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The Lord also showed us that Ephraim was a type of the natural man or our carnal mind within our spiritual being, and that Judah is a type of the spiritual man. Each and every one of us in our mind, in our spiritual being, is two men. We have the man of the flesh and the spiritual man. If you have Christ Jesus, you are in the process of having your spiritual man joined to the Lord Jesus Christ. This is part of the process which will eventually convert us from a fallen adamic, soul man to a spiritual man, whereby the entire fallen adamic soul realm comes into submission to Christ Jesus within us. This will end corruption, sickness, disease, poverty, and dependency on the natural realm. Every need will be met in Christ Jesus through the realm of the Spirit. Hallelujah.

The Lord told us last week that Judah, even though she represents the spiritual man that is being joined to Christ, that she still, according to the Old Testament, (we were in the book of Hosea last week), falls into sin, primarily idolatry, and that her saving grace, as compared to Ephraim, is that she never put a king on the throne that was not from any tribe other than the Scripturally ordained tribe of Judah, and that she always maintained the Aaronic priesthood that came down from the tribe of Levi. Ephraim's crimes were not only idolatry (which was the major crime), but he also rejected the God ordained king and the God ordained priesthood, which is why God wiped him out completely. Judah was not wiped out completely, but he was severely chastened by the Lord, and went into captivity.

Today, we are going to talk about that, to get an idea of the dangers that threaten our spirit while we are living in this natural realm. Armed with this knowledge, we can pray against these dangers and ask God to deliver us, which will result in a quickening through the joining of our two spirits. When we throw ourselves in line with God, we make the process of His being joined to us much easier.

Now Ephraim represented the natural man, the flesh that is going to be swallowed up. Assyria conquered the nation known as Israel, representing the ten tribes, and swallowed Israel up, and he disappeared off the face of the earth. The flesh man will be disappearing off the face of the earth also. He is going to be swallowed up by the spirit man, which is going to be joined to Christ. Hallelujah.

Last week we studied Hosea, the prophet that prophesied to Ephraim, and, at the same time in history, the prophet Isaiah was prophesying to the nation of Judah. We are going to start today in Isaiah Chapter 1, and the first thing that God is going to talk to us about is Judah's condition. We will talk about his sins and then we will find out how God dealt with him.

Isaiah 1, "The vision of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear O heavens, and give ear O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. Why should ye be stricken any more? Ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head, there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire, your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate and overthrown by strangers. And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a Garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah." Hallelujah.

This is the condition of Judah. Now I would like to remind you that Judah, representing the spiritual man, is the spiritual seed of God, the sons of God that were with the Lord from before the foundation of the earth, who were sowed in the land with the seed of beasts and with the seed of man. We talked about this in previous meetings. Judah represents the spiritual son of God that was with Jehovah from before the foundation of the earth. He has been sown in the earth with the seed of man and the seed of beasts. They have been fused together, they are now one entity that we know as man (fallen adam).

God goes forth, and he looks upon the sons of men, He recognizes the ones that have been incarnated at His will, that He knows the seed of His life is buried within them. He calls them out of Egypt, He says, "Come forth," and at that point, whoever you are, you become two men.

Prior to that you were just a natural man. Now you have become two men. You are the flesh man and you are the spiritual man. The condition of Judah that we just read about, means that the sons of God that have been sown in the flesh are failing to take the victory. What God requires them to do when He calls them forth is to rise up and rule the soul life that He has given them, whoever they are. We are supposed to be living by the power of the Spirit of God, the flesh is not supposed to be overtaking us, even though there is a war going on in our mind. The war is between the thoughts of the carnal mind, or the flesh man, and the thoughts of Christ.

By the condition of Judah, we can see that Judah has been utterly overtaken. She has failed to take the victory, and we will try to understand why. We will go through this account verse-by-verse, and try to get some understanding. We will start with Verse 2, "Hear O heavens and give ear O earth for the Lord has spoken, I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me." "Hear O heavens," he is talking to the spiritual realm, and "Hear O earth," natural realm. He is talking to the natural man and the spiritual man. He says, "I have brought up children, I have sowed my children in the earth, and they have rebelled against me." They cannot even recognize....they are so overcome by the flesh man that they have been fused with, that they cannot even see that God is God. They do not even know who their Father is.

Verse 3, "The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people doth not consider." Now when it says Israel here, he is talking about the twelve tribes, collectively. It gets confusing sometimes in the Old Testament, but since we know that the Lord is addressing Judah in Verse 1, we have to draw the conclusion that when He says "Israel" here, He is talking to the collective nation. They have all gone astray, they do not even know who God is. It says, "The ass knows his owner, the beast knows who his owner is, but the spiritual son sown in the earth cannot even recognize that God is his Father."

Verse 4, "Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters." Now the word "nation," the first phrase there is "Ah, sinful nation," and the word "nation" means, "in the sense of a massing, a foreign nation, Gentiles, a troop of animals, it can mean a flight of locusts." And it is referring to the realm of the body. Remember, we are three parts: body, soul, and spirit. So when He says a sinful nation, He is talking about the body realm. It is filled with sin. Remember sin is the desire, it is the evil desire of the creeping, crawling things that are in our flesh.

So the spiritual man is surrounded by an external layer filled with things that think sinful thoughts, and they are trying to penetrate deep into our spiritual mind and rule us. The second phrase is, "a seed of evil doers, a people laden with iniquity." The word "people" is "a congregated unit, a tribe, troops, races or tribes." It relates to the fallen adamic soul realm. It relates to a common people. That is the soul realm, and He says that soul realm is laden with iniquity.

Now if you recall from past meetings, when the sin is entertained, when it is agreed with, when it is received, it produces fruit, and that fruit is called "iniquity." So the sin is dwelling in the external realm, it is coming forth from the creeping, crawling things of the part of us that is giving us form, and it is trying to seduce us in the fallen adamic soul realm, where our human spirit is fertilized. And it bears iniquity, which is the fruit of the spiritual fornication. This is God's chosen. "A seed of evildoers," and we all know that the seed is the fruit of fornication, and evildoers are those who will stop at nothing to produce evil. So the spiritual man, the spirit of the living soul that died is producing great evil. "Children that are corrupters…". "Corrupters" means, "to decay by laying waste." They are utterly destroying....the birth of this evil fruit in our mind is destroying the creation of God. Evil brings forth death, sin brings forth death. There is just no way to get away from it. We must have Christ Jesus so we can stop thinking the thoughts of the creeping, crawling things in our members.

So, the whole point here is that even the sons of God that have been sown in the earth from before we were born did not have the power to overcome this flesh that we are wrapped in. There is no way they can do it. We must be joined to Christ. We have to have the root of Christ, and then we have to be the offspring of Christ. We have talked about this in prior meetings. We have to have Christ on two levels: the Christ within us that died that we were born with, and the Christ that comes upon us, is grafted to us.

When God destroyed the earth in the days of the deluge, in the days of Noah, the Scripture says that the waters came up from underneath the earth and then it rained. I did not know that for a long time. I thought it was just rain, but the water first came up from the earth. So when God wants to either bless you or bring forth judgment, He does it from two levels. He brings forth a desire for God from the Christ that died that you are born with, and then He pours it out upon you from on high. Whether it is for your good or for your evil, there are two places that the Spirit of God comes from. It comes up and it comes down, and you cannot get away from it, and thank God for it.

So, "...the children that are corrupters, they have forsaken the Lord, and they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward." Well, what is He so mad about? You know, before God brought me into all of this deep teaching, I could never understand the anger of the Old Testament, and then when I did get saved, I could not reconcile it with the love of Jesus Christ. Well, this anger is a manifestation of the love of God that will chasten you when you have gone astray. He gave these spiritual sons an assignment. He said, "You are of me, you are my seed, I am going to sow you in the earth, and I want you to rule the earth, the soul, the physical realm that I am putting you in," but Israel has not done it.

Instead, they have fallen into agreement with the fallen adamic soul realm and the earth realm, and they are worshiping idols, they are sinning, they are breaking every aspect of the law of God. They have failed to rule even though they are royalty, they are spiritual royalty who have been overtaken by the lower realms, and God is mad, but He is not so mad that He is going to destroy them forever. He is going to chasten them, and His purposes will still be accomplished in the earth. One of the problems that people who study the Scripture have, is that they read all about this anger, but do not read the next few Scriptures where God says, "After I rain all of this destruction on you, I am going to bring you back again, I am going to bring you back again." They never get to those Scriptures, but they are there, they are there. God is not destroying us forever. He loves us, and He chastens us when we are going wrong so that we can come into the fullness of the promises that He has for us, which are glorious. Hallelujah.

Verse 5, "Why should ye be stricken anymore?" That word "stricken" refers to the chastenings of the Lord. It is a beating. You paddle your children, well this is a spiritual chastening of the Lord. He says, "I am beating you, I am paddling you, and it is not even doing you any good, so why should I continue to paddle you? You do not recognize me as God, you are lost in your lust. He says, "You will revolt more and more, the whole head is sick and the whole heart is faint." I have one Scripture reference for you here. Hebrews 12:11 says, "Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous but grievous, nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness." So all of this wrath we see that was poured out upon Israel in the Old Testament, it is for the purpose of yielding the peaceable fruit of righteousness.

One of the biggest problems of man, not only natural man, but man that has the seed of the Lord, is that they have so much trouble seeing with spiritual eyes, because it could take years, it could take generations, it could take thousands of years for God to moves. I know personally, that God will do something in my life, and then He will tell me, "Do you remember what happened three months ago? This is a result of what happened three months ago," and I have a big problem relating the move of God in my personal life to what happened three months ago. Well, the entire human race has a big problem relating what is happening in the world today to what happened two thousand, three thousand, four thousand years ago. God has to quicken it to you, you have to have spiritual understanding to understand it. So, We have a lot of people out there that think that it is alright to go out and break the law of God, because they do not believe this book that says God will judge you. They do not believe it.

In the 1960s we had something called "the sexual revolution" in this country, and although there were always people breaking the sexual laws of morality, now they were completely torn down. It is a very rare person of any age today (outside of the Church, of course), that does not think it is alright to fornicate and commit adultery. Now they are also saying it is alright to perform homosexual behavior. The carnal man is saying that everything is fine. This all started in the 1960s, and it really was fine. At that time, people were copulating outside of marriage, but they were staying with one partner, and they usually wound up getting married anyway, and they said, "Well what is wrong with this? Everything is fine." Well, look at us twenty years later, twenty-five years later, look at our kids! They are fornicating at twelve years old. Fifteen year old children have had fifteen, twenty partners already. The plague of AIDS is across the nation, homosexuality is out of control, the whole nation is falling into utter moral destruction, and drug addiction. Why?

Because we broke the law of God, and that breaking of that law started twenty years ago. Well, the average person does not realize that. They cannot realize that this is what is happening today, that we broke....this country broke the law twenty-five years ago, and we are not talking about individual people, because there are always individual people that break the laws of God. We are talking about national sin. We are talking about the morality, the traditionally-accepted morality. Mothers saying to their children, "Here is a birth control pill, it is alright, go out and do it, it is fine."

That is what we are talking about. We are talking about the Supreme Court saying that abortion is okay, it is wonderful. That is what we are talking about, that the authority has compromised. Not that individuals are breaking the laws, but that the authorities in the home and in the government are telling our young people and our older people that it is alright to do anything that you want. So, now there are plagues all over the face of the earth, and the carnal mind still does not want to believe that it is the judgment of God.

So the point that we are trying to make is that when God moves, it could take years, twenty-five years could be very quick for judgment to be falling on this nation. Sometimes it could take thousands of years, sometimes hundreds of years. I will not take the time to do it now, but in the book of Jeremiah where it talks about Judah going into captivity in Babylon, that captivity was prophesied, it was prophesied. It was prophesied back in the days before the people existed that went into captivity. The judgments came down on the descendants of the people that were judged. It was prophesied that they would go into captivity in Babylon and their sons would be eunuchs in the house of Nebuchadnezzar, and Daniel and many of the other nobles were, indeed, castrated. That is not commonly preached.

Daniel, the great man of God, who brought forth the great prophecies of the book of Daniel was a eunuch. He was castrated when he was taken into captivity. That was what they did in those days. So even though he was physically castrated, God used him mightily, but it must have brought tremendous emotional torment upon him and upon his contemporaries. They were receiving the fruit that God prophesied upon their ancestors. That is the way it works. People have a problem believing it, but it is still the truth. Spiritual truth is still spiritual truth. We talked about this.

Okay, this is what the Lord is saying, "Why should ye be stricken anymore, ye will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick and the whole heart is faint." Okay, the word "sick" is from the Hebrew root that means menstruous, and we are talking about.... when we say "the heart is faint, "we are talking about the fallen adamic soul realm. We are talking about spiritual menstruation.

Now last week, we mentioned that this whole realm of appearance is likened in the Scriptures to a child in utero. The doctors know that when we are pregnant the children in our womb have life. They suck their thumbs, they can hiccup, they can belch, they move, and they have life inside of our bodies. This whole realm of appearance is a spiritual womb, and all of this existence that we see is life in the spiritual utero. Now what does spiritual menstruation mean? It means that there is no fertilization. Each and every one of us is a spiritual cell in utero. We are here to be fertilized, we are likened to ovarian eggs. We are supposed to be fertilized by the Spirit of God, and when this does not happen, there is spiritual menstruation. The egg is just wasted, and it flows out of the body in the form of menstrual blood. Throughout the Scriptures, the Lord often rebukes Israel, mostly Judah, and says, "You are like menstruous rags." You know, I have heard this preached for years, but I have never heard anybody explain what that meant. Why would God liken a nation to menstruous rags? A lot of carnal men have taken this to mean that women are unclean, and they have taken women....because we know the letter of the law killeth, and the spirit maketh alive, so they have taken these Scriptures about women in menstruation, and they have put great burdens upon women, but that is not what God is saying.

God is saying, spiritually, whether you are male or female in this realm, in relationship to me, you are all female, and if you are not producing the image of Christ, you are menstruous, and I consider your menstruation filth. That is what God is saying. So he says, "You are sick, ..the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint." So the heart is the fallen adamic soul realm, it is menstruating, it is not reproducing Christ, and "..the head is sick." The "head" refers to the realm of the spirit in each of our individual beings. That Hebrew word translated "sick" means disease, afflicted, sadness, evil, calamity, and it is from the Hebrew root which means to be made spiritually weak, weak as a woman, and it is used in Isaiah 14:10, as a reference to hell, which is a very interesting point, because what this is saying here is that when you are spiritually weak you are in hell.

Hell is a condition of the mind. A condition of spiritual weakness in the mind is what hell is because, when we are spiritually weak, the wickedness in this soul realm can overtake us. You can fall prey to anything here: drug addiction, alcoholism, sickness, prostitution, white slavery, alcohol, any of the horrors of this realm. When we are spiritually weak, we can easily be victimized. We have a witness here where the prophet Isaiah says that this condition is hell, and it can happen to someone in a female body or someone in a male body. I am just re-emphasizing here to anyone that is reading this message that does not understand this, that God is not talking about female bodies and male bodies. He is talking about spiritual conditions.

When you have the spirit of God ruling and reigning in your life, you are spiritually strong and you are male. Even if you have the Holy Spirit, if He is not ruling and reigning in your life, you are female, you are weak, and you are subject to powers and principalities that rape you at will and, when this happens, their evil fruit is produced within you. That is why we have believers in the Church world today that have all kinds of problems, not because they are failing to stand up and do what Jesus told them to do, but because their spirit has not yet been strengthened by Christ Jesus. They are still being raped by the ungodly spiritual powers that rule, and reign, and dwell in their own mind.

If you are a born again believer, and you have emotional problems, if you have been in a mental institution, if you cannot stop doing anything that breaks God's law, your problem is that your spirit is not yet strong enough in Christ to overcome your fallen adamic soul. You are spiritually female, you are weak, and you have to cry out to God to break the curses on your life, deliver you from the ungodly fruit or the demons that have been produced in your fallen adamic soul, and raise you up as a spiritual man who will rule and reign with Christ over your own carnal mind, in your own vessel. Spiritual manhood has nothing to do with your genitals. Praise God. That may not sound too cool, but it is the truth. I am sorry if I have offended you. Spiritual manhood has nothing to do with your genitals. We are talking about spiritual things. God is a Spirit, and if we translate these Scriptures literally, in the flesh realm, nothing good can come of it. Hallelujah.

We are up to Verse 6, "From the sole of the foot even unto the head, there is no soundness in it." And we could see here, "From the sole of the foot even unto the head," that the Lord is referring to Judah as one man, one man, one man. We are all cells in the one man known as Christ. In the Old Testament, He called her Judah. Today, we are Christ, we are one body. Either we are a cell in adam, the fallen adamic soul, or we are a cell in Christ. We are all cells. Every man on the face of the earth is a spiritual cell. There are only two men in the earth. There is fallen adam, and there is Christ. Only two men, Hallelujah.

He says, "There is no soundness in the whole body," and the word "soundness" means "completeness." They are all cells, but they are not complete. I have for you Colossians 2:10, which says, "And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power...," and we know that principalities and powers dwell and rule in the natural man.

So if you do not have Christ, or if you have the Holy Spirit, but Christ has not been birthed in you, if He is not ruling and reigning in you, your rulers are the powers and principalities of this world system. They are not outside, flying in the sky. We have talked about this before. They are in your mind. We are waiting for Christ to be reproduced in us, to rise up and to nail Himself to those powers and principalities, and to make us complete in Him, because when He nails himself to those powers and principalities in our mind, we become one in Christ. The powers and principalities lose their independent existence, and they become a part of the creation of God. This is the blessed hope, Christ in you the hope of glory, Christ in you the hope of glory. When He gets in you, He is not going to dance around, He is going to destroy your enemies, and your enemies are in your carnal mind. It is fine to praise God, but He is here to do more than make you dance and sing, and speak in tongues, and prophesy. That is all very nice, but that is spiritual kindergarten. He is here to nail Himself to the cross, which are the powers and principalities in your carnal Mind, so that they can no longer harm you. Then He will become your king. Glory to God! Hallelujah, let us move on to perfection.

Okay, He says, "There is no soundness, you are not complete, you are not joined to your king, but, instead of completeness in Christ, we have wounds and bruises and putrefying sores." The word "wounds" means "to disperse." Instead of coming into completeness with Christ, you are being dispersed, you are fragmented. We have talked about the different elements of the living soul, the living soul that died. There is fallen adam, the fallen adamic soul, there is Satan, there are all of the names of blasphemy, the evil fruit that has been produced. In this carnal mind, we are all in pieces, we are fragmented. This is the condition of the natural man. Because we are in the earth realm, we cannot see it. We appear to be one person.

As we move into the spiritual realm of God, we can say, "Well that person was so nice today, and yesterday she was just really hating me, how could this be, how could this be?" Because we are in pieces. Everything is locked up inside of this outline or this form that is held in place with the flesh, but we are in pieces, and at the end of the work of Jesus Christ we will all be fused together in the proper order in Christ. It will be impossible to one day be nice, and the next day envying somebody to the point that you are destroying them. One day we love you, the next day we envy you, one day we are happy for you, the next day we are tripping you up. These are the pieces that our mind is in.

This is the condition, not only of the natural man, but of the person who has Christ, but does not have the work of Christ completed in him yet. Now, the only one that I know of that this work has been completed in is Jesus Christ. We are in the process of being placed in the proper moral order and then fused together, at which point we will be a part or a cell in the new creation, the creation of God. We are partially created at this point, and that is why we have spiritual problems.

The Greek word translated "bruises" means "the mark of strokes on the skin." So God is beating us, or He is beating Judah, He is beating us. I know people today that God is beating. This one man, I love him dearly, God has been beating him for years. He just does not seem to get the message. Every time God beats him, he thinks it is a demon. Well, how can you get delivered if you do not admit that it is the chastening of God? You have to admit that God is chastening you so that if you really cannot see what you are doing wrong, you can at least cry out to God and say, "Why is this happening to me?" God is the ruler of the demons.

We are told in the book of Psalms that the wicked is the sword of the Lord. He lets the demons come upon us. That is how He beats us. In the Old Testament, He sent a heathen nation to capture them and take them into captivity, but in this realm, in this New Covenant, everything is spiritual, and the chastening is spiritual, and the chastening is the demons.

Well, how are you going to repent if you think that everything that happens to you is a demon? You have to acknowledge that God may be chastening you. Some things could be demonic, but you must acknowledge that God may be chastening you, and ask "am I out of your will in some way?" or there is no hope for you. Jesus said to the Pharisees, "You say you see, therefore your sin remaineth with you." Well, if God sends hoards of demons against you to chasten you, and you say "This cannot be God, I am okay, this is just Satan," well then, there is no hope for you, your sin remaineth with you. There is no deliverance for you. Hallelujah.

And "sores," the Hebrew word translated "sores" means "a smiting, or striking," commonly used to express wheat being beaten out or threshed. Now some of you may have heard of this. When wheat is processed into flour, there is a threshing process, and that threshing process beats the wheat grains, and it separates the wheat and tares, and the tares are not edible. Only the wheat is edible. So when the Lord says here that, "You have putrefying sores," the word "sores" means that He is beating them for the purpose of separating the wheat from the tares.

Now we have talked about this, that the washing with the water of the word, the cleansing by the washing with the water of the word, is separating, in our mind, the thoughts of Christ from the thoughts of fallen adam, the fallen adamic soul. That is the threshing of the wheat. God likens people to wheat. He likens us to plants. He does all these things so that we can understand spiritual things. There is a separation going on in our mind, and it is being brought....the separation is being accomplished by trials and tribulations. These are the beatings, the strokes of the Lord, for the specific purpose of separating the thoughts of Christ from the thoughts of fallen adam, the fallen adamic soul, for the purpose of putting fallen adam underfoot, so that Christ should rule and reign within us.

We have talked about this on prior tapes, but He says here, "Your sores are putrefied," and the word "putrefied" means "moist, dripping, bleeding," and the connotation is blood. Instead of the separation coming forth and Christ going on top and ruling and reigning over your carnal mind, these beatings are killing you. They are not accomplishing what they are supposed to accomplish. They are not separating your thoughts and giving Christ the dominion. They are killing you, your blood is flowing out. Well, why is that? Because you will not repent. You will not repent! That is why they are killing you instead of saving you, you will not repent. Hallelujah.

Okay, we are still in Verse 6, the second half of it, "They have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment." That is the repentance, that is the repentance, when you repent. God is beating us. If we do not repent, we die, and if we do repent, He binds us up and mollifies us with anointment. We are told in the parable of the Good Samaritan that Jesus picked the man up off the road, and bound up his wounds. He was beaten from the chastening of the Lord, which is a manifestation of the love of God, and if you do not have that revelation, you ask the Lord and He will give it to you. If you are not chastened, you are a bastard. God chastens those whom He loves. Hallelujah.

Verse 7, "Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire, your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers." The word "country" comes from the Hebrew word meaning "to be firm," and it means the earth at large. It refers to the human body, it is the land that we live in. The word "cities" is "a place guarded by waking or by watch." That is the human soul. And the word "land" is the Hebrew word that means, "soil, fertile ground." That is the human spirit. So we have body, soul, and spirit again.

He says, "Your body is desolate, it is burned with fire, it is utterly devoured." In the natural realm, that could be any kind of desolation. It could be sickness, or any kind of devastation in your personal life. Your country is desolate. That means it is empty, it is empty, it is a desert, it is without fluid. There is no Spirit of God in your members. Your cities are burned with fire. Your fallen adamic soul realm is burned with fire because you are producing such wickedness that God is forced by his righteousness to send forth the judgments upon you, and the fire represents the fire of God.

So your fallen adamic soul realm represents the fire of God because He is not going to tolerate this wickedness. That is not the love of God to tolerate your wickedness. He will chasten you until you repent. I do not know what it takes, but He will not say evil is good. God will not do that. Man does that. God will not do that. Okay, so "Your body is desolate, (it is without the Spirit of God), your soul is burnt with fire, (because you have produced all this evil fruit), and your land, (which is your soul, which is capable of producing that fruit), strangers devour it in your presence."

Now remember, we said last week that the human spirit is fertilized and it produces fruit, and then because she is such a harlot, she fornicates with the fruit that she produces. Okay, those are the strangers that are devouring her land. We even know....in the natural realm, studies have been done. People that are promiscuous, that have many sexual partners over the years, it produces cancer and all kinds of diseases in their bodies, in their genital areas, and all kinds of emotional problems in their mind.

So there are great plagues associated with being a harlot, and she is being devoured by her own evil fruit that is being produced. And again, we have spiritual incest. Everyone on the face of the earth has a curse of spiritual incest upon them, whether it has happened in your natural life or not. This is one of the curses that is being broken in Christ today, but if you do not admit that you have a curse of incest, it cannot be broken. It cannot be broken. You have to admit that you have it. Hallelujah.

So strangers are devouring the human spirit right in your presence, and you cannot help yourself. You see it happening, you know that it is happening. Well, what happens when your spirit is being devoured? You are being weakened. Look around you, you are a drug addict, you are an alcoholic, you are an adulterer, you are sexually promiscuous, you have temper tantrums, you cannot control yourself, you hate people that you want to love. All of these things are devastation of your spirit. Hallelujah.

We are in Verse 8, "And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in the vineyard and as a lodge in a Garden of cucumbers." A cottage in a vineyard, the word "cottage" refers to an empty booth, an empty booth. She is suppose to be filled with the fruits of God and she is not. There is a vineyard there, but she has no fruits in her own vessel. The Holy Spirit is there, but has not produced the fruit of Christ. She is a lodge in a Garden of cucumbers.

The Hebrew word "lodge" is a place where you are hiding from wild beasts. Now why are you hiding from a wild beast in a Garden of cucumbers? Cucumbers are very harmless. That means you have fear on you. We are told there is no rest for the wicked. I know that I was tormented by fear for years. God has given me a lot of victory, but I still have it somewhat. Fear is not of God. It is a wicked enemy. No matter what is coming upon us, if someone is standing there ready to put a knife in our heart, fear is not of God. Even if God lets it happen to us, fear is sin, and it brings torment with it. Hallelujah.

Now in Verse 9, the Lord starts to describe Judah's sins. We just spoke about Judah's condition, and now He is talking about her sins, what she did that brought her into that condition. Verse 9 says, "Except the Lord of Hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been as Gomorrah. We know that Sodom and Gomorrah were two cities that were destroyed. The account of it is in the book of Genesis. They were very sinful cities. They were laden with the people that were practicing homosexuality, adultery, and fornication, and God does tell us in the Scripture that homosexuality is a very grievous sin. He really hates it.

Paul tells us in the New Testament that every sin that we commit comes forth from us against someone else or against something else. Actually, all sins are against someone else, but it goes forth from us. But sin with the body, fornication, adultery, homosexuality, it is the only sin that is against our own body, and diseases will come upon us from engaging in these acts, which is very obvious to us today with this AIDS plague. It is a sin against our own body because God will not tolerate it. Hallelujah.

And the word "Sodom" means, "a large disastrous fire." That is the judgment of God coming upon the person that is going to sin against itself. And, God I believe here....when God calls Judah, Sodom, He is calling her or indicting her for homosexuality. We spoke about this in an earlier meeting, that when the living soul, the living soul that died, when the parts of the living soul that died fornicate with each other, it is spiritual homosexuality. It is incest, it is homosexuality. We are made to copulate with the Spirit of God. Okay, so it is definitely incest, and in some instances, it is spiritual homosexuality.

"And we should have been like unto Gomorrah." The word "Gomorrah" means "culture and habitation." So again, we are talking about the soul and the spirit, and God bringing judgment upon the soul and the spirit. Hallelujah. He said, "Unless the Lord had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah." God saved a remnant. He did not wipe out Judah completely, and He will never wipe out his people completely. He will rain judgment, but He will never wipe out the human race completely, because He has said that He will have a creation in the earth.

He is going to do it. Nothing can stop it. You cannot stop it because you say, "I reject this message." God is going to have a creation in the earth, a spiritual man in Christ. It is going to come to pass. Satan cannot stop it, the fallen adamic man, the fallen adamic soul, cannot stop it, lies cannot stop it. It is going forward. The process is never abated at any time. Man, in his puny carnal mind, cannot understand that it is taking thousands of years, so they think that they have got it made, but you do not have it made. God is God, He is on His throne, He is never weakened at any time, He has never been overtaken, He has never been overcome, He has never been deceived, and He was not defeated in the Garden. You do not understand what He is doing. Hallelujah. Glory to God.

Verse 10, "Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom, give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah." Hallelujah. 11. "To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me, saith the Lord: I am full of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats." 12. "When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?" 13. Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting." 14. "Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them." 15. "And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood."

These are Judah's sins. "But I thought that God wanted animal sacrifices?" And what else does He say here, animal sacrifices? He says, "Who said that you have to do this?" Oblations, incense, I thought that was part of the Levitical law? He says, "Why, it is an abomination to me. New moons and Sabbaths, the callings of assemblies, I cannot stand it, it is iniquity." But it is all required in the Mosaic law. What is God talking about? And he says, "When you spread forth your hands, (that means to pray), I will hide my eyes from you: yea, when you make many prayers, I will not hear you for your hands are full of blood."

What is he saying? He is saying that you are doing all of these things, and in your heart you are filthy, you are filthy, you are filthy. That is the first covenant, He said. Remember the first covenant, we have talked about this. God said, "Because it is not the time in my timetable to perfect you to the point that you will not sin anymore, I am going to give you the Levitical Law. You can sacrifice beasts, you can burn incense, you can do all of these things, and I will receive it as righteousness for a season, for a season, but it does not mean that you can go out and hate your brother, and it does not mean that you can break the law."

Now Judah was breaking....they were physically breaking the law, they knew they could not keep it, and then they would come, and they would make an offering to the Lord to cover their sins. They not only broke the law in their thoughts, they did not keep the behavioral law. We are told in the New Testament that they could not keep the law, it was too great a burden for them to keep. They sinned, they committed adultery, they did everything that people are doing today. They were just human beings just like everybody else.

So the Lord is telling them, "These are what your sins are. The day is coming that I am not going to accept your sacrifice anymore. I want you to change, I want you to stop doing these things. Now I would like to relate this at this time to the New Testament, because we have in the Church today, a group of people, they call themselves the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and they are making sacrifices. Their sacrifice is the Lord Jesus Christ. He is covering over their sins. If they hate their brother, if they steal, if they fornicate, if they smoke, whatever they are doing, they say, "I repent, and their sacrifice goes up to God, and they are forgiven." But God says, "The day is come, I do not want your sacrifice anymore. I want you to change. Hallelujah.

We are told that Jesus came to the Pharisees, and He said, "I cannot stand what you are doing." You see, we have Pharisees in the Church today, and they.... it is not that they say it is okay to sin. That is not what I am saying, but they do not have the understanding that Jesus Christ wants our spirit cleansed, that He wants us cleansed in our mind, and they deny this. They deny this.

They think that all you have to do is repent and go out and preach salvation to people, which is works. It is works. God is also saying here, He does not want their oblations, He does not want their sacrifices, He does not want their good works! The Church today is doing everything that Judah did when the Lord judged them approximately 2,500 years ago. They are still under the Old Covenant. The Church today believes they are under the second covenant, but they are not, because the grace of God is the ability to keep the law. They do not have the ability to keep the law. They are under the blood. They can repent and receive forgiveness of sins. That is the Old Covenant!

That is the Old Covenant, only the sacrifice today is spiritual. It is not an animal. It is Jesus Christ, but it is still the Old Covenant, and the trumpet is sounding today, and Jesus is calling His people today to come unto the New Covenant of grace, be cleansed in your mind where you, by the power of Jesus Christ, no longer sin, and they are denying the message. They are not coming, they will not come, they do not even admit that it is God. They deny that it is God. And the day is coming that they are going to go into captivity.

If they do not come and get cleansed and move into the New Covenant, God will take them into captivity. It is the Scripture, it is right here. We are told in the New Testament that everything in the Old Testament is for examples for us, so that we can learn from it. Well Church, today you are Judah, and if you do not hear the trumpet sound, if you do not hear the cry of the Lord, and if you do not submit yourself to the cleansing, which is deliverance, which is the breaking of curses, and the casting out of evil spirits, and however else God wants to manifest it in your life, you will ultimately go into captivity.

"Hear the word of the Lord, O Israel." We are told to pray without ceasing, and the Lord says here in verse 14, "I am tired of you raising your hands to me. In verse 15, he says, "When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: yea, when you make many prayers, I will not hear you." What is He talking about? Why does he not want your prayers? Because most of the churches today are filled with carnal prayers. They all spend15 minutes to a half an hour trying to pump you up, telling you that you have to praise God and raise your hands, and if you do not do it, they yell at you, and they put you down, and they make you feel guilty.

I have news for you people, that it is very nice to praise God. I praise God, it is nice to praise him in song, it is nice to praise him by raising your hands if it comes from the indwelling Christ within you. But if you are beaten into it, God does not even receive it. If you are forced into it, God does not even receive it, but even if it is coming from your heart, that is not the true praises that God wants.

You study the word "praise" in the Greek. I have not studied it in the Hebrew, but I am sure it is the same thing. You study the word "praise" in the Greek, and you will see that what it really means is, "laying down your soul life, your own will and desires, so that the Spirit of God can be revealed through you." If God says, "Go to place 'x' and you want to go place 'y,' and you say, Well, alright Lord, I will not go to place 'y.' I really want to go to there, but I will not go. I will go to place 'x' because that is where you told me to go," that is praising God.

We have Scriptures in the New Testament like, "And we shall be the praise of his glory..." Well what does that mean? If praise is raising your hands, what does it mean, "You are will be the praise of his glory?" "Praise" refers to the laying down of your soul life, and "his glory," the life of his Spirit, will be seen manifested through you. That is what "the praise of his glory" means.

And we are doing the same....the Church world today, by and large, is doing the same thing that was done in Judah, that the Pharisees were doing in the New Testament. It is works, it is works to stand up there and rebuke people if they are not praising God, if they are not singing, if they are not standing, if they are not raising their hands, if they are not dancing. That is works! That is not it! That is not what God wants from you. He has received it for a season, but the season is over. The season is over. He is sounding the trumpet in the land. "Purify yourselves in your spirit, or you will go into captivity, I will not tolerate it any longer."

Hear the word of the Lord. We are told to pray without ceasing. Prayer is a condition of communication with the Lord. It is a spiritual state of being where every thought you that think is filtered through the Spirit of God, where you are seeking His counsel and His will in every area. That is the prayer that He wants. He wants you submitting your life to Him. "Is this okay Lord, is that okay Lord, is that okay Lord?" He does not want you out there doing whatever you want to do and then raising your hands three or four times a week, saying, "Praise you Lord, praise you Lord, praise you Lord," and then walking out of the church and doing whatever ungodly thing you want to do.

He says, "Your hands are full of blood." Verse 15, "Your hands are full of blood." These works that you are doing, they are bringing forth death. You are menstruating, you are menstruating, you are not bringing forth Christ, and the hour is at hand. He is tired of it. Hear the word of the Lord. Hallelujah.

Okay, Verse 21, "How is the faithful city become a harlot? It was full of judgment, righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers." The word "judgment" is such a stumbling block to the Church today. They perceive judgment as the wrath of God, but the wrath of God is the wrath of God. It is a different word than judgment. The Hebrew word here, judgment, #4941, means to plead one's cause. It means to desire righteousness, it means to stop accusing and excusing, and plead the righteousness of God.

If you see someone being wronged, many of us think that the right thing to do is to look at the person that is doing the wrong thing, and make excuses for them. They think that because we are told not to judge, that they should make excuses for the person doing something wrong, but that is not what God requires from us. He wants us to call sin "sin."

I would like to clarify this. We are told not to judge. That admonition is referring to our fallen adamic soul realm. We are not, as a natural man, outside of the wisdom of God, to say, "You are this or you are that." We are told not to do that, but remember that we are on a journey from being a soul man, fallen adamic soul, to a spiritual man. When we get to the place where we can think with the Mind of Christ, we are to say in the Spirit of God coming forth from us, "that is sin, that is sin. Not that I condemn you, not that you are going to hell, not that you are a bad person, but that is sin, so stop it," If you are not yet in a place where you can discern whether you are manifesting Christ or fallen adam, then be quiet, then you do not judge.

You do not say anything if you are a new Christian. I do not care if you are saved fifty years, if you cannot discern what spirit is manifesting in you, the spirit of the world or the Spirit of Christ, be quiet, because if it is the wrong spirit, and you judge your brother, God is going to judge you. But if it is Christ in you judging the sin, that is what God wants. He wants us to be brought to a mature place in Christ where the Christ in us will look at a situation, and the Christ in us will manifest, and say, "That is sin, you should not be doing that." Did you know that the word of God says this? This is a very fine point.

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I pray, Father, that everybody hearing this word can understand this, because it is a very fine line.

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You have to ask God to give you the wisdom. You have to ask God to give you the understanding. We are not to go around excusing everything that everybody does. We are to speak the truth in love, and love is the Spirit of God. So if you see somebody in sin, and you tell them in a condemning spirit, you have not manifested Christ. If you see a young girl and she is fornicating, and you go over to her and you say, "That is sin, you should not do that, God does not like that," something is wrong. You are speaking the truth, but it is the wrong spirit, and you are guilty of judging that girl.

So I repeat, if you cannot tell what spirit is manifesting from you, be quiet , just put it before the Lord. The correct thing to do, if God anoints you to do it, is to tell the truth without condemnation. I did have a situation like this in my life recently. A young woman came to me, and she told me that she believes that God blesses marriage. I knew that the young woman was in fornication, and she told me that she wants to marry this man because she knows that God blesses marriage, and the Lord blesses marriage. He also curses fornication. I told her the truth, I did not condemn her, but God curses fornication. It is the truth, it is in the Bible, Deuteronomy 28. Praise the Lord.

Okay, so back to Verse 21, "How is the faithful city become a harlot, it was full of judgment, righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers." So it is full of judgment, it is full of the righteous judgment of God. Now we have to look at this from the right point of view. Someone came to me one day, she had visited a psychiatrist, and this man had told her that she had an incurable disease, that there was no hope for her, that no one would believe anything she would tell them, and then he made sexual advances towards her. The Lord sent her to me for prayer, and the righteous judgment of God in me rose up and utterly condemned the act of this man towards this innocent woman.

This is pleading the cause of the widow. This woman had no husband, she was helpless. This man had the authority of the natural man over her, and she resisted him, but who knows how many women did not resist him. God judged that man. It did not come forth from my natural person. I put it before the Lord, I prayed about it, and the Holy Spirit manifested, and judged that behavior. Now I do not know what is going to happen over there, I have no idea. I just prayed the prayer that God gave me to pray, but this is judging righteous judgment.

In Verse 21, Judah was full of judgment, the Church was full of judgment. It called sin, "sin," and it protected the innocent. It did not protect the one in the natural authority because he had money, or because he was supporting the church for whatever his ungodly reasons. It protected the innocent, but is not doing it anymore. It was full of judgment, the righteousness of God, and now it is a murderer.

What does it mean that it is a murderer? How is the Church a murderer? I will tell you how the Church is a murderer. I was in a fellowship recently, where God was sending people to me for prayer. I broke curses on a couple of people, with their permission, but the next day the pastor told me that I was not to break curses in that church. That is a murderer! This is the Church of the Living God, and the pastor of that church told me not to break curses on people, when God said to me, "Break that curse." The pastor came to me and said, "We do not do that in this church." He is guilty of murder. Hallelujah, it is the truth. I love you if you are reading this book, but it is the truth. Glory to God.

Verse 23, "Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves gifts, and followeth after rewards. They judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them." The princes are the spiritual man, that part of us that is being raised up to royalty in Christ Jesus. We are in rebellion against God. He has given us spiritual power. We heal the sick, we cast out demons, but when God says, "I want you to stop doing it that way, because I have something better for you. Do it this way," they will not stop doing it their way. They are in rebellion. The leaders of the Church world, they are in rebellion.

"They are companions of thieves.." Who is the thief? Jesus said, "The thief cometh, Satan cometh to steal and destroy." They are companions of Satan. Now what does that mean? It means that they are manifesting their carnal mind. Satan is in the unconscious part of the carnal mind. Satan is in everybody's carnal mind, so when they become a companion of thieves, they are in agreement with the spirit of Satan, instead of the spirit of God, and it is usually because of greed. They do not want to lose this person, this man, because he tithes and he gives a lot of money to the church, he is prosperous, so do not tell his wife she has a curse. He does not want to lose that fifty or hundred dollar a week tithe. That is not Christ. Hallelujah.

Everyone loves gifts. They want the money, they want the money, they want the money, they want the money, they want the money. They do not care whether God wants them to have the money or not, they want the money, and God knows how we feel about it in this ministry. If he does not bring in the money, we will close it down. If you do not do your part, it is between you and God, and He has to support this ministry. I do not have to go after you and tell you a lie, so that you will give me your money, because if that is what I have to do, I am out of here. It is a stench in God's nose. Hallelujah.

"..and they follow after rewards. They judge not the fatherless. "Now who are the fatherless? The fatherless are people that do not have a relationship with the Father. We are spiritual now, people, let us stay spiritual. Of course, it happens in the natural. There are orphans in this world, and God might send us to defend an orphan, but, basically, He is talking about spiritual things here. If you are fatherless, you do not have a relationship with God. Okay, you have not received the Father yet. Remember now, Jesus is bringing us to the Father, so we could have the Holy Spirit, but the Father is not manifested in us yet. We have not yet come to a place in Christ where we are under the protection of the Father. We are still making mistakes, God says to us, "Do not do it," and we do not hear him.

God gave me a dream a couple of months ago where I was screaming after this person. There was a whole car full of people, and they were driving away from Christ, and I was screaming and screaming at the top of my lungs, saying "Come back." They were driving in the exact opposite direction of Christ, and they turned around, and they looked at me, and they shrugged their shoulders, and kept on going. If you are carnal, you do not hear Him.

Sometimes, you are spiritual and you still do not hear Him. It just happened to me the other day. God spoke to me, and it would have saved me a lot of grief if I had heard Him. Actually, I did hear Him, but I did not understand the interpretation of what He was saying to me, and it caused me grief. He saved me, He delivered me anyway, but I did not need the aggravation. It would have saved me a lot of aggravation if I had understood what He was saying to me. He gave it to me in a dream. I woke up, I knew I had dreamed, and I said, "Lord what does this dream mean?" and then I went right out and did what I had planned on doing that day, and I did not get the interpretation of the dream until it was too late.

He spoke to me in a foreign language of symbols. Sometimes I hear Him, sometimes I understand the interpretation, and sometimes I do not. Glory to God.

So the fatherless are those in who the Father has not yet manifested Himself to. You can have the Holy Spirit and not have the Father. We are being brought to the Father. "..neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them." The "widow." A widow is a female. You can have a male body and be a spiritual female. If you are spiritually female, you need your cause pleaded for you. "....neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them."

If you are in Christ and you see a Christian who is in the female realm, who is not yet manifesting the manhood of God, in whom the Christ within is not capable of utterly protecting that person, and you see them going into disaster, we not only have the privilege of praying, but we have the authority and the right to pray. Now we do not pray psychic prayers. We do not pray what we think is right for that person's life, but we can go before the Lord and say, "Father, I am looking at this person, they do not seem to have the Mind of Christ in this area, and I believe that they are headed right for destruction. If my perception is true, please have mercy on them and deliver them." We can pray prayers like that. That is pleading the cause of the widow. Glory to God.

Okay, I have here Chapter 59 in Isaiah, Verse 3, "For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity, your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness." "Your hands." The hand is described as ministry in the New Testament. We are told that ministry is symbolized by the hand. So the ministry in the Church today is defiled with blood, it is not producing Christ, but is killing people with the letter of the law. "....and your fingers with iniquity...."

The finger is a part within the whole hand. It is an isolated part of the hand that is teaching. One of the fingers is the teacher, one is the evangelist, one is the prophet, it is the direct ministry to the people, and it is bringing forth iniquity. The names of blasphemy, it is bringing forth evil fruit instead of the image of Christ. "...your lips have spoken lies.." They are preaching false doctrine, and they condemn the true doctrine when it comes forth. "....and your tongue has muttered perverseness...."

Now the lips are on the outside, and the tongue is within, so the lips are the external man, and the tongue is the spiritual man. And the word "perverseness" means "unrighteousness." They are killing the people when they are supposed to be bringing forth Christ in them. They are not supposed to be getting them Cadillacs. It is nice if someone has a problem, and you pray for them, and you give them a place to live and a job, that is wonderful, but this is just a Band-Aid, this is a Band-Aid. The Church is supposed to be producing the image of Christ in each individual so that the indwelling Christ brings total protection and life in the individual.

You are not supposed to be dependent on someone that calls himself a pastor for the rest of your life. You are supposed to grow up, and be able by means of the Christ within you to take care of yourself. There is a shepherding spirit in the Church today, and it is keeping the people weak and infantile, by telling them they cannot make spiritual decisions for themselves. Everything has to be done through these people who call themselves pastors of the shepherding movement. They do not let them grow up, they tell them what they can read, what tapes they can listen to, and make major life decisions for the people. This is wickedness. Our pastor is Jesus Christ. The earthly pastors are the undershepherds, who are here to assist us. Hallelujah.

Verse 4, "None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth, they trust in vanity and speak lies, they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity. Those words "conceive mischief," the word "conceive," the Hebrew word that is translated "conceive" means to be an overseer. Now the term "pastor" is unscriptural. The only pastor is Jesus Christ. In the New Testament, Paul appointed men to be overseers and bishops. He never called one of them a pastor.

There is a difference between a pastor and an overseer. So the word here is "overseer," and he says that the overseers are bringing forth mischief. "Mischief" means "heavy wearisome labor." They are bringing forth works in the Church. Pray in tongues for three hours, get down on your knees, come to church five times a week, do this, do that, do this, do that. What God is doing is bringing forth the image of Christ in your soul, in your soul, in your soul, and that is the work of Jesus Christ.

You do not get it because you pray in tongues for three hours. If you want to do that, it is fine. There is nothing wrong with any of this stuff, but it is not going to produce Christ in you. The increase comes from the Lord. One plants and another waters, but the increase, the production of the fruit comes from Jesus Christ. I hope you all understand what I am saying, because it is very confusing for many people that there is such error in the Church world today.

People that are young Christians can get confused, but Jesus Christ is perfectly capable of bringing forth every son that he intends to bring forth. There is no reason for panic or rebellion. Jesus Christ will do it, just seek Him early, and He will bring you through, because He is God. Hallelujah.

In Matt.23:4, we are told that the "Pharisees bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, ...." That is what is happening in the Church world today. Verse 5,"They hatch cockatrice eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, ...." They are bringing forth vipers, they are bringing forth the fruit of Satan instead of the fruit of Christ.

We are going to continue to look at Judah in the New Testament. There are two categories of sin in the Church world today. The first category is the modern-day Pharisees. These are people who have never received the truth. They have never really received the doctrine of the Gospel of the Kingdom, and they have never submitted themselves to deliverance and the cleansing of the Lord. We are in John 8:44,"Ye are of your father the devil, and the lust of your father ye will do. He was a murderer in the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it."

What Jesus is telling us here is that it is possible to be in the Church, it is possible to have the Holy Spirit and be a carnal man, when your thoughts and your words come forth from the Devil, which is in your carnal mind. We each have a manifestation of the Devil in our own mind, the Devil is within. Satan is within, and when we speak forth from his spirit, we are speaking forth the words of the Devil. We are speaking forth a manifestation of the natural man. Satan, if you recall from the earlier tapes, is a part of the original creation. He is the darkness that gives form to the living soul that died, and he is in the unconscious part of the carnal mind of each and every one of us.

Now that we are two men, we can manifest one spirit or the other. If we manifest the spirit of this world, or the spirit of darkness of the natural man, or Satan, our father is the Devil. If we speak forth the words of the Christ within, our Father is God. Now Jesus said it was possible for the Pharisees, the Jews who had received the oracles of God, for their father to be the devil. How could this be? Jesus was saying, although they have the oracles of God, and they have the Urim and the Thumim, and they had the ability under the Levitical Law to have communication with the Living God, they, nevertheless, were speaking the thoughts of the natural man.

This situation exists in the Church world today. We have people that lift up the name of Jesus Christ, they Have his Spirit, they are preachers, they are in the government of God, they are prophets, they are evangelists, but they are speaking forth from the spirit of the natural man, and their father, Jesus said, is the Devil. Hallelujah.

We have two Scriptures demonstrating this. John 8:37 tells us, "I know that ye are Abraham's seed, but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you. 40. But now ye seek to kill me, a man who hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God, this did not Abraham." The Pharisees were manifesting the spirit of this world. Satan, the God of this world, was speaking right through their very vessels, denying the Son of God, and the truth of His doctrine. Hallelujah.

So the first category of man in the Church world today that typifies the sins of Judah that we have been studying, is the carnal Christian who has never received in his spirit, the true Gospel of the Kingdom, and has never experienced the need for spiritual cleansing and deliverance. Hallelujah.

The second category of believer that judgment is coming upon, in accordance with Isaiah's prophecy to Judah, has, indeed, experienced the truth of the Gospel of the Kingdom, and has experienced the delivering power of the Lord Jesus Christ. They have their thoughts separated, the thoughts of Christ have been separated from the thoughts of fallen adam, the fallen adamic soul, and they have received deliverance from the evil fruit in their spirit, but something has happened to them that has made them deny either deliverance or the Gospel of the Kingdom, or both. They have refused to face the truth about their sin nature. Hallelujah.

We are turning now to Hebrews 6:4-8, "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away to renew them again unto repentance: seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame." Hallelujah.

The Lord is very clearly telling us here, that it is possible to have tasted of the good Word of God and the powers of the world to come, to have tasted of the heavenly gift and to be made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and to crucify to themselves Jesus Christ afresh because they have fallen away. Paul said that they cannot repent again because they would indeed crucify to themselves the Lord Jesus Christ again, and put him to open shame.

Now what has happened here? What has happened is that despite the fact that these believers have received the Gospel of the Kingdom in their mind, and they have received deliverance from some of the ungodly fruit in their soul, they still have curses and spiritual powers operating in their life that are powerful enough to bring forth evil fruit at the same time that the fruit of Christ is coming forth in the spirit of their mind. We have spoken about this in the prior meetings, that the spirit of our mind is such a harlot that she is capable of fornicating and bringing forth the fruit of the two male spirits at the same time.

Jesus Christ is imparting His Spirit to our spirit. He is in the process of joining Himself to us and bringing forth deliverance in our life, and hopefully, we will have received enough power from His Spirit to overcome the thoughts of our carnal mind, to reject them when they tempt us, and to not fornicate with them. But, if we do fornicate and an evil fruit is produced, hopefully we will cry out to God and say, "Lord, we failed, cast this evil fruit out of us."

The next verse in Hebrews 6:7, says, "For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringing forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God, but that which beareth thorns and briars is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing, whose end is to be burned." Now what this is saying is that the earth....now remember, we are made of earth, our soul is made of earth, and that earth which drinketh in the rain, which is the Spirit of God, which cometh oft upon it, and bringing forth herbs...." Herbs are green, they bear the life of the Lord Jesus Christ. Herbs are the fruit or the foliage, herbs are very close to the ground, and they are the first signs of life, of spiritual life coming forth in our spirit from the Spirit of God.

So if your spirit receives the rain from the Spirit of God and brings forth herbs, the life of Christ, the Scriptures says we receive a blessing from God; however there is another kind of earth. Verse 8,"But that which beareth thorns and briars is rejected." Now remember, when God pronounced the curse upon Adam in the Garden of Eden, he was told that the earth would bring forth thorns and thistles. The earth of the soul of natural man is bringing forth thorns and thistles.

So after we have received, going back to verse 4, "After we have tasted of the heavenly gift and were made partakers Holy Ghost, after we tasted of the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come...." That is the Gospel of the Kingdom, and the powers of the world to come is deliverance. After we have tasted of all this, if our earth, if the earth of our soul brings forth thorns and thistles, the Lord says we must be rejected because He will not share His Kingdom with anyone, because God is not a man, and He will not fight on the level of a man. He will not share his Kingdom with the fruit of iniquity.

So the Lord God says, "That spirit, or that manifestation, that cell in the body of the living soul that died is rejected and is nigh unto cursing." If this is your condition, your problem is that there are curses on your life. There are curses that are giving the power, that are imparting the power within your soul for the human spirit to bring forth evil fruit, simultaneously with the presence of the Spirit of God in your life. The Lord will not tolerate it, He will reject you, and we are told at the end of Verse 8, Chapter 6 of the book of Hebrews that the end of this person is to be burned.

Now we know that fire is a manifestation of the Spirit of God. Fire purges, it cleanses, it is the universal purger. Even unsaved people know that if something needs to be cleaned, you burn it. If you want to disinfect metal, you burn it. It goes through the fire. This is a principle that exists throughout the earth, not only with spiritual men, but with natural men. So the Lord God is saying, if this is your condition, you have tasted of all that God has to offer, and you are still producing thorns and thistles, you need curses broken on you, and you need to have your soul and spirit purged by the fire of God, which is the delivering power of the Lord Jesus Christ.

There are a lot of people in the Church today that do not want to believe that they have curses. Personally, I do not understand it. If you do not have a curse and you pray to break it, if you do not have it, nothing can happen to you. What I really believe it to be is a manifestation of pride. They just do not want to admit that there could be anything wrong with them. Well, Jesus said to the Pharisees, "If you say that you see, your sin remaineth with you." You cannot get cleansed, you cannot get purified, and you cannot come forth in the image of Christ, which is what the end is supposed to be for all of us. But you will not receive the "expected end" unless you admit that your spiritual condition is less than what it should be, submit yourself to God, confess whatever might be wrong with you, let Him cleanse you of it, and bring you up to where He is.

This is the situation in the Church today, and they just do not want to believe it. So to recap this Scripture that is so commonly quoted, Verse 6, which says, "If you fall away, there is no renewing you to repentance." The Church has interpreted this Scripture to mean that there is no chance for you. But I say unto all of you who have ears to hear, read the next two verses and you will see that there is hope for you, there is hope for you. God will judge you, He will judge the sin being manifested in your human spirit and in your soul. He will judge it, He will burn it, He will uproot it, and He will break it off, but the process by which He does this is known as deliverance.

You have to submit to it, you have submit to having the curses broken on you, and having the demons cast out. That is the way God does it, that is His provision for this condition. But if you are so blinded that you can’t believe you need deliverance, then the Lord will burn your ground. The fiery trial that Peter speaks about will burn up the pride of your carnal mind.

1 Peter 4:12-13

12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. KJV

Hallelujah.

For another witness now, we go to Hebrews10:26-31, "For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries." The adversaries are the demons.

So this is a witness that the burning that we just spoke about in Hebrews 6 is the fiery indignation of the Living God, who is incensed, that while He is in the process of producing His image in your soul, that your human spirit is still producing evil fruit. He is incensed, and He will bring upon you the fiery indignation which shall devour your adversaries. Hallelujah! They are going to be purged out from you so that you can continue on your way to produce the image of Christ. Glory to God.

I would like to take some time to speak about the two kinds of judgment. This is evident both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament. The common Scripture that is quoted to deny deliverance is that we are cleansed by the washing with the water of the word. That word "wash" is Strong's #3067, and it literally means to wash. Webster's definition of "wash" is "to separate by action of water or rubbing." It is to separate. The word "cleanse" is Strong's #2511, and it means "to purge or to purify." "To purge" means "to cause evacuation, to relieve of sediment or trapped air by bleeding." That means an actual removal of something.

We have spoken about this at prior meetings. When we are washed with the water, which is the Word, our thoughts are separated, the thoughts of Christ are separated from the thoughts of fallen adam, the fallen adamic soul, but all the thoughts are still in our mind. We have to get the bath water out of our mind, and that is the deliverance. It is the purging, it is the evacuation, it is the relief of sediment or trapped air by bleeding. It has to be extracted from our mind, and the way God does that is the process known as deliverance. (End of Tape One)

Tape 2

Hallelujah. We have here for a reference 2 Corinthians 7:1, "And having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God." That is not talking about washing, that is talking about cleansing ourselves, evacuating these things from our very beings. Hallelujah. "Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh...." Demonic activity and curses in the flesh and spirit, that is the soul and spirit.

Another error in the Church is that they say there can be no demons in your spirit. That is not true. It says right here, cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Hallelujah.

Our next reference is Ephesians 2:26, "That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word." Both cleansing and washing is evident in this Scripture, cleansing and washing. They are two different words, we just talked about it. These thoughts have to be separated from the filth, and the filth has to be evacuated by deliverance. 1John 1:9 says, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." That is not the word "wash." That is the word "cleanse." The wickedness must be evacuated.

We are told in Isaiah 1:16 to repent and be cleansed. Let us go back to that for a minute, "Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil doings from mine eyes. Cease to do evil." Now the word "wash" there is the word "wash" as it is used in the New Testament. Separate your thoughts from the evil thoughts in your mind. There are several Scriptures in the Old Testament where a man of God says, "I can discern between good and evil."

It was acknowledged in the Old Testament that it was necessary to discern between good and evil, and that comes to pass when we have the spiritual power to separate the thoughts of Christ from the thoughts of fallen adam. "Wash yourself, separate your thoughts, make yourself clean, and put away the evil of your doing." The word "put away" means "to pluck away, to depart, to remove, to separate," and these are not violent words. This is what I call willful deliverance. This is what comes forth when you are in full agreement with the Spirit of God, and you submit yourself to Him.

This process is much less painful than when He does it without your agreement, and He will violate your will. We talked about this at our last meeting. When your child has a toothache, you will violate his will. You will take him to the dentist. If he is sick, you will violate his will. You will take him to the doctor. Well, when we are in a condition, a spiritual condition where we are producing evil fruit, we are spiritually sick and the Lord God will violate our will to deliver us, either with our agreement or without our agreement.

This word "put away," put away the evil of your doings, that is the easy way to go, people. That is the gentle definition of this word, "pluck away, depart, withdraw, remove, or separate," and then he tells us to cease to do evil. Wash yourself, separate your thoughts, put away evil, get deliverance, cast them out of your mind, and then you will have the power to cease to do evil. Hallelujah, glory to God.

So the first kind of deliverance is to submit to the Lord and to the people that tthe Spirit of God is manifesting through, and you receive deliverance under the anointing. That is the willful deliverance, or the willing deliverance, the submissive deliverance. The second kind of deliverance is when you bring God to a place where He must decide to deliver you against your will. You can liken yourself, those of you who fall into this category, to children who are having temper tantrums because they do not want to go for their inoculations, or they do not want to go to school, and the parent takes them by the hand and forcibly puts them where they have to be for their own well-being.

God will deliver you against your will. I personally do not know how long it takes for Him to get to the point where He makes this decision. The Scriptures talk about Him coming upon some people as a thief in the night. He will not come upon those who are prepared, those who meet Him in the way, those who submit themselves to Him, by surprise, but there are Christians who will be visited by Him as a thief in the night. He is coming upon you, and you shall be surprised, because He has cried to you, He has called to you, He has spoken to you for only God knows how long, but you have called His doctrines unclean, so He will come upon you as a thief in the night, and deliver you against your will at the appointed time.

It has nothing to do with me, do not get mad at me, it has nothing to do with me, it is all in the Will of God, and I cannot even tell you when it is going to happen to you.

Jeremiah 6:29-30, "The bellows are burning, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked out. 30. Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them." This is talking about the power of God being exerted on behalf of the believer to bring forth deliverance, and the believer not submitting himself to the power. "The bellows are burning...." We know that fire is the power of God, ....the lead is consumed of the fire...."

Lead is a base metal, and that is likened unto the natural man in us. It is consumed. God has melted everything in us that is holding the wicked in place. All we have to do is confess it, repent, submit ourselves to the process, and deliverance will come forth with no problem. But we are told in the Scripture that, "the founder melteth in vain, for the wicked are not plucked away." Anybody walking down the street cannot receive deliverance.

These demons, we have talked about this in prior meetings, these demons are part of the personality of the natural man. They are a part of you. It takes the power of God to melt us into our separate elements, so that the wicked can be plucked out. This is a great and mighty miracle and blessing of God. But there are people in the Church today that claim they have no demons, and they have no curses that need to be broken. So, although they are melted by the Spirit of God, they will not release their demons. They will not let them go.

We are told in Verse 30 that God's comment on this is, "Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them." Silver typifies salvation, and "reprobate" means "imperfect." Those believers that fall into this category have been offered salvation by the Lord, they have the Holy Spirit, they are Christians for all intents and purposes, but they will not get delivered, and the Scripture says the Lord hath rejected them. Hallelujah, Glory to God.

We are going on now to Jeremiah 7:16, "Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me, for I will not hear thee." That is pretty severe. Sometimes God's judgments are pretty severe, and when someone who has heard the Word of God, and who has been called to by the Spirit of Christ for a long time, continues to refuse the plea of the Lord God to get delivered and move on in God, this is the rejection that God pronounces upon them. He commands the believers who are in His will to not even pray for them.

This is where we find some people coming into deliverance churches, or not necessarily deliverance churches, just crying out for the trials that are upon them, and they say that the Devil is after them, and they go around begging believers to pray for them, because their life is in tatters. I am not saying that this is true for everyone, every case is different, but if you have tried in every way that you can to have people pray you out of your problems and you still have them, I suggest that you seek the Lord to find out if you have not failed to hear His command or hear His call, because we are told in the Scripture that no amount of intercession can stop the fiery judgments of God.

It will burn until the last bit of reprobateness is purged out from the earth of their soul. There is no deliverance for somebody that is under the fire of God. Every trial of your life does not come forth from a demonic attack. It may be God wielding the sword of the wicked, which is the demons, to purge you. So, if you have submitted yourself to deliverance, if you have gone for every kind of prayer, no matter how you perceive it, and there is no help for you, the chances are that you are not fighting the demons, but that your enemy is the Lord. My counsel to you is to get down on your face and repent, and get through this thing as quickly as possible, because God never turns back. Hallelujah.

He does not turn back from something like this, unless you repent. He will turn back if you repent, but He will not turn back to the extent that He is going to remove the trial from you so that you can stay the way you were. Not a chance people, not a chance!

I am going to read a few Scriptures in the book of Amos, Chapter 4, that is Amos 4:11:13, "I have overthrown some of you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning, yet have ye not returned unto me saith the Lord." The Lord said, "I have overthrown you as I have overthrown Sodom and Gomorrah." He was speaking to Israel. He is not speaking to the world, He is speaking to the Church today. He has placed His trials upon you. "Nevertheless, you have not returned unto me, you have not repented, and received the chastening."

Amos 5:27, "Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, whose name is the God of Hosts." The Lord God can send us into captivity. This is a pretty hard word people, but it is the word of the Lord. You cannot stay babies forever. God is the one that sends us into captivity. If you are overcome by demons, if you are overcome by any problem in your life, I do not care what it is, if you cannot hold a job, if you cannot hold a husband, if you cannot control your children, if you are overcome with infirmity, I do not care what your problem is, God has sent you into captivity.

When you are not in Christ, before you are saved, you have been turned over to the tormenters. The Scripture tells us that God will turn us over to the tormenters. That is when you are not saved. There is no hope for you outside of the saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord gives the tormenters, the demons, and the curses in your life a free reign over you. But, from the day you repent and receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you become eligible for the delivering power of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now this is where a lot of people get messed up. If God has sent you into captivity and has permitted and literally sent hoards of demons upon you because of your wicked ways, when you repent and receive Jesus Christ, He does not just snap His fingers and pull them off of you. It does not work that way. They are already a part of you. They have become a part of your soul, they have become a part of your personality, they are on your family line. They are going from generation, to generation, to generation.

The provision that the Lord Jesus Christ has made to remove these curses and demons from you is deliverance. He does not snap his fingers and call them back. He has anointed people in the Church that He has imparted the power to, to break the curses and cast out the evil spirits. That is how He calls them back. So to say that all of these curses were broken 2000 years ago is a misunderstanding. What happened 2000 years ago was that Jesus Christ, by His work on the cross, imparted the power to the Church to break the curses and cast out the demons. Before the work of Jesus Christ, there was no power to break the curses and cast out the demons.

Now, the power is available, but it is not automatic. We have to pick up the power and use it. This is a great misunderstanding in the Church. May this be quickened to the ears of everyone hearing this message. Matthew 23:39, is a witness to the fact that God will reject those who will not receive deliverance. The witness for captivity is Matthew 18:34, "And he delivered them unto the tormenters. " We just spoke about that a few minutes ago.

1Timothy 1:20, "Whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme." God sends His people into captivity. He will remove His Spirit from them, and He will send them into captivity. Hallelujah.

Now I would like to wind this up by saying that God is a great God, He is loving parent, and all of this judgment, rejection, and captivity is for our good. It is so that we should grow up to be spiritual adults, fully equipped to function in the spiritual realm of God. That is His purpose. His purpose is not to burn us in hell forever. His purpose is not to reject us because we have rejected him, because you cannot reject the Son of God. "God so loved the world, He sent His only begotten son that all men should be saved."

He loved you before you loved Him. You cannot reject the Son of God, He will not let you. You cannot resist the love of God. Who can resist the love of God? He just loves, and loves, and loves, and loves, and loves until you respond. And sometimes his love takes the form of chastisement, but He is not rejecting you in hell forever because you have rejected him as a small spiritual child having a temper tantrum.

We are going to turn now to Isaiah 66:16 to see what the end of all of this chastening is, and it is severe. God tells us that it is severe. Hallelujah, Isaiah 66:16, "For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh, and the slain of the Lord shall be many." That word "plead" means "to erect." You see, when we exist in the soul realm, we are not standing up erect. We are lying down. The Scriptures describes this very frequently as being in a bed. It is a sign of spiritual weakness.

The whole living soul that died is in a condition of spiritual weakness in this hour, and we are subject to the pestilence of this realm. It is the purpose of the Lord Jesus Christ to stand us up erect. We are a fallen creation. We are lying down, and It is the will of the Lord God to stand us up on our feet erect, with all of the horrors of this realm under our feet, incapable of touching us, or hurting us.

So, "For by fire and by the sword will the Lord plead with all flesh." By the fire of His Spirit, and by His sword, this is judgment, but what He is producing from this judgment is the erection of the living soul that died. We are going to be standing up straight again. Hallelujah.

No more pain and torment. We are told in the book of Revelation, no more tears, no more curses, it is all over when we are standing erect. It is not all over when we repent and say, "I receive the Holy Spirit." That is the beginning of the process that will end in our erection, in our standing up in an upright position, having power over all the power of the enemy. You do not get it all when you say, "I am sorry, I repent," and you certainly did not get it all because of what Jesus did 2000 years ago. The work of the Cross has be worked out in your life.

What Jesus did 2000 years ago supplied the power to bring forth spiritual maturity and deliverance in your life. You have to take that power and appropriate it and bring forth the promises for each and every life, of each and every cell, of each and every person on the face of the earth. Yes, Jesus did what He intended to do on the cross. He provided the power, and now He is in the earth, by His Spirit manifesting that power through fallen men, so that the bondages may be broken on the entire creation, and that death should be swallowed up in victory. This is the end result of all of this judgment, rejection, separation, and torment. It is because he loves us.

In the Book of Revelation, this is the last Scripture, the Book of Revelation Chapter 19:20-21, "And the beast was taken and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived him that received the mark of the beast, and them that worship his image, these both were cast into a lake of fire burning with brimstone, and the remnant was slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth, and all of the fowls were filled with their flesh."

This is talking about the fire and the sword of God that we just spoke about. The beast is the natural man. He was taken captive by the Spirit of God, and with him the false prophet (I am not going to get into that today), who wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast. When you speak the words of the beast, you have his mark. When you are expressing his spirit, you have the mark of the beast. It is not 666 written down on a grocery can.

The seal of God is the Mind of Christ, so when we express Christ, we have the seal of Christ. I do not care whether you have the Holy Spirit or not, if what is speaking through your mouth is the natural man, you have the mark of the beast. You have to get delivered. "And them that worshiped his image, these both were cast alive in the lake of fire burning with brimstone." Fire is the Spirit of Christ. The purging purifying fire of the Spirit of Christ. If you look up these words in the Greek, they mean "sulfur, the universal purger of all evil."

They were thrown into the fire of Christ Jesus, and victory will swallow up death. The swallowing up of Satan, if you have not heard it, get the book, "Satan Swallowed Up." The beast and the false prophet and all of those that were with him are going to be swallowed up by Christ Jesus and His Spirit, the Spirit of Christ. Hallelujah. He is going to take vengeance against those parts of our soul man that have been tormenting us all of these thousands of years.

And the remnant, there is a part of us that is not going to get thrown into the fire. He is going to deliver that part of us another way. Our ungodly soul is going to get slain with the sword of Him that sat on the horse, which sword proceeded out of His mouth. That is the sword that is nailing Christ Jesus to the cross of the living soul that died. Remember what we said, "We are breaking the curses, the demons are being cast out, and Satan is being swallowed up," and Christ is nailing Himself to the living soul that died with the sword of His mouth. He is doing it through the spoken word. The life of the Spirit manifests through the spoken word.

These are all spiritual things, and this is the glorious result of the judgment of God. If we come willingly to Christ, our walk will be easier. If we have to be dragged like a child having a temper tantrum, it will be more difficult, but He is going to save every last one of his children. He shall not lose one, for He loves us all with an everlasting love that we cannot even comprehend. Hallelujah.