The Father will never cut the True Branch:

God does not prune the branches that are the real you. He prunes that thorns and thistle of law and condemnation. “The every branch the does not produce” is not you but the illusion of your own judgment outside of Him aka law and condemnation which is dead.

Here is the exhortation:

You are God’s vineyard, and He waters you moment by moment. Don’t look to the fruit, rather look to the vine lil branch, that the fruit you produce will be His. In doing this, God will purge you all of all the illusionary thorns and thistles of law and condemnation; these are branches He cuts they are not you. His fire (pruning power) is in your sap, and this is in the Vine. <abide></abide>

Here is the scriptures and my comments and notes within them:

John 15:2 Every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;

John 15:1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.

John 15:3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

John 15:6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.

Romans 11:17 If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root,

Romans 11:22 Consider therefore the kindness (God’s kind you are in Christ) and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness (God’s kind you are in Christ, the Spirit of the Lord). Otherwise, you (the you who is not you, the body of sin) also will be cut off.

Matthew 3:10 The ax (The son of David is the Ax) is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. This is not you this is “the you” (false you) temporal you that you think you are. This is not the you who is the One Spirit with the Lord.

1Co 3:13-15  Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.  If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

What is the fire?  Fire is the Word of God – who is the testimony of Jesus.

The fire cleanses but does not destroy you according to the Apostle Paul. It cleanses you of your work that the Work of the True Every Man (Christ Jesus) remains untouched and whole!!!

Jeremiah 23:28 Let the prophet who has a dream tell his dream, but let the one who has my word speak it faithfully. For what has straw to do with grain?” declares the LORD.

In Jeremiah He calls man’s dream, (his soulish reality) the straw.  The Seed who is Christ is the grain.  So the grain is really the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Thoughts of inspiration related to the topic:

The first mankind entered a dream state and got a woman out of a his side. (God never wakes that mankind)  I think that a side (rib) out of him, became drawn out to what was outside of Him.

Abraham entered a dream state when God made covenant with him and God swore by Himself. God swore to the Seed who is Christ and the Promise was sure. The soul man Abraham was tranced.

Paul tells us to awake (come out of sleep) to righteousness, and Sin not.  He says this sleep has something to do with not knowing God, or who God is.

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Let me know what you get out of this. I’m curious and want to hear what Christ is saying to you about this.

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James and the Giant Law. – Believe me it’s no peach!!

James the brother of the Lord was the one who lead the apostasy of the Pentecostal believers. He insisted on circumcision and law keeping. He did this in zeal for the Lord, but not in accord with truth. I find it interesting that the flesh and blood brother of our Lord, became the greatest opposition to the present message of justification and conciliation to which Paul was severed. It just goes to show you that flesh and blood buys you nothing, in relation to Christ Jesus. Seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear rings true in this matter.

You know James had faith in Christ Jesus just not in accord with true understanding, but in accord with the law. The law blinded him to the greater revelation of Intention of God.

I see that context of the NT shows us that the law really cripples those whom were under it, because of the thought patterns it’s practice produces. In the minds and culture of Israel it was their righteousness, when in fact it was their accuser, because of the body of Sin. Thank God that Jesus kills the debt to the law, even though many of His own miss the true stature of His work on their behalf.

Jesus said that men love darkness, and some of the greatest darkness that exists is thinking that man’s works and obedience, no matter how good, makes them righteous and deserving of blessing. Christendom for the most apart today has that same mistaken idea, and thus it tends to be more fleshy, than dare I say in many cases, more fleshy than the non-christian world.

In the reasoning of man’s heart it seem that to do good, to get good, is a hard obstacle to get over. It seems many who profess themselves to be believers in the Lord, have in a way denied the true matter of Salvation; it being by the work of God in Jesus Christ. In their idea of righteousness by works, they have trodden underfoot the very center of the matter. They neglect the fact that if works could save us or keep us then God gave us His Son in vain.  But those who have the Truth know better.  They understand that only God does the complete work of Salvation, and this not out of us, but by grace through the faith of Jesus Christ.  This is the true salvation, and it is not by our flesh and blood, but by the death of it in finished works of Jesus Christ our Lord.

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HIM Grace and Truth 03-15-11 The Ideal Fruit Part 01

“Or what man is there among you, from whom his son will be requesting bread‐no stone will he be handing him!”

The bread is Christ Jesus and His finished works, and the stone it the law

“Or he will be requesting a fish also‐no serpent will he be handing him!”

The fish (symbol of active life) is again the Christ Jesus and the serpent is the knowledge of Good and evil.

Matthew 7:7-23

“Request and it shall be given you. Seek and you shall find. Knock and it shall be opened to you. 8 For everyone who is requesting is obtaining, and who is seeking is finding, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened. 9 “Or what man is there among you, from whom his son will be requesting bread‐no stone will he be handing him! 10 Or he will be requesting a fish also‐no serpent will he be handing him! 11 “If you, then, being wicked, have perceived how to be giving good gifts to your children, how much rather shall your Father Who is in the heavens be giving good things to those requesting Him? 12 All, then, whatever you should be wanting that men should be doing to you, thus you, also, be doing to them, for this is the law and the prophets. 13 “Enter through the cramped gate, for broad is the gate and spacious is the way which is leading away into destruction, and many are those entering through it. 14 Yet what a cramped gate and narrowed way is the one leading away into life, and few are those who are finding it. 15 “Take heed of those false prophets who are coming to you in the apparel of sheep, yet inside they are rapacious wolves. 16 “From their fruits you shall be recognizing them. Not from thorns are they culling grapes, nor from star thistles figs. 17 Thus every good tree ideal fruit is producing, yet the rotten tree noxious fruit is producing. 18 A good tree can not bear noxious fruit, neither is a rotten tree producing ideal fruit. 19 Every tree not producing ideal fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire. 20 Consequently, from their fruits you shall surely be recognizing them. 21 “Not everyone saying to Me ‘Lord! Lord!’ will be entering into the kingdom of the heavens, but he who is doing the will of My Father Who is in the heavens. 22 Many will be declaring to Me in that day, ‘Lord! Lord! Was it not in Your name that we prophesy, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name do many powerful deeds?’ 23 And then shall I be avowing to them that ‘I never knew you! Depart from Me, workers oflawlessness!’

Forgiven??? Why, when we have been Justified?

Why would anyone ever want to be forgiven, which means to be found guilty of the crime and then pardoned. When they could have instead justification, which means you are declared not guilty, no crime committed. When the meaning of biblical words are confused, or they are considered equal with each other, the glorious gospel truths are made a mystery to the masses.

 

This crime is further perpetrated in the words belief and faith. Belief is not faith, and faith is not belief. Faith is the gift of God. It is seeing Christ Jesus and the finished works, and you and him finished and made whole. Faith is the byproduct of the word of God, and the byproduct of faith is belief.

 

When one understands the original intention that was spoken by Elohim in the very beginning (The Logos), they have been given faith. When faith comes into one’s soul, the conception of belief is made. Belief is the response to faith. Belief and faith are not the same thing.

 

Let’s look at another Christian word receive and the false concepts that surround it.  Many believe that when they receive faith and salvation it is about work out of their own-selves. In other words, THEY out of their own choice receive. This is not only prideful, but it is a very devious error.

 

Let me give you an example. I can receive something without choice. Let’s take the organs of my body, did I choose to receive my heart and lungs? No, I received them without a choice.  Some would have us believe that we need to receive Jesus by our choice in order for salvation to be effective. This is not true. Salvation is effective because we receive Jesus Christ as a gift of God, just like our organs are a gift of God.

 

As long as these errors are prevalent within the body, many will falsely believe that they have to obtain their own salvation. When salvation was obtained by Jesus Christ’s faith in the righteousness of his father. It is in this faith that we are contained, and have our salvation. It is in Jesus Christ’s that we give glory to God, and make no effect the self-righteousness of the Christian religion‘s idea of self salvation for Jesus Christ is the author – which means originator, and the finisher – which means the one who completed, our faith.

 

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The Scripture:

“Yet now, apart from law, a righteousness of God is manifest (being attested by the law and the prophets),  yet a righteousness of God through Jesus Christ’s faith, for all, and on all who are believing, for there is no distinction,  for all sinned and are wanting of the glory of God. 24 Being justified gratuitously in His grace, through the deliverance which is in Christ Jesus” Roman 3:21-23

“Now to the worker, the wage is not reckoned as a favor, but as a debt.  Yet to him who is not working, yet is believing on Him Who is justifying the irreverent, his faith is reckoned for righteousness.” Romans 4:5

For if Abraham was justified by his acts, he has something to boast in, but not toward God. For what is the Scripture saying? `Now Abraham believes God and it is reckoned to him for righteousness’” (Rom.4:2,3).

“Now the Scriptures perceiving before that God is justifying the nations by faith, preached an evangel to Abraham before, that `In you shall all the nations be blessed.’ So that those of faith are being blessed together with believing Abraham” (Gal.3:8,9).

“Being justified gratuitously by His grace, through the deliverance which is in Christ Jesus (Whom God purposed for a Propitiatory, through faith in His blood, for a display of His righteousness because of the passing over of the penalty of sins which occurred before in the forbearance of God) toward the display of His righteousness in the Current era, for Him to be just and the Justifier of the one who is of the faith of Jesus” (Rom.3:24-26).

“Being, then, justified by faith, we may be having peace with God through our Lord, Jesus Christ, through Whom we have had the access, also, in faith, into this grace in which we stand, and may be glorying in expectation of the glory of God” (Rom.5:1,2).

 

Therefore it is of faith that it may accord with grace, for the promise to be confirmed to the entire seed, not to those of the law only, but to those also of the faith of Abraham, who is father of us all, 17 according as it is written that, A father of many nations have I appointed you ‐‐ facing which, he believes it of the God Who is vivifying the dead and calling what is not as if it were ‐‐ Romans 4:16-17

“One knowing no sin, He makes sin for our sakes that we should be becoming God’s righteousness in Him” (2 Cor.5:21)

“Now the just by faith shall live” (Rom.1:17)