🔥 The Matrix: REASONING GOOD AND EVIL: The Series 🔥

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Heavenly Father, in your hope, I come before you, Father, bound in these garments of skin that testify of the exile, in these coverings of wisdom. In this heavy night that can be felt, present upon the deep waters, reminding each and every one of us, Father, that our breath must be drawn not from the air or fleshly reasoning, but from the unseen promises that dissolve in every trial. So, Father, I come to you. You created both light and darkness, peace and adversity. I thank you, Father. And I have to confess that our hearts have stumbled in the very laboratories that you have prepared for our world. Like moths drawn to flames that consume. For we, Father, we lean to our own understanding and have called it safety, while neglecting the hand that shapes even the very suffering of our divine destruction.

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Because you, Father, you have sent Yhovah. You're the great physician who blazes seams the wound but heals. Whose darkness is felt like the absence but conceals the brilliance of your dwelling. When the storm strips away our false security and our relationship becomes the furnace of exposing hidden pride. And when our bodies are weakened through the scattered, I ask, Father, to forgive us. Forgive us, Father, for naming those things evil. They are not cruelty, but was a chemistry. Father, the water of trials that divided from the waters of promise by the word of your mouth. So I ask, Father, to continue to teach us, oh Father, to reason like the fish in the deep currents afflicting each and every one of us today, breathing not the air of comfort, withdrawn from the hidden oxygen from every very medium that threatens us within us. You give us spiritual gifts, yet we thrust like landborn creatures, breathe the waves and forgetting our spiritual hovers over every dark sea. I ask for forgiveness, Father, for calling even your refining fires evil when they burned away the draw of self-dependence. I ask forgiveness even us, Father, again for naming your discipline grow when it opens the chambers of our hearts where envy and pride and rebellion hide, as children who cry when the surgeon removes splinters. We resist the very pain that is designed to cleanse us, free us.

So, Father, as you has once divided the waters above from the waters beneath, divide within us the waters of despair from the streams of your covenant, and let our faith flow and count to fear. So, every every press of adversity becomes the chamber where your promises relief to breath for life. I ask, Father, to grant us sight to know that these garments of skin is not a prison, but they are sanctuaries of learning, temporary vessels we can train to hear your voice above and the cry of flesh. So when fear becomes tangible and the sorrow thickens into the night, remind each and every one of us that you dwell in these felt darkness and those who trust in your name. Transform our reasoning from the carnal logic to spiritual vision. Teach us, Father, the same sun hardens clay, provides no heat, melts wax, and provides not the rays of it. Not because you change, but because the substance of the hearts determines the effect of the trial. Change our substance, Father, that your testing may be melt away to rebellion instead of hardened and defiance.

So, Father, we present ourselves, we present ourselves before you as living sacrifices and press your wine press that the sweetness of our spirit can flow from the crushed flesh. The darkness become the forge where your word descends like a warrior conquering not our trials, but our father, our misinterpretation of them. Sealed our spirits upon the stones, our remembrance engrave the eternal witness. Every adversary you permit is a doorway where obedience, humility, sanctification emerge unto life. I ask to teach us to walk by faith. He strengthen the crown of life and let every place. The carnal mind cause defeat. And where you dwell in the unseen, the natural place, Father, where your hand leads is the proven waters where you train our breath and where we yield our reasoning and your sovereignty is there. So I ask, Father, to guide us, lead us in those green pastures, because all glory and all honor belongs only to you. You are the only shepherd that we know, the only shepherd that we follow. So, Father, teach us to know your voice so when you call we follow. And this, Father, I pray in the name of Yhovah. Yahov, we pray as we go into this lesson. Amen.

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And just give me one second. Okay, sorry about that. But shalom everyone. Shalom. I want to welcome everyone to the house of the lost sheep of Israel, into the house of Yhovah. And today we we enter into something pretty special. And I do want to make sure a couple of announcements that's going to go out before we get started. But one, I want to make sure we are upon the first fruits. The first fruits will be starting this week. And this week we will be preparing to move forward on what we do, presenting ourselves before the Most High God. So I want to make sure that each and everyone is prepared to present each and every one of us individually before Jehovah. So please make sure you, um, you send your your confession, not write it out, but saying you're going to be confessing to where and how much time you need. Make sure that goes to Sister Martin. And, um, I know some people were sending that to Elder Martin, but it needs to be forwarded to Sister Martin. So, we want to make sure that. And then the same thing, we I have today, we're going to be going into Zoom and we want to make sure everything is buttoned up and tightened right to where we can move forward. But we want to make sure that each and everyone that is there, it was for you and for you alone to understand what you must do. So I do as we move forward, we'll be going in the back and same thing, we will have a children's session start, but it might be a tad late because we want to make sure everything is buttoned up before everything kicks off.

But now I do want to sit there and and I want to make sure everybody understand based on eyes or ends. Do you know what a paradox? A paradox? Do you know what a paradox is? Do you know what the meaning of paradox? I just want to make sure we can put eyes or ends to where we can be speaking later. But I just want to see what people know. Okay, that's all fine. So, a paradox, you know what a paradox is? It's actually an English term, but a paradox is a statement. All it is is a statement. And the statement is a situation that will see itself as self-contradictory. It's a statement where it's going to come off self-contradictory. However, it's going to be really weird. It'll sound crazy. It'll sound off the wall. But in the case, the thing is with those like that, they reveal the deeper and really many times what is impossible, but it's the truth because God's word is true. So that's what a paradox is. It's a speech where somebody might make a statement. It's going to seem highly contradictory to you, but with that, you, it has a truth behind it. Some would do it for lying, some are going to do it based on the truth. And and this is how the kingdom is actually always presented. This is why you see dark speeches. This is why you see, "I will open my mouth in parables." That's why these things happen. A little bit different than than than paradox because a paradox is going to come off contradictory, but it's still going to reveal what the truth is. That's the dark speech within it.

So what I'm going to do, we're going to be going through this. You're going to learn quite a bit today as we move forward to this teaching, as well as what needs to happen because today we we at a turning point where we've been speaking about the matrix where we are. So, as we get started, I'm going, as I said, we'll take our time. We're going to get a better understanding on this. So, I'm going to offer this dark speech of the kingdom. I want you to pay real close attention to what I'm saying because I'm going to give you this dark speech of the kingdom and then I'm going to give you this other dark paradox as we move forward. But one, we have to look at if water, if the water we know being knowledge and understanding that's spiritually known. It is a seen element, correct and not correct? We should know that answer, but it's a seen element. In the air being spirit, and we see that it's not seen. So if that both sides are true, then how are you able to remember water and yet remain blind to the spirit from which it came? Do you understand the paradox? Did you understand that? All I'm saying is if we understand what water is, and that's the element to what you see, and we know the spirit is what you can't see. Then how are we able to hold water? We're able to hold knowledge and understanding and yet remain blind to the air from which it came? So you got to hear the mysteries that unveil the spiritual reason. This water is the manifestation of movement of the body from the air from which it came. Everybody follow me? Everybody is following me because the mystery is unveiled through the spiritual reasoning. It's based on that. So the water is the manifestation of the movement of the body from the air which it came. So then when you perceive as solid knowledge, it is but nothing but condescend vapor in the invisible spiritual breath that has descended from the unseen realm is taking the physical form for the carnal mind to touch and to taste. Straightforward, straightforward understanding and what we're doing.

So I want you to consider something. Let me, let me pull the Bibles up. Let me pull the Bibles up and we, we're going to look at a few things because I want you to understand something that we're going to be doing. This, we're going to get very deep with this. But I promise you, you're going to understand what I'm saying. You're going to understand 100% what I'm saying. But you're going to see a lot of things that's been in front of you your entire life and you just never knew it was there. But they went up from the midst of the earth. We got to understand. So let's look at something. Let's look at Genesis right here. Genesis chapter 2, picking it up at verse 6. It says, "But there went up a mist from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground." So this mist was before it became visible. It was there, invisible vapor which always exists, but it remained unseen until the divine appointment which caused this this this condouchable substance. So to all knowledge and understanding, but we got to look at the visible perception of the eternal spirit that was moving on the face of the ground. Actually, I want to show you this to make sure we all understand where we're coming from and you get a better understanding what I'm doing. So, you see this here in Genesis 1:2, "the earth was without form and void and darkness upon the face of the deep and the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." This is clear. So, this was before any manifestation appeared. But when we look at this, it is the spirit in the spirit in the spirit in man. The breath of the Almighty made you what he do. He makes him to understand. Let's, let's see all this here. So the same thing here. We'll see something. Let's look at this in Job chapter 32. We're going to pick it up at verse 8. And it says, "But there is a spirit in a spirit in man, in the inspiration that the Almighty giveth them understanding." I want you to stay with me on this. So, we got to remember the mystery because a lot of us, we, we will marvel at the water of understanding that flows from man's mouth. Yet you perceived not the invisible air of the divine breath that first appeared or inspired the very understanding into existence. That's issue one. So when we said that we seen knowledge is merely a body of movement, physical manifestations. So it's an unseen spirit that breathes it forth from the eternal realm. Everybody follow me? Let's look at something. I want to show you something. Let's go over here to, um, Ecclesiastes because I need you to stay with me to where we can go deeper on where we're going. In Ecclesiastes, we're going to look at 11:5. I want to show you something. It says, "As thou knowest not what is in the way of spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child, even so thou knowest not the works of God, who maketh all." Interesting. So here lies the deeper paradox. You can observe the form of bones. So this is visible knowledge, the form of bones. This is visible knowledge within the womb. Yet you comprehend not the pathway of the spirit. This, this invisible breath that knitted the bones together, this tangible skeleton. You perceived it. But the bodily movement is unseen spirit that travels this mystery path that created the visible form from the invisible substance. You already follow me? Everybody f and and this is one of the problems. If you paid attention to my last even five teachings, this should be clear language to you, 100% clear language. So if not, then I truly understand you didn't pay attention to none of the lessons, you just was here, just here, because you got to remember this and this is why I hold you to this. And we look at this in John chapter 3, picking up at verse 8. It tells us this. "The wind bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the spirit." That's that's the issue. That's what's going on. So what we got to remember is this. You hear the sound, you see the knowledge, you can see the knowledge, you feel the effects, understanding the manifestation. Yet you know not the origin. You perceive not the spirit nor the destination of that which moves the visible world through the invisible power. Everybody follow me? We have to get this understanding. This. We have to get the understanding because I'm talking extremely plain. But but but the main thing is if you're lost, just just say where you're lost because I'm telling you, I promise you this, you don't get, I promise you, you'll miss the kingdom also. This is the reason why. Let's look at something. Isaiah 55:10. It says, "For as the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth fruit, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater." Now watch what happens. You can see, you can see the water. You can see it. But watch, watch what it says. "So shall my word go forth from my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I send it." So you can see the water coming down, but you're not seeing the spirit that is within it. That's the, that's what I'm talking about. We can see this this invisible vapor that ascended from earth. We came unseen there, journeyed through the heavenly realm and descended again into the visible perception. So we got to understand all this. So all knowledge is the spiritual air in it, complete the divine circuit, raising the invisible breath, unseen pathways, condescending as tangible understanding through those who lack spiritual gills to breathe the original air directly. This is, this is, this is straightforward. Let's, let's look at something. Let's stay. I need you to stay with me. Stay with me because I'm not going to go fast. I'm going to take my time because we got time to do what we need to do today. And it tells you this Genesis. We're going to see this in Genesis chapter 2 and verse 7. It says, "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground." This is clay. "And breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." So the clay became moving. It became this moving thing. So the breath is the spirit, remains invisible. Yet you can see the effects of this living soul because it becomes manifest through that, through that clay. It's getting a little bit clearer. It should be. So we can see the movement of the body. So the knowledge expressed, but perceive not the divine air, the spirit that animates the very manifestation, this knowledge. But it's the body's response to this unseen spirit's movement within the chambers of understanding. You follow me? Let's, let's, let's go a little. Let's go somewhere. I want to take you somewhere because I want to make sure you understand this because we're going to get into some serious deep water. But we need to understand this and it's very important that we understand this. We're going to look at two things. We're going to look at John 1:3. In this one. And we'll see 16:13. It says, "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself: but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come." This is being fulfilled at this very moment. This is being fulfilled at this very moment. But you need to understand what's going on. Don't lie to yourself. Many people is going to lie to themselves because the wise heart learns to perceive the invisible source behind every visible manifestation, known as we see this in John 1:3. "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." This is clear. So this is the great paradox that's revealed that you trust. So many of us trust in the water, the visible knowledge you can see, but yet you doubt the air, the invisible spirit from which it came. You believe in understanding that you can grasp, yet question divine breath that first spoke the understanding into existence. It is, is, is comical. But it is the air that manifests knowledge. But the spirit that that that that condescends understanding in the body is movement in the response of the invisible wind that bloweth where it listeth and it gives life in all visible forms. The dark speech. So you got to learn that the breath air rather than mere drinking the water knowledge. For those who trust only invisible manifestations will 100% thirst, 100% again. But those who breathe the invisible source never lack understanding, knowing that every drop of visible water is but evidence of an infinite air from all things which flow and returns.

So I ask you a question. Do you know water is in the air? Say yes or no. Did you know water is in the very air that you breathe? That's a plain simple question. Do you believe and do you know that water is in air? Actually, I can show you a picture. I can show you tons of videos on it. But you can see water, you can get from air. They have systems to which do these things. Systems which can do these things all day. Now, so with that, what if I told you, what if I told you the very breath you draw is proof of an impossible miracle that your very lung performed the movement by movement, the sacred art of separating the invisible from the visible. See, I got you. You can't get around it. This I have you. This is the very moment where your sacred art that you perform each and everyone, even marking in here, they separate the invisible from the visible and they extracting the essential from the substantial, drawing life from what appears as empty space, air. Yet they do this unconsciously. Every one of us is doing this unconsciously right now. Neville marveling that you was consistently dividing waters from the waters. You was doing this. You're doing it now. If you're breathing, you're doing it. Let's look at something. Let's look at Genesis chapter 1, looking at 6 through 8. It says, "And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters: and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so." And everybody just told me, you knew water was in the air. But there's a deeper, deeper paradox where people will contradict themselves on this. I want to make sure we stay with this. So if your physical lungs, your physical lungs can separate oxygen from nitrogen, is what you're doing. So these are two invisible gases that appear as one substance called air. Everybody, everybody understand where I'm coming from? Eyes in the chat. Eyes in the chat. You are separating oxygen from nitrogen right now as you breathe. So these are two invisible gases as one substance and it's called air. So why do you doubt that your spiritual lungs can separate the promises of Jehovah from the circumstances that surround them? I got you again. You explain that to me. Explain this to me. Why do you drown in adversity when you possess the same divine separation principles operating in your garments of your skin every 3 seconds? Can you explain this to me?

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Excuse me. We got to consider the impossible possibilities. Meaning this, a fish, a fish completely submerged in water, never drowning because it possesses gills designed for extraction, pulling oxygen from the H2O water while rejecting the hydrogen that will poison it. So the fish does not create the oxygen. It already exists, dissolved in the water. So the fish simply separates what is life-giving from what is suffocating. So let me understand what we're talking about here. So now we understand this mystery that confounds the wise. So if Yhovah had dissolved promises into the very adversities that seem to drown you, and if his faithfulness exists as invisible oxygen within the visible water, if your trials, then why do you die of spiritual suffocation while swimming in the ocean of divine provision? Can, can someone answer that for me? Can, can someone explain this to me? Cuz I don't get it. I don't get it. I, I can explain it again because I'm, I'm telling you, I can explain this again. If, if, if, if Jehovah's faithfulness exists in invisible oxygen within the visible waters of your trials, how do you die of spiritual suffocation while swimming in the ocean of divine provision? Explain that to me because that paradox pierces the deeper still because you, each and every one of us, each and every, put all everybody, put I, all of us, all of us put I. I don't know who in the world putting the hell in their non-belief, that's stupidity. I don't even know why they put their, oh, that's unbelief, that's ignorance. So everybody put I because this, the paradox that pierces everything because you, each and every one of us, can breathe 21% oxygen from the air, separating life from 78% nitrogen that would kill you if isolated. Go check anywhere. They're going to tell you the air you're breathing right now has 78% nitrogen in it and you're pulling 21% oxygen from it. That will, and if you let that, if you, if you couldn't separate that nitrogen, you're dead. But yet you cannot breathe 100% faithfulness that Jehovah has dissolved into the 100% impossible circumstances. You who performed a miracle doing it right now, separating it 20,000 times a day, yet declare it's impossible to separate Jehovah's word from the crushing weight of what you see. Make it make sense to me, please. Somebody make it make sense to me. This is the unorthodox truth that theology, Christian theology cannot contain. It's like being left-handed, which, which, which I am. So people will see me as unorthodox because I'm left-handed. But did you know the master's method of trying to, trying to dig to get the truth is an unorthodox method also? See, anyway, anyway, let the very existence prove you are already equipped for the impossible. Breathing invisible substance from apparent emptiness, extracting life from the mixed atmosphere of morality, unconsciously performing a divine separation while consciously declaring a divine separation and impossibility. That's what you're doing. Each and every one of you guys here and you're already equipped. So I'm going to ask you this devastating question. I'm going to ask you a question. If you can breathe air, which all of you are, if you can breathe air, separating the life-giving from the life-threatening within the same invisible substance, then why do you drown in the waters of adversity instead of breathing the spiritual oxygen that Jehovah has already dissolved within your trials? Answer that for me, please. Someone answer that for me. Cuz you're already equipped to do this. So why are we sitting there having pity parties for ourselves? Somebody need to answer this. I, I like your answer. I don't know. Best answer you can get there. I, I don't know. Yeah, we all stuck. I, I don't know. Why are we getting stuck? I don't know. The best answer you can use, I don't know. We don't even know. We're going to call this today. We're going to call this today. My kids like to do this. My kids love to do this. My, my, my dang spiritual daughters may end up start doing it too. But I don't know cuz I jumped on them last night. But they might start doing the same thing. But I'm going to call this as my kids call me this. We're going to call this lecture 20,300 and we say 98. This going to be a lecture today of 20,398. And it's going to, this is where one begins where your logic, your earthly logic ends. Are we agree? Eyes in the chat. Do, are we agree? This is where one of your crazy things ends and we're going to start a whole another one. We're done with this. See, in this, in this realm where the impossible comes as natural as you breathe, is the, the realm we're going to be in. Is impossible becomes as natural as you breathe. We got to get out of this. So today I'm going to have me some fun. I'm going to have me some fun today. I'm going to have me some fun today because, because I'm going to be proving the point of something that each and every one of us at one time or another forgot. And I'm here to bring it back to your remembrance. So, we're going to talk about something that is going to continue to challenge everything you think that you know as reality. And we are living in what is called even in the Bible, the matrix. This is not the movie. But this is a spiritual system of deception that has been operating since being removed from the garden of Eden. I want to make sure we're clear here. And we got to understand that this matrix is found in how we reason. Is how we reason. How we think about and what we know what is good and evil. This is what's going to go down. So I'm going to start where I know preachers won't go here. They won't start here. But but I am, remember, I'm left-handed, I'm unorthodox. They call me, I'm unorthodox anyway. So I'm going to start with this paradox. Something that looks contradictory, but it actually is a truth. So let's do this. Let's, let's look at this. Let's go over here to Isaiah. We're going to look at Isaiah chapter 45. We're going to pick it up at verse 7. We're going to look at this paradox. This is a hardcore paradox right here, but it's going to shock you. It says, "I, Jehovah, I form the light, I create darkness. I make peace, I create evil. I, the Lord, I, the Spirit of God, do all these things. I do all these things." This is not a statement of confusion of man's philosophy, but it is a spiritual mirror reflecting the deeper reasoning of the heart. So it's written in the speech of the Most High where one who will discern the spiritual eyes and not with carnal logic. So we're going to do something a little bit different today, spirit to flesh. I'm going to talk to you face to face to make sure you understand what we're talking about. So light and darkness, peace and evil. You see what it said? Light and darkness, peace and evil. See, they appear as similitudes, like the eyes. Like the eyes. Let me, let me, let me, let me, let me do something. Let me do something. Um, let's look at this. Matthew 6:20. Matthew 6:22. I'm getting old. I'm getting old, but it's okay. Okay. It tells 6:22. It says, "The light of the body is the eye." I want you to understand where I'm coming from. "If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness?" That's an interesting statement, but it's talking about what I'm talking about. It's going to talk about what we're getting into because there's a meaning that manifests those who are trained to see the unseen. See, when, when the heart first receives word, the natural reasoning might protest. It's going to protest something. How can the Almighty create evil? Yeah, everybody just, just say I if you just sit there and just have that thought. There's no, no reason with that. Just, hey, how can the Most High create? Just put, just say I, just show you putting your hands up, just say I. That's, that's cool. I understand it. I understand that because it says that, but you sit there and say, how, how in the world can the Most High, can he do that? Because that's weird. That's what I'm saying. But people would take that as saying no, no, no, but I'm explaining to you. I'm going to explain it to you why it's not evil. See, yet lies the, the, the sacred mystery that separates those who walk by sight from those who walk by faith. So the divine paradox that reveals this, reveals and it unveils the deeper spiritual reality that functions through reasoning of the heart. Keep that in mind. Reason of the heart. This inner sanctuary where faith operates as the very substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. You follow me? So when we're looking at this and we got to look at the eye. So look at it this way. The word evil, the word evil in the spiritual significance in what we want to understand, evil or calamity, adversity or trouble, it functions, it functions as circumstances. Keep that in mind because it's going to be real important to you later. It functions as circumstances designed by Jehovah to probe the chambers of every heart. That's the catch. I'm going to show you what I'm talking about. I'm going to show you what I'm talking about. They're going to look at something in Genesis chapter 1, looking at verse 31. We're going to look at this 1:31. Watch. It's going to trip you out. "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, and remember, it was very good." Huh? And he did this here. Now, you guys see the point. So I get what you're saying because I was at that point also. But I too learned. So establishing both this is a proven ground of adversity of the abundance of blessings are good. The spiritual purpose Moses also warned us about was Israel's status that could subvert, that could subvert by the unrighteous. I want, I want to make sure we're all on the same page here. We're going to go to somewhere. We're going to look at this in Isaiah chapter 10:1. I know it's right there, but it's going to tell us about it. It says, "Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and in that write grievous that which they have prescribed." Okay, we got to understand this because this is showing morality itself. When unattached from Yhovah's precepts, it becomes relative. This thing needs to turn, you know, it shows what's going on here. So, and it becomes relative, incorruptible. But we want to understand what it's doing. So when we're looking at even when we're looking at the, the Hebrew way of seeing this, those who has crossed over now, we're looking at again Isaiah 45 and we're going to look at verse 7 and it says, "I make peace and create evil." So we got to look at the Hebrew side of that and it functions as the image of iniquity, works of flesh, sin, wickedness. Everybody follow me? That's how this is working. So when we see this in 45:7, evil functions as the image we can see it, the iniquity, the works of flesh, sin and wickedness is not moral evil as man comprehends, but is rather calamity, adversity, but troubles that serve as divine purpose. It's like a surgeon, a surgeon's knife, and it appears, the surgeon's knife, it appears harmful, yet it brings healing. So the Lord creates circumstances that test and purify the reasoning of the heart. So the same thing you see when a person sees a surgeon's knife, it appears, it cuts. It's, it's like a razor blade. It cuts and many of us has been operated on at one time or another and you have fell under the doctor's scalpel or the knives. But yet that knife, what they do, they, they, they bring healing under that, under that, what, what we go under. So when the Lord spoke to Moses not in dark speeches, but face to face, even apparently what we're doing right now, yet to his people, he revealed them through parables, similar to dark sayings, which I am instructed to show you through those. So the same thing is so faith must see through the veil of the natural into the spiritual reality beyond on what the Bible says. Meaning this, let's look at something. Actually, we'll pull it up on this one. We'll see this in Proverbs chapter 1, verse 6. And it tells us, it says, "To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise are their dark sayings." Exactly what I'm talking about. Exactly what I'm talking about. So, we got to look at this. Understand it. So, I want you to understand a parable. A white out, straight out parable. And this is a parable. What we're going to look at is two gates. The two gates. And there were two gates in the city. One, one golden sunlight, the other veiled as night mist. Everybody follow me? We have two gates. One is golden sunlight on that side. The other one is veiled in night mist. Now, the main thing is we're going to find out something. We got a proud merchant and we got a different one. We got just a craftsman. So we're going to look at the proud merchant seeking only light that the natural eye can perceive. Entered into the sunlit gate but found the ground beneath him shifting. The shifting is as his pride. It blinded him from the path of the true direction. That's what happened. Let's look at something and then we're going to move forward. We're going to see something in Ezekiel. Ezekiel 12:2. "The soul of man that dwelleth in the midst, in that's in you, of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see." You see what's going on? This is what I was explaining to you the entire time. "And see not." So even though you see because you seen this lit pathway, you decided to take that path, but you really don't see. "They have ears to hear and they hear not: for they are a rebellious house." So your body is rebellious. That's what's going on. Meaning this. So as this goes on, this blazing sun of prosperity, he doesn't see. It's hidden from him in plain sight. So what was hidden from him in sight are the eternal stars. Those celestial promises, those shine only in the darkest, the darkest trials or the darkness of those trials. You follow me? But but now you got this other one. You got, you got a humble craftsman. A humble craftsman and is guided by the unseen hand. Entered into the midst. But the way was uncertain, yet his heart was steadfast in obedience. So he, when he walked through the valley of the shadows, his natural light failed him. Yet his spiritual eyes were open. You see? You see where this is going? Let's look at something. Let's look at something. We're going to keep, we're going to keep pushing this. And we're going to see this in Psalms 119, but we're going to look at this at 130. And it says, "The entrance of thy word giveth light." Exactly the point. "The entrance of thy word giveth light." It gives us understanding unto the simple. Exactly the point. So what we're looking at and we're understanding in the darkness of adversity, we beheld what the daylight of ease have concealed, the stars of the divine promise. That declared his faithfulness in the night seasons. I want you to think about that. I want you to truly think about that. We, we have to understand what is happening here. See, through adversity, we learn. Through adversity, we learn. We learn what we must do. We learn what what's happening. In first and second Peter chapter 1, verse 19, it says, "We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts." Exactly what's happening. Until the day star, the day star, we need that the day star arise in your heart. Exactly what's happening. See, the night reveals stars, those celestial witnesses of God's covenant, those who remain invisible when the sun of earthly comfort, the earthly comforts shine so brightly. That's when we get comforted. That's when we see that sun. Oh, yay. Yay. Hey, hey, sun's out. I can see that's your comfort. Shine so brightly. But the natural stars cannot be seen in daylight. They, they are concealed. You can't see it. Yet those stars that's behind what you're blind to are continuously shining in heaven. So the promises of the Almighty are forever present, but become visible only to those who walk through the darkness of faith, and they have to walk through there with faith. So many of us have discovered that the spiritual blindness comes not from the absence of light, but it comes from the presence of too much earthly illumination. So you look at this and you see this counterfeit, this radiance of this, and it blinds the soul to eternal realities. Think about it. In the night of trials, what would have been hidden in the eyes, been hidden from you. You see this also in Luke chapter 19:42. "Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes." Exactly. Because in the day of prosperity, now the blazing forth the stars of remembrance, the onyx stone that divide the faithfulness engraved upon the darkness of the sky. We have to understand that we must remember and consider the two men dwelling in the same place, doing during the same city, the economic collapse. But when we see in this, this living parable, the heart of reason and determined the spiritual sight. The first man, as he said, he built his tower that he trusts upon shifting sand, earthly success. But when the storm came, the foundation crumbled. His heart waxed end of gross that he could neither see with his eyes nor hear with his ears of understanding. The same when you come to these divine trials. We sent to refine became though as carnal reasoning and pure evil. You, you, you stumble the stone rather than making that a cornerstone. Like the merchant in, in lit, in a, in a lit gate. He had been blinded by false daylight. Many of us has been blinded by false daylight. Earthly security, unable to perceive the stars of God's faithfulness that shines only in adversity night. The second man, David, had learned not to trust the arm of flesh, and the living word discerns through the intent of the heart. When he came to the temple, struck the inner man and the calamity, but the divine chasing of the Lord, the manifesting through the apparent adversity. This is what happens. I want to put up a couple of things. I want to show you something. We're going to put up something. Let's go here. We're going to put up Proverbs 3 and 12. And we want, Peter 2:19. We're going to go back here. 2:19. And we want 2 Corinthians 5:7. And it says, "For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth." While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption. For of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought into bondage. "For we walk by faith, not by sight." Yah made this gate. Two gates, night and day. Two gates to reveal true faith. Do you walk by faith or do you walk by sight? Which one do you walk by? See, don't sit and play a game with yourself because you can see many people put in chat, oh, I walk by this, I walk by this. But then don't put in there a lie. That's the thing. You don't put lies in there because do you walk by faith or do you walk by sight? Because it's always going to be revealed in fire. Always. Let me show you what I'm talking about. We'll see this in, uh, Hebrews. And we're going to look at this in Hebrews 11:1. "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Evidence of things unseen. We got so many honest people here today. We got so many people here that truly understand what's going on. Many people truly see what's going on. We, we, this is what we have to work on. We truly have to work on this. And I'm talking about the joy that I see right now because we come to the reality of what we're doing. It's a beautiful thing. And we have to change that. That's what we have to change. We have to change to understand we have to walk by faith because we come to the reality of what we've been doing by, by, by what we, what we've been doing in the past. So this is why the same thing is, we can change this to where we can walk 100% by faith. All I want you to do is listen to the voice on how it's going to direct you on what you need to do. That's it. You don't pay anything. You don't do anything. You just understand and you go back and you check through scripture what is being told to you. So, as the stars of heaven shine as bright when the earthly lights are extinguished, so the promises of eternal becomes visible to those who learn to see in darkness of trials, while the brightness of earthly success is concealed. So we have to look at this, this understanding and see how this unveiled this spiritual function within us. We have to be able to do this. And the same thing as I said, for faith is a substance of things hoped for, evidence of things not seen. Faith is not blind believing, but spiritual sight. The ability to perceive spiritually reality while the natural realm is there. So the divine forming both light and spirit. Same thing we're looking at. Um, I'm going to go back over here to Psalms. Let's look at something. Psalms 119, verse 30. 119 and verse 130. "The entrance of thy word giveth light." That's where I want you to put all your trust in the Bible that you have with you. You put your trust there. Put your trust in no man. Put no trust in no man. See, as we, as we go through this, we're going to change a little bit to to get to get a clearer picture on what's happening here. In Exodus chapter 10, verse 21, we're going to see something and we're going to get a better understanding. It says, "And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt." I want you to understand that's over the house of bondage. We're going to get more into that. Even the darkness that we, that which may be felt. So we have to function as this celestial balance, weighing in the hearts of these legal matters that that we have before us. We have to deal with this. We have to understand what's going on. So I need to modify a few things. So I might have to switch a few things here and there just to still come to the point, but just to change a few things here. But let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity. So I want you everybody to understand where I'm coming from. These are the ones who said they walk by sight. I was there. I was, I know right where you are. So if I know right where you are, I can give you advice for myself to you on what needs to be done to change that work in progress, but you can do it. I know if I did it, I know you can. But you have to have

The ability to perceive reality while dwelling in the natural realm. You have to remember this mystery, each and every one of you guys.

The Lord said to Moses, he said that to Moses, it's right here what he wanted to do. And that tangible spiritual substance of this natural man cannot comprehend, for it speaks in a language of the heart, of deeper chambers, and this is what I want to share with you.

So, this dark speech of this kingdom, I want you to think about something. Just like I said, I want you to think about something. There was once this, this, this, we look at this, this, this weaver who crafted garments. I want you to think about this. This weaver is talking about God. But he crafted two garments, and it's from the looms. One of the finest linen, dedicates every eye in the rays of all light. The other one with such dense weaving, it can only grasp by the finger. You should tell by fingers upon the skin when you feel it. How was that?

So the proud merchant, remembering only the shimmering garment, declared his superior, wrapped himself in his beauty. That's what many of us have done. That's what many of us have done. Yet, when the storm come and gathered, the winds tore through this delicate, this delicate garment, the threads leaving each and every one of us is left us exposed and shivering. It's what he did.

But the thing is, the humble craftsman, the humble craftsman, however, chose the garment of the visible darkness which could only be felt by the touch, known by more than sight alone. But when the tempest came, this substantial covering protected him, but he could be felt, his substance. The substance endured in the mere appearance that fades away.

This speaks to this parable. Faith is a substance of things hoped for. Hebrews 11:1 at its finest. Not dainting wishing, but tangible spiritual reality that can be grasped by the inner man, felt in the chambers of the heart, known through the tribulations of this proven ground. That was the only point we need that.

So when we looking at these paradox, these want to be contradictions, Yhovah form in both light right here. The entrance of the word giveth light and giveth understanding to the simple. Any dead darkness that way me, that may be felt. Exodus 10:21. The Lord said unto Moses, "Stretch forth thy hand towards heaven, that it may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even the darkness which may be felt." He did these both.

Job 3:6 tells us, "Let me be weighed in even balance, that God may know my integrity." This is my advice to each and every one of us. We need to understand the similitude of the two chambers. This place of Pharaoh, we see in the Bible, Pharaoh is the king of sin. Stood these two rooms, one flood with light of the golden torches where men and boasts in their sight and they mocked those who spoke unseen realities. One chamber was filled with darkness which may be felt, the substantial presence that could be touched, grasp and known through the senses beyond the eye.

So when the divine came, Jehovah, those in the torch lit chamber found their flames distinguished, their confident sight blinded, and they themselves suddenly groped at midnight when it was day as darkness. They was groping as it was midnight. Yet they had no familiarity of navigating by the torch by faith. And they entered the confidence of the heart. They stumbled and stroked their heads. They could not move from the place for three days.

Blindness is the comparing of more mortal failure. Let's look at something in Isaiah 29 and 10. I want to show you something. 29:10. It said, "For the Lord have poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and they closed your eyes, the prophets of your rulers, the seers have covered." Mortal failure, reliance on false light, blindness when judgment falls. But those who have learned to walk and felt darkness, who are trained their spiritual senses to perceive this, this, this substance beyond sight. These move with confidence even when natural light fails. They had discovered the darkness which may be felt, the substantial light which can see.

We remember this word and never forget it, as the scripture shows us. 2 Corinthians chapter 5, picking it up at verse 7, he tells us this. He says, "For we walk by faith, not by sight." The true mortal functioning, training the inner compass of faith. This is supposed to be each and every one of us. The parable of the lion and the seer stumbles.

See, when we see these sayings and we want to understand more, so what's happening. We want to understand exactly what must be done. Same we see here in Genesis chapter 1 verse 2. He's making sure we understand something. The earth move without form and void, and darkness upon the face of the deep, and the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

See, two men journey through these treacherous mountains. One born blind from birth, the other blessed with keen sight. When they began to journey in daylight, the same man mocked his companion, rushing ahead in confidence of the visual perception. But when night fell, the darkness covered the face of the deep. The roles reversed. The blind man who have long practiced in feeling his way through the substantial darkness, navigated by the torture, the sound, and enter into the guidance. And those with sight never develop. His hands has learned to feel darkness as a familiar friend. Reading through the textures of stone, sensing the pressures of the winds and warnings, knowing by touch what others know by sight.

It tells us, it tells us, lets us know faith is the substance of things. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, evidence of things not seen. So in his depation, we look, he reached out and he grasped the darkness itself, but found his untrained senses. He could make nothing substantial. While the blind man navigated darkness with confidence, this paradox goes back again. 2 Corinthians 5:7. "For we walk by faith, not by sight." Meaning we have to navigate with spiritual senses that feel, touch, know the invisible realities that the natural eye that can perceive.

Darkness is a substance in judgment. Darkness of Egypt, the house of bondage. But not just absence of light, but the positive substance, something that that presses against in against our skin. It fills our lungs and it could be handled like clay. So so to our spiritual darkness that Jehovah permits and his true servants. Life is not emptiness but a substantial presence proven around where faith learns to feel a way towards unseen promises, as the Egyptians, the citizens of bondage experience their spiritual condition made tangible to the physical darkness, so faithful discoveries that trials are not void spaces but dense that divine presence darkness that may be felt because it carries the weight of eternal purposes. The texture a divine love walking through apparent adversities. Darkness is the substance of of judgment. They can't be felt.

Let's look at this. Go back over here to Exodus and chapter 10 verse 21. And we're going to see, we're going to see and get a little bit closer to this. The Lord said unto Moses, "Stretch out thy hand towards heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt." Moses stretched out his hand towards heaven, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt. Three days they saw no one other, neither rose any form his place for three days. But all the children of Israel, all those servants had light in their dwellings. Had light in their dwellings. Not in their land, in their dwellings. In their bodies. The paradox. So why people thought it was in the land? It was in their dwellings.

Let's look at something. Let's look at something and we'll go a little bit deeper. We'll look at this in Wisdom of Solomon chapter 17, looking at verse two and three, and then we're going to jump. It says, "For when the unrighteous men thought to oppress the holy nation, they being shut up in their houses, in their bodies, and prisoners of darkness, and fed her with the bonds of a long night, lay their exile from the eternal providence. While they supposed to lie hid in their secret sins, they were scattered under dark veil of forgetfulness." Exactly the point. Many of us forgot who we are, but horribly astonished in the terrible with the strange aspirations.

Let's drop down to 17 and see. Pick this up. For whether we, for whether he were husbandman or sheep herder or shepherd or labored in the field, he was overtaken and endured that necessity which could not be avoided. For they were all bound with one chain of darkness. With one chain of darkness. Darkness equal tangible manifestation of bondage. Never forget this. Darkness will always equals tangible manifestation of bondage. Mirroring the inward corruption, being a prisoner of your own body. For the corruptible body passed down to the soul, the earthly tabernacles weighed down in the mind and amused.

We'll see. Let's look at something. Before I even get there, let's go look at something. Wisdom of Solomon chapter 9 in verse 15. We'll see this here, because besides talking about it, we're going to see it. "For the corruptible body pressed down in the soul, and eternal tabernacle weighed down in the mind, mused, mused." Interesting. We need to meditate and consider. So, so the mind that meditate upon many things. Interesting. Upon many things. We we have to understand what we're doing. Understand what we're going through.

The reason why is the parable even of the black and white veil in flesh. Even us people, even us as people. It's a parable. Did everybody know that you have black people and you have white people? It's a parable. The thing is this, black and white is revealed in flesh and spirit. Every human wears his garment of skin, felt darkness, not mere as external shadows, but as eternal prisons described.

So it tells you right here in 2 Corinthians chapter 5, picking up at verse 4. It says, "For we that are in this tabernacle, we're in our bodies do groan, being burdened, not for what we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life." Just as I said, a lot of this stuff going to be revealed to you today. This world is incarnal wisdom. We call white is a sign of purity and black is a sign of evil. You can, if you can go in any dictionary, you'll see it. But as I said, this prophecy is being fulfilled. Even the encoding of these definition in decad in dictionary you see in the language, but this is the oxymoron, the dark speech of of our age. Woe to them, they call evil good and good evil. I want to show it to you to where we can see this in Isaiah. We look at this in Isaiah chapter 5, picking up at verse 20. It tells us it's real clear. It says, "Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil. Put darkness for light and light for darkness. It put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter." Interesting.

The true defilement is not in the outward color, but it's in the inward reasoning of the heart. It tells us this, and let's see what's going on in Mark chapter 7 verse 20 and 23. And he said, "That which come out of the mouth defileth a man. And from within, and for and from within out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thieves, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, evil understanding, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile the man." That's what does that, that what defiles the man. True defilement.

So what we see is what men call pure and defiled becomes the inverted thought of spiritual blindness. The white linen of self-righteousness is concealed in corruption. Did you know that? It's oxymoron. We always been here. Let's, let's take it a little bit deeper in Zechariah. We look at this in Zechariah 3:3 and 4. It tells us, "Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and stood before the angel. And the angel answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with a change of raiment." Interesting. The invert.

So those who call dark may be those souls have refined by the profound affliction to shine in the radiance of truth. We have to look at it for what it is. You can even see that my people is hated without cause, for their vintage is blacker than coal, and they are not known in the streets. Their skin cleaveth to their bones. It is withered. It is become like a stick. They that be slain with the sword are better than they that has been slayed with hunger. And they pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field. We have to understand what's going on here. Oxymoron.

In 30:30, we'll see this here. Even more so. "My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burnt with heat." But what they'll do, they'll try to change it. Well, you're not that dark. My people are black. I know who I am. That's why people know who they are. We are people hated without a cause.

So the flesh, black or white, is but temporary garments felt pressing down on spirit. While the true good and evil are weighed, not by skin, but by the balance of Yhovah, light and judgment. It tells us who exactly who we are to show you why it's so serious and what we need to do. The same we see in Job. We see this here in Job chapter 31 and verse 6. It says, "Let me be weighed even in the balance, that God may know my integrity." Exactly the point. We have to remember who we are.

I want you to remember something also. We take this over to Genesis chapter 2 and looking at uh verse 19 and 20. It says, "From out of the ground God formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the air and brought them unto Adam." Brought him unto the people that I was born unto, brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them. And whatsoever Adam called every creature, that it was, that was the name thereof. And Adam, yes, Adam, gave ways, gave ways to all cattle and to the fowl. One second. That thing went down. Gave ways to the cattle to the father of there and every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a help meet for him. This was our problem. This is our complete problem. We have to look upon who we are.

This is why no one should look upon the flesh. People move according to their spirits. Like at the movies people show today. You see the evil movies that you see that's out there. You see horror movies that's put out by a certain people. They showing you what's in their hearts. Killings and rapes and head removals. All these evil things are there. Spirits showing you who they are. So I ask you the question. When you show me who you truly are, you think I don't see you? That's the interesting thing. That is the most interesting thing.

So we see what's happening here and we understand what's happening all the time. Exodus, we want to look at two things. Exodus uh 20 and 21, but I want to pull another one. And I also want Psalms 139 in verse 11. And it says, "If I say, surely the darkness shall cover me, even the night shall be light about me." And the people stood a far off. And Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was. Where God was.

For those who are trained in faith sight, substantial darkness becomes the navigable than deceptive light. Faith sight. Faith sight. is the substantial darkness is more navigable than deceptive light. You see more accidents in the daytime than it is at night. The same thick darkness that overwhelmed Egypt. The people stood a far off and Moses drew near the darkness where God was become the sacred place where the Lord dwelt, revealing himself not despite the darkness but through it. This is because the darkness of Egypt is the garments of Adam or identical spiritual realities, both tangible veils that prove whether the soul will walk by faith or by sight. It's always been there.

So I say this to you to where we can understand exactly where I'm coming from. Exactly where I'm coming from. And we'll see this in Genesis chapter 3, picking it up at verse 21. You can understand exactly who I am and where I'm coming from. And he says, "Unto Adam also unto his wife, did the Lord God, the spirit of God make coats of skin and clothe them." Exactly the point. This is the darkness which can be felt. This is the darkness that can be felt that we carry upon our souls. These garments of morality are not just coverings about tangible shadows, but they are the perpetual veil of flesh that clings to the spirit, requiring faith to navigate through these deceptive situations on what we dealing with today. Interesting. Interesting.

We have to understand what we are doing here. What is required of us, as it says here in Romans. Let's see what it says here. Really interesting. It says, "But I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, the spirit, and bringing me into captivity of the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" That we was clothed in. As it said right here, we're going to keep going back there. Unto Adam, unto each and every one of us, unto each and every one of us, he made coats of skin. He made our bodies from the dust of the ground. So that dust that we are made from, that dust we shall return to by the sweat of thy brow. Actually, he says this. I'm going to take you to it. I'm going to let you see it while I'm talking about it. He says, "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." Exactly the point. Exactly the point. These bodies was not made for eternal purposes. They was not made for that. There was temporary purposes.

Let's see something in Wisdom of Solomon. He gives us clarity to this. Wisdom of Solomon chapter 9:15. He makes it a little bit clear for us. Put this. It says, "For the corruptible body presses down the soul." It presses down the soul. That's what you're waved with. You weigh by the soul. You you pressing down the soul. The earthly tabernacle we wear down the mind with muse, with with with with this this this meditation that you're doing and considering upon many things. Now it's making sense, right? It belongs to the earth. So a death that comes back to the earth, but it wears us and we have had our own flesh. We are the felt the darkness and we are prisoners of darkness. We are the prisoners of this flesh. We are the prisoners of this flesh. Understand who we are. Understand what we up against.

In Ephesians chapter 6, looking at verse 12, it says, "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood." So, you're not wrestling against what you're in. You're not wrestling against that. Why do you think you wrestling against that? That's crazy. But against principalities, against powers, and against rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. So why, so why is this going on? Yet these dark powers speak through the very flesh that we inhibit. We inhibit these things. But the spirit is different. The spirit is different. I promise you that. And spirit tells us this in in Ecclesiastes chapter 12, looking at verse 7. It says, "So shall the dust return to the earth as it was." As he tells us over here, dust thou art and dust thou shalt return. And the dust shall return to the earth as it was. It's going to go back to what it was. The spirit shall return unto God who gave it. But it was based on our reasoning if it will be accepted. It was based on our reasoning if it'll be accepted.

See, the spirit of Jehovah, his gift of life placed inside these clay vessels of felt darkness that we're in. The flesh perishes, but the spirit goes back to its source, standing before the father who gave it. So this separation shows why man man cannot trust flesh. Now do you understand why I always make that statement? This shows you that this clay body you cannot trust. For it is a tangible darkness that passes away. But we must walk by spirit which is alone endures before Jehovah is in light.

So here lies the similitude. This sensation we feel through our flesh. This darkness that may be felt testifying against the spirit grown in the burden. And as it says in 2 Corinthians 5:4, we was just there. And I'm going to sit there and see if I can get there. Right here. It says, "For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened, not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon." We're clothed upon. We have something upon us. These things are flesh. But we are clothed upon, not being unclothed, but we are clothed upon with morality that might swallow up of life to try to get to the same thing what we've been doing.

17:2 it tells us again, "For when the unrighteous men thought to oppress the holy nation, they being shut up in their their houses and our bodies, the prisoners of darkness, the federates with the bonds of the long night, lay their exile from the eternal providence. For while they supposed to lie hid in their their their secret sins, they were scattered under a dark veil of forgetfulness." We have forgot who we are, being horribly astonished and troubled with strange aspirations.

Go back to 17 and say it again. "For whether we were husbandmen or shepherds, or labor in the field, he was overtaken and endured the necessity which could not be avoided. For they were all bound with one chain of darkness." Yet those who have learned to hear God's voice is this felt darkness of the same prison that becomes the sanctuary. The same darkness, the same identical darkness. So, we have to really, really pay attention to what's going on here.

Let's look at something in First Peter 3:19. "By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison." That's what's going on right now. But which went preached unto the spirits in our bodies. "For we walk by faith, not by sight." We long not to escape the body, but we have transformed from the failed darkness into the failed light, from prison into a temple, from bondage into liberty. 3:21 going to always say that, don't change. That is not going to change.

And as it says here in 3:2, "Unto Adam, unto us, unto our forefathers also unto his wife, that the Lord God may make coats of skin and clothe them." Yes, he did. And it tells us right back down here in 10:21-23. It tells us, "And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand towards heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt." These garments, and he did it, and now they got to return too. We see all this Ezekiel, I mean Ecclesiastes chapter 12 verse 7. "But the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it." Learning whether we trusted in the testimony, we walk by faith in the spirit in the time to return to God who gave it.

So, we got to remember these paradox woven in the tapestry on what's going on. I want to show you something else. I want to show you a paradox woven in this in this here. I want to show you something that that's really disturbing, but we're going to show it to you. In Sarakapter 17:30 tells us something. And he says, "For all things cannot be in men, because the Son of man is not immortal." So we had this paradox. He himself bears who? Jesus, Yahawasha, whatever name you choose to use. He bears the very image of the son of man. But I'm gonna show you something that people find really disturbing.

In Wisdom of Solomon chapter 2 and verse 23, it tells us, "God created man to be immortal and made him to be the image of his own eternity. Nevertheless, through envy of the devil came death into the world, that they do hold of his side do find it." Man is not immortal, but God made him to be immortal. It's an interesting statement, isn't it? Simple analogy to be worked out. Appear contradictory, uncontradictory. This is why you watch who you learn from, because people will see these. They wouldn't pair them together like you seeing me doing here. I'm showing you that appears as a contradiction, but it's not. He created man to be immortal. But man, because man is not immortal. Interesting. Because man was created in his own eternity. So through envy of the serpent brought death. So clothing man in these garments to skin. Keep that in mind.

So he clothed us in these garments of skin that renders flesh mortal, spirits enshrouded. That's all that happens. He enshrouded our spirits with flesh. So when the eternal word took upon itself darkness which may be felt, these same mortal garments, he became the son of man in truth, willing accepted the limitations that all things cannot be in men. Due to fallen morality, the divine R&D unfolds. He who is immortal by nature, the tangible darkness of our flesh redeem those created for immortality, but bound by death of envy. Demonstrating that though felt darkness of morality, faith must learn to perceive the substantial light of eternity that no garment of skin can contain nor extinguish. It's impossible.

So the parable is of the Israel spirit. Nothing more, nothing less, because the spirit is always the spirit is is immortal. That's that's that's that's clear. But the flesh is not. The parable is the enshrouded spirit. So the first male and female fell. So the Lord not just clothed their bodies, but wrapped their very beings in morality of darkness. Skin that can be felt pain. It can feel pain. Eyes that could be deceived. Ears that could hear the serpent lies. These garments of skin became the darkness which may be felt. Not eternal circumstances alone, but the very vessel of our earthly pilgrimage. That's what happened.

And he tells us this. We're going to look at it. I want to show it to you in Psalms chapter 139:11. He shows it to us. "I say, surely the darkness shall cover me." This flesh. Interesting. Just a full thought. "Even the night shall be light about me." Exactly the point. So when we looking at this, we understand more now. So the same thing when we go back to the law, Exodus 20:21, we get a better understanding. The people stood a far off, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was. Common sense made made more sense now because the adversity permitted by Jehovah so live.

So also when we looked at the parable of John or David, this parable of the divine, this teaching method, this teaching method, one sees the adversity of ruin blinded by flesh, the other recognizes the cubicle of faith, this refinement. So the trial of faith is much more precious than gold that perishes. Did you know that? Interesting, ain't it? To show you even more so, we get into these, get into these understanding. First Peter chapter 1 verse 7. "So the trial of your faith, you know, this is a trial of your faith. It's not a trial of anything else. It's a trial of your faith. What you going to trust? You going to trust what you see? You going to trust what you hope for." Now, do you understand? You remember it's a trial of your faith. The trial of your faith being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of salvation of Yhovah. It always has been. Always been. It's a trial of your faith.

Let's look at something. I want to show you a deeper mystery. I want to show you something in Job 32:1. I want to show you something. In Job 32 verse 1, and it tells you, it says, "Now these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes, in his own understanding." So for even this self-righteous pride and envy logged in within the heart, this chamber Yhovah soon as that's there, though Yhovah permits adversity not as cruel punishment but a spiritual surgery that exposes what lies hidden. So we got to consider John, who towering success is concealed, even as we sit there and say, anger is self-justification, this pride justified rather than God. You see it here in verse two. Then Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job. Why was his wrath kindled? Because he justified himself rather than God. He justified himself rather than God. You follow me? He justified these things. So this is what we got to pay attention to. That's why it's so important. It happens.

So when the economic collapse struck, it revealed not existing spiritual blindness. The prosperity had been mass. So as garments of skin, it whispered of the ancient lie that you deserve better, but God has wronged you. Trusting your grievance above God's sovereignty. That's what a lot of people do. Job, like before, didn't want to be rebuked by that. But John's adversary exposed the hidden envy against God's grievance in his governance in the in the unrighteous anger of Jehovah's timing.

So with David was clothed with the same garment of morality, but he learned the sacred and demonstrated another son of David, a blind beggar of Jericho. Here was seen even in reality of the spiritual. Actually, we're going to tell you what, let me go here. I want to go there. Let's look at something in Luke 18:35. 35-43. We're going to read this down for a little bit. It said, "And it came to pass, that as he was come nigh unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the wayside begging. And hearing the multitude pass by, he asked what it meant. And they told him that Jesus of Nazareth passed by. And he cried, saying, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me. And they which went before rebuked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried so much the more, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me. And Jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought unto him. And when he was come come near, he asked him, saying, What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? And he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight. And Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight: thy faith hath saved thee. And immediately he received sight, and followed him, glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise unto God, not to Jesus, to God."

So we got to look at with the inside the heart of David like seeing a blind beggar. So when adversity crawled past, it required not why me, but what is the Lord doing? When it was told the divine chastening, when approaching, he cried out without accusations, but with submission. Not with accusation, not with pointing fingers, but with submission. Son of David, have mercy on me. Not with accusation, submission. His darkness wrapped in flesh became the roadside where the spiritual beggar recognized that flesh comes by hearing and the hearing of the word of God. Actually, I'm going to show you that. Show it to you. I'm I'm going to show you everything I'm talking about. We got to understand what's happening here in Romans. Uh we'll see this here in Romans 10:17. We'll see it here. "Then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." That's all I'm talking.

So we look at this the same as the centurion Cornelius who received a vision about the third hour. Get a time, go read it. Peter, whose heart was open to this divine similitude, this great sheet that was descended down from heaven. But both saw beyond the natural veil of God's eternal purposes because they had learned to walk by faith, not by sight. Yet these, it's not absent visions, but they're present spiritual eyes, as a prophet declared, as the prophet declared.

Let's look at this. Let's let's let's just pull more into this. In Ezekiel, we see something more. In Ezekiel chapter 12, picking up at verse 2, it tells us even more. "Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house." Tell me 33 and uh Job 33. We'll pick it up in 29 and 30. "Lo, all these things worketh God often times with man, to bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living."

So as we continuing, many of us is going through these trials, the same trial that reveal that's we're hidden within ourselves, self-righteous one heart become this sacred surgery open to the spiritual eyes of another, not because of the adversity differs, but because one who walks by sight of flesh, while others walk by flight, sight by by by faith in sight. So we have to learn to cry that same cry. Son of David, have mercy upon me. Servant of the beloved, have mercy upon me. Not why has this happened to me? Not that have mercy upon me. Not why this has happened to me. This is a proving ground because we got to remember few things I showed you earlier. I was just want to bring back to you. Remember says, "And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good." It was very good. Understand what we're talking about. Understand where we're coming from. Understand what we must do.

As he even says here in Psalms 23:4, "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art, thy perfection beauty is with me. Thy rod and thy staff comfort me." We keep that. We keep that. We don't let these things go. We hold on to what we see. We hold on what we know. Each and every one of us is it's there. For I speak unto them in parables. He gonna always speak in parables. This is why I keep saying make sure you know who you learning from. Cuz if you don't, I promise you, you will be hidden. You will die. This is not something where we come to just commune. You come to learn what you must do to receive eternal life. So he going to speak to you in parables when you read it. But how can you understand it without a preacher? How can you hear him except he be sent? How can these things happen? This is what's happening. This is being fulfilled to you today. Many people is blinded of truth. Many will continue to stay blinded of truth.

So he says so he speak to them in parables because they see and see not. They hear and they hear not. Neither do they understand. Many things that I showed you today, they don't understand. The differences is not lies in the message, but it's the spiritual condition of the receptor.

I want to show you a dark similitude. We're going to look at this in Genesis chapter 2 and verse 11. I want to show you something. I want you to closely understand what I'm saying. It says, "The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold: and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone." This flow of this spiritual obedience distinguishes the true treasure of unchanging morality from the counterfeit ethics of men. So through Jehovah's unchanging precepts, morality flows like a spiritual river. I want you to write this down. Pison. I want you to understand where I'm coming from. Pison is like a spiritual flowing of obedience. Morality guides the people into righteous into righteousness like like a living stream. Havilah is like a place of gold and the Onyx stone. Morality becomes a refined treasure, stabilized the conduct of divine wisdom, and the Onyx stone by itself is the pure in remembrance. Morality serves as the eternal witness engraved upon our hearts to reflect the father's statutes. Keep that with you always. Things that is not written, but spiritual understanding is given. The honey stone is a symbol of remembrance. The soul that's engraved upon precept upon precept. Yhovah wrote those things are what we got to understand. We got to keep them. Keep them with you always.

Hebrews 8:10, it tells us a little bit more. We get a little bit better understanding. It says, "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them on their hearts; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people." This is an echo of here of Jeremiah 31:33. This is an echo that echoed from time time beginning of time and continue through these times. 31:33. It tells us how it keeping through all these generations. "But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it on their hearts; and will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people." It then echoed through generations, through generations, through generations, just echoing, echoing, constant. We have to understand this, this matrix, this system. You have one time to dance here. One. Many people are going to die here. Many people going to have the second death. The flesh is going to go back to the ground from which it came. Many spirits going to be tossed back and not accepted. Hopefully you guys remember who you are. We got to understand what the truth is. Jehovah designed this testing ground, this proving ground. And he tells you this in Deuteronomy chapter 8 verse 2. It tells us, it says, "And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no."

This is where light, darkness, peace and evil all are instructional instruments for separating fleshly sight from spiritual vision. Darkening then this evil in itself, this veil that through the faithful must press like the cloud. So through the children of Israel pass through the the wilderness of testing. Have this hidden hearts revealed and made known. We have to understand who we are and what we are about. Offenses must come. Those must happen here. Keep this with you. Let me always let you know what what we up against. Why are we going through this this place? Let's see something in Matthew. And actually, I want to go to another place actually thinking about it so I won't forget. Uh we want to look at Luke 7:23. I'll know why in a minute. But anyway, it says, "Woe unto this world because of offenses!" Exactly what I'm talking about. "For it must it must it must needs be that offenses come." Everybody follow me. Offenses against his people must happen. Everybody follow me. They have to happen. Offenses must happen. There's no other way. But woe to that man by whom the offense cometh. See, we don't want to be the one who's bringing the offense. We cannot be the one that is bringing the offense. That can be many people. Husband, wives, children, cousins, mothers, fathers. The one who's bringing the offense is the adversary. It says this also in in Luke 7:23. It says, "And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me." That is highly interesting. True faith is a man that healed of blindness, having received sight, follows after the voice of the servant. These things we keep with us always. These things we must learn. These things we perceive.

But it tells us even so more so in Hebrews 11:3. It says, "Through faith we understand that the worlds was framed by the word of God so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear." Interesting, ain't it? So we see this face. It perceives an invisible architecture underlying all visible creations and functions like breathing, just like the lungs draw in unseen air and gives life to the body. Faith draws from unseen realities in the spirit to frame and manifest the the visible. So we see the natural man survive by breathing the atmosphere around him, constant quiet undertake unseen source. So faith sustains the soul. It receives the invisible word, fills the inner being, and enables the believer to walk in the newness of life. So faith is more than this in moments that must operate like breathing underwater. I've spoken about it for years that we now must understand. We have come to this so-called paradox that we have to understand to live in this world, to dwell as creatures surrounded by these heavy pressing substances are divisible, like being immersed beneath the surface where natural air is separated by the veil of water. Yet, as certain creatures draws bubbles of air beneath the waves, faith finds a way to sustain the spiritual life in reality seemingly to cut off from the pure breath. But faith seeks to hold to the substance even when surrounded by opposition.

So when we look at this adversity or seeing this unnatural spiritual existence sits the invisible breath which remains because it siphons it, even breath, even beneath the surface. Trusting that things which are not seen are eternal. Drawing on life that which is not readily visible. It tells you this same thing in 2 Corinthians chapter 4:8. It said, "While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal." Never trust in flesh. Never trust in flesh. But many of us has failed to that. Many of us fall to it.

In Romans chapter 1, looking at verse 20, it tells us, "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even as eternal power and Godhead; so they are without excuse." Faith reverses this order. Instead of drawing meaning from visible air alone, it learns to trust that air substance exists even beneath the surface, hidden yet present. Faith operates like spiritual lungs in hostile environment, refusing to drown in the visible by breathing from the invisible, turning adversity into the chamber where every breath becomes an act of agreement with God's word. You guys follow me? This is what a spiritual reality is. This is spiritual reality at its best.

In John, we see this in a little bit more in John chapter 20. Looking at verse 29, it tells us a little bit more here. And it says, "Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed." Exactly the point. True faith is the art of breathing air where others suffocate. Faith is the art of breathing air where others will suffocate. It's aligned with the divine atmosphere beneath waters of this world. So when we trusting in God's promises, spirit are accessible even where natural man sees only limitations and threats. This is how faith functions. It functions this way. Continuing this this this this inhaling God unseen life. No matter what presses in until the spiritual breath in the soul emerges and walks in reality of faith was made manifest. Exactly what we doing here.

So we have to understand how to separate everything that was already done naturally. Let me show it to you. The same thing here. The same thing which goes on every day in Genesis chapter 1, looking at verse 6. "And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so." It's interesting, ain't it? So now this becoming more interesting. Even though I read this really at the beginning, here lies the profound spiritual mystery where most perish for lack of understanding. The same divine principle that separate the waters from above, the waters below, operates within the garment of skin that we wear today, requiring that faith function as the spiritual gift that extract the breath of life from what appears to be suffocating circumstances. Did you know this? So we got

To consider the parable within the divine separation where people drown in natural water. Natural water, it is because their minds cannot conceive the air exists. Are you following me?

See, when this air existent dissolves within the liquid they see, though the oxygen dwells hidden within the water and it's compressing less than 1% compared to the air, which is 21%. So the drowning soul believes only in the visible liquid. It cannot separate the invisible breath from the tangible substance surrounding them. That's the problem people have today. So they perish not from the lack of air, but from the inability to discern that what appears as one's substance contains two distinct elements. It's clear as day.

So this is a strike, a spiritual parallel. It shows you right here. It's been here. It's been in front of your face the entire time, right here. And it's been in front of you. It says, "God said, 'Let there be the firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.'" So how do we not understand this? Because it's always been here, these two distinct elements. Just as God divided the waters from the waters, creating a firmament, separated what appeared to be one mass of water into a distinct realm, so must faith learn to separate spiritual air from fleshly water within the garments of skin.

So for the, the, the corruptible body that, that is pressed down, the soul, the earthly tabernacle weighed down, the mind, the muse on what he's been actually. Let me go back to the muse because he said this earlier. We're going to go back to this in the Wisdom of Solomon. I want to go back there to show you what, what he was talking about. 9:15, because we got, we ain't going to forget this. So for the corruptible body pressed down by the soul, in the earthly tabernacle weighed down by the mind with mules. See, this, this is a counter-thinking, counter-thinking upon many things, meditating on many things.

So we look at this. So when this pressing darkness lies in this devolved, this dissolved oxygen, God promises waiting to be extracted with the spiritual gills of faith. So the fish, we're going to look at just fish, just fish, just fish. We understand something. Fish, completely surrounded by water, pressed with the drowning water, which man lacks. The gills designed to counter this counter-current exchange. This system where blood flows opposite of water flow, ensuring that oxygen-depleted blood constantly meets oxygen-rich water. You follow me? It's, it's not, it's not, it's not even complex.

So faith is its supreme function. It creates spiritual counter-counterflow within this, this felt darkness. So while the carnal mind flows with circumstances, meaning, meaning agreeing with flesh, what flesh reports to you, "Oh, I see this water, so if I'm in this water, I'm under the water, and I go up under water, I'm going to drown." You're agreeing with that. Faith flows counter-currently, drawing life-giving promises where the very adversity that threatens to suffocate you. You got to keep this in mind.

Let's pull a little bit more. Let's go back to some remembrances. 2 Corinthians 5:4. And we also want Genesis 1:2. We, we got to have this. It's there. So we that are in this tabernacle, we are in this tabernacle, do groan, being burdened. Not that which we would be unclothed, but clothed upon. This flesh is put upon us for a reason. It's there. That mortality might be swallowed up of life. "The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." Interesting, ain't it? This divine breath hovered over this primord, this, this, this primordial chaos. This disordered state. That's all this is. This disordered state. This primordial chaos. It's a disordered state. Now, hover over the garments of skin, jumping around like fish out of water. Have you ever, have everybody just say, "Eyes"? If you ever seen a fish, they, they pull a fish out of water, they put it on the ground, it just flops, just flops around. You ever seen that? Anybody seen that? You probably see what I'm talking about. Everybody seen that. Soon as you take a fish out, he just flops around. That's what we do. We do that in water. We do that exact same thing in water. Flopping around, drowning. It's a crap. It's, it's a trap.

Let's look at Genesis 1:8. It says, "And God called the firmament Heaven." Evening and morning was the second day. That's interesting. The reason why this is so interesting because this is why the firmament called heaven. So it represents the sacred space of separation where spiritual breathing occurs. So within this felt darkness, faith creates its own firmament. This spiritual expanse where it divides the waters of adversity from the waters of divine promise. That's the, that's the whole thing. So the same crushing circumstances that drowns the carnal mind, the carnal mind, a life-giving medium for those who, who hearts possess the spiritual gills, extracting 90% of available spiritual oxygen, like whales. You like whales now, moving around in the water with physical oxygen from situations where others find only suffocating despair.

Are always coming up for air, constantly. Go down three feet, you got to come up for air because you can't breathe. Why? Because you're going to drown. This deeper mystery that mature faith learns to breathe while submerged. Discovering God's firmament operating not just above, but within us. Operating in the waters of our circumstances into a breathable atmosphere for the spirit. There's liquid trials within the flesh. Actually, I want to tell you what. I want to show you this. We're going to see something in Psalms 119 and verse 1. I know it says it there. Psalms 19:1. "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork." Exactly the point. So the inner firmament, faith's ability to divide the substance from the shadows and declare the glory to a drowning world that believes only in the water they can see. That's a lot of us. A lot of us drown because of this.

So the problem is, this goes right back to our reasoning. Goes back to that. Everybody with me? It goes back to that. Mark in chapter 2 and picking up at verse 8. "And immediately Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves. And he said unto them, 'Why reason ye these things in your hearts?'" Why are you reasonless in your heart? The Lord discerned the thoughts and the intents of the heart, seeing how each soul processes divine thoughts through either carnal or spiritual reasoning. So like divine separation of creation, the heart possesses spiritual gills that can extract oxygen of faith from pressing waters of circumstances, or it can drown in the carnal reasoning that it sees only the liquid of adversities without perceiving the dissolved promises within. So when we see Christ perceive that their hearts lack the firmament of faith, again, we lack that, the sacred space that divides the waters of human logic from the waters of divine truth, leaving them suffocating in their own reasoning rather than breathing the atmosphere of His kingdom.

Some people are going to understand exactly what I'm saying. People who just come and goes. People who just come and just check out the lesson and leave. I already know you don't understand what I'm saying this entire time. Let's look at something. Let's look at Proverbs in chapter 4 and 23. Tells us something a little bit more. It says, "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life." You see that? But then in 35, it says a little bit more. Let's go down to 35. And it tells, let's shoot, let me just click on it. 35. "Trust in the Lord with all thy heart; lean not unto thine own understanding." See, because seeing only undivided water while trusting in Yhovah creates this firmament that separates the promises from circumstances. That's what it does. The reason why it, it'll do this every time because we got to keep, we got to keep in mind what is the law that is here when we're in the matrix. The matrix is going to always operate under a law. And we see this here. So we got to look at this here in Hebrews 11:1. "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." So this is why even with those Hebrew boys, they was operating on this. This is what they was operating on. This is what we all should be operating on.

In Malachi 3:2 and 3, it tells us even more. It says, "But who may abide in the day of his coming? Or who shall stand when when he appeareth? For he is like a refiner's fire, like fullers' soap: And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in in righteousness." This creates this spiritual pressure that forces oxygen-rich faith to counter-current contact with oxygen-depleted circumstances, ensuring maximum, this maximum extraction of divine substance from trials that would otherwise suffocate your soul. You follow me?

So when we're looking at even morality and and the morality and this, this rebuke, we got to understand. Let me put up a couple of things. We're going to sit there and see something in Isaiah chapter 10. We're going to see this in 10:1, but I want to put this over here because this, this actually coincides with Deuteronomy chapter 6:24. So it says, "Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees and that write grievous that which they have prescribed." That's, that's the interesting part. The reason why? Because "the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, and to fear to love the Lord thy God for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is this day. And it should be our righteousness, that is our righteousness, if we observe and do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us." That's our righteousness there.

So parable teachings through opposites and similitudes and and you see these things Christ taught that through dark speeches because these spiritual truths require separation of principles. That's what it's always been doing. The ability to divide waters of natural understanding from waters of the kingdom revelations. So like fish extracting water from H2O, the spiritual sight is extracting divine meanings from earthly similitudes. So we should start understanding really more so what, what we're doing here. It's really simple.

Let's look at something in John 15. And we also see this in Ephesians. Um, Ephesians 8:5. Oh, is it 5:58? 5:8. Yeah. It says, "And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." Exactly what the point is. "But for we are sometimes darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord." This should be each and every one of us. So walk as children of light. This is what we should be doing this day. We have seen a lot. This day we have learned a lot. This day we move forward. "For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth; proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather prove them." Exactly what's going on. "For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But the things which are reproved are made manifest, they're going to be made known by the light. And whatsoever doth make manifest is light. Wherefore he said, 'Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.'" Exactly what's happening. He should give light because carnal reasoning lacks spiritual gills. Carnal reasoning lacks spiritual gills. It's evident because you lack these spiritual gifts to extract light from dissolved within darkness. This, this is going to happen.

Let me, let me, let me bring it a little closer for you. In 1 Corinthians 2:10, it tells us this. It says, "But God had revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God." Exactly what I'm talking about. So, when we're looking at the Holy Spirit in its function, our divine gills, our spiritual gill system enables us to breathe spiritual oxygen from the deepest, darkest waters of trials. Everybody follow me? So we're looking at this, this, this paradox, this dark paradox. We have to understand this. So we even go back, we, we have, we have to understand this in 45 and Isaiah 45 and verse 7. "I form the light, I create darkness: I make peace, I create evil: I the Lord do all these things." So this, this paradox ultimately reveals that the Creator fashioned both circumstances, both exposes rebellion and grace that transforms the heart. So what appears as evil to the carnal mind becomes, through faith, counter-current reasoning, the very means that sanctification of spiritual sight. So the same pressing waters, the identical waters, the same identical waters that drowns people is self-reliant becomes a life-giving medium to those who trust in Yhovah. Hope is the way.

I'm going to show you this. Actually, I want to show it to you. Um, Isaiah 50, Isaiah 50 and 10. Let's look at this. It says, "Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name and the way of the Lord and stay upon his God." You see this here? It's clear as day. So there's no contradiction. It's the spiritual meal reflecting the heart to give the capacity. So the same thing is always going to go back. When you truly have ears to hear, let him hear. When you truly have ears to hear, let him hear. He who hath ears to hear, let him, uh, let him hear. "What the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God." Revelations 2:7, at its finest. Only one reason with the heart that, that awakens to trust in Yhovah when we're looking at this above all, all, all visible evidence, remembering both darkness and light as instruments of the Creator's wise governance. So you can see that faith is, is indeed the, the sight of the unseen. So even evil permits, and it, and it's permitted to, um, to become the widow of love. It becomes obedience, sanctification to rise through the midst of the everlasting radiance. We have to understand this to strike the, the spiritual gills that know how to breathe Yhovah's promises from the deepest waters of adversity. This we have to, we have to truly understand because Yhovah created all things. All things. So, including the spiritual, just proven that we navigate that our hearts might learn to walk by faith and not by sight. Seeing His goodness even in apparent adversity, His light even in in seeming darkness. His peace even over the necessity of these trials. We have to understand this.

So when we perceive in these realities, dwelling in these temporal circumstances, knowing that everything is done for the good of God. Actually, I'm going to show it to you before we get out. We only got a little bit more. We're going to get out of here in Romans, um, in Romans chapter 10, 8 and 28. 8:28. That's the one I want. "For we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." Called according to his purpose. Same thing you see here back in 15:10. "Who is among you that feareth the Lord?"

So in closing, I want you to understand something. I want you to understand something as we're closing this. I want you to envision something. I want you to envision something. I want you to. Anybody taking notes? I want you to envision something. And I'm going to show you something. I'm going to show you, but I'm going to put some verses up there, but I don't want you to write anything. I want you to envision something. Something that I learned years, years ago, and it helped me. And it hopefully it'll help you also. In Revelations chapter 19 and we're going to look at 10. But I want you to envision something with these two verses. 2:7, verse 1 and 2. It says, "When he had made an end of speaking, these words there was sent unto me that the messenger, the angel which had been sent unto me the night therefore and he said unto me, 'Up, force and hear the words that I come to tell thee.'" So I'm asking each and every one of you, hear the words which I'm going to share with you, even as I have fell to defeat and worshiped him. That's what many people will do. "And he said unto me, 'See thou do do it not: I am thy fellow servant.'" I'm a servant no different than you are. I'm no different than you. "of thy brethren that have a testimony of the way of salvation, Jesus. Worship God: for the testimony of salvation of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.'"

So I want you to think of something exactly what is going on. So when you're able to close your natural eyes, I want you to envision something. The spiritual sight. I want you to meditate on this as I'm speaking, as we talk. As I said, we're going to go through this as I close and get a better understanding on what we do. So, even in this stillness, in this deep meditation, I want you to envision yourself standing before this vast sea. Anybody who's been to a sea, they know what I'm talking about. If not, just imagine standing at the edge of this ocean, not with your natural eyes, but with the eyes of spirit that pierce through the felt darkness of the garment of your skin. So even as the word has showed me what the sea represents, and I have shown you over the years, this advanced suspense of this eternal life that awaits, yet between you and this inheritance stretches only one narrow bridge, one no wider than the span of your faith. Suspended above this charring waters that you see, you envision of adversity on the left and consuming fire and purifying on the right. When you breathe deeply in, you can feel the weight of your mortal flesh pressing down like this darkness that can be felt, like when we was in Egypt. Remember? Envision how your body has it become heavy, not with sin alone, but with the tangible substance of mortality that clings to our spirits, like water clinging to a drowning man. So this spiritual exercise, which one who learns to meditate upon the reality that your spirit wrapped and felt the darkness, requiring the divine gills to extract the spiritual oxygen from what appears as suffocating circumstances.

So I want you to just meditate. Close your eyes, even if you need to, into this contemplation, this envisioning in your hearts. This sacred chamber equipped with spiritual gills, invisible organs designed by Yhovah to counter-correct the breathing in the waters of tribulations. The world revealed even to me, and now it's revealed to you, that you meditate upon His promises with these spiritual gills activated, drawing life-sustaining oxygen from the very adversity that threatens to drown even you. I want you to practice this breathing while the circumstances flow towards this despair. So just like the water flowing left and right, envision your face and your gills flowing opposite, left to right, extracting 90% of the spiritual oxygen from what appears to be pure liquid trials. I want you to feel the counter-current divide the promises, meeting the depleted blood of your discouraged soul, constantly refreshing your spiritual validity, even while completing your, your job, and you are completely submerged in the life-pressing of this waters. I want you to understand this. I want you to enter into the deeper parts of the water, and the deeper the meditation in the vision, the firmament. As I said, I got right here in Genesis chapter 1 and verse 6 through, through 8. "And God said, 'Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.' And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven." Operating on this very being. The word of God is being shown to you to divide the waters from the waters. So in creation, so must your heart create this sacred separation between the waters of physical, these visible circumstances, and the waters from the invisible promises. I need you to meditate and envision that your trials as mixed water containing both liquid adversity and dissolved spiritual oxygen within your inner and your understanding of life. How these acts of life, the divine chemistry separating life-sustaining elements from these pressing liquids. Feel this sacred expansion that you're in today. Spiritual space open within these felt darkness. This holy firmament where the Lord dwells in the thick darkness, yet provides the breathable atmosphere for your very soul.

So as you envision yourself beginning to cross this narrow bridge, suspended over these dangerous passages, I want you to feel the fire on the right side, purifying the trials that burn away your self-reliance. Since the deep waters on the left, the overwhelming circumstances that can drown the carnal reasoning, between both of them, this single path, trusting in Yhovah's name. He said this, the same as we remembered as we went through this once before in Isaiah chapter 50 and verse 10. It says this, and it was real clear, and he says, "Who among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? Let him trust in the name of the Lord, the ways of the Lord, and stay upon his God." This we must do. This we must hold to.

So as we continue, as we know what we are doing, we continue to press forward. So as we meditate and we step forward, this envision our spiritual gills operating, breathing divine oxygen, the very fire of waters, even what we saw in Ezarus. We see this in second of trees 7:14. "If then they that live labor not to enter these straight and vain things, they can never receive those that are laid up for them." Each breath becomes an act of faith, extracting eternal substance from a temporal trial. So we have to remember to envision what the messenger and come to reality, the testimony of Yahawashi, the way of salvation, as I showed you over here in Revelation 19:10. "For I fell at his feet and worshiped him. And he said unto me, 'See thou not thou do do it not: I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of the way of salvation, Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of salvation is the spirit of prophecy.'" Do not seek one who worships enduring trials and seeking people to worship him, but the one who bears the testimony of the ways of salvation, the spiritual gifts that sustain your soul and trusted in the ways of God.

So we got to remember one thing that always happens on who we are and what we are about and what we are meditating on. And it tells us this here, "The Almighty Word leaped down from heaven out of that royal throne as a fierce man of war into the midst of the land of destruction." So for I speak, I come not bearing the words of wisdom from men, but from the divine Word that leaped down from heaven. A darkness which may be felt, even the Almighty Word that leaped down from heaven. These things we got to understand on what we must do. We have to remember exactly what we must do.

So I want you to feel this sacred commission that you're sent not to be honored, but demonstrated through the life experience and the lived experience that we here, that we can walk in the spiritual oxygen and can be extracted from the deepest, darkest waters of adversities to the crown of life. And I'm going to show you this last verse here where we can get what we're understanding. In James chapter 1 and verse 12. "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him."

So as we go through this and we finish, you're the spirit wearing garments. You feel them. You can feel them on your arms, your legs, your face. You are a spirit wearing garments of felt darkness, equipped with divine gills for breathing eternal life from temporal trials. This narrow path stretches before you. It's not as punishment, but it's a route to inheritance. When adversity presses like the tangible darkness, envision your spiritual gills extracting divine oxygen. When circumstances flow towards despair, meditate upon the counter-current faith that draws life from death, hope from hopelessness, reality from the invisible promises. The words were given to me to give to you. Worship Yhovah and Yhovah alone. Endure the trials through meditation, faith breathing, walking this narrow path and envision the spiritual sight. They strike the crown of life through contemplative trust and breathe these eternal circumstances to fill the darkness of mortality. This proving ground. Your meditation will become your reality. Your envisioned faith becomes the substantial experience. The testimony that that is sealed, the path is now revealed. The spiritual gills are activated. I ask you to breathe deeply. Breathe deeply of Yhovah's promises until that narrow way becomes the natural habitat. This testimony is given to you.

As we continue to move forward, this path is revealed. So he who hath ears to hear, let him hear. The Spirit saith to each and every one of you at the assemblies to this day. So hopefully that each and every one of you have gotten the understanding of what is going on thus far. So until we meet again, because on next week we will be moving into the, the first fruits. So next week we will have some recordings up and going through, because we'll be attending to that there. And the first fruits, we don't, we don't show live. We don't do those because we're not here for showing for men's, for men-pleasers, but we're here to do a work of God. So what we're going to do, we have the people for the first fruits and everything that we're doing, the people who plan on attending and people even who's just coming back there, you can also join us as we're going to be going into Zoom and and and going over a few things that we have to do back there. So, you're more than welcome to join us. So same as on tomorrow, we do have u deacon ant, he will be going through this. And as he's going through it, so I say, until we meet again, I say to each and every one of you guys, go back through this and meditate on it, learn what you must do. So I say, until we meet again, to each and every one of you guys, shalom.

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