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On the night of 09/06/08, I had a dream about the preacher of the church my family goes to. His name is Robert Koke. In the dream, I went jogging in a very nice neighborhood. I end up discovering Mr. Koke’s home. For whatever reason I walk into the house uninvited. The house was relatively large. It was  2-3 stories tall with a square footage of about 4000-5000 square feet. I saw a balcony bridge in the house. It was long walk across it. I think there was a three car garage and basement? He was going out possibly jogging? He saw me. He said, “Oh out that guy who talks about stuff.” Something to that effect. Don’t exactly remember. I saw his wife walk around. She saw me. I saw a few other people. Then I left and went on my way.

10:30 AM 4/11/2009
I had a dream last night that me and my wife were in what seemed like Austin. We came up to a restaraunt on a corner street. It had a about 8-10 motorcycles parked in front of the restaraunt. We went up to the counter to make our order and the persons that seemed to own or be working there. I see Kenneth & Gloria Copeland. I believe they were volunteers. We made our order and they said hello. Then Mr. Copeland begins to speak to me. He says, “You are called to be a teacher.” I thought to myself that sounds right. He mentioned being available if I ever need encouragement, support, or discipline. I felt encouraged when he said that. His wife agreed with him and she may have some things too, but I can’t remember exactly. Then we walked outside that was it.

One of the most enduring myths about George Washington involves his chopping down his father’s cherry tree and, when asked about it, using the famous line “I cannot tell a lie, I did it with my little hatchet.”¹

Honesty is a well-desired, noble attribute of character. I can be honest all I want, but it won’t set me free. Only revelation of the truth that is in Jesus will and can set me free. Being honest will not make me righteous. His faith in me by grace can only make me truly righteous. Honesty should manifest because of truth. If I place my righteousness on how honest I am then my focus is not on Christ, but on self. This has a potential to create self-righteousness apart from righteousness by faith and grace.

So, does this condone dishonesty? No, it does not. If I truly have been immersed or drowned into Christ then the old man with his nature is dead. The attribute and tendency towards dishonesty is dead in Christ, Gal. 2:20, Col. 3:3.

I believe the Lord manifests and reveals himself when we hear and hear His Word. Christ revealing Himself is contrary to being vulnerable. Being vulnerable is making oneself open to hurt and pain. Christ does not show Himself vulnerable in me, but REVEALS Himself in me. In Him, ALL the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily, Col. 2:9. If I have ALL fullness in me then what do I lack? If I do not have all fullness in me then I do lack and will be vulnerable. In Col. 1:24, Paul says, “I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the church…”

hustle¹: to pressure or coerce (a person) to buy or do something: to hustle the customers into buying more drinks.

2 Cor. 2:17, “For we are not, as so many, peddling (or sell for retail) the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ.”

Was the apostle Paul a hustler? What does the Word say?

2 Thess. 3:6-12, “6 But we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which they received from us. 7 For you yourselves know how you ought to follow us, for we were not disorderly among you; 8 nor did we eat anyone’s bread free of charge, but worked with labor and toil night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, 9 not because we do not have authority, but to make ourselves an example of how you should follow us. 10 For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat. 11 For we hear that there are some who walk among you in a disorderly manner, not working at all, but are busybodies. 12 Now those who are such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ that they work in quietness and eat their own bread.”

Acts 18:1-3
” 1 After these things Paul departed from Athens and went to Corinth. 2 And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla (because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome); and he came to them. 3 So, because he (Paul) was of the same trade, he stayed with them and worked; for by occupation they were tent makers.”

Acts 20:33-35
“33 I have coveted no one’s silver or gold or apparel. 34 Yes, you yourselves know that these hands have provided for my necessities, and for those who were with me. 35 I have shown you in every way, by laboring like this, that you must support the weak. And remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

1 Cor. 9:18
“18 What is my reward then? That when I preach the gospel, I may present the gospel of Christ without charge, that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel.”

The impression I get after reading these scriptures is that Paul worked for a living with his own hands and was an apostle to the churches simultaneously. I have not found a example in his writings of him receiving or using money from the churches for himself. He had a job. Paul wrote 60.86% of the New Testament excluding the Gospels which are not the New Testament and including Hebrews if you agree he wrote it. If he didn’t write Hebrews which I disagree with then he would have wrote 56.52% of the New Testament. Point being, he wrote either 2/3 or close to 2/3 of the New Testament. So, my question is why are ministers of the gospel not mimicking or imitating Paul as he instructed to in 1 Cor. 11:1? Which says, “Be ye followers (imitators) of me, even as I also [am] of Christ.”

Jesus spoke about hirelings in John 10:12. Paul calls himself a “freeman” and a bond-servant, Rom. 1:1.

A bond-servant was servant of their own free-will. According to Mosaic Law, after seven years a servant had a choice to leave his master. If he chose to stay and continue to be his master’s slave then he was a free-will bond-servant. Paul was a free-will bond-servant by grace to Christ. He willfully served Christ. In this grace enabled willingness, Phil. 2:13, he did not want to be paid for his service. He acted as a divinely, ordained and authorized financial delegator between the churches with the purpose of  grace based equality 2 Cor. 8:13-14 and not socialistic equality. Equality based on revelation.

Ephesians 2:14 talks about a middle wall being broken up, destroyed, demolished and even dissolved. What is this middle wall between the Jew and Gentile? It was the judgment, guilt and penalty of the Mosaic Law and even the law written on the Gentile hearts!

Luke 24:36 says Jesus appeared in the midst of the disciples and they thought He was a spirit. I believe this is the scripture where people derive the story of Jesus’s resurrected flesh walking through walls.

A while back, I wrote The Fringe – “Safe” Episode. In this episode, the characters theoretically (by quantum mechanics) are able to walk through a sold steel, vaulted safe.

I also am reminded of mid-evil times of castles and knights. The design of castles was to keep intruders and the enemy outside. The moat and castle walls were there for protection. Comparatively, fear creates walls. These walls do not exist in Love. Love is not aware of these walls. Christ is the crucified Lamb before the foundations of the earth. Love was before the law. Love fulfills and establishes the all the law.

Walls cannot exist in Love. They are destroyed, abolished and dissolved. Walls separate, but Christ is our peace. The Greek word for peace means to join together. The Hebrew word shalom is even more. Shalom means to make whole without any lack, but in the God kind of way. My definition is lacking to what it really is. It is more than that. Perfect loves drives and casts away fear and torment. The knowledge of perfect love comes by revelation of Christ by hearing the word. When perfection comes the little or imperfect is nullified or disappears, 1 Cor. 13:10.

So, ask yourself next time you perceive some type of wall, “Can His love go through this wall?” Or “Is this wall really here?” “Why do I perceive it is there?” “Why does it seem so real?” What if there is no wall? Isn’t that what Eph. 2:14 says?

Col. 2:11-12 (KJV) says, “¹¹ In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins^[c] of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, ¹² buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.”

The Nestle-Aland text omits “of the sins.” If this is true what does it imply, say, or mean?

Well, first off, verse 11 would read like this, “In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ…”

If the Word became flesh, John 1:14, and we are renewed according to the original pattern or tupos, Col. 3:10. Then the flesh will become Word according the hearing of the Word. The flesh becoming Word puts off the body of flesh. The putting off of the body of flesh is by grace and the revelation of Christ in us by hearing the Word. Flesh is powerless against the Word by the circumcision of Christ. “Who shall separate me from this body of death?” Rom. 7:24, Col. 1:22. Death cannot co-exist with life. Death has lost its power. “O death, where thy sting? O grave, where [is] thy victory?” 1 Cor. 15:55. Life is more real than death. Christ said, “I am the Resurrection and the Life.” Life forever. A life that is unaware of time. Death is aware of time. Life may not be aware of time if it cannot die. Time is nullified in true life.

In Christ, we have been separated and delivered from the body of flesh! We are now, by grace, in the Spirit. In the Spirit, we have liberty. We exercise and witness righteousness through the passive effect and apprehension of the unveiling of the Word of Christ in us. We actively witness through a passive internal effect by the circumcision of the heart by the Spirit of the Living God to make us His predestined children by the Spirit of Adoption in Christ Who our elder brother and Lord. He is our peace. Peace from the effects of the judgment of the law written in our hearts.

In the Spirit, in Him, the body of flesh is put off for good. Once immersed and drowned into Christ, the new man is. Is what? The new man is. He “is” because time is nullified, or death no longer has its sting. “IS” is perfect present tense because the new man is Christ in us, Eph. 2:15. Christ sits at the right hand of the Father in the heavenlies. The heavenlies are in eternity.

On 01/08/09, Brother Leroy was on “Believers Voice of Victory” with  Kenneth Copeland. He mentioned a ‘spirit of suicide’ while talking on the broadcast. This reminded me of the meaning of Jezebel.

The name Jezebel combines the prefix “NOT”,

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/Lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H336&t=KJV

And “to cohabit or be intimate with.”

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/Lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H2082&t=KJV

So, Jezebel means “unable to cohabit with“, “unable to be intimate or have sexual intercourse with.”

If this is true then generally speaking I’d be alone. I’ve noticed a correlation of sorts possibly with witchcraft. I see people sometimes and am almost certain witchcraft is in their midst or life. The prophet Samuel said, “Stubbornness is as idolatry and witchcraft is as rebellion.” The “my way or highway” mentality seems like anarchy, but rebellion seems to create isolation from God. If I am rebelling against God like Jezebel notoriously showed in the Old Testament then I am not only counting solely on myself, but standing against God and approving even encouraging anyone else who does. I am cutting myself off from Life, Love, true purpose and identity. I am killing myself and the image I was created in. This is suicide. This suicide is either willfully ignorant or willful suicide. I believe God is allowing this because of grace. In this case, He gives us over to a reprobate mind, Rom. 1:28. This grace the allows this came through Jesus, John 1:16-17.

Is it God’s will for us to commit suicide spiritually or physically? NO, God forbid. That is a lie from the pit of hell.

Love is unconditional. Love does not impose itself, but reveals itself. In this revealing, we have a choice of free-will. I did not marry my wife because she forced me to. I married her wholeheartedly and willingly because I love her. Otherwise, the marriage has no authenticity. It only looks like marriage. We are not God’s automatons, but His righteous offspring in Christ by the Spirit of adoption. This is His will for us.

His will is also John 10:10.

Matt. 24:34-39,

“Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away. But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.”

On 02/19/09, this thought came to mind. Now, we are under grace not law. The “days of Noah” was ‘before the law’. In the ‘days of Noah’ they were not under the law the either. Moses had not yet even been born. In Christ, we are no longer under the schoolmaster. This gives more understanding to the above verse in red. This implies we are now in the days like the time of Noah. What does this mean? Well, Noah prepared the ark. His Church is and will be prepared. Some will enter and some will not believe and therefore not enter. His Appearing will not be with water, but with an all-consuming fire, HIS GLORIOUS PRESENCE on earth. He will not be the crucified man who died, but will be the immutable, all-powerful, Son of the living God. In Him, ALL fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily. He is coming for His Body and His Body will also have His fullness as well. The fullness of God! What is that? I can’t even wrap my brain around that, but that is what is going to happen according to the scriptures!

Gal. 3:8-9,
“And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying,  “IN YOU all the nations shall be blessed.” So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.”

It says, “IN YOU” or in Abram not Abram, but in him will all nations be blessed. What was in Abraham? Faith. How? After God spoke to him. God’s quickenend Word creates faith. This faith makes our nature, essence and every part of who we are like God our Father through His Son Jesus. Christ is the Word. When God speaks His word to us and we hear His word it manifests its nature and power by grace. Part of this manifestation in us is righteousness. I am a new creation in Christ by grace because of His faith IN ME. His faith in me is there by His quickened and spoken word in me. His word is turning me and my flesh in to Word. The Word became flesh. Now, the flesh becomes Word by revelation of the Word. Truth aligns all things with itself. If something is not true it cannot last and may not be real. A lie is not real. Death is not real. Unforgiveness is not real. Love, hope and faith are real. They remain. They continue in the life to come.

This same IN YOU that was in Abram is now in me and you if you believe in Christ and hear His quickened word.

There are two Greek words for “son” or “child” I recently discovered. They are teknon¹ and huios².

The Greek word, teknon from tekna means “born ones”³, newborns, young babies or children.

It is used in the following verses,

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=G5043&t=KJV&page=3

• Col. 3:20, “Children (teknon), obey [your] parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.”
• 1 Thess. 2:7, “But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherishes her children (teknon):”
• 1 Cor. 4:14, “I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn [you].”
  • 1 Cor. 4:14 paraphrase, “I write not these things to put law on you, but as “new born children” from my ministry in Christ⁴, birthed by grace and loved by Christ in my heart I warn [you].”

The Greek word huios means a grown child no longer under the law or no longer under the supervision of a schoolmaster. Their nature has become and is growing into and in righteousness apart from works by grace through revelation.

Huios is used in Galatians 4:5 of a mature child of God in a legal standing as against a child of God (teknon) in his minority (Galatians 4:1, 2, 3).⁵

Huios is used in the following verses,

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=G5207&t=KJV&page=12