24 – 25 June 2023
This is a nation that obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, nor received correction: truth is perished and is cut off from their mouth.
The LORD begins today with the above statement of fact from Jeremiah 7:28, speaking of this moment in time. He tells of truth perished, and, therefore, none knowing His voice speaking it, nor can any be corrected because of those they’ve followed into desolation, who put themselves and their abomination in the Father’s place (replacing the holy with the corrupt and calling it by His name).
Jeremiah 7
29 Cut off your hair and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places [that have puffed themselves up with pride and now put themselves in God’s place – the sons of perdition “Who {as did Rueben to His father} oppose and exalt themselves above all that is called {legomeno – put forth by the present} God, or that is worshipped; so that they as God sit in the churches of God, showing themselves that they are God.”]; for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
30 For the children of Judah [the current crop of corrupt leaders, all in rebellion, all refusing to hear and obey the LORD’s commands: fallen angels, apostate messengers, who’ve left their first estate and now preach and teach their own words and ways, whose end is perdition] have done evil in my sight, says the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
31 And they have built the high places of Tophet [that worship the fires their abandoning truth have caused in the earth], which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom [who in the fires of hell ignorantly lament their cause], [and continue] to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
32 Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet [the place of fires], nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet [in hell], till there be no place.
33 And the carcasses of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away [as it is this day: there is no man to stand for the truth, all still speaking their own words and prescribing the own cures: the causes that led all the world into death and hell – tens of thousands of voices of barbarians all leading in their own circles of confusion and dismay].
34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah [these places where these barbarians lead those they’ve corrupted into following them], and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
The above condemnation of all those leading without following this One voice of the LORD, not exalting my Father’s words above all others, is as He has commanded.
Isaiah 54
13 And all your children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of your children.
14 In righteousness shall you be established: you shall be far from oppression; for you shall not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near you.
15 Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against you shall fall for your sake.
16 Behold, I have created the smith that blows the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
17 No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, says the LORD.
Jeremiah, the LORD in him speaking, after the above, describes this day, speaking of all the leaders in church and state, the whole lump leaven with the corruption of the unfaithful (puffed up with arrogance: pride in their success against the LORD: keeping people away from the One He’s sent, of whom they remain ignorant and therefore are unaccepted by their ongoing rejection).
Jeremiah 8
1 At that time, says the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves [qeber – the tombs where their dead bodies are kept]:
2 And they shall spread them before the sun [the church they’ve corrupted], and the moon [civil government also totally darkened and draining the life of those they tyrannically rule], and all the host of heaven [all God’s people at large], [their Father’s wife] whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, says the LORD of hosts.
4 Moreover you shall say unto them, Thus says the LORD; Shall they fall [way to these misleaders], and not arise? shall he turn away [from their LORD], and not return?
5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slid back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return [to this truth by My correction].
6 I hearkened and heard, but they spoke not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? everyone turned to his course, as the horse rushes into the battle [under the men taking them there].
7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knows her appointed times [mow’ed]; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe [shamar – obey] the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
8 How do you say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
10 Therefore will I give their wives [those who followed them] unto others, and their fields to them [that do obey the LORD’s commands] that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness [they judge their success by their worldly wealth, knowing not that they are without heavenly treasure], from the prophet even unto the priest every one [is puffed up, swelled with pride, and] deals falsely.
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace [they sit still while they enemies are among them warring against their bodies and minds: life, liberty, and property].
12 Were they ashamed when they [these misleaders] had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation [pquddah – now when the LORD has come as the Chief Overseer of the earth] they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
13 I will surely consume them [with this word from My mouth], says the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them [as it is occurring before their eyes, they see it and know it, but those they follow lead them into sitting still].
14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defensed cities [the places that hear and obey the voice of the LORD, who have joined His ONE BODY, and subordinate their will to His good leadership], and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
16 The snorting of his horses [under misleaders running into the battle against us] was heard from Dan [which is the judgment of God, as He warned and all have forgotten]: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones [the communists joined with the wicked in power]; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you [whose venom is in their mouths speaking nothing except lies, yet their army follows them, and their known lies, because of the enmity], which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, says the LORD.
18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country [merchaq – this appointed time the LORD decreed]: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities [worthless ways far from God]?
20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black [my people chose death and remain blind to the LORD’s presence, while claiming they are wise and see everything]; astonishment has taken hold on me [the dead body of Christ].
22 Is there no balm in Gilead [in this testimony]; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Friends, none of the prominent voices in the world are opening their mouths to declare the LORD present with us, in us. By this, they disqualify themselves from the prominence they covet: the notoriety they value and for which they sell their souls.
Romans 1
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel [euaggelizo] of Christ [the LORD alive in our flesh]: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believes [He is alive in us]; to the Jew [believers who call themselves by His name] first, and also to the Greek [unbelievers who don’t know Him].
17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from [our] faith to faith [in those who come to believe He is present in us]: as it is written, The just shall live by faith [believing this word preached, this God spell, is the LORD in us saving the world].
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness [not manifesting the LORD speaking His word] and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them [making Himself known to them, and they reject His truth, choosing instead to remain with their evil deeds]; for God has shown it unto them.
20 For the invisible things [this now revealed understanding, the deep meaning, created into this word] of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made [that were present but only now appear], even his eternal power and Godhead [theiotes; only used here – the nature of God as manifested in man]; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain [worthless] in their imaginations [things they create in their minds without God], and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And 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.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creation more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
As we know, the truth perishing echoes back to the offense of the son of perdition, Rueben, whom we know (Genesis 35:22) defiled his father Jacob’s bed (in the pattern of the wicked who put themselves in place of God defiling what should remain pure) and for it, his birthright was taken and given to Joseph (1 Chronicles 5:1).
Paul, in 1 Corinthians 5, speaks of this same offense occurring in Corinth, after he has just elaborated on the worthlessness of the world’s wisdom, of the misguided glorifying the names of those baptizing them, and then of stewardship that must be faithful to God.
He says, in 1 Corinthians 1:17, “For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel {euaggelizo}: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.”
Paul is speaking of his assignment, the necessary sacrifice of self, to speak as the Father, in His name, giving Him all the glory due Him.
1 Corinthians 1
19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world [showing it openly to be based on forced delusions meant to mask the criminal conspiracies of the wicked in power from those they’ve led into insanity – We see you Brandon, and We see your daddy Barak]?
21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe [it is Him].
22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-block [skandalon – because He doesn’t use force as do the worldly powers], and unto the Greeks foolishness [because He rejects their insanity, their rejection of reality, which they call wisdom];
24 But unto them which are called [out of darkness into His understanding and truth], both Jews and Greeks, Christ [is] the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26 For you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble [who are puffed up with pride and have trespassed into places only God the Father goes], are called:
27 But God has chosen the foolish things [I Am] of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things [I Am] of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, has God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to naught things that are [misleading the world into death and hell]:
29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.
30 But of him are you in Christ Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the one the Father anoints with His presence], who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
31 That, according as it is written [in Jeremiah 9:24], He that glories, let him glory in the LORD.
Jeremiah 9
12 Who is the wise man, that may understand [biyn] this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perished and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passes through [‘abar – none Passover from there into life]?
13 And the LORD says, Because they have forsaken my law which I [here] set before them [paniym – by manifesting My presence to them], and have not obeyed [shama’] my voice, neither walked therein;
14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim [idols they created and put in My place], which their fathers taught them:
15 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood [their own venomous words], and give them water of gall [their own bitter understanding] to drink.
16 I will scatter them also among the heathen [as they are, among those who have no idea who I Am], whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword [this word from My mouth] after them, till I have consumed them.
17 Thus says the LORD of hosts, Consider [biyn – understand] you, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land [‘erets], because our dwellings [all the inhabited earth] have cast us [God’s faithful people] out.
20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O you women, and let your ear receive [‘ozen – pay close attention to] the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.
21 For death is come up into our windows [and we see it has come upon all humanity, except the very elect remnant], and is entered into our palaces [as we now see the dead in power here in hell], to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
22 Speak, Thus says the LORD, Even the carcasses of men [the dead in animated flesh, as beasts without the Spirit of the LORD in them giving them life] shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful [only the elect remnant remain here alive] after the harvestman, and none shall gather them [the dead].
23 Thus says the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
24 But let him that glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD which exercises lovingkindness [offering forgiveness and life to those who hear and obey this word], judgment [My correction at this mercy seat as I manifest My presence in this conversation], and righteousness [My word is the way, truth, and light in which is life], in the earth: for in these things I delight, says the LORD.
In 1 Corinthians 4:4, he (Paul) then (after speaking of those glorying in man) says, “For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judges me is the LORD.”
1 Corinthians 4
1 Let a man so account of us [that we are, I Am, in Christ as the LORD is alive in me], as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God [that have become hidden in the deep sleep of man’s ignorance of God, having no knowledge of Him and His way].
2 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged [by man’s wisdom] of you, or of man’s judgment: yea, I judge not my own self.
4 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judges me is the LORD [who has made me the minister of this understanding He gives].
5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the LORD come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness [hidden in man’s ignorance], and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man [that receives the knowledge of Him] have praise of God.
6 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred [metaschematizo – meaning to transfigure or associate, and disguise, from words meaning succession and figure {of Christ}] to myself and to Apollos [the sun, as a burning light – spiritually meaning the one sent away to complete the light, from apollumi: apo holos leukos] for your sakes; that you might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up [with pride, glorying in self and not in the knowledge we’ve all received from the LORD] for one against another.
7 For who makes you to differ from another? and what have you that you did not receive [from God, because if it’s a creation from the mind of man it’s worthless]? now if you did receive it, why do you glory [as if it came from you], as if you had not received it [from God the Father]?
8 Now you are full, now you are rich, you have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.
9 For I think that God has set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
10 We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honorable, but we are despised.
11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;
12 And labor, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
13 Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
15 For though you have [the words of] ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have you not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus [as Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh] I have begotten you through the gospel [euaggelion].
16 Wherefore I beseech you, be you followers of me.
17 For this cause have I sent [Paul here, in the Spirit, is speaking as God the Father] unto you Timothy, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the LORD, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.
18 Now some are puffed up [against me, Timothy, with pride in their corrupt creations not received from God], as though I would not come to you.
19 But I will come to you shortly, if the LORD will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power [of the living God, the LORD alive in me].
20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
21 What will you? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love [agape – charity, giving these treasures as received from the LORD], and in the spirit of meekness?
These men, the many who are puffed up with their ideas and ways, who’ve thereby put themselves in the Father’s place, are the sons of perdition Paul then calls out in the next chapter.
1 Corinthians 5
1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication [interaction with the unfaithful who don’t believe this is the word from the mouth of God] among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles [zealous unbelievers don’t associate with believers like us], that one [of these unbelievers] should have his Father’s wife [putting himself in God’s place as the head of His people, opposing exalting himself and his words above God’s, so he as God sits in His church showing himself as if he is God].
2 And you are puffed up [with pride in his creations], and have not rather mourned, that he that has done this deed might be taken away from among you [because such men hold you down {katecho} and will hold you, keeping your from rising to join the LORD, until they are taken out of the way].
3 For I truly, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that has so done this deed, [2 Corinthians 11: 2 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we {as men in whom a spirit works, Christ in us and Satan in them}. 13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming {metaschematizo – disguising} themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed {metaschematizo – disguised} into an angel of light {a messenger of darkening sentences – rules for radicals, the children of Lucifer: the false light}. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed [metaschematizo – disguised] as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works {of deception uncovered}.]
4 In the name of our LORD Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together [led together: into this ONE BODY by the same mind], and my spirit, with the power of our LORD Jesus Christ,
5 To deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the LORD Jesus.
6 Your glorying [in such men] is not good. Know you not that a little leaven [corruption] leavens [corrupts] the whole lump?
7 Purge out, therefore, the old leaven [corruption], that you may be a new lump [ONE BODY], as you are unleavened [uncorrupted]. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us [to lead us out of corruption into life]: [1 Corinthians 15: 51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?]
8 Therefore let us keep the feast [this Passover], not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators [who interact with the unfaithful unbelievers who’ve put themselves in the LORD’s place]:
10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must you needs go out of the world [as the false teachers teach].
11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer [against those who believe this truth received], or a drunkard [whose mind are stupefied by consuming the words of unbelievers], or an extortioner [by fraud or force taking money]; with such a one refuse to eat.
12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not you judge them that are within?
13 But them that are without God judges. Therefore, put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
The word metaschematizo, which Paul uses to describe “transferring” (the image of Christ) to himself and the one (I Am) he sends (in the name of the Father), only appears one other time, definitively in Philippians 3:21.
Philippians 3
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things [all the ideas that were not received from the LORD] 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,
9 And be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ [the LORD alive in our flesh], the righteousness which is of God by faith:
10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death [taking up His cross and following Him];
11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
13 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 [in His presence],
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing you be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as you have us for an example.
18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of [puffed up with pride against] the cross of Christ:
19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
20 For our conversation [with LORD at His mercy seat, manifesting His presence] is in heaven [with full understanding received from Him]; from whence [in the conversation at His mercy seat] also we look for the Savior, the LORD Jesus Christ:
21 Who shall change [metaschematizo] our vile [corrupted] body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious [uncorrupted] body, according to the working [of His word transferred to us] whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
When Paul speaks of Apollos, the one he sent away to complete the light, who is (likeminded) with him changed (metaschematizo) into the image and likeness of Christ, it is the nature of God in the flesh he describes in Philippians 2. He is speaking of marking and following the example of those who walk in this way, who are likeminded, and thereby joined in the LORD’s ONE BODY, by His One mind.
Philippians 2
2 Fulfil you my joy [when Christ is evidently formed you], that you be likeminded, having the same love [agape – charity, giving this word as received], being of one accord, of one mind.
3 Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory [worthless glory of man without the evident glory of the LORD’s Spirit]; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others [see verse 21 below, saying of Timothy’s like mind, “For all {others} seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.”].
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal [in nature] with God:
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
9 Wherefore God also has highly exalted him, and given him a name [at His appearing in me, Timothy, who comes in the name of the LORD Jesus the Christ, who anointed me with His presence and sent me on this mission] which is above every name:
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father.
12 Wherefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
13 For it is God which works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
14 Do all things without murmurings and disputing:
15 That you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom you shine as lights in the world;
16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
18 For the same cause also do you joy, and rejoice with me.
19 But I trust in the LORD Jesus to send Timothy shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.
20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally [by the nature of God in him] care for your state.
21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.
22 But you know the proof of him [which you have experience and which has thereby become self-evident truth], that, as a son with the father, he has served with me in the gospel [euaggelion].
23 Him therefore I hope to send presently…
All the following is from the post of 14 January 2021:
Bearing the reproach of Christ, outside the camp, is where Hebrews 13 calls us to go, by faith, to meet the LORD, where Timothy is set at liberty.
Hebrews 12
25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.
Hebrews 13
1 Let brotherly love [philadelphia] continue [meno].
2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels [the messengers of God] unawares.
3 Remember them that are in bonds [joined with the LORD], as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
4 Marriage [joining with the LORD as one living flesh body] is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled [is not as Jacob’s bed, which Reuben defile, as the son of perdition]: but whoremongers [those who buy and sell the flesh of men – make merchandise of those who join with them] and adulterers [those who have left God to follow {join with} others] God will judge.
5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as you have: for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you.
6 So that we may boldly say, The LORD is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
14 For here have we no continuing [meno] city, but we seek one to come.
15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
18 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.
19 But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our LORD Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
22 And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.
23 Know you that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.
24 Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you.
25 Grace be with you all. Amen.
The word “liberty,” above in verse 23, is said to be apolou, a compound word literally translating, away (apo) loose (luo). But, in the original text, it is written as apolelumenon, which appears to be from the words apo (in the sense of completion), laleo (to utter – speak or preach), meno (to stay – the enduring things of God). These three words and their appearing in John 14 give us their enduring meaning.
John 14
10 Believe you not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak [laleo] unto you I speak [laleo] not of [apo – this completion isn’t from] myself: but the Father that dwells [meno] in me, he does the works. [Hebrews 13 tells us, in God’s language: Timothy is apo laleo meno]
11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.
12 Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that believes on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
13 And whatsoever you shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 If you shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter [Paraclete], that he may abide [meno – endure] with you forever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it sees him not, neither knows him: but you know him; for he dwells [meno] with you, and shall be in you.
Psalms 103
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
3 Who forgives all your iniquities; who heals all your diseases;
4 Who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
5 Who satisfies your mouth [‘adiy] with good things; so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
6 The LORD executes righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
7 He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.
8 The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
9 He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger forever.
10 He has not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
11 For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
12 As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
13 Like as a father pities his children, so the LORD pities them that fear him.
14 For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.
15 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
17 But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;
18 To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
19 The LORD has prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom rules over all.
20 Bless the LORD, you his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
21 Bless you the LORD, all you his hosts; you ministers of his, that do his pleasure.
22 Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion [memshalah]: bless the LORD, O my soul.
