Christian Clarity Review

Job 9:10-14 Who doeth great things past finding out, and wonders without number. Lo, He goeth by me, and I see [him] not; and He passeth along, and I perceive Him not. Behold, He taketh away: who will hinder Him? Who will say unto Him, What doest thou? God withdraweth not His anger; the proud helpers stoop under Him: How much less shall I answer Him, choose out my words [to strive] with Him?

It is a lie of Satan in the speech of sin/non-creating speech that God has bounds which He may not cross. Even though God honors His Word perfectly, when He speaks what He says comes into being and His promises and gifts are without repentance, His bestowing of gifts, Speaking His Word and creating in no way hinder His future actions. That is, God is peculiarly unimpeded by anything that He does or says. He is the One from whom all law and authority flows outward and is not a creature.

God’s promises and gifts are indeed without repentance. What He says comes to pass and is creation. It is this very truth of His being Creating Word/Christ that leaves Him unimpeded by any past action or Speech.

It was and is the dearest wish of Satan that He could tangle God up in promises in order that God should serve the creature rather than the creature serving God. Hear this revelation:

Gen 22:15-18 And the Angel of Jehovah called to Abraham from the heavens a second time, and said, BY MYSELF I swear, saith Jehovah, that, because thou hast done this, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only [son], I will richly bless thee, and greatly multiply thy seed, as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is on the sea-shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves, because thou hast hearkened to my voice.

God gives a promise that has and is being fulfilled in you as real, literal creation in Jesus Christ. The promise is of faith that is given on-the-hearing of the Word of God. God spoke, Abraham heard and was born again. (There is no difficulty in this as regards ethnic Hebrews. i.e. Then why don’t all the Jews have faith in Christ? Directly because for a time, God has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts that they may not see or hear His Word, Jesus Christ. But He will bless them in due time as being part of the elect; the promise is of faith, of the Word/Spirit, not ethnicity.)

But Satan, through ethnic Israel, knowing that God had for a time given them over to Satan in order that they be and remain blind and hardened until the time set by the Father for their healing, thought to elicit from God Words which would bind God in the future. God’s promises to Israel are perfectly intact and have not been broken. Yet God remains perfectly free to act as He wills and pleases toward all Israel which is all the elect. He simply creates more from within what is already created and brings new creation into effect and His ability to do that proves He can create whatever He wills and still keep all the oaths and promises He made without being wily. Yet He can be wily as well.

Psalm 18:25-26 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright; With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.

Now God, having given a promise to Abraham, and the Scripture cannot be broken, ( as His Word is alive forever and IS Him ) gives further promises to Israel through the prophets. But Satan, through Israel who is blinded and hardened thinks to tangle God up in promises in order that Satan may obtain a more excellent portion than he has already got. Notice what Satan does through Israel when the Word of God is Incarnate as Jesus Christ. The speech of sin/anti-Christ seeks the demise and destruction of the Word of God when the Word of God speaks of the demise of the speech of sin and all those through whom such speech is spoken:

Mark 12:12,13 And they sought to lay hold of him, and they feared the crowd; for they knew that he had spoken the parable of them. And they left him and went away. And they send to him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, THAT THEY MIGHT CATCH HIM IN SPEAKING.

Later, the Word of God says to them:

John 8:43-47 Why do ye not know my speech? Because ye cannot hear my word. Ye are of the devil, as [your] father, and ye desire to do the lusts of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks falsehood, he speaks of what is his own; for he is a liar and its father: and because I speak the truth, ye do not believe me. Which of you convinces me of sin? If I speak truth, why do ye not believe me? He that is of God hears the words of God: therefore ye hear [them] not, because ye are not of God.

Note that God does not say “you are good people with bad theology” or “I love you despite your erroneous thinking..” but plainly says they are sons of the devil.

Plainly those who seek to catch God in speaking and interpret His promises in such a way as to grant themselves immunity for all time for the doing of earthly/evil lusts are deceived; even if they think their lust is “to help their fellow man” as a type of behavior that is outside the bounds of God. God is not ensnared in His Word nor can He be as His Word is the second Person of Him. Thus all of the supposed ideal models of behavior are simply lies; both the ideal models of behavior they have for themselves and the one they supposedly reserve for God.

Not only do those who are deceived seek to limit God by calling on God’s promises as if indemnifying themselves therewith but they seek to further elicit words from God as if God’s speech were the same as their own: the speech of sin. But they have never known God’s Word or heard His Speech. If they had, they would have been non-metaphorically born again as real, literal new creations in Jesus Christ.

What God tells the creature to do and not to do in no way binds Himself. Witness this revelation:

Lev 19:14 Thou shalt not revile a deaf person, and thou shalt not put a stumbling-block before a blind one; but thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.

But as to God Himself, He makes Israel blind and their heart hardened AND puts a stumbling block in front of them ( Jesus Christ ) :

Deu 29:2-4 And Moses called to all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that Jehovah did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his bondmen, and to all his land: the great trials that thine eyes have seen, those great signs and wonders. But Jehovah hath not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

Isaiah 44:18 They have no knowledge, and understand not; for he hath plastered their eyes, that they may not see; and their hearts, that they may not understand.

and says through the Psalmist in respect of a blind Israel:

Isaish 8:13-15 Jehovah of hosts, him shall ye sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. And he will be for a sanctuary; and for a STONE OF STUMBLING, and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

and

Isaiah 65:12-16 I will even assign you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down in the slaughter; because I called, and ye did not answer, I spoke, and ye did not hear; but ye did what was evil in mine eyes, and chose that wherein I delight not. Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, my servants shall eat, and ye shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, and ye shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, and ye shall be ashamed; behold, my servants shall sing aloud for gladness of heart, and ye shall cry out for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit. And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto mine elect; for the Lord Jehovah will slay thee, and will call his servants by another name: so that he who blesseth himself in the land shall bless himself by the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the land shall swear by the God of truth: because the former troubles shall be forgotten, and because they shall be hidden from mine eyes.

and

Proverbs 1:24-31 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one regarded; and ye have rejected all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh in your calamity, I will mock when your fear cometh; when your fear cometh as sudden destruction, and your calamity cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you: — then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me early, and shall not find me. Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of Jehovah; they would none of my counsel, they despised all my reproof: therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their way, and be filled with their own devices.

In all this God is not unrighteous and not evil. No law applies to Him and He is not subject to any code of conduct higher than Himself. He is not subject to any, nor does His Word bind Him as to future action. To this day the Jews seek a fulfillment of His promises in a manner that suits their own fallen heart as if it were not necessary to have a new heart and a new spirit or as if that new heart and new spirit were metaphorical.

But God also says:

Isaiah 50:2-10 Wherefore did I come, and there was no man? I called, and there was none to answer? Is my hand at all shortened that I cannot redeem, or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make rivers a wilderness; their fish stink because there is no water, and die for thirst. I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of the instructed, that I should know how to succour by a word him that is weary. He wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the instructed. The Lord Jehovah hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious; I turned not away back. I gave my back to smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting. But the Lord Jehovah will help me: therefore shall I not be confounded; therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. He is near that justifieth me: who will contend with me? let us stand together; who is mine adverse party? let him draw near unto me. Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? Behold, they all shall grow old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up. Who is among you that feareth Jehovah, that hearkeneth to the voice of his servant? he that walketh in darkness, and hath no light, — let him confide in the name of Jehovah, and stay himself upon his God.

Do not be enticed by the speech of sin in your flesh to speak to God in that speech as if He would hear it. For God says of that speech that seeks to entrap Him in speaking:

Psalm 81:5 He ordained it in Joseph [for] a testimony, when he went forth over the land of Egypt, [where] I heard a language that I knew not.

The speech of sin\anti-Christ continually seeks to gain entrance to God and being spoken through by the speech of sin is explicitly what it is to tempt God–to speak to God in a language He knows not in order to control God or to supposedly codify God’s limits. Confiding in God is prayer that He must give. True prayer is words sent from the Father and spoken through us by His Spirit back to Himself in the world.

Romans 8:15 For ye have not received a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye have received a spirit of adoption, WHEREBY we cry, Abba, Father.

and

Galatains 4:6,7 But because ye are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, CRYING, Abba, Father. So thou art no longer bondman, but son; but if son, heir also through God.

Because God is not limited by anything, we are free in Christ as sons forever, God not having bound Himself to any formerly but us as elect.

Hosea 14:2 Take with you words, and turn to Jehovah; say unto him, Forgive all iniquity, and receive graciously; so will we render the calves of our lips.

In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen