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How to allow the Holy Ghost to guide you in the mystery of the Bible. Mark 4:11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of Go: But unto them are without, all these things are done in parables

2 Samuel 23:2The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue. What is God trying to say to us in this verse as we go on, it shall be revealed. Greetings. Often when we go to the doctor, we are asked to stick out our tongue, as to why this procedure is done, I never researched the reason. The word tongue is found close to 160 times in the Bible and this small instrument of destruction is ignored by the spiritually unlearned. As kids we often stuck out our tongue at a perceived enemy as to mock them but that has long been replaced with people giving each other the finger. James 3:8 but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. When the tongue is tame, we will no longer take God's covenant in our mouth and defile it. What man has perceived to be wickedness has been totally different from what God perceive wickedness is. Psalm 50:16 But unto the wicked God saith, what hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? What are His statutes? In modern society, statutes are written laws passed by a legislative body.

Health care, is a big topic with people these days. Many are worried that if they don't get their prescription filled they're doomed. Does God word offer a health care program? Proverbs 4:22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. God's word is hidden to man's wisdom and it takes the Holy Spirit to reveal the hidden wisdom of God. Now when God isn't revealing his word to you it's because of your pride and you refuse to see a wisdom greater than your own. 3 John 1:2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

Greetings. Matthew 18:7 Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh! We'll return to the spiritual meaning of the above verse as the Holy Spirit illuminates our understanding. Hebrews 10:32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions. Even after God has started illuminating his word unto you: the carnal mind will again pick a fight to afflict your thinking. The fight is to make you see God's word in your own wisdom. 1 Thessalonians 3:3 That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto. [What? Are we appointed unto afflictions? Yes] know that we are appointed thereunto. Remember it's the old man or carnal mind that's doing the afflictions. Psalm 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

Ephesians 5:9 For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth. The true Godly righteousness is to have love for his word, joy as he reveals it's meaning to you. Peace, you're no longer warring with the carnal mind; after having suffered long from the persecution of the carnal mind. Let's examine the story of king: Joram, a King of ancient Israel. 2 Kings 9:22 And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, what peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?

Revelation 16:16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. We ask God to give us more Spiritual wisdom in His interpretation of this verse and in all Bible verses. Let's look at the word Hebrew, which is found less than fifty times in the Bible and the word Armageddon only once. If we can only see Hebrews as a particular race of people we will miss the spiritual point. What would be a Hebrew tongue, and would this be gathering of words or a physical people to a battle: as the carnal mind has led us to falsely to believe.

Psalm 5:10 Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee. This year I look forward to what new things: God will reveal from his word and this comes with a price: to suffer rebuke. Jeremiah 15:15 O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke. We must all suffer rebuke to be saved! God' word rebukes our flesh and we thought we could save ourselves.

Years ago, I studied: Mk Ultra, or mind control, long before Hollywood made it main screen. Our minds have built in fire walls just like computers. If somebody was to tell you do or even think about doing something harmful to somebody. Your mind should naturally reject that thought. Somebody trying to plant a thought in our minds to harm someone would have to bypass our firewall by other means: backward masking or subliminal mental implants. Our carnal mind has a mental built- in firewall against God's thoughts. Isaiah 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

Greetings. John 11:48 If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation. The above verse concerns the time Jesus walked the physical earth. At the time of the Birth of Jesus, Palestine was ruled by the Roman vassal King Herod the Great. Ancient Jerusalem was conquered around 63 BC by the Romans. The Romans were Jerusalem conquerors and oppressors. Has anybody been oppressing us lately? Deuteronomy 28:29 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee

UNPRECEDENTED TIMES OR PAY MORE TO HEAR MOREGreetings. People complaint and say these are strange times and feel they have never witnessed this physical world in such an unprecedented state. Unprecedented, a word we have heard hundreds of times in the media lately as they ram it down our mental throats. What really makes these times appear more volatile is the mobile media devices we carry around. It is not strange to see a five-year-old kid punching buttons on a real or toy cell phone. Since cell phones admit RF radiation, maybe junior should wait till he is older before getting one. With thousands of cell phone towers going up lately we might soon grow to envy ancient man, who did not worry about cable and phone bills as we pay to be traumatized. But, enough above current events, which if I fail to watch the talking heads on television, somebody always feels it is their mortal duty to tell me what I missed. Fact being I have not missed anything when it has revealed to me why God created us in the first place. John 6:27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

Psalm 86:11 Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name. Greetings. Some years ago, a very popular movie came out about a military court-martial. I never saw the movie myself. One character in the story demanded the truth from another character. The character who the demand was placed on, answered: ''YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH.'' Most men can't handle the truth that all the verses in the Bibles are parables and have a deeper Spiritual meaning to them; that they can't see. They refuse to walk in thy[GOD'S] truth. They refuse to be taught in God's ways: his thoughts, preferring their own thoughts. They refuse to unite their thinking or heart to fear his name. And his name is this: the word of God. Revelation 19:13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.

Greetings. Hebrews 12:29 For our God is a consuming fire. The Bible is indeed a strange and interesting book. In this physical world of: swipe cards, retina readers, and face recognitions computers; that are design to read a person's information. Here we have a book called the: Bible, that's reading your thoughts while you're reading it. Luke 10:25 And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? Luke 10:26 He said unto him, what is written in the law? how readiest thou?

When we write a check without enough monies to cover that check; you receive a notice stating: insufficient funds. We're all been insufficient in the words of God, but he could give us his sufficiency: if we had asked in faith. John 14:14 If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it. We have never asked for anything in His Name or his revealed word; we have asked for something we could see. 2 Corinthians 9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work. God in his grace wants to give us all the good things hidden in his word and the Spiritual bank the check is drawn on has unlimited funds

You grieve God when we put our own interpretation on his word and his words are grievous to our carnal mind. A soft answer would be a prayer that would turn his wrath from us: Psalm_86:11 Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name. The carnal mind must be told to shut up, when you're trying to receive something Spiritual from a Spiritual book. HOLD YOUR PEACE! Job 33:33 If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom. We're holding his truth in unrighteousness by our private interpretation. In America we have Constitutional Lawyers, who interpret the laws of the land. The Holy Ghost is the interpreter in the Spiritual land of God's word.

Let this book enlighten you into God's truth. Because you haven't see the light until you see the word in God's light.

Revelation 13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. The wisdom of men is likened unto a beast, when it comes to understanding the Bible. There are some physical beasts that kill for fun: Bottlenose Dolphins, Leopards, Hyenas, Chimps, Alley Cats and of course man. '' A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.'' A quote by: Joseph Stalin. Men kill Spiritually, every time they open the Bible and refuse to let God Spirit instruct them. When you have your own witness about the Bible or opinion: read the next verse very slowly: Matthew 23:31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Witnesses unto yourselves:

Greetings. Selfie, a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone. I've not taken a selfie lately, who wants to look at an aging picture of themselves? Not this old man. Proverbs 27:19 As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man. Long before production of glass mirrors, the ancient Egyptians made mirrors of certain metals: copper, bronze, silver, tin, etc. The metal could be flattened and polished then it could be used as a mirror. Seems like a lot of trouble just to see your own reflection. Of course, you could always go to a lake or river if available and in standing water see your own reflection. That's what happens when we read the Bible for the first time: we see a reflection of ourselves.

The Bible is a book of correction. Proverbs 3:11 My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction.

THE ADVERSARY 1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. Greetings. Often in this modern society, a heavy weight boxing match comes along and catches the public attention. What could be more exciting than to watch two guys try to kill each other? This spectacle is usually followed by both fighters: proclaiming themselves winners and hugging each other. The greatest battle we'll ever fight won't be fought in some ring but in our mind and there can be only one winner. 1 Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. This victory comes at a heavy price: your thinking or righteousness in this world. The world represents your mind in the Bible, not a physical place. 1 John 5:4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. You know you can overcome this world, when you no longer trust in your own devilish counsel or wisdom. Now you can be blessed. Psalm 32:1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven; whose sin is covered

The resurrection must be a resurrection from my dead carnal thought concerning God's word and if I can't witness this, he's not my God. Matthew 22:31 But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, 32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

If I say the word: apple, a thought or image is formed in your mind. We have all have formed an image or idea of what we think God is like. If I say the word: grass, what image is formed in your mind. 1 Peter 1:24 For all flesh is grass. My form or idea must agree with God's form. Isaiah 53: 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.