An Abiding City ,The City Which Is To Come

                                             
 Mat 24:14 ASV - And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a testimony unto all the nations; and then shall the end come.
Mat 24:15 ASV - When therefore ye see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him that readeth understand),
Mat 24:16 ASV - then let them that are in Judaea flee unto the mountains:
Mat 24:17 ASV - let him that is on the housetop not go down to take out things that are in his house:   Mat 24:18 ASV - and let him that is in the field not return back to take his cloak
Mat 13:38 ASV - and the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom;           They obey the true gospel of God they are  sons of God !         and the tares are the sons of the evil one;  The sons of the evil one are they that have believed the false Gospel of men,   another gospel.  No repentance in their life or they have a repentance that is regretted  !     not being truly sorry for their sins.   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.  
 There is no cross in their Gospel no sacrifice of their flesh .   Rom 12:1    I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.   Jesus said all true believers have a cross to bear , a cross is an instrument suffering , putting to death the deeds of our flesh .  Our altar is our cross , we fall on our cross daily and pour out our life before the Lord he righteous and just to forgive us of our sins and to cleanses us of all unrighteousness .  If we fail the Lord he does not condemn us he leads us into paths of righteousness for his name sake.   If we are faithless he remains faithful because he cannot deny himself.  You are the righteousness of God in Christ .  if we Love him we will obey his commandants , if we call him Lord than we follow what his word tells us which is the way the truth and the Life .
Mat 10:38 ASV - And he that doth not take his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me.    Phl 3:10 ASV - that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death;   Power  Ability, Able:   Greek: dunamis"power, ability," physical or moral, as residing in a person or thing;  Resurrection:    Greek: anastasis  "a raising up," or "rising" (ana, "up," and histemi, "to cause to stand"), Luk 2:34, "the rising up;" the AV "again" obscures the meaning; the Child would be like a stone against which many in Israel would stumble while many others would find in its strength and firmness a means of their salvation and spiritual life;
Sufferings   Afflict (-ed), Affliction:   Greek: pathemab   of the sufferings of Christ, signifies "destined to suffer from pathos, "suffering," signifies "affliction
Conformed    Conformed, Conformable: Greek: summorphizo  "to make of like form with another person or thing, to render like" (sun, "with," morphe, "a form"), is found in Phl 3:10 (in the Passive Participle of the verb), "becoming conformed" (or "growing into conformity") to the death of Christ, indicating the practical apprehension of the death of the carnal self, and fulfilling his share of the sufferings following upon the sufferings of Christ
1Co 15:50 ASV - Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.  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:    It is very important here to grasp water baptism and the revelation of that commandant .  Jesus was baptized by John , he had no sin in him he was the Lamb with out spot or wrinkle.  John said as he saw him coming behold the lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world .  There is no shadow in his turning he was the light of the word coming into man Jhn 1:4 ASV - In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
  Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest indeed is plenteous, but the laborers are few.
( 1Pe 4:7 ASV - But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer: )  ,   This verse catches men unaware of the signs of the times ( We thought we had more time  )   Living a worldly life being influenced by the world and the lust of that worldly life.   V 38    and the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the evil one.                                                                                                                     
  1Co 15:36 ASV - Thou foolish one, that which thou thyself sowest is not quickened except it die:
1Co 15:37 ASV - and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, but a bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other kind;
1Co 15:38 ASV - but God giveth it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.
1Co 15:41 ASV - There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory.
1Co 15:42 ASV - So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
1Co 15:43 ASV - it is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
 Rom 12:2 ASV - And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, and ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, and ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.         Conformed  Rom 12:2 being outwardly "conformed" to the things of this age is contrasted with being "transformed" (or transfigured) inwardly by the renewal of the thoughts through the Holy Spirit's power. A similar distinction holds good in Phl 3:21; the Lord will "fashion anew," or change outwardly, the body of our humiliation, and "conform" it in its nature (summorphos) to the body of His glory  to conform one's self (i.e. one's mind and character) to another's pattern, (fashion one's self according to)
Mat 13:23 ASV - And he that was sown upon the good ground, this is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; who verily beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.     Jesus said he must go away so the promise of the father will come .
 Luk 24:49 ASV - And behold, I send forth the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city, until ye be clothed with power from on high.    Jesus told Nicodemus you must  be born again of the water and the spirit .  The water is the word of God the washing of regeneration the washing of the pure word .  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, that he might present the church to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.   the body the bride of Christ .   Body Greek: soma Body, Bodily:      The word is also used for physical nature, as distinct from pneuma, "the spiritual nature," e.g., 1Cr 5:3, and from psuche, "the soul," e.g., 1Th 5:23. "Soma, 'body,' and pneuma, 'spirit,' may be separated; pneuma and psuche, 'soul,' can only be distinguished   It is also used metaphorically, of the mystic Body of Christ, with reference to the whole Church, e.g., Eph 1:23; Col 1:18, 22, 24; also of a local church, 1Cr 12:27
Col 1:26 ASV - even the mystery which hath been hid for ages and generations: but now hath it been manifested to his saints,
Col 1:27 ASV - to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
 Jhn 1:18 ASV - No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.    Jesus came to show the father to the world ,         Jhn 14:6 ASV - Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Jhn 14:7 ASV - If ye had known me, ye would have known my Father also: from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
Jhn 14:8 ASV - Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.  It is imperative that the called of God understand the truth of this verse ,  to be truly born of God is to be filled with his spirit , endued with his power .   Mark 16 is still alive and working with the power Jesus spoke of .    Jhn 1:12 ASV - But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Jhn 1:13 ASV - who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God  .   That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.    1Co 15:45 ASV - So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.   Adam gave us his flesh and Jesus gave us eternal life .  Rom 5:10 ASV - For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life;
2Co 5:18 ASV - But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave unto us the ministry of reconciliation;
Col 1:22 ASV - yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him:

Jhn 14:9 ASV - Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and dost thou not know me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; how sayest thou, Show us the Father?   Jesus said his father is   spirit and those that worship him must worship him in truth and in Spirit .  2Co 5:16 ASV - Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh: even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
2Co 5:17 ASV - Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.  
Jhn 14:10 ASV - Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I say unto you I speak not from myself: but the Father abiding in me doeth his works.

Mat 13:24 ASV - Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man that sowed good seed in his field:
Mat 13:25 ASV - but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares also among the wheat, and went away.         Slept  Asleep, Sleep:   Greek: katheudo   of carnal indifference to spiritual things on the part of believers, Eph 5:14; 1Th 5:6, 10 (as in Mar 13:36), a condition of insensibility to Divine things involving conformity to the world  to be indifferent to one's salvation . Another sobering verse is of the ten virgins                              Matt 25 :1-13   
Virgin        of "a local church" in its relation to Christ, 2Cr 11:2;
(f) metaphorically of "chaste persons," Rev 14:4.
  a man who has abstained from all uncleanness and whoredom attendant on idolatry, and so has kept his chastity  .   
Rev 21:2 ASV - And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven of God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.
Bride, Bridechamber, Bridegroom:  Greek: numphe
For the relationship between Christ and a local church, under this figure, see 2Cr 11:2; regarding the whole Church, Eph 5:23-32; Rev 22:17. 
The Holy the Elect the body of Christ    Gal 3:28 ASV - There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.        Mar 12:25 ASV - For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as angels in heaven.
Mat 13:37 ASV - And he answered and said, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;
Asleep, Sleep:   Greek: katheudo   of carnal indifference to spiritual things on the part of believers, Eph 5:14; 1Th 5:6, 10 (as in Mar 13:36), a condition of insensibility to Divine things involving conformity to the world  to be indifferent to one's salvation
Mat 24:18 ASV - and let him that is in the field not return back to take his cloak.
FIELD  Country:    Greek: agros denotes "a field, especially a cultivated field;" hence, "the country" in contrast to the town (Eng., "agrarian, agriculture"), e.g., Mar 5:14; 6:36; 15:21; 16:12; Luk 8:34; 9:12 (plural, lit., "fields"); 23:26; a piece of ground, e.g., Mar 10:29; Act 4:37.
 Cloak          Apparel, Apparelled:   Greek: himation
a diminutive of heima, "a robe," was used especially of an outer cloak or mantle, and in general of raiment, "apparel" in 1Pe 3:3. The word is not in the original in the next verse, but is supplied in English to complete the sentence.
See CLOTHING, No. 2, GARMENT, RAIMENT, ROBE.                    
 1Co 15:47 ASV - The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is of heaven.
1Co 15:49 ASV - And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. 

Mat 24:19 ASV - But woe unto them that are with Child and to them that give suck in those days!        Child   Ability, Able:   Greek: echo
"to have," is translated "your ability" in 2Cr 8:11, and "ye may be able" in 2Pe 1:15, and is equivalent to the phrase "to have the means of."
Suck     Suck (Give Suck), Suckling:     Greek: thelazo
from thele, "a breast," is used
(a) of the mother, "to suckle," Mat 24:19; Mar 13:17; Luk 21:23; in some texts in Luk 23:29 (the best have trepho);
(b) of the young, "to suck," Mat 21:16, "sucklings;" Luk 11:27.
 But solid food is for fullgrown men ,     For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.     For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.     But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil .      Skilled in the word of righteousness
This verse runs parallel with  1Co 13:10-13      ASV - but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.    If all the gifts are gone then so must the gift of faith also right . The bible says Rom 11:29 ASV - For the gifts and the calling of God are not repented of.     It is coming into a mature man being made into the image of Christ himself ,  growing up into all things righteous . God had to have a body to manifest himself to the world ,  but that body died and resurrected in newness of life .  1Co 15:53 ASV - For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
1Co 15:54 ASV - But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
1Pe 1:23 ASV - having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth.
Mat 24:14 ASV - And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a testimony unto all the nations; and then shall the end come.
Mat 24:15 ASV - When therefore ye see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him that readeth understand),
Mat 24:16 ASV - then let them that are in Judaea flee unto the mountains:
Mat 24:17 ASV - let him that is on the housetop not go down to take out things that are in his house:    1Co 3:1 ASV - And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ.  The four verses above are speaking of a mans spiritual condition .        Heb 5:12 ASV - For when by reason of the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need again that some one teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.
Heb 5:13 ASV - For every one that partaketh of milk is without experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a babe.
Heb 5:14 ASV - But solid food is for fullgrown men, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to Discern Good and Evil. !
 Luk 11:27 ASV - And it came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the breasts which thou didst suck.         This woman was  Comparing the spiritual to the flesh       Jhn 3:6 ASV - That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.    We are no longer children    Luk 11:28 ASV - But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.                    Luk 8:20 ASV - And it was told him, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.
Luk 8:21 ASV - But he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these that hear the word of God, and do it.     The body of Christ
The great hindrance  to Gods called people in his Church today  ,  is the belief that all of this died ceased with the last Apostle .         It is called the doctrine of cessation  ,  it is what the bible calls doctrine of men.     1Ti 4:1 ASV - But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,
1Ti 4:2 ASV - through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;   
Mar 7:13 ASV - making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.
    Corban   a gift offered to God," Mar 7:11. Jews were much addicted to rash vows; a saying of the Rabbis was, "It is hard for the parents, but the law is clear, vows must be kept."    Mark 7:11   Another gospel a law unto themselves ,  neglecting the true word for another word.   I believe that pride motivated this error these men are like the same men that would stand up and pray loud repetitious prayers just to be heard ,  religious and proud . And Jesus said they are neglecting their mothers and fathers .  Making void the word of God

    This word below must be operating in the church,  the ministry Jesus gave to his church for the perfecting of his children.  It is his promise his word  of grace to his church.                
 Heb    2:1 ASV - Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things that were heard, lest haply we drift away from them.
Heb 2:2 ASV - For if the word spoken through angels proved stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;
Heb 2:3 ASV - how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation? which having at the first been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard;
Heb 2:4 ASV - God also bearing witness with them, both by signs and wonders, and by manifold powers, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will.      Mar 16:15 ASV - And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation.
Mar 16:16 ASV - He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned.
Mar 16:17 ASV - And these signs shall accompany them that believe: in my name shall they cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues;
Mar 16:18 ASV - they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall in no wise hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Eph 4:11 ASV - And he gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
Eph 4:12 ASV - for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:
Eph 4:13 ASV - till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
Eph 4:14 ASV - that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
Eph 4:15 ASV - but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, even Christ;
 Heb 4:9 ASV - There remaineth therefore a sabbath rest for the people of God.