SMOOTH STONES

Do you have some smooth stones? What are you doing with them? I suggest that you not cast them at a brother or sister in Christ or anyone else because the giants you think you are slaying are not human, they are spirits that use humans; even righteous ones from time to time. Remember Peter and what Jesus said to him, "...you know not what spirit you are speaking from..."

                Cursing and blessing should not be coming from the same mouth. James 3:10.

                We should not be talking about the weaknesses of our brethren but building them up through prayer and supplication, through interceding for them when we see error. And yet, first look at yourself because I have found that many times the very weakness I see in others I possess myself. Get the plank out of your own eye first. And if you need to forgive the person for something said out of weakness then do so quickly. Ask that the Lord to reveal the truth of the light within them.

                If they are in Christ they have been deemed for all time and beyond forgiven by God and justified by God himself, so who are we to pass any judgment on them? Their walk may not be perfect in your eyes but they are the righteousness of God in Christ.

                If we are truly dead to the flesh in Christ how is it that we see others in the flesh? Paul's exhortation in 2 Corinthians 5:16 was, "...we from the now regard none according to flesh...". Did you see the word "none"? My bet is he meant none, no one.

Set you mine on things above, not on things that are on the earth - Col 3:2 - directing the mind to seek for things above

For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God - Col 3:3 - to conceal, to be laid up

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages
has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ - Eph 3:9

the message I proclaim about Jesus Christ, in keeping with the revelation
of the mystery hidden for long ... Now all glory to God, who is able to - Rms 16:25

God has hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge within Christ. - Col 2:3 - hidden away, secret, stored up

Yet for us there is but one God, the Father, out of (literally out of the source and extending to its impact on the object) whom the all (implied all things) and also we into (literally motion into which, implies penetration)  Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through (literally successfully across to the other side) whom the all and (also) we through (literally successfully across to the other side) Him. - 1 Cor 8:6

It would be well for all Christians to fully soak into 1 Corinthians 1:29-30 wherein Paul states that the flesh has no boast before God because out of Him (God) you exist within Christ Jesus who has come into us being wisdom from God, righteousness both also sanctification also redemption...

SIMPLY ACCEPT

Do you when your body is sick or injured in some way not do everything you know to do to get well or repaired? Why then would you give a second thought that the Lord of Creation will not do the same for His body? The good news is that it is done and awaits your acceptance. Not the acceptance of a "thing" but the acceptance of the Son for it pleased the Father that all the fullness of the Godhead dwell within Him (the Son) in bodily form - that is us, His body which is complete in Him (Colossians 2:6-10).        

                The name Jesus (Yeshua in Hebrew) means God is salvation/deliverance. He was sent by the Father to bring to those who were estranged from the Father of all back to their origin, their roots, their genesis. The Spirit was sent to restore, to effectuate, to establish the Father's sons and daughters back to the place and position where they belong - the Kingdom of God. For we were not born out of blood, not out of the will of the flesh, not out of the will of man but out of God (Elohim) the Creator.

                The Spirit is given so we can come to know who we were in beginnings. The literal Greek of John 3:16 says," All who believe into Him will not be destroyed but posses life eternal." We are one with Him by the Father's doing - (1 Corinthians 1:30).  The Father's doing was completed before the foundation of the world. Eph 4:4-6 sums it all up by saying there is one body, one spirit, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is upon all and in accord with all is within all.

                So now simply accept who you truly are and allow the self to be removed from the fleshly mind-set and be renewed in your thinking to the new and living way which has been given you out of God's unconditional love which is through Christ within you the hope of glorious eternal life.