Friday, February 1, 2019

(02/01/2019) Pharisees and The Father




Today, the reply is on a claim made by the Pharisees that GOD was their father. This occurred at the Temple following the incident where Jesus was expected to condemn a woman caught in the act of adultery, however, he required that only those perfected by their obedience to the law (i.e., without sin) should carry out and perform the sentence of the law that was against her. At that time, the elders also challenged the divinity and sanctity of Jesus Christ. The Lord answered: John 8: 41-45, King James Version (KJV): 41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God. 42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. 43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. 44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. Through Adam as a son of the Creator, all mankind are the children of GOD, yet, all are not members of the household of GOD, nor are all heirs of sacred priesthood. At one time, sinners became offspring of GOD through covenant, inheritance, and promise. Sinners now become the children of GOD through rebirth, and by the adoption of the Holy Spirit. Their inborn spirit must die, and they must be reborn containing inseparable spirit substance from the makeup of GOD. Included are faith, holiness, longsufferimg, lovingkindness, oneness without sameness, personhood, wisdom, and wrath against sin. A fighter in the “Yahoo! Answers” public forum on Religion and Spirituality who uses the ID “Breakthrough” (Level 6 with 15,376 points, a member since June 29, 2013) posted the following:



What did the Pharisees mean when they told Jesus they had no father other than God?



THE GOLDEN ARROW: Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence! When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence. For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him. Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved. But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. 7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. 8 But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. (Isaiah 64: 1-8, King James Version, KJV)



THE DOUBLE DAGGER: Faith Throughout the Scriptures? (01/04/2019); Christ Rejected By Pharisees? (06/17/2018); The Law and The Prophets (03/07/2018); Becoming Joined To GOD (10/13/2017); Divinity Appears Using Form (07/26/2017); Cast the First Stone? (01/12/2017); His Birth Signals Rebirth (01/03/2017); A Different Spirit Content? (11/29/2016); His Children Are Sanctified (10/12/2016)



Breakthrough”, the Pharisees and scribes acknowledged GOD as the Father of Israel on the basis of their knowledge of scripture and tradition, rather than an apprehension of relationship as divine offspring by containing spirit substance imparted from the makeup of GOD (we say, the Comforter; the Holy Ghost; the Holy Spirit; the Spirit of Prophecy; the Spirit of Truth). For them, “the law and the prophets” did not instruct that a higher relationship with divinity is possible where one would would exist as a vessel of divine life essence (we say, breath; spirit; word) to fulfill the demands of inheritance, covenant promise and prophecy in full accord with divine prerogative, eternal purpose, sacred law, and the sovereign will of GOD. Consider again the following that uses language from the Bible:

1. Deuteronomy 14: 1-2, King James Version (KJV): 1 Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

2. Numbers 11: 24-29, KJV: 24 And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle. 25 And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease. 26 But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were written, but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp. 27 And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. 28 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them. 29 And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the LORDS people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!

3. Isaiah 63: 15-16, KJV: 15 Look down from heaven, and be hold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained? 16 Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.

There is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually apprehended. (For example, 4. 1st Chronicles 29: 9-13, KJV: 9 Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy. 10 Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever and ever. 11 Thine, O LORD is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all. 12 Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. 13 Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.

THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC

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