{"id":13058,"date":"2016-11-21T17:32:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T00:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/?p=13058"},"modified":"2016-11-21T17:32:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T00:32:41","slug":"in-the-words-of-jesus-part-1445","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/21\/in-the-words-of-jesus-part-1445\/","title":{"rendered":"IN THE WORDS OF JESUS\u2013Part 1445"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ON LOVE; PART MLXXXIV<\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391<\/span><\/h6>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">GoodWill\u00a0IS Love in Action<\/span><\/h2>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391<\/span><\/h6>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">FIRST IS THE GREAT COMMANDMENTS: &#8220;<em>The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these<\/em>&#8221; (Mark 12:29-31).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">WHAT THEN IS LOVE? In a general sense love is benevolence, good will; that disposition of heart which inclines men to think favorably of their fellow men, and to do them good. In a theological sense, it includes supreme love to God, and universal good will to men. While this IS from an older definition of Charity, which IS rendered in the King James Bible from the same Greek word <em>agape<\/em> which IS generally rendered as Love,\u00a0we should amend our own definition here to include the idea that in the reality of Love a man will accord to ALL men ALL things that he would accord to himself and to say that Love IS our thoughts and attitude\u00a0of the equality of ALL men regardless of their outward nature or appearance&#8230;that ALL ARE equally children of Our\u00a0One God<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">PLUS THE EVER IMPORTANT AND HIGH IDEAL TAUGHT TO US BY THE CHRIST: &#8220;<em>Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them<\/em>&#8221; (Matthew 7:12).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the last essay we touched upon some of the doctrinal problems that ARE related to the Greek words <em>pistis<\/em> and <em>pisteuo,<\/em> how that they ARE that KNOWING rather that that most nebulous idea that doctrines present. We touched as well upon the ideas behind the <em>unction<\/em>, the <em>anointing<\/em>, and its relationship to Christ and to the Christ Within and, while we DID note that the Greek word <em>chirstos<\/em>, which IS always rendered as Christ, IS related to <em>chrisma<\/em>, which IS rendered as that <em>unction<\/em> and <em>anointing<\/em>, by way of the root word of both, we DID NOT expand upon the way that this word has been treated by that &#8220;<em>another gospel<\/em>&#8221; that IS the doctrines of the churches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As we have discussed, the Greek word <em>christos<\/em> has the meaning of <strong><em>anointed<\/em><\/strong> but IS always rendered as Christ and in such a way as to make it to become a part of Jesus&#8217; name. There ARE a few translations that DO render <em>christos<\/em> as Messiah in select places but these ARE the exception and not the rule. In one place, in the Apostle John&#8217;s Gospel, we read about the Apostle Andrew as he seeks out his brother &#8220;<em>He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ<\/em>&#8221; (John 1:41). Here the Greek word IS <em>messias<\/em> which the lexicon tells us IS the Greek form of the Hebrew word <em>messiah<\/em> and here John shows us that this word IS &#8220;<em>being interpreted, the Christ<\/em>&#8221; or, literally,&#8221;<em>the Chirstos<\/em>&#8220;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The relationship between <em>christos<\/em> and <em>messias<\/em> IS that one IS the Greek word and the other is the Greek form of the Hebrew word <em>messiah<\/em>, a word that IS used only twice in the Book of the Prophet Daniel. Both the Greek word and the Hebrew word have the same meaning of <em><strong>anointed<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0and we should note that as in the Greek, the Hebrew root word <em>mashach<\/em> IS used to show the &#8216;<strong><em>anointing<\/em><\/strong>&#8216; of kings. Like many words in the Greek and the Hebrew there IS a common idea for this word and there IS a more spiritual connotation and if we could read this as that David IS <strong><em>anointed<\/em><\/strong> king by the Lord and that Jesus IS <em><strong>anointed<\/strong><\/em> Son by the Lord, we can then see deeper into the Truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the idea of Jesus the <strong><em>anointed<\/em><\/strong> of God we have the reality of the man in whom &#8220;<em>dwelleth all the fulness of the <span id=\"yui-gen32\" class=\"criteria\">Godhead<\/span> bodily<\/em>&#8221; (Colossians 2:9) and if we could see the meaning that IS being conveyed here we would understand that Jesus was the <strong><em>expression<\/em><\/strong> of the Godhead on Earth. He IS a man who IS <em><strong>expressing<\/strong><\/em> the &#8220;<em>divine nature<\/em>&#8221; and it IS in this sense that He IS God; it IS in this sense that He IS One with the Father. And our point here IS that everyman has the potential of\u00a0<em><strong>expressing<\/strong><\/em> the &#8220;<em>divine nature<\/em>&#8221; and the Apostle Peter shows us this saying of men that &#8220;<em>ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust<\/em>&#8221; (2 Peter 1:4). And this IS the same message that we should take form Paul&#8217;s words to the Ephesians that we repeat here again:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<em>This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as <del>other Gentiles<\/del> men walk, in the vanity of their mind,\u00a0Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:\u00a0Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.\u00a0But ye have not so learned Christ;\u00a0If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:\u00a0That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;\u00a0And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;\u00a0And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness<\/em>&#8221; (Ephesians 4:17-24).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It IS by the <em>unction<\/em>, the <strong><em>anointing<\/em><\/strong> which IS the Christ Within, that men can DO those &#8220;<em>greater works<\/em>&#8221; and ARE able to move the mountain, plant the <em>sycamine tree<\/em> in the sea and\u00a0&#8220;<em>have whatsoever he saith<\/em>&#8221; (Mark 11:23) as we discussed in the last post. As John tells us that\u00a0&#8220;<em>as he is, so are we in this world<\/em>&#8221; (1 John 4:17), we should try to see and to understand that this IS the same as what Jesus tells us in these ideas: whatever it IS that He as the Christ could DO, men can DO when they reach that pinnacle of Truth that comes according to the <strong><em>trifecta<\/em><\/strong>. That pinnacle of Truth that IS the fullness described in the Master&#8217;s words which we repeat here again:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>&#8220;If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free<\/em>&#8220;<em> (John 8:31-32).<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>&#8220;Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0(Matthew 7:21).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>&#8220;He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world? Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father&#8217;s which sent me&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0(John 14:21-24).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It IS in the fullness of KNOWING that one can\u00a0DO those &#8220;<em>greater works<\/em>&#8220;; it IS in the fullness of His Presence that one IS\u00a0able to move the mountain, plant the <em>sycamine tree<\/em> in the sea and\u00a0&#8220;<em>have whatsoever he saith<\/em>&#8221; and these ideas ARE synonymous. And this IS the not so concealed secret of <em>pistis<\/em> and of <em>pisteuo<\/em>&#8230;.this IS the Truth of KNOWING. This brings us back to the second point from a few posts back where we discussed some of the doctrinal principles that keep men from a focus upon the Truth. The first IS that they ARE taken by the authority of those who ARE perceived to\u00a0be KNOWERS but who ARE just men\u00a0&#8220;<em>teaching for <span class=\"criteria\">doctrines<\/span> the commandments <span class=\"criteria\">of<\/span> <span id=\"yui-gen33\" class=\"criteria\">men<\/span><\/em>&#8221; (Mark 7:7)&#8230;.teaching &#8220;<em>another gospel<\/em>&#8221; while purporting it to be the Truth of the Master&#8217;s words. In accepting this authority and the indoctrination that it provides, generation after generation ARE <strong>deceived<\/strong> into thinking that they ARE &#8216;<em>saved<\/em>&#8216; while they still walk &#8220;<em>in the vanity of their mind<\/em>&#8221; as Paul shows us above.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It IS this <strong>deception<\/strong> which the Apostle James shows us saying that men should be &#8220;<em><span id=\"yui-gen30\" class=\"criteria\">doers<\/span> of the <span class=\"criteria\">word<\/span>, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves<\/em>&#8221; (James 1:22). We should see here that\u00a0even this saying has been subjected to the force of\u00a0&#8220;<em>another gospel<\/em>&#8221; as &#8220;<em>the <span class=\"criteria\">word<\/span><\/em>&#8221; has become the several doctrines that pose as the Truth rather than the Truth itself. It IS\u00a0&#8220;<em>another gospel<\/em>&#8221; that tells men that their <em>salvation<\/em> lies in the affirmations and the confessions from Paul&#8217;s Epistle to the Romans rather that the reality of the <strong><em>trifecta<\/em> <\/strong>and in this we should see the causal idea: that men DO NOT see how that they can be &#8216;<em>saved<\/em>&#8216; in this single lifetime. This causal idea IS the reality of our second point.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This causal idea IS further enhanced by men&#8217;s perception of the difficulty, the impossibility if you will, of actually being &#8220;<em><span id=\"yui-gen30\" class=\"criteria\">doers<\/span> of the <span class=\"criteria\">word<\/span><\/em>&#8221; and a lack of understanding of the Master&#8217;s admonition that men should &#8220;<em><span id=\"yui-gen28\" class=\"criteria\">Strive<\/span> to <span id=\"yui-gen29\" class=\"criteria\">enter<\/span> in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to <span class=\"criteria\">enter<\/span> in, and shall not be able<\/em>&#8220;. Doctrines have taken the position that it IS through the affirmations and the confessions that one will be able to&#8221;<em><span class=\"criteria\">enter<\/span> in<\/em>&#8220;. This IS despite the clarity of Jesus&#8217; own words from our <strong><em>trifecta<\/em><\/strong> saying that\u00a0<em>&#8220;Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven<\/em>&#8220;. And this causal idea IS perpetuated and furthered by the refusal of doctrines to see the reality of the continuum of Life as they rebuke the idea of reincarnation although there IS naught that Truly denies this in the whole of the bible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There ARE many doctrinal teachers and students that proclaim that &#8216;God has a plan for your Life&#8217; and much teaching about hearing and listening to God as He tells men what it IS that they should DO. Much of this IS the result of a doctrinal interpretation of the words of the Prophet Jeremiah saying \u00a0&#8220;<em>For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end<\/em>&#8221; (Jeremiah 29:11) and other like sayings. Many translations render the Hebrew word\u00a0<em>machashabah<\/em> as <em>plan<\/em> and while the lexicon tells us that this is an alternate meaning, the English connotations ARE much different. It IS under the influence of the idea of a plan that many confuse their own psyche with the will of God and pursue courses in Life accordingly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Our point here IS NOT to get into a discussion of the merits of one&#8217;s presumed calling nor the way that this works out in the mind of the doctrinal Christian; our purpose IS ONLY to say that if this IS Truth: if God Truly has a plan for everyman, then the whole idea that &#8220;<em>there is no <span id=\"yui-gen38\" class=\"criteria\">respect<\/span> of <span id=\"yui-gen39\" class=\"criteria\">persons<\/span> with God<\/em>&#8221; (Romans 2:11) IS moot. And NOT only this, the very idea of the Love of God becomes misplaced as there ARE yet many millions born into abject poverty while others ARE born into wealth and plenty&#8230;.can it be the Plan of a Loving God for some that they suffer and others that they DO NOT? Then there IS physical health; how do we see the Love of God in the baby born with deformities, or the child with mental and emotional problems, or the child born susceptible to hereditary disease? IS the Love of God spread evenly among these children and others born with more normal physical attributes?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We should try to see how that under the weight of these profound differences the whole of doctrinal thinking that &#8220;<em>it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the <span id=\"yui-gen36\" class=\"criteria\">judgment<\/span><\/em>&#8221; should fail and this failure IS compounded by the idea that in the birth of these children that God can say &#8220;<em>I know the <del>thoughts<\/del>\u00a0plan that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end<\/em>&#8220;. And it IS NOT these negative differences ONLY that should show us the greater Truth of the continuum of Life in which we ALL, as Souls, play our part. How DO we explain the child prodigy and how should we understand the brilliance in a certain field of a Mozart, a Rembrandt, a Einstein, or an Emerson? How should we look at the Stalins and the Lennis of the Mao Tse-Tung that come into this world wreaking havoc and change and how do we explain one like Hitler or a\u00a0Genghis Khan or a Pol Pot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Are ALL of these,\u00a0both those that brought good and those that seemingly embodied evil, working according to any spiritual plan? ARE any? To be sure they ALL had abilities that far exceeded those of their peers and they ALL channeled their abilities according to the interpreted spiritual strength that they possessed. We should understand first and foremost that if God has a role in the working out of lives that turn to good the whole idea that &#8220;<em>God is no respecter of persons<\/em>&#8221; (Acts 10:34) fails. And worse, if the Lord has a hand in the\u00a0working out of lives that turn to good, would He NOT also have a hand in the lives that turn to evil?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We must rely upon the words of the apostles here and NOT on the suppositions of men that ARE based their own thoughts and their doctrines&#8230;.we must understand that there IS one aspect of the Godhead that IS immovable and that IS there IS &#8220;<em>no respect of persons with God<\/em>&#8220;. In this we must also see that somehow, at some stage of Life itself, ALL men ARE equal and, to be sure, this IS NOT here in this physical world where there IS NO sense equality whatsoever. We should understand here that Jesus DOES NOT speak about reincarnation but He DOES NOT ever deny that this IS a part of Life when related questions arise. It IS the doctrines of men, it IS that\u00a0&#8220;<em>another gospel<\/em>&#8221; that teaches such denial and most ALL of what IS taught IS without merit. This IS the point that we should take from Paul&#8217;s words to the Ephesians that we have been studying and which we repeat here again:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<em>I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:\u00a0Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.\u00a0But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.\u00a0As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.\u00a0For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.\u00a0But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.\u00a0For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ<\/em>&#8221; (Galatians 1:6-12).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We should note here that those that Paul IS speaking to have first chosen the spiritual Path that the apostle laid out for them and they were then dissuaded from that Path by others who had believed that they had found a greater, or perhaps an easier, Truth. Both of these groups of men rose above their peers spiritually and we should try to see that there was some impetus for their so DOING. This could be the strength of Paul&#8217;s message and then its <em><strong>expression<\/strong> <\/em>through the mind and emotional set of the men who received that message, but then the question remains: why DID some hear the apostle&#8217;s message while others turned a deaf ear? The answer IS most likely to be found in the prompting of one&#8217;s own Soul, a glimmer of Light that\u00a0was able to pierce through the self-absorbed carnal Life of those who hear him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Again then why DO some of these hear and others DO NOT? IS it simply a matter of the attractiveness of the message to any particular person or IS this a deeper idea of readiness? The answer IS likely to be found in a combination of these ideas. To the man who comes to believe because he has something to gain, healing for himself or a loved one for example, there IS the attractiveness of the message \u00a0and then a likely emotional response of devotion at play. And to the man who has with him some measure of spiritual collateral there IS the attractiveness of the Truth as the mind starts to resonate with the message and unlock the flow of Truth and Love that was ever a part of his Life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And these same things ARE likely True yet today; there IS still the devotional approach to God that IS based in the need of the man who IS attracted by whatsoever appeals to him; and we should add here that this reality is wrongly used by some denominations that use the allure of healing, of prosperity or of heaven to attract and and keep men in their fold. There IS also still what we will call the &#8216;mental&#8217; approach and we use this idea ONLY to differentiate these from the emotional\u00a0response that IS the devotional Way to the Lord. These ARE the awakened men of the world; these ARE men who understand some measure of the deeper aspects of the Truths that the Master presented to us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It IS these that ARE likely among those Souls that have garnered the ability to better <strong><em>express<\/em><\/strong> the Power of the Soul, the Christ Within, and to better control their <em>flesh<\/em>. Nonetheless these too must be <strong><em>awakened<\/em><\/strong>. It IS to this end, their <em><strong>awakening<\/strong><\/em>, that ALL New Testament words ARE directed. And NOT ONLY to the <strong><em>awakening<\/em> <\/strong>but to the idea of keeping men awake and aligned with the Truth and to give them the encouragement to continue Life in ways that ARE NOT the ways of men. Here again we repeat our selection from Paul&#8217;s writing to the Galatians which we should try to see from this perspective of <strong><em>awakening<\/em><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It IS in seeing the apostle&#8217;s idea of\u00a0&#8220;<em>the works of the flesh<\/em>&#8221; as the self-absorbed and self-centered Life versus one&#8217;s <em>focus<\/em> upon the things of God that ARE &#8220;<em>the fruit of the Spirit<\/em>&#8221; that we can understand the underlying message that IS behind his other words saying: &#8220;<em>And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed<\/em>&#8221; (Romans 13:11). And we should note here that these words follow upon the apostle&#8217;s words on Love in the same way that they DO in our selection:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<em>For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.\u00a0For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.\u00a0But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.\u00a0This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.<\/em>\u00a0<em>For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.\u00a0But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.\u00a0Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,\u00a0Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,\u00a0Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.\u00a0But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,\u00a0Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.\u00a0And they that are Christ&#8217;s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts<\/em>&#8221; (Galatians 5:17-24).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We will continue with our thoughts in the next post.<\/span><\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"20%\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Aspect\u00a0<del><\/del>of \u00a0God<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Potency<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Aspect of Man<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>In Relation to the Great Invocation<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>In relation to the Christ<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20%\" height=\"59\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>GOD, The Father<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Will or Power<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Spirit or Life<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Center where the Will of God IS KNOWN<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Life<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20%\" height=\"57\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Son, The Christ<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Love and Wisdom<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Soul or Christ Within<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Heart of God<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Truth<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20%\" height=\"56\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Holy Spirit<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Light or Activity<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Life Within<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Mind of God<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Way<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2 class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Note on the Quote of the Day<\/span><\/h2>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This daily blog also has a Quote of the Day which may not be in any way related to the essay. Many of these will be from the Bible and some just prayers or meditations that may have an influence on you and are in line with the subject matter of this blog. As the quote will change daily and will not store with the post, it is repeated in this section with the book reference and comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This daily blog also has a Quote of the Day which may not be in any way related to the essay. Many of these will be from the Bible and some just prayers or meditations that may have an influence on you and are in line with the subject matter of this blog. As the quote will change daily and will not store with the post, it is repeated in this section with the book reference and comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We repeat here a Quote of the Day that we spent much time with over the course of our essays. In this affirmation we find the Truth of discipleship as we have been ever been expressing and here we can relate our themes of the last few days; \u201ctake no thought\u201d for the things of the world and that we approach the Kingdom and discipleship in the nature of the little child, in humbleness, meekness, unashamed in any way and unassuming. The message that this imparts for us today IS that it IS the Soul that is at work in the world of men as it expresses to some degree the purpose, power and the will through Life in this world. These words are from a meditation offered to his students by our Tibetan brother and in which we find greater understanding of the message of the Master. This IS Truly the way of the disciple.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>My Soul has purpose, power and will; these three are needed on the Way of Liberation.<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>My Soul must foster love among the sons of men; this is its major purpose.<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>I, therefore, will to love and tread the Way of Love. All that hinders and obstructs the showing of the Light must disappear before the purposes of the Soul.<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>My will is one with the great Will of God;. that Holy Will requires that all men serve. And unto the purposes of the Plan I lend my little will.<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Let the peace of God rule in your hearts<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><sup style=\"font-weight: normal;\">2<\/sup><span style=\"line-height: 1.7;\">\u00a0New Testament Greek Lexicon on BibleStudyTools.com<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ON LOVE; PART MLXXXIV \u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391 GoodWill\u00a0IS Love in Action \u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391\u03a9\u2022\u0391 FIRST IS THE GREAT COMMANDMENTS: &#8220;The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/21\/in-the-words-of-jesus-part-1445\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,45,48,25,39,81,44,41,49,20,38,43,30,24,13,14],"tags":[88,82,95,57,22,99,23,94,92,97,9,10,17,83,54,8,91,21,31,32,12,52,47,34,33,18,84,93,55,89,26,85,7,15,16,50,98,11],"class_list":["post-13058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abundance-of-the-heart","category-born-again","category-bread-of-life","category-children-of-god","category-christianity","category-disciple-of-christ","category-eternal-life","category-faith","category-forgiveness","category-light","category-living-in-the-light","category-reincarnation","category-righteousness","category-son-of-god","category-the-kingdom","category-jesus-words-2","tag-abundance-of-the-heart","tag-aspirant-to-discipleship","tag-born-again","tag-buddha","tag-christ","tag-disciple-of-christ","tag-enlightenment","tag-eternal-life","tag-faith","tag-forgiveness","tag-goodwill","tag-christian-love","tag-gospel","tag-gospel-of-thomas","tag-holy-spirit","tag-jesus-words","tag-light","tag-light-of-the-world","tag-merciful","tag-mercy","tag-new-age","tag-new-age-developments","tag-new-birth","tag-peace","tag-pure-in-heart","tag-quote-of-day","tag-rebirth","tag-reincarnation","tag-resurrection","tag-righteousness","tag-sons-of-god","tag-spiritual-reality","tag-the-christ","tag-kingdom-of-god","tag-kingdom-of-heaven","tag-truth","tag-united-nations","tag-unity-in-diversity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13058"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13071,"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13058\/revisions\/13071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}