One must carry his own cross – cursed is he who hangs on the tree

Matthew 10:38 And whoever does not take up his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. The patterns of the cross and of the Ark form the steps, which takes us up to heaven where one hears words of Eternal life (Last Adam, words which are spirit and life) but first, a man must descend to the depths (First Adam, becomes a living soul). Jesus 3 days and 3 nights in the tomb, and on the 3rd day He was risen, the first man resurrected from the dead. He is our living example to follow, for if we die with Christ we shall also live with him. (ROM. 6:8).

Noah's Ark (spirit of your mind) was risen, elevated 15 cubits above the mountains and Paul's ship, floating 15 cubits or measures of depth on the waters, 15 cubits up and 15 down. (Man's flesh, where sin dwells, which torments the soul, the storms and chaos of God's judgements against the unrighteous, to free the righteous man by grace and truth. No light or hope, darkness over the deep, Acts.27:18-20, Paul is teaching the creation and the floodstorm, Paul a Jew and a Roman revealing the word of God in the Hellenic, the three inscriptions on Jesus' cross).

Matthew 10:39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it. Referring to one man divided in two parts, (Philippians1:23) when he loses and exchanges his earthly and 'materialistic' way of living and thinking for the Heavenly and Spiritual way, this is the price that one has to pay. A burnt offering and sin offering unto the Lord, 'an odour of a sweet smell' a sacrifice acceptable well pleasing to God. Phil. 4:18. Phil 1:21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

2 Corinthians 4:11. For we, which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. (They, who become alive by the spirit of the word (the law of faith, which gives life) and it is given through the scourging and the chastisements of the written law. (The flood-storm judgements the 600 fragments of the five barley loaves – the Pentateuch) Bearing in mind that the law is holy and spiritual - ROM. 7:12+14 and only spiritually can it be discerned)

Romans 8:36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the daylong; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. (All the daylong, referring to the 49th day of the feast of weeks, the crucifixion day. The man Adam created unto a living soul by knowing good and evil, by eating from the tree of knowledge, which brings death to his flesh. Finding himself naked, meaning without a covering, without a spiritual house, God's protective garments, by understanding that man without God, he is nothing, which is the teaching for us).

2 Corinthians 4:16. For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man (carnal man, first Adam) perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. (The spiritual man, the new man, the son of man, the inward Jew of the circumcised heart. The first Adam, put his old nature to death, nail his carnal life on the cross to become a living soul through the quickening of the Spirit, the last Adam by twining, the first shall be last and the last shall be first). (Until Christ 'the Word of God' is formed in you Gal. 4:19), (to form and to shape you up as a potter does with the clay, as vessels of clay, of honour and dishonour Romans 9:20-21 and Job 10:9 and Isaiah 64:8).


The Hyperehon 'Excellency' of the knowledge of Christ

From the very beginning of my message I have stated that it would be very hard for the natural man to accept spiritual knowledge and revelation, 'the things of the spirit' if not near impossible (as it is written 1 Cor. 2:14). This is why I have dedicated it to all those who truly seek the Excellency of the knowledge of Christ, to them who truly believe that there is more to the Scriptures, which are hidden within their physical and external version. (Note: the word used in the Hellenic scriptures as 'the hyperehon of the knowledge' which translates as: 'to have more value than' 'neutral singular'. Signifying that the knowledge of Christ has 'more depth and height', 'super-exceeding knowledge' of what we read on the surface, referring to spiritual knowledge, which has been translated as 'the Excellency' Philippians 3:8)

The truth is; Christ never made it compulsory to impose the Scriptures to mankind, but He referred them, to all those who have ears and want to listen and to follow by their own choice; and to the overcomer. And again the question would be; what is there to overcome?


No foundational explanatory account has been given yet

Men over the years have taken the Holy Scriptures literally and tried to impose them on others by doing physical ordinances, even to the extreme of wearing specific attire, a uniform in a way; and to carry out rituals. Which I'm sure, makes them feel very special 'highly esteemed' amongst their fellow humans. But in return they have never given the true and foundational explanatory account of the spiritual side of the book of the Bible. So up until now man has been only just scraping the surface of the Scriptures.

With the cliché idea that, as long as one believes that God exists and attends meetings, even as much as, once a week and sing, (and not chanting Psalms, which means to suffer God's righteous judgements) automatically he or she shall receive eternal life, after they are dead and buried. Others arrived at the conclusion that they shall be taken up physically, whilst they are alive, in the rapture. They do not understand what the actual rapture represents, the 'snatching'. They haven't got the slightest notion of understanding what the death of the carnal man 'flesh' and the water baptism really means. The term 'born from water' and also the resurrection of the dead, where everyone believes that it only happens after the physical and natural death, while the spirit reveals that;

Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. (Referring to the man in the wilderness) Also read Galatians 6:14 – Paul, dead to the world) God is not the god of the dead but 'God of the living', Matthew 22:32


The Resurrection is Spiritual and not Physical

The resurrection as Paul testifies above, is spiritual and happens while one is alive and not waiting for some future date to come out from the grave, as everyone is made to believe. Only the imaginary zombies come out of the tomb, cinema has taken care of that, 'very ugly and nasty creatures'.

The teaching of the Spirit re-assures us that after the natural death, providing one builds his Tabernacle here on earth, according to all of God's instructions through the entire Scriptures and not in few verses. We have a spiritual Tabernacle already prepared by Christ, to be dressed upon, a spiritual body, for the living soul to dwell in and not a natural body ascending to heaven. Christ as the mediator He has to prepare a place in heaven, providing one has a Tabernacle built and prepared here below, a Tabernacle being built in the fashion and pattern of God's instructions and knowledge, which comes through scourging and 'knowledgeable teaching' and chastisement.

Even the Jews are still waiting for a physical Messiah to appear some day, ignoring the testimony of Paul; and that the appearance of Christ (the manifestation of God) from the time the revelation begins (the opening of the seals) is spiritual and not physical.

1 Timothy 3:16. And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, (messengers) preached unto the Gentiles, (nations) believed on in the world, received (raised) up into glory.

Christ has to manifest in a person 'He has to be formed' by the renewal of the mind through the word of truth, this is the meaning of Jesus' birth in Bethlehem. He can only be born 'formed' in a man who is full of the bread 'House of bread' through all the instructions given, which is the spiritual knowledge of the scriptures, where God has to pass one through all the experience. John 6:63 The words which I speak to you, they are Spirit and they are life.

Also, please read Romans 15:4. For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. (Living hope) The hope of everlasting life, is it a dream or it is real? How should we obtain the unspeakable gift of God? John 17:3 And this is everlasting life, to have knowledge of You, the only true God and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.