Slightly…Gray… an area perceived by the wrong motive.

Our intention is not in eliminating the gray areas that men have created in the wake of selfishness.
It is to bring light to these errors both deliberate and deceptive that we might see and not stumble.
And that Jesus might not be that stumbling block…

Where are the nine? Luke 17:17
Touching not Jesus, but the hem of His garment? Luke 8:43… Matthew 14:36
Peters shadow? Acts 5:15

Hindsight is only good through the eyes of the Holy Spirit.
When we look back with the eyes of our selfish flesh we see a wholly different picture.
Our view is obstructed and the results usually leave us one step removed from God, leaving a protocol for religiosity in many forms from rites, rituals and idols to just passing on errors established by selfishness.
How do we establish these Gray areas, which are half-truths?
By our lack of receiving the selfless, sacrificial love of Jesus.

Without the love of God as our prime motive we will see through the eyes of self.
This gives way to reason. Logic or reason not submitted to the Holy Spirit through the love of Jesus derives its own selfish course, as running amuck, leading to self-demise. God has created us for a purpose, His purpose. Now we can add to that purpose embellishing it with our own brand of self-righteousness maligning the love of God by our selfish intent. Covering over truth with lovelessness, allowing our imaginations to run rampant, apart from God, maybe gaining us works. We can take from His purpose removing essentials to replace them with our own personal intent gaining selfish spiritual pride. Either way the outcome is half-truths. We can also just deny God’s purpose in Jesus for our own ideas and purpose. We can mix and match any number of selfish motives bringing confusing religious connotations resulting in worshiping idols. The selfish motive always leads to death. Make no error here the selfish motive is antichrist and not only aimed at destroying us but also those we willfully pass on these half-truths to.

Half-truths are lies. More often then not just empty words or lip service, without acts of selfless love. When there is a smattering of selfless love the motive can still be selfish as for appearance sake.

How it works is easy to observe but without the love of Jesus by His spirit not so easy to correct. And so the Church is steeped in mysteries of gray flesh, without the revelation of selfless love. Only the light of the love of Jesus removes the gray, which is in our eyes not the world, which is black. Gray comes from trying to mix the two, without realizing for our lack of love, that we can’t serve two masters.

It basically starts with selfish interpretation. When we look at Jesus healing the 10 lepers what do we see? Only one returns to give thanks, to which Jesus comments “Where are the nine?” In our eyes we see ten healed and only (a foreigner) one returning to give thanks. They needed faith to be healed; did not the love of God, which works by faith, touch their hearts as well as their bodies and cause them to be thankful?
The answer is yes and no. Yes they were touched by the selfless love of God and obviously they did not give Jesus place in their lives. Why?
Jesus answers,  “The Kingdom is in you!” “It’s not here or there, externally” “You can’t see it with your eyes” you gain it by faith but not without sacrificial, selfless love.
If you do not have the love of God as your prime motive, you will never understand.
2 Tim 3:7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Scripture will offer you nothing it will be what you take from it or make it say.
Prayer will be like banging an impregnable wall of silence.
You will just continue going in circles seeking something of God rejecting sacrificial love.
Humility was not at the center of the lives of the nine; pride of their gain overtook thankfulness. Thankfulness expressed is a form of submission.
Submission is an act of love.

Let us look at other miracles and see the same effect.
A woman so humble, suffering from an issue of bleeding for 12 years, thought if she could only touch the hem of His garment she would be healed. It’s not about why she chose the hem for some religious reason, but as Jesus said, “Your faith has healed you” it was not just why but who she had faith in, Jesus. Jesus was unaware she had touched Him it was by the Spirit that He tells us “Power went out of me!” Can we see a trend started for the humble or unworthy? Matthew 14:36 demonstrates to us many others following suit in pursuing healing by touching His garment and all received them by faith.

We can receive what Jesus gives us by faith (such as healing) and still reject the selfless love. Did not the multitudes see and actually experience the miracle of the loaves and fishes to their dinning delight and still not believe. And this feeding of the multitude happened more then once. Did not Paul teach us the ultimate cause of selfishness in that we can use any or all the gifts of the Spirit even giving our lives; but without love we did it in vain!
We want to receive from God but are we willing to serve God? If we accept the love we are changed and start to see through the eyes of the Spirit. The light of the love within is the perception of the Kingdom and life in the Kingdom.
The purpose of our creation finds its cause in the Kingdom alive in our heart.

Here is how religiosity or wrong motives works against us all.
When Peter walked through a town people would wait; some being carried, alongside the road, so that his shadow might fall upon them to be healed.
And everyone, scripture tells us, were healed!
Now was it the shadow of Peter that healed them or their faith?
Was it Peter or the Spirit of Jesus within him?
Was it Peter’s faith or the love of Jesus alive in his heart?
What brought those in need to believe that Peter had power?
What stirred their faith?
What stirs you?
Where has faith brought you?
They acted on their faith and were healed.
What are you doing with the measure of faith God gave you?
Has it found its way into your heart enough to love selflessly as Jesus commanded?
Has it enthused you to love as Jesus loved?
Are you reaching out indiscriminately to everyone in need?
Are you because of receiving the love of God through Jesus by His Spirit changed in your desire to love and be like Jesus?
Or are you defending your personal rights to be what you want and get what you can and desire to find rest and comfort in this world of darkness rather than serve in the Kingdom of the light of His eternal love?
The Kingdom is not an external.
It is not within our grasp physically.
It is not seen with the naked eye.
Faith draws us to Jesus and faith can gain us a response to the eternal and merciful love contained in the power of His name. But that alone is merely entrance. This brings us to the door that we can knock upon… we can only enter receiving the love that only the Holy Spirit can give. And to remain in the Kingdom we must continually surrender; day by day picking up the instrument of the death for our lord, the cross and shouldering it until like Him, we die, daily. For the flesh of our selfishness is with us, in being, fighting against the will of God that selfless love that He breathed in us. To obey is to receive and to love sacrificially. 

Can you begin to see how men venerate supposed holy men and even their actions and not Jesus? It is their reverting back from the faith, to the motives of the selfish flesh. Faith draws us into selfless love. Selfish motives cast men into the abyss of darkness through logic and reason to explain what can only be understood in the light of the Kingdom of selfless love in our hearts. Selfish men make it up as they go along, that is how we get religious rites and rituals and how they continue to defend them by reasonableness against the love that can only be gained and understood in faith through Jesus.
Without love reason prevails, by faith love is given opportunity.

Where are the nine?
Men love the law it gives comfort to the mind.
Look at those who did not receive Jesus they were secure in the law.
The law was their reason not to follow. It was their cause not to believe nor receive selfless love. The law was reasonable Jesus was not. Today men still revert back to the law it is safe for some it gives control to others it is an excuse not to love as Jesus. The law is the way back to the rule of the flesh and outside the Kingdom.
The Holy Spirit is not external, for those who are in the Kingdom.

Faith does not supplant reason, it rises above it, to meet and receive the selfless love of Jesus. If reason is not submitted to faith and ultimately to selfless love then the selfish flesh shall rule your life. You will either never enter the Kingdom because you do not receive the love of Jesus by the entrance of His Spirit or you will soon let your selfish love overtake that which you may have only gained a toe hold of by dulling yourself to the voice of His leading by choosing again and again your will over His.

The nine are among us.

The worst affair is finding the Kingdom then going back to the law. The Church over the age and today is full of men who have come out of us yet proclaim Jesus, in name only. Theirs is a different gospel. Theirs is a gospel full of laws and principles that satisfy and comfort the flesh and reduce service to be self-serving. These are antichrist.

The nine rejected Jesus… and encourage us to do the same.

The nine say, “Get all you can get and enjoy it… Now!”

What do you hear?

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