Free Food Bank - Ricky Wascher

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=3 height=70 style=" border-bottom: 2px solid #262626;" BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><B>Free Food Bank</B></A><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >™</FONT></div> <div> <B>Feeding the inner man!</B><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B> ™</B></FONT></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=150 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="0ae9b8f2dvldtc.jpg"> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=343 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <bR> <div> <I><B>How you see yourself will ultimately decide how you see God!</B></I><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>™</B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="abomination"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Abomination </B><B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/abomination.htm')">Abomination</A>  </B></div> <div> Whatever is an object of extreme hatred is an abomination.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="alpha_and_omega_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Alpha and Omega</B></div> <div> God said: ..<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >.I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.</FONT> Revelation 21:6-8.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>God is Alpha and Omega to man, i.e., the beginning and the endless end.</B></div> <bR> <div> <I>Alpha</I>: THE BEGINNING - <A HREF="#eternal_life" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">ETERNAL LIFE</A> FOR ALL MEN IS THROUGH THE SPIRIT AND THIS IS OBTAINED BY <A HREF="#jesus_is_the_word" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">THE WORD OF GOD</A>.  THE WORD OF GOD IS THE BEGINNING OF ETERNAL LIFE.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Omega</I>: THE END - THE <A HREF="#holy_spirit__holy_ghost__1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">HOLY SPIRIT</A> IS THE MEANS BY WHICH WE LIVE DAY-TO-DAY FOREVER IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE WILL OF GOD FOR US INDIVIDUALLY.  IT IS GOD'S WILL THAT ALL MEN WHO LIVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE WORD OF GOD RECEIVE THE <A HREF="#holy_spirit__holy_ghost__1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">HOLY SPIRIT</A> TO BE SEALED FOREVER AS A CHILD OF GOD-<A HREF="#spiritual" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">SPIRITUAL</A>.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="baptism"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Baptism</B></div> <div> In the Bible, the word "baptism" refers to <A HREF="#baptism_in_the_spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">baptism in the spirit</A> (<A HREF="#new_testament" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">New Testament/New Covenant</A> spiritual meaning) or <A HREF="#water_baptism" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">water baptism</A> (<A HREF="#old_testament__old_covenant_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Old Testament/Old Covenant</A> fleshly human meaning) depending upon the context.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="baptism_in_the_spirit"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Baptism in the Spirit </B><B>(For Today - New Testament times)</B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >But Jesus said unto them, </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?</FONT> Mark 10:38 (see also Matthew 20:22-23.).  In the preceding verse, Jesus was not talking about the <A HREF="#water_baptism" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">baptism of water</A>  The baptism <A HREF="#jesus" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Jesus</A> spoke of is part of the <A HREF="#new_testament" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">New Testament</A> and it IS "His baptism" through HIM.  We need to confess AND repent of our sins and receive the Word as our savior.  This is not merely professing Jesus is the Christ, but receiving the Word as our savior.  Salvation is spiritual and to receive Jesus as our savior must mean His spirit which is the Word.  After receiving the Spirit of the Christ as our savior, knowing that Jesus is the Christ of course, we may then receive the Holy Spirit to do the Father's will which completes the baptism of the <A HREF="#spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">SPIRIT</A> in us.</div> <bR> <div> Baptism in the spirit is NOT the same as <A HREF="#water_baptism" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">John's baptism</A> for <A HREF="#repentance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">repentance</A> (compare immediately below).  Jesus offers a baptism in the <A HREF="#spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spirit</A>, after <A HREF="#repentance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">repentance</A>, and John's baptism is done by those that desire signification that repentance has taken place.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" > <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/mark1_4.htm')">Mark 1:4</A>  </FONT></div> <bR> <div> It started for when Jesus was baptized with the <A HREF="#holy_spirit__holy_ghost__1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Holy Spirit</A> of <A HREF="#trinity" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">God</A> from <A HREF="#heaven" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">heaven</A> when the Holy Spirit descended upon Jesus in the Jordan River immediately after He received the <A HREF="#water_baptism" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">water baptism of John</A> signifying the need for repentance first, both baptism's were a signpost of three elements:</div> <bR> <div> <I>FIRST</I> we <A HREF="#repentance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">repent</A>, and are cleansed through a baptism of <A HREF="#repentance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">repentance</A>, although the use of the physical, liquid water itself is not mandatory, but repentance of the heart is mandatory.  Please do not be confused into thinking someone must be dunked, dribbled or splashed, etc., with water to effectuate repentance.  Liquid water is not required to effectuate repentance, and similarly <A HREF="#confession" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">confession</A> alone is NOT repentance.  God accepts <A HREF="#repentance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">repentance</A> from the <A HREF="#heart" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">heart</A> at any time, even in an arid desert or seconds before death where there is no water.  The thief on the cross hanging next to Jesus was NOT <A HREF="#water_baptism" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">baptized in water</A>, and yet Jesus said he would enter heaven because of the thief's <A HREF="#confession" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">confession</A> and repentance of heart.  There are numerous other examples as well.</div> <bR> <div> <I>S</I><I>ECOND</I>, we live to eat and drink the Word, and make the Word the program manual for our life, and this is the New Testament of the Bible.  The Word IS part of the <A HREF="#god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Spirit of God</A> as the <A HREF="#jesus_is_the_word" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Spirit of the Christ</A>-the first man to receive the Holy Spirit, as it is the Father's Word.</div> <bR> <div> <I>THIRD</I>, we ask for the <A HREF="#holy_spirit__holy_ghost__1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Holy Spirit</A> of the Father God, i.e., the power that is in the <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of God</A>, to infill us as our "<A HREF="#comforter" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">comforter</A>" by which to live forever powerfully resisting <A HREF="#world" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the world</A> and its ways, and starting immediately after the Holy Spirit, who sanctifies us as a <A HREF="#children_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">child of God</A>, we live eternally.</div> <bR> <div>  <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/acts19_2_6.htm')">See also, Acts 19:2-6.</A>  </div> <div> Further, Paul also was not talking about the baptism John gave, but the baptism of the Holy Spirit.  The baptism of the Holy Spirit is available to all men-first to Jesus, and every other man thereafter who wants the <A HREF="#holy_spirit__holy_ghost__1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Holy Spirit</A>.</div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="water_baptism"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>Baptism in Water, Water Baptism</B></div> <div> Jesus did not baptize men in water, but allowed man to repent, and make whatever display he chose, e.g., immersion, sprinkling,..., to evidence it.  Many religions require a baptism of liquid water and even done a certain way, but this is NOT the Word and what Jesus was talking about when He spoke of His baptism.  </div> <bR> <div> In fact, the baptism as stated in the <A HREF="#commission_the_great" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">great commission</A> by Jesus to go into all the world and baptize them...is the <A HREF="#baptism_in_the_spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">baptism in the Spirit which is of God</A>, i.e., the baptism that Jesus had from the Father, not the water baptism of John the Baptist.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >...John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.</FONT>  Acts 19:4.  The water baptism of John was of repentance and H20, i.e., the liquid water, was not a requirement.</div> <bR> <div> Jesus said:<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >  ...Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.</FONT>  Matthew 20:23.</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >Jesus answered and said unto him,</FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered,</FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.</FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said unto him,</FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?</FONT> John 3:3-10.</div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="belief_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B> <A NAME="belief_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Belief  <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/belief.htm')">Belief</A>  </B></div> <div> The <A HREF="#bible" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Bible</A> contains the Word!  Belief in the Word is the single most powerful condition we MUST have in our <A HREF="#heart" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">heart</A> for us to be part of the <A HREF="#body_of_christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">body of Christ</A>.  Belief is the basis for faith.  Faith is how we receive salvation, and yet faith is action, i.e., living life-doing, based on belief in the Word!  </div> <bR> <div> A lack of belief in the Word is the single most powerful condition that keeps us from <A HREF="#trinity" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">God</A>, and prevents our eternal life. </div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="our_own_belief"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>Belief (Our Own)</B></div> <div> <I>Who cares what you or I believe, if it is not true?</I>   <A HREF="#unbeliever" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Unbelief</A> of the Bible includes interpretation of it to avoid <A HREF="#repentance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">repentance</A> and changing individually.  Interpretation to avoid practicing the <A HREF="#new_testament" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">New Testament</A> is unbelief in the Word and an eventual <A HREF="#second_death" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">second death</A>!  Many graduates of seminaries have become masters at interpreting the Word, when in truth they become blind leaders of the blind.</div> <bR> <div> Our belief does not change the <A HREF="#truth" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">tru</A><A HREF="#truth" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">th</A>, but changes us, when we believe things that are not true.  We must relinquish our own beliefs in what we think is true, and believe in <A HREF="#faith" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">faith</A> <A HREF="#word_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the Word</A>, that is true.  God has put a <A HREF="#measure_of_faith" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">measure of faith</A> in all of us by virtue of our life, and thus we must accept the Word as true and live that way.</div> <bR> <div> When we feed our <A HREF="#intellect_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">mind</A> with lies or the wisdom of this <A HREF="#world" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">world</A> which is foolishness to God, our <A HREF="#carnal_mind" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">mind seeks carnality</A> and our excuse becomes the <A HREF="#sinful" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">sinner's</A> excuse, which places a competing belief in our <A HREF="#heart" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">heart</A> that a carnal life is better or as good as a <A HREF="#spiritual" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spiritual</A> one, although it is not.  This happens because our <A HREF="#flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">flesh</A> likes <A HREF="#carnal_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">carnal</A> things, and the feel good factor associated with them.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="bible"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Bible</B></div> <div> Believe it or not, the Bible contains the <A HREF="#word_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Word of God</A>.  For many, this is the first step of belief because they simply refuse to believe this truth.  Please read this <A HREF="rickywascher.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ricky Wascher">testimony</A>.  If people lived according to the New testament they would then KNOW the Bible contains the Word of God and IS the doctrine for life.  Jesus said: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.</FONT> John 7:16-17.  We must have <A HREF="#word_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the Word</A> dwelling in us to do the <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of God</A>!</div> <bR> <div> When we start with the Bible, we start with the <A HREF="#new_testament" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">NEW Testament</A>, NOT the <A HREF="#old_testament__old_covenant_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Old</A>. Jesus said we who have His Spirit, i.e., the Word and the Holy Spirit, dwelling in them would do the things He did, i.e., the will of God, with the power of the <A HREF="#holy_spirit__holy_ghost__1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spirit</A> (i.e., "dynamis" in the Greek).  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >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.</FONT> John 14:12.</div> <bR> <div> <B>The Bible is the means by which we understand the difference between the </B><A HREF="#flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><B>flesh</B></A><B> and </B><A HREF="#spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><B>spirit</B></A><B>.</B></div> <bR> <div> The Bible IS a statement of <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">God's will</A> for all men as it is His Word.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" ><B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/john_1.htm')">John 1:1-3, 10-14.</A>   </B></FONT>.  People grow towards it (i.e., the Word) and a <A HREF="#lifestyle" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">lifestyle</A> incorporating it, or they dismiss it and live a lifestyle designed by their own <A HREF="#flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">flesh</A> and its <A HREF="#man_s_desire" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">desires</A>.  As a result of a <A HREF="#worldly" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">worldly</A> choice, the person refuses God the Father, whether they admit it or not, and here is where <A HREF="#religion" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">religion</A> becomes dangerous.  Religion has been known to try and fill the gap between <A HREF="#man_and_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">man and God</A>, and yet that is the very purpose of Jesus, i.e., the Word, and not religion!  </div> <bR> <div> The King James Version is the preferred Bible because it is most accurate and free for the public (i.e., no copyrights), and available from many sources.  Other translations are <A HREF="#interpretation" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">interpretations</A> that frequently change the meaning of the Word, and are the copyright protected property of men, seeking to make the Word softer, for men who have become more easily offended by it.  The watered down translations/<A HREF="#interpretation" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">interpretations </A>appease men, whose <A HREF="#desire" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">desire</A> is not to follow the Word and live by it, but adopt their own chosen lifestyle.   The publishers of these translations/interpretations sell these to men under the guise of simplicity, while often removing the requirement of <A HREF="#repentance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">repentance from sin</A>, <A HREF="#suffering" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">suffering of the flesh</A> associated with a change in <A HREF="#lifestyle" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">lifestyle</A>, and pursuit of <A HREF="#truth" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">truth</A>.  </div> <bR> <div> It is no surprise that men swap <A HREF="#love_of_money" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">truth for money</A> all the time, and the copyrighted translations of the Bible, other than the King James Version, change every few years to accommodate people and the simple thinking of men.  To those that know the truth, making things simple makes sense, but changing the Word to appease men for the sake of fleshly comfort in exchange for <A HREF="#love_of_money" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">money</A> is unacceptable.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="blind_followers_of_the_blind"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Blind:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Blind</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#00CCFF" FACE="Arial" ><B> Followers of the Blind</B></FONT></div> <div> Those that follow the teachings and doctrines of men, who advocate religious doctrines and teachings that cannot be reconciled with the Word, including those that seek an interpretation of the Word to obtain the meaning that suits them or their doctrine, are blind followers of the blind.</div> <bR> <div> The Word, AS IS, is perfection and need not be changed or interpreted at all, and <A HREF="rickywascher.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ricky Wascher">if somebody wants to find out, they can.</A></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#C0C0C0" FACE="Arial" ><B>Blind</B></FONT><B> </B><B>Leaders of the Blind</B></div> <div> Those who advocate the religious doctrines and teachings of men under the guise of holiness, (e.g., the pastoral electorate in many denominational congregations, who are recognized as the robed seminarians thereof), and cannot reconcile their doctrines and teachings with the Word alone, with the <A HREF="#holy_spirit__holy_ghost__1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Holy Spirit</A> ,as per <A HREF="#bible" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the Bible</A>.  These blind leaders require outside resources of men, their intellect, or science, etc., and the explanations thereof, so that their interpretation of the Word renders a meaning that suits them and/or their blind followers who support them, usually with tithes and offerings, i.e., money.</div> <bR> <div> The Word, AS IS, is perfection and need not be changed or interpreted at all, and <A HREF="rickywascher.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ricky Wascher">if somebody wants to find out, they can.</A></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="blotted_out_of_the_book_of_life"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Blotted Out of the Book of Life</B></div> <div> If we claim to be "<A HREF="#salvation__saved_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">saved</A>", we also claim to have our name written in the <A HREF="john_1.htm#book_of_life_verses" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Free Food Bank John 1">Book of Life</A> forever`, but <A HREF="#jesus" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Jesus</A> said some names would be blotted out of the Book of Life.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.</FONT> Revelation 3:5.</div> <bR> <div> Many other relevant verses:  <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/book_of_life_verses.htm')">Book of Life Verses</A>  .</div> <bR> <div> Many robed seminarians of our day vehemently object to the concept of losing one's <A HREF="#salvation__saved_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">salvation</A>, i.e., getting their name blotted out of the Book of Life, yet it is God's word and the words of the resurrected <A HREF="#christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Christ Jesus</A> that say it is so!  Robed seminarians are known to explain away this truth by confusion.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.</FONT>  1 Corinthians 14:23.</div> <bR> <div> Even when there is a <A HREF="#sealed__sanctified_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">sanctification</A> by the <A HREF="#holy_spirit__holy_ghost__1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Holy Spirit</A>, there is still the possibility of an unpardonable <A HREF="#sin" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">sin</A> for blaspheming the Holy Spirit, which we do not speak of.  Sanctification IS the most secure relationship anyone can have with God, and yet the unpardonable sin makes it clearly possible for one to lose their eternal security.   Therefore, to be without the Holy Spirit guiding our every step presents an even greater risk of losing one's salvation.  It is well now that many claiming to be saved will <A HREF="#second_death" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">die in hell</A>, and so whether or not the perspective is of God, as in the unpardonable sin of which only He knows about, or a perspective of our own, through a partial or complete <A HREF="#unbeliever" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">unbelief</A> in the Word, the result is still loss of one's <A HREF="#man_s_soul_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">own soul</A>.</div> <bR> <div> Trying to be God, the devil committed the unpardonable sin, and was banished from heaven forever.  How many people try to be God by changing His Word?  Nobody knows and nobody should discuss the nature of the unpardonable sin.  Just DO God's will and be saved! </div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="body__see_man_s_body_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Body (see </B><A HREF="#man_s_body" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><B>Man's Body</B></A><B>)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="body_of_christ"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Body of Christ</B></div> <div> The <A HREF="#man_s_body" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">bodies of people</A> that claim to be part of the <A HREF="#body_of_christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">body of Christ</A> belong to Him, i.e., Jesus, as His own body, for they are the temples of the Spirit of God.  If people claim to be part of the body of Christ, their own body must have the <A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">inner man</A> of Jesus, i.e., the Word, which was His will and would be our will too.  Thus, we are to DO with our body as He did with <A HREF="#jesus_the_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">His body</A>, not as we would by our own choosing, expecting Him to live in us, while we engage in <A HREF="#sin" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">sin</A> to avoid <A HREF="#suffering" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">suffering in the flesh</A> for <A HREF="#salvation__saved_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">salvation</A>. You were purchased for a price and are the purchased possession of God the Father IF you are born again of Christ, i.e., live by the Word as the "<A HREF="#salvation__saved_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">saved</A>"!   <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/blood_bought.htm')">Blood Bought</A>   It is time for all of us to act as if we are "saved", i.e., born again, by demonstrating His will and the life in the <A HREF="#spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Spirit</A>.</div> <bR> <div> Jesus received <A HREF="#jesus_the_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">His flesh</A> from flesh, and His spirit from <A HREF="#spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Spirit</A>-<A HREF="#trinity" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">God</A>. The Father created Jesus with a human, and the spirit of the man, Jesus, is the <A HREF="#word_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Word of God</A>.  His will, i.e., the spirit of Jesus the <A HREF="#christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Christ</A>, is housed within His <A HREF="#man_s_soul_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">soul</A>, and His is the Word.  When we become part of the body of Christ, our will which is our spirit, i.e., the inner man, becomes the Word!  The difference is the very special nature of the spirit of Jesus.  <A HREF="#jesus_s_spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">His spirit</A> is not only love as it is of God and God is love, but the entire <A HREF="#word_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Word of God</A> which is, of course, God's will for all people to live by as per God's plan and <A HREF="#desire" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">desire</A>, but people decide for themselves <A HREF="#lifestyle" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">how they will live</A>.</div> <bR> <div> Being made of <A HREF="#jesus_s_parents" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">fleshly parents</A> in total, our only way to live forever is through Jesus as He lived, which was and is by the Word in the <A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">inner man</A>.  Thus, if we do not do the <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of God</A> by receiving His Word, i.e., His son, we reject the very <A HREF="#eternal_life" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">eternal life</A> He sent for us by and through the Word!  We must change, and not expect the Word to change to accommodate us.  If we do not receive His Word, we are not a member of the <A HREF="#royal_family" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">royal family</A>, and we cannot do the will of God without the <A HREF="#holy_spirit__holy_ghost__1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Holy Spirit</A>.  If we are of the Body of Christ, we shall have the <A HREF="#mind_of_christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">mind of Christ</A> and seek to do the Father's will always.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="born_again"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Born Again</B></div> <div> <I><B>Being born again means </B></I><A HREF="#word_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><I><B>the Word</B></I></A><I><B> dwells in you as your own </B></I><A HREF="#man_s_spirit_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><I><B>spirit/will of man</B></I></A><I><B>, i.e., your </B></I><A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><I><B>inner man</B></I></A><I><B> becomes the same as the inner man of </B></I><A HREF="#jesus" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><I><B>Jesus</B></I></A><I><B>,</B></I><I><B> the man when He was alive, and while He was born that way, we can be born again through Him by a belief in Him as we </B></I><A HREF="#belief_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><I><B>believe</B></I></A><I><B> in the Word as true! </B></I></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.</FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)</FONT> John 7:38-39.  The <A HREF="#spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">SPIRIT</A> first comes to us through the Word, which is the <A HREF="#will_of_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spirit</A> of <A HREF="#jesus_the_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Jesus the man</A>, the <A HREF="#sonship" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">son of God</A>.  When we believe on Him, His Spirit becomes <A HREF="#man_s_spirit_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">our spirit</A>, and our will is renewed to do as He did.  We are not justified by Him such that we maintain our old man.  By Him we become justified through Him and renewed to a new man.  Stated another way, if we live in His body, i.e., His flesh through the Word as He did, we are then made holy through Him, but not of ourselves.  We cannot expect salvation through Him without a relinquishment of our personal self and our own chosen lifestyle, in favor of the lifestyle He lived.  Our flesh and lifestyle is never justified, but we become justified THROUGH Him as we live in His body, the body of Christ, doing the things He would do and always pleasing the Father.  This distinction is paramount.</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>This is why we begin choosing the </B></I><A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><I><B>will of God</B></I></A><I><B> over the </B></I><A HREF="#will_of_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><I><B>will of our flesh</B></I></A><I><B> when</B></I><I><B> our spirit (i.e., our will) becomes the Word, which is the will of God for everyone.  It is our flesh and the </B></I><A HREF="#will_of_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><I><B>will of our flesh</B></I></A><I><B> that messes us up!  The Spirit of God is one spirit in a </B></I><A HREF="#trinity" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><I><B>triune form</B></I></A><I><B>, i.e., the trinity.  From the Word, which is spiritual, we become born again, and naturally grow spiritually-progressing by the </B></I><A HREF="#holy_spirit__holy_ghost__1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><I><B>Holy Spirit</B></I></A><I><B> to seek and do the </B></I><A HREF="#father" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><I><B>Father's</B></I></A><I><B> will personally!</B></I></div> <bR> <div> Leading up to John 3:16, is the discussion Jesus had with Nicodemus, and Jesus said: </div> <bR> <div> Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" ><B>see</B></FONT> the kingdom of God.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, </FONT>Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" ><B>enter</B></FONT> into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > John 3:3-7. (Emphasis added). </FONT></div> <bR> <div> The Word must dwell in us through our <A HREF="rickywascher.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ricky Wascher">quest</A> and <A HREF="#belief_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">belief</A> for <A HREF="#truth" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">truth</A>, before the <A HREF="#holy_spirit__holy_ghost__1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Holy Spirit</A>, which is the <A HREF="#holy_spirit__holy_ghost__1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Spirit of Truth</A>, can ever reside in us, and then bear witness with our spirit (i.e., the Word in us) that we are the <A HREF="#children_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">children of God</A>.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.</FONT>  John 14:17.</div> <bR> <div> Being <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born again</A> means you are a new creature whose old ways are passed away, i.e., dead!  The old ways of the old <A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">inner man</A> that chooses the will of the flesh by default, are gone.  The new man, i.e., the new <A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">inner man</A>, is the Word of God and he chooses the will of God.  Many people seek to tear down their old man, but rebuild it on a faulty foundation of <A HREF="#religion" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">religion or religious doctrine</A> through the work of the <A HREF="#blind_followers_of_the_blind" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">robed seminarians, many of whom are blind leaders of the blind</A>.</div> <bR> <div>  <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/romans8_9_10.htm')">Romans 8:9-10.</A>  </div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="brethren"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Brethren </B><B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/brethren.htm')">Brethren</A>  </B></div> <div> All people who are <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born again</A> are the brethren and part of the <A HREF="#royal_family" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">royal family</A> of <A HREF="#god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">God</A>.  Speaking of the <A HREF="#brethren" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">brethren</A> who are born again and <A HREF="#children_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">children of God</A>: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; <U>for God is love</U>.</FONT> 1 John 4:6-8.  (Emphasis added).</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="carnal_mind"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Carnal Mind - Carnally Minded </B><B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/carnalmind.htm')">Carnal Mind</A>  </B></div> <div> <I><B>The </B></I><A HREF="#man_s_body" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><I><B>flesh body</B></I></A><I><B> and the </B></I><A HREF="#carnal_mind" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><I><B>carnal mind</B></I></A><I><B> are part of the same enterprise, and the things which we mind (i.e., pay our attention to) control the flesh body and give it direction.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> We have a brain connected to our flesh.  The brain communicates with our flesh and vice versa.  The <A HREF="#will_of_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of the flesh</A> is then sent to the brain, and if the brain yields to the flesh, i.e., submits to the will of the flesh, we are carnal.  If the brain repels the <A HREF="#will_of_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of the flesh</A> in favor of the <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of God</A> within the <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born again</A> whose <A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">inner man</A> is the Word, then we have the <A HREF="#mind_of_christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">mind of Christ</A>.  Therefore, we can be a carnally minded person or a spiritually minded person. The mind of Christ is the mind that was and is in <A HREF="#jesus" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Jesus</A> <A HREF="#christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the Christ</A>, whose inner man was and is the Word set to do <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">God's will</A> ONLY!  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" > <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/romans8_5_8.htm')">Romans 8:5-8</A>  </FONT></div> <bR> <div> The understanding of the difference between the <A HREF="#carnal_mind" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">carnal mind</A> and the <A HREF="#mind_of_christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">mind of Christ</A> is definitely worth the effort. The carnal mind is the mind for the things of this <A HREF="#world" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">world</A>.  If we have a mind for living according to the things of God we have the mind of Christ.  The carnal mind is against God, i.e., the enemy of God.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.</FONT>  Romans 8:7. </div> <bR> <div> Does this mean we never have a <A HREF="#man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">human</A> thought? Of course not, but it does mean we do not have a mind for carnality, but for <A HREF="#spiritual" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spirituality</A>.  The carnal mind is part of the old man for those <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born again</A>, i.e., the <A HREF="#man_s_body" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">flesh man</A>, and yet while seemingly hard to leave, it is the easiest thing to do.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="carnal_man"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Carnal Man</B></div> <div> Carnal man is good at concocting his own <A HREF="#belief_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">beliefs</A> and <A HREF="#doctrine" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">doctrines</A> to live by because he has a <A HREF="#carnal_mind" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">carnal mind</A> and not the mind of Christ instead.  By contrast, the <A HREF="#spiritual" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spiritual man</A> is born again in the inner man and becomes a <A HREF="#children_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">child of God</A>.  His inner man is <A HREF="#spiritual" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spiritual</A> because it is the Word, and he holds the truth as his own will.  Sharing this good news is most important for the born again, because they naturally seek to live as Jesus lived and do what He did, i.e., obeying the will of the Father, and pleasing Him with the use of their body as a <A HREF="#ministry" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">faithful servant</A>, because they know no other way, all the while <A HREF="#suffering" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">enduring the struggle with their own fleshly desires.</A></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="children"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Children</B></div> <div> Not everyone is a <A HREF="#children_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">child of God</A>.   <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/romans8_16_17.htm')">Romans 8:16-17</A>   God is spirit and His <A HREF="#children" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">children</A> are <A HREF="#spiritual" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spiritual</A>.   <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/romans_810_14.htm')">See also, Romans 8:10-14.</A>  Whoever claims to be "<A HREF="#salvation__saved_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">saved</A>", i.e., a "child of God", is also claiming to be part of the "<A HREF="#body_of_christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">body of Christ</A>", and lives by the Word as their spirit is guided by the <A HREF="#holy_spirit__holy_ghost__1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Holy Spirit</A> dwelling in them to do those things they individually are called by the Father to do.  This is all done out of <A HREF="#love" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">love</A> for Him.  Those who do not love God (i.e., all aspects of <A HREF="#trinity" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">God-a trinity</A>) cannot be <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born again</A> or a <A HREF="#children_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">child of God</A> in <A HREF="#spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">SPIRIT</A>. Others struggle with <A HREF="#double_minded" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">double-mindedness</A>, i.e., wanting both the life of the <A HREF="#flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">flesh</A> and life according to God.  If God is our Father, we will WANT to <A HREF="#obedience" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">please Him</A> first and foremost out of our <A HREF="#love" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">LOVE</A> for Him.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="children_of_god"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Children of God</B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.</FONT> Romans 8:10-14.  In the first line, "<A HREF="#christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Christ</A>" means the Word!</div> <bR> <div> Those that believe <A HREF="#jesus_the_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Jesus in the flesh</A> is unapproachable or that having righteousness is unattainable, do not know Jesus, and many still see themselves as a hopeless <A HREF="#sinners" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">sinner</A>.  Some congregational churches today actually teach this nonsense and perpetuate this hopeless condition, but the Word IS our hope!  Those that see Jesus as the loving <A HREF="#jesus_is_the_word" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Word of God</A> in spirit find themselves with a great <A HREF="#comforter" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">comforter</A> encouraging them to persevere and continue growing in righteousness, living by the spiritual Word for a sinless lifestyle. The <A HREF="#holy_spirit__holy_ghost__1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Holy Spirit</A> dwelling in men seeking <A HREF="#truth" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">truth</A> bears witness with man's will,( i.e., the born again man's spirit in the inner man which is the Word), as a testament to this combination, which is evident in <A HREF="#lifestyle" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">lifestyle</A>. </div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="children_of_the_devil"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Children of the Devil (Children of Disobedience)</B></div> <div> He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.  In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >  1 John 3:8-10.</FONT></div> <bR> <div>  <A HREF="#worker_of_iniquity" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Workers of iniquity</A> are children of the devil.  People claiming to be <A HREF="#salvation__saved_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">saved</A> and claiming to be living as part of the <A HREF="#body_of_christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">body of Christ</A>, while living <A HREF="#carnal_mind" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">carnally</A> and not by the Word, or while flatly rejecting the Word as inapplicable or using <A HREF="#interpretation" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">interpretation</A> to <A HREF="#justify_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">justify their own fleshly desires</A>, are workers of iniquity and the children of <A HREF="#unbeliever" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">unbelief</A> and <A HREF="#disobedience" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">disobedience</A>. </div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="christ"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Christ </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="#jesus" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">(See Jesus-the Christ)</A></FONT></div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="christians_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>Christians</B></div> <div> EVERY Christian is first a <A HREF="#disciples" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">disciple</A>, and as disciples, we ALL have a <A HREF="#ministry" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">ministry</A> which will glorify the <A HREF="#jesus" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Christ Jesus</A>.  This pleases <A HREF="#father" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the Father</A> because the <A HREF="#sonship" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">son</A> is His <A HREF="#eternal_life" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">eternal life</A>, and His gift to us.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >...And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.</FONT> Acts 11:26.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="church"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Church </B><B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/church.htm')">Church</A>  </B></div> <div> The church is a collection of DOERS of the Word, and not hearers only.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#00CCFF" FACE="Arial" ><B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/james1_22_27.htm')">James 1:22-27.</A>  </B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> We use the term church as the local congregational building, but the church is actually the group of believers in, and followers of, Christ.  The "church" is NOT a building or dwelling place to worship on Sunday, although many places of worship are referred to as churches, we must learn to recognize each of the <A HREF="#brethren" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">brethren</A> as the church. </div> <bR> <div> The church is you and I, IF and ONLY IF we are the <A HREF="#children_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">children of God</A>, but <A HREF="#children_of_the_devil" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">not everyone is a child of God</A>.  The children of God do the work of God, and the children of the <A HREF="#enemy_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">enemy</A> <A HREF="#worker_of_iniquity" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">work iniquity</A>. </div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="comforter"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Comforter</B></div> <div> But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >  John 15:26.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> The Greek word for Comforter is "Paraclete". Jesus was a paraclete and thus when He said: ...<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;</FONT> (John 14:16), He was referring to Himself as a paraclete and that another would be sent to us as the Holy Spirit. </div> <bR> <div> The mission of the Another Comforter, i.e., the Another Paraclete-the Holy Spirit, is to abide with the disciples after Jesus has withdrawn His visible presence from them.<A HREF="#jesus_is_the_word" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"> </A><A HREF="#jesus_is_the_word" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Jesus was Himself a paraclete</A><A HREF="#jesus_is_the_word" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"> </A>and thus the Holy Spirit is "another". </div> <bR> <div> There is no reason for limiting to the Apostles themselves the "another comforter" as promised in the Gospel (Matthew 10:19; Mark 13:11; Luke 12:11, 21:14) and described in Acts 2 because ALL <A HREF="#christians_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Christians</A> are supposed to be disciples, and live as part of the <A HREF="#body_of_christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Body of Christ</A>.</div> <bR> <div> If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > Luke 11:13.</FONT></div> <div>  <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/romans_810_14.htm')">See also, Romans 8:10-14.</A>  </div> <bR> <div> The mission of the Holy Spirit as a Paraclete is to equip the born again, those who have received the Father's Holy Spirit, to continue the works and missions of <A HREF="#jesus" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Jesus</A> according to the Father's will.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >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.</FONT> John 14:12.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.</FONT> (John 14:26).  </div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="commandments__2_or_10___1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>Commandments</B></div> <div> The battle ground NOW is under the <A HREF="#new_testament" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">New Covenant</A> which is <A HREF="#spiritual" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spiritual</A>.  The Old Covenant of the flesh and the Ten Commandments given to the Jews have been absorbed within the New Covenant and the Two Commandments given by <A HREF="#christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Christ</A>.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >And Jesus answered him, </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:  And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.  And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.</FONT> Mark 12:29-31.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="commission_the_great"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Commission, The Great</B></div> <div> The great commission to go into all the <A HREF="#world" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">world</A> and <A HREF="#baptism_in_the_spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">baptize</A> in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost is not the identity of the <A HREF="#trinity" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">trinity</A>, unless we recognize the "Son" as the Word, which is spiritual, and not the "son" as refers to the man Jesus.  The baptism as part of the great commission means the <A HREF="#baptism_in_the_spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">baptism in the spirit</A>, i.e., the baptism that Jesus had from the <A HREF="#father" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Father</A>, not the <A HREF="#water_baptism" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">water baptism</A> of John the Baptist. <I>The "son" is Jesus in the flesh as a man AND the Word of God in spirit</I>, but herein also lies the place where some confuse <A HREF="#word_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the Word</A>.  We must consider the Word as spirit and Jesus the man as flesh, while we grow to maturity on the understanding of the difference.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying,</FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.  Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:  Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.</FONT>  Matthew 28:18-20.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="confession"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Confession </B><B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/confession.htm')">Confession</A>  </B></div> <div> Confession is easy, <A HREF="#repentance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">repentance</A> can be difficult for the dominant <A HREF="#flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">flesh</A>.  Many people want <A HREF="#salvation__saved_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">salvation</A> without <A HREF="#repentance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">repentance</A>, while solely relying on confession as a substitute for repentance, which will not work.  Stated another way, many claim salvation by <A HREF="#false_prophets_and_teachers" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">someone's false doctrine</A> or <A HREF="#false_teaching" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">false teaching</A> that replaces repentance with simple confession and the wearing of the "I'm a sinner" <A HREF="#excuses_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">excuse</A> badge, yet Jesus said <A HREF="#go_and_sin_no_more__john_81_11__" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">go and sin no more</A> requiring repentance instead.  </div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="death"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Death</B></div> <div> All people must find humility in knowing they will all die.  It is God the Father and ONLY God the Father, who has sent the means of escaping a <A HREF="#second_death" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">second death</A>.  Our love of <A HREF="#life_in_the_spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">life</A> must prevail and overcome the luring death of <A HREF="#world" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">this world</A>.  This does not mean we are to condone or accept sin under the goading accusation of the <A HREF="#sinners" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">sinner</A> that we who are the righteous are not loving, no, not at all.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="deliverance"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Deliverance</B></div> <div> If we are <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born again</A>, we will be delivered from our former self, i.e., the old man!  Does that mean <A HREF="#suffering" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the flesh will suffer</A> because of a changing <A HREF="#lifestyle" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">lifestyle</A> when we are being set free?  For most people the answer is clearly yes, yet once we are free we do not suffer any longer for we are delivered.  <A HREF="#unbeliever" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Those that don't believe</A> in deliverance from the bondage of sin are not <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born again</A>, and don't get <A HREF="#salvation__saved_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">salvation</A> in the end because they don't believe the Word.</div> <bR> <div> Dying in the pursuit of the kingdom of God and His righteousness in accordance with the Word is a just cause and honorable death.  We who are the saved should do it daily as to the <A HREF="#will_of_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of the flesh</A>, but those who don't receive deliverance cling to their sin by wearing the sinner's badge, or some claim they are not sinning by a <A HREF="#reprobate" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">reprobate</A> mind.  Deliverance is available-seek it and find it!  A <A HREF="#desire" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">desire</A> for the <A HREF="#truth" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">truth</A> is what brings about a recognition of sin, and the desire to be set free is what brings us the power of God through trust in Jesus.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="desire"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Desire</B></div> <div> Desire is not the same as will.  Desire is a want in attitude, but "will" couples desire with the actions.  </div> <bR> <div> THE "DESIRE OF GOD" IS NOT THE SAME AS THE "WILL OF GOD" BECAUSE GOD'S WILL HAPPENS POWERFULLY AND AUTOMATICALLY.  GOD'S WILL IS UNAVOIDABLE WITH THE GUARANTEE OF OCCURRENCE.  </div> <bR> <div> THE WORD AND ALL THE Bible CONTAINS IS PART OF HIS WILL.  THROUGH THE WORD WE FIND ETERNAL LIFE, AND THIS IS THE DESIRE OF GOD FOR ALL MEN!  </div> <bR> <div> THE DESIRE OF GOD IS WHAT HE WANTS AS THE BEST FOR US, BUT HE HAS GIVEN US THE WILL OF MAN TO DECIDE AND CONTROL OUR OWN END, I.E., TO BE OUR OWN GODS, AND PURSUE THAT WHICH WE LOVE.  </div> <bR> <div> JESUS SECURED OUR WILL TO CHOOSE, BY THE LOVE OF OUR FATHER, AND THIS IS THE LOVE BY WHICH WE FIND OUR FATHER AND LOVE HIM AS HIS OWN-JUST LIKE JESUS!</div> <bR> <div> Jesus answered them, <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?  If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.  But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.</FONT>  John 10:34-38.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="devil_devils__see_enemy_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Devil, Devils (see </B><A HREF="#enemy_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><B>Enemy, The</B></A><B> </B><B>)</B></div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="disciples"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>Disciple </B><B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/disciple.htm')">Disciple</A>  </B></div> <div> The <A HREF="#body_of_christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Body of Christ</A> is the body in which we claim <A HREF="#salvation__saved_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">salvation</A>.  The <A HREF="#jesus_s_spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spirit/will of Jesus</A> the man in His <A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">inner man</A> is the Word of God, the same Word by which people claim <A HREF="#salvation__saved_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">salvation</A> through the rebirth in spirit.  The rebirth means, the inner man of Jesus the man, now becomes our inner man in order for us to live as part of the body of Christ.  Our born again inner man is the SAME Word that is the inner man of Jesus and not some interpretation of it.  This is why we are disciples to do what He did!</div> <bR> <div> How can someone saying their own fleshly sin is "okay" still claim to be a <A HREF="#christians_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">disciple</A>, which we know the Bible defines as a Christian?  </div> <bR> <div>  For those that continue in sin and claim they are saved, also claim they are part of the body of Christ by their salvation, and Jesus must actually and directly advocate and approve of their sin.  Thus, they must think their own sin is not sin, or they live by their own understanding of a cheap, convenient,  <A HREF="#grace" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">grace</A> <A HREF="#doctrine" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">doctrine</A>. Many of these same people are most assuredly <A HREF="#worker_of_iniquity" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">workers of iniquity</A> and <A HREF="#blind_followers_of_the_blind" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">blind leaders of the blind</A> for everybody that follows this doctrinal nonsense!</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="disobedience"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Disobedience </B><B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/disobedience.htm')">Disobedience</A>  </B></div> <div> <A HREF="#disobedience" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Disobedience</A> in the context of sin IS disobeying <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">God's will</A> by the transgression of it.  The Bible says we know sin by the Law (i.e., the first five books of the Bible called the "Pentateuch"), and yet the first sin was without the law and predated it.  Was the first "sin" of the first man called Adam a sin?  Yes, but it was actually a transgression of God's will.  Disobedience to God includes a lack of love for God and the enemy shall remain eternally disobedient/evil and will be destroyed by the Father in the end!</div> <bR> <div> From the very beginning, transgression against God's will was something people were warned by God not to do, and yet today we have lost that perspective because there is little fear of God among the people of this <A HREF="#world" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">world</A>.  The lack of fear is due in large part to the softness of the brand of gospel being preached and taught in the congregational churches of today, that resemble small corporations with extensive balance sheets <A HREF="#love_of_money" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">centered around money</A>.</div> <bR> <div> It is up to you and me to pursue <A HREF="#eternal_life" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">eternal life</A> according to <A HREF="#will_of_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">our own will</A>, i.e., we either want it or we do not, but we do not set the rules on how to get it!  After all, He cannot make us choose to live forever, but He most certainly can lead us to live properly as His child, if we are willing to <A HREF="#lifestyle" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">pursue a life</A> in the <A HREF="#spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Spirit</A>, and not the <A HREF="#enemy_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spirit of the world</A>, i.e., <A HREF="#enemy_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the enemy</A>.  He gave the choice to you and me when He gave us <A HREF="#man_s_soul_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">our soul</A>, which contains our spirit in the <A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">inner man</A>, i.e., <A HREF="#will_of_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">our will</A>!</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="doctrine"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Doctrine </B><B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/doctrine.htm')">Doctrine</A>  </B></div> <div> People manufacture their own <A HREF="#doctrine" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">doctrine</A> when they interpret the Bible to suit their lifestyle, or justify the actions of their flesh instead of choosing the path of repentance.  We as <A HREF="#man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">men</A> must examine the doctrines being preached, taught, and believed by us, even in the places we worship.  We cannot simply receive everything that is thrown at us as gospel, in the name of <A HREF="#jesus" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Jesus</A> or the Word. </div> <bR> <div> Jesus said: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.</FONT> Matthew 7:22-25.  The rock is the <A HREF="#word_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Word of God</A>-the lineage of the inner man of Jesus, i.e., His spirit/will, not the genealogy of Peter in the flesh!</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="doctrine_of_jesus"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Doctrine of Jesus</B></div> <div> Jesus answered them, and said: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.</FONT> John 7:16-17.  The doctrine of Jesus the Christ is DO God's will!  Doing God's will begins with believing the Word and making it our life without <A HREF="#interpretation" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">interpretation</A> or change of the Bible.  From the Word, we find truth, and a directive to seek the Holy Spirit to guide us in our personal <A HREF="#obedience" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">obedient</A> <A HREF="#servant_s_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">service</A> to the <A HREF="#father" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Father</A> </div> <bR> <div> The doctrine of Jesus was <A HREF="#jesus_s_spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">His will</A> in the <A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">inner man</A>, i.e., His <A HREF="#man_s_spirit_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spirit/will</A> because it was and is the Word of God.  We make it ours when we become <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born again</A> and part of the <A HREF="#body_of_christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">body of Christ</A>, which means <A HREF="#word_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the Word</A> becomes our new inner man!  Therefore, everything Jesus taught and said was in relation to doing the will of God and He lived it, for He himself, i.e., the spirit of Christ was and is the <A HREF="#word_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Word of God</A> as explained throughout this site.</div> <bR> <div>  <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/john1_1_14.htm')">John 1:1, 1:14</A>  </div> <bR> <div> Simply being a "good person" is not the test.  Even <A HREF="#jesus" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Jesus</A> himself, while speaking of His flesh, said, <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >Why callest thou me good, there is none good, but one and that is God.</FONT> Matthew 19:17, Mark 10:18, see also Luke 18:19.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="door__the_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Door (The)</B></div> <div> Jesus is the doorway to the <A HREF="#spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">SPIRIT</A> life.  Jesus said: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.</FONT> John 10:9-10.</div> <bR> <div> On the other side of the door is the spirit and the <A HREF="#heaven" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">kingdom of heaven</A>-our <A HREF="#spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Father's kingdom</A>.  That door is His flesh, which He gave for us and thereby opened that door into the spirit for those that would venture in through the truth.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="double_minded"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Double Minded</B></div> <div> A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > James 1:8.</FONT> </div> <div> ...Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >  James 4:7-8.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> "Double-minded" means "double-souled" in the Bible, and it occurs twice. Our <A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">inner man</A> is our own spirit, and it is our <A HREF="#will_of_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of man</A> residing in <A HREF="#man_s_soul_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">our soul</A>.  A double-minded man, i.e., a double-souled man, is one who seeks to live according to his own <A HREF="#will_of_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of his flesh</A> AND the <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of God</A>.  Thus, this does not mean someone has two souls, but has a double-minded or "two-willed" consideration of life, i.e., a will to live two ways as described.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="doubt"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Doubt </B><B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/doubt.htm')">Doubt</A>  </B></div> <div> DOUBT is the killer of BELIEF.  Lack of BELIEF is then the enemy of <A HREF="#faith" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">faith</A> and a lack of faith prevents <A HREF="#salvation__saved_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">salvation</A>!  This is the cascade of <A HREF="#enemy_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the enemy</A>, and it all begins in your <A HREF="#intellect_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">mind</A> with doubt.  Doubt in the <A HREF="#carnal_mind" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">carnal mind</A> or <A HREF="#intellect_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">intellect</A> is NOT doubt in the <A HREF="#heart" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">heart</A>.  </div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="endure"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Endure (see </B><A HREF="#suffering" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><B>Suffering</B></A><B>) </B><B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/endure.htm')">Endure</A>  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="enemy_the"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Enemy, The; The Devil </B><B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/enemy.htm')">The Enemy - The Devil</A>  </B></div> <div> The god (small "g" intended) of this world is the enemy-the devil.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.</FONT>  2 Corinthians 4:3-4.</div> <bR> <div> The devil is referred to as a thief in the  Bible.  Jesus said: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.</FONT>  John 10:10.  People who are NOT the <A HREF="#children_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">children of God</A> have the spirit of the world, and are the <A HREF="#children_of_the_devil" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">children of the enemy</A>.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="eternal_life"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Eternal Life</B></div> <div> We begin our eternal life by this first fact: <A HREF="#jesus_is_the_word" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Jesus IS the Word</A>, and our eternal destiny is determined by our answer to this question: </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I>Do I want to live by the Word of God?</I></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >Jesus answered and said unto him,</FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.</FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered,</FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.</FONT> John 3:3-6.</div> <bR> <div> The Bible says we who are the <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born again</A> and saved were bought with a price, and thus have no say so as to how to live our lives.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.</FONT>  1 Corinthians 6:20.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.</FONT> 1 Corinthians 7:23.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="eternal_security"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Eternal Security</B></div> <div> Eternal security is NOT <A HREF="#eternal_life" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">eternal life</A>.  Eternal security is a <A HREF="#doctrine" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">doctrine</A> concocted by men to appease people here on earth, and make them blind to the <A HREF="#truth" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">truth</A> for gain.  Eternal security is associated with the, "Once saved always saved no matter what," doctrine for the <A HREF="#blind_followers_of_the_blind" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">blind followers of the blind</A>.  It is bogus and a <A HREF="#false_prophets_and_teachers" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">false doctrine</A> and <A HREF="#false_teaching" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">false teaching</A>.  Eternal security comes when we enter heaven, and is for those who <A HREF="#suffering" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">endure</A> this life, <A HREF="#belief_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">believing</A> the Word,  and doing the <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of God</A> until their <A HREF="#death" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">fleshly end of life</A>.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="evil_evildoers"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Evil, Evildoers</B></div> <div> Evil is the work of the <A HREF="#enemy_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">enemy, the devil</A>, and those that do the work for him are <A HREF="#worker_of_iniquity" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">evildoers</A>.</div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="excuses_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>Excuses</B></div> <div> The entire premise of excuses for sin, including, "God made me this way," is silly. God made your soul and in it gave you the <A HREF="#man_s_spirit_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of man</A>, i.e., your <A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">inner man</A>, to decide what you want to do with your life now and forever.  It is your choice!  We then find we love the things of the flesh or the things of God, but only one testifies of our <A HREF="#sonship" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">sonship</A> to God.  </div> <bR> <div> God is perfection, but if we say our sin is "okay" or "He made me this way," we cheapen Him, and His perfection is rendered imperfection, because humans are not perfect.  God does not create anything imperfect as part of Him, or His own Word then blasphemes Himself.  Thus, our soul was sinless at one time, and then our flesh took over condemning us to a life of sin.  Our only hope is Jesus! We must face up to our own sin and repent, instead of finding ways to <A HREF="#justify_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">justify our flesh</A>.</div> <bR> <div> Most seeking to justify their flesh then say, "Well, what I am doing is not sin because God made me this way," thereby blaming God.  God made man and commanded him to multiply on his own. God did not make you and I in our flesh, but our parents did! We are flesh and HE is spirit! The part He made is our soul which contains our will of man, i.e., our own spirit of man to decide and do.  Thus, by our own will, we pursue whatever we love and our soul will follow.  It is our choice, no excuses please!  </div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="faith"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Faith</B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >But without faith it is impossible to please him [God]: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.</FONT> Hebrews 11:6.  Faith is belief in the Word put into action! </div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="false_prophets_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B> <A NAME="false_prophets_and_teachers"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>False Prophets and Teachers</B></div> <div> The truth goes before you!</div> <bR> <div>  <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/revelation2_1_5.htm')">See Revelation 2:1-5</A>  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >and</FONT>  <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/revelation3_1_6.htm')">Revelation 3:1-6</A>  .</div> <bR> <div> If we are all members of the church, one of another in Christ, then the letters to Ephesus and Sardis are also letters to us, as are the books of the entire <A HREF="#new_testament" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">New Testament</A>.  Some will say: "Oh, but that means something else, maybe the Jews or heathen or atheists or whoever..." No. The above verses apply to everyone even if we <A HREF="#unbeliever" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">don't believe</A> them: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >For there is no respect of persons with God.</FONT> Romans 2:11.</div> <bR> <div> People who adopt the "Once saved always saved no matter what" <A HREF="#doctrine" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">doctrine</A> become drunk on it, and do not realize they put the sinner's badge back on.  In their religious drunkenness they do not have eyes to see they are actually seeking to remain sinners.  The professing <A HREF="#sinners" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">sinner</A>, therefore, relies on the inherent excuses attached to the sinner's badge rather than pursuing the more difficult alternative which is removing the badge and resisting the enemy's ways in order to find <A HREF="#deliverance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">deliverance</A> through <A HREF="#repentance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">repentance</A>.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>What is a "false doctrine"?</B></div> <bR> <div> A false doctrine is any <A HREF="#doctrine" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">doctrine</A> that is not true, including, but not limited to, any <A HREF="#doctrine" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">doctrine</A> that advocates the precept, principle or belief that once a person's name is written in the Book of Life it cannot thereafter be <A HREF="#blotted_out_of_the_book_of_life" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">blotted out of the Book of Life</A>.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  <A NAME="false_teaching"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><B>What is a "false teaching"?</B></div> <bR> <div> A false teaching is any teaching that is false, including, but not limited to, the precept, principle or belief that once a person's name is written in the Book of Life it cannot thereafter be <A HREF="#blotted_out_of_the_book_of_life" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">blotted out of the Book of Life</A>.</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Many Christians do not believe it is possible to have their name blotted out of the book of life, but God said it plainly and simply in Revelation, and the book of Revelation ends with this: </B></I></div> <div> <I>For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.</I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><I> Revelation 22:18-19.</I></FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Who is a "false prophet"?</B></div> <bR> <div> The understanding of the answer to this question requires an understanding of the meaning of "prophecy".  For our purposes and for this context, prophecy is <A HREF="#spiritual" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spiritual</A>.  The Bible says the testimony of Jesus Christ IS the spirit of prophecy. (Rev. 19:10).  Thus, anyone testifying about <A HREF="#jesus_is_the_word" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Jesus Christ</A> is testifying according to the spirit of prophecy, because their testimony IS the spirit of prophecy, making them a prophet as to the testimony itself.</div> <bR> <div> A false prophet then is anybody who testifies about Jesus the Christ, and at the same time is advocating a "false doctrine" (described above).  Thus, anyone who has a testimony of Jesus the Christ, and who advocates a doctrine that is not true, including, but not limited to the precept, principle or belief that says once a person's name is written in the Book of Life it cannot thereafter be <A HREF="#blotted_out_of_the_book_of_life" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">blotted out of the Book of Life</A> as Jesus said in Revelation, is a false prophet.</div> <bR> <div> Nobody should test the truth of the Bible by defying it with <A HREF="#man_s_soul_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">their own soul</A>.  We should become humble before God, fear Him, receive His will which is His love, and live in it by the <A HREF="#new_testament" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">New Testament</A> of <A HREF="#jesus_is_the_word" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the Word</A>!</div> <bR> <div> And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > Revelation 19:20.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > Revelation 20:10.</FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Who is a "false teacher"?</B></div> <bR> <div> A false teacher is someone who teaches a "false teaching" (described above).  Thus, anyone who teaches the precept, principle or belief that once a person's name is written in the Book of Life it cannot thereafter be blotted out of the Book of Life as Jesus said in Revelation, is a false teacher.</div> <bR> <div> The false prophet gives testimony of Jesus the Christ, AND advocates a false doctrine. The false teacher need only advocate the false teaching, and need not be giving testimony of <A HREF="#jesus" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Jesus the Christ</A>.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="father"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Father</B></div> <div> <A HREF="#trinity" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">God</A> the Father is the Father of everything <A HREF="#spiritual" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spiritual</A>! The place of spiritual existence is the kingdom of <A HREF="#heaven" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">heaven</A> which is the kingdom of God.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.</FONT> Romans 14:17 </div> <bR> <div> To come to know the Father means to come to know His will for you, i.e., yourself!  When we know the Father's will, we can please Him by doing it, and He becomes more of a Father to us because we know more about Him.  This is not done as it is here in this world out of torment like a mean dad or parent when we were growing up, but a loving good one!</div> <bR> <div> <B>How can "the Father" actually be God, if God is made up of the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit, (i.e., </B><A HREF="#trinity" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><B>the trinity</B></A><B>)?</B></div> <bR> <div> All aspects of God are still God, and all aspects of the Father are still of the Father. The Father himself in His entirety is <A HREF="#god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">God</A>, the Word is God as it is of Him-spoken by the Father, and the Holy Spirit is God as it is the power of the Father, and as each is part of the Father each is also a part of <A HREF="#trinity" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">God</A>.  Thus, the <A HREF="#father" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Father</A> is God as the term God includes the Father in His entirety.  They all agree in the <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of God</A>!  The agreement of the <A HREF="#trinity" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">trinity</A> IS the <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of God</A>.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="flesh"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Flesh  (See also </B><A HREF="#man_s_body" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><B>Man's Body</B></A><B>) </B><B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/flesh.htm')">The Flesh</A>  </B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >A life in the flesh is at odds, against a life in the spirit. </FONT>For <U>the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.</U><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > Galatians 5:17.  (Emphasis added). </FONT>For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >  Romans 8:13.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="flesh_parents"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Flesh </B><B>Parents</B></div> <div> Jesus said: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.</FONT> (John 3:6). </div> <bR> <div> Your <A HREF="#flesh_parents" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">parents</A> made your flesh! People, even <A HREF="#christians_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Christians</A>, think God made their flesh and that is flat wrong. God made the flesh of man in the first instance when man was sinless and thereafter the sinful man, having been given the ability to reproduce, made the rest like all beasts and living things naturally do.</div> <bR> <div> I was made in the flesh by my parents as you were by your parents, but neither of our flesh bodies were made by God. They were made by our parents and the natural reproductive cycle God created from the beginning as part of all living things. God is the giver of all life, and God made your soul and deposited it in you. From here we can gain a proper understanding of <A HREF="#flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">flesh</A> and <A HREF="#spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spirit</A>. The soul is given a spirit, i.e., a will, which is the choice to live or die, and <A HREF="#god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">God</A> is about life and <A HREF="#love" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">love</A>.</div> <bR> <div> Some might say, "If I am who I am because of <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">God's will</A>, and you are who you are because of God's will, how then can I resist Gods' will and be anything other than what he made?" This, again, assumes God made your flesh which He did not, but He did make your soul.  He gave you and me the ability and authority to choose how to manage <A HREF="#man_s_body" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">our body</A> with our mind as the gatekeeper of our will.  This is where the mind of a person shuts out the <A HREF="#truth" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">truth</A> in the <A HREF="#jesus_is_the_word" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">word of God</A> in exchange for the wisdom of <A HREF="#world" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the world</A> they gain through their own <A HREF="#intellect_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">intellect</A>.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="foregiveness"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Forgiveness </B><B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/forgiveness.htm')">Forgiveness</A>  </B></div> <div> Jesus said:<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" > But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.</FONT> Matthew 6:15.</div> <bR> <div> Why are we required to forgive everyone BEFORE God extends His forgiveness to us?  Wherever we hold onto our unforgiveness of others, we hold onto <A HREF="#disobedience" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the enemy</A>, i.e., the unforgiven itself, and prevent God from forgiving us.  The <A HREF="#enemy_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">enemy of God</A> is not forgiven and never will be and there is no hope of repentance in the enemy.   When we cling to unforgiveness we act as the enemy, and thus we cannot be forgiven just as the enemy is not forgiven!</div> <bR> <div> All manner of sin is forgiven, assuming there is confession and a <A HREF="#heart" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">heart</A> of <A HREF="#repentance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">repentance</A>.  The only exception which we do not speak of is the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost which is never forgiven.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.</FONT> Matthew 12:31-32.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="friend_of_the_world"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Friend of the World</B></div> <div> ...know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >James 4:4</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B></B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > <A NAME="trinity"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></FONT></div> <div> <B>God-Trinity of God</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1380c300.gif" border=0 width="524" height="304" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="241ad110.png" border=0 width="429" height="17" ALT="Bitmap Image" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Jesus said: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >God is a Spirit</FONT>... John 4:24</div> <bR> <div> God is a <A HREF="#trinity" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">trinity</A>.  Many people say the commission to go and <A HREF="#baptism" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">baptize</A> in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost is a statement of the trinity, and this is true provided the "son" is actually the Word in spirit knowing the <A HREF="#spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">SPIRIT</A> is the only proper frame of reference when considering God.  Jesus the man was a human conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a woman.  The difference between Jesus the man (flesh) and the Word (spiritual) is critical to an understanding of the flesh and spirit.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.</FONT> 1 John 5:7.  </div> <bR> <div> To understand the administration of God, we consider what the <A HREF="#father" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Father</A> in <A HREF="#heaven" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">heaven</A> said to the prophets: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.</FONT> Isaiah 42:1. Then again in the book of Matthew in the New Testament the Bible restates this: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.</FONT> Matthew 12:18.</div> <bR> <div> From the verses above: the "<A HREF="#body_of_christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">My Servant</A>" is Jesus the Christ in the flesh, AND the Word of God in spirit, AND any of us who are born again by the same spirit of Christ, i.e., the Word dwelling in us as our spirit.  The "my spirit" of the Father in the above verses is the "Holy Ghost" also called the Holy Spirit, and of course the "my" meaning "self" is the Father Himself in His soul, i.e., the soul of God the Father where His will originates!  If we live through Christ as the <A HREF="#salvation__saved_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">saved</A>, WE ARE <A HREF="#ministry" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">SERVANTS</A> TOO!</div> <bR> <div> Thus, we live as part of the <A HREF="#body_of_christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">body of Christ</A> as the <A HREF="#church" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">church</A> connected to God the Father by His Word, i.e.., His son which is the spirit of Jesus in the flesh!  Each of us who are born again live in Jesus's stead here and now and are to do His works.  Jesus said: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >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.</FONT>  John 14:12.</div> <bR> <div> As a final note, the Word is and always has been a statement of <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">God's will</A> for every man, and by the Holy Spirit we come to know the will of God for us individually.  The doing part is left up to us, and overcoming the flesh is accomplished by the Holy Spirit that quickens our mortal body to do God's will!</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="go_and_sin_no_more__john_81_11__"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Go and Sin No More, Sin No More</B></div> <div> Start by remembering, we do NOT continue in sin so that grace may abound, no, God forbid!  </div> <div> What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?  God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?  Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >  Romans 6:1-4.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="grace"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Grace OF God (NOT just Grace from God) </B><B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/grace.htm')">Grace vs. Mercy</A>  </B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) <U>full of grace</U> and truth.</FONT> John 1:14.  (Emphasis added).  It is the grace OF God and not just from God!  By grace, i.e., through the Word alone, we are saved through faith.  Jesus (i.e., the Word) was <U>full of grace and truth</U> as per the Bible.  When we live by the life of Christ, i.e., His spirit which is the Word,  we get the grace that He had!  Thus, grace comes through Christ, but grace does not come at all unless we are <A HREF="#children_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">God's children</A>.  We get it because we are born again by the <A HREF="#jesus_s_spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spirit of the Christ</A>.  Jesus knew no sin and neither should you, but be set free, i.e., <A HREF="#deliverance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">delivered</A>, from it.</div> <bR> <div> Those that are not God's children remain with the <A HREF="#world_spirit_of" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spirit of the world</A> living a <A HREF="#lifestyle" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">lifestyle</A> in the flesh and the <A HREF="#carnal_mind" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">carnal</A> mind and are the <A HREF="#children_of_the_devil" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">children of the evil one, i.e., the children of the enemy the devil</A>.  There is no in between.  It is light or dark and darkness flees from the light!</div> <bR> <div> For a time, the children of the devil may receive God's mercy by Him withholding His wrath on their flesh for they are not spiritually reborn, and <A HREF="#mercy" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">mercy</A> is most assuredly NOT grace.  We have ALL receive(d) His mercy!  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.  </FONT>Romans 9:16</div> <bR> <div> See also,  <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/wrath.htm')">Wrath verses.</A>  </div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Grace and mercy do not mean a license to sin.</B></I>  Grace means forgiveness when we mess up all the while we have a heart of <A HREF="#repentance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">repentance</A> by the Word of God to seek to do God's Will, and mercy means a temporary withholding of God's wrath to deliver punishment.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="heart"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Heart </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/heart.htm')">Heart</A>  </FONT></div> <div> This is perhaps the most difficult and the most easily understood concept to define.  In the Bible, it means many things in different context, but always with resort to a common frame of reference as the place of love!  It is not that place of physical lust or human emotion because those are the body and carnal mind respectively.</div> <bR> <div> Try as we may to conceal it, our heart is that place where we find what we love and our will within our heart, residing there as our spirit, pursues that which we love.  If we find what we love is fleshly things and carnal desires, our will pursues that brand of <A HREF="#love" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">love</A> by accepting the will of the flesh as the way to live <A HREF="#carnal_mind" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">carnally minded</A>.  If we find we love the things of God, our will pursues the true love of God and seeks to please Him as a Father and live like Jesus lived having the <A HREF="#mind_of_christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">mind of Christ</A>.</div> <bR> <div> Thus, the heart is the place of love in each of us, and our will is our spirit within us as our inner man pursues that which we love.  Our will is our spirit, and the inner man becomes born again when we love Jesus at which time our will then pursues the origin of Him, i.e., the Word.  </div> <bR> <div> Jesus said: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh. And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like: He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock. But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.</FONT> Luke 6:43-49.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="heaven"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Heaven</B></div> <div> The spiritual existence never dies and lives forever, but the fleshly existence dies.  Heaven is the place where the spirit exists in total (100%) and permanence forever--a place of distinct and separate existence from <A HREF="#world" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">this world</A> and what we know or could know here.  Heaven is reserved only for the <A HREF="#children_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">children of God</A> who are the born again in the Spirit, i.e., the Word in their inner man as their spirit/will.  <A HREF="#children_of_the_devil" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Children of this world</A> living by the <A HREF="#world_spirit_of" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spirit of the world</A> die the <A HREF="#second_death" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">second death</A> in hell.  <A HREF="#heaven" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Heaven</A> and this world are not the same place. Similarly, <A HREF="#life_in_the_spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the spiritual existence as a way of life</A> is not the same as a carnal existence and living <A HREF="#worldly" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">worldly</A> as a way of life.</div> <bR> <div> For <U>if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live</U>. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > Romans 8:13-14.  (Emphasis added).</FONT></div> <bR> <div> From the moment of our fleshly birth on this earth we begin to die, and from the moment of our rebirth by the Spirit, i.e., the Word and Holy Spirit which is God we begin to live forever, but not all claiming to be saved will make it.</div> <bR> <div> See</div> <div> <B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/james1_5_8.htm')">James 1:5-8.</A>  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/revelation3_15_19.htm')">Revelation 3:15-19.</A>  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="holy_spirit__holy_ghost__1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Holy Spirit (Holy Ghost, Spirit of Truth)</B></div> <div> <B>The Holy Spirit brings about </B><A HREF="#sealed__sanctified_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><B>sanctification</B></A><B> to the </B><A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><B>born again</B></A><B>!  With the Holy Spirit bearing witness with our born again spirit, i.e., the Word as part of us and the body of Christ, we can never have our name blotted out of the book of life unless we blaspheme the Holy Ghost which is never </B><A HREF="#foregiveness" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><B>forgiven</B></A><B>,</B><B> and this possibility we do not speak of.</B></div> <bR> <div> Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > John 16:13.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > Luke 11:13.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God as the power of God that created the sun, stars, planets, grass and all things, as well as raised <A HREF="#jesus_the_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Jesus the man</A> from the dead. The Holy Spirit can quicken your mortal bodies to <A HREF="#deliverance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">deliver</A> you from the bondage of sin!  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.</FONT>  Romans 8:11.</div> <bR> <div> When we live, truly live, as part of the <A HREF="#body_of_christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">body of Christ Jesus</A>, we LIVE as part of Him rather than our old self.  He delivers us from our old man.  As we conduct ourselves according to the leading of the Holy Spirit, and not the <A HREF="#will_of_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of the flesh</A>, we act according to the <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Father's will</A>.  It is also here where those that view themselves as hopeless <A HREF="#sinners" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">sinners</A> resort to <A HREF="#justify_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">justification for their sin</A> and refuse <A HREF="#deliverance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">deliverance</A> from sin through <A HREF="#repentance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">repentance</A>.  In addition, people seeking the strength (i.e., power) of God to quicken their mortal bodies to overcome the slavery of their sinful ways don't get it without the <A HREF="#spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">SPIRIT</A> which includes the power of God!  </div> <bR> <div> In short, people seek a particular item or thing from God like an a la carte item on a menu, but they never receive that which they desire.  All they could ever want or ask for is part of the full banquet included within the <A HREF="#spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">SPIRIT</A> which comes by and through the Word first and no other way.  It is here where those same people have refused the fullness of the Word thereby creating their own stumbling block, the Word.</div> <bR> <div> Consider this:  If we were led of the spirit not to feed a starving man whose last breaths were <A HREF="#repentance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">repentance</A> of sin and requests for <A HREF="#salvation__saved_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">salvation</A> through <A HREF="#christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Christ</A> he would die and enter <A HREF="#heaven" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">heaven</A>.  Consider the same man and we deny the leading of the spirit and feed him because our flesh wants to do a good deed and the man goes on to be a <A HREF="#love_of_money" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">wealthy</A> industrialist and never finds <A HREF="#salvation__saved_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">salvation</A>, but dies in hell, which is better?  We cannot know the truth in what we do if we do not have the <A HREF="#holy_spirit__holy_ghost__1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Holy Spirit</A> of truth in us.  The Bible calls this our spirit bearing witness with the Spirit of God the <A HREF="#father" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Father</A> such that we are then <A HREF="#children_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">His children</A>.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="iniquity__see_also_worker_of_iniquity_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Iniquity (see also </B><A HREF="#worker_of_iniquity" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><B>Worker of Iniquity</B></A><B>) </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" ><B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/iniquity.htm')">Iniquity Definition</A>  </B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="inner_man"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Inner Man</B></div> <div> Our inner man is our spirit of man, i.e., <A HREF="#man_s_spirit_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">man's spirit</A> which is our will that resides within <A HREF="#man_s_soul_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">our soul</A>.  The will of the flesh is of the carnal outward human man.  Being <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born again</A> is the rebirth of your will inside, i.e., your <A HREF="#will_of_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of man</A>, to do <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">God's will</A> by and through His <A HREF="#spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spirit</A>.  This is accomplished by the Word, which is <A HREF="#jesus_s_spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the spirit/will of Jesus the man</A>, and becomes our spirit/will when we are born again through <A HREF="#belief_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">belief</A> in Him, and live in His body as part of the <A HREF="#body_of_christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">body of Christ</A>!  The inner man is renewed day-by-day by the spirit of God (i.e., the Word and His Holy Spirit) dwelling in them and <A HREF="#lifestyle" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">their life reflects this indwelling by the actions (i.e., works)</A> of the born again.</div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="intellect_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>Intellect</B></div> <div> We must understand the difference between flesh and spirit!  Our intellect or "head knowledge" is inside our brain which is the gatekeeper of <A HREF="#will_of_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">our will</A>.  A <A HREF="#carnal_mind" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">carnally minded</A> person lives by the will of man which defaults to the will of the flesh.  A <A HREF="#jesus_s_spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spiritually minded</A> person has the Word as his will, and he defers to the will of God to overcome the default to the will of the flesh through Jesus, i.e., the Word, who has overcome the world and our fleshly affinity to be a <A HREF="#friend_of_the_world" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">friend of the world</A>, when we live in His body as part of the <A HREF="#body_of_christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">body of Christ</A>!  We who are born again have the <A HREF="#mind_of_christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">mind of Christ</A>.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I>Mind of Christ</I> = Gatekeeper of the born again in spirit by the Word.</div> <div> <I>Carnal Mind</I> = Gatekeeper of the human flesh not born again by the Word. </div> <bR> <div> If we live spiritually, we live by the Word inside us as our <A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">inner man</A>, and we live seeking a closeness to the source of that Spirit, i.e., <A HREF="#father" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">God the Father</A>.  But many do not have the Word in them and do not know true love, and the only love they think they know is fleshly carnal love which, of course, is lust and cannot be called love.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.</FONT> 1 John 2:16.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="interpretation"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Interpretation </B><B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/interpretation.htm')">Interpretation</A>  </B></div> <div> Interpretation is the design of translation.  Many people depend on the interpretation of the Bible for their lifestyle and seek out the interpretation that pleases them, but the Bible does not need interpretation.  It is self-explaining and defining and anyone can take the challenge and <A HREF="rickywascher.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ricky Wascher">find out for themselves</A>.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="jesus"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Jesus-the Christ</B></div> <div> What is the difference between <A HREF="#jesus_the_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Jesus the man</A> and <A HREF="#man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">you and me</A>? </div> <bR> <div> Each of us as individuals have the opportunity to become spiritual and a child of God like Jesus IF and ONLY IF we seek, and then do God's will.  We start with receiving the Word as true, as it is written in the Bible, and not some <A HREF="#interpretation" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">interpretation</A> to suit us.  Then we ask for and receive the Holy Spirit, i.e., <A HREF="#comforter" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the comforter</A>-the spirit of truth, who will teach us all things!</div> <bR> <div> When we become born again, as a <A HREF="#children_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">child of God</A>-<A HREF="#spiritual" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spiritual</A>, our will of man then becomes <A HREF="#jesus_s_spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the will of Jesus the man</A> because His spirit is the Word and <A HREF="#man_s_spirit_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">our spirit</A> becomes <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">reborn</A> by and through the Word, i.e., through Him as <A HREF="#spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">SPIRIT</A>.  Those that are <A HREF="#truth" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">true</A> <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born again</A> <A HREF="#christians_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Christians</A> are part of the body of Christ, and their spirit (i.e., their <A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">inner man</A>) is renewed by the Word of God.  If our born again spirit, i.e., our will, does not line up with the will of Jesus, i.e., the Word, as governed by the <A HREF="#mind_of_christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">mind of Christ</A> and not our <A HREF="#carnal_mind" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">carnal mind</A>, then we are not part of the body of Christ and the Word is not in us.</div> <bR> <div> The dispute is then over the Bible. Those that are His believe the Bible is the Word of God and live by the <A HREF="#new_testament" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">New Testament</A> and NOT the old.  Those that aren't His seek to <A HREF="#interpretation" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">interpret</A> the Bible in order to make it easier on their own flesh and avoid <A HREF="#suffering" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">suffering</A>, and this is called <A HREF="#justify_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">justifying the flesh</A>.  Therefore, many preach a <A HREF="#doctrine" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">doctrine</A> of convenient or cheap <A HREF="#grace" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">grace</A> so that sin may abound, and not for grace to abound.  Being born again requires the flesh to die daily to the <A HREF="#will_of_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of the flesh</A>.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.</FONT> 1 Corinthians 15:31.  See also,  <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/2corinthians4_8_18.htm')">2 Corinthians 4:8-18.</A>  </div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >Jesus answered and said unto him, </FONT>Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >see</FONT> the kingdom of God. <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > John 3:3.  Then answered Jesus and said unto them, </FONT>Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >seeth</FONT> the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > John 5:19.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> The spirit of Jesus was and is the Word, thus Jesus "sees" the spirit by and through the Word which He is, AND the Holy Spirit bearing witness with His Spirit.</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Being born again allows the Word to renew our </B></I><A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><I><B>inner man</B></I></A><I><B> with the will of God day by day, and yet our will does not leave us for it still has to choose to make our body DO the things of God according to the will of God, or it will choose carnally the things of the flesh according to the will of the flesh!</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="jesus_is_the_word"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Jesus is the Word!</B></div> <div> <B>The very spirit of Jesus the Christ is the Word of God.</B>  </div> <bR> <div> The <A HREF="#man_s_spirit_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spirit of man</A> is his will, and Jesus was a man.  Thus, the will of Jesus is the Word of God.  We live by His inner man, i.e., the Word making us <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born again</A> IN HIM, renewed, with the Spirit, i.e., the Word!  When we are born again, our spirit/will then becomes like that of Jesus while he lived on this earth as a man.  This is why Christians are said to be part of the "<A HREF="#body_of_christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">body of Christ</A>", and we crucify our own flesh by denying it the will of the flesh.</div> <bR> <div> Jesus was a man and yet His spirit was and is part of the spirit of God as manifested in the Word of God.  He did not have to die for us, but He chose to honor the Father's will by making His flesh obey in accordance with the Word.  That is, the Old Testament spoke of the coming of the Messiah and the crucifixion of Him.  With His spirit as the Word, Jesus knew His eventual fate was the cross, but He still had to go through with it!</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="jesus_the_man"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Jesus the Man</B></div> <div> Jesus said: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >...Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.</FONT> Mark 10:18 and Luke 18:19, see also Matthew 19:17.  </div> <bR> <div> Jesus could do nothing more than a <A HREF="#man_s_body" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">fleshly man</A> if He pursued the will of His flesh. The flesh of Jesus was not comfortable with going to the cross!  In fact, prior to his crucifixion Jesus prayed: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >...Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.</FONT> Luke 22:42.</div> <bR> <div> The Bible says his sweat was "as great drops of blood." He sweated blood-like sweat through the anguish He was feeling because of the attack by the <A HREF="#will_of_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of His flesh</A> and the associated anxiety.  His body was trying to forcibly rebel and reject the <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of God</A> which He had chosen.  Jesus prayed several times and  the Father strengthened Him to endure.  Without Jesus being a man equipped like us, he could not have taken our sin on Him as per God's will, and fulfilled the promises in the Word that were given to the Jews by and through their law and their prophets of the <A HREF="#old_testament__old_covenant_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Old Testament</A>. This is precisely why we live in the <A HREF="#new_testament" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">NEW Testament and NEW testament times</A>.</div> <bR> <div> As a man, Jesus knew and lived by the distinction between <A HREF="#flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">flesh</A> and <A HREF="#spiritual" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spirit</A> (i.e., or "spirituals"-things of the spirit), and so should we.  Think of His flesh body as the necessary means by which God can speak to humans who are not reborn spiritually, including those claiming to be saved, but having no affiliation of <A HREF="#spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">SPIRIT</A>.  Thus, <A HREF="#bible" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the Bible</A> is of utmost importance to all!</div> <bR> <div> God is a spirit and the spirit of Jesus is part of God, but as a man, Jesus was able to construct words and sentences, act and speak to men and women so they could hear what God was wanting to tell them according to God's will.  Of course, God used other prophets to teach us and Jesus Himself chose <A HREF="#paul" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Paul</A> as a "chosen servant", but only one is the sacrifice for us and that is Christ!  In short, we could relate to Jesus as a man and yet honor Him as part of God because His spirit is the Word from the Father. </div> <bR> <div> Where do we begin?  With the Word preferably as set forth in the King James Bible-the free public domain <A HREF="#bible" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Bible</A> text for the planet. </div> <bR> <div> See</div> <div>  <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/romans1_28_32.htm')">Romans 1:28-32</A>  </div> <bR> <div>  <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/2timothy2_24_26.htm')">2 Timothy 2:24-26.</A>  </div> <bR> <div> Remember, Jesus was sent as the fulfillment of the <A HREF="#old_testament__old_covenant_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Old Testament (Old Covenant)</A> meaning everything was finished and the New Covenant was set to be put in place and did start when Jesus was raised from the dead by the Father.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="jesus_and_the_will_of_his_flesh"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Jesus and the Will of His Flesh</B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed, Saying,</FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.</FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him. And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.</FONT> Luke 22:41-44.</div> <bR> <div> As a man, Jesus had to deal with the <A HREF="#man_s_body" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">desires of His flesh</A> too, and through prayer He overcame them!  The same holds true for us that are <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born again in Him</A>, i.e., the Word!</div> <bR> <div> Jesus still had to exercise His will to be <A HREF="#obedience" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">obedient</A> to the <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Father's will</A>.  Remember, Jesus perspired as drops of blood before surrendering to the men who would crucify Him, and Jesus had to pray three times asking the Father for another way!  Jesus had a <A HREF="#will_of_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of the flesh</A>!</div> <bR> <div> Jesus said: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard. He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went. And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not. Whether of them twain did the will of his father?</FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them,</FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.</FONT> Matthew 21:28-32.</div> <bR> <div> Man's own will, including the will of Jesus the man, forces him to choose between the will of God (i.e., that which pleases God in spirit) and the will of his own flesh (i.e., that which pleases his own flesh).  We cannot know the will of God or make the right choice without the Word in us as our spirit/will, i.e., <A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the inner man</A>.  Therefore, we CAN KNOW the will of our Father THROUGH our brother, friend, savior and Lord Jesus who is the Word of God as per the Bible, and that is BY THE WORD.  Jesus lived the same way, for He knew it was the Word in Him that made Him one with the Father.</div> <bR> <div> We do the Father's will by and through <A HREF="#baptism_in_the_spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the baptism Jesus spoke of</A>, i.e., the baptism of the <A HREF="#spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">SPIRIT</A>! Jesus used His body according to the will of God and we must use ours similarly if we claim to be part of the <A HREF="#body_of_christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Body of Christ</A>!.  Jesus knew the will of God the Father because the spirit of Jesus IS the Word of God.  Thus, part of Him is most assuredly a statement of God's will for all men to live by especially when we consider God sent His son to show us!  Even so, Jesus still had to DO IT by taking <A HREF="#obedience" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">obedient</A> charge of His flesh. </div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="jesus_s_doctrine"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>Jesus's Doctrine</B></div> <div> Jesus answered them, and said: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.</FONT> John 7:16-17.  </div> <bR> <div> The Holy Spirit is available for all men just as the Word is available to all men. The Word is a prerequisite to the Holy Spirit, for one can never receive the Holy Spirit in unbelief of the Word, and one can never do the will of God in their life personally without the Holy Spirit. The will of God comes to all men through the Word first and then to each man individually in the "doing part" through the Another Comforter which is the Holy Spirit.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="jesus_s_parents"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Jesus's Parents</B></div> <div> The parents of Jesus were: 1. God the Father (Spirit), and 2. man (human female, Mary). The flesh of Jesus took on the attributes of man, yet the spirit of Jesus (i.e., His inner man) stayed an attribute of God (i.e., His Word) from His birth, but it was the Holy Spirit that kicked off His ministry!  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.</FONT>  John 3:6.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.</FONT> John 10:9.  Mary is no more a saint than anyone else who is led by the spirit of God to do His will.</div> <bR> <div> To refresh, one parent of Jesus is therefore human (the human fleshly contribution by the woman, Mary).  The other "parent" of Jesus is the Father God and thus spirit (the spirit contributed by the Father God when He combined His Word with the flesh when Jesus the human was conceived). No man or woman of today has flesh conceived by the spirit as a begotten son or daughter like Jesus. Jesus was and is the only begotten <A HREF="#children_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">child of God</A> of the Father having a human parent. No doubt, Jesus was a man, yet His flesh was the temple of His spirit (spiritual).</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="jesus_s_spirit"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Jesus the Christ and His Spirit (i.e., His Will in His </B><A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><B>Inner Man</B></A><B>)</B></div> <div> Jesus KNEW God's will for He was born a <A HREF="#children_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">child of God</A> by virtue of His inner man being the Word of God, i.e., the spirit of the <A HREF="#jesus_is_the_word" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Christ IS the Word of God</A>!  Jesus KNEW the Father's will for He was <A HREF="#jesus_s_parents" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">conceived in Mary by and through the Holy Spirit of the Father</A>, and He had the Father's will in Him as the Word, and yet the Holy Spirit working in conjunction with the Word in Jesus, brought in the <A HREF="#new_testament" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">New Covenant</A> to us.  </div> <bR> <div> Jesus is the WAY to live, for His spirit is and always has been the Word of God, AND He received the Holy Spirit of the Father which equipped Jesus with the power of God to DO all things using His flesh according to the <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Father's will</A>.  All men thereafter could be born again by believing on Jesus, but more directly, believing on the Word which is His spirit from God.  The Word is the means by which we return to the Spirit, i.e., God, from our <A HREF="#wayward_son" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">waywardness</A> in this <A HREF="#world" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">world</A>.</div> <bR> <div> We do NOT automatically know the will of the Father in Heaven as Jesus did because we are NOT spiritually begotten as Jesus was.  We were conceived and born of two <A HREF="#flesh_parents" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">fleshly parents</A>.  When we become <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born again</A>, the old inner man and his old <A HREF="#man_s_spirit_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spirit of man</A>, i.e., the will of man, are reborn anew to a new <A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">inner man</A> and thus a new spirit by <A HREF="#word_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the Word</A>.  The Word then is our spirit as being born again, and we should not deny the Word because it is our source of <A HREF="#eternal_life" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">eternal life</A> as those born again, yet we still struggle with the flesh as Jesus did.  He was completely victorious, and we can be too, through His <A HREF="#lifestyle" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">lifestyle</A>.</div> <bR> <div> Whether we <A HREF="#eternal_life" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">live eternally</A> or not is by our own choice, and the final disposition of our soul follows that choice, i.e., to live or die.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="justify_the_flesh"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Justify the Flesh</B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall <U>no flesh be justified</U> in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.</FONT>  Romans 3:20. (Emphasis added).  We know our sin by the law, and the law is part of the old testament, i.e., the <A HREF="#old_testament__old_covenant_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">old covenant</A>.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.</FONT>  Romans 7:14.  Our flesh is carnal and sold under sin.  We are hopelessly and perilously associated with the flesh until death, but our <A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">inner man</A> is not.  It can be renewed every day if it is <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born again</A> and living by <A HREF="#word_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the Word</A>.</div> <bR> <div>  <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/colossians3_3_11.htm')">Colossians 3:3-11.</A>  </div> <bR> <div> Justifying the flesh occurs when people say their sinful ways are not sin, OR their sin is okay because they have been forgiven and the penalty removed by grace.  Many claim God purposefully and intentionally made them that way.  To do so they also claim their sinful acts are not sin at all, but the will of God, and yet knowing all actions by God are righteous.   Those making such claims to justify sin will be destroyed as a vessel of dishonor fitted for destruction according to God's will and plan.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:</FONT> Romans 9:22.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.</FONT>  Galatians 6:7.</div> <bR> <div> Consider this:  Is one person's flesh more justified than the other even though the Bible says NO flesh shall be justified by the deeds of the law, i.e., by any good things we do?  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.</FONT>  Galatians 2:16.</div> <bR> <div> The Bible says God may be withholding His wrath which will be made manifest in the <A HREF="#unbeliever" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">unbeliever</A> when He destroys evil and them as part of it. There is no in between, because there is NO UNRIGHTEOUSNESS with GOD.  If you don't believe God would make you a vessel unto dishonor to be destroyed, then consider this: God made Pilate have control over the life of Jesus, the Pharaoh have power over the children of Israel for years and years, and Jesus chose Judas to betray Him,... thus, why is it that you think you may not be made a vessel unto dishonor to be destroyed?</div> <bR> <div> If we as people cling to our <A HREF="#worldly" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">worldly</A> lives we have chosen, we then cling to the <A HREF="#sinful" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">sinfulness</A> of them.  Still, many people claim they are powerless to change and overlook <A HREF="#deliverance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">deliverance</A> while continuing to revel in their chosen <A HREF="#lifestyle" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">lifestyle</A> devoid of the pursuit of God's will, and avoiding the <A HREF="#suffering" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">fleshly sufferings</A> associated with <A HREF="#repentance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">repentance</A> from sin and dead works.</div> <bR> <div> <B>See also: </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" ><B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/romans6_13_18.htm')">Romans 6:13-18.</A>  </B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> What a person believes has no relationship to the sanctity of the <A HREF="#truth" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">truth</A>, unless what they believe is the truth.  No flesh is justified, and any clinging to any fleshly orientation or disposition is an exercise of <A HREF="#will_of_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">one's own will</A> to pursue the <A HREF="#will_of_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of their flesh</A> and not God.  Becoming <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born again</A> transforms <A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">our inner man</A>, i.e., our will of man, to the Word and thus we seek the things of God as Jesus did as part of the body of Christ!  </div> <bR> <div> Paul said it this way:  <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/romans7_15_20.htm')">Romans 7:15-20.</A>  .</div> <bR> <div> The <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born again</A> man has the Word in him as his spirit/will per the Bible and <A HREF="#interpretation" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">without manipulation or interpretation</A> to change it, but the sinner must manipulate the Word or interpret it to change the meaning in order to claim they are pursuing a <A HREF="#lifestyle" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">lifestyle</A> in accordance with it.  The born again pursue the life in the Word out of <A HREF="#love" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">love</A> for <A HREF="#jesus" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Jesus</A> and not for themselves.  The <A HREF="#sinners" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">sinner</A>, who seeks to remain a sinner, seeks not the <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of God</A>, but their own will in order to forego the <A HREF="#suffering" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">suffering of the flesh</A> associated with change.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="kingdom_kingdoms"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Kingdom, Kingdoms (see also </B><A HREF="#nation_nations__see_kingdom_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><B>Nation, Nations</B></A><B>) </B><B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/kingdom.htm')">Kingdom</A>  </B></div> <div> Kingdom refers to the domain or sovereignty of the domain.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="knowledge__see_intellect_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Knowledge (see </B><A HREF="#intellect_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><B>Intellect</B></A><B>)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="legalism"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Legalism </B><B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/legalism.htm')">Legalism Definition</A>  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="lie__liar_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Lie (Liar) </B><B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/lie.htm')">Lie Definition</A>  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="life_in_the_spirit"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Life in the Spirit</B></div> <div> Jesus is the example by which all humans should live.  It is not only possible, but stated as a fact by Jesus Himself!!!!</div> <div> 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.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >  John 14:12.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Before He departed to heaven to be with the Father, Jesus also said He would send <A HREF="#comforter" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">"another" comforter</A>. That "another comforter" is the very spirit of God the Father-the <A HREF="#holy_spirit__holy_ghost__1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Holy Spirit also called the Holy Ghost</A>! </div> <bR> <div> But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > John 14:26.  </FONT></div> <bR> <div> Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: Of sin, because they believe not on me; Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > John 16:7-11.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> The Holy Spirit is available for all men just as the Word is available to all men.  Jesus said: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?</FONT> Luke 11:13 </div> <bR> <div> The Word is a prerequisite to the Holy Spirit, for one can never receive the Holy Spirit in <A HREF="#unbeliever" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">unbelief</A> of the Word as written in the Bible.  In addition to that which is God's will for all men as set forth in the Word, i.e., the Bible, nobody can do the will of God for their own personal life without the Holy Spirit power of God.  The will of God comes to all men through the Word first, and then to each man individually in the administration, i.e., the "doing part" through the <A HREF="#comforter" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Another Comforter</A> ,which is the Holy Spirit.</div> <bR> <div> Paul said: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.</FONT> Romans 8:11.</div> <bR> <div> We start with this: MAKE YOUR LIFE THE WORD! RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR THE ASKING, and THEN find the will of God for you and DO IT!  Expect to endure <A HREF="#suffering" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">suffering</A> in the flesh because <A HREF="#worldly" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">worldly</A> people will persecute you, and while your reward is <A HREF="#heaven" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">heaven</A> in the end, have compassion on them that persecute, because before being born again we were all of the world!</div> <bR> <div> <U>The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God</U>: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > Romans 8:16-18.  (Emphasis added).</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>Please read the verses on</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" ><B>  <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/suffering.htm')">Suffering as a Christian</A>  </B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> Once you have accepted Christ as your savior, i.e., by making the Word become your will-your <A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">inner man</A> is born again and your spirit/will IS the Word!  Unless you are moments away from death ask for and receive the Holy Spirit to be your <A HREF="#comforter" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">comforter</A> in <A HREF="#lifestyle" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">living out your life</A>.  The Holy Spirit will be your <A HREF="#sealed__sanctified_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">sanctification (sealed)</A> ,securing <A HREF="#grace" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">grace</A> for you as a <A HREF="#children_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">child of God</A> in case your flesh messes up.  Now you are ready to grow in the word and in the body of Christ pleasing the Father by what you do!</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > 2 Corinthians 5:17.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>Therefore, we must:</B></div> <bR> <div> <I>Step 1.</I>  Tear down the brainwashed control of the "old man" and his religious and fleshly ways, including the <A HREF="#religion" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">religious doctrines</A> we were taught in our <A HREF="#children" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">childhood</A> , if they disagree with <A HREF="#bible" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the Bible</A> as written and NOT as changed or modified under the guise of <A HREF="#interpretation" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">interpretation</A>.  Then allow the Word to reign in us as our born again will with understanding and appreciation of our reconciliation toward God.  This means we must have the ears to hear and become equipped to unlock the mysteries of the kingdom of God.  Remember, nobody can do it for you, not even your priest, pastor, minister, spiritual guide...nobody!</div> <bR> <div> <I>Step 2.</I> Remove the Sinner's Badge from your chest forever, and be continually held accountable as the light of the world, not as being judgmental or condemning of our <A HREF="#brethren" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">brethren</A>, but seeking the excellence in ourselves-each as part of the <A HREF="#body_of_christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">body of Christ</A> to the edifying of all others.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Step 3.</I> <A HREF="#repentance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Repent</A> for mistakes and seek <A HREF="#deliverance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">deliverance</A> where needed.  Always fully accepting forgiveness for our errors along the way to keep going, while those that have abundance provide for those with lack so there is nothing over and no lack!</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="lifestyle"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Lifestyle</B></div> <div> The old man's life, i.e., the lifestyle of the <A HREF="#sinners" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">sinner</A> (i.e., <A HREF="#will_of_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">one whose will</A> chooses the <A HREF="#will_of_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of the flesh</A> by default) passes away and a new lifestyle of the <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born again</A> in Christ lives when our <A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">inner man</A>, i.e., our will, becomes the will of Jesus, i.e., the Word, which is <A HREF="#jesus_s_spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">His spirit/will</A>.  For our flesh, a born again lifestyle means a death to the <A HREF="#will_of_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of our flesh</A>.  Not physical <A HREF="#death" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">death</A>, but a death to the will and desires of the flesh that tend to control us by default.</div> <bR> <div> But why then do people claiming to be "saved" insist on retaining their own design for their life, i.e., their old man, rather than a living willingness and desire to abandon their own choice of lifestyle, and accept the design God has made for them?  The answer is the control of our flesh, and the yielding to its desires and lusts.  Many people do not believe the <A HREF="#spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">SPIRIT</A> will <A HREF="#deliverance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">deliver</A> them from sin, and yet His Word is the door to the spirit life, and the Holy Spirit is the power of God to do anything He asks!  Nothing is impossible for God, and nothing is impossible to him that believes, provided of course, that  which someone believes is of the <A HREF="#truth" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">truth</A>.  The <A HREF="#unbeliever" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">non-believer</A> of the Bible never knows this truth!</div> <bR> <div> Thus, some claim the way they are living is God's design for them, and yet sin is openly visible.  Often their excuse becomes science or some other <A HREF="#justify_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">fleshly explanation, i.e., justification</A>, that <A HREF="#disobedience" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">disagrees with the Word</A>.  How can this be?  Easy, they are not born again.  They are not spiritual, but seek to remain <A HREF="#carnal_mind" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">carnal</A>! </div> <bR> <div> Why do the self-righteous justify their <A HREF="#disobedience" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">disobedience</A> by blasphemously saying it is God's will, and "...once saved always saved no matter what...", when the book of Revelation speaks of getting one's name <A HREF="#blotted_out_of_the_book_of_life" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">blotted out of the book of life</A>? Easy, they are not born again, they are not spiritual and seek to remain <A HREF="#carnal_mind" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">carnal</A>!  (Revelation 3:5 says: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.</FONT>)</div> <bR> <div> To listen to Jesus is not merely an exercise of <A HREF="#man_s_body" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">body</A> for the listener, but one of the heart, of trust, of <A HREF="#man_s_desire" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">desire</A> to seek the <A HREF="#truth" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">truth</A> in understanding, and to live in the Word as He lived.  <A HREF="#love" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Love</A> for Him is required to hear Him just as it is to "hear" anyone, and not merely their words, but the meaning of them.  <A HREF="#baptism_in_the_spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Life in the spirit</A> comes by and through the <A HREF="#new_testament" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">New Testament</A>, i.e., the New Covenant of the Word, <A HREF="#new_testament" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">a spiritual covenant/commandment</A>.</div> <bR> <div> We must, through the <A HREF="#spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">SPIRIT</A>, mortify the <A HREF="#man_s_desire" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">deeds of our body</A>. What are the deeds of your body?  Are they future deeds, and the stuff we like to do with our flesh going forward, or are they the past deeds?  They are BOTH!  The deeds of the body are past deeds and the future deeds. That is the "old man" if it is not born again.</div> <bR> <div> Therefore, we must choose a path by which to live.  We may choose either <A HREF="#worldly" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the broad path</A> of the life in this <A HREF="#world" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">world</A> and whatever we desire in the flesh to satisfy ourselves, or the <A HREF="#life_in_the_spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">narrow path</A> of the <A HREF="#spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">SPIRIT</A>, which is a life according to the will of our Father by and through the spirit to satisfy our Father. <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.</FONT> Matthew 7:13-14.</div> <bR> <div> Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > Galatians 6:7-8.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> If we try to choose both, i.e., a life in the world to fulfill the will of the flesh AND a life in the spirit to please God, we displease God and remain <A HREF="#double_minded" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">double-minded</A>. </div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="love"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Love</B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >God is LOVE!  </FONT><U>God is a Spirit</U>: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > John 4:24. (Emphasis added).</FONT></div> <bR> <div> God's love is <A HREF="#spiritual" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spiritual</A>, because God is love and God is <A HREF="#spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">SPIRIT</A>.  Originally, as an infant, our spirit within our soul is filled with hunger for true love.  It is our <A HREF="#flesh_parents" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">parents</A> and the <A HREF="#world" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">world</A> that begin replacing the hunger for things that are true, pure, and full of love of God with <A HREF="#worldly" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the worldly</A> and the <A HREF="#flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">fleshly (i.e., human)</A> kind of love, which is carnal.  This is where the notion of sin in our flesh begins to grow as it grows friendly with the <A HREF="#world" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">world</A>.  This understanding is huge if we are to raise our children properly.</div> <bR> <div> Unfortunately, tragedy or turmoil in a person's life is often the measuring stick by which they consider the love of God.  A hardened heart is often the by-product of a difficult fleshly life growing up, and <A HREF="#enemy_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the enemy</A> likes it that way.  Make no mistake, the enemy and friendship of the world will destroy.  Many people have been hurt in their fleshly life, and cannot enjoy the love of God, for they do not know how to separate the love of God from the love of man, which has failed them in the past.</div> <bR> <div> For example, to love a family member who has wronged you many times may be hard to the flesh, but easy to the born again with a heart of love toward God.  Yet, we do not accept or condone a loved one's attempt at dividing us from the Word.  It is the Word that causes division between the spiritual and carnal, and we who are the born again always choose the spiritual side with the Word!</div> <bR> <div> Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: For from henceforth  there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.  The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > Luke 12:51-53.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> With that said, do people really think there can be complete fleshly harmony in any family, when part of them receive and choose to follow the Word for their life much to the displeasure of those that disapprove?</div> <bR> <div> We must come to know the <A HREF="#love" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">love</A> of <A HREF="#trinity" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">God</A>.  God's spiritual love is eternal and never fails, while man's carnal fleshly love fails.  God sent the Word to us as His love wrapped in the flesh of Jesus.  Yet, people avoid the Word while still claiming God's love and being a Christian, but this cannot be.  Anyone avoiding the Word, including those seeking to change the Word to suit themselves, while calling it <A HREF="#interpretation" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">interpretation</A>, is rejecting the love of God in Christ Jesus, and want a different God than the almighty!  The New Testament, which is the <A HREF="#new_testament" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">New Covenant</A> brought to us by Jesus, is also set forth in <A HREF="#bible" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the Bible</A>, and it IS the promise of <A HREF="#eternal_life" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">eternal life</A> from God the <A HREF="#father" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Father</A>, who fulfilled that promise in <A HREF="#jesus" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Jesus</A> according to His Word as set forth in the testament!</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="love_and_sin"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Love and Sin</B></div> <div> With the love of God, but more appropriately with the appreciation of the love of God, we are then more easily able to live life in accordance with the <A HREF="#mind_of_christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">mind of Christ</A> and the Will of <A HREF="#god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">God the Father</A> as the born again.  The fleshly struggles are minute in comparison to the greatness of <A HREF="#father" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the Father</A> who <A HREF="#deliverance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">delivers</A> us from our <A HREF="#carnal_mind" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">carnal mind</A> and fleshly desires of our body.  Interestingly, the pure and righteous accept <A HREF="#word_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the Word</A> and God as almighty without analysis, but for those of us from a more <A HREF="#worldly" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">worldly</A> background it takes more work to "unlearn" the will of our flesh, and make it die by replacing it, through surrender to <A HREF="#god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">God</A>, with the best habits and actions-those worthy of a <A HREF="#children_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">child of the King</A>.</div> <bR> <div> For one to say, " Love covers a multitude of sins," means God's love, not ours!  Our love overlooks sin and calls it okay.  This is the carnal love of man that fails.  God's love does not overlook sin, but He provided the remedy for it and the means by which to live a fruitful life serving Him and avoiding it.  Jesus gave His own life in love to bring this about.  Thus, the covering of a multitude of sins is NOT by carnal human love.  God expects <A HREF="#repentance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">repentance</A>, while <A HREF="#man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">humans</A> are apathetic, <A HREF="#carnal_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">carnal</A>, and <A HREF="#unbeliever" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">unbelieving</A> and do not expect repentance.</div> <bR> <div> One can cover sin with love by showing the sinful their error, and this is what all who are <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born again</A> are to do for one another. This assumes a <A HREF="#heart" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">heart</A> desirous of the truth even if the <A HREF="#suffering" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">flesh may suffer</A>.   Yet, there are those that will not hear and choose <A HREF="#disobedience" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">rebellion</A> against the Word and <A HREF="#truth" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">truth</A>.  For in this world it is more common for the flesh nature of people to choose sin over <A HREF="#suffering" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">suffering</A>. A born again life means <A HREF="#baptism_in_the_spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born of the spirit</A>, and requires another <A HREF="#lifestyle" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">lifestyle</A> entirely different from the carnal. </div> <bR> <div> Knowing the difference between the flesh and spirit is crucial to the foundation of Christ and living born again.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.</FONT>  Hosea 4:6.</div> <bR> <div> Showing <A HREF="#love" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">love</A> is NOT acceptance of sin so that <A HREF="#grace" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">grace</A> may abound, nor is it condemnation of the obstinate <A HREF="#sinners" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">sinner</A>. <A HREF="#love" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Love</A> is the patience to know it is God who <A HREF="#deliverance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">delivers</A> the sinner from his ways, for He and He alone in His entirety is love!  Through the truth by His Word, His Holy Spirit and the power of them both, we can come to know the <A HREF="#father" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Father</A>, and to do His will for our lives and please Him!  However, many people simply do not want God close to them because of their unrighteousness which they do not wish to face.  It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God, because all of the unrighteousness a person covers up will be revealed as theirs, and not His!</div> <bR> <div> ALL that is needed is a <A HREF="rickywascher.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ricky Wascher">surrender to God</A> for the <A HREF="#truth" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">truth</A>, and God the Father Himself will offer <A HREF="#comforter" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the guide</A> to <A HREF="#repentance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">repentance</A> through His Word and Holy Spirit!  For us, the truth must be presented as <A HREF="#jesus" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Jesus</A> presented it. For those with a <A HREF="#false_teaching" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">bogus doctrine</A> that allows a churchy "feel good, and don't offend with the truth or people won't give you money" brand of gospel, <A HREF="#repentance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">repentance</A> of sin is an unpopular message.  </div> <bR> <div> Jesus delivered the truth and even harshly at times as the <A HREF="#life_in_the_spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spirit led Him</A>.  We must allow the Lord to use our patience and love to assist in the Lord's <A HREF="#deliverance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">deliverance</A> of ourselves from our old ways and others from their old ways, too. We must never make ourselves unavailable or useless to the task of <A HREF="#servant_s_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">servant</A> of the Lord, for then we have disavowed the born again nature, which is ours as a gift from Him, and not something earned.</div> <bR> <div> And he [Jesus] said, <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.</FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > Mark 7:20-23.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="love_of_money"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Love of Money</B></div> <div> Money is the tool and device to obtain anything in <A HREF="#world" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">this world</A>, even human love or a mate.  The will of man exists within the <A HREF="#man_s_soul_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">soul of man</A>, and is tied to that which he loves.  For out of the <A HREF="#heart" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">heart</A> of <A HREF="#man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">man</A> comes whatever he desires, and yet, it is man's will that surrenders himself to that which he loves.  If our love is for the things of the flesh or of this world, we then surrender ourselves to money by the yielding of <A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">our inner man, i.e., our will</A> to the <A HREF="#will_of_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of the flesh</A> and it's <A HREF="#carnal_mind" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">carnal</A> desires.  A  love for carnal things leads to the love of money, since every <A HREF="#carnal_mind" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">carnal desire</A> can be satisfied with money here in this world.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" ><U>For the love of money is the root of all evil</U>: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.</FONT>  1 Timothy 6:10.  (Emphasis added). </div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="mammon"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Mammon</B></div> <div> Mammon refers to the riches of this <A HREF="#world" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">world</A> and includes money and material <A HREF="#worldly" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">worldly</A> wealth. (see also <A HREF="#love_of_money" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Love of Money</A>).</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="man"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Man</B></div> <div> Man is a living soul.  He has a spirit and lives in a flesh body.  Stated another way, man is comprised of spirit, soul and body.  Our soul was created by God and God alone! Our body was created by our parents by virtue of their ability to reproduce. In that body, God deposited our soul. In the still born, God did not deposit a soul, but left it to the flesh alone.  For anyone to say God made their flesh mocks God.</div> <bR> <div> And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole <U>spirit and soul and body</U> be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > 1 Thessalonians 5:23 (Emphasis added). </FONT></div> <bR> <div> For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of <U>soul and spirit</U>, and of the <U>joints and marrow</U>, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >  Hebrews 4:12. (Emphasis added).</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="man_s_body"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Man's Body (see also </B><A HREF="#flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><B>Flesh</B></A><B>)</B></div> <div> The term "body" means the natural, physical, material structure of an organized collection of matter or organism. A human "natural" body is the physical collection of the skin, bones, blood, hair, brain, guts, etc., and this is collectively and individually called "flesh" depending upon the context. Thus, ALL humans (Jesus, too) have the same type of flesh, albeit different in appearance. The term "natural man" or "natural body" as used in the Bible, means a man's fleshly body AND its inherent mammalian tendencies existing at birth.  </div> <bR> <div> The man "beast" eats, drinks, reproduces and conquers, etc.  The flesh of man, i.e., the natural man, includes all those things people claim as genetic traits existing at birth.  The genes determine the structure of the <A HREF="#flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">flesh</A>, and the tendencies of genetic traits extend to the fleshly orientation. Those tendencies are nurtured and further expanded by the teachings of our parents and the <A HREF="#world" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">world</A> around us, and the growth of our flesh is fed by them.  We gravitate toward others with similar tendencies, and are consoled with understanding from those friends.  For example, as a child, a person does not know how to engage in any sexual act.  Over time, the lusts and desires of the flesh bring about a type of curiosity that is given in to, hopefully at the right time, i.e., after marriage between a man and woman.  However, the world promotes sexual promiscuity of all types.</div> <bR> <div> If certain actions, such as homosexuality, fornication, adultery, lust...are sins against the body, and are choices as the Bible says they are, we must be reminded that <A HREF="#man_s_body" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">our bodies</A> are supposed to be the temples of God, as part of the <A HREF="#body_of_christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">body of Christ</A> when we are <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born again</A>. </div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="man_s_soul_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Man's Soul</B></div> <div> The soul God created, and our will within it, is ours to do as we wish, choosing how we are to live. It is the design and strategy of <A HREF="#enemy_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the enemy</A> to get each of us to <A HREF="#justify_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">justify our own fleshly sinful ways</A> as somehow <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">approved of God</A>. Remember Jesus prayed, "NOT <A HREF="#will_of_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">MY WILL</A> BUT THINE BE DONE", and by His love for us, He chose the <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Father's will</A> according to <A HREF="#trinity" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the Word which is part of God</A> and died for you and me!</div> <bR> <div> The soul is our "life", plain and simple, and contains our spirit, i.e., our will is housed within it.  Who we are, changes to who we wish to become, based on the will which is the <A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">inner man</A> residing in our soul.  The life in us is originally from God, and the faith that our heart will beat and bodily systems will work is that measure of faith that all men have.  Our soul/life is the only thing we can possess and truly own as personal property of each of us because it is our will that governs it.  Nobody can take it from us.</div> <bR> <div> When our flesh dies, our soul shall live forever in <A HREF="#heaven" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">heaven</A>, or die forever in hell as a <A HREF="#second_death" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">second death</A> where there is no time.  Many debate this issue and for what purpose?  People question whether or not the soul lives forever. If God made it, it is up to Him to destroy it or not.  Hell is the place where the soul of the unrepentant and carnal perish forever as a <A HREF="#second_death" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">second death</A> as per God's Word.  The souls of <A HREF="#children_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">His children live forever</A> in <A HREF="#heaven" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">heaven</A>, and the souls that are not His die forever in hell.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="man_s_spirit_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Man's Spirit (see also the "</B><A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><B>inner man</B></A><B>")</B></div> <div> Man's spirit is "housed within" his soul, and is his will which is the <A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">inner man</A>.  Man may then become <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born again</A> by receiving the spirit of Christ in himself, i.e., <A HREF="#word_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the Word</A>, which is part of God's will, or man may stay carnal and live by the will, desires, and lusts of his own flesh.  In short, man may choose to live forever in the love of God, or die the <A HREF="#second_death" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">second death</A> with his human flesh.  This ability to choose may embrace a life according to the will of <A HREF="#father" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the Father</A> in <A HREF="#heaven" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">heaven</A> at any and all costs, or according to man's own design, and yet we pursue what we love.  Our <A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">inner man</A> becomes <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born again</A> or not, and dies a second death.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="man_s_desire"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Man's Desire</B></div> <div> The natural attractant, i.e., the default choice, for man is the desire of his flesh and the will thereof because of the feel good factor, i.e., the power, pleasure and the pursuit of it. Stated another way, the default choice for man is to follow the will of his own flesh, which is <A HREF="#sinful" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">sinful</A>.  The <A HREF="#doctrine_of_jesus" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">doctrine of Jesus</A> is to do <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Gods' will</A>.  </div> <bR> <div> Nobody knows when they will die, or when Christ will return to retrieve the <A HREF="#children_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">children of God</A> and take them home. The here and now of heaven is the <A HREF="#spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">SPIRIT</A>, for those that are truly born again IN THE SPIRIT, for the Spirit IS the Kingdom of God and <A HREF="#door__the_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Jesus is the door</A>! The flesh "here and now" is <A HREF="#world" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">this world</A>.  The choice we make while our flesh lives, controls our destiny forever, and this makes complete sense.</div> <bR> <div> We choose, by our own will, to live according to our <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born again</A> life or our current life in this world, and that is guided by our own sense of what we <A HREF="#love" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">love</A>. The flesh and spirit of the born again war against each other in man's choice of how to live. We either live for the here and now of the world, OR the Kingdom of God and what awaits us-<A HREF="#heaven" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">heaven</A>. The choice is crucial, because the choice is the commitment of our own soul forever!</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="man_and_god"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Man and God</B></div> <div> We must have a basic understanding of man and God: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" ><B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/john_1.htm')">John 1:1-3, 10-14.</A>   </B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> God made man and your <A HREF="#parents" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">parents</A> carried out the reproductive cycle by the ability that God created in the <A HREF="#flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">flesh</A> of man. The answer to the "God made me this way" <A HREF="#excuses_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">excuse for sin</A> is to follow the reasoning of the <A HREF="#sinful" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">sinful</A> seeking to <A HREF="#justify_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">justify the deeds of their flesh</A>.  However, if there is no unrighteousness with <A HREF="#trinity" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">God</A>, and if He made a <A HREF="#sinners" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">sinner</A> sinful, then a sinner is righteous, and the sin is righteousness, and this cannot be.</div> <bR> <div> Jesus said to pray, "Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven," (Matthew 6:10 and Luke 11:2), but people forget what comes before that sentence, "Thy Kingdom come," which is the <A HREF="#life_in_the_spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spiritual life</A>.  Thus the spiritual life precedes the will of God being done, which is done by us, not God, since God already knows His own will, and can do it without a problem. It is us that have a problem with our <A HREF="#flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">flesh</A> getting in the way of knowing, and/or doing <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">God's will</A>.</div> <bR> <div> Therefore, man's will is but a choice to do this or that according to <A HREF="#man_s_desire" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">his own desires</A>. God gave man the power to do as he wanted and to choose his <A HREF="#lifestyle" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">lifestyle</A>. Those that choose to do the will of God are the <A HREF="#children_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">children of God</A> in spirit, and those that choose to do their own will over God's will are the <A HREF="#children_of_the_devil" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">children of the devil</A> in the <A HREF="#world_spirit_of" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spirit of the world</A>.  Thus, there are <A HREF="#three_wills" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">three wills</A> at stake, i.e., your will of man, the will of your own flesh, and God's will.  See John 1:13.</div> <bR> <div> The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >  Romans 8:16  </FONT>...And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >  1 John 5:6.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> When we become alive in spirit, the Word is part of us as our inner man, born again in spirit/will by the Word!  We then use our body as Jesus would use it as His own, which means being part of the body of Christ.  Our new life is the beginning of an eternal life. This new life comes at a price.  We must forego the <A HREF="#flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">fleshly desires</A> that are fed by the <A HREF="#carnal_mind" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">carnal mind</A> leading us to sin.</div> <bR> <div> We repent and cease from sin, including covetousness (greed), idolatry of things, and much more by doing whatever it takes to avoid sin, and then we find we cannot overcome it all on our own. It is here where we begin to grow in the Word and towards the <A HREF="#father" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Father</A> as our Father.   A life for God according to the will of the Father means <A HREF="#servant_s_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">servitude</A> to Him, not out of obligation, but out of LOVE for Him as a Father.  Tell that to a rich man and see what happens.  People reject the notion of serving God because it does not feed their flesh.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="man_s_wisdom"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Man's Wisdom</B></div> <div> The Word is not revealed by the wisdom of man, but only by the Spirit. People read the Bible all the time, but if they do not read it desiring to find truth, they will not ever get it.  The Holy Spirit is the spirit of truth, and the Word is true.  They are related!  Some Bible translations, like some doctrinal religions or denominations thereof, hide the meaning of the Word from people.  Simply compare the New Testament of the more modern "translations" to the New Testament of the original King James Version, and see for yourself how the Word has been muted.  Translations, doctrinal religions, and denominations thereof should be avoided because they confuse and obstruct the working of the Spirit.</div> <bR> <div> Hold everything up to the Word of God, and in these times, the <A HREF="#new_testament" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">NEW covenant which is written in the NEW Testament</A>.</div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="measure_of_faith"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>Measure of Faith (Measure of Faith)</B></div> <div> The measure of faith is the action behind our belief in knowing that this living carcass is alive because of God, and God is love.  Man's ability to choose God's will is the right choice, for he then chooses the source of his own life from the beginning.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="mercy"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Mercy </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/grace.htm')">Mercy vs. Grace</A>  </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="mind_of_christ"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Mind of Christ</B></div> <div> The "mind of Christ" is the mind that was and is in Jesus the Christ, and that is to do God's will ONLY!  His mind was governed by His spirit, i.e., His will-the Word of God.  We can and must do the same by the rebirth of our <A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">inner man</A> to the Word as our own spirit/will, i.e., by making the Word our will!  The mind of Christ operates in the world, but minds the things of the spirit.</div> <bR> <div> The <A HREF="#carnal_mind" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">carnal mind</A> is connected to the flesh as a brain, but the born again have the mind of Christ which uses that same brain to direct the body into the <A HREF="#servant_s_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">obedient service of God</A>. Thus, the will of one's flesh and the carnal mind act in concert with one another as a natural man to breed destruction.  <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/1corinthians2_14_16.htm')">1 Corinthians 2:14-16.</A>  .</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="mind_of_man"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Mind of man (see </B><A HREF="#intellect_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><B>Intellect</B></A><B>)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="ministry"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Ministry</B></div> <div> The office, duties or functions of a subordinate agent of any kind. <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >(Definition from Noah Webster 1828 Dictionary)</FONT> </div> <bR> <div> EVERYONE professing to be born again in the Word has a ministry as part of the <A HREF="#body_of_christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">body of Christ</A> or they are not part of the body of Christ. The doctrine MUST be the <A HREF="#doctrine_of_jesus" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Doctrine of Jesus</A> and not our own version! <A HREF="#doctrine_of_jesus" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">DO GOD'S WILL IS THE DOCTRINE!</A></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="nation_nations__see_kingdom_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Nation, Nations (see </B><A HREF="#kingdom_kingdoms" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><B>Kingdom</B></A><B>) </B><B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/nation.htm')">Nation</A>  </B></div> <div> Nation refers to the existence of the collection of people inhabiting a location with attributes of sovereignty for governance.</div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="new_testament"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>New Testament (New Covenant)</B></div> <div> Jesus said unto him,<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#800000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.</FONT> John 22:37-40. </div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="obedience"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Obedience </B><B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/obedience.htm')">Obedience</A>  </B></div> <div> <A HREF="#obedience" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Obedience</A> is and has always been the requirement to please a <A HREF="#flesh_parents" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">parent of our flesh</A>, and the same holds true in spirit for our Father in <A HREF="#heaven" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">heaven</A>. We do so out of <A HREF="#love" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">LOVE</A> for them.  Is this the same love?  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.</FONT>  John 4:24.  This is where our love for God shows. </div> <bR> <div> If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?  And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > 1 John 4:20-21.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Those that are the born again <A HREF="#children_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">children of God</A> <A HREF="#love" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">love</A> God, and yet the <A HREF="#love_and_sin" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">love for the sinful and wicked</A> is not as a brother, and still we are to share the love of God that we know we have, with everyone.  <A HREF="#man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Man</A> without <A HREF="#god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">God</A> has no Godly love because God is love, and the un-Godly have their own love to give, for they live <A HREF="#carnal_mind" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">carnally</A> minded and not <A HREF="#spiritual" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spiritually</A> minded.</div> <bR> <div> Because the source of love differs, carnal (human) love or spiritual (Godly) love, so too does the root of obedience in each of us.  The source of our obedience to God and <A HREF="#flesh_parents" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">parents</A> is associated with the nature of our love.  The born again children of God are spiritually minded with the eternal destiny of people including their earthly, fleshly, mom or dad, as most important.  The born again children of God do not trade the <A HREF="#truth" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">truth</A> for fleshly harmony, but the world emphasizes harmony.  The way of <A HREF="#world" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the world</A> is to cover <A HREF="#sin" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">sin</A> with <A HREF="#lie__liar_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">untruth</A>, and move people to becoming a friend of the world, when such friendship is <A HREF="#enemy_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the enemy</A> of God.</div> <bR> <div> Jesus said, those who do the will of the Father are His brother and sister and mother.  Many self-professing <A HREF="#christians_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Christians</A> CLAIM obedience to the will of God, yet KNOW they are <A HREF="#disobedience" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">disobedient</A> because they do not love Him, i.e., they do not love His Word as written in the Bible!</div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="old_testament__old_covenant_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>Old Testament (Old Covenant)</B></div> <div> ALL of the "Law" (the first five books of the Holy Bible), AND all of the writings of the prophets in the Old Testament, hang on and depend on <A HREF="#love" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">LOVE</A>.  </div> <bR> <div> Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him,<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#800000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.</FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > Matthew 22:36-40.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="one_mind___one_accord"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>One Mind - One Accord</B></div> <div> Jesus answered and said unto him, <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.</FONT> John 3:3-7.</div> <bR> <div> Your spirit, i.e., your will of man, is either following the <A HREF="#man_s_desire" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">lusts/desires of your flesh</A> which is called the <A HREF="#will_of_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of the flesh</A>, or the Word in you as born again, which is part of the will of God.  These are the <A HREF="#three_wills" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">three wills</A>, i.e., the <A HREF="#will_of_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of the flesh</A>, the <A HREF="#will_of_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of man</A>, and the <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of God</A>.  If you are <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Born Again</A> then your spirit is the Word through Christ, and we seek to live like Jesus.  The will is the <A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">inner man</A> in each of us and it follows either <A HREF="#word_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the Word</A>, which is a statement of the <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Will of God</A> for the <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born again</A>, or the <A HREF="#will_of_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of the flesh</A> for the lost.  You may make your will become the will of God by believing on Jesus and receiving what He says as <A HREF="#truth" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">truth</A>, and this is confirmed by and through the <A HREF="#holy_spirit__holy_ghost__1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Holy Spirit</A> of the <A HREF="#father" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Father</A>.  Many do not have the desire to do it and cling to their flesh forever, and die <A HREF="#second_death" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the second death</A> forever!</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="parents"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Parents</B></div> <div> See <A HREF="#flesh_parents" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Flesh Parents</A> or <A HREF="#jesus_s_parents" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Jesus's Parents</A></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="paul"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Paul</B></div> <div> Paul initially persecuted those that believed in Jesus and did many evil things to them, yet the Lord, willing to show His power, chose Paul to preach and teach. Paul was a chosen vessel for Jesus, to bring the gospel to the Gentiles, kings of <A HREF="#world" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the world</A>, and the Jews.  </div> <div> See  <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/acts9_10_16.htm')">Acts 9:10-16.</A>  </div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="peace_on_earth"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Peace on Earth, </B><B> <A NAME="division"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Division</B></div> <div> Jesus said:  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.  For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.  And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.  He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.  And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.  He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.</FONT>  Matthew 10:34-39</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="perfection"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Perfection </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/perfection.htm')">Perfection Definition</A>  </FONT></div> <bR> <div>  <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/hebrews_verses.htm')">Hebrews 5:12-14 and 6:1-6.</A>  </div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="ransom_for_sin"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Ransom for Sin</B></div> <div> Jesus died as a ransom for your sins, not just for the penalty, but a ransom. He paid for your bondage/captivity to those sins, and because he paid the price you are able to be <A HREF="#deliverance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">set free, IF you want to be free</A>.  If we always profess to be a <A HREF="#sinners" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">sinner</A>, where is our claim to victory over sin through Christ? That is the point!  The <A HREF="#jesus_s_spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spirit of Jesus Christ</A> is the Word of God, and it is written in the <A HREF="#bible" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Bible</A> and it becomes ours by the <A HREF="#new_testament" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">New Covenant</A>. You can be made free!</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="religion"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Religion </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/religion.htm')">Religion</A>  </FONT></div> <div> Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >  James 1:27.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Religion is a product of man's will to satisfy his flesh with a doctrine! We must know that the <A HREF="#grace" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">grace</A> <A HREF="#doctrine" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">doctrine</A> taught in many congregations today and advocated by many churchy people is actually <A HREF="#mercy" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">MERCY</A>. God is mercifully withholding his WRATH on the <A HREF="#unbeliever" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">unbeliever</A> until later! <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:</FONT> Romans 9:22.</div> <bR> <div> Remember, the spirit of Christ IS the Word of God! The Spirit of God is <A HREF="#word_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the Word</A>, <A HREF="#holy_spirit__holy_ghost__1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the Holy Spirit</A> and <A HREF="#father" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the Father</A>, i.e., the <A HREF="#trinity" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">trinity</A>.  Nobody can live properly before God and do His will without His spirit, not even <A HREF="#jesus" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Jesus</A> could do it!</div> <bR> <div> See also  <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/religion.htm')">Religion</A>  </div> <bR> <div> The mercy and compassion are on people in the above verse, and thus it is God's choice who receives mercy and compassion.</div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="repentance"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>Repentance </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/repentance.htm')">Repentance</A>  </FONT></div> <div> Repentance is a TURNING from sin, and not concocting a more elaborate justification of one's own fleshly self to make way for sin. The "saved" are disciples of Christ.  Man started the name Christian as a nickname for the disciples of Christ.  The devil believes Jesus is the Christ and the devil is NOT a follower.  Thus, <A HREF="#christians_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Christians</A> MUST first be <A HREF="#disciples" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">disciples</A> before they can become Christians <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >...And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.  </FONT>Acts 11:26.  </div> <bR> <div> In the parable of the wayward (lost) son in the Bible (see Luke 15:11-32), the wayward son departs from the family with his share of the family wealth. When the departing son returns, he remains a son because of his return and reconciliation with his Father through repentance by his return. He who is part of the family receives the same status he had before he went astray, provided he returns through repentance (i.e., turning from sin and not just confessing it).</div> <bR> <div>  <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/wayward_son.htm')">Wayward Son Verses</A>  </div> <bR> <div> People return to God from their waywardness through repentance and acceptance of the Father's will by which to live, and our example of how to live righteously is <A HREF="#jesus_the_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Jesus the man</A>. The wayward son may also be one who claims to be saved yet lives a life in the flesh and the pursuits thereof, and then returns to the truth and the spirit to do God's will.</div> <bR> <div> Why do people seek to justify the acts of their sinful flesh to avoid repentance, which means confession AND a turning away from that sin? The answer is simple. Many want the salvation of the cross without the <A HREF="#suffering" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">suffering of the flesh</A>, but this is not possible.  This is not a <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born again</A> life.  Jesus said:<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" > Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.</FONT> Matthew 7:21.</div> <bR> <div> <B>God destroys sin and death in the lake of fire in the end. Those who do not live a life of repentance and cease defending their sin shall be destroyed as being attached to their sin. God does not want you to be destroyed, so He sent Jesus, i.e., the minister of the Word, for everyone to find a Way to live forever and not die. Those who reject the Word, then reject God as their Father because they are one, i.e., the Word and the Father are one!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="reprobate"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Reprobate </B><B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/reprobate.htm')">Reprobate</A>  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="riches__see_mammon_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Riches (see </B><A HREF="#mammon" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><B>Mammon</B></A><B>)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="royal_family"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Royal Family</B></div> <div> For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.  Matthew 12:50  For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >  Mark 3:35.  </FONT>For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >  Matthew 12:50.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> The members of the Royal Family of God are those that do <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">His will</A> and it starts with believing the <A HREF="#word_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Word</A> <A HREF="#bible" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">as written</A> and <A HREF="#interpretation" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">not as interpreted</A> to please our <A HREF="#flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">flesh</A>.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="sacrifice"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Sacrifice</B></div> <div> In the <A HREF="#old_testament__old_covenant_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Old Testament</A> times when the Old Covenant was active, the <A HREF="#children_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Children of God</A> were the Jews and ONLY the Jews, who obediently observed the Law and the associated sacrifices and rituals contained therein.  The Gentiles were everybody other than the Jews to whom the Law was given.</div> <bR> <div> The sacrifices of the Jews were designed to shed the blood of an animal to the eventual death of that animal.  Before the animal was sacrificed, the <A HREF="#sin" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">sins of man</A> were placed on that animal by the priest(s) overseeing the people.  The system of sacrifices depended upon God's promise of the passing of the sins of the people to the sacrificial animal, and the shedding of blood of that animal to death removed those sins from the people, i.e., the atonement.  An animal/mammal not subject or privy to human sins was used as a sacrifice for them.  The sacrifices were done continually year-to-year without a foreseeable end because the sacrifice itself was not of the same quality as man himself since the flesh of man is not an animal, although he is carnal, too.</div> <bR> <div> Then, the Jewish prophets foretold of the coming of <A HREF="#jesus" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Christ</A>, who would save the world from their sins, and that He would be "Emmanuel" meaning "God with us", all the while the Jews dutifully continued their sacrifices.  Jesus was sinless, and though he knew no sin, i.e., was not privy to sin, He was subject to it as a man.  Jesus was Emmanuel, a sinless man, and this was possible because His very spirit, i.e., His <A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">inner man</A>-<A HREF="#will_of_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">His will</A>, was and is the very <A HREF="#word_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Word of God</A> the Father and therefore, included the Old Covenant as well.  At the desire of the Chief Priest that Jesus should be killed, and at the request of the Jewish people, the Romans (i.e., Gentiles) crucified the Christ.  Thus, at the command of the Jews, and by their word the Gentiles were now part of their sacrifices!</div> <bR> <div> Either the Jews knew or did not know Jesus was the Christ, when they desired and ordered him crucified.  Because <A HREF="#jesus_the_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Jesus was a man</A> and not an animal, His death was and is the ultimate of all sacrifices, and yet Jews must disavow Jesus was the Christ and their Messiah or face the truth they knowingly had Him crucified/sacrificed for the good of the people.  This is a definite rock and hard place even today.  The answer, of course, is to admit the error by confession, repent of the lies, receive the <A HREF="#new_testament" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">New Covenant</A> of the Word and Holy Spirit individually and be saved, but pride and a haughty spirit will be the demise of many of them.</div> <bR> <div> The reason Jesus could become the sacrifice for all mankind is not merely because He was crucified at the behest of the Jews, He was a man of like quality as sinful man.  He was Emmanuel the Messiah for the Jews and the World, because God initially gave the world and everything in it to man, who afterward sinned and lost is all to the enemy, i.e., the god (small "g" of this world).  <A HREF="#jesus" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Jesus</A>, as the sacrifice for the sins of the world which God loved (John 3:16), got it all back for those that are His.  But note, the earth itself cannot be renewed and remains in the possession of the god (small "g" intended) of this world until the very end, because there are still people living in this <A HREF="#world" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">world</A> that are the children of the devil, claiming the world as their own and lawfully having a right to be here.</div> <bR> <div> The fulfillment of the very purpose of the <A HREF="#old_testament__old_covenant_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Old Testament</A> was completed in Christ and His resurrection.  The <A HREF="#new_testament" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">New Testament</A> (i.e., the new binding promise of God) began in spirit when the <A HREF="#father" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Father</A> raised Jesus from the dead by the power of the Father's <A HREF="#holy_spirit__holy_ghost__1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Holy Spirit</A>, thereby proving everything in the Word is true.  The <A HREF="#bible" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Bible</A> contains the Word and we must believe in order to receive the <A HREF="#love" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">love</A> of God and all that He has for us.  The <A HREF="#children_of_the_devil" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">children of the devil</A> don't believe it and resort to excuses like: "the Bible must be fallible because it was written by men" etc., and this is part of the <A HREF="#world_spirit_of" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spirit of the world</A> today because of the enemy.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="salvation__saved_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Salvation ("Saved") </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/salvation.htm')">Salvation</A>  </FONT></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >And he [Jesus] said unto them,</FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.  He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.</FONT>  Mark 16:15-16</div> <div> That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > Romans 10:9.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> The "saved" in the church are those that are willing to give up their own choice of a fleshly life and be dead to their own <A HREF="#man_s_desire" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">fleshly desires</A>.  Man has his own will, and there is competition between the <A HREF="#will_of_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of his flesh</A> and the <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of God</A> (i.e., <A HREF="#three_wills" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Three Wills</A>) for those that claim to be saved. It is by the Word that we are delivered from the overpowering will of the flesh.  Being "<A HREF="#salvation__saved_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">saved</A>" requires <A HREF="#repentance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">repentance</A> to allow the Word to enter and make us born again.  </div> <bR> <div> Being "born again" means you do not want to do what you did before as the old person.  However, many like what they are doing so much they forego belief in the Word, becoming born again, and receiving the greater reward-<A HREF="#heaven" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">heaven</A>.  This is so because many want the salvation of the cross without the <A HREF="#suffering" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">suffering of the flesh</A>.  Salvation is not cheap!  It cost Jesus His life, and it will cost you your fleshly <A HREF="#lifestyle" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">lifestyle</A>!</div> <bR> <div> They like the idea of the "free gift" of salvation without living like they have received it.  Some begin a life of churchy works of their own accord, which mean nothing unless they are the will of God, and most certainly NOT all churchly works are the will of God!  Many people also claim to be saved without claiming to be "<A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born again</A>" or they scoff at the premise of being born again.  Thus showing their own prideful lack of knowledge, but how can this be?  Easy!  People in the flesh don't like <A HREF="#suffering" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">suffering</A> according to <A HREF="#word_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the Word</A> and choose <A HREF="#disobedience" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">disobedience</A> and <A HREF="#sin" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">sin</A> instead, because the <A HREF="#worldly" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">way of the world</A> is easier.  One day, many will learn it is <A HREF="#mercy" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">mercy</A> and not <A HREF="#grace" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">grace</A> they were living under! </div> <bR> <div> Are there few that will be <A HREF="#salvation__saved_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">saved</A>? Jesus answered this exact question and He said: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are: Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.</FONT> Luke 13:23-28.</div> <bR> <div> The gnashing of teeth is also the anger of some at being left behind while they cling to their own <A HREF="#false_teaching" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">false doctrine</A> of what they believe salvation should be, but is not.  Living a life relying on an abundant or a "convenient" <A HREF="#grace" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">grace</A> <A HREF="#doctrine" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">doctrine</A> without doing anything to control <A HREF="#man_s_body" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">one's own flesh</A> is not the fruit of the spirit or the <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born again</A> life!  Yes, we are saved by grace THROUGH faith (see, Ephesians 2:8), but then we walk in faith and live in faith.  What we give up and endure is part of our path to salvation.  As a result we do not do the same things we did before.  The Bible says "by their fruits you shall know them" referring to the <A HREF="#false_prophets_and_teachers" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">false prophets and teachers</A>, and thus anybody advocating another "way" is a thief and a robber as Jesus said.</div> <bR> <div> Those that are the saved, i.e., born again into eternal life, would choose suffering and death of the flesh over sinful disobedience to God.  If you are saved you will <A HREF="#suffering" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">suffer</A> for <A HREF="#god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the Lord</A>, and rejoice because of it!</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="sealed__sanctified_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Sealed (Sanctified) </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/sanctified.htm')">Sanctified</A>  </FONT></div> <div> The <A HREF="#holy_spirit__holy_ghost__1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Holy Spirit</A> is our sanctification!</div> <div> If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >  Luke 11:13.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="second_death"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Second Death</B></div> <div> And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the <U>second death</U>.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >  Revelation 20:14 (Emphasis added).</FONT></div> <bR> <div> But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the <U>second death</U>.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >  Revelation 21:8  (Emphasis added).</FONT></div> <bR> <div> He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the <U>second death</U>.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >  Revelation 2:11  (Emphasis added).</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the <U>second death</U> hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >  Revelation 20:6  (Emphasis added).</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="servant_s_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Servant(s) </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" ><B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/servant.htm')">Servant(s)</A>  </B></FONT></div> <div> A child of God does not need a seminary education to fellowship and communicate with God in <A HREF="#spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">SPIRIT</A>, yet many from the seminaries have little understanding of the spirit.  Some even denounce the availability of the Holy Spirit for men other than the original apostles.  Such a position is not only dangerous, but damning, and should never be advocated because it is directly contrary to <A HREF="#bible" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the Bible</A> and <A HREF="#truth" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the truth</A>.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?</FONT> Luke 11:3.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="scripture"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Scripture</B></div> <div> All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for <A HREF="#doctrine_of_jesus" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">doctrine</A>, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be <A HREF="#perfection" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">perfect</A>, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > 2 Timothy 3:16-17. </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="sin"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Sin</B></div> <div> Your flesh and mine has been used as <A HREF="#enemy_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the enemy</A>'s device.  And while we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, we must not seek to continue in sin or choose to remain there.  <A HREF="#sinners" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Sinners</A> do not get God's <A HREF="#grace" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">grace</A> if they want to remain sinners, but they may get His <A HREF="#mercy" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">mercy</A> temporarily as we all have gotten and do get.</div> <bR> <div> God's grace is for the <A HREF="#repentance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">humble and penitent</A>, but NOT for those that do not seek the <A HREF="#spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">kingdom of God</A> and His righteousness. God's righteousness does <A HREF="#justify_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">not justify sin</A>, but <A HREF="#deliverance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">delivers</A> those that seek the truth, and want to be delivered from sin!  The very spirit of the <A HREF="#jesus_is_the_word" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Christ IS the Word</A> of God! (John 1:1), and God's <A HREF="#grace" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">grace</A> and/or <A HREF="#mercy" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">mercy</A> propels us forward with a penitent <A HREF="#heart" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">heart</A>.</div> <bR> <div> Nobody goes forward with God without a penitent heart, otherwise they are unrepentant and wish to remain a <A HREF="#sinners" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">sinner</A>, not receiving the gift of God, i.e., the Word.  The Word changes our will, i.e., our <A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">inner man</A>, because the Word is the love of God, and we then live for it and find His will.</div> <bR> <div> God's will, the Word, the Bible, i.e., the <A HREF="#spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">SPIRIT</A>, prevail every time.  Yet many live <A HREF="#justify_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">justifying their fleshly actions</A> and relying on a cheap, convenient, "free grace" <A HREF="#doctrine" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">doctrine</A> that minimizes <A HREF="#repentance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">repentance</A> and <A HREF="#suffering" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">personal suffering</A> to avoid sin, instead of surrendering to the <A HREF="#love" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">love</A> of God, which leads us to do God's will for our lives. </div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="sinful"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Sinful</B></div> <div> Many people like their sin, and want to keep it so they wear the sinner's badge as an <A HREF="#excuses_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">excuse</A> for not trying to "<A HREF="#go_and_sin_no_more__john_81_11__" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">go and sin no more</A>". The <A HREF="#bible" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Bible</A> says if you are <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born again</A>, you are no longer your own! You were bought with a price, i.e., the life of Jesus! To allow yourself to be defeated by sin and claim, "Oh well, we are all sinners anyway," is to live a <A HREF="#lie__liar_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">lie</A>.  God's will is for us to choose to live by <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">His will</A> as per the <A HREF="#doctrine_of_jesus" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">doctrine of Jesus</A>, and Jesus said so in John 7:17 (<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >If any man will DO his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.</FONT>)(Emphasis added.).</div> <bR> <div> So, do we intentionally sin relying on some cheap <A HREF="#grace" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">grace</A> (counterfeit love) doctrine to <A HREF="#excuses_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">excuse</A> it? God forbid, yet the corporate <A HREF="#religion" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">religious institutions</A> of today teach cheap grace in abundance by saying: "Once a sinner always a sinner", "Once <A HREF="#salvation__saved_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">saved</A> always saved no matter what", or "Love and kindness" without ever mentioning the need for <A HREF="#repentance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">repentance</A>.  This is flat wrong, if it does not stress repentance and the need for it and Him!</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="sinners"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Sinner</B></div> <div> Have we all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God? YES. Are we all sinners? No and yes. In the context of being <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born again</A> the answer is no. Sinners do not enter <A HREF="#heaven" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">heaven</A>. Do we find ourselves doing those things which we would rather not do?  Sure, because we have flesh, and it has lusts and desires that make it hard to reject the <A HREF="#will_of_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of our flesh</A> and pursue God's will instead, but we DO NOT stay bound by sin unless we like it, OR we do not believe the Word and what <A HREF="#jesus" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Jesus</A> said!</div> <bR> <div> We may not be able to overcome the slavery to sin of our flesh with our own strength, i.e., change our conduct using our own strength and desire, but the price Jesus paid with His own life as a <A HREF="#ransom_for_sin" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">ransom</A> for our lives begins the reconciliation, provided we cast our cares on HIM-the Word!  Eat and drink the Word for it is <A HREF="#eternal_life" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">life eternal</A>! </div> <bR> <div> For the penitent sinner seeking <A HREF="#foregiveness" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">forgiveness</A> AND <A HREF="#repentance" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">repentance</A> just as the woman caught in adultery on whom Jesus had compassion, we seriously and lovingly say "<A HREF="#go_and_sin_no_more__john_81_11__" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">go and sin no more</A>." For those that seek to <A HREF="#justify_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">justify their sinful flesh</A> or remain obstinate in it, we who are the <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born again</A> MUST remain compassionate and yet steadfast.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="sonship"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Sonship (see </B><A HREF="#children_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><B>Children of God</B></A><B>)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="soul__see_man_s_soul_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Soul (see </B><A HREF="#man_s_soul_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><B>Man's Soul</B></A><B>)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="spirit"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>SPIRIT</B></div> <div> (Note: Everywhere the term "SPIRIT" is used in all capitalized letters, it means the collective perfection of God, i.e., <A HREF="#trinity" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the trinity</A> as it dwells in us and our actions.)</div> <div> Thus, the SPIRIT, means the state of being that is of God and God's alone.  The "SPIRIT" as it refers to God is one Spirit and it is Holy.  References in the <A HREF="#bible" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Bible</A> in the proper context refer to the collection of the spiritual aspects of God in the trinity, namely, the Father by and through His will, the Holy Spirit by and through His power behind His will, and the Word by and through the Christ Jesus.  Those that live in the SPIRIT are the <A HREF="#children_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">children of God</A>!</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. </FONT> 1 Corinthians 12:13.</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.</FONT>  Ephesians 2:18</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;</FONT>  Ephesians 4:4</div> <bR> <div> See also, <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#00CCFF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="#holy_spirit__holy_ghost__1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><B>Holy Spirit</B></A></FONT>.</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >See also, </FONT><A HREF="#man_s_spirit_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><B>Man's Spirit</B></A><B>.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="spiritual"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Spiritual</B></div> <div> Our spirit resides in our <A HREF="#heart" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">heart</A> situated within our soul.  Our heart is that place where love resides.  The <A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">inner man is the will of man</A>.  The will of man chooses the will of the flesh unless he is born again at which time <A HREF="#man_s_spirit_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">his spirit</A> is supplanted by the will of God in the Word which is <A HREF="#jesus_s_spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the spirit of the man Jesus</A>.  Therefore, the born again man receives the spirit of Christ, i.e., the Word of God and then the will of man asks for and receives the Holy Spirit as part of the will of God.  Thereafter, the born again, sanctified man must seek to choose the things of God over the things of the flesh.  Our love for Jesus causes us to choose the things of God.  This is spiritual.  <A HREF="#salvation__saved_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Salvation</A> is through faith and this is where we can accept the life of Christ as human like us, and spiritual like God the Father when we make the life of Jesus, i.e., <A HREF="#jesus_s_spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">His Spirit</A> which is <A HREF="#jesus_is_the_word" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the Word</A>, ours to continue forever as the "born again" because <A HREF="#jesus_must_kow_you" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Jesus then knows us as His</A>.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="suffering"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Suffering </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/suffering.htm')">Suffering</A>  </FONT></div> <div> Suffering in the flesh is on the pathway to salvation, and is to be expected when we choose to forsake sin.   In fact, suffering is often required because it is the link to this <A HREF="#world" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">world</A> which we then forsake, and yet our flesh lets us know it is not happy with our righteous choice.  The New Testament (i.e., the <A HREF="#new_testament" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">New Covenant</A>) is perfectly clear on this point!   If you do not suffer in the flesh for the pursuit of righteousness and freedom from your sin, you are not living as part of the <A HREF="#body_of_christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">body of Christ</A>, and the body of Christ IS the <A HREF="#church" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">church</A> as per the Bible. </div> <bR> <div> See  <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/john8_1_11.htm')">John 8:1-11</A>  .</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="three_wills"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Three Wills</B></div> <div> <B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/three_wills_verses.htm')">Three Wills Verses</A>  </B></div> <div> But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the <U>will of the flesh</U>, nor of the <U>will of man</U>, but of God.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > John 1:12-13. (Emphasis added).</FONT></div> <bR> <div> From above we have: will of the flesh, will of man, and of course the ever existing will of God. The will of man chooses to live by the will of his flesh and what the flesh wants, OR the will of God and what God wants! The same rules applied to Jesus and He prayed "...not my will, but thine be done" before they took him to be crucified.  From Ephesians 2:3 we find this phrase: "<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >...the desires of the flesh and of the mind...</FONT>" and this is the will of the flesh.</div> <bR> <div> We struggle against sin because we were given the authority to choose to surrender to our <A HREF="#will_of_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">fleshly will</A> and its desires, or the will and desires of God the Father because of our love for Him. We choose between the things of this <A HREF="#world" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">world</A> (our own fleshly <A HREF="#carnal_mind" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">carnal</A> things) and the things of God (spiritual things), but our choice follows what we <A HREF="#love" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">love</A>.</div> <bR> <div> The eternal disposition of <A HREF="#man_s_soul_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">our soul</A> depends on the surrender associated with this choice, i.e., <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">born again</A> living or living like the old <A HREF="#sinners" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">sinner</A>. Sure the gift of <A HREF="#salvation__saved_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">salvation</A> is free to receive, but we are bought by it and thus the cost is our old life, i.e., our old man which is the will of our flesh.  For we who are His were bought with a price, and are not our own any longer.</div> <bR> <div>  <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/blood_bought.htm')">Blood Bought</A>  </div> <bR> <div>  <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/threewills.htm')">Three Wills</A>  </div> <bR> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="truth"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>Truth (See also </B><A HREF="#belief_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><B>Belief</B></A><B>) </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/truth.htm')">Truth</A>  </FONT></div> <div> Recall the children's story titled "The Emperor's New Clothes" by Hans Christian Anderson where only the "most noble", and those that were not stupid could "see" the "royal suit" where there actually was none, until a child in the crowd speaking the truth where adults could not, said "He's Naked", and yet the prideful emperor continued on as if he was clothed. </div> <bR> <div> The mystique of a <A HREF="#doctrine" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">doctrinal</A> <A HREF="#religion" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">religion</A> taught by men that purportedly covers the body of Christ is like the emperor's royal clothes for a blind <A HREF="#church" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">church</A>.  It is time for all people to say "The emperor is naked!" and learn of the <A HREF="#spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">SPIRIT</A> personally, and congregate in <A HREF="#one_mind___one_accord" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">one mind and one accord</A> throughout the world wherever you choose to worship and are led as a <A HREF="#servant_s_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">servant</A>!</div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="unbeliever"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>Unbeliever</B></div> <div> If you choose to believe the <A HREF="#bible" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Bible</A> is wrong or requires <A HREF="#interpretation" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">interpretation</A> and therefore not trust in the truth of the Bible as written, you shall continue in your sin.  By the Bible and what it contains, we come to know sin.  If a person comes to know their actions as sin, and continues in sin as if it were okay, that person is <A HREF="#justify_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">declaring their acts righteous</A>, which is contrary to the Bible.</div> <bR> <div> The <A HREF="#unbeliever" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">unbeliever</A> may also claim the Bible must be wrong, incomplete, or outdated, and not capable of understanding how it is now in this time, saying:    "After all, the Bible was written by men years ago," being the most common argument. But if proven wrong by the Word, then comes the plea: "But wait, you don't understand, I don't believe God would play some trick on me, the way I am is all I have ever known and thus it is who I am"...</div> <bR> <div> The fact is, people who reject the Bible and God's Word as it is written, do not like the Word, and do not want to believe it.  The issue is no more complex than that.</div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="wayward_son"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>Wayward Son</B></div> <div> The wayward son can be one who <A HREF="#salvation__saved_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">claims to be saved</A> yet lives a <A HREF="#worldly" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">worldly</A> life and the pursuits thereof, and then returns to the <A HREF="#truth" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">truth</A> and the <A HREF="#spirit" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">SPIRIT</A>-to do God's will. Doing God's will means doing the works Jesus did as Jesus said we would according to the Father's will. Unfortunately for some, there will be a rude awakening when they find out not all churchy stuff is <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">God's will</A>.</div> <div>  <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/wayward_son.htm')">Wayward Son Verses</A>  </div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="will"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>Will</B></div> <div> See <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#00CCFF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="#three_wills" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><B>Three Wills</B></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="will_of_the_flesh"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Will of the Flesh</B></div> <div> It is impossible for us to please God in the flesh unless we abandon the <A HREF="#will_of_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of our flesh</A> in favor of <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">God's will.</A>  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.</FONT>  Romans 8:8.</div> <bR> <div> Many people say all people are the <A HREF="#children_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">children of God</A>, but this is not true.  All people are known of God, yet <I><B>not all are His children</B></I>!  </div> <bR> <div> People seeking <A HREF="#salvation__saved_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">salvation</A> and living under the <A HREF="#old_testament__old_covenant_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">old covenant</A> rely on <A HREF="#mercy" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">mercy</A> and not <A HREF="#grace" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">grace</A>, but why?  The <A HREF="#new_testament" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">New Covenant</A> means a <A HREF="#born_again" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">rebirth in SPIRIT</A>, i.e., our will surrendered to do HIS WILL by and through His Word and His Holy Spirit-BOTH! </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="#enemy_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">The enemy</A> exists and the enemy IS the god of <A HREF="#world" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">this world</A> (small "g")! The god of this world is the devil, and NOT the one true almighty God in heaven. See for yourself: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the <U>god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not</U>, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.</FONT> 2 Corinthians 4:3-4.  (Emphasis added).</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="#enemy_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">The enemy</A> wants all of us to <A HREF="#man_s_desire" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">live in the flesh</A>, and disregard any pursuit of the will of God.  Why?  The devil and those of the devil are antichrist, i.e., against the Christ whose spirit as we know, and will learn here with absolute certainty, is the Word of God.  To <A HREF="#disobedience" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">disobey</A> the Word of God almighty is the evil purpose of the devil and <A HREF="#children_of_the_devil" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the devil's children</A>.</div> <bR> <div> As people we hear this response to the above text: "But wait, you don't understand, I was made this way, and I don't believe God would play some trick on me because of the way I am.  The way I am is all I have ever known, and thus it is the WAY I AM..." The simple answer is, we were all "made this way", i.e., in the <A HREF="#flesh_parents" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">flesh by our parents</A>, but GOD made our soul, which contains our will, and it is man's spirit, i.e., man's will that has the right to choose life or death, and our heart that allows love to conquer all.</div> <bR> <div> We all have genetic traits of our parents. For us, we have two (2) fleshly parents, but for the Lord Jesus His genetic traits came from the almighty God the Father and one flesh parent.  He was born of God and of a woman. He had <A HREF="#jesus_is_the_word" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">a spirit, i.e., the Word of God</A> from God and a fleshly body from a human.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="will_of_man"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Will of Man</B></div> <div> Man/woman has a will called the will of man.  Each man/woman has their own will of man, and it is our spirit, i.e., our <A HREF="#inner_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">inner man</A>.  Each man/woman has their own individual will of the flesh, and there is also the will of God. This is the basis for the proper analysis of the <A HREF="#three_wills" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Three Wills</A>.</div> <bR> <div> We have a will of the flesh which has its own thoughts and desires defined and governed by a "carnal mind". We can be a "<A HREF="#carnal_mind" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">carnally minded</A>" person or a "<A HREF="#spiritual" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spiritually minded</A>" person.  This is the true flesh versus spirit debate. </div> <bR> <div> But those that seek and do God's will are not in the flesh!  </div> <div>  <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/romans8_9_10.htm')">Romans 8:9-10.</A>  </div> <bR> <div> Doing God's will means doing the works Jesus did and more, just as Jesus said we would, according to the Father's will. <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >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.</FONT> John 14:12.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="will_of_god"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Will of God</B></div> <div> The agreement of the <A HREF="#trinity" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">trinity</A> IS the <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of God</A>.  The will of God is NOT the <A HREF="#will_of_the_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of the flesh</A>, nor is it the <A HREF="#will_of_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of man</A>.</div> <div> Jesus said: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.</FONT> Matthew 7:21.</div> <bR> <div> Jesus taught us to do as He did, and that IS to DO the will of the Father, <A HREF="#go_and_sin_no_more__john_81_11__" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">go and sin no more</A>, and to live in the spirit, not by the <A HREF="#man_s_desire" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">desires and wants of your flesh</A>. Jesus said: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.</FONT> Matthew 7:22-23</div> <bR> <div> Unfortunately for some there will be a rude awakening when they find out <A HREF="#worker_of_iniquity" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">not all churchy stuff is God's will.</A>  </div> <bR> <div> There was a time when Jesus was in the middle of a group of people inside a building, and they told him that <A HREF="#jesus_s_parents" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">his mom</A> and brother were outside wanting to speak with him, but they couldn't get in because of the crowd. Jesus then turned to the entire crowd made up of all sorts of people, believers and unbelievers, and said: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.</FONT> Matthew 12:50 and Mark 3:35.</div> <bR> <div> If you want to be part of the <A HREF="#royal_family" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">family of God</A>, and be a <A HREF="#children_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">child of God</A>, then you will do the <A HREF="#will_of_god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">will of God</A>, because that is what Jesus did with His body and His body was the "temple" or house for the Word of God. The beginning of an <A HREF="#eternal_life" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">eternal life</A> is at the door, and that is the body of Jesus. If we are part of the <A HREF="#body_of_christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">body of Christ</A>, we are to do what He did, plain and simple, which most assuredly is the will of God, for it is the Word of God, that is the spirit of Jesus in the flesh.  God wants us to embrace His Word, and make it our source of life in our inner man.  That is why he sent it to us in Jesus!</div> <bR> <div>  <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/ephesians4_13_16.htm')">Ephesians 4:13-16.</A>  </div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="word_the"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Word, The</B></div> <div> God is a <A HREF="#trinity" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">trinity</A> and part of Him is the Word, and all of Him is <A HREF="#love" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">love</A>.  The Word is a statement of God's love for all men by sharing His will, i.e., the way for us to live.  The Word is <A HREF="#spiritual" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">spiritual</A> and it is life, i.e., the way to live and not just now, but forever!  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, <U>the Word</U>, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.</FONT>  1 John 5:7. (Emphasis added). <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" ><U>God is a Spirit</U>: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.</FONT> John 4:24. (Emphasis added). The Word is spirit and is written in our hearts.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.</FONT> 2 Corinthians 3:2-3.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="word_made_flesh"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Word Made Flesh</B></div> <div> The statement the "<A HREF="#word_made_flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">word was made flesh</A>" in John chapter 1 is NOT a statement that the <A HREF="#jesus_the_man" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">flesh of Jesus</A> is the Word of God and thus holier than your flesh or mine.  Remember, <A HREF="#jesus" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Jesus Himself</A> said: "why callest thou me good".  </div> <div> And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > John 1:14. </FONT></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >And Jesus said unto him,</FONT> Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >  Mark 10:18.</FONT></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >And Jesus said unto him,</FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.</FONT>  Luke 18:19.</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >And he said unto him,</FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.</FONT>  Matthew 19:17.</div> <bR> <div> The Word of God "made flesh" means the Word was given a <A HREF="#flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">fleshly body</A> in the form of a human body in order to dwell with and communicate with us as we are, i.e., <A HREF="#flesh" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">fleshly humans</A>.  It is a FACT that Jesus the man was killed, buried, and raised from the dead alive again. Many, many, people saw him and witnessed this fact with their own eyes.</div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="jesus_must_kow_you"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>Word (the) Must Know YOU!</B></div> <div> It is not determinative if we claim to know who Jesus is because even the devil and demons know the identity of Jesus.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.  And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.</FONT>  Mark 1:23-25.  See also, Luke 4:33-35.</div> <bR> <div> What is determinative is who Jesus, the Word, knows, and the Word has no place in the devil, and no place in those that are of the devil.</div> <div> Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > Matthew 7:22-23. </FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I>How does Jesus know anyone?</I>  </div> <div> Jesus knows them by dwelling in them as their life, i.e., by the Word dwelling in them.  When we become born again, our inner man becomes the Word.  Jesus comes in us, and we become part of the body of Christ by virtue of the Word dwelling in us.  There is no other Way, but by Him.  <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/romans8_9_10.htm')">Romans 8:9-10.</A>  We can start with the Bible! </div> <bR> <div> Not all people are <A HREF="#children" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">children</A> of God, and not all people who claim to know Jesus will enter heaven in the end.  Only the members of the <A HREF="#royal_family" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">royal family</A> of the Father God enter heaven. <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.</FONT> Matthew 12:50 <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.</FONT> Mark 3:35.</div> <bR> <div> The spirit first comes into our fleshly bodies when we receive the Word by believing it!  We receive because we believe!  Jesus said He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. The Word is also a statement of God's will for everyone.  People perish in the end because they do not believe the Word, or resort to an <A HREF="#interpretation" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">interpretation</A> to change it in order to satisfy their own desires.</div> <bR> <div> Please read: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" ><B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/john_1.htm')">John 1:1-3, 10-14.</A>   </B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> Remember, it is not who we know, but who He knows.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="worker_of_iniquity"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>Worker of Iniquity (see also </B><A HREF="#iniquity__see_also_worker_of_iniquity_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher"><B>Iniquity</B></A><B>)</B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >Jesus said: </FONT>Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.  Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?  And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you:<B><U> </U></B><B><U>d</U></B><B><U>epart from me, ye that work iniquity</U></B>.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >  Matthew 7:21-23.  (Emphasis added).</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,</FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT>Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.  When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:  Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.  But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; <B><U>depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity</U></B>.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > Luke 13:23-27. (Emphasis added).</FONT></div> <bR> <div> People claiming to be <A HREF="#christians_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Christians</A> are also those who claim to be <A HREF="#salvation__saved_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">saved</A>, claim <A HREF="#jesus" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Jesus</A> is their Lord, AND also MUST be claiming to be living as part of the <A HREF="#body_of_christ" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">body of Christ</A>.  If this is their claim, they MUST also be a <A HREF="#disciples" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">disciple</A> of Jesus because the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >...And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.  </FONT>Acts 11:26.  They must also be servants of God because their life is through Jesus who most assuredly is a <A HREF="#servant_s_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">servant</A>!</div> <bR> <div> If a person's "<A HREF="#doctrine" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">doctrine</A>" or set of <A HREF="#belief_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">beliefs</A> differ from the Word, then they must change their beliefs.  Many people, however, often expect the Word or Bible to be interpreted to suit their own "doctrine" and corresponding chosen <A HREF="#lifestyle" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">lifestyle</A>.  The <A HREF="#new_testament" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">NEW Testament</A> is ours today and the <A HREF="#old_testament__old_covenant_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">Old Testament</A> has been fulfilled already.  We live in the NEW because it is spiritual!</div> <bR> <div> For one to <A HREF="#belief_1" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">believe</A> in their <A HREF="#heart" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">heart</A> Jesus is their Lord, they also must be living proof of it, or they make themselves a <A HREF="#lie__liar_" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">liar</A> or Jesus a liar. God cannot lie and the spirit of the Christ Jesus is the Word of God according to the Bible.  If our lives make God (i.e., the Word and Jesus, the Holy Spirit and/or the Father;'s will) a liar we work iniquity.  We must not try to change the Word from what it is, and or how it was written in the Bible.  If we do, we then say the spirit of the Christ does not suit us well enough, but God is the best judge of that, right?</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="world"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div>  <A NAME="worldly"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>World, Worldly </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" ><B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/world.htm')">World</A>  </B></FONT></div> <div> The "world" in <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" ><B> <A HREF="javascript:popUp('http://freefoodbank.com/john3_16.htm')">John 3:16</A>  </B></FONT> is the creation of <A HREF="#god" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">God</A> and all that inhabits it.  It is not the culture or ways of the world which has a derogatory context when applied to that which God has created.  The ways of this world are the <A HREF="#enemy_the" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">enemy of God</A>.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.</FONT>  James 4:4.  This world is full of caring <A HREF="#unbeliever" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">unbelievers</A> who are friends of <A HREF="#world" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">the world</A>, and who will die in hell!</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="world_spirit_of"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>World, Spirit of the</B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" >Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. </FONT>1 Corinthians 2:12.  People living by the spirit of the world will go to hell to die a <A HREF="#second_death" TITLE="Free Food Bank Ricky Wascher">second death</A>, if they do not become born again.</div> </td> <td valign="top" width=150 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="0ad9bad2dvldtc.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="rickywascher.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ricky Wascher"><I><B><IMG SRC="1b796250.png" border=0 width="150" height="37" ALT="Bitmap Image" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></A></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="250962c0.png" border=0 width="150" height="44" ALT="Copyright 1999-2009, Ricky Wascher, The Lord's Porter. 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