August 11th.

Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:  "I am the LORD, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?"

The formula "God always or only works this or that way" comes from ignorance because they haven't seen or understood what is possible, and the egotistical craving/need of the animal nature that completely covers them. It makes them impulsively need to hold on to what they think they need to have and retain, how they need to be right (therefore the others must be wrong), to be the one with the answers. The way the animal drives the humans is with instinctual cravings that demand each one be able to hold something in their hand and tell themselves and the others in their community, "This is the way to be right, we have it here; this is what's true." They think that learning and adhering to the correct doctrine is what Jesus claimed belief was—or what Abraham did—and therefore they can be right with God by believing the correct things about Him.

The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.

Belief for us is in something that is unbelievable, something which by all other accounts except the secret, hidden thing that has been working in us for five years already seems unlikely, what we cannot prove or get validated, that which seems impossible. Yet to believe this unbelievable thing and fly in the face of everyone else because it flies in their face is our only alternative. To believe what none of the others want to believe, nor are they able to even if they did want to, is the son's inheritance, the work he must do because that is what pleases the Father. To believe even though it makes us seem totally crazy and stoopid to those around us is the delight of the Father, because He isn't for the humans or the systems of acceptance and credibility they set up for each other about what can be valid and what can't. The sons of God learn to take delight in being outcasts, ridiculed for what they believe because it doesn't jive with the humans' systems of acceptability they have for one another. Keep in mind though, that the Christ of God was viewed the same way because he was true to God and the word that God put inside him, which told him who he was to God—never what the humans could possibly accept as to who they thought he could be.

When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed.

"Where did this man get these things?" they asked. "What's this wisdom that has been given him, that he even does miracles! Isn't this the carpenter? Isn't this Mary's son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?" And they took offense at him.

Jesus said to them, "Only in his hometown, among his relatives and in his own house is a prophet without honor." He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. And he was amazed at their lack of faith.

The humans who heard him were amazed, yet because they thought they knew who he was, they were unable to accept him as anything more than they wanted to keep him as in their hearts. It was a mixture of envious unbelief, the same thing the humans view all of God's sons with, thinking to themselves, "What makes you so special? I know who you are, and if you're special then I can be special too because we're the same." And they think they know this because of what they observe with their eyes and how it either fits or not into the system of acceptability they've bought into, according to how they've been taught by the humans and what they took into themselves which made them so stupendously intelligent about everything they learn to theorize and draw opinions about, especially how everything relates back to them—if it can aid their cause or not. If so, then they may be able to accept it; but if not, then why should they?

At a certain point we realize that we aren't for them nor can we be, because we aren't meant to be able to find validation among them about what's happening inside us, nor can they help us to go further in. Our reliance on them to give us our own acceptance will only hamper our efforts to go nearer in to the Father. The sons must be courageous and drop out of the humans' lives and the systems by which we are able to find our acceptance, which is the old way. They can only reinforce that old way in us, which causes us to be lethargic and anemic concerning the way they don't know, so aren't able to confirm or help us proceed in, only curtail in us by the effect our interactions with them have on us as they inevitably lead to retardation in us as opposed to being able to continue going further in to the Father.

It's a hard thing to accept in being able to come away from what pollutes us so that we are stopped in our tracks in the journey we should be on. Yet it is the heart of the secret knowledge we have about the Christ and his importance to the Father, therefore the need that he remain unpolluted by the animal, meaning it was never allowed to live in him, therefore define him as an animal. Remaining unpolluted by the animal is important because remaining polluted is what we are destined to come away from. It becomes, even though deep inside us we hate the idea of being re conformed to another way, our hope of aspiration and attainment. We slowly begin to be able to accept being redirected as the stubborn, stiff-necked animal is crushed out of us so that we can hear another, better way.

If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You must follow me.

The other animals aren't the subject of our criticism, we need to be critical of ourselves because the covenant is particular to each of us. We can't rely on another human to teach us; the teaching has to come from inside, which is the effective way. It isn't about them needing to be set straight and put in their place, it's about us needing to learn to NOT be led by the nature of God's enemy any longer, so that we don't look like the serpent, but like His children. Every father wants their son to look like them—it gives them pride and pleasure, a satisfaction beyond normality. So it is with God. That's why we're disciplined when we do allow ourselves to be led by the wild animal nature as per Hebrews 12, so that we actually start to become good sons for the Father's pleasure, to make Him proud instead of ashamed of our choice.

Our first reaction and inclination is to defend ourselves and try to prove that they're wrong and we're right, because that's what the animal is programmed to do—that's all about emotional survival, needing to be right and vindicated. Everything comes from the filter of us and our welfare, which is right in line with how it works (and why it's against God, even though He created and maintains it—so everyone else will be kept away from Him except those whom He has chosen to become His). The same thing in the others (wild animal nature) is what baits us to do it. So there is nothing special about us when we act to defend ourselves or gain credibility from them or be validated by them, because that's the animal leading us to get whatever it is we're trying to get from them, not the nature of the son who wants to please the Father. When we start to become re-programmed to learn the new way, we start to believe that we don't need to defend or protect ourselves because we actually believe that the Lord can and will do whatever he wants, and that is the meaning of doing the work of believing, because it's hard to do and takes a long time.

He had spent seven years building (the house of God). It took Solomon thirteen years, however, to complete the construction of his palace.

As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father had been.

David's heart was concerned about God's interests because he believed God; Solomon's heart was concerned about his own interests because he couldn't believe, as a testament to the fact that he wasn't the subject of Nathan's prophesy about the Son of David who would come to rule. David represents what God loves to see in His sons—obsessed with caring about pleasing his Father, doing what pleases Him as a good son should. Solomon represents natural humans, concerned about and promoting themselves and their own welfare. He spent twice as much time on his own palace (13 years) than he did on the house of God (7 years), because his heart was already turning away from Him, toward satisfying the craving for his own power, honor, respect and glory as the wisest, richest king to ever live. The wives, horses, gold and everything the humans consider valuable—all the splendor of the kingdoms of the world, and him in the middle of it all were what Solomon loved, what he believed in.

Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor.  "All this I will give you," he said, "if you will bow down and worship me."

The reading about Solomon building the temple seems like it happened overnight, but it took a long time, and many hours of labor to construct. Taking a wild, useless animal and turning it into a son of God who is clean and can be brought near to the Father, who can know Him and be known by Him, who can experience and comprehend His great love for that one, and who can also love the Father back; is an incredible miracle. Now take that and multiply it by 144,000—the process of transformation which happens to all of God's sons—and we can see the real temple being built, which takes a long time and a lot of work because each brick has to be formed so that it conforms to the layout of the building and how it fits in with the rest of the bricks which get laid off of the first brick set into place, the cornerstone.

In building the temple, only blocks dressed at the quarry were used, and no hammer, chisel or any other iron tool was heard at the temple site while it was being built.

When we're able to take our mind and heart off ourselves and see our life as just one little piece (brick) in a much bigger purpose and desire of God to have His own house to dwell in, a peaceful place surrounded by the love each one has for Him, we can get a better perspective. It's tough, because that's the last thing the animal nature is going to allow us to do. So we see how the transformation is so totally necessary and required, because it is God's will for things to be that way, each stone cut and dressed according to His requirement. In the end He will reveal something perfect, of which we are too dull to conceive in our natural little minds.

When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed.

And he was amazed at their lack of faith.

The people who know us will not recognize anything out of the ordinary about us—definitely not that we are sons of God—because they can only see us as the people in Jesus' home town saw him—with natural eyes. Because they know us only as one thing, they are incapable of being given eyes to see what is true about us because the animal nature rules the humans so perfectly, and most likely will never come close to ever seeing us as God sees us. That's why there is nothing but grief in continuing to hang around them, because our exposure to them can only do us harm, never any good. The only real good the sons can do in this natural life is point each other back to the Father, if it's in them to do that. If the world is being reinforced in them, though, all they'll be able to do for each other is reinforce that, because that's what they're continuing to take in to themselves, so it's all they have to give because they're incubating that thing and the ability to even lead themselves to the Father is gone, so they're effectiveness for another is wiped out.

Though the city will be handed over to the Babylonians, you, O Sovereign LORD, say to me, "Buy the field with silver and have the transaction witnessed."

The sons of God are labelled obsessed, crazy, out of touch, etc. That is actually a correct assessment, because they are in fact out of touch with what seems to be "acceptable behavior" to the humans. The "normal" people will not want to be around them, because flesh hates spirit; the animal is repelled by God. Jeremiah would have been crazy to buy a filed while the city was being besieged by Nebuchadnezzar. But the word was put in him, and he believed, so he did the thing that was least likely to be done by the other humans. The same is true for Abraham, who left the civilization and everything the other humans valued to go somewhere wild. The same for Noah, to actually start building something which all the time he worked on it seemed useless. The way of God's sons are opposed to the way of the humans, and vice-versa.

You are saying about this city, "By the sword, famine and plague it will be handed over to the king of Babylon;" but this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says:

I will surely gather them from all the lands where I banish them in my furious anger and great wrath; I will bring them back to this place and let them live in safety. They will be my people, and I will be their God. I will give them singleness of heart and action, so that they will always fear me for their own good and the good of their children after them.

I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me. I will rejoice in doing them good and will assuredly plant them in this land with all my heart and soul.

This is what the LORD says: As I have brought all this great calamity on this people, so I will give them all the prosperity I have promised them. Once more fields will be bought in this land of which you say, "It is a desolate waste, without men or animals, for it has been handed over to the Babylonians."

Fields will be bought for silver, and deeds will be signed, sealed and witnessed in the territory of Benjamin, in the villages around Jerusalem, in the towns of Judah and in the towns of the hill country, of the western foothills and of the Negev, because I will restore their fortunes, declares the LORD.

This hasn't happened yet, because Jeremiah's prophesies aren't about or for the humans—Israelite or not—inasmuch as the land promised to Abraham's seed isn't about the present temporary earth which was and still is cursed by God as per Genesis 3. Abraham's seed aren't humans, but the sons who just like him have the true, unseen God miraculously revealed to them, and are asked to believe more than what their wild animal nature urges/needs/craves/demands that they do.

Take nothing for the journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in your belts. Wear sandals but not an extra tunic.

This was an exercise in teaching the disciples about believing that the Father was willing and able to give them what they needed take care of them, to direct and guide their way—to miraculously make things happen all around them and through them to show them the life and word Jesus was teaching them was true, even though it seemed impossible.

"You give them something to eat." They said to him, "That would take eight months of a man's wages! Are we to go and spend that much on bread and give it to them to eat?"

Right after they got back and wanted to rest, this thing happened in front of their eyes that again seemed even more impossible, but reinforced the purpose of their going out—if the Father can feed 15,000 people with almost nothing, how easy would it be for Him to give these 12 men what they need to physically survive.

They were completely amazed, for they had not understood about the loaves; their hearts were hardened.

Though they saw what had just happened, and what had happened just before that—so many miracles over and over—nevertheless they couldn't understand because the word was snatched from them. It couldn't live in them to transform them yet, because the spirit had not yet been given. So they were ruled by the animal nature, as all humans are, and could not believe. When the spirit was given and they were born of God, then all of the things they witnessed came back to them, and then they were able to believe, to be transformed from dead animal to son of God.

But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. For I tell you the truth, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.

We can see the same process happening as we continue to witness the constant miracles that the spirit is doing in us, yet we have little capacity to actually be able to appreciate what it is that we have within us. We're still in the process of learning how strong the animal nature is to continue to rule us. Our hearts being transformed from hardened to soft is a long, slow, complicated process. The way we are as animals bound to its nature is a condition God wanted and designed to be ruler over us so that He could show us how utterly powerful it is, then pull us out of its control. That will be another reason for each of us to radiate our love and appreciation back to Him as we surround Him and thank Him for not forgetting us, for redeeming us from the ground.