May 2005

“ONE VOICE”

Part Three

“THE LORD KNOWS THE THOUGHTS OF MAN, that they are all vanity!!” (Ps 94:11)

“I KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS, says the Lord, and all the devices you wrongfully imagine
against Me.” (Jb 21:27)

“I KNOW THEIR THOUGHTS, says the Lord! I know their works: and it shall come that
I will gather ALL nations and tongues; they shall ALL come to see My Glory.” (Isa 66:18)

“I KNOW THE THOUGHTS I THINK TOWARD YOU, says the Lord, thoughts of peace
not of evil- to give you an expected end! Then you will call on Me and pray to Me, and I will
hearken to you! You will seek and find Me! And when you search for Me with all your heart,
I will be found of you, says the Lord! Then I will turn away your captivity, and I gather you
from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord! I will
bring you again into that place I caused you to be carried away to captive.” (Jer 29:11-14)

“JESUS KNEW THEIR THOUGHTS!” (Mt 12:25)

“There remains a Rest to the people of God. and he that has
entered into his Rest, has also ceased from his own works
as God did from His! Let us labor, therefore, to enter into
that Rest, lest any man fall by the same example of unbelief.
The Word of God is quick, powerful and sharper than any
two-edged sword, piercing to divide in half soul and spirit
also joints and marrow. Therefore, it (the Word of God)
is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart!!
There is not one creature that is not manifest in His sight:
rather, all things are laid bare and opened to the eyes of
Him with Whom we have to do.” (Heb 4:9-13)

             Until we clearly hear only God’s Voice, we vacillate between good and evil, and obscure our vision of His kingdom. Inposing our defective, human judgment into life’s circumstances produces deadly error; but as we are cleansed of all unholiness,, we no more grope about in our darkened understanding, rather we walk in the Light of Truth! Christendom is now a harlot, torn into many conflicting sects; each courting the favor of a sinful world! It is no wonder their divided house has fallen into its present apostasy; while the true Church heralds God’s Kingdom coming to the earth as a reflection of His glorious Light of Truth, not as a standing Light of her own! Our flesh body is only a temporal tabernacle that houses God’s spirit; it is not meant to be an eternal god-substitute! Man is self-deceived to think he is the center of the universe, the end product of life! This delusion not only quenches the Holy Spirit in men’s hearts, but taints their religions as well. And then when unbelievers see professing Christians commit adultery with this world of sin and death, they rightly accuse them of hypocrisy!
             Unbelievers scoff at those who claim to have access to Godly wisdom and comfort, yet they seek unholy wisdom and comfort from mortal men like themselves! Surely if Adam could not free himself from God’s death sentence, his heirs cannot do so-- nor can they help others! Man’s woes began when he was deceived into thinking it would profit him to reason apart from God; or that his self-will could ever be free from God’s Sovereign Will! Such humanistic deception has produced the sorry state of today’s world! But it is time to expose Adam’s tempting serpent, that deceiving devil, seen in Jas 1:14-15,

“EVERY MAN IS TEMPTED when he is drawn away and enticed by HIS OWN LUST!

            And when lust has conceived, it produces sin; then when sin is finished, it produces death
(and “Death is to be flesh-minded!” Ro 8:6)

[TO BE CONTINUED]