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THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA /REVELATION 2 - 3

Copyright November 20, 2007

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CHAPTER 17 (10 of 10)

OBEDIENCE, BEING ONE WITH GOD

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The “wind” is metaphor for the Holy Spirit bringing revival fire to God's people. God wants to have a special deep intimate relationship with us, which is wrapped in the kind of fellowship that only being One with God can open up to us. The door that Jesus is knocking on is the one that is found in the Heart of those who profess to be His people saying: "I want to have fellowship with you, the intimate kind that is only found through being one with Me;"  therefore, He says to us, "I counsel thee to buy of me."  What Jesus said in Revelation 3:20 is being misused for unregenerate sinners, Jesus is talking to those who have receive Him as Lord and Savior of their life, but are failing to comply with what He requires of us, not only to fellowship with Him but also to receive eternal life.

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Our dying to self-ambitions, self-desire, and self-will makes intimate fellowship with the Lord possible. "I will sup with him, and he with me" is a fellowship with God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit that no words can adequately describe. This is fellowship that must be experienced to understand.  Being One with God opens the door to the intimate Fellowship and Relationship God wants to have with us. 

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But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.  (1 Corinthians 6:17)

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Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. (Revelation 16:15)

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The nakedness spoken of in Revelation 3:17-18 and Revelation 16:15, is the lack of obedience, lack of perfection in the flesh, observed by others, the lack of a deep relationship with God, the lack of maturity, and the Spiritless poverty that accompanies complacent Christianity; lacking deep interest and concern.  Our disobedience to the perfect will of God for our life leaves us naked, indecently exposed in our spirit and soul, a disgrace to the Kingdom of God.  The “nakedness” is carnality, all of the wicked ambitions associated with the sinful nature that is manifested through the life of a disobedient and rebellious child.  Sin in our life causes us to be wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.  The less death to self, to the sinful nature in our flesh, we entertain or engage in, the more evident these five facts are seen by others around us, and the worse a testimony for Jesus we are; the evidence of being a hypocrite, lukewarm, religious sinner falsely claiming to be “Christian,” an apostate (backslider).

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For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written. (Romans 2:24)

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We are all different, although there are many similarities. Learning how to overcome the sinful nature, disobedience in our life, self-will, self-desire, and self-ambition is different for each of us. Learning how to overcome the sinful nature that still resides in our flesh, physical body, is dependent on what level we are affected, and our ability to comprehend or understand God's attempts to bring us into Oneness with Himself, to transform us into the exact likeness of Jesus’ obedience. 

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Fasting is one of many devices God has given us to overcome sin in our life. For some fasting needs to be done more often and more extreme than for others, it is only one device.  We all must receive our own revelation from God of how to die to and resist the sinful nature.  As I have written; “It is within the reach of everyone of us, if only we will seek the revealing of this truth from God, then receive it and run with it, (pursue it with all our life), (Mark 12:30).”

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Isaiah chapter 58 is misunderstood to be speaking about the blessings God bestows on those who fast food and/or drink. In Isaiah 58:5c God says: "Wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?" God's reply in verse 6: "Is not this the fast that I have chosen? To lose the bands of wickedness," with all that follows after this verse, the more excellent “fast” in God's sight is to forsake the lifestyle of uncontrolled sin and disobedience. Jesus is our example of what being perfect in the sight of God is. Jesus did nothing unless the Father told Him to, we are to do the same (John 8:29; Romans 8:14; 1 Peter 2:22; 1 John 2:6).

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Isaiah 58:8-14 reveals what God will manifest through those of us who will obey His perfect will for our life; all the excellence and majesty written therein was manifested through Jesus, and can be manifested through us as well, if we will make the serious effort to stop doing our desires, our will, then do GOD'S WILL ONLY. All that God has given me to write about "Obedience, Being One With God," is to expose the Reader to this desire of God for us to be One with Him, and in being exposed, He will perform all of the truths written in this chapter, in and through the Reader's life, and in being performed, usher in a Worldwide Revival in and through our life before God’s Church is taken out of the earth. The Worldwide Revival that is being prayed for, and has been prayed for, for decades.

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Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily; and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward. Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, here I am. THEN shall thy light rise in obscurity and thy darkness shall be as the noon day; and the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones; and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of the paths to dwell in IF THOU shall honor him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth. (Isaiah 58:8-14)

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My Facebook Timeline - www.facebook.com/samuelsiders1 - contains responses I have posted in answer to those who God has had me to share with for over seventeen years on Facebook Forums created to share the Scriptures. My activity about sharing the Word of God with Muslims, other false Cults, and with those who profess to be Christian continues; this open door that the Lord has made available to me as an Apologist/Teacher is one where worldwide opportunities are made available to all English speaking people around the world from many different countries, races, and religious beliefs. 

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It is WRITTEN in 1 Peter 3:15 … “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:" God wants us to know AND understand His Word (2 Timothy 2:15), “Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” Jude 3, “Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend [Gr. agonize with fervent zeal] for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.”
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This past week I have a few - Long - discussions with a Muslim name Umar K. in an attempt to correct all of his deceptions, misuse, and misinterpretation of the Scriptures he posted, which to some extent gradually began to go uselessly circular, to the point that our conversation had to come to an end, Umar constantly proving with his responses that he has Zero ability to understand the Biblical theology and Christology that I was sharing with him to - Falsely claim - what I was sharing is not “Standard Christian Trinitarianism” and few different times calling me an “Arian,” both of which Umar kept proving he never did the necessary research for what both theologies teach.

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All Muslims are “Arian” and Umar proved to be oblivious to the Fact that – he – and ALL Muslims are Arians. Since Umar and I responded with Long responses I can only share One of the many responses I posted to correct his errors against what Trinity theology teaches, and misuse and misinterpretation of the Bible references he quoted:

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Umar K  (#4. The Hebrews 1 Desperation) … the “desperation” and “bizarre” is yours because you keep proving You have No ability to understand BIBLICAL theology and Christology and Never Will – until – You Repent of your sins then Receive the True Jesus as Lord and Savior of your life, and Atheists prove to be as blind in heart and mind as you are in your present Unregenerate Heart and Mind condition.

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I have already informed you the Greek word Ginomai translated “became” in Hebrews 1:4 - should have been - translated “made” because it agrees with what Luke 1:35 says about the embryo for Jesus’ BODY being created/made in Mary’s womb, and you keep Proving to have No cognitive ability to comprehend this. Nonetheless, Biblical Facts support Jesus’ BODY was also “superior” to the angels (Hebrews 10:5, the word "prepared" proves this), not just His spirit and soul which Hebrew 1:13-14 also Proves.

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I already know for a Fact that You have No correct understanding what “Standard Christian Trinitarianism” teaches, I know Islam’s Allah does Not either, and FYI I have – Never – had One Muslim who can – none - which You keep proving this to be Total Fact. As for this statement: “theology where God has partners, reproduces spirits from His own substance, and delegates His creation;” Nowhere in my responses have I ever wrote God “reproduces spirits (plural) from His own substance,” because Jesus’ – spirit and soul – is the Only ONE that Almighty God ever gave birth to, Not a "reproduction," from His personal substance; the Only One, and shared it IS as eternally existent as His Father Almighty God is. Genesis 1:27 teaches All Other – spirit and souls – are Created.

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As for “partners” Islam’s Allah is a Liar, which he proves more than once, because those like You – Are – his “partners” or you would not be proselytizing for him to deceive those like you are deceived for him. As for this statement “You are trying to defend a Bible you don't understand by inventing doctrines the early Church Fathers would have excommunicated you for,” I – thoroughly Know - that is a Total Lie by you, and because the “early Church Fathers” also taught what Trinity Theology teaches about Who the True Jesus is, and You Clearly have never done the - extensive research - to know that. FYI the Catholic Church excommunicated Arius because he taught against what Trinity teaches, and therefore, they would have done it to You as well for embracing Arius’ deceptions.

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To read more responses I posted this past week my FB timeline can be visited. https://www.facebook.com/samuelsiders1   
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