Let The Bible Talk...
Yes! I know what you have been told about the Bible. But, what you have been told is not The Bible's side of the story. It is time you let the Bible speak. All that is required, a humble spirit, an opened mind and a heart seeking the truth. The Bible is a book, spiritual in nature, containing situations of life, along with lessons for life, if you let it, The Bible speaks....
Forever, you have been told things that are not supported by the scriptures, but supported by other men. It is time to let the Bible speak for it's self.
John 14, this will be your lesson for today, while it is TODAY.
Right, I know you have been told, this is speaking to "The Church" of today. However, that was and still is man speaking contrary to the Bible. Your leaders insist, this is speaking directly to all believers, but if you let the Bible speak, it would say, "Jesus speaking to Eleven (11) minus one, Judas Iscariot.
>>>John 14:1>Let not YOUR heart be troubled: YE believe in God, believe also in me. :2>In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have TOLD YOU. I go to prepare a place for YOU.
Here, Jesus said, YOUR HEART, TOLD YOU, and TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU. Of couse, this has been preached and preached that Jesus was speaking to ALL believers, but that is not the case. Jesus was speaking to his remaining eleven disciples, because it was in Judas's heart to betray Jesus. Jesus's message in John 14, was to those disciples who loved him. Looking back, John 13:1-2, We see>:1Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus KNEW THAT HIS HOUR WAS COME that he should depart out of This World unto the Father, having Loved His Own which were in the World. :2>And supper being ended, the devil having NOW put into the HEART OF JUDAS Iscariot(=the praise of the city), Simon's son(=hearer), to betray him. The scriptures will support that Judas was not included with those who Jesus spoke of preparing a place for. Let us move to John 17:11>And now I am no more in the world, but THESE are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through Thine Own NAME THOSE Whom Thou HAST GIVEN ME, that THEY may be ONE, AS WE ARE. :12 While I WAS with THEM in the world, I KEPT THEM in Thy NAME: THOSE that Thou GAVEST ME, I have kept, and none of THEM IS LOST, BUT the SON OF PERDITION(-Judas Iscariot, the one who kept not his commandments, ("TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER"). that the scripture might be fulfilled.
As the Law of Moses was designed to reveal sin, so did Jesus' coming reveal sin to men, that all had sin and were blind, for which he came to heal.
Extra:Deut 29:18>Lest there should be AMONG YOU man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, TO GO and serve the gods of these nations; Lest there should be AMONG YOU A Root that beareth gall and wormwood; :19 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of This Curse, that he bless Himself in HIS HEART, saying, I shall have Peace, though I Walk in The Imagination of Mine Heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: :20 The Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against That Man, and all the Curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven. :21 And the Lord shall SEPARATE him unto Evil OUT OF ALL THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL, according to all the Curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law: :22 So that the generation to come of your Children that shall Rise Up after YOU, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord hath laid upon it. :24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done this unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger? :25 Then Men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt(=the house of bondage/The Iron Furnance). :28 And the Lord rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, :29 The Secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are Revealed belong unto us and to our Children for ever, that We may do all The Words of this law. Deut 29:3>The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs and those great miracles: :4 YET the Lord HATH NOT GIVEN you An Heart to Perceive, and Eyes to See, and Ears to Hear, UNTO THIS DAY. Romans 3:1>What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? :2 Much every way: chiefly, because that UNTO THEM were committed The Oracles of God.
>>>>>returning>>>>>2Thess 2:1>Now we beseech you brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, :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. :3 Let No Man deceive you by any means: for That Day(The Day of Christ) shall not come, except there come a Falling Away FIRST, and THAT MAN OF SIN be Revealed, the son of perdition; :5 Remember ye not that When I was yet WITH YOU, I told you these things? :6 And Now ye Know what withholdeth(The Day of Christ) that HE MIGHT BE REVEALED in his time. :7 For The Mystery of Iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until He(the son of perdition) be taken OUT OF THE WAY. :8 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: :9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, :10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; Because THEY RECEIVED NOT THE LOVE of The Truth, that they might be Saved.
>>>>returning>>>John 12:44>Jesus cried and said, He that Believeth on me, believeth NOT ON ME, but On Him THAT SENT ME. :45 And he that Seeth Me Seeth Him THAT SENT ME. :46 I am come A Light into the world, That WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH on Me should NOT ABIDE IN DARKNESS. :47 And IF ANY MAN hear MY WORDS, and believe not I judge him not: For I came not to judge the world, but TO SAVE THE WORLD. :48 He that rejecteth Me, and receiveth not My Words, hath One that judgeth him: The WORD that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in The Last Day.
>>>>>Returning>>>John 14:3>And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. :4 And whither I go YE KNOW, and The Way YE KNOW. :5 Thomas(=a twin) saith unto him, Lord, WE KNOW NOT whither thou goest; and how can WE KNOW THE WAY....
Here Jesus is speaking with Thomas, the doubter, double minded, only believing in appearance. :6 Jesus saith unto him(Thomas), I AM THE WAY, The Truth, and the Life: No Man cometh unto the Father BUT BY ME.
We have gone six verses in John chapter 14, and I have not heard today's churches mentioned. Have you? Moving on, we come to verse :7....Jesus speaking to Thomas..... :7 IF YE HAD KNOWN ME, ye should have known my Father also: and From Henceforth YE KNOW HIM, AND HAVE SEEN HIM.
John 14:8> Philip(=lover of horses) saith unto him, Lord, SHEW US THE FATHER, and it sufficeth US. :9 Jesus saith unto him, HAVE I BEEN SO LONG TIME WITH YOU, and yet Hast Thou NOT KNOWN ME, Philip? HE THAT HATH SEEN ME hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, SHEW US THE FATHER? Question: Have you seen Jesus? Were you with Jesus so long a time? When you Let The Bible Talk, it tells you Jesus was speaking to his disciples, not to today's churches. Indirectly, Jesus spoke as an esample for all that would receive his words, which includes today's churches.
>>>>>returning>>>John 14:10>Believest thou(Philip) not that I AM IN THE FATHER, and THE FATHER IN ME? The WORDS that I SPEAK UNTO YOU I speak NOT OF MYSELF: but The Father that Dwelleth IN ME, he doeth the works. :12 Verily, verily, I say unto YOU, He that believeth 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 YE shall ask in My Name, that will I do, that The Father may be glorified in The Son. :15 IF YE LOVE ME, Keep My Commandments. :16 AND I WILL PRAY THE FATHER, and he shall give You ANOTHER COMFORTER, that he may Abide(dwell) with you FOR EVER; :17 Even The Spirit of Truth; whom The World CANNOT RECEIVE because IT SEETH HIM NOT. John 20:29>Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, BECAUSE THOU HAST SEEN ME, thou hast believed: Blessed are THEY that Have Not seen, and Yet have believed. :31 But these ARE WRITTEN, that YE MIGHT BELIEVE that Jesus IS The CHRIST, the Son of God; and that believing YE MIGHT HAVE LIFE through his name.
>>>returning>>>John 14:19>Yet a little while, and The World seeth me No More; but YE see me: because I live, Ye shall live also. :20 At THAT DAY, Ye shall KNOW that I AM IN my Father, and YE IN ME, and I IN YOU. :21 He that hath My Commandments, and KEEPETH THEM, He it is THAT LOVETH ME: and he that loveth me shall be loved of My Father, and I WILL LOVE HIM, and WILL manifest Myself TO HIM. qUESTION: Do you Love Him? Whose Word to you keep, God's or Man? Only these Words can Make you free from this body of sin! :22 Judas saith unto him, NOT ISCARIOT, Lord, how is it that thou wilt Manifest thyself UNTO US, and NOT UNTO THE WORLD? :23 Jesus answered and said unto him, IF ANY MAN LOVE ME, he Will Keep MY WORDS: and my Father will love him, and MAKE OUR abode WITH HIM. :24 He that Loveth Me Not keepeth Not MY SAYINGS, and The Word which YE hear IS NOT MINE, But the Father's WHICH SENT ME. *********:25>THESE THINGS have I spoken UNTO YOU, Being YET PRESENT WITH YOU.********Note: The Scriptures are still making the case, that Jesus is speaking to his eleven(11) disciples and not directly to today's churches.....What say you, Churches? The following verse, verse 26, this is the verse that most use to support their belief that the Holy Spirit will teach them, in particular, all things and bring all things to their remembrance....Let us read this verse together!!! John 14:26>But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in My Name, he shall TEACH YOU(11) all things, and bring all things TO YOUR REMEMBRANCE, whatsoever I HAVE SAID UNTO YOU. :27 Peace I LEAVE WITH YOU, my peace I GIVE UNTO YOU: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not Your Heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. :28 Ye have heard how I said unto YOU, I GO AWAY, and come again unto YOU. IF YE LOVED ME, Ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father IS GREATER THAN I. :29 And NOW I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, YE MIGHT BELIEVE. :30 Hereafter I will not TALK MUCH WITH YOU: for the prince of This World cometh, and hath nothing IN ME. :31 But that the world MAY KNOW that I love the Father; and as the Father GAVE ME COMMANDMENTS, ever so I DO. ARISE, LET US GO HENCE.
At this point, I will stop. This will give you time in the Written Word of God, If You Love Him!!!!