Sunday, July 10, 2016

Peter said to her, "How could you conspire to test the Spirit of the Lord?"

Quick study:  Peter said to her, "How could you conspire to test the Spirit of the Lord?"
A lot of people in America have done just that! They "say" public schools are so important because people should know how to read, but I can teach a five year old how to read the entire Bible, which is one of the hardest books to read, in one month!
What are they doing the other 12 or 13 years with these children, you and I? Conspiring and lying to the Holy Spirit, which every American child "has" in them. We inherited this from the Founding Fathers. It is a part of our Christian heritage, a gift from God. We all have in us the outpouring of the Holy Spirit that leads us into all truth about God.
Where did it go? It was stolen. It took 12 or 13 years for evil people to steal it from each American.
What happens to these people who conspire to test and lie to God?
Peter said, "You have not lied to me. You have lied to "The Holy Spirit".
You have not lied just to human beings but to God.”
5 When Ananias heard this, he fell down and died. And great fear seized all who heard what had happened. 6 Then some young men came forward, wrapped up his body, and carried him out and buried him.

Isaiah 58 Ministries                                                 July 10, 2016

Pastor "Faith",  (no it's not made up,  Mother named her Faith)

Scriptures:  Acts 5:1-11,  Zechariah 4

For an overview or quick study the "blog" is written in Purple. 


                                                     By My Spirit!

       
Modern Christian
      Once you've become a Christian, like Paul, you look for someone to teach you. You go to church, you pray, read the Bible, you attend Bible Studies, you volunteer in church. But nothing changes. You sing praise and worship songs, you fellowship with other believers. But nothing changes.


   The church is still in the world, conforming to the world; worldly standards, ideas, philosophies, beliefs, jobs/evil works of darkness.











       
Jesus and the Devil are buddies?
 God Doesn't just "Love" everyone the "way they are". God says be born Again!  A sinner is going to hurt you and everyone else. God's love is: repent, stop sinning, let God change you into a Saint by transforming your mind, saving your soul, being born of God. God's love and life inside someone changes a person. God's Holy Spirit changes the way a person lives, changes the way a person speaks. We then start Loving God and telling the truth from God! We start living a life of "Peace", turning from violence. 

                                       When people sin, everyone suffers! People are supposed to go to jail for their crimes against society. If you hurt one, you hurt everyone.


     
Brotherly Love
Why doesn't anything change like it is supposed to?  

Jesus isn't the head of the church as we know it today.

"The church", the majority of professing Christians, are out of the flow of the Holy Spirit. Somehow the modern Church believes it's better than our forefathers who actually changed the world. We seem to believe we don't have to live by the leading of the Holy Spirit or the Word of God.  Look at the Founding Fathers:

"It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor."- George Washington: Commander-in-Chief in the American Revolution; Signer of the Constitution; First President of the United States

"Human law must rest its authority ultimately upon the authority of that law which is Divine ... Far from being rivals or enemies, religion and law are twin sisters, friends, and mutual assistants. Indeed, these two sciences run into each other." - James Wilson, Signer of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; Original justice on the U.S. Supreme Court
"One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a part of the Common Law ... There never has been a period in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundations ... I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society." - Joseph Story: U.S. Supreme Court Justice; "Father of American Jurisprudence," Placed on the Court by President James Madison

Education

"Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well the main end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life (John 17:3) and therefore to lay Christ in the bottom as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning. And seeing the Lord only giveth wisdom, let every one seriously set himself by prayer in secret to seek it of Him (Proverbs 2, 3). Every one shall so exercise himself in reading the Scriptures twice a day that he shall be ready to give such an account of his proficiency therein." Harvard 1636 Student Guidelines
"All the scholars are required to live a religious and blameless life according to the rules of God's Word, diligently reading the Holy Scriptures, that fountain of Divine light and truth, and constantly attending all the duties of religion." Yale 1787 Student Guidelines
      

         History.  We have to study history. Not just any history but the History of "Jesus Christ's" work on the earth since his resurrection!
   
The instrument has been used since at least the time
of 
ancient Egypt[1]
to ensure that constructions are "
plumb", or vertical.
In the 4th chapter of the Book of Zechariah Jesus Christ is described as a builder and architect.  What is Jesus building: The Temple of God!  

        Geneva Bibles explanation of scripture:
  1. Zechariah 4:9 Meaning, the Prophet, that I am Christ sent of my Father for the building and preservation of my spiritual Temple.
  1. Zechariah 4:10 Signifying, that all were discouraged at the small and poor beginnings of the Temple.
  1. Zechariah 4:10 Whereby he signifieth the plummet and line, that is, that Zerubbabel which represented Christ, should go forward with his building to the joy and comfort of the godly, though the world be against him, and though his for a while be discouraged, because they see not things pleasant to the eye.
   
Holy Roman Empire
The Dark Ages was a time that the leaders in the church were evil "men" not lead by God.

     They were workers hindering the work of God, stopping the building of the Temple.  Jesus was not head over them. For reasons of  wealth, power and control of the masses they purposefully kept the people in the dark! The church could only use Latin. 


People who live by the Word of sinners
build their lives on shifting sand.
It is constantly changing and moving.


These shifty evil men declared the Bible could only be written in Latin.  


shift·y
ˈSHiftē/
adjective
informal
  1. (of a person or their manner) appearing deceitful or evasive.
    "a shifty, fast-talking lawyer"

In the 1500's  priests started to separate themselves from "the church" hiding out in monasteries, isolated and broke the "Latin only" laws. 


William Tyndale's translation was the first English Bible to draw directly from Hebrew and Greek texts, the first English one to take advantage of the printing press, and first of the new English Bibles of the Reformation. It was taken to be a direct challenge to the hegemony of both the Roman Catholic Church and the laws of England maintaining the church's position. Tyndale was executed for translating the Bible.



Martin Luther, John Wycliffe, Desiderius Erasmus
        


Philip Schaff, a noted church historian, writes: “The Reformation of the sixteenth century is, next to the introduction of Christianity, the greatest event in history. It marks the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of modern times. Starting from religion, it gave, directly or indirectly, a mighty impulse to every forward movement, and made Protestantism the chief propelling force in the history of modern civilization”
 (Stephen Nichols, The Reformation: How a Monk and a Mallet Changed the World [Wheaton: Crossway, 2007], 17) Quote: At the beginning of the sixteenth century, God began to raise up a series of strong-willed figures known to history as the Reformers. There had been earlier reformers in the church, but those who came to prominence in this period were the best educated, most godly, and most faithful reform leaders the church had ever seen. These men were steeped in Scripture and marked by audacious courage in the face of opposition. They were emboldened by deep convictions as to the truth and a love for Christ’s church that drove them to attempt to bring it back to its timeless standard. In the simplest terms, they longed to see God’s people worship Him according to Scripture. These men were shining lights in a dark day.
The Reformers did not see themselves as inventors, discoverers, or creators,” according to historian Stephen Nichols. “Instead, they saw their efforts as rediscovery. They weren’t making something from scratch but were reviving what had become dead. They looked back to the Bible and to the apostolic era, as well as to early church fathers such as Augustine (354–430) for the mold by which they could shape the church and re-form it.

     Zechariah stresses that God is doing his work on the earth without the help of Men.
Without the help of any man!  Geneva Bible explanation of scripture:
  1. Zechariah 4:6 He showeth that God’s power only is sufficient to preserve his Church, though he use not man’s help thereunto.
      It is the Holy Spirit that gives us understanding, it's the Holy Spirit that advances and builds the Temple, no man can boast! The authors and publishers of one of the first  Bibles translated into English knew people had been deceived by church leadership.  The average person had the wrong "understanding of scriptures". The False Leaders in the Church had been twisting the Bible around for selfish purposes.
      To counteract this, God moved on men by "his Spirit" and had them write explanations by the power of "the Holy Spirit" for hard to understand scriptures.
coun·ter·act
ˌkoun(t)ərˈakt/
verb
  1. act against (something) in order to reduce its force or neutralize it.
    "should we deliberately intervene in the climate system to counteract global warming?"
    synonyms:preventthwartfrustratefoilimpedecurbhinderhampercheck, put a stop to,put/bring a end to, defeat

       Not all Bibles are the same. King James had a Bible written to counteract the Geneva Bible. The explanations are not all inspired by the Holy Spirit but by the King of England, James.   Who wanted to be sole leader over his Kingdom. Making himself God's leader for all.   The explanations are not all inspired by the Holy Spirit in/by the King of England, James.
   
      The Geneva Bible is about "God's work" since Creation. It relates everything to Jesus Christ's mission on the earth as King.  The Holy Spirit gave the authors  understanding so people could know God's love for them as individuals, God's relationship to the individual man. God's relationship to his body, those in his kingdom, The church and God's relationship to those outside his Kingdom. The explanations are not all inspired by the Holy Spirit by the King of England, James.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORsNiReoCsw


 
In my early years as a Christian I was taught by the church to just use the King James version for church so there was unity. 

    In 1998 we moved to Tulsa, OK by the leading of the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit has been retraining our whole family ever since.  We want to work with God in the "Advancement" of the church, in the "Progression" of the Christian Faith". We want to build with Jesus his temple/church on this earth.
The church stopped advancing and building, it started to decline in the late 1800's. The 1900's represented the advance of industry, man made invention, man made religions, etc.
    These evil advancements were very loud, noisy and dirty, enslaving mankind to other men and things!  Men took their eyes off God to see what evil men were doing, instead of turning to God to see what he is doing on the earth.
  We have determined within ourselves by the conviction of the Holy Spirit to be like the reformers who believed:     They weren’t making something from scratch but were reviving what had become dead. They looked back to the Bible and to the apostolic era, as well as to early church fathers such as Augustine (354–430) for the mold by which they could shape the church and re-form it.
The apostolic era had the verbal spreading of the gospel from the eyewitness counts of the disciples. Jesus tells us in Revelation that he as the master builder and has laid the foundation of his church. Each Apostle was a  stone, a stone of the foundation. No one can add upon it without the holy Spirit, for each stone must be fitted perfectly. 

      The reformers figure it out.  All men must live by every word the disciples wrote in the New Testament.  This is what Martin Luther means by "The Just shall live by Faith" alone. Living by  every word of the New Testament, trusting and having confidence, faith in Jesus' workmanship with these 12 men, the Apostles and with Paul.  Martin Luther rebuked the Catholic church for not living by every Word of God.  The church, the leaders, must obey and teach the "Word of God".  Martin Luther used the Bible, scripture to rebuke the Catholic Church.
http://www.ligonier.org/blog/what-reformation-day-all-about/
By The Holy Spirit
An heir of Bishop Augustine of Hippo, Martin Luther is one of the most significant figures God has raised up since that time. This law student turned Augustinian monk became the center of a great controversy after his theses were copied and distributed throughout Europe. Initially protesting the pope’s attempt to sell salvation, Luther’s study of Scripture soon led him to oppose the church of Rome on issues including the primacy of the Bible over church tradition and the means by which we are found righteous in the sight of God.

Peter said, "You have not lied to me. You have lied to "The Holy Spirit".     

     The Holy Spirit protected himself, he protected Peter, he protected the Body of Christ.  God will not be sinned against.  Every day, every second, if we want God's protection, leadership, provision, health, we must commit everything to God. We must  recognize the Holy Spirit  in us and listen, obey above ourselves, our children, spouses, bosses, government employees, taxes, money, bills, etc. 

Turn on, away from, whatever is speaking to you calling you to obey! Cry to God, Ask God to help! Be ready for anything!


       
As  Saints our words are powerless and weak without the Holy Spirit impressing on us when, where, how, what, why of anything we do or say.
       Sinners want us to get in conversations and debates with them because that is what they love; talking, fighting, quarreling, striving, debating, competing, demanding, commanding obedience, loyalty, blind faith in the system, blind faith in the Law, blind faith in them, blind faith in the government in Public schools, destroying the "Truth" with lies and arguments; gossiping, etc.

Why? To stop our

advancement of the building

of the Temple of the Holy

Spirit with Jesus Christ, God's Kingdom on the

earth!  
       



 When you read the Words of the founding Fathers you can see, hear, know the love, power, wisdom of God that builds people up in Christ!  It's powerful. no one taught them or lead them but Almighty God by his Spirit.
       
Saints, each of us is a "stone," a rock in the temple of God, when built, empowered, lead and strengthen by Jesus Christ.
       When listening to or adhering to a sinner we become shifting sand, our lives that are built on lies,  crumble. This is why sinners are called shifty!

Don't test the Spirit of the Lord, or you might end up dead. 
On the other hand acknowledge God in every word, deed, thought and action and your enemies might end up dead.
       

     


Ananias and Sapphira

Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property. With his wife’s full knowledge he kept back part of the money for himself, but brought the rest and put it at the apostles’ feet.
Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land? Didn’t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at your disposal?What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to human beings but to God.”
When Ananias heard this, he fell down and died. And great fear seized all who heard what had happened. Then some young men came forward, wrapped up his body, and carried him out and buried him.
About three hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. Peter asked her, “Tell me, is this the price you and Ananias got for the land?”
“Yes,” she said, “that is the price.”
Peter said to her, “How could you conspire to test the Spirit of the Lord?Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out also.”
10 At that moment she fell down at his feet and died. Then the young men came in and, finding her dead, carried her out and buried her beside her husband. 11 Great fear seized the whole church and all who heard about these events.

Zechariah 41599 Geneva Bible (GNV)

The vision of the golden candlestick, and the exposition thereof.
And the Angel that talked with me, came again and waked me, as a man that is raised out of his sleep,
And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold, a [a]candlestick all of gold with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps therein, and seven [b]pipes to the lamps which were upon the top thereof,
And two olive trees over it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
So I answered and spake to the Angel that talked with me, saying, What are these my Lord?
Then the Angel that talked with me, answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my Lord.
The Work of Jesus Christ Upon the earth
Building his Church, Temple
Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto [c]Zerubbabel, saying, Neither by [d]an army nor strength, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.
Who art thou, O [e]great mountain, before Zerubbabel? thou shall be a plain, and [f]he shall bring forth the headstone thereof, with shoutings,crying, Grace, grace unto it.
Moreover, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house: his hands shall also finish it, and [g]thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you.
10 For who hath despised the day of the [h]small things? but they shall rejoice, and shall see the stone of [i]tin in the hand of Zerubbabel:[j]these seven are the eyes of the Lord, which go through the whole world.
11 Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right and upon the left side thereof?
12 And I spake moreover, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches, which through the two golden pipes empty themselves into the gold?
13 And he answered me, and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my Lord.
14 Then said he, These are the two [k]olive branches, that stand with the ruler of the whole earth.

Footnotes:

  1. Zechariah 4:2 Which was ever in the midst of the Temple, signifying that the graces of God’s spirit should shine there in most abundance, and in all perfection.
  2. Zechariah 4:2 Which conveyed the oil that dropped from the trees into the lamps, so that the light never failed: and this vision was to confirm the faithful that God had sufficient power in himself to continue his graces, and to bring his promise to pass though he had no help of man.
  3. Zechariah 4:6 Who was a figure of Christ and therefore this doctrine was directed to all the Church who are his body and members.
  4. Zechariah 4:6 He showeth that God’s power only is sufficient to preserve his Church, though he use not man’s help thereunto.
  5. Zechariah 4:7 He compareth the power of the adversaries to a great mountain, who thought the Jews nothing in respect of them, and would have hindered Zerubbabel, who represented Christ, whom the enemies daily labor to let in the building of his spiritual Temple, but all in vain.
  6. Zechariah 4:7 Though the enemies think to stay this building, yet Zerubbabel shall lay the highest stone thereof, and bring it to perfection, so that all the godly shall rejoice, and pray unto God that he would continue his grace and favor toward the Temple.
  7. Zechariah 4:9 Meaning, the Prophet, that I am Christ sent of my Father for the building and preservation of my spiritual Temple.
  8. Zechariah 4:10 Signifying, that all were discouraged at the small and poor beginnings of the Temple.
  9. Zechariah 4:10 Whereby he signifieth the plummet and line, that is, that Zerubbabel which represented Christ, should go forward with his building to the joy and comfort of the godly, though the world be against him, and though his for a while be discouraged, because they see not things pleasant to the eye.
  10. Zechariah 4:10 That is, God hath seven eyes: meaning, a continual providence, so that neither Satan nor any power in the world, can go about to bring anything to pass to hinder his workZech. 5:9.
  11. Zechariah 4:14 Which were ever green and full of oil, so that still they poured forth oil into the lamps: signifying, that God will continually maintain and preserve his Church, and endue it still with abundance and perfection of grace.



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