November 5th.

When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered.

The people stood watching, and the rulers even sneered at him. They said, "He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One."

The human condition is one of a continual sneering and disdain for everything and everyone outside of who we are, whatever doesn't aid us in our craving to survive with the agreement of rightness leading us along. A need to find the agreement of knowing and controlling, of having and maintaining. The disdainful sneering happens all the time in us because of our fear of not knowing, possessing and being able to control—which is surviving like a wild animal in the forest of the world filled with the wild animals who are able to pretend they're not, which is the hiding. It is our human legacy and we can be sure it's there. What we do in order to try to hide is assume we're not that way because of our ongoing assumption of ourselves as inherently good, not bad like every other animal.

As his custom was, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures, explaining and proving that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead. "This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ, " he said.

There is only one who was good, and that inherent goodness was brought up to the altar and cut open so that we could become good as he was. Becoming good takes a lot more than we have given thus far, but because we are so afraid of not being good, and we so want to already be good, there will be a tendency that any teaching that is coming our way must be for others, not us—because we need to feel the agreement of goodness in, around, for and about us all the time. It is something we instinctively crave to find within our selves—at the least that balance of good enough, more often it's more like superior and better than most. In reality we are just like every other wild animal because we haven't yet been transformed. We have theory and answers about why things are the way they are. But until the theory becomes our reality—meaning we are actually transforming and not just postulating about it—then it's just theory and we're just animals like everyone else. It's important to understand this in order to battle that craving to have already found our agreement that we're inherently good and fine, just because we may have some theory under our belts—because we know things that the others don't/can't. However, knowing something doesn't mean we are that thing.

We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God.

For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for him, since you are going through the same struggle you saw I had, and now hear that I still have.

We will always want it to be easy, but it's not easy because it requires something we don't want to give up so fiercely that we don't even allow ourselves to identify it as existing within us to actually be offered up, to be separated from. The physical hardships are just the beginning. The hard part is offering up the life we're hanging onto like a squirrel hoarding, hiding, and hanging onto his nuts. We don't want to let it go; we rather deflect everything to something else so we don't have to even be aware that it's there in us and needs to come out. It is a totally foreign idea to us because it's so close to us. It is us and everything we naturally are, what we learned to guard behind all our fortress walls—our very life.

If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.

We've heard the words turned into lies so often by those who want to take the words and use them for their own gain, that we're numb to what they might mean for us—whom the words are actually meant. Never mind all the others; the sons cannot play the animal game of their misguidedness automatically meaning our righteousness. Just because we know what they do doesn't mean we automatically have already arrived. That's just the same game they play. The sons of God have to divorce themselves from all the lies in order to become the truth in themselves. That doesn't happen automatically or without much pain and suffering of the letting go of what we love more than anything else—our life intact the way we want it.

The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. `For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, `We are his offspring.'

We forget that the Father doesn't accept unclean animals into the kingdom of the sons of God. What kind of offspring does the Father expect to have? Only the purest and most honest can enter in by the narrow gate, only those who look like the firstborn Son who gave up his life as a ransom for many (the family of sons of God he saved by his obedience to the Father and his denial of the serpent). To be certain that the unclean animals don't crowd into the Father's house, they aren't even allowed to be aware of their actual condition of being separated from God. They are under the haphazard impression that whatever random human lie they choose to adhere to—judaism, islam, christianity, buddhism, scientology, witchery, satanism, atheism, americanism, communism, etc etc etc—will be what can save them, which is the way it's supposed to go, according to the Father's great mercy. They are given over, even by powers that are extraordinary, to whatever they want to believe in, for the sons' and the Father's good, so they can have an inheritance that isn't watered down by indifference and chaos, and the Father can have His family with Him where He is.

Therefore since we are God's offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by man's design and skill. In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.

Judging the world by the appointed man is the judgment based on the rule of that man's life and what he did and didn't do for the Father's sake. Not necessarily just that the Son was going to be the judge, but that the Son's life was going to be the judge as to whether another's life was right according to the Father, what he actually did in response to the call of the Father, not just what he theorized or claimed with words. It is the measure of whether the called son was willing to follow the firstborn Son to the Father, or whether he was going to reject that way and choose his own way that suited what he wanted, which is the Judas tradition of the independent animal choice against conforming to the way of the Father. The Son's very life—how he lived it and what he did—was the way to the Father.

I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.

The animal is naturally stubborn and opposed to being conformed to another way than what it has learned. If that's hard to accept, go try to trap a wild animal that is already grown and tame it. Once that mature animal nature is set into the animal, there is no way to tame it. If however one caught the animal when it was first born, it could be tame because the wild animal nature didn't get the chance to get set into the animal.

I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

The phrase "becoming like little children" refers to becoming able to be a creature who can begin to be able to accept another reality than the one which got solidified into it when the animal nature got firmly set into that one as host to that nature, like an animal that has just been born. Because that's an impossibility since that nature has already taken firm root in the host, that one must be born of God, of a different seed than what he was before, of a different nature that is able to actually see and hear as is required in order to be able to be transformed into a creature that can come near Him, because of the new nature being put into him via the transformation as per the intention of the Father to make him an actual son instead of an animal. It is very special and complicated, not generic or easy.

Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.

Not everyone who says to me, `Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, `Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' Then I will tell them plainly, `I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'

Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.

The reason we get to suffer is because it's good for us to not have what we'd always want to have according to the needs, desires and cravings that are naturally in us as human animals. Those are the things we've always strove to satisfy within and for ourselves. They are the real workings of our actual life, nothing at all theoretical but who we are and what we love. If the animal nature is what we want to come away from, then making it least, not best, is what we will be increasingly willing to hope for in this animal existence, which means nothing compared to what we've been chosen for—to become a son in the Father's house.

As for man, his days are like grass, he flourishes like a flower of the field; the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.

But from everlasting to everlasting the LORD's love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children's children—with those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts.

More comfort, more things around us, more of what makes us feel good in that it satisfies the innate cravings to get and have for ourselves is how us animals operate pretty much automatically in our quest to somehow satisfy and fulfill ourselves as we go along in our little temporary existences. But we're never able to do that ; we might find little satisfactions along the way, however the child of the natural creation is just a part of it, and it is never satisfied, but just keeps rolling along in its constant cycles of existence, death and replacement of what dies with what exists for another short while.

The sons will actually begin to desire the suffering in a sick, anti-animal sort of way because they know that it, like this natural existence, is only temporary; they however have been given a promise and guarantee of something much better. Not just anticipatory delusion but something fantastic and supernatural that lives inside them, what the humans cannot see because it's not natural, it's not observable to what the humans naturally possess. That's why the ordinary humans (especially the religious ones) will not, can not validate that condition in them or for them. The voice of the teacher is the only thing that keeps them going toward the Father; without it they'd just drop off because it's impossible to find the Father without the teacher guiding us.

No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.

The only ones who can and will do that are the other sons, which is why it was so important for the sons who lived in the first century to love each other, even though that was against the natural propensities in them to want or be able to do because of the animal nature, which keeps the humans in the prison of only being able to love and care for themselves. So it's a direct frontal attack against that nature which wants to continue to camp in their heart. Exercising that love, care and concern for the other sons of God is acting against what they're naturally disposed to doing, and it unlocks more of that secret power from God, which enables them to do it even more. It sets them a little more free from being bound to that self-serving animal which is camping in the son's heart to keep him a slave to it. Just the same as the Lord's coming to the son was a miraculous, supernatural occurrence, so the life that follows has to be a continual reliance on what is unseen and un validated by the humans, and the human part that is still living in the son, to continue making him a little more free all the time from that animal identity. By this I am in no way suggesting that it is easy to love what we naturally do not want to love.

I am now going to allure her; I will lead her into the desert and speak tenderly to her.

There I will give her back her vineyards, and will make the Valley of Achor a door of hope.
There she will sing as in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.

"In that day," declares the LORD, "you will call me `my husband'; you will no longer call me `my master. '

I will remove the names of the Baals from her lips; no longer will their names be invoked.

In that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air
and the creatures that move along the ground. Bow and sword and battle
I will abolish from the land, so that all may lie down in safety.

I will betroth you to me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice,
in love and compassion.

I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will acknowledge the LORD.

I will plant her for myself in the land; I will show my love to the one I called 'Not my loved one. ' I will say to those called 'Not my people, ' 'You are my people'; and they will say, 'You are my God.'

The Israel of God is the resurgence of all that was once true in the world according to the Father's intention as the copy of the better thing, but then was lost. The humans can't just take up wherever they want, and make up a life of following God according to their own desire to have something from Him. God comes to the humans, as He desires—as the record indicates—and it's then that they have to knock on the door and continue to seek His face. Without the intention of God all the humans can have is a landscape of human institutions all claiming what isn't theirs—the ability to know and show others the way to God—all of them impotent because there is no authority from God, only themselves.

Because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before God when you heard what he spoke against this place and its people, and because you humbled yourself before me and tore your robes and wept in my presence, I have heard you, declares the LORD.

The sons first have to be shown what the curse of the humans actually is, then understand that they aren't clean at all, because they were born into that curse and so they're completely polluted by it, the sinful nature. Contrary to what they thought before, which was either that they had no sin, or that sin was a condition they could just divorce themselves from once they got baptized, then became a "christian," there is no being made clean that is genuine apart from the only true God i.e., the made up jesus god cannot do anything that's real and true—what the christians are claiming—except maybe command the angels to get some ready to hear the voice of the teacher. That is something totally different than what they claim, that they have what the actual brothers, in the first century, had—those who were authentic sons of God before that condition went away. When the truth was turned into a lie, the ability to accept that gift they had, what gave them proof and the guarantee of what they'd been chosen for, went away from the earth. When the humans today claim to have what the first century sons had, that's just an extension of the abomination, the curse of darkness that's been on the earth.

Go and inquire of the LORD for me and for the remnant in Israel and Judah about what is written in this book that has been found. Great is the LORD's anger that is poured out on us because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD; they have not acted in accordance with all that is written in this book.

There are different groups who know little bits and pieces of what's true, according to the condition that existed in that time for the true sons of God. However, only a little bit of it doesn't create a lock on what's right, and the error of them all is that they may understand that tiny little bit and then they feel they need to create an entire system about their own exclusive way to God, as though they can do that by their own power. There is a guy on the radio who is telling people to come out of the churches. That is good, but only because the christian churches are all just the prostitute daughters of the great whore; not because the "church age" is over (what he thinks). However, like all the prostitute daughters of the whore, he still believes in the made up jesus, spirit, devil, etc. and teaches and preaches an exclusive way to God based on so many of these other lies made up by mere men.

The christadelphians have a semi-correct understanding of the fundamental and important things about Jesus, hell, and God, but their understanding of the two unseen forces that oppose each other is only a tiny bit right, and mostly misguided because they cannot recognize what sin is, nor what keeps them sinful and separated from God. In saying that the spirit gifts died out at the end of the first century, they're just combating other groups of humans who oppose their doctrine. What happens because of that is a misguidedness of what the spirit was actually accomplishing in the first century—namely everything good that was predicted by the prophets.

The spirit was Jesus himself, who being united with the Father was able to live in the bodies of a small group of humans who were chosen to become sons. It wasn't just some add-on part of God that could die out, while the rest of what God was doing continued along, what they say must have happened via their animal intellect. The entire condition—what was the outpouring of the condition of the new covenant, marked by the prophesy of Joel when God would become one with unclean humans by coming to live in their hearts—left the earth as per Daniel's prediction that it would, what Jesus reaffirmed in Matthew 24.

Their understanding of the devil, the force behind what makes the humans unacceptable to God, is also lacking. The sinful nature as Paul describes it is from the devil, the serpent, the beast and has its origins all the way back to the beginning, as that which tricked the humans, lied to them and convinced them to trust it instead of God. Although the christadelphians correctly identify the devil for what it isn't—some fallen angel and entity that exists as a being—they don't exactly know what it is. While the christians erroneously think that the devil is a fallen angel, and think they can just divorce themselves from it having power over them by doing some requisite rituals, the christadelphians just think that the devil doesn't exist, or that it's merely a conceptual thing that they aren't affected by because they have "the truth," because they "believe" correct doctrine. They assume that because they "believe" correct doctrine, and therefore they have something that the others don't have (which is true), then that will make them acceptable to God.

God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us. He made no distinction between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith.

Even though they might admit they aren't perfect, they wouldn't say that they cannot love, because they assume that since their doctrine is correct and that they have "the truth," then every other condition is wiped out and they aren't required to love as per Jesus' commands to his followers, what they assume to be. They may attempt to love each other, but they fall short in understanding that they cannot love by pretending that that's good enough for God. Because they think the devil just doesn't exist, they cannot understand what makes them unable to be acceptable to God, to have pure hearts which can truly love God and Jesus first, and then their brothers with that same force and conviction—what makes that genuine love possible between them—by which they are committed to God. What they fail to see is that they are 100% ruled by the animal nature, which is the curse of what the humans were bound up with even since Genesis 3. Basically what the christadelphians have is yet another religious institution with different rules by which their claims are supposed to be authentic, which ultimately just makes it another religious institution, not unlike any of the thousands of others.

I will plant her for myself in the land; I will show my love to the one I called 'Not my loved one. ' I will say to those called 'Not my people, ' 'You are my people'; and they will say, 'You are my God.'

The animal nature is what the Hosea verse points to as what is represented by what the wrath of God is on—everything but those He loves, because He is choosing them to become sons. His wrath being on the humans is just the contrast between the sons who are being made clean by having their hearts purified, and what is intrinsically unclean and unable to be acceptable and pleasing to Him because it is merely another part of the dying creation, and not His immediate family.

"Unloved by God and not His people" are those ruled and governed by that nature of the animal, of the serpent, instead of His spirit, which was the condition of the sons who lived in the first century. It has to be this way—He only dwells in peace and righteousness, and only amongst a people of clean lips. He does not dwell in a temple that is inhabited by foreigners advocating the worship of the baals and Asherah poles, and every such god as the foreign nations are inclined to love and worship, which is all just a copy and representation for the sake of the sons about everything that the animal nature drives the humans to be and do.

Then the LORD said to Hosea, "Call her Lo-Ruhamah, for I will no longer show love to the house of Israel, that I should at all forgive them. Then the LORD said, "Call him Lo-Ammi, for you are not my people, and I am not your God.

Do we think that because we know that the kingdom is not in heaven, that Jesus nor the spirit were ever God, that the devil is not a fallen angel, that hell is just the grave, etc.—that that will save us merely because we know the correct doctrine? Should we think that believing the correct things makes us acceptable to God. It never saved the unfaithful Israelites until they repented, even though they "knew" the truth about God. The fact that they were chosen by God did not override their disobediences and unfaithfulnesses to Him. Just because they worshipped other gods didn't mean they didn't know who the real God was, it just means they loved what was false instead of what was true. They couldn't say no to the pull of the animal in them.

As strong as that animal pull is set into the humans, it takes the same kind of stronger force from God, in order to open one's eyes to what the darkness has blinded all the humans to for so many hundreds of years.  He spoke through His holy prophets about a time, what happened in the first century, where He would write His law on the hearts of men, and a new covenant would be in effect. The animal nature which has ruled man from Adam would be diminished in the man's heart and replaced with the life of God, the spirit of truth, the comforter and guide. The animal instincts would no longer rule him, but the life and essence of the living God would, and these would be loved by Him, and these would be His people. They would be acceptable to Him because they had His life living in them, to purify their hearts and make them clean and acceptable to God.

Not a load of arrogant egoism and judgment, but encouraging exhortation is what we desire to dispatch to those who call themselves the people of God. A lie is that it doesn't matter, as long as we're taking proper care of our brood, and being nice to the "brothers and sisters" on Sunday morning and Wednesday night, then that's good enough for God. A renewal of the new covenant means a time when God will call a people after His own heart, to be His. His work has already started, even by showing His two servants so many things that are unheard of amongst the humans.

The sons who are called cannot be of those who loved their lives more than searching for the life and love of God; who thought it not something worthwhile to do, who instead enjoyed the fruits of the world and lived a double minded life (pretending to serve God on the outside but living another life in their heart). That's all the humans can ever do unless the unseen truth is being given to them.

The animal wants to encourage us to forget about the justice of God and just live for us, and it deceives us into thinking that God is just a big old merciful God with nothing but love for everyone, and no requirements. That's the lie of the ages, of the lying christians, the neo babylon which gobbled up the truth—that there is some big heaven with the gates wide open and everyone can just come in if they feel like it.

He read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant, which had been found in the temple of the LORD. The king stood by his pillar and renewed the covenant in the presence of the LORD--to follow the LORD and keep his commands, regulations and decrees with all his heart and all his soul, and to obey the words of the covenant written in this book.

The people of Jerusalem did this in accordance with the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.