh, in which Yahweh's tent dwells, and take possession among us: but don't rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar besides the altar of Yahweh our God. [20] Didn't Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man didn't perish alone in his iniquity. [21] Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and spoke to the heads of the thousands of Israel, [22] The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel he shall know: if it be in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don't save us this day,) [23] that we have built us an altar to turn away from following Yahweh; or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meal-offering, or if to offer sacrifices of peace-offerings thereon, let Yahweh himself require it; [24] and if we have not [rather] out of carefulness done this, ? of purpose, saying, In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, What have you to do with Yahweh, the God of Israel? [25] for Yahweh has made the Jordan a border between us and you, you children of Reuben and children of Gad; you have no portion in Yahweh: so might your children make our children cease from fearing Yahweh.
2 Thess 2:1 NOW we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2 Thess 2:2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
Heb.12:26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
Heb.12:27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Apoleia (g684) ap-o'-li-a; from a presumed der. of 622; ruin or loss (phys., spiritual or eternal): - damnable (-nation), destruction, die, perdition, * perish, pernicious ways, waste.
Re.17:8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
Re.17:11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
2 Thess 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
2 Thess 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
Huperairomai (g5229)hoop-er-ah'ee-rom-ahee' mid. from 5228 and 142; to raise oneself over, i.e. (fig.) to become haughty: -exalt self, be exalted above measure.
Airo (g142) ah'ee-ro; a prim. verb; to lift; by impl. to take up or away; fig. to raise (the voice), keep in suspense (the mind); spec. to sail away (i.e. weigh anchor); by Heb. [comp. 5375] to expiate sin: - away with, bear (up), carry, lift up, loose, make to doubt, put away, remove, take (away, up).
Ro.15:3 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
Aresko (g700) ar-es'-ko; prob. from 142 (through the idea of exciting emotion); to be agreeable (or by impl. to seek to be so): - please.
Apo-stasiou dikê action against a freedman
A. for having forsaken his prostatês and chosen another, a. ophlein D.25.65 , cf. 35.48, Arist.Ath.58.3, prob. in IG2.776.
II. apostasiou biblion writing or bill of divorce, LXX De.24.1, Ev.Matt.19.7, Ev.Marc.10.4: so apostasion Ev.Matt.5.32 .
III. apostasiou sungraphê deed of cession, conveyance, PHib. 1.96.3 (iii B.C.), cf. PGiss.36.21 (ii B.C.), etc.; antigraphoniou BGU919.23 (ii A.D.); with sungraphê omitted, esp. in phrase prasis kai apostasiou PTeb.561v (i A.D), etc.
The seed has been planted and the seed has germinated and come to full term. However, it does not bear fruit and is REJECTED.
Heb 6:7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
Heb 6:8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
HO, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters,
....... .and he that hath no money;
........ come ye, buy, and eat; yea,
........ come, buy wine and milk without money
........ and without price. Isa 55:1Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread?
........ and your labour for that which satisfieth not?
........ hearken diligently unto me,
........ and eat ye that which is good,
........ and let your soul delight itself in fatness. Isa 55:2 kFor as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven,
........ and returneth not thither,
........ but watereth the earth,
........ and maketh it bring forth and bud,
........ that it may give seed to the sower,
........ and bread to the eater: Isa 55:10So shall my word be that goeth 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 whereto I sent it. Isa 55:11
Isaiah 5 shows that Israel was God's vineyard but they turned to wine, women and song. The vineyard died up and God turned it over to the briars and beasts. The failure was hunger and thirst for the Word of God. Amos 5-8 tells the same story.
The Hosea commentator of the Dead Sea wrote in:
4Q166 (4QpHosa) Dead Sea Scrolls, (Plus, pg. 276-7 Vermes)
"I will put an end to her rejoicing, her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her festivals (Hosea ii,11).
"Interpreted, this means that they have rejected the ruling of the law,
....... and have followed the festivals of the nations.
....... But their rejoicing shall come to an end
....... and shall be changed into mourning.I will ravage her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, 'They are my wage which my lovers have given me'. I will make them a thicked and the will beasts shall eat them...ii, 12
But they, like Adam, have broken the Covenant (vi, 7)
Its interpretation... they have forsaken God and walked according to the decrees of the Gentiles....
Heb 6:9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
Heb 6:10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
Heb 6:11 And we desire that every one of you
.......... do shew the same diligence
.......... to the full assurance of hope unto the end:Heb 6:12 That ye be not slothful,
.......... but followers of them who
.......... through faith and patience inherit the promises.Heb 6:13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
Heb 6:14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
Heb 6:15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
Abraham was justified or righteous by faith because he DID righteous deeds. Being righteous does not mean added to the Church:
Gen 26:4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
Gen 26:5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
Heb 6:16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
Heb 6:17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
The one IMMUTABLE thing was promised by Jesus and fulfilled in Acts 2:38. Paul confirms this by showing that we become the children of God by this same OBEDIENT faith of Abraham which leads us to be baptized.
Gal 3:25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
Gal 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Gal 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Gal 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Gal 3:29 And if ye be Christs, then are ye Abrahams seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Heb 6:18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
One oath was made to Abraham who was justified by faith because he was obedient to the will of God. The second was that Jesus would be an eternal priest after the order of Melchisedek. Jesus would be the SEED of Abraham. Jesus promised that we would be given A holy spirit at baptism so that we can come boldly before the Throne of Grace where Jesus Christ is our new, eternal high priest.
Heb 6:19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
Heb 6:20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
The witnesses of the promise consists in three witnesses.
1 John 5:5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
1 John 5:6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood.
..........And it is the Spirit that beareth witness,
..........because the Spirit is truth.1 John 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven,
.......... the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost:
.......... and these three are one.1 John 5:8 And there are three that bear witness in earth,
.......... the Spirit, and the water, and the blood:
.......... and these three agree in one.
Jesus said MY WORDS are Spirit and Life. When we obey the Word it becomes a sign or seal for us. In Baptism in water we are appealing to God to give us A holy spirit or clear conscience based on the blood of Jesus Christ.
1 Pet 3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
Almost ALL churches have fallen beyond redemption because they have no intention--nor could survive--stopping all forms of MUSIC Including complex harmony which is not melody and violates several direct commands and the almost universal understanding of church history. Singing as an ACT of worship was added in the year 373.
Luke 9:62 And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
Gen 19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
You can only repent by COMING OUT OF BABYLON: and you wont.
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