Let Them Measure The Pattern

Luk 7:29 ASV - And all the people when they heard, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John. 
And what was the baptism of John ,  you see the church today is just as the days of Christ walking and manifesting his father to the people . Just was sent of God to show the house to the house .    Eze 43:10 ASV - Thou, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern.
Eze 43:11 ASV - And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, make known unto them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the egresses thereof, and the entrances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof; and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.  Jesus is that pattern to follow he is the pattern son.
Water baptism is the way the truth and the life , its Jesus and him crucified .  The putting to death of the carnal flesh ,  its says he came in the likeness of sinful flesh . 
Rom 8:3 ASV - For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Rom 7:5 ASV - For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.  This is the promise of the father to all mankind , Even before the old covenant God made a covenant that could not be broken a covenant with all man kind ,  through Abraham a promise of everlasting life .
Gal 3:8 ASV - And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all the nations be blessed.

Luk 7:30 ASV - But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected for themselves the counsel of God, being NOT baptized of him.   Rom 8:3 ASV - For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:   John had to come before Jesus there had to be true repentance of a mans heart before God can bring salvation to him.   Luk 7:23 ASV - And blessed is he, whosoever shall find no occasion of stumbling in me.    "to stumble," or "cause to stumble .
Luk 7:26 ASV - But what went ye out to see? a prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet.
Luk 7:27 ASV - This is he of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way before thee.   If you read the gospels closely you will see where Jesus sent the disciples out before him to go and prepair the way for his coming , servants just as John .  John is saying what ever the road is to your heart what ever the cause of stumbling in your walk is. There is a true repentance to endure , with out this true repentance no man shall see God .   2Co 7:10 ASV - For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, a repentance which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.   Godly sorrow is a gift from God , who can know sin unless we are convicted by his word .   Sorrow of the world is not repentance it is Greek: ametameletos  Regret: "not repented of" .  So we see here that regret has no power unto salvation . Because it comes through the flesh the carnal mind and not from a repentant heart .   God the father sends his sorrow to convict man of his lawless ways his sin , it is the calling of God upon mankind . There is only one way unto the father it is Christ and him crucified .  People that struggle with sin they constant come forward
at the altar but never coming to a true cleansing of the heart . They want there sin and Gods blessing ,  Rom 8:13 ASV - for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.  To die here by living after the flesh is a slow death as far as the curse of sin in a mans life.  That through sin the curse of Adam came and it will rest upon every man not under the blood of the cross of Christ .   The word here but if we stay on our cross and suffer the death of our carnal flesh we shall live .
But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected for themselves the counsel of God , There are still men in the church today that are practitioners of doubt and unbelief .  Some in ignorance and some in the full knowledge of there evil ways.  When I first came to the understanding that Gods word is absolute and true . I ask one day in prayer for direction to this truth who Lord is right as far as doctrine and faith, show me so I can align myself to them and be worthy of my calling .  And he spoke to my mind and said who son am I , so thinking hard about this question and who he was . I answered him you are the Christ the anointed of the father you are the lord of glory.  And he spoke again and said that is right that is who you follow and believe , not religion . And than this word came as I read one day. 
1Co 1:12 ASV - Now this I mean, that each one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos: and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
1Co 1:13 ASV - Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized into the name of Paul?
1Co 1:18 ASV - For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who are saved it is the power of God.

1Co 3:4 ASV - For when one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not men?
1Co 3:5 ASV - What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? Ministers through whom ye believed; and each as the Lord gave to him.
1Co 3:6 ASV - I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
1Co 3:7 ASV - So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
1Co 3:8 ASV - Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.
1Co 3:9 ASV - For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry, God's building.

The word of God will never fail you ,   Rom 3:4 ASV - God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment.

But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected for themselves the counsel of God  , Rejected the counsel of God . 
1Co 6:9 ASV - Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,
1Co 15:33 ASV - Be not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals.
Gal 6:7 ASV - Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Jesus as the sower of the seed in Matt 13 was sowing the word of God into the hearts of men , But we must also remember the parable of the tares that were sown in the hearts of men also . 
Jhn 16:7 ASV - Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I go, I will send him unto you.
Jhn 16:8 ASV - And he, when he is come, will convict the world in respect of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
Jhn 16:9 ASV - of sin, because they believe not on me;
Jhn 16:10 ASV - of righteousness, because I go to the Father, and ye behold me no more;
Jhn 16:11 ASV - of judgment, because the prince of this world hath been judged.
Only God the father can bring Godly sorrow that produces repentance unto salvation .
You must be filled with the Spirit of God also ,  It plainly says here that only by the Spirit of God
can we know his will in our lifes .  And he, when he is come, will convict the world in respect of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment .  You must be filled by his spirit just as the days of Acts 2 .  Peter said this is the promise of God unto all men   Act 2:4 ASV - And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Act 2:38 ASV - And Peter said unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Act 2:39 ASV - For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call unto him.   Even as many as the Lord shall call . that is you friend . If you are not sure if you have the spirit of God than ask him with faith believing he is a reward of those that believe .
And he, when he is come, will convict the world in respect of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment , Conviction and Godly sorrow can only come from the Father this is a promise that Jesus died for . He is the Lamb for us he was slain for this great truth he is our Passover !

Luk 7:31 ASV - Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation, and to what are they like?



Isa 2:19 ASV - And men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the earth.