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This lesson tells more about cleansing our hands from wrath and doubting. We sin against Christ’s Circumcising Name by failing to use it; by lying to ourself and blaming others for our anger; and by lifting up dirty hands.

As we walk through this life, our feet become defiled by the dust of rejection. After we are baptized, once, in the Waters of the Name of the LORD Jesus Christ, we must go back, daily, to the Laver of Christ’s Water that is joined to His Circumcision Blood, by faith, and let His Name, which is like a Knife, cut away the dust of rejection. Then, we can go forth with clean feet to minister to the LORD and to others, according to His Purposive Will.

There is a difference between crucifixion and mortification. But if we do not understand the difference, then we cannot obey God’s Word that tells us that our old man is to be crucified (Romans 6:6) and that we are to mortify the deeds of the body (Romans 8:13). The Cross represents crucifixion. And when Jesus Christ died on Calvary’s Cross, two thieves and two malefactors were being crucified on four crosses surrounding His Cross. So there is one kind of crucifixion for the LORD, and there is another kind for us.

(Youth Convention) God’s Word tells us to crucify our flesh and to mortify our flesh. Therefore, it is important for us to understand that crucifixion of the flesh is what happens while one is living, whereas the mortification of the flesh is something that happens after death occurs.

(Youth Convention)  This message explains about the changing fool and the changeless fool. When the LORD takes the changing fool where He wants him to go, the changing fool is happy because he is fellowshipping the LORD. As long as this is a pleasant place, a pleasant situation, the changing fool can shout over the LORD’s Headship. But when the LORD leads him to some ugly-looking thing, then the changing fool cries because this situation is not a pleasant one. So the changing fool says, “I do not want that. LORD, let us—You and me—work together. You follow me. You support my plans and purposes, and I will serve You.”

In the Son’s realm, in Time, everything moves one step at a time. The Father’s realm is called Eternity or Space without form, and in the Father’s world, everything happens instantly and simultaneously. When everything is rolling and spinning at one time, we have a hard time understanding this principle. So when we encounter the fierce, mad shad-eem devils around the noonday Brightness of the Sun of Righteousness, we become confused. Matthew 24:7-9 tells us that there will be wars and famines and pestilences and earthquakes in the last days. These are the beginning of sorrows. The Hebrew word for earthquake means vibrations, shaking, uproar, commotion, confusion.

Matthew 11:28-30 mentions two kinds of rest. There is rest that we receive by gift, and there is rest that we find by growth or work. To find rest means that we are looking for something. To find something means that we have to work for it. The rest that Jesus gives is the rest of a worm. It is the crawling rest of an infant, a baby. An infant is a child that cannot walk. If we think we can walk up and down the Cross, we are wrong. The only ones who get on the Cross are the crawlers. The Psalmist said, “[I] am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people” (Psalm 22:6). He was speaking prophetically of how the Son of God felt when he was hanging on the Cross. Jesus Christ crawled with all Humility up to the Cross.

Ephesians 2:8-10 says, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them,”  The Hebrew word for work-manship, mah-as-eh, means actions. It means work, good deeds, labor, skill. It means cunning, wise, a work. The word mah-as-eh comes from the root word aw-saw, which means to do, to finish, to complete, to dress.

(International Convention) Four miraculous crossings of Jordan are recorded in God’s Word. The first two crossings were made by Jacob, who went across with his staff or rod that had the LORD’s Name on it. It was God’s Purposive Will for Jacob to be the firstborn and to have the blessing of the birthright. The blessing in the Old Testament consisted of the firstborn being the king, the priest, and the prophet of the family. That was their inherited right. But when they were in the womb, Esau struggled with Jacob and pushed him out of the way, thus being born first.

Isaiah 55:1-3 tells us to buy the Truth and sell it not. We buy the Truth with our poverty. We begin our spiritual journey with theoretical Knowledge; then, we go on to the experiential Knowledge. But in the Father’s realm, we receive experiential Knowledge first; then we move to the theory side of the scales. Experience comes by the Spirit of God, and God’s Word is Spirit and Truth; it is also theory, so there are two sides.

Psalm 58:8 says: “Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?” Tears are the liquid life of our soul. There are two sides to tears. First of all, they are written in a book. Precious are the tears that are written in God’s Book. Malachi 3:16 tells us that they are written in the Book of Remembrance. “Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. ”It is not the physical water that comes out of our eyes that gets written in His Book.

God’s Word reveals some examples of a lifted-up heart, a heart that is lifted up in pride. Forgetfulness is what produces the pride, arrogance, and haughtiness that results in a lifted-up heart. Forgetfulness of  Who God is, forgetfulness of who we are, forgetfulness of what God has done for us, forgetfulness of where we were when God found is forgetfulness of all His wonderful Mercy and Grace. The following people used their worker heart to lift themselves up: Amaziah, Uzziah, Hezekiah, and Lucifer. In so doing, they sinned against the Wisdom, Understanding, Knowledge, and Prudence of the LORD’s Name.

Everything must be covered. After everything has been covered by God’s Love, we cover His Name with thanksgiving and praise and blessing. Then, the LORD’s Name covers it all. When we are in the Son’s realm, we learn from the Crucified Christ how to grow spiritually by crucifixion of our flesh. In the Father’s realm, we learn from the Resurrected Christ how to cover.

After we have grown in the Spiritual Stature of Jesus Christ, then the Purpose of Jesus’ Stature within our hearts is to lead us to the Father. This message shows how the Father’s tetragrammaton, His Holy foursquare Name fits with God’s Feather Government. In the Wisdom Corner of His Name, there are the Dove Feathers, which is what the Father gave to Jesus when Jesus was baptized. When Jesus arose from the dead, He put on the Eagle Feathers and flew, as it were, to the highest mountain, Mount Zion, up in the regions beyond. There are the Cherubim in the Knowledge Corner. The Seraphim are in the Prudence Corner. The Seraphim are above the Cherubim and the Ark, and they watch an Altar.