the god you would hold exalted and worship from afar is no further away than your own heart. There is nothing foriegn or otherworldly about experiencing your connectedness with God. it is not something that suddenly enters- it is something that has never left.
Becoming Me
biblical truth
The Doctrine of Jeshua
God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food. Genesis 1:29
"The voice spoke from heaven a second time, 'Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.' Acts 11:9
The wicked flee when no man pursue: but the righteous are bold as lions. Proverbs 28:1
The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them. 1 Corinthians 2:14
But as for you, blessed are your eyes for they see; and your ears for they hear. For truly I say to you, a great many prophets and righteous men have longed to see what you see, and did not see it; and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it. Now you listen to the parable of the seed. Matthew 13:16-18
Therefore, in the present case I advise you: Leave these men alone! Let them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail. But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God. Acts 5:38-39
He will bring glory to me by Taking from what is Mine and making it Known to You. Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a Part of it.” John 16:14
These things I have said to you that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but have courage, I have conquered the world.John 16:33
But if you are searching for the greater gifts, I will show you a more excellent way.
Corinthians 12:31
Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual but as worldly – mere infants in Christ. I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. I Corinthians 3:1-2
If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from Heaven. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I Corinthians 15:44-47 and John 4:16-17
A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them. Matthew 7:18-20
The mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the Saints. Colossians 1:25-26
At that time, men will see the Son of Man coming in Clouds.
Mark 13:26
The man who enters by the Gate is the shepherd of his sheep. The watchman opens the Gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. John 10:2-3
Therefore let us leave the Elementary teachings about Christ and go on to Maturity. Hebrews 6:1
The harvest is the End of the Age, and the Harvesters are Angels. Matthew 13:39
You are the Light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Matthew 5:14
Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the Servants of our God. Revelation 7:3
There before me was the lamb… and with him 144,000 who had his Name and his father’s Name written on their Foreheads. His Name will be on their Foreheads. Revelation 14:1 & 22:4
"But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy" I Peter 2:9-10
Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit" Ephesians 2:19-21
That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; but the children of the promise who are reckoned as descendants.
(Lamsa Peshita Translation) - Romans 9:8
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18 Thus he has mercy on whom he pleases, and he hardens whom he pleases.
19 Perhaps you will say, Why then does he yet find fault? For who can resist his will?
20 However, O man, who are you to question God? Shall the thing formed say to him who formed it, Why have you made me like this?
21 Does not the potter have power over his clay, to make out of the same lump vessels, one for special occasions and the other for daily service?
22 Now then, if God wanted to show his anger and make his power known, would he not then, after the abundance of his patience, bring wrath upon the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction?
23 But he poured his mercy upon the favored vessels, which were prepared for the glory of God;
24 Namely, ourselves, the called ones, not of the Jews only but also of the Gentiles.
25 As he said also in Hosea, I will call them my people, who were not my own people; and her beloved who was not beloved.
26 And it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said you are not my people, there shall they be called the children of the living God.
Romans 9:18-26 the Lamsa Peshita Bible
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"Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?" - Henry Ford
Freedom is Choice
Freedom is a quality of activity, not a condition that exists in a vaccum: it is a prize to be won daily, not a possesion that can be kept in the basement and taken out and polished up for parades. Freedom cannot be givin - the most you can hope is to free others from the forces that prevent them from finding it themselves. Real freedom has nothing to do with voting. Real freedom dosen't simply mean being able to choose between options, but actively participating in creating the options in the first place.
the burning bush
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. ~Albert Einstein
Voting in elections is an expression of our powerlessness: it is an admission that we can only approach the resources and capabilities of our own society through the mediation of the ruling caste. When we let them prefabricate our options for us, we relinquish controll of our communities to these polliticians in the same way that we have ceeded technology to engineers, health care to doctors, and controll of our living environments to city planners and private real estate developers. We end up living in a world that is alien to us, even though our labor has built it, for we have acted like sleepwalkers hypnotized by the monopoly our leaders and specialists hold on setting the possibilities.
who shall we ask permission to exist?
we don’t care what our detractors say, so long as they refuse to tell the truth. Tell us, Where do we apply for our temporary permit to speak freely?
Democracy is the most sustainable way to maintain the division between powerful and powerless- it gives significant incentives to the greatest possible number of people to defend that division.
