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The Principle Thing By Pastor Bill Taylor A publication of My Father's House, inc. Volume 9/Issue 2 Prophecy: If I did not possess wisdom at the beginning of the creation, then I would not have built wisely and I would not have built in a way that would last. Now, if you do not possess wisdom in the beginning of your salvation, you will not build wisely and in a way that will last. And I tell you, many who claim to be Christians do not have the master builder and they are not building wisely and they are not building in the way that will last, and what they are building will come down because they didn’t begin with the principal thing. The principal thing is wisdom! Get wisdom! If I needed wisdom to build the creation, then you need wisdom to build a victorious Christian life in the new creation, and you need to start with the principal thing. As it is written; “Wisdom is the principal thing! Get wisdom,” then you can build rightly for eternity, saith the Lord. (Prophecy delivered at "My Father's House") For the turning away of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them;(Pr1:32) Simple is another word for “stupid.” Fools are complacent and they don’t see the dangers they face or their very real need for improvement so their complacency is deadly. We’ve often had to deal with complacency in God’s church; and that is much of what God’s chastenings are about. Notice that complacency is a kind of foolishness. But diligence is wisdom. No one who is complacent has Jesus in them because Jesus is made unto us wisdom and wisdom is diligent. The hand of the diligent will rule... (Pr12:24) Diligence is man’s precious possession. (Pr12:27) The soul of the diligent shall be made rich. (Pr13:4) So if Jesus is in you, you will manifest both His wisdom and His diligence. Of course, “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom.” (Pr9:10) For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding; He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk uprightly; He guards the paths of justice, and preserves the way of His saints (so one way He preserves us is through wisdom.) Discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you, (Pr2:6-11) Discretion comes with Christ’s wisdom. And the understanding that comes in God’s wisdom will keep you, to deliver you from evil men and wicked women. To deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things, To deliver you from the immoral woman, from the seductress who flatters with her words, (Pr2: 12,16) There are five passages in the first nine chapters of Proverbs that deal with the immoral woman. It’s very significant that Solomon who has a thousand wives is so concerned about the immoral woman. You’d think that with a thousand wives he could never be tempted by some other woman. But what we see here is a work of God’s Spirit and God’s wisdom to protect Solomon from the idolatry in his “immoral” wives. In other words: “Preacher, pay attention to your own preaching!” Because in the end Solomon was destroyed by the affections he had for his foreign wives. For it was so, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned his heart after other gods; and his heart was not loyal to the LORD his God, as was the heart of his father David. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and did not fully follow the LORD, as did his father David. Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the hill that is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the people of Ammon. And he did likewise for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods. (1Ki11:4-8) Nehemiah refers to this when he confronts the intermarriage of the Jews to foreign women “Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, who was beloved of his God; and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless pagan women caused even him to sin.” (Neh13:26) So God uses Solomon to give us this wisdom, which he very much needed to obey himself. And Solomon writes five passages that describe the dangers associated with immoral women. Each of these passages relates to this: “Wisdom will keep you from the immoral woman.” It isn’t possible to think that God would put so much emphasis on this merely to deal with the sexual sins of adultery and fornication. These truths go much deeper than that. In the book of Revelations we see Babylon is described as the great harlot (the immoral woman) “For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her.”(Rev18:3) This cannot be speaking of literal sexual sin; it is speaking of a “spiritual form” of fornication. So, to understand these things we must see that the foremost example of an immoral woman in the Bible is mystery Babylon, and what God calls her fornications is the governments of the earth having concourse with her. To be referred to as “fornication” this concourse must be forbidden. Which shows us that “mystery Babylon” represents the “church,” which is supposed to be faithful to God alone having illegal relations with governments of man for “carnal” purposes – to gain temporal power, wealth, esteem etc. So mystery Babylon represents the unfaithful “church,” the immoral woman or false and fallen church. (Rev17:5) Now we know that one of the mysteries concerning “wisdom” in Proverbs is that wisdom is often referred to in the feminine and feminine wisdom must be the New Covenant faithful church which is the embodiment of Christ’s wisdom. That’s why wisdom is called feminine “she,” although Jesus, “He” is “made unto us wisdom.” (1Co1:30) He, Jesus, fills the church with wisdom, but it isn’t Jesus who is “wisdom crying out,” but it’s His church “she” that is wisdom crying out by His Spirit. Wisdom calls aloud outside; she raises her voice in the open squares. She cries out in the chief concourses, at the openings of the gates in the city she speaks her words: “How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? For scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge. Turn at my rebuke; surely I will pour out my Spirit on you; I will make my words known to you. (Pr1:20-23) The Spirit of the faithful church is the Holy Spirit – Christ’s wisdom and truth. The true church is calling the lost to repentance. The true church is evangelistic, so it is wise. “He (or she) that winneth souls is wise.”(Pr11:30) The true church is the moral woman, who cries out for the perishing to come to Christ’s wisdom to be saved. And of course, the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. (Ps111:10) Wisdom will teach you how to be safe from all the things that would destroy you, including the perverse man, and the immoral woman. (Pr2:12,16) Another name for the perverse man is the anti-christ, and we can see much concerning the anti-christ in Revelations 13 and “The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. (2The2:9,10) The immoral woman is the false church and she is the MURDERER of all the dead. (Rev17) “And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who were slain on the earth.” (Rev18:24) She kills the saints because the true saints see her for what she is and therefore she hates the true saints because they expose her. But she kills all the dead because she is a deceiver and temptress who leads all the earth’s peoples into sin. “For by her sorcery all the nations were deceived.” (Rev18:23) And the wages of sin are death. (Ro6:23) In Proverbs, Solomon is looking at the immoral woman as a woman you are not married to. But he fell into sin with the women he was married to. So he wasn’t as wise in his old age as he appeared in his youth, because he let his wives lead him into the deadly sin of idolatry. But this I say, brethren, the time is short, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they had none. But I want you to be without care. He who is unmarried cares for the things of the Lord-- how he may please the Lord. But he who is married cares about the things of the world-- how he may please his wife. (1Co7:29,32-33) The Scriptures show clearly that harlotry or consorting with the immoral woman, is always associated with idolatry; the worship of false gods. Now, the worship of false gods in America today is not usually bowing down to idols, but there is no doubt whatsoever that what the Baptists think of as Jesus is not Jesus. They have made a false Jesus in their imaginations and it’s just as wrong as worshipping an idol, because the way they perceive Christ is so disagreeable to the way Jesus actually reveals Himself in the Scriptures that their Jesus can’t be real. So they are idolaters in their imaginations – forming an idolatrous Christ out of demonic doctrines and worshipping a false concept of God. Even as Paul warned, But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. (Gal 1:8) So there is another gospel. For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted-- you may well put up with it! (2Co11:4) Even in Paul’s time some were preaching a false Jesus and a false gospel. And these things can’t be ignored. Today the most common idolatry of the western world is that which goes on in the imaginations of people who make up a god in their mind that differs from the true God. So their perception of God is false, and if their perception is false, the god they worship is not the real God. This idolatry is common to every major denomination today. But God gives wisdom that we may be delivered from the immoral woman who always leads her victims into idolatry. And idolatry is a deadly sin; very much accursed. It’s breaking the first commandment, “Thou shalt have no other gods before Me!” and it causes its practitioners to be abhorred by God. And this immoral woman/idolatry connection continues in the New Testament. “Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.” (Rev2:20) Jezebel uses sexual temptation to involve her victims in idolatry. “And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent. Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds. I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works.” (v21-23) But Wisdom will deliver you from the immoral woman, from the seductress who flatters with her words, who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God. (Pr2:16-17) And this accurately describes the apostate “churches” of today. They try to seduce people to their “church” by flatteries and “people pleasing.” And they have abandoned any serious obedience to the Word of God. Recently we received this letter. My dearest Pastor Taylor, Well my brother, it’s happened just as the Lord showed me it would. The men on this compound, our brothers in Christ, are truly receiving your messages, inspired by the Holy Ghost, with open hearts. Especially… “Once Saved, Always Saved,” I can tell you this message went over real well. The majority in this prison are under a deceitful lie, that once you are saved, you can’t lose your salvation; once you confess Jesus as Lord and Savior you’re saved and you can live like satan himself and still go to Heaven. So, this true word you’ve sent us from God is being received and is setting many free from that lie from hell. I assure you, you have a little flock right here. We are looking for truth, and we do study our Bibles, pray, and have fellowship with our Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost, and each other. But, boy the doctrines that come in here! However, God has blessed us with His Spirit to lead us into truth & the reality of His Kingdom. And it’s great to hear a man of God preach the Gospel of Truth without trying to please men. We don’t want our ears tickled, we want to hear from God. We want to be ready and not be ashamed at His appearing, so, we want you and our brethren at “My Father’s House” to know that we are in full agreement with God’s teachings coming from you. Because: Ř We are called to be peculiar people, set apart for God’s glory. As His children we are to live and conduct ourselves like Jesus. Ř It’s a shame when a person claims to be a Christian and is involved in gross sin. We know we are called to be holy as our Father in Heaven is holy. If we love Him we will obey Him, in every area of our lives. I consider myself dead, and my life is in Christ, hid in God. It’s no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. Christ is my life and I choose to live just as He did, to God’s honor and glory. Please remember us here. We consider you all as part of our body, as we consider us as part of yours in Christ Jesus. Jesus Christ is Lord W. B. These young men have taken hold of wisdom. They see through the flatteries of the false church and they want truth. For her house leads down to death, and her paths to the dead; none who go to her return, nor do they regain the paths of life-- (Pr2:18-19) Wisdom will keep you, but note, all that go to the immoral woman “church” do not return. You cannot apostatize and come back to God. Apostasy is not the same as backsliding. Backsliding is where you know the truth; you get lazy about it and you fall back into the flesh. Then if you are to be saved you must repent. But apostasy is where you trade the truth for a lie. You’ve known the truth but prefer the lie. According to God, apostates never come back. Once you’ve traded the truth for the lie, there is no way to get the truth back. For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame. (Heb6:4-6) who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. (Ro1:25) Now someone who has never known the truth can repent and come out of the lies when they see the truth. But for the one who has known the truth and departs from it there is no repentance. So, this is a very sobering thing. Apostasy is equivalent to taking the 666, or blaspheming the Holy Spirit; it is a sin unto eternal death. Again we are not talking about the people in the apostate churches who’ve never known the truth. People who’ve never known the truth can be saved if they’ll repent and come to the truth. Although I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an insolent man; but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. (1Ti1:13) But someone in a true church, who knows the truth, if they apostatize, there is no way back for them. Whatever they do that trades the truth for a lie does such damage to their soul that it cannot be undone. Apostates commit spiritual suicide. None who go to her return, nor do they regain the paths of life-- (Pr2:19) If you leave the true church for the false, you will NEVER come back! So, if you want to be safe from any possibility of apostatizing, remember, But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; (2Pe1:5-8,10) Peter’s list here is not all inclusive, for Paul says, But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness. (1Ti6:11) And Solomon says, wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom. (Pr4:7) If wisdom is the principle thing then it is the first and most needful thing and must precede all others. So the Bible says wisdom is more important than anything else, and we must pursue it. We also know that wisdom comes from God (Pr2:6) and wisdom is Christ. (1Co1:24) Wisdom causes us first to see our need for salvation. So wisdom is God leading us to Christ. Wisdom has to come to you first or you can’t be properly saved. That’s why it’s the principal thing. We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him (1Jn5:18) To be born of God is to be born into Christ and His wisdom. Now compare that to: Discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you, (Pr2:11) My son, let them not depart from your eyes-- keep sound wisdom and discretion; For the LORD will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being caught. (Pr3:21,26) So if Christ is in you this wisdom will cause you to keep yourself safe by what you see because you have the wisdom to see the dangers. (1Jn5:16) And the most important issue is wisdom will keep you safe from being captured by satan’s lies. (Pr3:26) Keep wisdom and wisdom will keep you. Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you; love her, and she will keep you. (Pr4:6) Now, again wisdom is described as feminine here, and wisdom in the feminine is the embodiment of Christ in His Bride, the feminine church. So the scriptures here are telling you that you better love the church. And if you love the true church and do not forsake Her, the true church will keep you. You can see the truth in that in the many scriptures that speak of the church brethren provoking one another and admonishing one another to love and good works etc. And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. (Heb10:24-25) Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. (Col 3:16) And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head-- Christ-- from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love. (Eph4:11-16) The true church is the “pillar and ground of the truth.” (1Ti3:15) And the embodiment of Christ’s Spirit and wisdom in the earth. in whom the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit. (Eph2:21-22) Without the true church you very easily will fall into complacency or neglect of needful things. Where there is a true church in which the wisdom of Christ dwells, she will keep you if you love her and participate actively in her. When you do your part, the brethren and leadership in the true church will keep stirring you up to love and good works, keeping you on the path of righteousness. Take firm hold of instruction, do not let go; keep her, for she is your life. My son, give attention to My Words; incline your ear to My sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart; For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh (Pr4:13,20-22) It’s in His true church that you receive Christ’s instructions, His Words and His sayings. My son, pay attention to My wisdom; lend your ear to My understanding, that you may preserve discretion, and your lips may keep knowledge. (Pr5:1-2) Remember, Discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you, (Pr2:11) You preserve discretion and discretion will preserve you. What is discretion? Discretion is to be able to think and act about things in a right way. It’s very much connected to humility (the meekness of wisdom – James 3:13) and will keep you from taking prideful and foolish actions. Often Jesus would tell people not to talk about it when He healed them. (Mt9:30) This was discretion lest the Pharisees who wanted to kill Him would hear about it and come after Him, or the multitudes that pursued Him for healings etc., would become overwhelming and hinder His ministry. For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil; But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death, her steps lay hold of hell. Lest you ponder her path of life-- her ways are unstable; you do not know them. (Pr5:3-6) The ways of the false church, the immoral woman, are unstable. She’s already broken her vows to her first love (Christ) so why do you think she will keep her word to you? She’ll promise you the moon and then she will turn around and offer what she said was yours to the next man she meets. You cannot depend on anything she says. What was sin to her yesterday becomes ok today – what was ok to her yesterday becomes sin today. Remove your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house, for why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman, and be embraced in the arms of a seductress? (Pr5:8,20) My son, keep your father’s command, and do not forsake the law of your mother. Bind them continually upon your heart; Tie them around your neck. When you roam, they will lead you; when you sleep, they will keep you; and when you awake, they will speak with you. For the commandment is a lamp, and the law a light; reproofs of instruction are the way of life, To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattering tongue of a seductress. (Pr6: 20-24) Again God shows us the most important point concerning wisdom is to keep you from being seduced by the false church. And He always describes the harlot as having a flattering tongue. A flattering tongue is the same as saying an “ear-tickling” tongue. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. (2Ti4:3-4) The false church is a man pleaser – like a harlot selling herself – saying anything you want to hear without respect for truth so that she may exploit you. By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber. (2Pe2:3) Reproofs of instruction are the way of life to keep you from the evil woman, from the flattering tongue of a seductress. For by means of a harlot a man is reduced to a crust of bread; and an adulteress will prey upon his precious life. (Pr6:24,26) The false church is a murderess. “And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who were slain on the earth.” (Rev18:24) Her lies kill – as the wicked lie “once saved/always saved” may cause those who are deceived by it, to commit deadly “willful” sin (see Heb10:26-27) thinking they cannot lose their salvation and so they perish a victim of the harlot’s lies. My son, keep my words, and treasure my commands within you. Keep my commands and live, and my law as the apple of your eye. Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. (Pr7:1-3) Compare this to, “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. “You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. “You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. “You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. (Deu6:6-9) “Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. “You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. “And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, (Deu11:18-20) God wants you to be continually meditating on, and contemplating His Word and His instructions which He gives for your safety. Notice, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. (2Pe1:5-7) How can you add these things to your faith unless you keep the idea of what you are pursuing consciously in front of you. You can see the Old Covenant people were required to do this with God’s Word, why should the New Covenant people be required to do less? All through Proverbs1-9 Solomon keeps telling us to keep these verses continually in sight and never forget them. Tie it around your fingers (Pr7:3) write them on your heart (Pr3:21) and put them in front of your eyes. Keep them close, bind them on your neck. (Pr3:3) As holy people we have no respect for worldly jewelry, but what we see here is spiritual jewelry. For they will be a graceful ornament on your head, and chains about your neck. (Pr1:9) Wisdom beautifies the bride of Christ in the Spirit. Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your nearest kin that they may keep you from the immoral woman, from the seductress who flatters with her words. (Pr7:4-5) This is the fourth place Solomon declares the dangers of the immoral woman; the seductress who flatters. And notice that whereas there is a meekness to wisdom, (Jas3:13) harlotry is loud and proud. In the false church they glory in what they should be ashamed of. (Phil 3:19) She was loud and rebellious, her feet would not stay at home. (Pr7:11) Standing up loudly for her right to sin and do it her way. The spirit of harlotry causes people to stray. (Hos4:12) Yet it is not atheism but a false religion – the harlot is religious. “I have peace offerings with me; today I have paid my vows. (Pr7:14) The immoral woman is religious and wicked. And she believes she has the right to practice her religion “her way” indulging her lusts while claming to serve God. For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. (Jude1:4) These foolish “believers” conceive of their god as being so “forgiving” of sin that they are free to indulge their lusts as they please without any fear of punishment. The truth is: Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. (Eph5:6) Pastor Bill Taylor, My name is A D, and I have been a Baptist for most of my life. I was always faithful in attending church, reading my Bible and praying. I believe in God. I also believe in Jesus; that He came to earth and died for our sins. I also believed in “once saved/always saved.” I believed everything the preacher preached; everything the church doctrine said. I thought I was saved. Then about five years ago, I began having problems. During this time, I’d been employed at a local lumber company. I worked my way up through the ranks. After being there a while I noticed I was being passed up for promotion and promised raises that never happened. One day I saw things were not going to change. So I took matters into my own hands and began to steal from the company. First it started out small, but each time it became bigger. I justified it each time, thinking, “I’m a Christian, I’ll just ask for forgiveness and everything will be alright.” Then one day, I got caught. I went to jail. I didn’t know that all this time I was using salvation as a license to sin. (This is grace being “licentiousness.” Jude 4) I had religion, not salvation. Meanwhile, God sent many people to show me the errors of my ways, but I wasn’t listening. Deep down I knew something was wrong, but I didn’t know what. I went to prison. Later I was placed in an orientation dorm. One evening while I was reading my Bible, an inmate named JA sat down next to me and asked, “What are you reading?” I replied, “The Bible.” J then asked me, “Are you a Christian?” I said, “Yes I am.” The look in J’s eyes told me he didn’t believe me at all. J then gave a brief testimony, and went down a list of his beliefs. He lost me when he said, “once saved/always saved” is not Biblical. I was brewing mad. I wondered where J got his information from. So I went to his area to tell him he was wrong and set him straight. Before I could even start the conversation he opened his Bible and read me many verses. Chapter after chapter, verse after verse, showing me the truth of what God’s Word really says not what “religion” or “church doctrine” says. I went away that night thinking to myself how could all the preachers, teachers and men of God, well educated people, be wrong? How could J an inmate like me be right? Everything J showed me was from the Bible not from his head. I continued to see J all that week. He showed me booklets from a church called “My Father’s House.” Then Friday evening J delivered a blow to me. Between the books and the Bible he gave a complete testimony to me and went over Acts 7:37-40, Romans 6–8, Hebrews 11:7, Jeremiah 31:31-34, Luke 14:26-33, Matthew 16:24-27 and many, many more. He told me, “salvation is not meant to be easy.” We then went over Matthew 7:13-14, “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.” J explained the broad way is all the religious untaught people. Right then I was pierced to my heart. My religious beliefs; the Baptist wall inside me was cracked and broken. God’s light shined in my life and all I saw was my ugly sin. I began to see the Holy Spirit in J. I was very troubled that night. Saturday I received a visit from my wife. I had not seen her in 3 months. She had left the Baptist church and became “Spirit Filled.” She was now a true Christian, unlike myself at that time. I wanted to talk to her about what was important to me. She wanted to tell me about her Spirit filled life. I realized half way thru the visit she had what J had, “the Holy Spirit;” not religion, not a church, not a doctrine. I left the visit wondering should I pray more, should I read my Bible more? I went back to the dorm and found J. He was prepared for me. I told him, “I’m not saved, J. I need what you and my wife have.” J then opened his Bible and showed me how to be saved. J explained I must first recognize the need for my salvation. I must see my sin, repent, turn from my sin and turn toward God and be baptized. J explained in water baptism we are identified with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection. J said I can’t change the “Way.” I can’t make the Bible say something it doesn’t say. I told J this is what I want to do, I have to do, I need to do. I asked J what about the baptism. So Sunday afternoon after careful discussion to make sure that I knew the truth about salvation, J brought a fellow Christian by the name of R as witness to the following: I repented, I turned from my sin, I returned to God and cried out to Jesus to allow the Holy Spirit to come into my heart and live. J baptized me and R pulled me up, so I could be identified with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection. I now have a fleshly heart; the stony heart has been replaced. The Holy Spirit now lives in me. Praise the Lord. (Edited for brevity) A.D. This letter is from a man who has escaped from the immoral woman, the apostate church and her “easy way” lies. Her appeal is that the way of the true church is too hard. “You’re too smart for that! God wouldn’t expect so much of you. Go ahead have a little fun. God will forgive you. We are all just sinners saved by grace.” With her enticing speech she caused him to yield, with her flattering lips she seduced him. (Pr7:21) The wicked woman is never content to be alone in her apostasy. She must lure others into sin with her. Now Timothy says, Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; (2Ti4:2-3) Itching ears want to be flattered. Ms. P. left the church because I chastened her instead of flattering her. Her words were, “I’m not going to put my offerings into a place that doesn’t make me feel good.” Well, “her money perish with her.” (Acts8:20) She came to us because she’d heard we were a good church, better than the one she was in – and she thought in her pride she was a “good” Christian worthy to be a part of a really good church – but God found her out. She was exalting herself in her own eyes and looking for a church that would cooperate with her pride and tell her how superior she was. Her ear was itching for flatteries. But at “My Father’s House” we don’t flatter. Here you get a compliment when you deserve it. But often you get chastenings. “Because reproofs of instruction are the way of life.” (Pr6:23) And, Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. (Heb12:11) Until you are “perfect” correction is still what you need. And Spiritual people are not hungry for compliments – they glory in the Lord. You can discern the true church from the false church on the basis of this one word, “flattery.” There is absolutely no flattery in God’s true church. But in false churches flattery is always common. Wherever you see flattery it is the immoral woman. Flattery is an appeal to pride and pride is sin. Pride is the opposite of that fruit of the Spirit, which is humility. The flatterer is building up flesh in the person he flatters, and he’s doing it for hidden selfish purposes. These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage. (Jude16) And we can see again concerning the immoral woman that everything the false church does is an appeal to the flesh. The true church cannot appeal to the selfish flesh. You have to convict people that they are in the flesh and that it is a sin to be in the flesh. They have to see that if they are in the flesh then they are in the old adamic generation. (See the Glory of His Grace “This Generation.”) But, what the false church is doing is flattering people; catering to their flesh; making them feel good in their flesh and telling them such behavior is acceptable to God. Whereas in God’s true church, your flesh has to be crucified. You can’t get to heaven unless you get out of the selfish flesh and into God’s self sacrificing love. So how can I flatter your flesh? I have to help you crucify your flesh if God is to save you. “Now therefore, listen to me, my children, for blessed are those who keep my ways. Hear instruction and be wise, and do not disdain it. Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. For whoever finds me finds life, and obtains favor from the LORD; But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; all those who hate me love death.” (Pr8:32-36) You can see that wisdom doesn’t flatter, but it tells the truth and truth saves you. So people who hate truth and hate wisdom must love death. A foolish woman is clamorous; she is simple (stupid), and knows nothing. (Pr9:13) She’s clamorous means she is loud, and makes a big “to do” out of what she thinks she knows, when she knows nothing yet as she ought to. (1Cor 8:2) To call to those who pass by, who go straight on their way: “Whoever is (stupid) simple, let him turn in here;” and as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him, “Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.” She always has some wicked or clever saying to entice you to sin. But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of hell. (Pr9:15-18) In Proverbs chapters 1-9, we’ve examined how wisdom keeps you from the immoral woman, which in its literal interpretation, means it keeps you from committing adultery or fornication. But in a Spiritual sense —harlotry is hateful to God because Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem, for Judah has profaned the LORD’S holy institution which He loves: he has married the daughter of a foreign god. (Mal 2:11) Now that holy institution is marriage and there’s a very good reason God loves marriage so much. “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. (Eph5:31-32) Marriage represents the union of Christ and His people. The marriage relationship between a man and his wife, is a symbol that gives you some understanding of the intimacy and unity of Christ’s relationship with His church. Again, we see in Malachi that God loves Marriage, but Judah has corrupted the marriage institution, Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem, for Judah has profaned the LORD’S holy institution, which He loves (Mal 2:11) This is what adultery is; an abomination, a dealing treacherously. Do you see the word treacherous? It very often in the bible means that somebody has been unfaithful; they have lied about what they have promised they would do. A treacherous person will promise to do something beneficial but then turn and do harm to the one he has deceived and that is treachery. Judah promised to be faithful to God, but He has married the daughter of a foreign god. (v11) And now we can relate this to what Solomon did. He married daughters of foreign gods and was led into idolatry. Do you think Solomon is going to Heaven? The Bible says if the righteous commits sin, then all of his righteousness will be forgotten. “But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? All the righteousness, which he has done, shall not be remembered; because of the unfaithfulness of which he is guilty and the sin, which he has committed, because of them he shall die. “But if a wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. “Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ Hear now, O house of Israel, is it not My way which is fair, and your ways which are not fair? (Ezek18:24,21,25) The ways of the Lord are fair and according to this, Solomon is in hell. First he married the daughters of foreign gods and then he allowed them to turn his heart away from God to idols. No unrepentant idolater can get into heaven. May the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob the man who does this, being awake and aware, yet who brings an offering to the LORD of hosts! (Mal 2:12) If you are doing it unknowingly, ok, but when you are doing it willfully, knowingly, God cannot forgive you. For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, (Heb10:26) Saul said that God forgave him because he did it in ignorance. Although I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an insolent man; but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. (1Ti1:13) But Solomon knew what he was doing. He wrote the book. And this is the second thing you do: you cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping and crying; so He does not regard the offering anymore, nor receive it with goodwill from your hands. (Mal 2:13) So because of the hurt you are inflicting upon your first wife all your religion is useless. God will not receive you. Yet you say, “For what reason?” Because the LORD has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, with whom you have dealt treacherously; yet she is your companion and your wife by covenant. (Mal 2:14-15) These Jews are divorcing their first wives and marrying younger, prettier women. But did He not make them one, having a remnant of the Spirit? And why one? He seeks godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously with the wife of his youth. (v15) God wants godly offspring. It takes a true commitment of a godly man and woman to God and each other if they are to produce a “family” environment conducive to bringing their children to the Lord. For one thing the parents have to be good examples of “faithfulness” to God and each other. And they must demonstrate a sincere love to God and true righteousness and holiness if the children are to learn these things. And this is what the church’s relation to Christ must be like too if she is to raise God’s children properly. We’ve been criticized by some of the antichrist apostates who went out from us that we are not “of God” “because we are not growing.” Well that’s a lie. We are experiencing tremendous growth though some of it is not visible to carnal eyes, because so much of our growth is in the prisons and in the Internet. Last year we were receiving 8,000 hits per month on our internet site. Currently we are getting 24,000 that is a 300% increase. We are now sending the Glory of His Grace into 20 different Florida prisons and both the number of prisons we are in and the number of inmates receiving our ministry is continually increasing. But there is another consideration regarding “church growth” that the ignorant “curstians” do not see because of their spiritual illiteracy. Let us say for example, that there are 40 people attending our meetings. Yet God and the pastor, know that only 20 of them are actually members of the body of Christ led by His Spirit. Suppose in the following year through Spiritual ministry and chastening etc. that 10 of the 40 people leave while another 10 become truly Spiritual Christians obedient to Christ. In such a case the “congregation” as it seems to be in the eyes of ignorant men has lost 10 members. In actuality in the eyes of God this church has grown 50%. As the pastor of “My Father’s House,” I have been very aware that not everyone who has attended our church has actually been a member of the body of Christ. And I have been led by Christ to exert more attention in bringing those who are attending into a real Christianity than just trying to enlarge the numbers that attend. So we’ve seen constant growth in the numbers of people becoming real Christians at “My Father’s House,” even though at times the number of people who attend may not have seemed to increase significantly. Now many of the false churches who take such pride in their numbers growth are not growing at all because even though there may be an increase in the number of people attending their services, the people attending are not really children of God. Nor are these “churches” teaching the people to become true sons of God led by the Spirit. (Ro8:9,14) So even when the number attending increases there is no increase in the real body of Christ. “Bring charges against your mother, bring charges; for she is not My wife, nor am I her Husband! Let her put away her harlotries from her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; “I will not have mercy on her children, for they are the children of harlotry. For their mother has played the harlot; she who conceived them has behaved shamefully. (Hos2:2-5) They have dealt treacherously with the LORD, for they have begotten pagan children. (Hos5:7) Where there is an increase in numbers, but the children are the children of harlotry or heresy, that doesn’t do anything for God. For a real increase God must be the Father, and the true church, the pillar of truth, the Mother. Children that are born from a church that is faithful to God and His Word are going to be godly offspring. And the kind of offspring we are bringing forth in My Father’s House are godly. In the prison ministries also our new believers are behaving godly; they are true sons of God. We are getting an increase and they are the kind of children that God calls His. God can’t let just anybody bring forth His increase because, if we weren’t right, the children wouldn’t be right. What produces godly offspring, is godly parents. “Every seed produces after its kind.” (Ge1:12) So if the church is pure and right with God, as in My Father’s House and in our Glory of His Grace literature which brings forth the true doctrines of Christ, then the children will grow up to be real sons of God and God’s church increases. Whereas if the church is involved in harlotry, like the worldly “imputed righteousness” East Coast curstians or the “Once saved always saved Baptists” or the “it’s all predestination Calvinists” or any one of the false churches out there that have departed from the true gospel, the children can’t be of God because they are crooked. How can the children be straight when the parent isn’t straight? The children are going to be following the lies that the mother is teaching them. When you convince a new “christian” to believe “once saved always saved” you haven’t made him a child of God. How could anyone of the truth believe they can profess Jesus and then behave like a devil and still go to heaven? It doesn’t make sense! No sane person could believe such foolishness. Such “believers” are children of harlotry and they’ve been deceived. The Truth is not in them. God is giving us powerful revelations of His truths in the Glory of His Grace. Every one of our 70+ Glory of His Grace books is given by the Spirit. You can’t find anything in them that disagrees with scripture. The Glory of His Grace doctrines are backed up by confirmation, after confirmation in both scriptures and the spiritual experience of the true saints. And every one of these books stands against what’s commonly preached in the false “churches” today. The Glory of His Grace is exposing everything false that calls itself “christianity” and it is exalting God’s truth about REAL CHRISTIANITY! And the believers who are receiving this truth are becoming real children of God. We are producing godly offspring. We are getting the increase and it is the kind of increase that God is looking for—godly children. The increase that comes in harlot “churches” doesn’t matter, because God says He will destroy them all, even the fruit of their womb, if they are children of harlotry. “I will not have mercy on her children, for they are the children of harlotry. They have dealt treacherously with the LORD, for they have begotten pagan children. Now a New Moon shall devour them and their heritage. Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit. Yes, were they to bear children, I would kill the darlings of their womb.” (Hos2:4,5:7,9:16) God doesn’t count children of heresies as His. Remember, “He who is born of God, KEEPS himself.” (1Jn5:18) God builds into every living being the ability to sustain it’s own life; to breath, to drink, to eat, to find food, etc. It is absolutely insane to think that you could be born again, and your born again spirit doesn’t know how to keep himself in Christ. In looking at this subject, we can see how Jesus kept Himself when after He ministered to the multitudes, He would depart and go aside to pray. He has the Spiritual sense to know when enough is enough, and it’s time to pull back to get close to the Father for a Spiritual recharge. Jesus keeps Himself and if you are born again and Jesus is in you, He is able to keep Himself in you too. Proverbs tells us there are certain things you ought to do if you want to keep yourself. You must continually be reminding yourself of the scriptures, God’s admonishments and such as that, because that is part of keeping yourself. And if you keep yourself, God will keep you. Wisdom will keep you! One of the things we’ve noticed about unspiritual “christians” is you can strongly admonish them and they may seem to get spiritual for a day or two, but then they DON’T KEEP THEMSELVES. They drift back into complacency, which indicates they’re fools. When they don’t keep themselves it’s because they don’t have diligence. And that tells you that they are not born again, or they are not allowing the born again spirit to manifest in them. So here is something that is related to keeping yourself. But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; (2Pe1:5-7,10) If you want to be sure to get to heaven make a list and everyday look upon your list and pray for God to help you plan what you can do today to add to your faith, virtue, knowledge, self control, more of Jesus. Because in doing that you are keeping yourself. So, even if it seems like this is a physical method, it agrees with what the Bible says to do. So it is wisdom. My son, keep my words, and treasure my commands within you. Keep my commands and live, and my law as the apple of your eye. Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. (Pr7:1-3) God expects you to keep yourself reminded of His Word at all times and to remind each other and admonish one another. (Col 3:16) One of the Spiritual duties of God’s church is that we are to be admonishing, provoking and stirring up one another continually. (Heb10:24,25) If the church is doing its job, then you will be getting this continual admonishment from one another. The fact that, “He who is born of God keeps himself,” (1Jn5:18) doesn’t mean that he can’t use a planning list to keep himself. The new man keeps himself because he has wisdom. Wisdom does whatever is necessary in whatever way actually works. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; (Phil 2:12) So the born again man has to have wisdom, or he wouldn’t be able to keep himself. Then the first and principal thing to get is wisdom! If there is a part of the congregation that keeps on falling away, that are not keeping themselves Spiritual then we have to say they don’t have wisdom. Turn it around! James says, “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;” (Jas1:5-7) Have Faith! Get Wisdom! How does wisdom express itself? It keeps you by keeping God’s ways first always in your life. Now here is another point concerning virtue, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness and love. You will never get to the bottom of God’s love barrel. You can learn to love more today than yesterday, and you can still love more tomorrow than today. There’s always another aspect of love for you to explore and apply. You will never wear God out on these subjects. You will never run out of greater depths of wisdom. You will never run out of new applications for godliness. Every one of these subjects Peter, Paul or James calls you to add to your faith, you can add and keep on adding. How far does love go? How many ways can you express it? When you are asking God to fill you up with brotherly kindness, how many different ways can you be kind to your brother? Peter is telling you that if you will do this, you will have an abundant entrance into God’s kingdom. (2Pe1:11) But that doesn’t mean you can look at these things and say, “Well, I’ve got self-control now – I don’t need to pursue that anymore.” There is a place you can reach where you are so established that you will never fall away, never stumble (2Pe1:10) but My Bible tells me that even after the righteous are righteous still, in the ages to come, God will continually be showing us the exceeding riches of His Grace in His kindness towards us in Christ Jesus. (Eph2:7) And that means we will keep seeing Him be kind to us in new ways, more and greater kindnesses, again and again throughout eternity. God will never run out of the ways He can express his kindness to us. Every day will be an adventure in the love of God. Heaven will never be boring. We can reach a place where we are assuredly in Christ, but there is still always more to take hold of. Now, If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God (Jas1:5) What the Spirit is showing us is that, if you are not keeping yourself it’s due to a lack of wisdom. Perhaps you’ve been looking at wisdom in a wrong way. You think you need wisdom to pay your bills, or to figure out a problem in your business or home or such. But the most important thing about having wisdom, is it will keep you in the way of salvation. Wisdom will keep you saved! Wisdom will keep you growing in the things of God. Wisdom will keep you from being led astray by the false church and the immoral woman. Wisdom will keep you from sin. Wisdom will keep you Spiritual. Now, how many of you have lacked that kind of wisdom? And if you have—let him ask of God.
Prophesy: From the first day I started “My Father’s House” and the first prayer that asked of Me, “Add to this church daily such as should be saved.” From the very first I went to work to fulfill that prayer. And I wasn’t just looking to fill you with people, but in My heart I desired only godly offspring. So I removed many who would not submit to the work, who would not surrender themselves to Me that I might make them godly people, full of My wisdom, that I could have godly offspring. So I removed the chaff, but I increased you in those who would let Me work and raised them up to be faithful and holy, so that I could answer that prayer. And that is the work I am doing here. I have sought to be your Husband and I am making you fit to be the Mother of My children. For as you see all around you today, the harlot church is not a mother to My children. Her children are a perverse and wicked generation who do not know Me, and they are an abomination to Me, saith the Lord. But I am doing a mighty work in you, My people, for I have called you to build Me an acceptable church, and I have gathered you together to be made the manifest wisdom of God in the earth, filled with the Spirit of My Son. And I am pleased with My work here, and it will continue to increase as I show you how to add to your faith all My Word says you should as godly, holy children. And now I can bring My children to you, because you are wise and are filled with My Spirit. So many shall be born in this place of the same Spirit that I’ve given you, because I will have godly offspring and I am bringing them forth even now. But those who were impatient and only looked for the increase in numbers and not the increase in Spirituality, I did away with those people for they did not know My purposes or care for My plans. But for you who stayed and let Me work in you the good pleasure of My will, you are now beginning to see the godly increase – My increase that comes from My Spirit. And you will see many coming forth here for truly I am their Father, and the church is their Mother. And I say to you, exhort one another and admonish one another in all wisdom and be diligent to put on the doing of those things I am showing you in My Word. Thus you shall truly be seen as My bride, and our children shall follow us and all will be glorified. I have made you an example to many in the earth today who because of you will take a good look at themselves and see that their fruit is ungodly, unholy and not acceptable to Me. I will cause many to repent and acknowledge their wickedness and to see their harlotries; and I will cause them to bow down and come to you. They will come to the Glory of His Grace and they will see My Wisdom here, to bring forth godly churches, and they will learn to build on a right foundation, from Christ up, just as you have. And they will repent and become a part of My true church in the earth. So rejoice for it is an awesome work I have given you and it is to My Glory and it is for the perfecting of My church that I might come back for her soon, thus saith the Lord. Prophecy: Truly, I say to you, I have seen the motivations of your heart. For when I called, you saw yourself small in your own eyes and have continued in that way until this day. I have seen you are not content to have a mere knowledge of Me, but you cried out from your heart and you asked for more. You were not content to have several revelations from the Spirit, but you cried out and humbled yourself before Me and asked for greater. I have seen, My people, that you have not sought My Word that you may be exalted in the eyes of those around you. But I have seen you truly come to Me in humility and as I have poured out My grace and My light upon you I have seen you bow your knee to all that I have given you. You have bowed your knee to My light, you have bowed your knee to My Spirit and to My Word. And because you have done so, My people, My light has been poured out upon you and is great here and I can dwell in your midst as your Lord. My revival has begun in this place. For you have humbled yourself and I have given you My grace to walk in all of My ways; and you have done so. Now I say to you that the revival I have given you has not only been to straighten out your own life and to get your relationship right with Me, but it has been to rebuild the ruins My church. For Christianity, as it is seen in the world today, has been ruined and defiled. But here My work and revival has begun and it is an awesome work that I do in you, My people. And through you I shall bring revival to the world and many shall turn away from their doctrines of demons. Many shall turn away from their darkness, and I will cause My grace and My light to shine upon them; and many will come into a right relationship with me and I will bring in the elect who will help in the building of My temple. For I have raised you up to be an example in this day of My church, which is the pillar and ground of the truth. And all will see you as My church. For as I exalted Joshua in his days in the eyes of Israel, so I am exalting you in this day in the eyes of those around you. And many shall see My glory, saith the Lord; many shall see My power; many shall see My holiness; many shall see My people who are obedient. For you have not just believed in Me, for I say, even the demons believe and tremble but they have not bowed the knee or submitted themselves unto My Word. But I have called you and you have bowed the knee to Me. And I am making a difference between My true church and what calls itself My church but is not. And you are a glory to Me. I tell you My people, I rejoice over you that you have bowed the knee to My Spirit. And I will bring many to this place where My Word dwells and My Spirit is free. And I will cause you to be beautiful in the sight of My elect, and My children will come with rejoicing and gladness in their hearts and know truly they have found Me and they have found My church, the place where salvation and deliverance reigns, thus saith the Lord.
Prophecy: I tell you that those who seek for a church nearby, who follow their self interests in finding a church; because of their selfish motivations they are easily seduced by the harlot and her flattering words. But My people, My elect, My chosen ones are those who when they find the fountain of life they remain where that fountain is. They drink out of their own rivers and they do not seek to find wells somewhere else, because they know where the life is. And that has been you, My people. You have found the fountain of life and you drink of it daily, and you are not seduced by flattery nor by the things of this world. Now saith the Lord, I am increasingly adorning you with testimonies of My power working through you and in you. And even now I adorn you with My righteous acts, and that will cause many who are searching for My real church to be enraptured by the love they find in you. And the things that go on here at “My Father’s House,” the daily exhortations, teachings, admonishments, and the provoking one another to love and good works, I say to you, that these are the very things that distinguish you in the eyes of all and above all others that you are truly My church. Now I tell you I am bringing forth children who will say one to another, “Let us go to ‘My Father’s House’ that God may teach us His ways.” And as I bring them in and they see the rich adornment I have adorned you with, they will be enraptured by the love that is in you. And they will not seek to find fountains elsewhere, but they will joyfully drink of yours, saith the Lord. Get Wisdom! My Wisdom is found In the Glory of His Grace. This Wisdom you must possess In order to run a good race.
If daily I was beside Him As a wise Master craftsman, Then how much more do you need Me To build your tower, and make it to heaven?
My Wisdom says, “Sow to Righteousness.” It’s pathway leads to life. Keep your old man crucified; The only way to live is Christ!
Seek the Christ who lives in you, Your source of all that is Wise. Wisdom says, “Pride will kill you,” But the humble, I will not despise.
Can your brethren follow your example And take note of your godly walk? Do they have you for a pattern Or are you just filled with foolish talk?
Be an example to your brothers and sisters In your words, in conduct and Love. Everything done in the meekness of wisdom Receives My Blessings from above.
Press on My Beloved Brethren Knowing your labor is not in vain, Always abounding in the work of the Lord. And get Wisdom! It’s the principle thing!
Happy is the man who finds Wisdom. Her gain is far better than gold. This path of the Just will shine Brighter; Until the face of our Lord we behold!
Father in heaven, we give You thanks For the Wisdom that’s found in Christ, To keep us from the immoral woman; And preserve us unto Everlasting Life!!
(A poem delivered at My Father’s House by Kim Kitchen)
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