…tonight on the woman with the alabaster box. As you can see from the table I created for you, we will be looking at the corresponding passages in Matthew 26:6-9, Mark 14:3-5, Luke 7:37-39 and John 12:1-8. We will also be looking at the Scriptures leading up to this account and the Scriptures following this account in an attempt to integrate all 4 accounts and find out what the message really is here. At the very least, we would like to discover who the Mary is.

We see the woman that broke the alabaster box, her name appears in the book of John, as you can see from the chart. I have not finished all of the research yet, but I believe at this point that the woman was Mary Magdalene. In any event, the section I have completed my studies on which we will be teaching on tonight is in Luke.

The account begins in chapter 7, verse 37 but we will be examining the preceding Scriptures, the introductory Scriptures beginning in verse 19. I am not going to comment much on the chart because we are really not going to be doing a comparison tonight. We are just going to be doing a study in Luke 7. Before I leave, we will study each of these accounts, the Scriptures leading up to them, the Scriptures following them and we will integrate all accounts and come up with some interesting conclusions.

Let us start in Luke 7:19-28. I categorise the verses. These are the introductory verses, the verses that lead up to the account of the woman with the alabaster box.

 

19 And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to Jesus, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?

20 When the men were come unto him, they said, John Baptist hath sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?

21 And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight.

22 Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.

23 And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.

24 And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John… KJV

 

We are going to do a study, actually we are going to do an alternate translation of these passages of Jesus referring to John, saying, what were you looking for, a reed shaken in the wind? You are going to be very surprised as to what Jesus is really saying. But first I would like to make this comment, that Jesus never answered their question (inaudible…)

The reason for that is that everybody has to find their own answer.

I can tell you anything I want to tell you. You shouldn’t believe me. You should listen to and ask your personal saviour as to whether or not I’ve spoken the truth to you. … if you want to move on into the kingdom of God. If you believe only what a man says, you will wind up expressing idolatry which is sin.

You will surely be snared if you put your faith, your hope and trust in a man. You can have an opinion that the Lord has brought forth a man who He is teaching through, then you can trust to a degree. You can trust to the degree that you listen and consider but you should get your final decision from your own personal saviour.

When you get your own witness from your personal saviour, no one will be able to take it away from you. If I tell you something and you believe me, tomorrow somebody else will tell you the opposite and you would not know who to believe and you would be confused. Confusion is not of God. We see if you listen with your carnal mind to two people you will be confused.

The teacher is the first witness, the second witness is the God that you know personally.  He speaks first in a language you can understand, the first witness is Christ in me. The second witness is the Father. We all have the same Father. So Jesus said, I do not witness to myself, the Father witnesses to me. The God that you have a relationship with will tell you whether or not I speak the truth if you truly desire to know, He will tell you.

This is what Jesus said to the people. The Scriptures say He said it to the people. This is verse 24:

 

What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

 25But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.

26 But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet.

27 This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

28 For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he. KJV

 

What on earth was Jesus talking about? I want to suggest to you something that you have probably never heard before. I want to suggest that the people were angry at John the Baptist. John the Baptist was exposing sin and the people were upset. When  sin is exposed under the anointing, the person who has persevered in his mind intellectually to not be angry because they have a revelation that we cannot enter into the kingdom without our sin nature being exposed, there has to be an exchange between our sin nature and the Christ nature, we cannot enter into the kingdom with this … garment, am not talking about the physical body, I am talking about the carnal mind. The mind is the garment that clothes the spirit. We cannot enter into the kingdom of God clothed in our carnal mind.

So we need a new mind. Jesus clearly said we need a new wineskin. The name of that new mind is the mind of Christ. Now we have two minds. James said we are a double minded man. Double minded means the two minds, they war against each other. The mind that the personality agrees with is the mind that prevails over the man.

That is why we as personalities, or souls, (the mortal soul is the personality, the immortal soul is the spirit), must be educated so that we can be exercised to distinguish between good and evil, between the mind of Christ and the carnal mind. If we do not know first of all, that there are two minds and second of all that we have to choose (and the one that we choose is the mind that we marry) and we do not think about it, we default to the carnal mind.

That is why the Lord sends preachers to educate the souls, the personalities because it is our soul, our personality that is being saved. The end of this whole process is the salvation of our soul, if we do not faint. In order for our soul to be truly saved, it means we will not die anymore. It is not saved … (inaudible).

I want to suggest that a lot of people were angry at John the Baptist. I do not think it is controversial to say that John was revealing sin. We hear how he talked to the Pharisees… so John was judging sin. My whole point is, no matter how intellectually defensed you are, and prepared to have your sins revealed because you heard this message and you believe it; you heard the message of the Christ mind and the carnal mind, you heard that you have to distinguish between the two, you heard that you have to choose and you choose intellectually, you say I choose Christ; but when that Spirit of Christ comes and reveals sin in you, you have a knee jerk reaction that transcends our intellectual commitment to saying thank you.

I have had people say that to me, thank you for exposing my sin, and they walk around in their pharisitical attitude for as long as they can hold it down and they explode, because we cannot control it. We should not want to control it. We should only want to control it to the extent that we express it in a Godly manner. 

We are all adults here. We experience all kinds of passions; we cannot just do anything that we want. We should try to channel it and try to disseminate it through a channel that is acceptable to God. But to repress it and to say I am not feeling it, you are headed for an explosion.

I want to suggest to you that people were mad at John. That is the reason Jesus said to them, what did you think that you were going to find out there? You wanted spiritual ascension, you were pursuing a spiritual life, did you think you were going to find some soft speaking person? I cannot tell you how many people have said that to me when I reveal sin.

Christ does not sound like that, that is not Christ, He will not talk strongly to somebody, He will never tell them they did something wrong, love covers a multitude of sins. Do not talk, do not tell anybody, hide, do not communicate. That is what they were saying to John, you cannot be of God. I do not believe you are of God and I am not going to take your baptism either.

We are going to do an alternate translation of those words and I hope to convince you that am just giving you a true understanding of those Scriptures because the truth will set us free. I am a deeply spiritual person and I was not raised in the Church. When I first came to the Lord, I could not be content with the New Testament. I read it a few times but the way I can describe my reaction to it was that it was just too weak for me.

I was continuously in the Old Testament, in the prophets, to me that was really rich meat. A lot of people, in the early years of my ministry, complained. They wanted more instruction from the New Testament. I told them, I have not really studied it but God directed me to the old testament, the Old Testament, the Old Testament and the Lord brought forth the Doctrine of Christ.

Now, He is bringing me, after all this time, 28 years, He is bringing me into the New Testament but with the truth of the New Testament. I am so excited at this translation; I could barely sit still and get my notes done today. I won’t keep you waiting; this is what He was saying. I will just read you my comments first. It appears that the people who Jesus was speaking to began to reject the Ministry of John (i.e., water baptism), when Jesus acknowledged that He was the One to come. When Jesus said, I am the One to come, the people did not want to deal with John.

I do not know if it has reached here yet, but there are people in Long Island NY and other states in the U.S. preaching that you do not have to be water baptized anymore. I disagree with that teaching. I believe that water baptism is a physical act, it is not a spiritual act, but it is an act of submission, it is an act of faith, it is an act of commitment. It is something that a new Christian can do. What can a new Christian do to say to God, look, I want to do everything I can, I want to express some act of faith so that you know that I am serious. The book says, get water baptized, what is the big deal?

They are preaching in the U.S that you shouldn’t do it but I think you should do it. I think it is a covenant just like Jehovah spoke to the Hebrew children in the book of Exodus. I am going to make a covenant between me and Israel and the covenant is not going into effect until the men of Israel say, we will keep the covenant. It is right there in the book of Exodus. Each man had to say for himself, we will enter into this covenant with Jehovah.

It was just a verbal commitment. I’m saying, get water baptized, that is your commitment to the Lord, if that is all you can do at that stage in the game. When you do that, when you submit to that act of obedience to His Lordship, you have every right to expect the Lord to give you everything He has. It is the beginning of a spiritual marriage. You pool your resources. You get water baptized and He gives you everything that He has, everything He has that you need. It is a good deal! A good deal!

Jesus' correction/rebuke addresses two forms of that criticism that were coming forth from the people to John. The first criticism was that John was too strong. He was telling them off. He was calling them names. He was embarrassing them in front off all the people. He should have taken them to a corner somewhere and not let anybody hear the correction. He should have been concerned about their feelings. He was too strong. This was Jesus’ response.

 

2^nd part of Luke 7:24:

What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

 

This is the work-up of my alternate translation. Just in case you do not know how I study: I study the Interlinear text, I look up the Strong’s definition of each word. Just like in the English dictionary, there are multiple translations and multiple definitions of each word. I break down the verse into all the possibilities and the Spirit of Revelation tells me, what He is really saying there.

The words in brackets are amplified, the words in parenthesis are the words used in the King James translation.

 

You went into the [spiritual] wilderness looking for (see=Strong’s 2300)…

This Greek word translated looking is Strong’s 2300. It is a different Greek word to the word look in the following verses.

 

You went into the [spiritual] wilderness looking for (see=Strong’s 2300) Elohim (what=Elohim),…

 

Elohim is a translation of the Greek word translated what. This is a kabbalistic principle. It is one of the first things that the Lord showed me when I first started studying kabbalah. He showed me that there are many mysteries, in secret in the Scriptures. That the spiritual understanding of the Scriptures is hidden. It is only for the initiated. Why is that? Because the average person will take it and kill it or hurt somebody with it.

They can either get hurt with it or hurt somebody else with it. It is not that it is a mystery that everybody is locked out. The mysteries of the Scriptures are for everybody who is willing to go through the process of preparation, be willing to study the Scriptures, to submit yourself to God, be willing to confess your sins to God and repent and change. The Lord needs you. As you purify your soul, He will bring you to a place where you can understand the mysteries and not get hurt by them and not go out and hurt other people either.

This is one of the mysteries that the kabbalists of old have discovered. One of the hidden ways of referring to Elohim in the Scriptures, is by the word what, e.g. what is this? That is the word that refers to the manna in the wilderness. The Hebrew children said, what is this? It was Elohim who fed them in the wilderness. The word what who fed them. The secret word which expresses the name of Jehovah is who e.g. who is this? Who is this God that does all of these? You have to pray about this.  Hopefully, the Lord will witness to you that it is a legitimate interpretation of the Scripture at this level. If you do not want to believe that, it is ok but that is how I am translating this verse.

 

You went into the [spiritual] wilderness…

 

This means you started investigating spiritual things and you started ascending spiritually. When you pursue spiritual studies, you begin to ascend spiritually. That is how you go into spiritual heights, with your mind.

Actually, let me first read you the finished alternate translation. I interspersed the second half of Luke 7:24 and verse 25.

 

You went into the spiritual wilderness looking for Elohim, but on the contrary, John, Elohim’s engraving pen in the underworld revealed your sin nature which agitated your spirit and incited you to be angry with him. But what did you expect to find? Did you expect to find Adam (and that is the regenerated Adam) clothed in an effeminate personality? (Yes, that is what they were expecting.)

 

Look, and understand, the mortal personality is effeminate in relation to God. (We are female in relation to God.) But the effeminate personality becomes very strong when Elohim spiritual nobility enclothes it.

That is what Jesus was saying to them. Why are you mad with John for being strong? That is the sign that Christ is in him. Do you not  want someone who is bold? Maybe you do not like it because he is revealing your sin right now but in a spiritual crisis, do you not want your leader to be bold? Do you want a weak, wishy washy leader who is afraid to confront you if something is wrong or tell you that you have to leave or either shape up or ship out. Then you have the choice to shape up or not.

 

We’ll go over a word at a time and I will try and show you how I got that.

 

You went into the [spiritual] wilderness looking for (see=Strong’s 2300) Elohim (what=Elohim), [and John, Elohim’s engraving] pen (reed)…

 

Where did I get that from? The Greek word translated reed can be translated pen. There is another Scripture where it is translated pen, that very same Greek word. It is in 3 John 13.

 

3 John 13

 

13 I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen [Strong’s 2563] write unto thee: KJV

 

That Greek word translated pen is Strong’s #2563 which is the same Greek word translated reed. What are you talking about? Elohim’s engraving pen? See Ezekiel chapter 9, the writer’s inkhorn. We will go over that later.

 

You went into the spiritual wilderness looking for Elohim, (you wanted to become spiritual, you wanted God, and what did you find?) [and John, Elohim’s engraving] pen in the under[world]…

 

Anyone who judges sin for Christ is a writer’s inkhorn, that is what it is saying. We are engraving the nature of Christ on your soul. That is what John’s job was, not just to expose your sin to humiliate you or condemn you or hurt you. But to expose it so that you will have the opportunity to change, that is the whole point of it.

You will find that I repeat myself a lot because I repeat myself till I get a release in my spirit that I’ve made God’s point and that you have got it. Maybe you have got it but there may be one person who did not get it. If there’s anything you didn’t get, give it to the Lord.

We have a group of people, a group of Jews, that wanted to be spiritual. It is true of the Church today, everybody wants to be spiritual, not many want to volunteer for the help to the Church. Everybody wants to prophesy and do spiritual things, be a prophet or an apostle. Is there anything wrong with that? No. But it is immature because the way we start is by our own discipline and commitment. Brethren, you can be the most spiritual person in the world, if you do not have the discipline to focus that spirituality and direct it in a way that God has shown you, it is worthless and the chances of you getting into witchcraft are very great.

Just like everything else in life, you have to harness it, you have to get a revelation of what God wants you to do with it and what God does not want you to do with it. We have to sit on it until you get trained, that is how you learn patience. You will have spiritual experiences when the Lord says you are ready. If you go before the Lord, you are going to get burned. Is that the end of your life? No, but you can go the easy way or the hard way. We all make mistakes. I’ve made a lot of mistakes.

 

This is the alternate translation of the 2^nd half of Luke 7:24:

 

You went into the spiritual wilderness looking for Elohim (you wanted to become spiritual) and John, Elohim’s engraving pen in the underworld agitated your spirit.

 

You did not get what you thought you were looking for because you had an idea in your mind of what the spiritual life was like and you found out that it wasn’t like that at all. You found out that the spiritual life in Christ Jesus is extremely difficult and required a lot of maturity. It is very rewarding, to whatever degree I’m experiencing it, I love it but it must be accompanied by discipline and an intense commitment to the Lord.

If you say to me, Pastor Vitale, what is the most important thing you have learned, I would say it is wait and do not move until Jesus says move. I’m seeing this phase of our spiritual life likened to horses that are part of the cavalry. They are trained to not do anything, when guns are shot off or canons are shot, they just stand there, they will not move until their rider tells them to go. Just like soldiers.

What am thinking about now, is a movie with a whole line of cavalry and the Indians are charging at them, and the commander is standing with his sword raised, meaning not yet, do not shoot yet, do not waste your bullets and these soldiers had to stand there and wait for these Indians to be almost in their face. Then the General said, Now, dropped his sword, then the horses took off and the guns started to shoot. That is what it’s like in the spiritual plane. You can only do it if the commanding officer who is Jesus says Go!

You have to learn to control your emotions because Satan controls us in two ways; she either controls us with pleasure or she controls us with pain. The pain is pride, hurt feelings. I’ve been in situations where the Lord put me where my feelings have been hurt, I wanted to run. I have to tell you, I didn’t want to be in that place. But…(unclear)  no matter what kind of pain I am in… and as sure as I am sitting here right now, that assignment that the Lord wanted me to fulfill, that word that the Lord wanted me to say to that one person, whatever it was for that time, because this has happened to me many times, it came, I dropped my word and I went home.

It takes strength. You could think of it intellectually and say that sounds great, I could do that. But what you need to understand is that we have knee jerk reactions. Our Christ mind has to deal with our emotions. The emotions are like the horse, we have to bring them into submission to the intellect of the mind of Christ. That only comes with experience. Before you have the experience, you have to hear about it. If you do not know hear about it and the experience comes your way, you will not know what to do with it and the value of the experience will be lost.

 

Alternate Translation Luke 7:24

 

You went into the spiritual wilderness looking for Elohim and you did not get what you were looking for. What happened to you was that John, Elohim’s engraving pen in the underworld agitated your spirit.

 

You thought it was going to be fun and you wound up…Is that not the Church? (Inaudible…)That if you have been hurt, you just find another Church. You cannot do that. You have to be in the Church that the Lord puts you no matter how uncomfortable you are. You have to stay where He puts you. And maybe we have to leave when we do not want to go.

 The day the Lord told me He was calling me out of the Church I was raised up in, I rebuked Satan for 6 months before I left, I could not believe, I could not believe it was God. I absolutely refused to believe it was God. Then I had an unhappy experience which forced me out because I could not discern between my carnal mind and my Lord and Savior in the midst of me, I could not tell the difference.

My emotions sat in the temple of God, up here in my head, she told me, that she was God and I believed her. I obeyed my carnal mind instead of my Lord and Savior because I could not tell the difference. The reason I could not tell the difference is that the experience of my carnal mind told me that this could not possibly be happening, but it was happening. It is funny.

 Before we start reading Ezekiel 9, this is my comment. The slaughter weapon talked about in Ezekiel 9 is Jehovah’s righteous sowing and reaping judgment sometimes called Jehovah’s wrath. The wrath of God is righteous. There is a spiritual law that Jehovah set in the universe. It is as real as the physical law that says if you jump out of a six-storey building, your bones will probably break and you are probably going to die. That spiritual law says, whatever a man soweth, so shall he reap. Be not deceived, God is not mocked, every sin shall have its just recompense.

That is Jehovah’s wrath, it is righteous. Satan is not after you. Well, Satan is after you to the extent that Satan is the enforcer of Jehovah’s righteous sowing and reaping judgment. She is the police. The problem with the Church is that they cannot figure out that they are the criminals. We are the criminals; I am not excluding myself from this. This is a big problem with the Church today, they cannot figure out that this is hell and we are the criminals.  

In this account, the slaughter weapon is Jehovah’s wrath, the sowing and reaping judgment, which is unto destruction. The inkhorn represents the white throne judgment, that is Christ Jesus, the mercy of God. The white throne judgment interferes with Jehovah’s sowing and reaping judgment. The sowing and reaping judgment is unto destruction, it does not tell you what you did wrong it just comes and gives you the cancer, or a heart attack, or has an armed robber stab you in the back. No chance to get out of it, no explanation, no understanding.

Brethren, this whole world, Paul said, is a stage. This whole world is an effect. There are spiritual causes for everything that happens in this world. If your pride was to go up and you say, I could not possibly be involved in the cause at all, of all the bad things that are happening to me, then there is no help for you.

Evaluate your life, any thing that you see in your life, that you do not want or that you consider unhappy, this is what I did. I was dying when I came to the Lord. I read Deuteronomy 28; I saw every curse in that book was on my life, every curse in that book was on my life. I started to die when I was 12 years old, I believe it was the sin of the fathers.  I do not know what a 12 year old child could have done to deserve the illness that I had so it had to be family line curses.

I read that book, I think at least once a month and I said, Lord, somebody on my family line had to do something because that is me in the book! That is what I did, I just kept on doing it that and somewhere along the line, I got healed and I am doing pretty well today. I’ve been healed from premature death and am leading a normal life. I had three curses of death broken on me and I had a lot of demons cast out of me and I survived. (Inaudible)…  

The white throne judgment is the mercy of God. Jesus comes or someone that has His nature, not necessarily a 100% of the time, but somebody that is manifesting Christ Jesus, someone that has some anointing, some knowledge and is in submission to the Spirit of God, will come and tell you, you are sick and you are dying because it is a family line curse.

Maybe they will tell you something more personal, I see this aspect of your life (just to be obvious), I see you are in fornication, you cannot get healed when you are doing that. But, usually, the sins are much more subtle than that.

If you are leading a moral life, which most of us are, that are listening to a message like this, it is more likely to be an attitude. You know, there are so many manifestations of pride that are …(Inaudible) The scales of Leviathan (we read that in the book of Job 41), all those scales of Leviathan are the different ways that pride can manifest.

Pride is the spiritual foundation of fallen man. We know that the Scripture talks about a mortal foundation and an immortal foundation. Christ Jesus is the immortal foundation. If Christ Jesus was fully in place in us now, we would not die anymore. We are still a double-sided man and the immortal foundation in us has not yet matured to the point where it can sustain our physical life. As soon as it does, the mortal foundation will be done away with. We are in transition.

The white throne judgment comes and reveals the sin of that person and gives the person the opportunity to say, Lord, I did not know I did it or I did not know my ancestors did it or, (like me), I do not know how I got this way but please, I will confess anything, just help me, I do not want to die. The white throne judgment is the mercy of God because it gives you the opportunity to get right with God.

The person that decides to take the position that I am innocent, I answered an altar call and I am saved, then they die. Does everybody not know a Christian that died? The people that die in the Church, that get sick in the Church, it is the same percentage as the people in the world. That is not a very good testimony for the Church. That is because the Church feels that it has arrived and everybody else has not.

Paul clearly says, that there are some people who have the laws of God written on their hearts and therefore are even better than you are (I am not looking at anyone here). They are living in a manner which results in their reaping good things because they sow good things.

However, if you are subject to the sowing and reaping judgment, it is very difficult and the very best that you could do is live a great life and die. You still die because the end of the good and evil world which is this world, is death. When Jesus comes with the White Throne judgment, He not only gives you the opportunity to be delivered from the curses in your life, and to change if you are doing something wrong that you did not know was wrong, the end of the whole thing is that He wants to give you His nature. He wants to take that pen or that ink horn and engrave His nature on your soul so that you will never die again.

Brethren, the promise of the Scripture is immortality without sorrow, no more tears. I do not know about you but I never hear that preached. The foundation of the gospel is not whether you are going to heaven or hell! When you die, are you going to be in heaven or hell when you wake up? That is not what the Scriptures say!

The message of the Scriptures is immortality without sorrow, no more tears, every need met.

The inkhorn is the engraving tool for engraving the nature of Christ on your heart, but it hurts. Let us stop to think about it. If you get a physical operation done, does it not hurt? (To member of congregation) Are you pregnant? I am not going to lie to you. Is this your first baby? No. Ok so you know it hurts, right? But you have a baby in the morning, when it is all over. Nothing is easy. In the west, we have a saying, no pain, no gain.

This mentality that…(inaudible) and then we all die and everything is going to be good and wonderful, feeds into the culture of death that is all over the western world right now, I do not know very much about Nigeria. We have a culture of death that is spreading through the whole western world, even the Hollywood movies, you can just see the death in it.

The subliminal message for those that cannot pick it up is that death is good, do not fight it, let us not use the word death, use pass. He did not die, he passed and now he is on the other side, attending college and university and everything is wonderful. Not only that, but he comes back and talks to me.

For those that have eyes to see and ears to hear, the doctrines of the world are completely…(inaudible). Jesus said, I have much to tell you but you cannot bear it now. I challenge anyone in the Church to tell me what they are preaching today that is I cannot bear or that the world cannot bear, is it if you die and you do not receive Jesus, you are going to hell? No, that is not it.

We are going to go through Ezekiel 9. I thought I would save some time by just talking about it but I think it would be powerful to put it on the tape.

 

Ezekiel 9

Verse 1 He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.

 

Every one has the power to execute the sowing and reaping judgment. You know I said that Satan is the enforcer of the sowing and reaping judgment. Where is Satan? Where does she live? She lives in the unconscious part of the carnal minds of human beings. Every person that has ever been unkind to you or unfair to you, used you or abused you, that was Satan. The unconscious part of the person’s mind manifested through their conscious personality. It is the cruelty of Satan, God is not cruel.

The Church tells you there is the kindness of God, the cruelty of Satan and there is man. No, there is only two, there are not three. Every human being, with every thought that we think and every word that we say and every deed that we do, is either coming out of Christ or it is coming out of our carnal mind which is ruled over by Satan. Each individual human being is a soldier.

When you look at the deep translation of the Scriptures, we are described as the soldiers of Satan’s army every time we let her use our mouth or our hands or our emotions or our mind to (inaudible) Satan’s words to hurt somebody. Jesus clearly said, if you hate your brother, you have murdered him. You know all about that in Nigeria. (Inaudible)

 

Ezekiel 19 verse 2

2 And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.

 

That is interesting, with a writer's inkhorn by his side. Do you all think it was over here?  No, I think it was in His righteous side meaning the Christ mind. We have a righteous side and an unrighteous side. Kabbalah says righteous and unrighteous side, Doctrine of Christ says carnal mind and Christ mind.

 

Ezekiel 19 verse 3

3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side;

 

 

Brethren, that is Christ. Christ is the angel of God. The glory of God of Israel, Christ in you the hope of glory, arose from within the cherub, the cherub is Christ in you. Whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house, we are the house, the personality is the house, Christ in us is the cherub. And he called to the man clothed with linen, so the Christ in you is calling to your personality who is calling to the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. (Inaudible) Which had the writer's inkhorn by his side, so we see that the man clothed in linen is the man that is covered with the righteousness of Jesus Christ and is in his righteous side, of course, this is the King James translation, I have not looked at the interlinear text, but basically that is what it is saying. The man is clothed with the righteousness of Jesus Christ and he has the mind of Christ. (Inaudible)

 

Ezekiel 19 Verse 4

 

And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

 

 

Brethren, each one of us is a city. This is not talking about New York, it is not talking about Lagos. This is talking about your city, your physical body is the city for spiritual life. Go through the midst of the city, go into the middle of the person’s being, through the midst of Jerusalem, (inaudible) that is the mind of Christ, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

These are the men and women that are looking at the sins of the people, that are saying, that person if only they had listened to me, I am watching them go off into self destruction and I tried to tell them and they got mad at me, I am sighing and I am crying and I am saying Lord, help me to not think about it, there is nothing I can do about it.

These are the people that are going to have the mark of God engraved in their foreheads, the forehead represents the mind, they are going to have the nature of God in their minds, they are not going to have the nature of the serpent. It is either one or the other, there is nothing in the middle. What confuses everybody is that Satan is good and evil. You could be a good person by this world’s standards and have the mark of the serpent because the serpent is good and evil.

Brethren, the sign that you are righteous is that you do not die. Everybody is still dying that means something is wrong in the Church. We have not attained to (inaudible). To attain to (inaudible) is a process. Christ in you the hope of glory is (inaudible) but Christ in you is designed to totally control you because there is no law against love.

When the only thoughts that you think that come from you innermost being are the thoughts of Christ, and your motives are purely Christ, Satan loses all power to enforce the sowing and reaping judgment against you. If you do not sin with your mind, she cannot take your life. That is how Jesus defeated her, that is how He defeated death. The natural laws of this world which is a spiritual prison house could not hold Jesus down. He ascended with His soul fully intact.

Today, the Church world thinks their soul is saved, NO! The sign of a saved soul, is that if a man passes, the true passing from this world to the next world, the sign that he was a righteous man and his soul passed on intact is that there is no carcass, no physical body left. Jesus’ physical body disappeared, Elijah’s physical body disappeared, Moses’ physical body disappeared, their soul moved on intact. You leave a carcass in the ground, your soul did not move on intact.

 

Ezekiel 19 Verse 5

 

And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:

 

 You cannot be emotional when you are ministering the truth of Christ Jesus because the truth will save the person’s life. You start feeling sorry for them, you say you are going easy on them, not telling them, love covers a multitude of sins, you are killing them! If you really see sin and you pray about it and the Lord tells you, you have to tell that person and you do not do it, because your pharasitical carnal mind says you are just supposed to love them to death, you are as guilty as a parent who does not discipline her children. You cannot go around just telling everybody, you have to hear from God.

One of the signs that you are really called to this ministry is that you start to see sin in people. When I first started seeing sin in people, it was really upsetting. Almost everything that I teach, I experience and there was nobody to teach me so I had a lot of bad moments. I walked around for five days seeing two people in my Church fornicating, I thought I had a demon, I was really upset.

Until one day someone prayed for me and it went away but I still did not understand what happened but they were in fornication. It is a call, it is an office, you have to pray about it. Every time I see sin I do not expose it, you have to hold it and do what the Lord tells you to do. Sometimes you tell them, sometimes you just pray.

We cannot have pity. The King James translation makes it sound very hard and cruel, but you cannot let human, emotional pity interfere with any assignment the Lord has told you to do. You can try and be as kind as possible, I am not always as kind as possible because I am human (inaudible) but you have to tell them if the Lord tells you to tell them.

 

Ezekiel 19 verse 6

 

Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.

 

So many Christian haters have gotten hold of a verse like that and say what kind of a God is that, slaying utterly old and young, maids, children and women? It is talking about the spiritual life of the carnal mind. It is talking about slaying the carnal mind so that the person can live. It is like cutting a cancerous tumor out of you so you can live. If you came from another planet and you didn’t know anything about modern medicine and you saw a doctor laying somebody on the table, taking a scalpel and cutting them open, what would you think? That they were cruel, heartless, and killing the person?

There are people who do not understand and the Lord wants His Church educated and come to the place where they not only collaborate to have their sins exposed in them but hopefully do it themselves. If you do it yourself, then nobody has to tell you.

If you honestly go before the Lord and honestly want to see everything evil that He wants to change in you, He would only tell you one thing at a time, we could not bear it if we really saw ourselves as He sees us, we could not bear it. Anyone that is truly willing to change into the image of Christ and is willing to be exposed, nobody will have to tell you, the Lord will tell you directly.

Starting with my 2^nd year in the Church, for about 5 or 6 years, the Lord put me in a deliverance Church because I was dying, I had a lot of demons cast out of me. The pastor called me up one night and said you are the only one in the whole Church, that every time you go up (there was an alter call almost every service and I was there 4 or 5 nights a week), every service, you go up for prayer and you have a demon cast of you, how do feel about that? No one else in the Church has that kind of record. How do you know what to ask for?

I was amazed that he would ask me that question because, I said, the Lord tells me He wants to get rid of everything tonight (something inaudible). Every time I walked into that Church, I said Lord, what are you doing tonight, I have to live, what are you doing tonight? I go up, they say what do you want deliverance from, I tell them and everything comes out.

Ask God for your personal plan. It does not feel that painful when you hear it from God than when you have to hear it from another person. If for any reason, your heart is honest that you cannot hear from the Lord, if you really want your deliverance, you have to submit to the person that God sends you to. At this time, He is not forcing anybody but if you have a problem and you will not submit to it, then that is when the sowing and reaping judgment takes over.

There is a couple in my mind right now, (inaudible) they think they are very spiritual and very smart and they have their own fellowship. I told them once, I told them twice, I told them three times with a good deal of time in between and they did not judge their sins. The last time I spoke to the woman she said to me, I just cannot believe that, I am going to ask the Lord about that.

But she was asking in a way that…the attitude had to be (she had to be told that that woman she is a prophet, evangelist, I am a lot of things) any time that this problem exists, I better find out whether this is what Jesus is saying or not. But that was not what she was saying. She was saying, I know Pastor Vitale is wrong, I am waiting for the Lord to confirm to me that she is wrong. Well, they have just lost their home for the third time. At this point, I believe Christ in me… (inaudible). That is pride, destructive, what I call malignant pride brethren.

We have a saying or a joke about that in the U.S. I was walking down the street and there was a manhole without the cover on and I fell in. A week later, I was walking down the same street with the same manhole and it was uncovered again and I fell in. The third time, I was walking down the same street with the same manhole and I fell in again. The fourth time, I was walking down the same street with the same manhole, this time I walked around it. Three times I had to fall into the manhole. Check it out.

It does not have to be a minister. I had the Lord say something to me through a total stranger who was on a line in an airport. She turned around and said something to me and I knew that it was God talking to me. She heard me talking to my daughter, I was not even talking to her. She turned around and said to me, you are making her afraid because I was overprotecting my daughter. I had to submit to God talking to me through a total stranger in the airport. It changed my whole life.

You have to keep your ears open for God everywhere, in books, signs when you walk down the street, total strangers. He will talk to you all day long if you are willing to hear what He has to say.

Still commenting on Ezekiel 19 verse 6, slaying the women and children is talking about slaying their own carnal mind or slaying their old man. Do not go anywhere near anyone who has the mark of Christ. If you have the mark of Christ, you will be judging your own sins. It does not have to be that way but that is what that is talking about. Begin at my house, judgment begins in the house of the Lord. It is amazing the way the Church operates today. Of course, there are always exceptions but I am talking in general.

Then they began at the ancient men, ancient men means physical human beings that are old souls, spiritually matured people. Why would the Lord start with spiritually matured people? There are two kinds of spirituality. There is the female spirituality, the spirituality of the natural man and there is the male spirituality, the spirituality of Christ.

Africans, generally speaking, are very spiritual people, they are born very spiritual. So I can say that most of you are old souls. That means that you have been around for a while. The reason that God is starting the judgment with the old souls because the people that are born spiritual, that it is a natural aspect of your personality, and you do not have any training or instruction in what to do with it, the danger is that you will fall into witchcraft, which is the exercise of ungodly spiritual power, that is the definition of witchcraft.

Those of us that have a very powerful mind can attack without knowing what we are doing. (Inaudible) The more spiritual you are, the more danger you are in of reaping ungodly or unhappy circumstances into your life. You may think you are okay, if you hate that person or if you are jealous of that person, you do not say anything to them, you think you are okay. When the person walks out of the door, certainly the more powerful you are, the more powerful the…(inaudible) is going to come down on them. 

That is why Jesus said, you have to forgive people, so that you do not die. Forgiveness is not for the other person, it is for you. When the Lord tells us not to sin, it is for us. It is not just so we do not hurt people. Jesus is saying, look, this is how you live in this world, this is how you survive in this world. You need to understand, when you hate somebody, it is a spirit of murder that is going forth, that you are sowing murder and you will reap that. Maybe your child will be sick at 12 years old, like I was, sick every day.

What did I do to deserve that. I do not know, I have no idea. I just know I was dying and I am not dying anymore. I give all the glory to Jesus.

 

Ezekiel 9 Verse 7

And he said unto them, Defile the house, Kill that carnal mind, kill that whole old man, defile it, mark it. and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.

 

This cannot take place except in the person who the new man, the immortal foundation, Christ, is fully equipped to sustain the physical life of the person. If you kill my old man, and my new man is not mature enough to sustain my life, I am going to die. Right now, if you put a knife in my heart, I will die. Do not tell me I am saved. Salvation is a process. You are not saved until you are saved.

 

Ezekiel 9 Verse 8

 

And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried,

 

Seeing people’s sin is not easy, it is very hard. Sometimes I think must be what it is like to be a police officer or a soldier, seeing all that bad stuff, people getting hurt, people dying.

 

Ezekiel 9 Verse 8 (contd.)

 

and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?

 

 

That means, are you going to let the sowing and reaping judgment kill the residue, everybody that is left, all of Israel? Everybody is going to be slain?

 

Ezekiel 9 Verse 9

 

Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness:

 

Each city is a person. Our flesh is the land. We are filled with blood. When Jesus was resurrected, He just had bones and flesh. Every disease that exists is in the blood. The soul is in the blood, the mind is in the blood. This is just a house, an animal house and the animal dies. The life of the flesh is in the blood.

 

Then he said to me, your sin is exceedingly great and the land is full of blood…

 

It sure is, full of blood, sustaining this existence. This is talking about Israel. Israel, at one point, the men of Israel, (when I say men, I mean men and women), were supernatural beings. They went to war and not only did they win the war, not one man was wounded. They were a supernatural nation signifying no blood. Now, they are not supernatural anymore, their land is filled with blood.

And the city full of perverseness…what is perverse to God is not perverse to man. You would be amazed at what God thinks is perverse. There are things that He allows because we are fallen but to God, they are perverse.

 

Ezekiel 9 Verse 9 (contd.)

 

for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.

 

Some people say, there is no God. Some people say, even if there is a God, He is not interested in the affairs of men, He is just up there in heaven. Like what happened to …(inaudible). He said God is just there in heaven, He is not interested in the affairs of men.  

Ezekiel 9 Verse 10

 

And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.

 

The sowing and reaping judgment. Be not deceived, God is not mocked, whatever a man sows that will he reap.

 

Ezekiel 9 Verse 11

 

And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by his side (which had Christ, the Christ side which is able to engrave your fallen nature with the righteousness of God) reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me. KJV

  

Pharisees usually expect Christ and the ministers who claim to be expressing His nature to be very meek and soft spoken, and tend to consider a strong personality, strong leadership and/or any strong correction to be unchristlike. 

This is verse 25, this is the second issue that the people had against John the Baptist.

 

Luke 7 Verse 25

 

But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.

 

Here is the alternate translation:

 

On the contrary, Elohim revealed [your sin nature]. What did you expect [to find when you pursued the spiritual life]? Adam clothed in an effeminate personality? (That is the regenerated Adam, Jesus said He is the first and last Adam, this is talking about the last, regenerated Adam.) Look, the mortal personality is effeminate but it becomes [strong] when [Elohim’s spiritual] nobility enclothes it. AT

 

Let me tell you how I got that translation. On the contrary is a translation of the word, but. Elohim is a translation of the word, what. The word see is a different Greek word, this is Strong’s #1492 and it means to reveal. Whereas in the previous verse, the English word see meant to look for, in verse 25, the English word see is a translation of the Greek word that means to expose, to reveal.  

The word man, is Strong’s #444 which means man-faced creature as opposed to the other Greek word translated man which means some person, when we see Strong’s #444, the Lord has told me it means the regenerated Adam. Everyone that has the mind of Christ is the regenerated Adam but regeneration is a process. We may not be fully regenerated yet but what makes us Adam and not just some person, which is the way the Greek expresses it, is that Christ is present.   

Christ is male and our humanity is female. So when He comes to dwell in us, we become a spiritually married person and we can call ourselves a man-faced creature. The word soft can also be translated effeminate. The word raiment, the personality covers a man. Spiritually speaking, a garment refers to the personality that covers the spiritual man. So I translated raiment, personality.

The word behold, I translated look. The Greek word translated delicate can be translated effeminate. The two words, king’s court, are a translation of two Greek words which mean palace. We are the palace that spiritual nobility lives in. I am translating palace, mortal personality. The English word live is a translation of the Greek word that means to be, so I translated it becomes. Strong is an amplification. Enclothed with nobility is a translation of the two words translated gorgeous apparel.

I had a witness about the personality enclothing nobility.

 

Jeremiah 31:22

 

How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man. KJV

 

That means a human being which is female shall compass Christ which is male.

I will read you the interspersed, amplified, alternate translation of Luke 7:24-25.

 

You went into the [spiritual] wilderness looking for Elohim, (all you people who wanted to be spiritual but did not get what you were looking for) [but], on the contrary, [John], Elohim’s [engraving] pen in the under[world], revealed [your sin nature, which]  agitated your spirit and incited [you to be angry with him].

 

[But], what did you expect [to find]? Adam clothed in an effeminate personality?  Look [and understand], the mortal personality is effeminate, [but it] becomes [very strong] when [Elohim’s spiritual] nobility enclothes it.

 

I just want to remind you that this study was an introduction to the Scriptures that are part of a larger study which is the comparison of the four accounts of the woman with the alabaster box. I would just like to finish up the…(inaudible) part tonight.

We are going to do the introductory verses which are Luke 7:29-36 KJV.

 

Luke 7:29 -36 KJV

 

29 And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.

  

Jesus explained why they were attacking John. All the people justified God, they said, you are right Lord, the sin that was exposed in me, you are right and I am wrong. I do not know whether they stopped…(inaudible) at John or not, but they submitted to the baptism.  

 

30 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.

 

We see that the Pharisees and the lawyers did not agree that they were agitated or that their spirits were agitated, therefore the message was not for them because they were not one of the people who would repent at that time.

 

31 And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? And to what are they like?

 

Jesus is talking to the Pharisees and the lawyers. He is describing their…(inaudible) and this is what He says:

 

32 They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.

 

We have piped unto you but we could not control you, you have not danced. We have mourned to you, and ye have not wept. We could not make you cry, we could not control you with pleasure, we piped to you and we could not make you dance. We could not control you with pleasure, we mourned for you, we tried to control you with pain, but you did not cry or we could not control you with pain. That is what they are saying.

 

33 For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.

 

Here you are practicing witchcraft, that is the activity of Satan, she controls us with pleasure or pain. Jesus is telling them and I have to say these Pharisees knew what He was saying. These Pharisees were spiritual people and they knew what He was saying. He was saying, I know, you are trying to control the people with pleasure or pain. Here a true man of God comes and you accuse him of sin.

This is the danger of what happens to a person that will not judge their own sins or submit to the person, if it is their time, maybe it is not their time, but if the Lord says it is time for you to start looking at your sin nature, and you refuse to do it, and if you are a spiritual person and you refuse to look at your sin nature and submit to whatever exercise God has given you, that will result in you being able to distinguish between your carnal mind and your Christ mind, if you do not do that, you are going to end up judging sin out of your carnal mind. That is what Jesus is telling them. That is what happens to people.

To judge sin with your carnal mind is very serious because that is something that will bring a heavy judgment on you. That was Moses’ failure. Do you ever wonder what the Scripture meant when it said Moses hit the rock instead of talking to the rock so he did not enter into the promised land? He hit the rock instead of talking to the rock so he did not enter into the promised land? That is crazy.

 What that was about was that the carnal minds of the people in the wilderness was attacking Moses so badly that he fell out of the mind of Christ and he corrected them out of his carnal mind. He smote the rock, he smote the people in whom Christ was coming up rather than speaking to them calmly and helping them to receive the correction by speaking to them kindly. Actually, cancel that, that is not even the right thing. He corrected them out of his carnal mind. I told you at the beginning of this message that you could be in Christ and speak sternly to somebody.

 The bottom line is that he corrected them with his carnal mind. What does that mean? He corrected them out of retaliation. He got hurt, their carnal mind bit him. You think a physical serpent came out of … (inaudible) and bit Paul? No, but that is another message. The serpent of their carnal mind bit Moses. In that correction, whether he was being soft or hard, his own carnal mind came up and retaliated because they hurt him.

(Inaudible)…

The punishment, Jehovah was telling him, look Moses, you did not make it but you will get another chance, you had your experience, you did a great job, you got the Hebrew children out and you grew spiritually to a particular degree but you did not attain to the high place… (inaudible) Jehovah was not saying Moses was locked out of a physical area. The Scripture is really talking about spiritual ascension.

In the flesh, you can attain to some degree of immortality. How do I know that? In the New Testament, we see Jesus of Nazareth, but He didn’t attain to immortality in the flesh of His carnal mind.  

This is the danger of a spiritual person not submitting to the judgment of their sin nature. They will never learn the ability to distinguish between their Christ mind and their carnal mind. They will in that event, always wind up judging sin with their carnal mind so they will reap death, at the very least spiritual death which means Christ in them will die.

When the personality agrees with the carnal mind, Christ dies.

I saw that happen just a week ago. A man that I consider a man of God, (inaudible)…. There was a problem in the fellowship. It was one of these fellowships where they do not believe in leadership, they call it body ministry, where anybody who wants to, talks. I believe in body ministry if the people are controlled by Christ. If everybody is controlled by Christ, I’ll sit down. If the Lord wants you to preach tonight, I will give you the microphone and I would listen.

The problem is that the Church is just not mature enough these days, for everybody in a fellowship to be controlled by Christ. When you set down those kind of rules that anybody can talk, some people may be in Christ and others may be in the carnal mind. For people who are in their carnal mind, they need a leader to control their carnal mind. The carnal mind is out of order more often than not.

In this particular fellowship, they had a couple of men there that appeared to take the lead but nobody was really leading the fellowship. One young man stood up and he was completely out of order. I was preaching there. I knew he did not want me to preach, he was trying to stop the message from coming forth. Before I started to preach, he gave a long exhortation and nobody told him to sit down. Then they started the music and I was invited up to the pulpit. I got the message out but at the very end, he challenged me. I was very patient with him, I listened to everything he had to say. I did the best I could to answer his question and then he started interrupting me from the floor. One of the elders was…(Inaudible) at which point, the second time, after listening to him for 10 minutes, I said brother, please. As soon as I said brother, please, the elders shut me down, instead of correcting the man who was out of order and who wanted to stop the message.

I am wondering whether I had the anointing when I preached, so whatever I was saying to him, I am sorry if I caused a controversy which is not exactly the truth but technically I am the one who caused the controversy because I did not let him do whatever he wanted by saying brother, please. I said I am sorry if I caused any controversy but …(inaudible).

That man, who I am very impressed with as a man of God, in this particular instance, could not or did not manifest the mind of Christ. He judged sin incorrectly. He shut down the person who was preaching in the mind of Christ without correcting the man who was out of order. This is not even a spiritual situation, you could call any person off the street who knows anything about leadership, they do not have to be in Christ and they will tell you, the person who is interfering with the speaker is the one that is out of order.

This man, trying to do the right thing, made a decision that was a wrong decision. At the beginning I had a lot of respect for him as a man of God but apparently, he was not exercised in this area. He did not understand what I just explained to you.

Jesus is rebuking the Pharisees here. He says, you failed to control the people with pleasure and you failed to control them with pain. Now a true man of God manifesting Christ, a holy man, his sin you are exposing. He is out there, judging sin, baptizing people, that righteous man, you are judging! You have not judged the other Pharisees, you have not judged yourselves, you have not judged your brethren, you have not judged the leaders in the synagogues who are controlling people out of their carnal minds, but the righteous man, you are judging!

 

Luke 7: 34

 

34 The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!

 

I really should check the word winebibber in the Greek because I would be surprised to hear that Jesus was really drinking. That is what the King James says.

Here comes another holy man, a Son of God and you judged him. You called him a sinner but yourselves you declare to be righteous. Jesus said in the last days, they will call good evil and evil good because the carnal mind will be prevailing over the Christ mind. The carnal mind gets things backwards. The carnal mind cannot recognize the anointing, the carnal mind cannot recognize the man of God. Jude clearly says that they cannot recognize spiritual dignitaries. The carnal mind kills Christ wherever He is appearing.

You may not know that you are doing it but if your carnal mind is killing Christ or judging sin incorrectly, you will reap what you so whether you know what you are doing or not. This is a hard word brethren but we pay the price for the sins of the subconscious and unconscious parts of our minds. You say that is not fair. It is fair. Find out what your subconscious and your unconscious parts of your mind are doing. In Christ, we have access to that information. Find out what they are doing, find out what they are thinking and then let the mind of Christ police them. Not to tone them down. You have to rebuke them, you have to kill them.

You have to break the power of your own carnal mind. The Christ side of you, has to war against your old man, it cannot just push it into the back of your mind because then your unconscious mind is still sinning, doing whatever damage it is doing. You have to confront the thoughts of your own mind. You have to say, I declare you to be sin. I declare you to be envy. I declare you to be pride. I break your power over my life. I will manifest the corresponding attribute of Christ by the grace of God.

Going on with verse 35.

 

Luke 7:35

But wisdom is justified of all her children. (KJV)

 

God is so high and so great that if He revealed himself to us directly, it would kill us. It would be like putting our finger in an electric socket. So God steps down, when I came here I had to bring with me a step-down transformer. (Inaudible)…you use 240 volts over here, in the U.S. we use 120 volts. If I had put my electric hair dryer in the electrical socket here, it would have burnt out my hair dryer so I needed a step-down transformer.

God made a step-down transformer so He does not kill us. He has a step-down transformer with a series of steps, not just one step down, there are 10 steps down. Kabbalah calls them the Sefirot. Do not get hung up words. There are 10 levels or grades of God through which He reveals Himself to us.  Each grade lower, He clothes Himself more. Like a bright burning light, you throw a blanket over the light and you can still see the light shining through. That is stage 1. Stage 2 you throw a second blanket over the light and the light gets dimmer. The light is at it’s dimmest at the tenth stage which is basically this world.

Wisdom is the second stage from the top, it is a very high grade of God. It is available to us in Christ. Wisdom, this very high level of God, is available to us through the mind of Christ. The way we get wisdom is to have the mind of Christ. Everybody does not have the mind of Christ. The mind of Christ has to be added to you and then it has to grow. When Jesus grew…(inaudible)

We have to grow. Wisdom is available to us. Even if Christ is at some level of maturity in us, we have to access that mind. We are now two people, the old man and the new man, the inner man and the outer man. If we need wisdom, we have to actively, consciously, to give us ministry from that mind because if we do not activate wisdom from that mind, the carnal mind is the default. If we just take things fore granted, we default to the carnal mind.

What is Jesus saying here? Wisdom is justified of all her children. He is saying, the kingdoms that are truly manifesting the grade of God called Wisdom, by their very life, their words, being here, we know that wisdom is here. When wisdom is in a man, the human being becomes a child of wisdom. Their behavior, not only their behavior,  their lifestyle, everything about that person, that is manifesting that wisdom, that grade of God, is proof that wisdom is around, the wisdom of God, the second level which is a very high level of God.

Wisdom is not just being smart and knowing what to do. This is the wisdom of God, it includes the Doctrine of Christ, the advanced Doctrine of Christ, but that is just a part of it. The wisdom of God is, I do not want to use the word knowledge, I cannot think of the right word.  It is a mindset of God that you do not have to go to school to learn. Sometimes you just know it.

Have you seen the film, the Matrix? Do you remember when she needed to fly the helicopter…(inaudible). That is what wisdom is.  We may not see it manifesting very often, but in a crisis, God can send us that program to tell us how to deal with it, when Christ matures to that point. That’s wisdom, knowledge comes from wisdom.

That is what Jesus was saying. The person that covers over or enclothes that grade of God, is justified. The person that does that will operate in a certain environment that will prove that wisdom was there, that the wisdom of God truly exists. That is what it means.

 

Luke 7: 36

 

36 And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat. KJV

 

And that brings us to the account of the woman with the alabaster box. Further on we are told that this Pharisee’s name is Simon. 

I have some comments here, let me read them out to you. We see that one Pharisee did not repent after the first exhortation, which exposed why the people were upset, (they were upset because John agitated their spirits), but sought more information after Jesus’ second exhortation, which exposed the ungodly motives of the Pharisees and lawyers (which group he obviously did not include himself in). Luke 7 does not indicate whether or not Simon repented. I am inclined to believe that he did not.

Note that Jesus’ first exposure was to the people (the whole crowd), His second exposure was specifically to the Pharisees and the lawyers. That was a pretty strong correction but it was clothed, it was in a parable when Jesus said you played the flute and they did not dance. The Pharisees did not get it, they what is He talking about? He cannot be talkin