^{endured such contradiction of sinners against himself}

^{despise not thou the chastening of the Lord}

^{If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons}

^{if ye be without chastisement . . . . then are ye bastards}

There have been teachings that lead people into a "Self-Righteousness" through a "Self-Sacrifice".  The false will create an inflated Religious Monster whose ego becomes filled with a "finger pointing" self righteous pride.  

Our foundational position in Jahshuah is to be one of Faith, and in that Faith, believe that everything is already  so.  However, we must keep in mind that what we are calling as so, is being called as so, so it will become so.

In Romans 6 we read:

Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:  Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him 

 ^{For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.  Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our King.}

^{"Reckon" means to think, to believe something to be so.  In this case, dead indeed unto sin.   Walking in this faith certainly does NOT mean that we are without sin in practice, for I have yet to meet the first person where this would be true.  Notice the "}we believe that we shall" has a future tense in it, and is therefore where our faith is taking us.  It is Faith that brings things to pass, and these are STATEMENTS OF FAITH!  It is involved with the calling of things that are not, as already being so.

^{And then in Galatians Two:}

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me:

These are true Spiritual Facts, but not yet are we experiencing these facts in reality.  It takes the "works of the Cross" to work them in us, but during that work, we still believe with all fervency that THEY ARE SO.  I will explain this further as I go along in this series, so if you feel a bit lost, do not be concerned.

The True walk of the Cross will cause these above matters to become so, and in that process, HUMILIATE the ego, and deliver us from that entity's sinful know it all Self-Righteous Religion.   

When the True Cross is presented to us, our ego will want no part of it, and will reach for the "fig leaf cover up" to "save itself".  Those that submit, will need the strength of Jahshuah to go through it.

We get programmed with belief systems, and in that our ego gets soul tied to it, and our pride cements it into place.  It just might be the most blinding matter involved with the carnal man.  It is the MOST COMMON ERROR of us all, and I have yet to see ANY group that has learned its lesson from the long history of such episodes of others.

When exposure to a firm belief comes, most know subconsciously that they cannot handle it, and reach for the "fig leaf", and by doing so, only listen to refute or contradict what has been stated.   I use to still try and get through to such an individual.  NO MORE!

Let me give you a brief example of being presented with the cross.  Many years ago, I got into a discussion about a particular subject with a man who lived only about a hundred yards from me.  His position was totally opposite of mine.  Boy, did I let him have it.  He was wrong, I knew it, and boy did I ever tell him so in no uncertain terms.  I walked away in the glorious "finger pointing" pride of my convincing victory.

It may have been within twenty four hours, but certainly within a couple of days when Jah showed me I was the one that had been wrong, and showed me in such a way that I could not refute it.  I now had a choice to make.  I could reach for the "fig leaf cover up", and justify it all away, or take up the Cross to my exposure, and admit my error.  I can tell you that was the longest hundred yards on flat ground that I have ever walked.  It was a good lesson, and I learned much from it, but it was also cruel and HUMILIATING.  My pride-filled, stiff-necked ego suffered much in that experience, believe me.  And, the above confessions of faith not only carried me through this little ordeal, but gained much ground in me in the process.

LGM

Jahshuah did not go to the cross so that we could remain as we are while irresponsibly exclaiming that He is our Righteousness, and go right on building our own self centered, self satisfying, comfort zones on this earth.  He told us to Seek ye First the Kingdom, and to PRAY First for the Kingdom.  That we must  lose our life in this fallen world to find it in the Kingdom.  We do NOT go directly from Egypt to the Promised Land.  We must make the designated by Jah trek that brings us to the OTHER side of Jordan where the promises come to pass.  We only get to that "Other Side" by walking the path that Jah designed.  Receiving any other way is NOT the way of Jah, but in fact CONTRADICTS this Truth.  It is Jahshuah that opened that way to us through the "Cross, Tomb, and Resurrection"!!!  The "Cross" being the coming out of Egypt, the "Tomb" being the wilderness, and the "Resurrection" comes as we cross the River Jordan.  We have not yet "crossed over", but we are closing in on that crossing.

The WAY We Know NOT

We are coming to a new thing.  We are told in  Isa 42: 7 & 16    

We are being held captive to a demonic matrix.  The Illusion is that Babylon is the real thing, the real way of life, and that we can find the Kingdom Life while residing in it.  This is NOT SO!  This has produced a blindness, and in that blindness, we are prisoners being held in the "prison house" in the Kingdom of Darkness .  The "call to come out of her", is the releasing from this prison.  How shall this be done?

There is much in these five verses, and it ties into all of the rest of the overlays concerning the Prophetical Word.

The first thing we must see is that Jah comes to the place where He has had enough of dealing with the stiff necked on this earth, and rises up as a "Man of War" to do something about it.  What does He decide to do?? 

  ^{I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight.}  

^{In what personage does He do this leading out???  As a MAN OF WAR!!!  Why as a man of war?  Because it is time for Him to bring an end to the rebellious Kingdom that is presently reigning over the earth.  So what personage will we be in, if we are to be one with Him???}  

^{When we come into this walk with Him, we ENTER A WAR ZONE that we had not before known existed.  No one who has not yet learned how to war against the enemy will ever be a part of those who DO find the way out of the mess that is going on in this earth.  In this realm, the enemy is VICIOUS, and is why, if you are called and begun to follow that calling, you have experienced what you have.  Hang in there.  The victory is OURS, and once Jah, as a Man of War, gets through training and preparing us through  the bringing us by the way we knew not, the REBELLIOUS KINGDOM of CONTRADICTION HAS HAD IT!!!  He is producing in us what He IS, and He IS a Man of War who is preparing us through this "wilderness" FOR WAR!}

We see by verse 16, that we are blind, and are going to be led out of the blindness by a way that we "knew not".  Anyone who thinks they already "know everything" has a great surprise coming to them.  This is a decision by Jah, and not we ourselves.  We can decide to go with Him, but it is He that shall do the work.  What is the work??? 

^{I . . . I . . . I, Jah, will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight.}  

^{Do you see who says that HE will do this thing?  Who is it?  Jah,  like a man of war!!!  And, who will NOT BE a part of this Army??? Those that worship falsely.  Those that create COUNTERFEIT Saviors with their errors of Contradiction.  They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.}

^{THERE IS MUCH YET TO LEARN}

I have learned much over the last forty years.  The most important matter I have learned is that we have a whole lot more to learn, and in that learning, will go to the cross many times over to get our presuppositions, our perspectives of the Word altered, modified into the Truth, as our crooked places WILL BE made straight, and we DO have them..

Why are we blind, and KNOW NOT the way???  Because we have been filled with the enemy's contradictions of the Truth, and have through the programming coming from the pulpits, believed them.

In Isaiah 60:2 we read, "Darkness shall cover (rule) the earth, and gross darkness (shall rule) the people".  If you have not seen the Truth of this scripture, you are not paying attention.  

Now, in the verses above, we see the promised reversal of this contradiction.  He will turn the darkness into Light, if we are willing to go the way we have not heretofore known.  In going that way, we shall feel like we are paddling up stream, for we shall have to fight against EVERYTHING that is being presently preached to the people by the Priests of Baal!!!  Neither will Jezebel, the High Ruler of Babylon, let go of us easily, any more than Pharaoh did our Israelite ancestors.  Those who have been called into this reversal of the contradiction have entered a war zone they do not understand.  

Go back over the Truths that you have come into.  You will find that every Truth you have learned has its contradiction in "Counterfeit Christianity".  If you have wondered why something so exciting to you of new found Truth would not be received in your "Church", THIS IS WHY!!!  That is the realm that is bent on CONTRADICTING Jah.  They LOVE  the CONTRADICTION, and HATE the Truth!  They have declared their doctrinal positions before the people, their ego's have become soul tied to those doctrines, and pride has come and cemented it all into place.  How could ANY of them suffer the cruel humiliation of the Cross to admit their error before the people???  Instead of being "great men of God" as they claim, they are the "shepherds that have led the sheep astray", and are numbered among those that Jahshuah shall say to, "Depart from me, ye workers of iniquity".

^{In believing the contradictions, they are believing in a COUNTERFEIT SAVIOR.  This is why Jah tells us that while those that find "the way they did not know", there shall be those that shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, (Counterfeit Saviors) that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.}

This is what we are coming out of, and in the coming out, coming into the reversal of EVERY CONTRADICTION that Satan has created to hold us captive in his prison.  In this reversal is the receiving of everything promised to us, and the exaltation into everything He has called us to.  We are going through the sufferings to bring us unto this deliverance through the travail we are being brought into!!!

HERE IS THE POINT

Now this is my point. We do not just come into these promises by an easy road, but by the way of SUFFERING THE CONTRADICTION of everything promised to us, to TRY OUR FAITH, and to establish us IN the faith.  To give us that in which we can exercise ourselves in Him to come into the resurrection from that contradiction, INTO THE RECEIVING.  This is the trip of the Cross, Tomb, and Resurrection.  This is a matter that I love to teach, and overlays with the overcoming "by the Blood of the Lamb, the Word of our Testimony, and the Loving NOT our Life unto the Death".

It most assuredly is NOT a trip of defeat, but one of standing in the promises while all hell breaks loose around us.  It is believing of the things that are NOT so, that should be so, as IF THEY ARE so.  We do not lie down languishing in a false suffering while suffering the contradiction, but rise even higher in the Word of our Testimony against the Kingdom of Darkness, even as Jahshuah Himself who took the keys of death and hell away from Satan while in the Tomb.

IT TAKES TIME  to COME INTO THE CALLING

Most, when they first hear "the call", think they are ready right then to go into action.  Nothing could be further from the Truth.  

Paul was something like 18 years before he became an Apostle after he was knocked down and called.  He was taught many things concerning these matters while being a "tent maker" in the Arabian Desert.  He knew what he was talking about for he had LIVED it unto the day that he was finally sent forth.

David was about the same amount of time before he finally became king, after he was so anointed.  We are not in instant potato's people, we are IN TRAINING, and in training to receive EVERYTHING promised, and everything we have been called to do.  Those that have been called for "ministry" in this last day, were called a number of years ago, and have been in their training ever since.  Wait until the world finally beholds these people.  Are they ever in for a surprise.

Jahshuah told us to take up our cross and follow HIM.  He did not say to meet Him on the other side.  It is at the cross where we first become one with Him, and we will have NO fellowship with Him unless we have fellowship in His sufferings.

Now, listen to me.  This is for a purpose.  It is not for our defeat, but for our victory.  For the manifestation of everything promised to us.  And, I mean in THIS LIFE, not the next!  If we have been truly called, and had Him truly promise us matters, this is how we come into it ALL.

Only those that KNOW Jahshuah will reign with Him.  This "knowing", on the spiritual plain, is an "intercourse" with Him, to become One with Him.  This union takes place at, and through the cross, and anyone who avoids this trip will NEVER KNOW HIM.  It is impossible to know Him in any other way but by first becoming one with Him through the cross.  Going through the cross will cause us to suffer the same things He did, and in that, will suffer becoming exactly OPPOSITE of what we are to become, before we will become what we were created and called to become in His Kingdom.  It is impossible for us to become ready until we have suffered this contradiction.  

^{For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.}

^{Jahshuah was KING and ruler of the world.  Did He take this position by His own hands, His own efforts, his own ingenuity?  No, He gave this all  up to the cross IN FAITH for His Father to EXALT HIM into His position of authority.  Instead of becoming King of the earth, He submitted unto the contradiction and was MURDERED.}  

^{Therefore, we ourselves can in no way come into what we are called to, and promised, by the works of our own hands, by our own ingenuity, but only doing as our example did and learn what it is to give  UP our life IN FAITH, in order to FIND IT, even as our Savior who died to show us the way.  It does not come by having faith in our own works, but having the Faith In Jah so that we can call that which is not, as though THEY ARE, and do that no matter how dark it gets in the Tomb, the contradiction of everything promised.  This IS a vital part of the OVERCOMING OF THE SERPENT!}

THE MIND OF Jahshuah

If we expect to become one with Jahshuah, and OUT of the carnal man that holds us captive to the "contradiction", then we must as Paul admonished, "Let this mind be in you, that was in Christ Jesus" . . .

From the time of His Calling, unto the time of his being martyred, he fellowshipped with Christ, and became one with Him through the same type of sufferings.  When he wrote the above verses, he wrote from experience.  

For added emphasis to the thoughts I want to presently deal with, I list them here.

Here is at least a part of the path.  If we want to receive, be exalted into that which is promised to us, then what is this path that takes us there?  Would it not be shown by the "Path Maker"?? 

First, we  ^{Let this mind be in us, which was also in Christ Jesus}

^{What was that mind? He made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant}

^{And then what?  and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.} 

^{And what did this get Him???  Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him}

^{Are you getting the picture?  How can we come into the oneness with Jahshuah, and all that IS His, and all that He is, if we avoid what is stated here?}

^{The People Pleasers of today, do just exactly OPPOSITE of what is said in this discourse.  So who is it then that has exalted them into their lofty positions???  When we think it is Jah that has so exalted them, we are seduced into believing the CONTRADICTION that they present to us.  This turns us all into doing what they have done to gain their positions of honor before the people, and go about trying to do by our own hands as they have.  Sorry people, you can do this in the world, but NOT WITH Jah!!!  We are to go the way that Jahshuah went, and this is clearly outlined in the above.  In going this way we shall endure the CONTRADICTION before we come into the fulfillment.  This IS the way of Jahshuah our Savior.  This IS the way EVERY MAN in the Word of Jah experienced.  And, for those called in this end time, this is the way that YOU WILL experience, and after experiencing it to the fullest of Jah's intentions, then it shall be that the "Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him" will come to pass in YOUR life.  NOT before!}

^{We cannot apply ourselves in contradiction to this way, and receive anything BUT the contradiction.  We reap from what we sow.  Anyone know what I mean?  It happens to everyone, and it has certainly happened to me.  This is what we are being dealt on.  Being run out of self through the works of the Cross that delivers us from this "body of death", which can only bring forth death to all of its works.}  

^{To be delivered from the Contradiction, we must go the way that Jahshuah opened up for us, and that is "Take up your Cross and FOLLOW ME".  What will that produce in our life???  We will then endure the cross, and in  enduring the Cross we shall endure the contradiction which shall come against us,  despising not  the chastening of the Lord,  for if we endure chastening, God dealeth with us as with sons.   We let this mind be in us, which was also in Christ Jesus, who made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, becoming obedient unto death, even the death of the cross, Wherefore , Just as with Jahshuah who showed us this way, Jah will also  highly exalt us into that for which He created us.  He created us to live in His Kingdom, and Kingdom life, and to become the warriors that DESTROY the Kingdom of Contradiction.  Certainly NOT for living in the CONTRADICTION of it.  That IS Babylon.  "Come out of Her MY PEOPLE!"}