Heb 5:12-14 Having the The Word Of Righteousness

                        
    Men in authority of a people a body of believers,  a pastor as they are called.   But the scripture says this about men being called to feed the sheep of Christ.     Eph 4  Wherefore he saith,When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive   And gave gifts unto men.  (Now this, He ascended, what is it but that he also descended into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) And he gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ: 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:

 Do they preach the true gospel that Jesus preached as well as the early disciples .  Acts 2:38 when some came to Peter convicted  Pricked  in their heart and said what must we do to get saved from our sins.   Repent , be baptized in Jesus name and you shall receive the gift of the holy ghost  .               Mark 16 is the gospel it is what Jesus preached all through the three years he walked the earth.  When John the baptist sent men to Jesus and ask him are you the one we are looking for or do we keep looking.      Mat 11:3 KJV - And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?
Mat 11:4 KJV - Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see:
Mat 11:5 KJV - The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
Mat 11:6 KJV - And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.    The reason men in the so call church today will not preach the truth , the whole gospel of God is because it offends people tithers of money is the motivator in mans religion . And religion has nothing to do with the true gospel.
John came preaching repentance , he was getting people to the place in their hearts to receive Jesus . Make your paths straight and level for the one coming after me is mightier than I he will baptize you with the holy ghost and with fire.  Yes Jesus is the baptizer of the holy Spirit to those that ask .
 Luk 11:13 ASV - If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?   If you seek the Lord you will find him And without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing unto him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.  You must be born again friend be filled with his spirit ask him seek him today . Lord is this really real do I need this for my salvation , to be saved.  I f it is for me Lord I want your spirit to live in me.     This is what I ask the Lord forty five years ago when I first heard the gospel and he came and touched my life so wonderfully . The greatest thing that has ever happened in my life is the baptism of the Holy Ghost .


Mat 11:7 KJV - And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?
Jesus is comparing John to the preachers of today ,Very costly apparel expensive cloths , I am not judging these men I am judging the spirit of  Nicolaitans in the church today  Rev 2:6 14-15 .   Some of these men are ignorant to the will of God in their life's they just follow the traditions of their fathers , a religious denominational teachings   .Mar 7:13 KJV - Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

Mat 11:8 KJV - But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings' houses.  Can a man preach in overalls or everyday clothes. Yes it is a false doctrine that cause people to expect this it is motivated by pride and greed .  Jesus is speaking that today to his sheep be careful of the vain proud spirit that is in the so called church today.  Wolves in sheep's clothing , In the mean time, when the many thousands of the multitude were gathered together, insomuch that they trod one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Mat 11:9 KJV - But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet.
Mat 11:10 KJV - For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. John was saying deal with you sin get your life in order to meet Christ , sin will separate people from God .

Mat 11:11 KJV - Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.    John brought repentance to the church ,  and Godly sorrow brings repentance .  Once again as to the so called church today and men preaching the true gospel and repentance Mark 16 these signs shall follow those who believe .
They cut off Johns head for preaching the gospel of God .  They crucified Jesus because he came preaching his fathers gospel .   May be some of these men know this and are to comfortable in their no commitment gospel their easy gospel .     Luk 4:18 ASV - The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor: He hath sent me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovering of sight to the blind, To set at liberty them that are bruised,  satan hates the truth he loves a lie .  This gospel will cost a man everything he has in this world even his life .

 Mat 11:12 KJV - And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force .
violence and the violent    Greek: biazo     Violence, Violent, Violently:     in the Passive Voice, is rendered "suffereth violence" in Mat 11:12; see FORCE, B, Nos. 1 and 2. Some, e.g., Cremer (Lexicon) and Dalman (Words of Jesus, pp. 139, ff.), hold that the reference is to the antagonism of the enemies of the kingdom, but Luk 16:16 (Middle Voice: RV, "entereth violently") indicates the meaning as referring to those who make an effort to enter the kingdom in spite of violent opposition                                                                                                                                       Luk 16:16 ASV - The law and the prophets were until John: from that time the gospel of the kingdom of God is preached, and every man entereth violently into it.     The violence here is that through determination and steadfastness of spirit , a man embracing his cross of regeneration and through death to the carnal man he stays his course of denial of self.                                          
 Mat 10:34 ASV - Think not that I came to send peace on the earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.   Sword Greek: machaira  Sword:   of the Word of God, "the sword of the Spirit," probing the conscience, subduing the impulses to sin, Eph 6:17.   Heb 4:12 ASV - For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.    Two edged sword one edge to do warfare against spiritual wickedness in high places , power and principalities of the air.  2Co 10:5 ASV - casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;   
Mat 10:38 ASV - And he that doth not take his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me.
Mat 10:39 ASV - He that findeth his life shall lose it; and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.


Mat 27:32 ASV - And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to go with them, that he might bear his cross.    We have a cross to bear also the cross in   Greek: stauros Cross, Crucify:        an instrument of suffering .

   This man Simon was just like you and I   ,  he was returning home from working in  the country .  And he was made to bear the cross of Christ to Golgotha
 Yes we will bear the same cross Jesus bore , an instrument of suffering to our carnal man our carnal nature must suffer and die .
Rom 6:3 ASV - Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
Rom 6:4 ASV - We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
Rom 6:5 ASV - For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection;
Rom 6:6 ASV - knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;
Rom 6:7 ASV - for he that hath died is justified from sin.
2Co 13:5 KJV - Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobate? 

The battle is for our minds folks Rom 12
Rom 12:1 ASV - 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.     Living sacrifice   of spiritual "sacrifices" in general, offered by believers as a holy priesthood, 1Pe 2:5
Rom 12:2 ASV - And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.     Transformed     Greek: metamorphoo  Transfigure:    of believers, Rom 12:2, "be ye transformed," the obligation being to undergo a complete change which, under the power of God, will find expression in character and conduct; morphe lays stress on the inward change, schema (see the preceding verb in that verse, suschematizo) lays stress on the outward (see FASHION, No. 3, FORM, No. 2); the present continuous tenses indicate a process; 2Cr 3:18 describes believers as being "transformed (RV) into the same image" (i.e., of Christ in all His moral excellencies), the change being effected by the Holy Spirit.
I would confess this verse very often in my meditating and confession of the word , when one day I stop and said Lord how do I actually renew my mind . And it came quickly in my spirit it came to me    by my word it comes by reading and feeding on my word .  We see in Heb 4:12 ASV - For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.   Jas 1:21 ASV - Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.    Jesus said unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood
Jhn 6:51 ASV - I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: yea and the bread which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.   The word made flesh and dwells among us                                                                                Jhn 6:53 ASV - Jesus therefore said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye have not life in yourselves.
Jhn 6:54 ASV - He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
Jhn 6:55 ASV - For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

His flesh is the word of God the bread of life , and his blood is his very nature for the life of the flesh is in the blood .      Lev 17:11 ASV - For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh atonement by reason of the life.         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.   We must follow Jesus into the regeneration .      And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, that ye who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.            not by works done in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,       Greek: palingenesia  Regeneration:  "new birth" (palin, "again," genesis, "birth"), is used of "spiritual regeneration," Tts 3:5, involving the communication of a new life, the two operating powers to produce which are "the word of truth," Jam 1:18; 1Pe 1:23, and the Holy Spirit, Jhn 3:5, 6; the loutron, "the laver, the washing," is explained in Eph 5:26, "having cleansed it by the washing (loutron) of water with the word."               
  The new birth and "regeneration" do not represent successive stages in spiritual experience, they refer to the same event but view it in different aspects. The new birth stresses the communication of spiritual life in contrast to antecedent spiritual death; "regeneration" stresses the inception of a new state of things in contrast with the old


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:  Children must grow up and become mature men and women in Gods kingdom . Thus it becomes us to become at one point in our walk a Son of God .  Jesus is the ensample  (  Meaning: "precedent to be followed, illustrative instance; a pattern, model )     of the life we are to become , he came to show us the father .      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?
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.
2Co 5:19 ASV - to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not reckoning unto them their trespasses, and having committed unto us the word of reconciliation.                                                 
 Luk 3:22 ASV - and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form, as a dove, upon him, and a voice came out of heaven, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.      Col 2:9 ASV - for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,
Col 2:10 ASV - and in him ye are made full, who is the head of all principality and power:  
Jesus said you must be born again of the water and of the spirit  
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.  This verse is where we lose all of our identity with this world and truly be born again We were born of Adams carnal nature of his blood of the will of his flesh through our natural fathers the will of man.    Folks you need a true holy ghost in filling experience just as in Acts 2:38 Jesus told his disciples to stay in Jerusalem until they be endued with power from on high .     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.   He hath clothed me with garments of Salvation and wrapped me with a robe of righteousness  .   Isa 61:10 ASV - I will greatly rejoice in Jehovah, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with a garland, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

Remember folks there are two baptism ,  baptism of repentance  with Johns baptism and the baptism of the Holy Spirit through the promise of the father to those that believe

Act 19:1 ASV - And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper country came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples:
Act 19:2 ASV - and he said unto them, Did ye receive the Holy Spirit when ye believed? And they said unto him, Nay, we did not so much as hear whether the Holy Spirit was given.
Act 19:3 ASV - And he said, Into what then were ye baptized? And they said, Into John's baptism.
Act 19:4 ASV - And Paul said, John baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people that they should believe on him that should come after him, that is, on Jesus.
Act 19:5 ASV - And when they heard this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.
Act 19:6 ASV - And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
Act 19:7 ASV - And they were in all about twelve men.
This is still true today friends people are still be filled with the holy spirit at this very moment , unto what baptism have you been baptized . You must have them both with out repentance you cannot see the kingdom of God .   Godly sorrow worketh unto repentance a repentance not regretted of.      Mar 16:16 ASV - He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned.  Baptized in that Godly sorrow of your sins , a broken contrite heart and baptized in his holy spirit.





 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;

Psa 34:18 ASV - Jehovah is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart, And saveth such as are of a contrite spirit.
Psa 51:17 ASV - The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.