Goodness of God

Josiahs Scott, Josiahs@trueconnection.org, www.TrueConnection.org

Compiled 8/8/06 (original title: Encouragement Verses); 4/1/12 (Writer A. additions); 6/10/12; [Retitled ~2/13/17]; 2/15/17; 3/4/24; 10/8/24; 4/15/25

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Hope -- Defined

What is Hope?

4/29/25

Heb_11:1 – Faith is Under the Hope of Reward

Standing Under

Heb 11:1 CAB Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Heb 11:1 ῎Εστι δὲ πίστις ἐλπιζομένων ὑπόστασις πραγμάτων ἔλεγχος οὐ βλεπομένων.

Heb 11:1 εστιν δε πιστις ελπιζομενων υποστασις πραγματων ελεγχος ου βλεπομενων

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Reward

Heb 11:5 CAB By faith Enoch was translated so as not to see death, "and he was not found, because God translated him"; for before his translation he had obtained witness that he was pleasing to God.

Heb 11:5 Πίστει ῾Ενὼχ μετετέθη τοῦ μὴ ἰδεῖν θάνατον, καὶ οὐχ ηὑρίσκετο, διότι μετέθηκεν αὐτὸν ὁ Θεός. πρὸ γὰρ τῆς μεταθέσεως αὐτοῦ μεμαρτύρηται εὐαρεστηκέναι τῷ Θεῷ·

Heb 11:5 πιστει ενωχ μετετεθη του μη ιδειν θανατον και ουχ Aηυρισκετο TSBευρισκετο διοτι μετεθηκεν αυτον ο θεος προ γαρ της μεταθεσεως TSBαυτου μεμαρτυρηται Aευαρεστηκεναι TSBευηρεστηκεναι τω θεω

Heb 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please God, for it is necessary for the one approaching God to believe that He is, and that He becomes a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

Heb 11:6 χωρὶς δὲ πίστεως ἀδύνατον εὐαρεστῆσαι· πιστεῦσαι γὰρ δεῖ τὸν προσερχόμενον τῷ Θεῷ ὅτι ἐστὶ καὶ τοῖς ἐκζητοῦσιν αὐτὸν μισθαποδότης γίνεται.

Heb 11:6 χωρις δε πιστεως αδυνατον ευαρεστησαι πιστευσαι γαρ δει τον προσερχομενον τω θεω οτι εστιν και τοις εκζητουσιν αυτον μισθαποδοτης γινεται

The Point: Remain under the endurance of unpopular unconventional righteousness of Truth Works that no one else is doing believing and expecting that God’s going to reward you for doing unpopular good.

Rom_5:1 – Faith, Righteousness, Peace, Favor, Rejoicing, Endurance-Proof, Hope

ES: Peace with God Through Faith

Rom 5:1 CAB Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Rom 5:1 Δικαιωθέντες οὖν ἐκ πίστεως εἰρήνην ἔχομεν πρὸς τὸν Θεὸν διὰ τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν ᾿Ιησοῦ Χριστοῦ,

Rom 5:1 δικαιωθεντες ουν εκ πιστεως ειρηνην εχομεν προς τον θεον δια του κυριου ημων ιησου χριστου

Rom 5:2 through whom also we have had access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Rom 5:2 δι᾿ οὗ καὶ τὴν προσαγωγὴν ἐσχήκαμεν τῇ πίστει εἰς τὴν χάριν ταύτην ἐν ᾗ ἑστήκαμεν, καὶ καυχώμεθα ἐπ᾿ ἐλπίδι τῆς δόξης τοῦ Θεοῦ.

Rom 5:2 δι ου και την προσαγωγην εσχηκαμεν Aτη TSBτη Aπιστει TSBπιστει εις την χαριν ταυτην εν η εστηκαμεν και καυχωμεθα επ ελπιδι της δοξης του θεου

Rom 5:3 And not only that, but we also rejoice in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces endurance;

Rom 5:3 οὐ μόνον δέ, ἀλλὰ καὶ καυχώμεθα ἐν ταῖς θλίψεσιν, εἰδότες ὅτι ἡ θλῖψις ὑπομονὴν κατεργάζεται,

Rom 5:3 ου μονον δε αλλα και καυχωμεθα εν ταις θλιψεσιν ειδοτες οτι η θλιψις υπομονην κατεργαζεται

Rom 5:4 and endurance, character; and character, hope.

Rom 5:4 ἡ δὲ ὑπομονὴ δοκιμήν, ἡ δὲ δοκιμὴ ἐλπίδα,

Rom 5:4 η δε υπομονη δοκιμην η δε δοκιμη ελπιδα

Rom 5:5 And hope does not put to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Rom 5:5 ἡ δὲ ἐλπὶς οὐ καταισχύνει, ὅτι ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐκκέχυται ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ἡμῶν διὰ Πνεύματος ῾Αγίου τοῦ δοθέντος ἡμῖν.

Rom 5:5 η δε ελπις ου καταισχυνει οτι η αγαπη του θεου εκκεχυται εν ταις καρδιαις ημων δια πνευματος αγιου του δοθεντος ημιν

Rom 5:6 For when we were weak, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

Rom 5:6 ἔτι γὰρ Χριστὸς ὄντων ἡμῶν ἀσθενῶν κατὰ καιρὸν ὑπὲρ ἀσεβῶν ἀπέθανε.

Rom 5:6 ετι γαρ χριστος οντων ημων ασθενων Aετι κατα καιρον υπερ ασεβων απεθανεν

Serious Joy: Cheerful Favorable Rejoicing

5/8/17; 5/23/17 [4/14/25-4/15/25]; 4/29/25

-- Under Construction --

There should be way more rejoicing in the New Covenant

Much more than what we have seen go on so far even among the Righteous Assembly.

Preview: Hope, Faith, Joy - Defined

4/14/25-4/15/25

Key Passages

· Rom_5

· Heb_11

· Quoted in: Hope -- Defined

Hope is an expectation for good.

Faith is when persistently “stand under” that scientifically proven hopeful expectation for good.

The "joy" of monotheism in the Bible is particularly that cheerful optimism of hope which you lead your attitude and perception to rejoicing in, despite your circumstances.

Joy = Cheerful Optimism

Joy Defined

4/14/25-4/15/25

What we call “Joy” is most literally an Optimistic Cheerful Favorable Rejoicing

Root issue: logically leading-wording into resolving faith into logical optimism, based on God's actual promise for the poor righteous, and establishing a scientific proof for expectation of good

Not Circumstantial!

cheerful optimism is something you do even when your morning in the Bible

Rejoice Always

4/15/25

Preview

1Th_5:16; Php_4:4; Rom_12:12; Joh_16:22; Hab_3:17-18; Jam_1:2; Psa_118:24; Isa_61:10

>>Scrip: ES & LXX

1Th_5:16 NKJV Rejoice always.
1Th_5:16 SBL Πάντοτε χαίρετε.

Php_4:4 NKJV Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!
Php_4:4 SBL Χαίρετε ἐν Κυρίῳ πάντοτε· πάλιν ἐρῶ, χαίρετε.

Rom_12:12 NKJV Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer.
Rom_12:12 SBL τῇ ἐλπίδι χαίροντες, τῇ θλίψει ὑπομένοντες, τῇ προσευχῇ προσκαρτεροῦντες,

Joh_16:22 NKJV Therefore you now have sorrow; but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one will take from you.
Joh_16:22 SBL καὶ ὑμεῖς οὖν νῦν μὲν λύπην ἔχετε· πάλιν δὲ ὄψομαι ὑμᾶς, καὶ χαρήσεται ὑμῶν ἡ καρδία, καὶ τὴν χαρὰν ὑμῶν οὐδεὶς αἴρει ἀφ’ ὑμῶν.

Hab_3:17-18 NKJV Though the fig tree may not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines… Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Hab_3:17-18 LXX ὅτι συκῆ οὐ βλαστήσει, καὶ οὐκ ἔσται καρπὸς ἐπὶ ταῖς ἀμπέλοις... ἐγὼ δὲ ἐπὶ τῷ θεῷ τῷ σωτῆρί μου εὐφρανθήσομαι.

Jam_1:2 NKJV My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials.
Jam_1:2 SBL Πᾶσαν χαρὰν ἡγήσασθε, ἀδελφοί μου, ὅταν πειρασμοῖς περιπέσητε ποικίλοις,

Psa_118:24 NKJV This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
Psa_118:24 LXX (117:24) αὕτη ἡ ἡμέρα, ἣν ἐποίησεν ὁ Κύριος· ἀγαλλιασώμεθα καὶ εὐφρανθῶμεν ἐν αὐτῇ.

Isa_61:10 NKJV I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for He has clothed me with the garments of salvation…
Isa_61:10 LXX εὐφρανθήσομαι ἐπὶ τῷ Κυρίῳ, χαρήσεται ἡ ψυχή μου ἐπὶ τῷ θεῷ μου· ὅτι ἐνέδυσέν με ἱμάτιον σωτηρίου...

Rejoicing MORE in the New Covenant

Why Rejoicing should be Mega-Upgraded now in the New Covenant

~May 2017 (seen above); 4/29/25

There is a reason that the new testament has more rejoicing than the old testament.

To end the old testament they were going to hell.

That’s a lot of reason to be very somber.

If you had to die and go away from the living, dying is not something you look forward to at all, really.

The only hope you can really have is that God will not leave your soul and hell forever.

The in the new testament you can actually get to believe you will be with Jesus if you die!

Now that God’s favor has been mega opened up to humanity, humans have much more reason to rejoice if they believe.

Jacob: depressed - and going to hell

Paul: rejoicing at the thought of dying - going away to be with Anointed one!

there is supposed to be more favorable rejoicing now and the new Covenant now that anointed one has worked out more favor then was ever given toward men previously.

Big Goal: be sad when it has been assigned to you like Jobe and Joseph's initial seasons of humiliation.

do not be sad when righteousness has called you to rejoice in prison with Paul and Silas through your trial.

if you have more of a real reason to Rejoice then to be sad, take heed that you rejoice!

>>Scrip:

heb: If we Hold Fast the rejoicing

Joy Scriptures

Bible Verses on Joy

4/15/25

Preview

Gal_5:22; Jas_1:2; Rom_5:3; Psa_16:11; Isa_61:10; Jer_15:16; Psa_19:8; Luk_10:20; Psa_33:1; Rom_14:17; 1Pe_1:8; Neh_8:10; Joh_15:11

>>Scrip: ES \/\/\/

Joy = a Fruit of the Spirit

Gal_5:22 NKJV But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Gal_5:22 SBL Ὁ δὲ καρπὸς τοῦ πνεύματός ἐστιν ἀγάπη χαρὰ εἰρήνη μακροθυμία χρηστότης ἀγαθωσύνη πίστις

GPT: Defines joy as a result of the Holy Spirit dwelling in a believer—not dependent on outward circumstances.

Joy in Trials and Suffering

Jas_1:2 NKJV My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,

Jas_1:2 SBL Πᾶσαν χαρὰν ἡγήσασθε, ἀδελφοί μου, ὅταν πειρασμοῖς περιπέσητε ποικίλοις

Rom_5:3 NKJV And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance;

Rom_5:3 SBL Οὐ μόνον δέ, ἀλλὰ καὶ καυχώμεθα ἐν ταῖς θλίψεσιν, εἰδότες ὅτι ἡ θλῖψις ὑπομονὴν κατεργάζεται

GPT: Shows that joy is deeply spiritual—it can exist with sorrow and hardship when rooted in God’s purposes.

God’s Presence with Full Joy

Psa_16:11 NKJV You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Psa_16:11 MT תֹּודִיעֵנִי אֹֽרַח חַיִּים שֹׂבַע שְׂמָחוֹת אֶת־פָּנֶיךָ נְעִמוֹת בִּימִינְךָ נֶצַח

Word-Obedience = Joy

Jer_15:16 NKJV Your words were found, and I ate them, and Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; For I am called by Your name, O LORD God of hosts.

Jer_15:16 MT נִמְצְאוּ דְבָרֶיךָ וָאֹכְלֵם וַיְהִי לִי דְבָרְךָ לְשָׂשׂוֹן וּלְשִׂמְחַת לְבָבִי

Psa_19:8 NKJV The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; The commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

Psa_19:8 MT פִּקּוּדֵי יְהוָה יְשָׁרִים מְשַׂמְּחֵי־לֵב מִצְוַת יְהוָה בָּרָה מְאִירַת עֵינָיִם

GPT: God’s word and ways are a source of joy—not a burden.

Salvation Brings Joy

Isa_61:10 NKJV I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, My soul shall be joyful in my God; For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation…

Isa_61:10 MT שׂוֹשׂ אָשִׂישׂ בַּיהוָה תָּגֵל נַפְשִׁי בֵּאלֹהַי כִּי הִלְבִּישַׁנִי בִגְדֵי־יֶשַׁע

GPT: Joy comes from being with God and saved by Him—not merely having good circumstances.

Written in Heaven

GPT: Joy in Worship and Salvation

Luk_10:20 NKJV Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.

Luk_10:20 SBL πλὴν ἐν τούτῳ μὴ χαίρετε ὅτι τὰ πνεύματα ὑποτάσσεται ὑμῖν, χαίρετε δὲ ὅτι τὰ ὀνόματα ὑμῶν ἐνγέγραπται ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς

The Righteous Rejoice

Righteous are Commanded to Rejoice

Psa_33:1 NKJV Rejoice in the LORD, O you righteous! For praise from the upright is beautiful.

Psa_33:1 MT רַנְּנוּ צַדִּיקִים בַּיהוָה לַיִּשָׁרִים נָאוָה תְהִלָּה

Not Rejoicing can undermine your hope of being righteous…

GPT: Joy is commanded in worship and grounded in eternal truth—not temporary successes.

Kingdom Joy

Rom_14:17 NKJV for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Rom_14:17 SBL οὐ γάρ ἐστιν ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ βρῶσις καὶ πόσις ἀλλὰ δικαιοσύνη καὶ εἰρήνη καὶ χαρὰ ἐν πνεύματι ἁγίῳ

Unseen Joy

1Pe_1:8 NKJV whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,

1Pe_1:8 SBL ὃν οὐκ ἰδόντες ἀγαπᾶτε, εἰς ὃν ἄρτι μὴ ὁρῶντες πιστεύοντες δὲ ἀγαλλιᾶσθε χαρᾷ ἀνεκλαλήτῳ καὶ δεδοξασμένῃ

GPT: Joy in the Bible is often eschatological—a joy based in future glory that cannot be taken away.

MT: Joy = Strength

Neh_8:10 NKJV …Do not sorrow, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.

Neh_8:10 MT אַל־תֵּעָצֵבוּ כִּי־חֶדְוַת יְהוָה הִיא מָעֻזְּכֶם

Un-Worldly Joy, Filled

Joh_15:11 NKJV These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.

Joh_15:11 SBL Ταῦτα λελάληκα ὑμῖν ἵνα ἡ χαρὰ ἡ ἐμὴ ἐν ὑμῖν ᾖ καὶ ἡ χαρὰ ὑμῶν πληρωθῇ

GPT: Joy is something God gives us to endure, stand firm, and shine as witnesses to His goodness.

Relax, Recover, Revive

10/8/24

Coach Questions

·Relaxation methods compatible w faith?

·How does prayer affect you?

·Meditation -- Defined

Rest is Required

10/8/24

Going aside to find a holy safe refuge

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Mar_6:31 – let us go aside and rest a little while

Psa_46:10: "Be still, and know that I am God!"

Notice that Jesus puts this at the core center of His virtuous responsibility to get into a Holy environment to pray, and notice that this recuperation takes place after much emotional turmoil (His beloved cousin John had just been martyred) and this is in the context of praying to find rejuvenation.

We need to stop looking at our cell phones and other devices, and we need to stop turning toward any entertainment or external stimulation, or even having too much light and flashing distractions going into our eyes and ears at the very end of the day.

Rest does not mean watching a movie to relax since that is putting more junk inside of you and not getting you closer to the Divine rest and moral peace that the clean Jesus calls us to.

Refuse, uproot, pull out, and throw away from you all external stimulations, because rest is required, and you are called to apprehend a power from outside of your own busyness from heaven, and find rest time to reverse all of the things that have drained you and pulled on you throughout the whole day.

The Point: Embrace the requirement to rest and put away all of the junk away form you that gets in the way

Loosing Down

10/8/24

When coming inside after a long day of labor and work and toil and potential conflicts and dressers and troubles of the day, the Bible talks about losing down which is a colorful linguistic expression for untying your physical outer clothes, and socially putting off the burden of all of the laborious efforts you have been exerting and carrying around with you all day, and coming inside to take refuge and find a place of safe protection and peace.

The Pint: Loosing Down = Biblical practice of untying the day’s work from off of you

Sabbath Example Teaches Rest

10/8/24

>>Scrip:

The Jews were given the symbol of rest in a mandated weekly Sabbath, which is an external Shadow (as seen in Colossians and Hebrews) pointing us to a moral reality that we are called to and required to apprehend.

Some of the big reasons why we often don't find rest is because we are still doing things that keep us busy-minded, and are taking in artificial comfort from the outside world instead of closing out the distractions to find the Holiness and redemption that only obeying Jesus can give us.

Consider all of the…

>>Scrip:

New Testament verses about the real rest that God’s people are supposed to apprehend

The Point: Fulfilling Sabbath is Entering into Divine Rest ion the New Covenant

De-Stress: Logically

10/8/24

The Logical Power of Monotheism to find Solid reast

Secular people like the idea of getting rid of stress and anxiety but as you approach and embrace the reality of morality we can realize how potent Truth is in setting us free from the Troubles of this life.

Secular people are left to the pragmatics of trying to somewhat hypnotize themselves to not be anxious about the things that they would like to not trouble them, but this lacks the moral leverage to give you a concrete definite and logical answer to your emotional turmoil.

They are left to the natural and mechanical crumbs of this life to try to orchestrate their feelings and their thoughts to let go of troubles.

Secular people use pragmatics and circumstances and tips from the skill of this life to try to get the best outcome and orchestrate the best helpfulness they can think of for their mental health.

Monotheists reach for solid logical moral realities that give them bulletproof leverage to guarantee victory against negativity, troubles, anxiety, and evil.

Monotheists are obsessively reliant upon moral Truth and solid mightiness of logic to get firm and reliable bedrock facts that they can use to absolutely define their lives with a superior reality that chops out all the inferior troubles of wrong thinking.

>>Scrip:

Psa_55:22: "Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken"

1Pe_5:7: "Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you"

Php_4:6-7: "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus"

Joh_14:27: "Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful"

>> LXX

Isa_54:17 KJV No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.

Relax Muscles

10/8/24

People talk about muscle relaxation, and this is very important, and when we get more aware of morality and the need to stay clean of unclean spirits, we can see how getting your muscles to let go of the emotional tension of the negative energy spirits you've been around is so very important.

A secular mindset might recommend exercising to get the tension in your muscles to let go, and while this can be appropriate, we also need to be careful to consciously, emotionally, mentally, and logically let go of the deceptive and untrue negativity that we've been around, so that our "muscle relaxation" results in a tangibly concrete improvement in our moral character and virtuous integrity.

The Point: Don’t just rely on exercise, but also let go of the evil that made you tense to begin with.

Breathe Out Evil, & Evil Spirits

Breathe out negativity, stress, sin, unbelief, and spirits that promote them

10/8/24

Biblical Deep Breathing

Deep Breathing + Repentance & Resisting Evil = Moral Deep Breathing

Is this Deep Breathing with prayer?

>>Scrip:

Mar_7:34 – He looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh said to him, 'Ephphatha!' (which means 'Be opened!')

Contextual Insight: Jesus was sighing out all of the previous negativity He had just been around with the crowds and their unbelief.

We are Trying to breath out bad and breath in good…

Gen_2:7: "Then the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being"1

Joh_20:22 – Jesus breathed on His disciples and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit"

In English we tend to think about breathing as a certain type of activity, and wind as a certain kind of phenomena, and spirits as a sort of philosophical superstition detached from our everyday experience, whereas in the Bible these are all very closely related and oftentimes use either the same words, or words that are derived from the same roots.

The Bible has amazing and spectacular insight into how you can do virtuous things with your breathing in order to gain moral advantages that can save you from evil, and by the cleanliness and Holiness of non-participation in the dirtiness of negative untruth, we can conquer all kinds of evil that we never could before when we succeed in exhaling it and not participating in it.

Let go of the conscious spirits as well as the general tainted oxygen that you have been forced to inhale from being around less clean negative environments and unhelpful human interactions.

The Point: Use deep breathing along with moral accomplishment to get bad out of your character

Get in God's Presence

10/8/24

The Blessedness When God is With You

Isa_41:10: "So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand"

Exo_33:14: "My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."

Jos_1:9: "Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go"

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Mat_11:28-29: "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest."

Psa_62:1-2: "My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him."

Isa_40:28-31: "He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak."

Isa_40:31 – those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength

Clean Zeal is the Solution to Depression

10/8/24

see: ZEL

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Psa_69:9 / Joh_2:17 – For zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.

Rom_15:3 – For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: 'The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.

In general you should see the main Bible study when coming to this category, however as a reminder, so many people typically think that the answer to depression is good feelings whereas in reality the opposite of depression is faith which monotheists activate through the fiery cleanliness of zealous action toward, and in, and through the Truth

Good Confessions

10/8/24

Repeat good confessions every morning and every night, before you start the day and before you end the day, as much as possible.

For example, if you know that you're going to go into a situation where someone's words might be thrown at you like fiery darts trying to pierce into your vulnerable soul and your hurt conscience, you want to make sure that you have put on your spiritual protective clothing before engaging into that scene so that you can successfully pass to that atmosphere unscathed...

>>Scrip:

Eph_6:11-18 – put on the whole armor of God

Identity

At the core of good confessions is a re-orientation and refocused effort toward the real identity of the goodness of God and toward the real identity of who you really are after having come to obey all the Bible.

View God Truthfully

10/8/24

Correcting your view of God's character back into Orthodox goodness includes critical identity anchors like...

· God's mercy redemption satisfying payment and proactive forgiveness of all your sins

· God's lovely vast and infinite purity and perfection and clean holiness that blesses and justifies the poor crouching beggars

· God has become our savior in the body of Jesus anointed one

Righteous Music

10/8/24

>>Scrip:

1Sa_16:14-23 – David Played Harp to drive spirits away from Saul

>>TSK

Meditation -- Defined

10/8/24

-- Under Construction --

Pagan Meditation

· Emptying your mind

· Self-Awareness/focus/‘improvement’

· Self-focus (your own body and soul)

· Focus on the present moment

· Self-regulation of body and mind

· Focus on your breathing/self

· Hinduism (Some of the dirtiest): ‘the union of individual self (Atman) with the universal consciousness (Brahman)’ -- i.e. Satan worship of the soul/self (Atman)

· Taoism: Balancing of yin and yang energies

Others: guided meditation, Body scan meditation, movement meditation, mindfulness meditation

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/new?q=pending&newFrontend

Monotheistic Meditation

· Filling Your heart with Truth and being transformed by carefully listening to logic and perfect divinity in order to get inspired

· Not seeking Self-regulation, but Divine inspiration

How?

· Get away

· Get Alone

· Get focused

· Remove distractions

· Focus on perfection

Identity

3/4/24

Be Who You Are

3/4/24; 10/8/24

>>Scrip:

Joh_13:10 – He who has had a bath only needs feet washed

Joh_15:3 – You are already clean through the word I spoke to you

1Co_5:7 CAB Purge out the old leaven, in order that you may be a new batch of dough, since you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.

1Co_5:7 ἐκκαθάρατε οὖν τὴν παλαιὰν ζύμην, ἵνα ἦτε νέον φύραμα, καθώς ἐστε ἄζυμοι. καὶ γὰρ τὸ πάσχα ἡμῶν ὑπ,ὲρ ἡμῶν ἐτύθη Χριστός·

1Co_5:7 εκκαθαρατε TSουν την παλαιαν ζυμην ινα ητε νεον φυραμα καθως εστε αζυμοι και γαρ το πασχα ημων TSBυπερ TSBημων Sεθυθη TBAετυθη χριστος

1Co_5:8 So then let us observe the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

1Co_5:8 ὥστε ἑορτάζωμεν μὴ ἐν ζύμῃ παλαιᾷ, μηδὲ ἐν ζύμῃ κακίας καὶ πονηρίας, ἀλλ᾿ ἐν ἀζύμοις εἰλικρινείας καὶ ἀληθείας.

√ GNT-v

>>Scrip:

1Co_10:17 – "Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one body, for we all share the one loaf."

>>Scrip:

Gal_3:27 – As many as you have were baptized have put on Anointed One

>>Scrip:

Galatians – You are all children of Abraham and hers of the promise by faith

Gal_3:7: "Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham."

Gal_3:29: "And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise."

Gal_3:14: "so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith."

Perceptual Identity Crisis

GoG?|SPI?|RAS|LOV

What Do You Really Know That Makes You Who You Really Are?

1/11/20-1/26/20; 1/29/20-1/30/20…2/5/20-2/9/20; 2/13/20-2/16/20; 4/12/25 (recompiled into LOV)

www.TrueConnection.org/Proclamation/Spiritual-Interface/Perception/

Perceptual-Identity-Crisis--1.12.20.mp3

Perceptual-Identity-Crisis--Pt2--2.9.20

www.trueconnection.org/Proclamation/Spiritual-Interface/Perception/Perceptual-Identity-Crisis--Pt2--2.9.20.mp3

Perceptual-Identity-Crisis--Pt3--2.16.20.mp3

www.trueconnection.org/Proclamation/Spiritual-Interface/Perception/

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Bible verses on our new identity in Christ

Anticipation, Goals, & Structure

·Part 1 Goal: was a preview / teaser…

·Part 2 Goal: more orderly exhortation

·It’s all reorganized and thoroughly revised/developed/expanded now

·We might get through a few prerequisites today… (for the 2^nd and 3^rd sessions)

·To start off our PIC exhortation we have lots of prerequisites to go through in order to make sure we are compatible with and ready for the answers.

·I don't know whether or not we are going to answer everything today but I am persuaded we will at least get to address an important part of what's going on with many of us.

Intro 1: Let’s Get Out of Trial

· Would anyone like to enjoy prayer again?

· Ready to get rid of dry prayer feelings and return to the purpose of your identity in prayer?

· I’m on a mission to get us out of a trial.

· This will not replace the basic needs of prayer: making sacrifices, seeking to get alone, and spending good quality time in prayer, but it can supplement these vital virtues and help you be more successful and effective when seeking to relate to the Truth (and that alone can be enough to get you out of trial, especially if other vital components are sufficiently in place).
So…

· Let's talk about how to get out of this trial that many of us have been in for the last number of years.

Intro 2: This is Serious

· There's a lot at stake.

· This definitely touches on some very deep nerves.

· This is a root issue and core distinction that determines if you are part of churchianity or Truth.

· How you find motivation, encouragement, and faith for your soul in prayer is at the very foundational base difference between Truth and churchianity.

· What spirits are you being motivated by when seeking to pray to God?

· We are the only known group in the world that Truly cares about this (and even obsessively, at that), and oftentimes our only consolation is to read passages like 2Co_11.

· What you believe God has done in you and or communicated to you forms both your identity perception as well as your view of God’s identity, and these identities form a basis of how you believe your essence should relate to what you perceive His essence to be.

· What you believe about what you perceive and know defines who you think you are and carries direct consequences on how successfully you connect to whatever spirits you are being motivated and persuaded by.

· Although I am not answering these questions yet, you can still see that this stuff is serious.

· Anyone ready to cut through the virtually universal plague of blindness and deception and get some perception to help us find consolation and encouragement in prayer without lies and flattery?

Misidentification is one of the first “cardinal sins” of all apostasy (by our authoritative/definitive/significant designation)

· (A) Misidentifying people – for example in the Bible and the groups constantly mislabeled today in churches, etc., and,

· (B) Misidentifying God everywhere (from the Bible till now)

PIC Title Explanation

· Perceptual – The word "Perceptual" implies that this has something to do with what we might call discernment.

· Identity Crisis – The word "Crisis" can imply that were talking about some type of trial, and in this context we are particularly talking about a trial that affects our “Identity” as we seek to go into prayer.

· It need not surprise our group too much that an exhortation such as this should explore both the concepts of “Identity” and “discernment” because over many years I have repeatedly taught that your connection to the Truth is very affected based on how you interface with the resounding significance of people and who they REALLY are in the spiritual realm, but this time we are focusing more on what might be called “self-discernment”.

· And while I have always said that mis-dicerning can quickly disconnect you from the Truth and cause all kinds of grievous trials, yet in this case we are talking about trials that are caused by misperceptions of your own identity.

PIC Prayer List Relevance to Solving Trials

1/13/20; 1/18/20; 1/23/20; 1/26/20

· The Prayer lists of the righteous are often concerned with catching repeated trials and documenting the way out.

· With our primary daily prayer list (OVG) the goal is to address the most repeated trials that most commonly attack us just about every day.

· It turns out that this identity trial is in fact at least partly referenced and has a general place on our prayer list under Receiving Love (& GoG) - but it is this particular dimension of self-discernment that has been uniquely at play here in some of these recent trials, and that’s what we are making a special effort to address now.

PIC Background: Chronicling my Way Out of a Long Trial

Other date(s); 2/5/20; 2/9/20

A Dream that Eventually Provoked/Triggered/Incited/Stirred me to Chronical my Way Out of a Very Long Trial

· Throughout recent [certain] trials more than one of us has said we ‘felt like something in us died’.

· At some point I started feeling related oppositions and I likened it to the story when I and my bird were losing eyesight and I was provoked to do some serious research to find the common cause. –
“Wait a minute… why are both me and my bird ‘going blind’???”

· In my recent [in a certain] PIC trial I felt like a blank slate, as though I was “no one” with nothing particular to think or do when trying to pray…

· I chose to believe and stir up zeal anyway, but these repeated feelings and oppositions made me deeply wonder where I was shooting myself in the foot…

· After dreaming about running away from apostates to a private place in the woods to pray (behind first assembly), I woke up and began considering how excited I felt and how much I anticipated gaining loving encouragement in my reminiscent dream about prayer, and then I began thinking and ricocheting around in general about past seasons where I have felt so much anticipation and have expected to gain so much love and limitless excitement from prayer.

· This fresh and living hope and excited attitude consistently drove me to prayer with much hope and persuasion to gain new ground. -- I expected to come out of my prayer closet different and helped and changed. I expected to interact with the Divine and come out charged up by the Truth.

· Without approving of (or validating) the dream itself, I pondered over how my soul longed for the romantic prayer escape and I deeply considered how this hope had been less fresh throughout recent trials.

· I continued waking up for prayer very early with much stirring and provocation in my prayer and began to write over the next two and three mornings, and I continued writing and revising every day for weeks after this from these moving thoughts.

· I began chronicling the process of coming out of a very difficult season of mystifying trial.

· I have been very diligent to carefully think and pray through and write through some of these key elements because I have been very aware for a long time that I'm not the only one going through some very similar trials afflicting much of our community.

·Some of these things are simple reminders and hopefully others are deeper explorations.

·For the considerations we might make that sound like basic reminders and simple statements, hopefully reviewing basics and making connections between the causes and effects of Trials and how to choose that hope of rejoicing can help us conscientiously pinpoint and put our finger on the things we can tangibly do to affect change and get out of stifling trials.

Ready to talk about what I found out and chronicled and wrote that made a huge difference in my prayer life?

Anyone want to enjoy prayer again?

--- Believe Good About Yourself, But First Test if You’ve Been Made Good

1/17/20; 1/20/20….1/24/20-1/25/20-1/26/20; 2/4/20; 2/9/20

· Identity is a necessary component to relate to someone.

· Who you are is directly connected to what you know and what you have Truly, validly experienced and what you have perfectly been called to and defined by. ^Gal_2:5

· If you believe the legitimate good that God has done in you, then your prayers do not have to be dry and desolate anymore.

· If you betray your own faith then you will undermine your hope and motivation and consolation. ^Gal_2:5

· Whatever is True in you will be required in your prayer life in order for faith and Truth to work.

· There has got to be a point somewhere at which you are obligated as a minimum requirement ^{Rom_12; Gal_2:5} to believe that at least something good worked in you successfully in order for you to move forward and for the rest of the process of spiritual advancement to continue working and making progress.

· If you are not living in sin and you are in a posture of obeying all the Bible then whatever God has said to you and done in you to make you Truly Connected to Him defines who you are and who He has revealed Himself to you to be.
This of course only applies to those who have the Integrity of poverty in order to obey all the Bible. What church people think God has done in them usually doesn't reveal anything mono or admirable or good

· So… “Don't Quench” ^1Th_5:19

· This can be a very simple realization with mega results, but there is also an entire exhortation of considerations to dig deeper and there are also prerequisites if other things in your life are out of order and not prepared.

Gal_2:5 – We did not yield to them, not even for an hour, so that the truth of the gospel might remain with you

Gal_2:5 οιςG3739R-DPM ὅς who, which ουδεG3761ADV οὐδέ not however προςG4314PREP πρός forward to ωρανG5610N-ASF ὥρα an hour ειξαμενG1502V-AAI-1P εἴκω to be weak τηG3588T-DSF ὁ the υποταγηG5292N-DSF ὑποταγή subordination ιναG2443CONJ ἵνα in order that ηG3588T-NSF ὁ the αληθειαG225N-NSF ἀλήθεια truth τουG3588T-GSN ὁ the ευαγγελιουG2098N-GSN εὐαγγέλιον a good message διαμεινηG1265V-AAS-3S διαμένω to stay constantly προςG4314PREP πρός forward to υμαςG5209P-2AP σύ you

Gal_2:6 αποG575PREP ἀπό off δεG1161CONJ δέ but τωνG3588T-GPM ὁ the δοκουντωνG1380V-PAP-GPM δοκέω to think ειναιG1511V-PXN εἰμί to exist τιG5100X-NSN τίς some οποιοιG3697A-NPM ὁποῖος of what kind that ποτεG4218PRT ποτέ at some time ησανG2258V-IXI-3P εἰμί I was ουδενG3762A-NSN οὐδείς not even one μοιG3427P-1DS ἐγώ to me διαφερειG1308V-PAI-3S διαφέρω to bear through προσωπονG4383N-ASN πρόσωπον the front οG3588T-NSM ὁ the να θεοςG2316N-NSM θεός god ανθρωπουG444N-GSM ἄνθρωπος from ουG3756PRT-N οὐ no, not λαμβανειG2983V-PAI-3S λαμβάνω while εμοιG1698P-1DS ἐγώ to me γαρG1063CONJ γάρ assigning a reason οιG3588T-NPM ὁ the δοκουντεςG1380V-PAP-NPM δοκέω to think ουδενG3762A-ASN οὐδείς not even one προσανεθεντοG4323V-2AMI-3P προσανατίθημι to lay up in addition [Gal_2:2: …ἀνεθέμην αὐτοῖς τὸ εὐαγγέλιον ὃ κηρύσσω ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσι]

1Th_5:19 τοG3588T-ASN ὁ the πνευμαG4151N-ASN πνεῦμα a current of air μηG3361PRT-N μή not σβεννυτεG4570V-PAM-2P σβέννυμι to extinguish

WS on G4570: Mat_12:20; Eph_6:16; Heb_11:34… Mat_25:8; Mar_9:44, Mar_9:46, Mar_9:48; Sept.: Lev_6:12-13; Job_21:17; Isa_42:3… 1Th_5:19; Sept.: Son_8:7

-- Perception & Prerequisite Integrity

~2/1/20; 2/4/20-2/5/20; 2/8/20-2/9/20; 2/13/20-2/14/20; 2/16/20

· The goal is perception (discernment, thorough-judging) but in order to get there we have to first start at a place of integrity and non-deception.

· You can’t see if you are deceived.

· There are several key prerequisite integrity checks to explore as a basis before moving on into the deeper pursuit of perception.

· These integrity checks can specifically help us
(A) face our problems,
(B) consider the origins of our limitations,
(C) defeat overconfidence,
(D) do real justice, and,
(E) Obtain poverty as ultimate leverage to start overcoming our trials.

· Prerequisites can result in and can generally benefit us by helping us
(A) all practically/concretely apply this exhortation despite our different spiritual stages/junctures
(B) establish a praiseworthy identity,
(C) prepare for perception, and,
(D) have courage and assurance to make the right/targeted/particular/specific/precise/exact/distinct sacrifice toward successful and righteous identity resolution and effective prayers.

· Starting off by exploring these “integrity checks” can help us all get on the same page and catch us all up to speed despite our different seasons and levels of progress along this path, and,

· This thoroughness can help us make sure that this exhortation is able to hopefully apply to all of us and catch and address our various needs and different spiritual situations and seasons and levels of progress.

· Prerequisites teach us to fish so that we might eat forever rather than simply satisfying our curiosity before having the integrity to handle the Truth worthily.

· We need a foundation of integrity that supports the precious Truth we seek before simply jumping into immediate answers for this season.

· Sometimes we need to ask, not just what the answer is to our pain, but more so rather, if there are any virtues required before God is willing to communicate any more direct answers to our immediately felt needs.

· Never despise small beginnings ^Zec_4:10 and tedious virtue management and development.

· Often I have been wanting to pray that heaven would start helping me get ready to “part the sea”, only to find out that we were actually still working on the prerequisites of just trying to get to the point of “watching sheep faithfully for 40 years”!

· Care more about what heaven notices rather than your felt pain, and then heaven can be much more cheerful in helping you resolve them both.

· Prerequisites can situate us and start us off from the right posture of embracing Truth, non-deception, and real righteous justice and integrity and can give us the right and reasonable starting point of sanity in order to make progress toward ultimate perception.

· Starting off in the posture that is approved will give us the proper foundation for perceiving what is approved.

· Starting off in Truth and integrity is a deep sacrifice and painful cost, but it is the only way toward any serious perception.

And speaking of sacrifices…

So why then might you not be prepared and why might it be more complicated than this?

Before we can begin to open some of the answers to these enigmas, we first have to bravely search out and better understand the real problem and how we got in trial to begin with.

Being Bold is A Lot Harder if You’re True

Many Other date(s); 1/22/20; 2/4/20-2/7/20; 2/13/20; 2/15/20-2/16/20

· Big Question: How Can We Be Bold while first seeking to be True?

· If we seek to “Believe Good” about ourselves and there is so much free goodness sitting right there on the table why do we hesitate to simply reach out and grab it?

· We know that Bible Obeyers / serious disciples have extra affliction ^Rom_12 to take into account that churchianity has no interest to care about.

· On one hand we very much want to be bold, but on the other hand we would much rather first have the integrity ^Rom_12 and basis established as a reason to be bold.

· We need to believe good about ourselves, but how can we be so bold if our approval is pending?

· How do we even know if we are right or wrong in the first place?

· Plenty of church people say they know stuff and claim and boast much validity in their (independent) “personal relationship”, and yet all thinking people can easily see that these same church people are overt liars who disobey the Bible unceasingly, so we must much rather hope to be True in our connection than the worthless boasting and profane confidence of liars.

· So in a good sense we willingly create our own trials ^Rom_12 when we set our hearts on the Truth and wait for it patiently and choose to hurt until it comes unto us.

· We embrace our own potential hurt when we willingly “fast” ^{Sirach 4} the vain confidence and mindless and unscientific indulgent flattery of lies, and afflict ^{Sirach 4} our soul with humbling until we see righteousness in our members.

· Our unheard of integrity Standard (which is virtually extinct throughout the world) says that if we are wrong and disapproved (or it is pending) we ought to be afflicted ^{Sirach 4 and ashamed} and humbled until there is a possibility for hope for us.

· If we are wrong we must be weakened, and if we are True we are required to be bold -- because our zealous hope within all humility requires fully loaded faith [πληροφορίᾳ πίστεως] ^Heb_10:19-25 and zeal as a reasonable response to the Truth.

· We must either accuse, incriminate, and repent of our hope and faith or else grow very bold and courageous in it -- the stakes are high and there is no room for middle ground for those who hope to win.

· If we are wrong we will be just like them and this makes us fear God with much caution and sometimes much affliction and even grief of soul to be found different and worthy (our lives depend on not being church people), but,

· If we can be found right above all other men, then we must faithfully persevere in the precious treasures we have obtained without wavering in our superior and prestigious hope and bold boasting against sin.
And what will we say to all of this?

· Judgements will condemn us if we are unlawfully bold.

· Trials will afflict us if we are wrong and crave to be right. ^{Sirach 4}

· To get out of trials we got to be tested and approved ^{1Co_9:27; 2Co_13:5} and bold enough to approach a throne of favor ^Heb_4:16 to obtain the inheritance of those who have faith ^Heb_11.

· It’s time to face and embrace our pain and make the time to thoroughly wait/carry/endure/pray through the process of being tested ^{1Co_9:27; 2Co_13:5} as we set our hope to [And can we please/And don’t we want to] obtain approval so we can shine with fully loaded faith [πληροφορίᾳ πίστεως] ^Heb_10:19-25 as we come out of our trials with brilliant boldness and all out full persuasion ^{Rom_4:21 [πληροφορηθεὶς] Heb_10:19 [παρρησιαν]}.

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So pay the price of Sirach and Corinthians and get the rewards of Hebrews 10 and Romans 4

Sirach 4 – Wisdom will pull you through torments before afterward revealing to you her secrets

11 Wisdom instructs6 [6 [ Sir_4:11] Heb(A), Syr / LXX “exalts”] her children

and admonishes those who seek her.

12 He who loves her loves life;

those who seek her out win her favor.

13 He who holds her fast inherits glory;

wherever he dwells, Yahweh bestows blessings.

14 Those who serve her serve the Holy One;

those who love her7 [7 [ Sir_4:14] LXX / Syr “; his tent”] Yahweh loves.

15 He who obeys her judges nations;8 [8 [ Sir_4:15] LXX / Heb(A), Syr “truly”]

he who listens to her dwells in her inmost chambers.

16 If one trusts her, he will possess her;

his descendants too will inherit her.9 [9 [ Sir_4:16] LXX, Syr / Heb(A) omits “If one trusts her…inherit her.”]

17 She walks with him as a stranger,

and at first she puts him to the test;

fear and dread she brings upon him10 [10 [ Sir_4:17] LXX, Syr / Heb(A) omits “Fear and dread she brings upon him”]

and tries him with her discipline;

with her precepts she puts him to the proof, until his heart is fully with her.

18 Then she comes back to bring him happiness and reveal her secrets to him.

19 But if he fails her, she will abandon him

and deliver him into the hands of despoilers.11 [11 [ Sir_4:11~19] LXX / Heb(A), Syr has the segment from “He who obeys…despoilers” in first person.]

Rom_4:20 ειςG1519PREP εἰς to δεG1161CONJ δέ but τηνG3588T-ASF ὁ the επαγγελιανG1860N-ASF ἐπαγγελία an announcement τουG3588T-GSM ὁ the θεουG2316N-GSM θεός god ουG3756PRT-N οὐ no, not διεκριθηG1252V-API-3S διακρίνω to separate thoroughly [Heb_10:23 : ακλινηG186A-ASF ἀκλινής not leaning] τηG3588T-DSF ὁ the απιστιαG570N-DSF ἀπιστία faithlessness αλλG235CONJ ἀλλά other things ενεδυναμωθηG1743V-API-3S ἐνδυναμόω to empower τηG3588T-DSF ὁ the πιστειG4102N-DSF πίστις persuasion δουςG1325V-2AAP-NSM δίδωμι to give δοξανG1391N-ASF δόξα glory τωG3588T-DSM ὁ the θεωG2316N-DSM θεός god

Rom_4:21  καιG2532CONJ καί and πληροφορηθειςG4135V-APP-NSM πληροφορέω to carry out fully [Heb_10:22] οτιG3754CONJ ὅτι that, because οG3739R-ASN ὅς who, which επηγγελταιG1861V-RNI-3S ἐπαγγέλλω to announce upon δυνατοςG1415A-NSM δυνατός powerful εστινG2076V-PXI-3S εἰμί he is καιG2532CONJ καί and ποιησαιG4160V-AAN ποιέω to make

Heb_10:19 εχοντεςG2192V-PAP-NPM ἔχω to hold ουνG3767CONJ οὖν certainly αδελφοιG80N-VPM ἀδελφός a brother παρρησιανG3954N-ASF παρῥησία all out-spokenness ειςG1519PREP εἰς to τηνG3588T-ASF ὁ the εισοδονG1529N-ASF εἴσοδος an entrance τωνG3588T-GPN ὁ the αγιωνG39A-GPN ἅγιον a sacred thing ενG1722PREP ἔν in τωG3588T-DSN ὁ the αιματιG129N-DSN αἷμα blood ιησουG2424N-GSM Ἰησοῦς Jesus

Heb_10:20 ηνG3739R-ASF ὅς who, which ενεκαινισενG1457V-AAI-3S ἐγκαινίζω to renew ημινG2254P-1DP ἐγώ to us οδονG3598N-ASF ὁδός a road προσφατον*G4372A-ASF πρόσφατος previously slain καιG2532CONJ καί and ζωσανG2198V-PAP-ASF ζάω to live διαG1223PREP διά through τουG3588T-GSN ὁ the καταπετασματοςG2665N-GSN καταπέτασμα something spread thoroughly τουτG5124D-NSN οὗτος that thing ναβ εστινG2076V-PXI-3S εἰμί he is ναβ [τουτεστινG5124D-NSN οὗτος that thing] τσ [---G2076V-PXI-3S εἰμί he is] τσ τηςG3588T-GSF ὁ the σαρκοςG4561N-GSF σάρξ flesh αυτουG846P-GSM αὐτός he, she, it

* προσφατον: VGNT: “LXX: Num_6:3 (H3892 {i.e. new grapes}), Deu_32:17 {i.e. new gods}, Ecc_1:9 (H2319 {i.e. new under the sun}), Psa_81:9 (H2114 {i.e. new god}), Sir_9:10 {i.e. new friend/φίλον}*”

Heb_10:21 καιG2532CONJ καί and ιερεαG2409N-ASM ἱερεύς a priest μεγανG3173A-ASM μέγας big επιG1909PREP ἐπί superimposition

τονG3588T-ASM ὁ the οικονG3624N-ASM οἶκος a dwelling τουG3588T-GSM ὁ the θεουG2316N-GSM θεός god

Heb_10:22 προσερχωμεθαG4334V-PNS-1P προσέρχομαι to approach μεταG3326PREP μετά accompaniment αληθινηςG228A-GSF ἀληθινός truthful καρδιαςG2588N-GSF καρδία the heart ενG1722PREP ἔν in πληροφοριαG4136N-DSF πληροφορία entire confidence [Rom_4:21] πιστεωςG4102N-GSF πίστις persuasion [Rom_4:20; Heb_10:23] ρεραντισμενοιG4472V-RPP-NPM ῥαντίζω besprinkled να [ερραντισμενοιG4472V-RPP-NPM ῥαντίζω besprinkled] τσβ ταςG3588T-APF ὁ the καρδιαςG2588N-APF καρδία the heart αποG575PREP ἀπό off συνειδησεωςG4893N-GSF συνείδησις co-perception πονηραςG4190A-GSF πονηρός hurtful καιG2532CONJ καί and λελουσμενοιG3068 V-RPP-NPM λούω to bathe να [λελουμενοιG3068V-RPP-NPM λούω to bathe] τσβ [Eph_5:26: λουτρῷ ^{G3067 < G3068}] τοG3588T-ASN ὁ the σωμαG4983N-ASN σῶμα the body υδατιG5204N-DSN ὕδωρ water καθαρωG2513A-DSN καθαρός clean

Heb_10:23 κατεχωμενG2722V-PAS-1P κατέχω to hold down τηνG3588T-ASF ὁ the ομολογιανG3671N-ASF ὁμολογία acknowledgment τηςG3588T-GSF ὁ the ελπιδοςG1680N-GSF ἐλπίς expectation ακλινηG186A-ASF ἀκλινής not leaning [Rom_4:20 : διεκριθη] πιστοςG4103A-NSM πιστός trustworthy [Heb_10:22] γαρG1063CONJ γάρ assigning a reason οG3588T-NSM ὁ the επαγγειλαμενοςG1861V-ADP-NSM ἐπαγγέλλω to announce upon

Heb_10:24 καιG2532CONJ καί and κατανοωμενG2657V-PAS-1P κατανοέω to observe fully αλληλουςG240C-APM ἀλλήλων one another ειςG1519PREP εἰς to παροξυσμονG3948N-ASM παροξυσμός incitement αγαπηςG26N-GSF ἀγάπη love καιG2532CONJ καί and καλωνG2570A-GPN καλός X better εργωνG2041N-GPN ἔργον toil

Heb_10:25 μηG3361PRT-N μή not εγκαταλειποντεςG1459V-PAP-NPM ἐγκαταλείπω to leave behind in some place τηνG3588T-ASF ὁ the επισυναγωγηνG1997N-ASF ἐπισυναγωγή a complete collection εαυτωνG1438F-3GPM ἑαυτού -self καθωςG2531ADV καθώς just as εθοςG1485N-NSN ἔθος a usage τισινG5100X-DPM τίς some αλλαG235CONJ ἀλλά other things παρακαλουντεςG3870V-PAP-NPM παρακαλέω to call near καιG2532CONJ καί and τοσουτωG5118D-DSN τοσοῦτος so vast as this μαλλονG3123ADV μάλα more οσωG3745K-DSN ὅσος as as βλεπετεG991V-PAI-2P βλέπω to look at εγγιζουσανG1448V-PAP-ASF ἐγγίζω to make near τηνG3588T-ASF ὁ the ημερανG2250N-ASF ἡμέρα day

>>Scrip:

Pro_3:11; Heb_12:5 – Don’t Faint when you are rebuked by Him…

Overconfident Perceptual Dilemmas

The Perceptual Dilemma of Overconfidence

Presumptuously believing you can do [perceive] more than you really can

Many Other date(s); 1/22/20; 1/29/20-1/30/20; 2/6/20; 2/15/20; 2/24/20; 2/28/20; 3/1/20; 3/8/20-3/14/20 (presented); 3/28/20

· Perceptual overconfidence is a wrong perception, disorientation, and confusion of what you think/assume/suppose you’ve perceived.

· One of the things that can be sure to trouble your identity is being overconfident about who you perceive yourself to be (your self-perception of your essence, nature, character, spiritual significance, and especially what you think you have experienced...)

· Overconfidence results in religions and Superstitious Pseudo-Identities (discussed later).

· For the poor, it is very possible to be underconfident, but in general it is much more possible (and even likely) to be overconfident (especially in rich/LUX/wealthy modern cultures).

· Don’t trust your own perception ^Pro_3:5 lest you perish with the Harlot in the overconfidence she has intoxicated the whole world with!

· Although we ultimately want to overcome underconfidence and believe the good that Truth says about us, overconfidence is often a much more urgent [extremely important] threat [hazard] that sabotages and disqualifies us from believing good before we even get to that point. (Remember Rom_12, etc.)

· Crucifying overconfidence is a prerequisite before believing good about yourself.

· Overconfidence is the epidemic [widespread disease -- or Pandemic (“epidemic” was written before coronavirus arrose only a few months later)] typical flaw of those who are least qualified for it.

· Overconfidence with/concerning what you think/assume/suppose you’ve experienced with God is the very foundation of independent guidance spirits and disapproved/disqualified/rejected, “reprobate” churchianity.

· Perceptual overconfidence ultimately [in the end] results in pagan independence (which can never be perfectly unified like the elegant prestige [respectful/honorable beauty] of Monotheism).

· (Full-Grown) Religious overconfidence is exactly/precisely what Jesus thrusts away from Him at judgement ^Mat_7:21-23* and exactly what Paul warned the Corinthians ^{1Co_5:6-8; 1Co_9:27; 2Co_11: 2Co_13:5} and Galatians ^{Gal_5:9-15, Gal_5:24-26} against.
* TSK: depart: Mat_25:41, Psa_5:5, Psa_6:8, Luk_13:25, Luk_13:27, Rev_22:15

· This is the basic foundational fundamental flaw that is the very essence [built-in defining qualities] of what we want to avoid in order to be different from churchianity.

· Although the proud are most notorious for overconfidence, even the oppressed can be confused and hurt by this [this can confuse and hurt even the oppressed] (when reaching out and daring to be bold in their faith).

· If you are overconfident about what you think you know then you run the risk of crushing disappointment, if not much worse.

· I was concerned several times (for example) that JD (who eventually fell completely away from Truth) could have very easily made a disciple of hell (if it were up to her). And furthermore,

· We dare not even build wood, hay, and stubble only for everything to be burned!

· I have said that if we don't get somewhere in discernment then the very next generation or two of disciples can very easily and quickly have no real difference/distinction at all from the rest of the church.

· REAL/serious perception (which is universally extinct throughout churchianity) sharply and swiftly testifies against all overconfidence and perceptual error.

· Today’s Christianity is going straight to hell in her misperception [massive misperception mistake] and abominable Overconfidence, but if we’ll first at least have some vital integrity virtue then we can gloriously escape her damnation and burning torment, even before we all successfully obtain the perception of thorough judging.

Pro_3:5 WEB Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don't lean on your own understanding.

Pro_3:5 LB Trust in God with all your heart; and be not exalted in your own wisdom.

Pro_3:5 ἴσθι πεποιθὼς ἐν ὅλῃ καρδίᾳ ἐπὶ θεῷ, ἐπὶ δὲ σῇ σοφίᾳ μὴ ἐπαίρου·

Pro_3:6 WEB In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

Pro_3:6 LB In all your ways acquaint yourself with her, that she may rightly direct your paths.

Pro_3:6 ἐν πάσαις ὁδοῖς σου γνώριζε αὐτήν, ἵνα ὀρθοτομῇ τὰς ὁδούς σου, (ὁ δὲ πούς σου οὐ μὴ προσκόπτῃ. )

Rom_12:

1Co_8:2 – if anyone thinks he knows anything he does not yet know as he ought to know

1Co_9:27; 2Co_13:5 (as seen below) – Test yourselves if you are in the faith

Beware of Superstitious Pseudo-Identities

Other date(s); 1/20/20-1/21/20; 3/9/20-3/10/20; 3/13/20-3/14/20 (initially presented)

Perceptual-Identity-Crisis--Pt5--3.29.20.mp3 ??

Perceptual-Identity-Crisis--Pt5-b--5.3.20.mp3

· There are good reasons why your identity could be in crisis/serious trouble.

· Overconfidence [believing you can do more than you really can (rewordify)] results in religions and Superstitious Pseudo-Identities (as said previously).

· Lawfully getting out of trials without shallow and fake flattery means honestly facing and solving the real dilemmas of your identity and coming out with hope that is not based on lies.

· You should, of course, never want to get unscientific in your hope (though we strangely seem to be the only ones willing to talk like this).

· All overconfident, unscientific, and superstitious ambition disconnects you from the Truth and causes you to wander in confusion, and sets you up for crushing disappointments and painful feelings of defeat and failure.

· Perceptual overconfidence predefines your identity based on your own superstitions and misperceptions -- which is very anti-romantic from heaven’s perspective.

· Should a woman prematurely (and impulsively) change her own last name to her own ideal (according to whatever may sound good to her) before even meeting the man beyond her dreams?
Should he be flattered by this and persuaded to marry her?
Will he not rather take this as an insult against his potency and a forewarning of her anti-feminine [shockingly bold] audacities?

· Even if you have obtained the general hope that comes with poverty, you still don’t want to jump the gun and get confused by botching up your particular and unique identity.

· Truth does not work like sin when it comes to successfully obtaining a valuable identity.

· The way sin works it that it gets an identity by self-fulfillment.

· Truth is not about the very embarrassing, foolish, fleshly, reckless, hazardous, worldly, prideful, indulgent, misguided, blind, corrupted and sinful perversion of self-fulfillment.

· We’re trying to get an identity here, but we don’t do it like the world does in pursuing self-fulfillment.

· Side Note: Php_3:12 -- properly correlating spiritual fulfillment

· Perceiving your identity does not work by doing whatever you want to do and becoming whatever you want to become, and then simply “stamping a fish on it” as the hell-loving world does, in seeking to fulfill their own dreams for their life.

· Much rather instead, be diligent and careful and militant [aggressive and strict] and Monotheistic to not conjure up and invent any imagined or creative [innovative] ideals for your own soul, but much instead investigate and listen into the things told unto you OUTSIDE of your default nature.
Side Note: Outside of Flesh Does Not Mean Outside of Spirit: Being spiritual includes adopting something outside of your default nature and making it a core part of your identity (like Job, Jonah, Jacob, David, etc.) (4/5/20)…
The fact that it is outside of your default nature does not mean it is outside of your new heart and new nature.
that being said… (still)

· You should shun [avoid] every occasion to pre-define yourself lest you cheat your identity in very nonromantic selfishness that crowds out heaven's (always) more glorious hope for your soul...

· Don't be independently self-defined.

· Selfishness excludes the romantic excitement [exhilaration] of leaving intimate room to be defined by another... [described with the aid of another (rewritertools)]

· Lots of people throughout history have idealized and sought to be many things that were not factually based in reality. ^{Act_5:36; Gal_6:3; 1Co_8:2 (seen below)}

· The goal here is not to simply find/identify/seek and ask for something you are attracted to and can idealize and want for yourself.

· The romantic goal here is to be successfully and Truthfully defined by Another ^2Sa_7:13-27 who knows you better than you know yourself and is far more persuaded, zealous, and fiery to do much greater and much more valuable/honorable/precious/holy/sizzling things through you than you ever even dreamed for yourself.

First eliminate unscientific superstition and even random ideals that are not powerfully driven by the Truth (humble and reduce your self-defined identity) and be sure to continually adjust your pending hope early and often, and after having fully fought for and after having established the splendid and brilliant integrity of these virtually extinct virtues, which no one else seems willing to respect or even care about in our age, then by all means press in diligently to finally hear the good things Truth has said about you, spoken to you, and cleanly accomplished in your life. After dying to your own perception, preferences, and ideals, earnestly seek [look (for)] and watch for, welcome, and seek to fully embrace any and every available way Heaven is consistently pushing you into unique and or particular glory, honor, and eternal life.

Act_5:36 – Someone arose claiming himself to be something

Gal_6:3 / 1Co_8:2 – If anyone thinks himself to be something he is nothing

1Co_3:18 – Let him become a fool

2Sa_7:13-27, etc. – David Defined By Nathan’s Prophecy -- God said to David: I will build you a house

Joh_1:42; Mat_16:16-18 – Simon Renamed to Rock -- as well as other disciples who were renamed

Renaming is at the core of perceiving who someone really is -- esp. as anew creation!

Avoiding Misidentification Harlotry

Pseudo-Identity Avoidance -- Discussion

4/1/20; 4/5/20; 5/3/20

Context Review: we talked about being identified (by another / your man in heaven) as an issue of romance, so does that mean misidentification is fornication/harlotry/spiritual imorality?

(A) @Ay: Question: When Does Misidentification = Fornication?

AySun 6:00pm

Is it possoble to paste that in chat or be able to read it again somewhere?

AySun_6:19pm

Thanks for the example about changing your last name, etc. That was really helpful. It possible to put just that part in chat?

If that part is still too long That's ok.

AySun_6:49pm(edited)

“Also, I think you were sucessful in making the concepts very tangile [tangable], thanks for investing time to do that.

Question: if you allow yoirself to have your own expectations (cant remember the way you worded it) like you mentioned, is that a form of spiritual fornication?”

(B) Answer: Misidentification + Sins of Commission = Fornication

Example #1: Misidentification + Bad Zeal = Fornication

Example #2: Misidentification + Overconfidence = Fornication

· Bad Zeal & Overconfidence can = Pride/Persuasion/Motivations/etc.

Example #3: Misidentification + Unworthy Flattery = Fornication

· When you’re sinning and you misidentify yourself as good, this is fornication.

· This is exactly why we are going over prerequisites! (as you may have figured out by now)

· Numerous church people and preachers I’ve talked to and heard (including a YouTube preacher more recently) said that when you witness to people you should treat them like The Woman At The Well…

· BIG Problem: modern pervert rich people think they’re GOOD and the woman at the well knew she was BAD!

Example #4: Misidentification + Cooperation = Fornication

Misidentification = a favorite maneuver of the Harlot as a deceptive Ploy and smoke screen of confusion.

(C) Safe Prayer of Unseen Greatness

4/2/20; 5/3/20

"Please make me great before You (in Your eyes) even if no one ever knows who I am."

This has been a very helpful and safe prayer without presuming upon my own identity.

No risk of Misidentification Fornication here :+)

Review

Extra Affliction

Psa 73:13-15, etc

>> Tsk!

mark all those who morn

blessed are those who morn

James, Peter: humble self

HEB: church people are illegitimate... without chastisement

judgement begins on the house of God

…

It's okay to feel undefined when you are leaving romantic room to be defined by another.

You occupy yourself in being reverent, that is, pray to be great, and that will suffice you until you are defined

Transitioning From Self to Others

…4/1/20…4/5/20; 5/9/20-5/10/20 other date(s); 5/16/20-5/17/20; 5/29/20-5/31/20

Perceptual-Identity-Crisis--Pt6--Self-to-Others--Horizontal-Identity-Failures--5.31.20.mp3

Introspective Prerequisite Review

As a review (before we move on): We’ve talked about the prerequisites of crucifying and correcting…

· Overconfidence,

· Superstitious Pseudo-Identities, and,

· Misidentification Harlotry.

· (and all of these are closely related)

Now we’re going horizontal with our next major test.

Pay Attention as we Move Forward

As we go from introspective analysis to horizontal analysis (from introspection to extrospection*) we need to pay closer attention to our integrity and performance, because as a group we have not been blameless in relating to each other.

introspection (n.)

1670s, "action of closely inspecting or examining," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin introspicere "to look into, look at, examine, observe attentively," from intro- "inward" (see intro-) + specere "to look at" (from PIE root *spek- "to observe"). Meaning "action of searching one's feelings or thoughts" is from 1807.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/introspection

5/10/20

* extrospection

“examination or observation of what is outside oneself”

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extrospection

5/17/20

Time to Move On

· It’s time to move on to our next major prerequisite.

· It’s time to transition from mostly considering how we view ourselves on into also considering how we view others.

· It’s time to move on from introspective prerequisites that analyze and correct our self mis-perceptions, and,

· It’s time to move on into prerequisites that also involve others.

· We need to learn about, repent of, and guard against Horizontal Identity Failures (and eventually we also need to learn about Horizontal Identity Helps).

· Horizontal issues are serious.

· Horizontal problems are some of the most serious and potent aspects of discernment (real perception) that you can address.

· Although we are generally, mostly focusing on self-perception in this exhortation yet at this point we are moving forward by also temporarily reflecting on how horizontal issues with relating to the righteous can affect our own identity.

Recent Events: Prayer Struggles, Science Videos, & Community Talks

· I wrote essentially everything else in this exhortation beforehand, but when writing and refining through all of these things, lots of recent events/occurrences/examples have repeatedly reinforced the points of this exhortation:

· (A) Prayer Struggles: Wife and I got up after taking turns throughout the watches of the night.
I (Husband) said (after staying up late in prayer throughout the night): Relationships can easily keep you up all night if you're trying to pray through everything... (Wife and I, Husband (overseer) Agree.)
Wife says: she’s really thinking about doing horizontal things right… life is short, esp. when people pass away (on mother’s day).

· (B) Science Videos: Wife and I watched videos scientifically emphasizing relationships and long-term happiness and healthiness:
Some people have had to invent brain videoing machines to prove the importance of relationships to themselves (and others), but hopefully we can be righteous and spiritual to already know for sure that these horizontal requirements are True without depending on man-made technology to beat it into our heads before we pay attention!

· (C) Community Talks: We recently had a “tune up meeting” and there we were talking about relationships yet again…

· (D) Others?: Any Other Recent Relationship examples?
(There can probably be more new examples every time we gather…)
If you pay attention, relationship trials/dramas/dynamics are always going on and are always a big deal everywhere… we just want to peek into the spiritual realm to be some of the first humans who finally realize what this is all about!
So,

· Let’s talk about “relationships” (and now I’m sure that sounds even more relevant to you girls).

Afflicting Ourselves vs. Earning Punishment Trials

Whether it’s by introspective or horizontal Prerequisite Integrity Checks, we’ve said that by generally choosing these tests we may do well to…

· Make boldness very hard for ourselves by…

· Creating our own self-imposed affliction/pain to humble ourselves, by,

· Crucifying the typical (religious/apostate/character) perception flaws (like we’ve just reviewed), as most apostates are very unwilling to do,

And although it is always generally good for us to choose to afflict ourselves to increase our integrity and our chances of honest virtue success in all of these tests, yet with this next test let’s especially make sure all of our afflictions are willingly embraced for the sake of loving virtue rather than ‘suffering as an evil doer’.

1Pe_4:15 CAB For let not anyone of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or as a meddler in other people's affairs;

1Pe_4:15 GRVii+ μηG3361PRT-N μή not γαρG1063CONJ γάρ assigning a reason τιςG5100X-NSM τίς some υμωνG5216P-2GP σύ of you πασχετωG3958V-PAM-3S πάσχω to experience a sensation ωςG5613ADV ὡς which how φονευςG5406N-NSM φονεύς a murderer homicide ηG2228PRT ἤ disjunctive κλεπτηςG2812N-NSM κλέπτης a stealer ηG2228PRT ἤ disjunctive κακοποιοςG2555A-NSM κακοποιός a bad-doer ηG2228PRT ἤ disjunctive ωςG5613ADV ὡς which how αλλοτριεπισκοποςG244N-NSM ἀλλοτριεπίσκοπος overseeing others' affairs να [αλλοτριοεπισκοποςG244N-NSM ἀλλοτριεπίσκοπος overseeing others' affairs] τσβ

1Pe_4:16 but if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be put to shame, but let him glorify God in this matter.

1Pe_4:16 GRVii+ ειG1487COND εἰ if δεG1161CONJ δέ but ωςG5613ADV ὡς which how χριστιανοςG5546N-NSM Χριστιανός a Christian μηG3361PRT-N μή not αισχυνεσθωG153V-PPM-3S αἰσχύνομαι to feel shame δοξαζετωG1392V-PAM-3S δοξάζω glorious δεG1161CONJ δέ but τονG3588T-ASM ὁ the θεονG2316N-ASM θεός god ενG1722PREP ἔν in τωG3588T-DSN ὁ the μερειG3313N-DSN μέρος a division ντσβ [ονοματιG3686N-DSN ὄνομα a name] α τουτωG5129D-DSN οὗτος to this

(Compare 1Pe_4:15-16 with 1Co_11:27-31 below.)

We must willingly choose trials to test ourselves while also guarding against earning punishment trials lest we be as those who must be forcibly tested and examined from above against our own will.

1Co_11:31 – if we would judge ourselves we would not be judged

1Co_11:27 GRVii+ ωστεG5620CONJ ὥστε so too οςG3739R-NSM ὅς who, which ανG302PRT ἄν soever εσθιηG2068V-PAS-3S ἐσθίω to eat τονG3588T-ASM ὁ the αρτονG740N-ASM ἄρτος bread [τουτονG5126D-ASM οὗτος this] τσβ ηG2228PRT ἤ disjunctive πινηG4095V-PAS-3S πίνω to imbibe τοG3588T-ASN ὁ the ποτηριονG4221N-ASN ποτήριον a drinking-vessel τουG3588T-GSM ὁ the κυριουG2962N-GSM κύριος lord αναξιωςG371ADV ἀναξίως irreverently [τουG3588T-GSM ὁ the] β [κυριουG2962N-GSM κύριος lord] β ενοχοςG1777A-NSM ἔνοχος liable to εσταιG2071V-FXI-3S εἰμί will be τουG3588T-GSN ὁ the σωματοςG4983N-GSN σῶμα the body καιG2532CONJ καί and τουG3588T-GSN ὁ the ναβ αιματοςG129N-GSN αἷμα blood τουG3588T-GSM ὁ the κυριουG2962N-GSM κύριος lord

1Co_11:28 GRVii+ δοκιμαζετωG1381V-PAM-3S δοκιμάζω to test δεG1161CONJ δέ but ανθρωποςG444N-NSM ἄνθρωπος from εαυτονG1438F-3ASM ἑαυτού -self καιG2532CONJ καί and ουτωςG3779ADV οὕτω in this way εκG1537PREP ἐκ from τουG3588T-GSM ὁ the αρτουG740N-GSM ἄρτος bread εσθιετωG2068V-PAM-3S ἐσθίω to eat καιG2532CONJ καί and εκG1537PREP ἐκ from τουG3588T-GSN ὁ the ποτηριουG4221N-GSN ποτήριον a drinking-vessel πινετωG4095V-PAM-3S πίνω to imbibe

1Co_11:29 GRVii+ οG3588T-NSM ὁ the γαρG1063CONJ γάρ assigning a reason εσθιωνG2068V-PAP-NSM ἐσθίω to eat καιG2532CONJ καί and πινωνG4095V-PAP-NSM πίνω to imbibe [αναξιωςG371ADV ἀναξίως irreverently] τσβ κριμαG2917N-ASN κρίμα a decision εαυτωG1438F-3DSM ἑαυτού -self εσθιειG2068V-PAI-3S ἐσθίω to eat καιG2532CONJ καί and πινειG4095V-PAI-3S πίνω to imbibe μηG3361PRT-N μή not διακρινωνG1252V-PAP-NSM διακρίνω to separate thoroughly τοG3588T-ASN ὁ the σωμαG4983N-ASN σῶμα the body [τουG3588T-GSM ὁ the] τσβ [κυριουG2962N-GSM κύριος lord] τσβ

1Co_11:30 GRVii+ διαG1223PREP διά through τουτοG5124D-ASN οὗτος that thing ενG1722PREP ἔν in υμινG5213P-2DP σύ to you πολλοιG4183A-NPM πολύς much ασθενειςG772A-NPM ἀσθενής strengthless καιG2532CONJ καί and αρρωστοιG732A-NPM ἄρῥωστος infirm καιG2532CONJ καί and κοιμωνταιG2837V-PPI-3P κοιμάω to put to sleep ικανοιG2425A-NPM ἱκανός competent

1Co_11:31 GRVii+ ειG1487COND εἰ if δεG1161CONJ δέ but να [γαρG1063CONJ γάρ assigning a reason] τσβ εαυτουςG1438F-3APM ἑαυτού -self διεκρινομενG1252V-IAI-1P διακρίνω to separate thoroughly ουκG3756PRT-N οὐ no, not ανG302PRT ἄν soever εκρινομεθαG2919V-IPI-1P κρίνω to try

(Compare 1Co_11:27-31 with 1Pe_4:15-16 above.)

Let’s Stop Failing

· We have said that ‘in a good sense, we create our own trials when we choose to hurt and wait for the Truth’, but although I said there is a good sense in which we create our own trials that does not mean that this good sense is the only sense or perspective in which to view some of our trials.

· Other than apostates who have passed through our group, we have tended to be proactive and well persuaded in the previous, “self-questioning” prerequisites, but with these horizontal tests, some of us have sometimes repeatedly neglected virtue for days without number (despite all the years I have urged us in these concerns).

· Let us now also specifically be sure not to waste our pain and let us make sure we’re not sinning against others throughout the prerequisite humbling process.

· Let’s suffer only for righteousness ^1Pe_4:15-16 and not be thrown into continual [constant] Punishment Trials for our sins against others…^1Co_11:27-31

Going Horizontal

·Let us move on to horizontal checks and tests so that we may indeed [in fact] suffer only for righteousness and not be thrown into continual [constant] Punishment Trials for our sins against others…

HorizontalGuts

Horizontal Identity Failures

Many Other date(s); 1/22/20…1/25/20; 1/30/20-1/31/20; 2/22/20-2/24/20; 3/5/20-3/8/20; 3/15/20; 3/20/20-3/22/20; 3/28/20; …4/18/20; 4/25/20-4/26/20; 5/1/20; 5/15/20-5/17/20; 5/21/20; 5/23/20; 5/29/20-5/31/20

Perceptual-Identity-Crisis--Pt6--Self-to-Others--Horizontal-Identity-Failures--5.31.20.mp3

Beware of The Sins of Superimposing/Impressing False Identities on Others

Deferring to Updates: those who hear can possible read the enhanced details added later

Focusing on Root issues / principles more than scenarios

2Co_10:4 – Strong holds…

Intro: The Impact of Horizontal Positioning

· Believing good words in your ears can make you swell with healthiness and hope, but how can Truth be motivated to praise you if you are sinning against the True praise of others whom God Loves?

· Don’t we know that in a Kingdom of Justice, horizontal identity perceptions of other people directly impact our own identity?

· The Salvation of believing Mary’s innocent character and inspired virtue, Isa_58:1; SOM; 1Pe_3:7 [εγκοπτεσθαι ^{G1465 V-PPN}]; all throughout 1^st John (1Jn_1:1 - 5), all the passages on hospitality; etc. (and countless other examples, including perhaps plenty new examples almost “every time we meet”) -- How many times does the Bible have to demand horizontal justice before people feel obligated to obey it?

· (Just preview for PICC context for now…
could be many other aspects to consider and clarify, but despite the other details, PICC is affected by these principles…

· When will we all fully believe and be fully persuaded that horizontal justice is a prerequisite before accomplishing vertical connection?

· And of course, BTW, (as a somewhat side note) most church people don’t notice if God were to withdraw further from them for sinning against others, because,
(A) A Clean God has not been a vital part of their hope anyway in the first place to begin with, and,
(B) Church people are not dependent on favor and perception in their life as a reason to live, and in fact,
(C) It is actually hard to find even one church person who might Truly care and notice if they sinned grievously against us, and,
(D) If it was hard for Samson to notice Heaven’s withdrawal (in a rushed moment of action) ^{Jdg_16:19-21, etc.}, how much less perceptive is a blind church person?
However despite all of this,
(E) We are doing this exhortation because unlike virtually all others, most of us tend to (or at least want to) actually care and notice and/or at least grieve if Truth ever steps back. And,
(F) Because of this distinction we have from churchianity I want to also remind us and reinforce to us why our trials are often typically harder than church people’s “trials”.

· Unlike virtually all church people, hopefully we feel and experience the pain of the trials that befall us whenever heaven steps back.

· Both church people and righteous people can earn trials, we just hope that we notice if any of us accidentally earns one.

· And how could a righteous person earn a trial among other righteous people?

· Ignoring other people’s impressive identity can stifle your own hope, and can very easily throw you into trials of abiding probation until you repent of injustice and cleanly honor the Truth.

· Some of us have been in identity crisis and probation trials (sometimes for years) for violating each other’s identity.

· Don't mess up your relationships because through this mistake everything will be troubled/broken/confused/defiled -- your self-perception, your view of God's identity, your source of lawful encouragement in prayer, and the list goes on...
If your vertical perception of others is unjust it should not surprise anyone if your self-perception is also deeply troubled.
(The last two points were somewhat initially written during some frustrating “scuffles”/fights I had to deal with myself in prayer.)

· Horizontal Issues are serious (as we said earlier when transitioning)!
So…

· Make your horizontal relationships Orthodox through your vertical Truth –

· Cherishing the goodness of Prayer should also include an accurate orientation of other people so that your vertical relating can be Orthodox through your horizontal faithfulness and Truth.

· Crucifying overconfidence (as we said in the previous prerequisite tests) and accomplishing horizontal justice (as we are talking about here) are both very reasonable, healthy, and orthodox prerequisites to fulfill before having a clear runway to believe good and encouraging things about yourself and hoping to hear a rewarding praise of who you are.
So that…

· (After) ‘having done the will of the God, you might take care of the promises/firm-pronouncements’ (Heb_10:36)

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Jdg_16:19-21, etc. – Samson's hair shaved

Faithfulness to Leaders

Scripture Examples & Reminders of Faithfulness to Leaders

· 1Th_5:12 – “Recognize” -- esp. leaders, but more than just them.

· 2Ti_5 – They abandoned Paul because they did not care about who he really was.

· To various degrees, the same faithless principles have been at work among us.

· I just wish we would care...

Disclaimers, Pre-Statements, & Notes

· In one sense and to a certain degree, this section addresses the seasons we've failed and the principles by which we've failed (esp. in the past) and is not a direct description or full address of our current state.

· Wherever we’ve been in the past we want to sanitize our current state in order to save where we’ll be in the future.

· We want to better understand how and why we faltered and failed in the past so that we do not continue to make the same mistakes and ruin and blotch up our hope of righteous identity from here on out.

· On one hand, some of these descriptions are our worst failures and (hopefully) should not be understood as an overall maintained (and willful) sinful state we might be in.

· On one hand these considerations represent our lowest states, but on the other hand, in some cases the question still remains unanswered, and sometimes I have wondered for years when some of us were ever going to bother to fully commit to not repeating these low points again…

· Additionally, I do not have the goal of resolving any personal vendettas, even if I may use myself as an example at times.

· (If it were truly profitable, I could name other names as examples in addition to myself but I don’t want to unnecessarily open various cans of worms that can easily and likely distract us from learning to fish.)

· Furthermore, please understand, consider, and keep in mind that to whatever degree I might somewhat seem to “lay it out hard and heavy” on us when describing the weightiness of these identity failures, though I may say the hard implications, yet It is not my goal to introduce our group to a new awareness of heaven’s severity, since we should (hopefully) all already be very aware of these sobering realities.

· I do not particularly aim to introduce our group to new severity and harshness (even if that happens anyway despite my primary goal) but much more so my primary goal is to provide explanation for some of the severity we have already felt and experienced.

· I don’t wish to add new hurt but to give meaning to the hurt that has already been there.

· I am not trying to hurt you with potent words but I’m seeking to help you understand your hurt better with explanatory words.

· Some of our trials have already been plenty painful enough already and I wish to explore some of the reasons why they have hurt so bad when considering these prerequisite integrity checks.

· If you are able to hear these words as applicable answers (and not despairing rebukes), then I estimate that your ears are blessed.

· So endure long with the exhortation (even if it hurts) and hope persistently until it eventually all adds up to a solution.

Crying Identity Questions

· Why have our bowels at times been so stopped up so as to not recognize one another?

· Why have we been content to try to relate to imagined distortions of each other?

· Why haven’t we always cared about the reality of who each other is?

· Is the world not evil enough so that we should add our unloving blindness to it?

· Why have we so frequently done nothing to know each other?

· Question: Getting to know someone naturally or getting to know someone spiritually – which one is more complicated and challenging to apprehend?

· If you don't even know some of the most simple and basic physical things about someone after more than a decade of supposedly relating to them then what does that imply about how lacking you might be about them spiritually?

· If you don't even know Isaac's favorite meal, how are you going to get a spiritual blessing from him?
>>Scrip:
Do you not know me Philip?

· How could our misidentifications sometimes be so heretical, defiled, unloving, blind, complacent, careless, cold, indifferent, irresponsible, unsaved-minded, delusional, and hypocritical and we might act like we do not even notice and take it to heart?

·We must not simply proceed to carelessly tread forward and boldly make our own assertions without caution simply because another disciple's face is subjected before our feet.

Neighborly Examples

· The very same disorientation that has made many of you a foreigner to me at different times and seasons (for example) is the exact same confusion that makes you disconnected from heaven.
(I’m not talking about lack of communication, but lack of inherit tendency to relate.)

· In general, as a whole, why have we not all of us, all together been afraid and terrified to contradict each other as foreigners to each other?

· Are we really so willing to own such pseudo-identities as these for ourselves?

· Beware: when you entertain pseudo-identities for others you are embracing pseudo-identities for yourself (that’s why I said “for ourselves” in the previous sentence / bullet point.)

· You desperately need to get away in absolute solitude ^{[complete and total quietness]} in your prayer closet but oftentimes, in the exact same proportion, you also need to reorient yourself to the Truth on earth.

· (Notice that in our independent modern cultures we tend to think we should get our vertical position straight first and then eventually fix our horizontal relationships as well, but the Bible frequently teaches the opposite order: Mat_5:23-24, etc.)

· I am not saying that I have arrived and maintained a canonical track record throughout every trial we have gone through together, but what I am saying (temporarily using myself as an example again) is that a faithful Ruth will stay with Naomi and Jacob without wavering because she knows who she is as a gentile, and she also knows who her matriarch and patriarch are as monotheists out of this world. --
and this same subjection applies between all humble people and their brothers and sisters…

· You don’t need other people to be perfected before you can be faithful.

· Why be so concerned over other people’s failures when your own unworthiness is so much closer at hand to manage?

· Your required faithfulness to the righteous is not really dependent on and defined by how bad they can be but on how much worse YOU can be, and how much that makes you desperately need them!

· Other people’s issues do not excuse you from imitating their glories, nor are you allowed to prefer the convenience of your own evil (or shame) because someone else’s good is not consistent enough!

· This folly and absurd perversion has been tolerated way too long among us!

· When will we completely and permanently throw out this anti-gospel and cancer?

· It is high time to repent!

Love the Refuge & Heal Your Soul from Sin

· I’m Advocating: a steady commitment toward warmness vs breaching faithfulness and dis-arranging warm commitment. (4/12/20)
I’m Advocating: Welcoming good vs being unreliable for the desolate who are looking for a reason to live.
Even if you despair of your own life ^{2Co_1:3-11 (esp. 2Co_1:9)}, that is still no sanity to giving others a reason for suicide from your empty coldness.

· Notice that I am warning you of the serious nature of toying with these pseudo-identities and how grievously we have sinned against each other.

· Is that really the environment we truly prefer to raise a community of vulnerable souls in?

· Sometimes these types of suicidal pseudo-identities are the very reason kids have been tormented and not able to sleep.
(Partly reminiscent of the hateful and deathly environment I was raised in…)

· How dare any of us at times repeatedly put each other in the cold and so radically disarrange the eager warmness I have proclaimed to all of us for all of these years?
How dare we leave each other out in the cold?
How dare we be so independent and cold with our own souls?
And are we really so willing to own these pseudo-identities?
What are they giving us in return?
The indulgence of complacency, the apathy of unbelief, the cover up of unrepentance, the tolerance of preaching suicide?

· If this lovelessness exasperates me to watch on earth, how much more does it trouble the Kingdom of Justice in heaven?

· If you don’t…
(A) Value a disciple’s parable,
(B) Honor their essence,
(C) Recognize their surpassing elegance and marked prestige,
(D) Acknowledge bless and reward their sacrifice,
(E) Share in their God-ordained afflictions,
(F) Reverse the shames of their persecutions with honor and praise (ex. Feet washing in the Bible, chain kissing* in the early church),
(G) Rejoice in their faith moments,
(H) Eagerly develop into a faithful refuge defending their vulnerable/threatened hopes, and,
(I) Agree and synchronize with their faithful ambitions ^{[do great things]},
(If you don’t do these things) then you sin against real disciples “for whom anointed one died”! ^{1Co_8:11; Rom_14:15}

· Don’t profane the most rare and precious substance upon the face of the Earth!

· Let us consider the many ways and mark the various occasions where we might violate horizontal identity lest we sin against our own Truth with no end as blind fools!

* Chain Kissing

“Tertullian, advising a Christian woman to not marry an unbeliever wrote:

"For who would suffer his wife, for the sake of visiting the brethren...to creep into prison to kiss a martyr's bonds? nay, truly, to meet any one of the brethren to exchange the kiss?"”

“…allow her to creep into prison to kiss a martyr's bonds? No, truly, or even to meet any one of the faithful to exchange the kiss? Or to offer water for the saints' feet?”

“For who would suffer his wife, for the sake of visiting the brethren, to go round from street to street to other men's, and indeed to all the poorer, cottages? Who will willingly bear her being taken from his side by nocturnal convocations, if need so be? Who, finally, will without anxiety endure her absence all the night long at the paschal solemnities? Who will, without some suspicion of his own, dismiss her to attend that Lord's Supper which they defame? Who will suffer her to creep into prison to kiss a martyr's bonds? nay, truly, to meet any one of the brethren to exchange the kiss? to offer water for the saints' feet? to snatch (somewhat for them) from her food, from her cup? to yearn (after them)? to have (them) in her mind? If a pilgrim brother arrive, what hospitality for him in an alien home? If bounty is to be distributed to any, the granaries, the storehouses, are foreclosed.”

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2Co_1:9 GRVii+ αλλαG235CONJ ἀλλά other things αυτοιG846P-NPM αὐτός he, she, it ενG1722PREP ἔν in εαυτοιςG1438F-3DPM ἑαυτού -self τοG3588T-ASN ὁ the αποκριμαG610N-ASN ἀπόκριμα a judicial decision τουG3588T-GSM ὁ the θανατουG2288N-GSM θάνατος death εσχηκαμενG2192V-RAI-1P ἔχω to hold ιναG2443CONJ ἵνα in order that μηG3361PRT-N μή not πεποιθοτεςG3982V-2RAP-NPM πείθω to convince ωμενG5600V-PXS-1P εἰμί be εφG1909PREP ἐπί superimposition εαυτοιςG1438F-3DPM ἑαυτού -self αλλG235CONJ ἀλλά other things επιG1909PREP ἐπί superimposition τωG3588T-DSM ὁ the θεωG2316N-DSM θεός god τωG3588T-DSM ὁ the εγειροντιG1453V-PAP-DSM ἐγείρω to waken τουςG3588T-APM ὁ the νεκρουςG3498A-APM νεκρός dead

2Co_1:10 GRVii+ οςG3739R-NSM ὅς who, which εκG1537PREP ἐκ from τηλικουτουG5082D-GSM τηλικοῦτος such as this θανατουG2288N-GSM θάνατος death ερρυσατοG4506V-ANI-3S ῥύομαι to rush ημαςG2248P-1AP ἐγώ us καιG2532CONJ καί and ρυσεταιG4506V-FDI-3S ῥύομαι to rush να [ρυεταιG4506V-PNI-3S ῥύομαι to rush] τσβ ειςG1519PREP εἰς to ονG3739R-ASM ὅς who, which ηλπικαμενG1679V-RAI-1P ἐλπίζω to expect οτιG3754CONJ ὅτι that, because καιG2532CONJ καί and ετιG2089ADV ἔτι yet ρυσεταιG4506V-FDI-3S ῥύομαι to rush

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Repent of Horizontal Apostasy Failures

· The prerequisites of pressing yourself down and crucifying overconfidence may not instantly solve all your discouragement problems and it may still leave you temporarily pained by the attacks of condemning accusations, but real humility will never allow you to taint other people’s goodness!

· It is bad enough to forget who you are, but forgetting other people is utter^{/complete/stark} lovelessness and seriously hazards the safety of your soul –

· You cannot inherit heaven without faith / faithfulness.

· So…

· When will all the faithful Ruths raise up?

· What does it take before we finally tear at our hearts and become like Ruth, Johnathan, and David, Peter jumping into the water (after the resurrection), and the women anointing Jesus feet?

· Besides the typical symptoms of foolish indulgence, reckless independent confidence, and self-flattery, one of the most remarkable things that stood out to me in JD’s apostasy was her increasing avoidance and unwillingness to come clean and repent of sins against the other girls.

· While it has not even been close to the same degree as JD, and it certainly does not include all of the abundance of sick symptoms of overconfidence she displayed, yet I have still been thoroughly baffled by how much some of us have neglected each other and been willing to sin.

· It is bad enough to mess up, and it is even more unbearable to mess up repeatedly, but to be insensitive and not even apologize, even when you should be apologizing repeatedly ^{Luk_17:3-4; Mat_18:21-22}, is utter madness and folly.

· How dare any of us ever be so slow to apologize, as though we’ve never kissed wisdom before?

· It is very foolish to ignore your indebtedness to love, heal, fix, and amend the breaches you have caused in damaging good faithfulness and reciprocation with others.

· It has been quite an absurdity and utter failure among us that any of us at any time or any season have periodically (and even repeatedly!) in any sense thought to partly light our own lamp, or even somewhat longed for it to be lit for us by God, without just as zealously tearing our hearts in mourning to do justice and love to each other -- to the same degree, this complacent inconsistency foundationally contradicts ^{[goes against]} and overthrows any and everything I've ever taught any of us.

· What? Should we now seek ^{[look (for)]} an independent guidance spirit or the clean Truth? I do rebuke some of us in this (in various measures throughout different seasons) because to this same degree (with such pagan assumptions as these) you demand heaven's disapproval and incriminate the angels ^{[involving them in a crime]} if they dare seek to help you out of your trials.

· If your identity is painfully tainted, always check the warmth of your horizontal pulse.

· There is no praise for a cold and sinning soul. “So be zealous and repent” (Rev_3:19).

· That being said, even though we say all of these things (and we may even return to this theme later), this exhortation is not mainly about a rebuke but an answer…
And as we have been saying…

· These are the prerequisites to check and fulfill first so that we can then move on and believe good about ourselves with integrity.

The Answer to Horizontal Identity Failures

Answers For Now

· Preview: Remember, Poverty, etc.

· We're about to move on to other prerequisites, but for now let's remember and consider these somewhat simple answers which we already know:

· If you already have an Orthodox horizontal understanding and concept as a basis (which I would desperately hope should be so by now after so many years), then don't you already know that the answer to these horizontal failures is to do what you already know you should be doing?

· Then the Scripture is fulfilled that ‘he has shown you oh man what is good...’^Mic_6:8 (MT)

· So for us: Remember! (Jer_2:2, Heb_10:32-39, Gal_4:15-16, etc.)
Get warm.
Get humble.
Get faithful.
Take Justice seriously and do it!

· Ask questions and eagerly learn as much as you possibly can to repent and do justice as cleanly as possible, but,

· Don't play around with sick delusions as though your vindication in this is in any way far away when it is close at hand and ‘in your heart and mouth to do it’ ^{Deu_30:14; Rom_10:8}

But instead much rather…

· Let's read and imitate the stories of Love and horizontal Justice all throughout the Bible and become unlike anyone else who has ever gone before us...

Misidentifying People Is Misidentifying Jesus

>>Scrip:

in as much as you have done it to the least of these my brothers you have done it unto me

he who judges his brother judges the law

Mic_6:8 – shown / told you, O man what is good

Mic_6:8 WEB He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Mic_6:8 LB Has it not been told you, O man, what is good? Or what does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, and love mercy, and be ready to walk with the Lord your God?

Mic_6:8 εἰ ἀνηγγέλη σοι, ἄνθρωπε, τί καλόν; ἢ τί κύριος ἐκζητεῖ παρὰ σοῦ ἀλλ᾿ ἢ τοῦ ποιεῖν κρίμα καὶ ἀγαπᾶν ἔλεον καὶ ἕτοιμον εἶναι τοῦ πορεύεσθαι μετὰ κυρίου θεοῦ σου;

Heb_10:32-39 – Remember how… after you were illuminated

Heb_10:32 GRVii+ αναμιμνησκεσθεG363V-PMM-2P ἀναμιμνήσκω to remind δεG1161CONJ δέ but ταςG3588T-APF ὁ the προτερονG4386A-ASN πρότερον previously ημεραςG2250N-APF ἡμέρα day ενG1722PREP ἔν in αιςG3739R-DPF ὅς who, which φωτισθεντεςG5461V-APP-NPM φωτίζω to shed rays πολληνG4183A-ASF πολύς much αθλησινG119N-ASF ἄθλησις a struggle υπεμεινατεG5278V-AAI-2P ὑπομένω to stay under παθηματωνG3804N-GPN πάθημα something undergone

Heb_10:33 GRVii+ τουτοG5124D-NSN οὗτος that thing μενG3303PRT μέν in fact ονειδισμοιςG3680N-DPM ὀνειδισμός contumely τεG5037PRT τέ both καιG2532CONJ καί and θλιψεσινG2347N-DPF θλίψις pressure θεατριζομενοιG2301V-PPP-NPM θεατρίζω to expose as a spectacle τουτοG5124D-NSN οὗτος that thing δεG1161CONJ δέ but κοινωνοιG2844A-NPM κοινωνός a sharer τωνG3588T-GPM ὁ the ουτωςG3779ADV οὕτω in this way αναστρεφομενωνG390V-PPP-GPM ἀναστρέφω to overturn γενηθεντεςG1096V-AOP-NPM γίνομαι to cause to be

Heb_10:34 GRVii+ καιG2532CONJ καί and γαρG1063CONJ γάρ assigning a reason τοιςG3588T-DPM ὁ the δεσμιοιςG1198N-DPM δέσμιος a captive να [δεσμοιςG1199N-DPM δεσμόν a band] τσβ [μουG3450P-1GS ἐγώ of me] τσβ συνεπαθησατεG4834V-AAI-2P συμπαθέω to feel sympathy with καιG2532CONJ καί and τηνG3588T-ASF ὁ the αρπαγηνG724N-ASF ἁρπαγή pillage τωνG3588T-GPN ὁ the υπαρχοντωνG5224V-PAP-GPN ὑπάρχοντα things extant υμωνG5216P-2GP σύ of you μεταG3326PREP μετά accompaniment χαραςG5479N-GSF χαρά cheerfulness προσεδεξασθεG4327V-ADI-2P προσδέχομαι to admit γινωσκοντεςG1097V-PAP-NPM γινώσκω to know εχεινG2192V-PAN ἔχω to hold εαυτουςG1438F-3APM ἑαυτού -self να [ενG1722PREP ἔν in] τσ [εαυτοιςG1438F-3DPM ἑαυτού -self] τσβ κρειττοναG2909A-ASF κρείττων stronger υπαρξινG5223N-ASF ὕπαρξις existency [ενG1722PREP ἔν in] τσβ [ουρανοιςG3772N-DPM οὐρανός the sky] τσβ καιG2532CONJ καί and μενουσανG3306V-PAP-ASF μένω to stay

>> Read full context!

Gal_4:15-16 – Where then is that blessedness you spoke of

Gal_4:15 GRVii+ πουG4226PRT-I ποῦ at what locality να [τιςG5101I-NSM τίς who? which?] τσβ ουνG3767CONJ οὖν certainly [ηνG2258V-IXI-3S εἰμί I was] τσβ οG3588T-NSM ὁ the μακαρισμοςG3108N-NSM μακαρισμός beatification υμωνG5216P-2GP σύ of you μαρτυρωG3140V-PAI-1S μαρτυρέω to be a witness γαρG1063CONJ γάρ assigning a reason υμινG5213P-2DP σύ to you οτιG3754CONJ ὅτι that, because ειG1487COND εἰ if δυνατονG1415A-NSN δυνατός powerful τουςG3588T-APM ὁ the οφθαλμουςG3788N-APM ὀφθαλμός the eye υμωνG5216P-2GP σύ of you εξορυξαντεςG1846V-AAP-NPM ἐξορύσσω to dig out [ανG302PRT ἄν soever] τσβ εδωκατεG1325V-AAI-2P δίδωμι to give μοιG3427P-1DS ἐγώ to me

Gal_4:16 ωστεG5620CONJ ὥστε so too εχθροςG2190A-NSM ἐχθρός hateful υμωνG5216P-2GP σύ of you γεγοναG1096V-2RAI-1S γίνομαι to cause to be αληθευωνG226V-PAP-NSM ἀληθεύω to be true υμινG5213P-2DP σύ to you

Deu_30:14; Rom_10:8 – In your heart and mouth to do it

Deu_30:14 WEB But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that you may do it.

Deu_30:14 LB The word is very near you, in your mouth, and in your heart, and in your hands, to do it.

Deu_30:14 ἔστιν σου ἐγγὺς τὸ ῥῆμα σφόδρα ἐν τῷ στόματί σου καὶ ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ σου καὶ ἐν ταῖς χερσίν σου αὐτὸ ποιεῖν.

1Th_5:11 GRVii+ διοG1352CONJ διό through which thing παρακαλειτεG3870V-PAM-2P παρακαλέω to call near αλληλουςG240C-APM ἀλλήλων one another καιG2532CONJ καί and οικοδομειτεG3618V-PAM-2P οἰκοδομέω to be a house-builder ειςG1520A-NSM εἷς one τονG3588T-ASM ὁ the εναG1520A-ASM εἷς one καθωςG2531ADV καθώς just as καιG2532CONJ καί and ποιειτεG4160V-PAI-2P ποιέω to make

1Th_5:12 ερωτωμενG2065V-PAI-1P ἐρωτάω to interrogate δεG1161CONJ δέ but υμαςG5209P-2AP σύ you αδελφοιG80N-VPM ἀδελφός a brother ειδεναιG1492V-RAN οἶδα to see τουςG3588T-APM ὁ the κοπιωνταςG2872V-PAP-APM κοπιάω to feel fatigue ενG1722PREP ἔν in υμινG5213P-2DP σύ to you καιG2532CONJ καί and προισταμενουςG4291V-PMP-APM προΐστημι to stand before υμωνG5216P-2GP σύ of you ενG1722PREP ἔν in κυριωG2962N-DSM κύριος lord καιG2532CONJ καί and νουθετουνταςG3560V-PAP-APM νουθετέω to put in mind υμαςG5209P-2AP σύ you

1Th_5:13 καιG2532CONJ καί and ηγεισθαιG2233V-PNN ἡγέομαι to lead αυτουςG846P-APM αὐτός he, she, it υπερεκπερισσουG5228PREP ὑπέρ over να ---G4057ADV περισσῶς superabundantly να [υπερG5228PREP ὑπέρ over] τσβ [εκπερισσουG4057ADV περισσῶς superabundantly] τσβ ενG1722PREP ἔν in αγαπηG26N-DSF ἀγάπη love διαG1223PREP διά through τοG3588T-ASN ὁ the εργονG2041N-ASN ἔργον toil αυτωνG846P-GPM αὐτός he, she, it ειρηνευετεG1514V-PAM-2P εἰρηνεύω to be peaceful ενG1722PREP ἔν in εαυτοιςG1438F-3DPM ἑαυτού -self

1Th_5:14 παρακαλουμενG3870V-PAI-1P παρακαλέω to call near δεG1161CONJ δέ but υμαςG5209P-2AP σύ you αδελφοιG80N-VPM ἀδελφός a brother νουθετειτεG3560V-PAM-2P νουθετέω to put in mind τουςG3588T-APM ὁ the ατακτουςG813A-APM ἄτακτος unarranged παραμυθεισθεG3888V-PNM-2P παραμυθέομαι to relate near τουςG3588T-APM ὁ the ολιγοψυχουςG3642A-APM ὀλιγόψυχος little-spirited αντεχεσθεG472V-PNM-2P ἀντέχομαι to hold oneself opposite to τωνG3588T-GPM ὁ the ασθενωνG772A-GPM ἀσθενής strengthless μακροθυμειτεG3114V-PAM-2P μακροθυμέω to be long-spirited προςG4314PREP πρός forward to πανταςG3956A-APM πᾶς all

Heb_10:36 υπομονηςG5281N-GSF ὑπομονή cheerful endurance γαρG1063CONJ γάρ assigning a reason εχετεG2192V-PAI-2P ἔχω to hold χρειανG5532N-ASF χρεία employment ιναG2443CONJ ἵνα in order that τοG3588T-ASN ὁ the θελημαG2307N-ASN θέλημα a determination τουG3588T-GSM ὁ the θεουG2316N-GSM θεός god ποιησαντεςG4160V-AAP-NPM ποιέω to make κομισησθεG2865V-AMS-2P κομίζω to provide for τηνG3588T-ASF ὁ the επαγγελιανG1860N-ASF ἐπαγγελία an announcement

Rev_3:19 εγωG1473P-1NS ἐγώ I οσουςG3745K-APM ὅσος as as εανG1437COND ἐάν in case that φιλωG5368V-PAS-1S φιλέω to be a friend to ελεγχωG1651V-PAI-1S ἐλέγχω to confute καιG2532CONJ καί and παιδευωG3811V-PAI-1S παιδεύω to train up a child ζηλευεG2206V-PAM-2S ζηλόω to have warmth of feeling for να [ζηλωσονG2206V-AAM-2S ζηλόω to have warmth of feeling for] τσβ ουνG3767CONJ οὖν certainly καιG2532CONJ καί and μετανοησονG3340V-AAM-2S μετανοέω to think differently

Luk_17:3 προσεχετεG4337V-PAM-2P προσέχω to hold the mind towards εαυτοιςG1438F-3DPM ἑαυτού -self εανG1437COND ἐάν in case that [δεG1161CONJ δέ but] τσβ αμαρτηG264V-2AAS-3S ἁμαρτάνω to miss the mark [ειςG1519PREP εἰς to] τσβ [σεG4571P-2AS σύ thee] τσβ οG3588T-NSM ὁ the αδελφοςG80N-NSM ἀδελφός a brother σουG4675P-2GS σύ of thee επιτιμησονG2008V-AAM-2S ἐπιτιμάω to tax upon αυτωG846P-DSM αὐτός he, she, it καιG2532CONJ καί and εανG1437COND ἐάν in case that μετανοησηG3340V-AAS-3S μετανοέω to think differently αφεςG863V-2AAM-2S ἀφίημι an intensive form of αυτωG846P-DSM αὐτός he, she, it

Luk_17:4 καιG2532CONJ καί and εανG1437COND ἐάν in case that επτακιςG2034ADV ἑπτακίς seven times τηςG3588T-GSF ὁ the ημεραςG2250N-GSF ἡμέρα day αμαρτησηG264V-AAS-3S ἁμαρτάνω to miss the mark να [αμαρτηG264V-2AAS-3S ἁμαρτάνω to miss the mark] τσβ ειςG1519PREP εἰς to σεG4571P-2AS σύ thee καιG2532CONJ καί and επτακιςG2034ADV ἑπτακίς seven times [τηςG3588T-GSF ὁ the] τσβ [ημεραςG2250N-GSF ἡμέρα day] τσβ επιστρεψηG1994V-AAS-3S ἐπιστρέφω to revert προςG4314PREP πρός forward to να [επιG1909PREP ἐπί superimposition] τσ σεG4571P-2AS σύ thee νατσ λεγωνG3004V-PAP-NSM λέγω to lay forth μετανοωG3340V-PAI-1S μετανοέω to think differently αφησειςG863V-FAI-2S ἀφίημι an intensive form of αυτωG846P-DSM αὐτός he, she, it

Mat_18:21 τοτε the when προσελθων to approach [αυτω he, she, it] τσβ ο the πετρος a rock ειπεν to speak αυτω he, she, it να κυριε lord ποσακις how many times αμαρτησει to miss the mark εις to εμε me ο the αδελφος a brother μου of me και and αφησω an intensive form of αυτω he, she, it εως a conjunction επτακις seven times

Mat_18:22 λεγει to lay forth αυτω he, she, it ο the ιησους Jesus ου no, not λεγω to lay forth σοι to thee εως a conjunction επτακις seven times αλλα other things να [αλλ other things] τσβ εως a conjunction εβδομηκοντακις seventy times επτα seven

Poverty Prerequisite for a Blessed Identity

1/13/20-1/15/20; 1/17/20-1/18/20; 1/20/20…1/25/20…2/8/20; 2/16/20; 3/14/20; 3/20/20

· Before we go on to address the depths of our Identity Chrissies we got to first back up and address the more obvious prerequisites of poverty integrity.

· You got to be a poor crouching beggar before therapeutically “fixing your identity perception” will legitimately help your prayer life.

· Poverty is the visible tangible virtue that directly correlates with the answer of being tested and approved by God’s testimony (and approval is realized by perception and thorough judging).

· Begging is morally Synonymous with Discernment Approval – Although they are not the same (spiritual) event, honestly perceiving approval and the virtue of poor begging go hand-in-hand which is why church people are so completely desolate in both of these areas.

· After you have obtained that blessed approval from begging, then you also want to obtain perception to realize that approval and agree with God’s testimony about yourself.

· Being Truly poor is a prerequisite to honestly perceiving approval.

· Being poor inherently precedes being legitimately encouraged and believing that you’re approved.

· If you are already full of mud and self-satisfied then essentially none of the good and praiseworthy descriptions about a disciple can safely be applied to you without hazarding & risking hypocrisy - this flattery of the wicked is churchianity's core problem and absolutely must be the distinct particular difference between them and us

· You cannot just educate the identity of church people for them to have pure and profitable hope -- The honest Truth will actually incriminate them as sinners, not encourage their unclean prayer life!

· So first be sure to sufficiently check (and double-check) your begging poverty level with integrity as a basis for hope before moving on to establish courage in your identity perception.

· Let’s make sure to treat our poverty levels like we got a real small tank that must always be maintained and refilled. After all we wouldn’t want to run out of gas and risk failing our mission would we?

· We dare not ever tolerate any more from among us returning to their vomit and becoming a church person, or even a mixed Balaam who does not persevere in integrity toward the Truth…

· All such failures come from luxury and loving the wages of injustice, therefore poor begging is the only identity solution blessed by the mouth of Jesus.
(Can we quote Mat_5 and Luk_6? Do we hear the identity being established and praised here?)

· Does poverty maintain overconfidence?

· Does poverty neglect the value of those from whom it begs and admires?

· What disciple is there whom poverty does not admire, praise, and thoroughly lead to surpassing value above itself? ^{Php_2:3; Rom_12:3}

· Does poverty sin against any of the prerequisites to a blessed identity?
Therefore…

· Poverty is the ultimate prerequisite to a blessed identity.

The Point: Poverty Integrity is the first Hope for our Identity without Hypocrisy.

We need integrity to test our poverty levels and serious helps to perceive the blessed identity it brings so that we can increase the hope of our identity without faking it like church people.

If we have done horizontal justice to others and obtained Poverty Integrity in ourselves, then we can finally raise up from our reproaches, rebukes, and humiliations, as a striking warrior getting up from the dust with clean clothing and serious weapons, and move on to more directly fight and overcome our enemies and our trials.

The ABCs of Identity Crisis Can Be Complicated

· In some sense these identity issues can seem overly rudimentary (primal, basic, and elementary) and in other aspects these identity issues seem staggering and mystifying and elusive and over our heads, so much so that our daily struggle can be pained with these basic things as though they are overly complicated and way over our head and way too powerful for us to defeat.

· In some sense these things can feel like the ABCs of believing Truth: If you believe that you have something right then you got to believe you have been made right by them above others in order to walk consistently in faith and be courageously separated from the inferiority of the world and your war against sin – now why is that so hard to believe, if indeed you have been approved by the superior and surpassing Truth?

· Let’s consider why the ABCs can seem so complicated and easily and skillfully twisted and manipulated by our pseudo-identities so that we might no longer be so easily defeated by them.

Learn to Fish -- Perceptively!

· An easy answer is not the ultimate answer to getting out of our trials.

· In one sense I know we all want to sit on the edge of our seats for specific examples and clear definitions and direct answers to who we are, but there are deeper principles to apprehend first.

· “Answering plainly”* has its value (for sure, especially for teaching), but we also want to "learn how to fish" so that we may eat forever.

· As Moses said, ‘I wish all God's people were prophets’ - because then I would have many friends who would very happily be willing to relate to me and I would not be alone in the earth.

· Perception is not easy, and almost never comes by default, but,

· I know this: if any of us could see what’s going on spiritually all around us in this world then you would not only help yourself but you would be my closest friend and my love tank would virtually never have to run dry any more.

We don’t just need an easy answer with the correct information but instead we need to get better at being poor and accurately perceiving who we are in order to get somewhere in our hope and encouragement without crashing right into the self-flattering hypocrisy of churchianity in the process.

>> Transition over to the poverty-lacking problem now?

That being said, although being deep and spiritual is the ultimate answer, there are definitely some very basic and concrete virtues of integrity to start off with that directly correlate with perception which we are responsible to fulfill to be approved…

* Joh_16:25-29 – Now you are Answering plainly

Perceive Whatever is Good

· The goal here is that whether you have heard a voice from heaven, or you have been made particularly clean, or you ought to get serious about seeing some serious power, or you have been called to be something or someone special, in whatever real aspect you have been made to shine with incredible value, then wholly give yourself to this very thing of real value accurately and you will shine, and be happy and victorious and triumphet in your hope - which does not disappoint

· When you do justice and also validly know who you really are at the same time, then you make yourself pertain to the real clean voice in heaven, but when you are disoriented you can make yourself a foreigner to the clean Truth in heaven and on earth, and if you are confused and vague you can suffer much affliction and torment in your wanderings

>>Scrip:

stir up the gift of God... Give yourself wholly to it

Romans 12 and Ephesians multifaceted gifting

Acts: go with them thoroughly judging nothing

Jacob's Spirit revived

these last two passages are at the heart core of everything we are getting at for an answer

and these two passages ricocheted out of morning prayer after dreaming of a deep sense of pleasure and longing to go to prayer in my dream and remembering this deep satisfaction and rejoicing happiness

>>Scrip:

for whom am I denying my soul pleasure?

for whom do I labor

indeed, it can be quite hard for us to remember who we are when we are so faintly engaged in a context where our greatest value and truest essence is most realized

Horizontal Identity Helps

Other date(s); 3/9/20

· The Identity of others and your relationships with them can inform and fulfill your identity.

· Can Ruth be fragmented and isolated from Naomi?

· Would Naomi’s greatness ever be known to us without Ruth?

· Seek out much greatness for your soul, but by all means don’t do it (nor idealize yourself) alone!

· When you’re getting nowhere and finding no answers, quite often you need to turn to others to find who you are.

· When you have others hoping beside you, you do not necessarily need to fast forward to your ultimate greatness before being greatly defined in the process along the way.

· Other people can tell you a lot about what God thinks about you.

· Be as great as you can, and whenever you run out of greatness go admire another’s greatness to fuel your own even further.

· As much as you can be like Moses, cherish the fire that speaks to you, and as much as you can be like Joshua, cherish the prayer tent of Moses.

· Our relationships with others can be very definitive for the goodness done to our individual identities which we are to faithfully carry and rejoice in when coming to prayer.

· Whenever you may feel like you might lack individual identity and personal promises sufficient to rejoice in Good Love toward your own soul in prayer, don't forget the serious Orthodoxy of what weighty goodness and love has been shown to you through your connection and relationship to others who particularly bestow upon you such prestigious value.

· When reading the Bible everyone can seem like they want to jump the gun and assume they should start off like Moses, while forgetting to occupy themselves in cherishing his prayer tent as a proper apprenticeship for your own coming glories.

· It is okay to lose your own identity in order to find it, while in the meantime capitalizing on whatever real knowledge you already have that is valid and rejoicing deeply in it in prayer.

· So be diligent to look (with scientific integrity) for the good things that God has Truly spoken to you, and by all means if there is anything still lacking (yet you’re a real disciple) don't forget to look horizontally to those solid and concrete things done beside you (after all, you can hear, see, and possibly even touch them!) which are implying particular value unto you, because you can be sure that God has (at least somewhere) sufficiently provided motivation for you between these two things with valuable rejoicing sufficient to sweeten your prayers unto Orthodox cherishing.

· As we have said, you can very quickly and easily stop dead in your tracks from making any Orthodox progress whenever and wherever you sin against your prayer life, both vertically and horizontally, so repent quickly and wholeheartedly restore Justice with all of your heart so that you do not sabotage or jeopardize or delay or trouble or defile the favorable happiness of coming before God to pray up into heaven.

· It doesn't matter if you’re considering others or yourself, it is real knowledge and real perception that makes a clean and vital prayer life. – That means that just really knowing who someone else is can set your prayer life on fire because perception defines you with value in the process.

· Perception defines you with Justice, and every time you agree with anything God says (as Moses was faithful in all God’s house) you are brought nearer to the Truth and defined by the privilege of its closeness.

· The more unique and rare it is when men agree with God on a subject, the more of an intimate secret it is to believe, and more intimacy means more close relationship with the Ultimate One whom you are to be defined by.

· People are all very unique and loaded with meaning and moral significance and at the same time no one’s flesh ever wants to really agree with what God says about anyone, else they would have to admit that their entire flattering world view about all humans was completely wrong, therefore agreeing with God about the uniqueness of individual people is a rare and untapped gold mine of secrecy and mystery loaded with Divine intimacy and personal definition that glorifies out of this world!

· Hint: I am telling you some of my most precious secrets that make me who I am, and I caution you lest any among us even be unworthy to hear these things, because many times we have sinned against these things, sometimes even days without number…

· Some among us have been held in trial and denied favor for years for sinning against the Truth within the identity of others…

· Do justice to the identity of those beside you, get poor as a beggar to gain the right identity, yet perception to perceive who you really are in this right identity - then go apprehend some seriously glorious prayer.

Now let’s watch this glorious identity perception in action:

Jeremiah 27-28 – Jeremiah’s Anti-Prophet: The lord will bring back Jeconiah

(as seen in BLEP, our Bible Summaries, etc.)

1Sa_15 (1Sa_15:26) – 1Sa_16:1, 1Sa_16:6-13 – Samuel’s Integrity: God told Samuel, I have rejected him

Mat_11:11; Luk_7:28; Joh_1:21 – Who was John the Baptist -- more than a prophet

Mat_16:13-20; Mar_8:27 – Who do men say that I am

...

1Th_5:12 – Recognize those who labor among you

1Pe_3:7 – Don't let your prayers be cut off as spouses might experience if they neglect each other...

2Co_1:14; 1Th_2:19 – we are your crown and you are ours

Horizontal Service Informs Your Identity

How Serving Others Can Define Us in Truth

>> Continuing to talking about Horizontal Helps

What then do we know that makes us who we are?

· Seek to bring something True to the Assembly

· Love each other and serve into each other canonically

· In so many ways your identity can be troubled Into obscurity when you forget to use the core value of your real essence to relate to other people in Love

· Although we all legitimately long for a dictionary definition of ourselves, yet in the meantime we will be certain to shine out in real value when we do what we were designed to do, even if we can't put names to everything and tie down every detail... The light will still shine out unavoidably and Define us into life

· Let's carefully establish what is most Orthodox about each other and our own identity will be unavoidable

· The greatest glories will bring about ultimate firmness in self-perception and identity, but the proper apprenticeship for greatness is first focused on others.

>> get “body” context…

>> required use -- emphasis

Rom_12:6-8

1Co_12 – 1Co_12:8-10, 1Co_12:28-30

1Co_14:26 – Each has something

1Co_14:31 – That you may all prophesy

Eph_4:11-16 – Ephesians gifts

1Pe_4:11

Underconfident Perceptual Dilemmas

The Perceptual Dilemma of Underconfidence

· Once we’ve overcome overconfidence and injustice by the integrity of poverty and obtained a blessed identity through it, is anyone finally ready to start overcoming underconfidence?

· In our zeal against being overconfident like churchianity, the dilemma of the righteous is that we are more prone toward being underconfident. ^Rom_12

· If you are underconfident in what you ought to rather believe more strongly, then you are tormented (hopefully at least along with the patriarchs) until your light is resolved.

· How do you resolve the inaccurate discouragement of Underconfidence without swinging its emphasis over to the inaccurate boldness of overconfidence?

Traumatic Sources of Underconfidence

How Underconfidence Trauma is Reinforced

· If you have passed the tests of poverty and found integrity and you have shunned Superstitious self-defined Pseudo-Identities, then we can finally get to the root cause of our PIC Trial and get some seriously exciting answers…

· You hoped for something and it did not happen.

· Were you totally off base in your hope?

· Or was it that Anointed One was crucified?

· Did someone tell you that Joseph was dead?

· Is this a case where you just need to wait faithfully for Truth to return to you, or is this a case where you actually had something wrong to begin with?

· Oftentimes you may have hoped for something and it didn't happen and you thought you were off base but what really happened was you didn't pray faithfully and cleanly and perhaps even long enough.

· And then again, was your trauma indeed a case of not praying long enough and/or could this also be radically inter-tangled with the possibility that you thought you were a David-like parable and you were actually supposed to be Elijah?

Trauma happens from deferred hope, unanswered wishes and prayers, and crushing disappointments

feelings of being betrayed or abandon or even stood up in you're waiting for hope can traumatize one's hope unto the point of not knowing how and where to travel forward, like David when trying to bring the ark into Jerusalem.

The Point: Underconfidence Trauma Causes PICs

· You can pretty much determine that you probably have Underconfidence Trauma somewhere when you are facing a PIC (Perceptual Identity Crisis).

· Are there other examples of Underconfidence Trauma we can think of?

· How can we overcome our Trauma?

Test then Believe

Gal_2:5 – we didn't yield to them for a moment

Gal_2:9 – but even those who seem to be pillars added nothing to us

1Co_9:27 – Lest I be disqualified

2Co_13:5 – Test yourselves if you are in the faith

“Test yourselves” is part of the New Covenant phenomena where covenant members are now more mysteriously and invisibly, spiritually connected to the Covenant, and this makes it more deep to verify, and this has been mega exploited in this age to fill churches with apostates… so we must check all the more carefully with integrity and finally obey the Scripture to test if we are being in the faith rather than simply relying upon our own evil overconfidence.

Paul was willing to put himself under a microscope - this also correlates with why we can be willing to describe ourselves as spiritual scientists

Once you have verified that you are poor and pertain to The Obedience of the truth then it is not time to doubt but it is time to Hope - because the poor are blessed we are not at all allowed to curse or disbelieve that blessing

how can anyone curse whom God has blessed?

Once we have been thoroughly examined under the microscope it is not time to doubt the conclusive evidence but it is time to Hope because of it

Pessimism Overcome by Scientific Goodness

1/13/20

· Having known myself in some sort of natural experience, by default I could very easily be pessimistic about myself since I come from a background of depression and Suicidal Tendencies

· The last thing I want is to flatter myself with fluff

· As for me, I have no interest in flattering myself and telling myself that I'm righteous or anything like that

· I choose to believe the good things spoken about me simply because it helps me obey the Bible

· I cannot enjoy prayer or look forward to waking up early or sacrificing or hoping in the Truth or succeed in clean rejoicing if I'm contradicting the Truth I was told to use to accomplish these very things, therefore I choose to believe the good things said to me because I have to obey the Bible

· It doesn't matter what it is, our official stance is that "we support everything that causes us to obey the Bible"

· This is also why we should put a premium on enjoying marriage

· I actually stretch myself to believe good things and I see very clearly it correlates with obeying the Bible therefore I am thrust forward toward hoping in good things for obedience sake

· This also ties back into being scientific

Hebrews Road to Faith

1/19/20-1/20/20

· Heb_6:9-12 & Heb_11 Teach us some important things about Hoping in God’s faithful goodness to reward us for being True in righteous and clean hope…

· You should believe legitimate good about yourself when going to prayer --

· Believing legitimate good determines what good rewards you believe you have access to.

· If you remove necessary good from before your hope, then your prayers break and fall apart -- along with your faith, motivation, purpose, and identity.

· In order to have Good prayer, you got to have faith

· To have faith, you got to believe in the rewards.

· To believe in the rewards, you got to acknowledge God’s memory of your good (Heb_6:9-12, etc.)

· In order to acknowledge God’s memory of good, you got to acknowledge His righteous and Faithful character.

· Hebrews 11 teaches you got to believe in the reward to have faith in prayer, and this is previously tied into God’s faithfulness to reward and ‘not forget your labor of Love’ (Heb_6:9-12, etc.), and this is your real identity -- which is rewarded and is a valid basis for faith.

· So… Acknowledge God’s righteous faithful conception of rewarding the good done in you so that you may believe to yet still apprehend more exciting rewards in prayer.

Enjoying Prayer from the Right Identity

The Answer We All Await

· Remember the good things you used to believe about yourself and about what was possible in prayer when (at least at one time) you used to enjoy prayer? 1/13/20

· You can be successfully driven to deep satisfaction and disciplined addiction to prayer if you can accurately acknowledge / believe / rejoice in what God has truly done in your life that defines Who You really Are.

· When you believe the True good things God says about you (and others), then you are much more likely to enjoy prayer as one who cherishes the company of their very best friend.

· When we are talking about enjoying prayer again, we're not talking about always being "happy go lucky", but what we're talking about is enjoying the comforting company of your best friend even at times when you're sad.

· It is essential to believe any and everything God has spoken to you that has made you relevant to goodness, or spoken about you to your praise, or in any way where He has related to you to make you canonical.

· We have got to believe (1) wherever God has spoken to us, and, (2) that He can speak to us, and, (3) that He certainly will reward us.

· Press in to know what good things God has done toward you that you may fully delight in and cherish heaven when you go to pray.

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where is the blessed ness you spoke of

Regain Identity and Automatically Overflow with Rejoicing

· In a very deep and profound way, the things that we believe God has said to us and done in us so completely affect and define the core identity of who we think we are, so that when we might forget such things it is as though we have lost part of our core essential identity, as though someone did a "frontal lobotomy" on our brain, but maybe even worse spiritually…

· The good news is that even though you may feel like you have lost your identity and don't know who you are and feel undefined, and lost, and vague, and hazy, and asleep, and drunk, and confused, and without direction, all you need is the Orthodox Truth of goodness to revive your hope and instruct you in the way of opportunity for an overflow of much cherishing and rejoicing, goodness, and love...

· Just as evil defeated you by manipulating the ABCs of your faith so also much more quickly can Truth save and resurrect you by the more powerful light of truth when it enters (or re-enters) your soul.
(After all, the darkness cannot overtake or even keep up with the light, much less defeat it!)

· How easy it is to rejoice and cherish prayer when you feel the warmth of the Truth embracing you and Loving you and you are very persuaded that it will reward you...

· Consider how so much good can be so profoundly stifled and quenched and oppressed simply by being denied the Truth – and isn't this the very thing Hell desires and we go to war fighting against?

· There is a default of overflowing love and glorious praise from the righteous who hope in the righteous God who longs to give them righteous Justice – and all we need is for our mouths to be unstopped and Orthodox opportunity afforded and given to us to enlighten our eyes with perception.

· And how much good rejoicing and praise and thankfulness and overflow of Love, toward each other and toward heaven, can easily and automatically flow forth from the righteous when they are simply told the Truth?

· I’m sure we are all tired enough of pushing a broke down vehicle uphill and wish it would just work automatically like it is supposed to.

· We must be determined to not simply go through the motions in prayer and drift through life without motivation and purpose and Identity...

· The untapped potential of knowing our identity compels us to get somewhere in perception so our prayer lives can be revitalized and revolutionized.

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Know the things freely given to us

Seasonal Identities

· @Ay: one who is tied in with Proclamation to accomplish much

· @H2: one who fills up in the sufferings of anointed one upon the Earth and should brace herself in hope for much love

· @Vc: One who must not be Slack in zealously throwing down justice against all of our enemies with powerfulness, might, strength, and courageousness - Who currently has a physical Parable to tend to along with many properly correlating prayers to relieve the holy ones.

· @Al: a composer of Truth who's glories we all anticipate

· along with many multiplying living stones called to Virtue to build up the house of the Anointed One

Applications Of Identity

· I know we need to be very strong and courageous and vigorous for the mission that is upon us.

· Anything less than courageous labor is a betrayal of our identity - both individually and corporately.

· Let the laboring hearts and hands be made strong, knowing from whom they have been born and unto what they have been called.

Feedback & Comments

1/12/20

haSun 7:07pm

If did bible study till midnight would we finish the bible study?

haSun_7:15pm

Can you repeat the believe what God said that he can speak to you etc part

VcSun_7:15pm

• We have got to believe (1) wherever God has spoken to us, and, (2) that He can speak to us, and, (3) that He certainly will reward us.

AySun_7:21pm(edited)

I was trying not say too much this morning but you've repeated verbatim about 75% of what I wrote down and prayed about this morning and that I felt like i was blasted with in prayer...

Im not usually a writer but I was trying to keep up with everything and im glad I did now...

HdSun_7:59pm

@Ay: so when you going to tell me more?? :+)

AySun_9:30pm(edited)

@Hd I'm still very humbled, perplexed and wowed...

There's an element where it feels like I've interfaced/prayed about/been thinking about a lot of what you mentioned today in both your prayers and exhortation and I was even anticipating the Lord bringing it out of your mouth. I just wasn't expecting the potency and how much you confirmed today, so it's a lot for my mind to process.

This morning was one of the most happiest and helped prayer times I have had in a long time. It was mostly on account of considering possibilities of what the depths of spiritual perceptions could pertain to and being very excited about and eagerly wanting and praying for spiritual discernment.

At one point I got intimidated to really pray and expect that I could get access to the depths of these things because you've mostly always associated it with our Mom taking hold of what you had. Then 1 of the things I remembered was how you've also always agreed with moses' sentiment about wishing everyone prophesied (for now moreso discern) and so I encouraged myself with that and also wrote it down. You repeated this sentiment today.

Also, some of the additional implications I prayed about this morning that related to this kind of spiritual perception seemed a bit wild. Even though some of your past words and even biblical examples started making more sense and it seemed like an onrush of a lot of different things were all making sense suddenly out of nowhere, I figured i would still sound too crazy if i tried to bring them up, so I told the lord that I would try not to make much of anything unless you specifically brought up crrtain things today which you did.

Now I'm even more excited about taking hold of the depths of these things. I look forward to hearing more and I'm encouraged to pray really ferverently and believe for them!

Thank you Sir and I bless the God of heaven for giving you to us as a righteous and spiritual proclaimer! I wish I were there to kiss your feet.

AySun_9:48pm

Truth is so great and exciting

AySun 10:07pm(edited)

Hopefully what I said wasnt so vague that it doesnt make sense, but I dont know how to go into more specifics at the moment in chat.

HdSun_10:36pm(edited)

@Ay: Thanks Happy

what you said sounds great and i look forward to hearing more and more :+)

AySun_10:37pm

HdSun_10:37pm

Thanks for praying!

AySun_10:37pm

Im listening to you again (I recorded it :-D)

HdSun_10:37pm

! :+)

Thanks Happy

AySun_10:40pm

Thanks for blessing them. Last week you prayed for me to have glorious prayers so I sought to be motivated and to hope in that today.

HdSun_10:41pm

:+D

just what i want!

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1/19/20

haSun 4:09pm

Who you are is directly connected tp what you know, heard, experienced.

Does this refer to your ultimate calling or just what youve currenrly attained, like you mightve attained passing fron death to oife, but maybe havent attained to greatness or something

[Rom_12:]

AySun_4:53pm(edited)

Possible Example of schema meaning: "schematics" in architecture where it shows the layout or arrangement of some type of system: like how the pipes in the plumbing system of a house or the electrical system, floorplans, etc.

AySun_5:39pm

I thought you've mentioned before that connecting to the spiritual realm isnt something specific to the righteous cause you have people like psychics, and nowadays a lot of people are finding ways to legitmately connect to the spiritual realm. I thought that the main things was if they are obeying the bible and connecting through virtue, etc.

God Like You, If You’re Made Righteous

~4/1/12

Psa_147:11 WEB Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.

Psa_147:11 The Lord takes pleasure [εὐδοκεῖ] in them that fear Him, and in all that hope in His mercy.

Psa_147:11 (146:11) εὐδοκεῖ κύριος ἐν τοῖς φοβουμένοις αὐτὸν καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἐλπίζουσιν ἐπὶ τὸ ἔλεος αὐτοῦ.

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Alay: Pro 15:8 KJV The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Alay: Pro 15:8 CAB The sacrifices of the ungodly are an abomination to the Lord, but the prayers of them that walk honestly are acceptable to Him.

Known by Him

8/4/17

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1Co 8:3 LB But if anyone loves God, this one has been known by Him.

1Co 8:3 ει δε τις αγαπα τον θεον ουτος εγνωσται υπ αυτου

Writer A. Additions

~4/1/12

God's Love and Favor

Joh_3:16

Joh_15:9

Rom_8:31-39

Rom_4:4-8

Eph_1:17-23

Eph_2:4-10

Eph_3:14-21

Defeat Fear And Guilt

Luk_1:74-75

Rom_8:1

1Ti_1:7

My inheritance

Rom_2:6

2Co_4:17-18

Jesus is Able

1Co_1:30

Heb_9:13-14

Heb_10:22-23

Heb_7:25

Jud_1:24-25

Rev_19:11-16

A Short Introduction & Explanation

8/8/06?

Although God's Word often challenges us to see if we are in the faith in the first place, for those who have truly repented of their sins, forsaken everything, and gone to the extreme to follow Jesus, there is also much need for encouragement. Thankfully the Bible is overflowing with this as well. This compilation contains my personal list of the most encouraging verses in the Bible that have given me assurance, confidence, renewal, and hope.

If you have not already read Salvation Basics, please consider reading that short document first to be sure that these verses will apply to you. Then, when you are sure that they do, you can have all the more confidence and encouragement from reading this compilation. But in short, if you meet the above description in the introductory paragraph, (that is, you are following and obeying Jesus) then these verses certainly apply to you, and I pray that they will encourage and revolutionize you as much as they have me.

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>>> These notes need to be organized

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No condemnation

any charge

He has perfected forever...

this is love

But God demonstrates... Rom 5:8

As the Father has loved me so have I [phileoed] you

He who has my commands and obeys them...

take my yoke upon you

be anxious for nothing

do not fear him who can kill the body...

we love him because He first loved us

1jn 2-3

Jesus' speach

Abraham friend

rejoice over you as fathers

moses

Joshua in tent

phinias and spear

must believe rewarder

[got to believe the He's good]

Sometimes it is encouraging to lament (to morn), or just to read those who do, and to know you’re not the only one who feels like that

The worst thing is to be eaten up with unresolved disappointments and frustrations without expressing it to God.

we are dust

if you counted sins who could satand mercy

point of death...

not to point of blood shead

Joseph's spirit revived

For more, consider reading some Psalms of Crying out to God for your devotional time every day:

...

I hope these have lifted you up and let you percieve the good truth of God wich is ablr to change you and make you alive with hope.

Why not print this out and highlight the ones that you think God is specifically wanting to use in your life. If I were you, I would select a number of these verses and read/pray through them every day. This is how I have lived for years, and this is the only thing that keeps me going often, and rescues me from all kinds of darkness and depression. Remember the exhortation quoted above above: “meditate on these things.” Let me encourage you to do this intentionally at least in some why, because if it came with out intentionality, then he would not have had to exhort us in this way.

No Condemnation Passages

~2001-2004?; 3/6/17 (recompiled)

-- Under Construction --

NIV > CAB -- needed

RO 4:4 Now when a man works, his wages are not credited to him as a gift, but as an obligation. [5] However, to the man who does not work but trusts God who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness. [6] David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

RO 4:7 "Blessed are they

whose transgressions are forgiven,

whose sins are covered.

RO 4:8 Blessed is the man

whose sin the Lord will never count against him."

RO 8:31 What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? [32] He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all--how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? [33] Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. [34] Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died--more than that, who was raised to life--is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. [35] Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? [36] As it is written:

"For your sake we face death all day long;

we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."

RO 8:37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. [38] For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, [39] neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

JUDE 1:24 To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy-- [25] to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.

RO 8:1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, [2] because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. [3] For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, [4] in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.

1JN 3:19 This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence [20] whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.

1JN 3:21 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God [22] and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him. [23] And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. [24] Those who obey his commands live in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.

HEB 4:14 Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. [15] For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are--yet was without sin. [16] Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

HEB 10:21 ...and since we have a great priest over the house of God, [22] let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. [23] Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.

HEB 10:35 So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. [36] You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. [37] For in just a very little while,

"He who is coming will come and will not delay.

HEB 10:38 But my righteous one will live by faith.

And if he shrinks back,

I will not be pleased with him."

HEB 10:39 But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved.

RO 5:1 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, [2] through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. [3] Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; [4] perseverance, character; and character, hope. [5] And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.

RO 5:6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. [7] Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. [8] But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

RO 5:9 Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him! [10] For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! [11] Not only is this so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

RO 5:12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned-- [13] for before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law. [14] Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who was a pattern of the one to come.

RO 5:15 But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God's grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! [16] Again, the gift of God is not like the result of the one man's sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. [17] For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God's abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.

RO 5:18 Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men. [19] For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

Goodness

8/26/09 (Win: Modified); 3/4/17 (recompiled)

-- Under Construction --

The kindness and goodness of God is a totally amazing uncomprehendable thing, but taken out of context and perverted, it (then being of a different substance in the wrong hands) is a deceptive and deadly device. The pervert will say "the goodness of God" but will descibe and teach the leven of the Pharisees. And just as God is sickened by the devil quoting scripture, He is offended at the one who abuses the teaching of His goodnes, something so infinatly good, to bring about a lie and perversion.

The people that God relates to threwout the Bible, can be broken down into 3 consistant theems.

The Saint, the Sinner, and the hipocrite, (the Saint being the best and the hipocrite the worst); are the three types of people that God lays forth in the scriptures. Gods diplomacy of relating to these three categories of people, are stunningly contrasting all based one which type of person they are. Threw the awarness of the repetitive Biblical categorization of these three types of people, we can see a constant exreeme diferance in how to treate people.

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