JUDGING ANGELS NECESSITATES A SOUND MIND

10-18-20 This message may be viewed live streaming video at youtube.com and tabernacleofmoses.org today Sunday at 11:00 am, and repeated 24/7 thereafter. The video, audio, and study notes are archived.

God is Thought. The brightness of our revelations depends upon the correctness of our doctrines, our building blocks, our Godly Thoughts laid one upon another, ascending into the mind of Christ. Angels are created as Spirits. Angels are Father God’s manifested naked thoughts (fig. seeds). Human bodies are manifested coverings (fig. seed pods) of God’s hidden seed-thoughts, thoughts that are deep planted to become metaphorically “a well of water springing up into everlasting life.” (John 4:14). We are God’s thoughts.

LET GOD’S THOUGHTS BE YOUR GUIDEBOOK

God’s Thoughts are logical. Logical thoughts are constructive. Satan’s thoughts are illogical. Illogical thoughts are destructive.

1.    constructive = Dict: 1. helping to construct; leading to improvements or advances; formative; positive. [PRODUCING ORDER]

2.    destructive = Dict: 1. tending or likely to cause destruction. 2. causing or producing destruction; destroying. 3. merely negative; not helpful. [PRODUCING CHAOS]

THE THOUGHTS WITHIN THESE TEMPORARY BODIES SHALL JUDGE ANGELS

(1 Cor 6:1-3) Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust [unsaved unbelievers], and not before the saints [“the people of God” Amplif.]? Do ye not know that the saints [“the Christians” Amplif.] shall judge the world [Gk: kosmos; “cosmos” (universe)]? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy [Gk: unfit] to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we [“Christians” Amplif.] shall judge angels [“and pronounce opinion between right and wrong for them” Amplif.]? how much more [shall we judge the] things that pertain to this life [Gk: (things) relating to this present existence]?

1.    pertain = Dict: 1. to belong; be connected or associated; be a part; accessory, etc. (e.g., lands pertaining to an estate). 2. to be appropriate or suitable (e.g., conduct that pertains to a lady). 3. to have reference or relevance; be related – pertaining to: having to do with, belonging to.

2.    Commentary: the minimum essential qualification necessary to judge angels is to be an innocent Holy Angel of a sound mind.

a.     sound = Dict: 1. free from defect, damage, or decay; whole and in good condition. 2. normal and healthy; not weak, diseased, or impaired. 3. firm and safe; stable, secure. 4. based on truth or valid reasoning; accurate, reliable, judicious, sensible, etc.

THREE EXAMPLES OF ATTAINING A SOUND MIND (SOUND THOUGHTS) BY BEING

“TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND” (Rom 12:2)

FROM CATERPILLAR INTO BUTTERFLY,

FROM CHAOS INTO ORDER

(2 Tim 1:7)  For God hath not given us the spirit of fear [Gk: timidty /// (dread); by implication faithless]; but of power [Gk: force; specifically miraculous power: mighty (wonderful) work], and of love [Gk: love, affection or benevolence; (feast of) charity], and of a sound mind [Gk: disciplined, self-control].

1.   (Luke 8:35-37) Then they [the city folks] went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus, and found the [wild (unsaved)] man, out of whom the devils [the unclean spirits (unclean thoughts), the fallen angels (fallen thoughts)] were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind [Gk: to be of a sound mind, sane: be sober (minded): and they were afraid [Gk: frightened, fearful (exceedingly)]. They [the swine herdsmen] also which saw it told them [the city folks] by what means he [the wild (unsaved) man] that was possessed of the devils [Gk: to be exercised by a demon] was healed [Gk: “safe” saved, made whole]. Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes [the half-tribe of Gad that chose to live in the wilderness] round about besought him [Jesus] to depart from them; for they [all] were taken [Gk: arrested (as a prisoner is); fig. compelled] [dominated] with great fear [Gk: alarm or fright: be afraid, + exceedingly, terror] [of being cast by default into the Abyss]: and he [Jesus] went up into the ship, and returned back again [to the Promised Land west of the wilderness (unsavedness) of Gad].  

2.   (Luke 10:38-42) Now it came to pass, as they [his disciples] went [with Jesus], that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary [Heb: rebellious /// bitterness] [i.e., Mary is an archetype symbolizing all humanity and the latter is a description of her (our) original character, but in this narrative Mary has been converted from her wildness], which also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word [Gk: logos] [Mary is an example of saved fruitful people of “a sound mind,” of the “good ground” (Luke 8:8,15) in the sower soweth the seed parable; i.e., Gideon’s 300 combat soldiers]. But Martha was cumbered [Gk: distracted] [Martha is an example of saved (it may be inferred that she had “root”) people of a not so sound mind, i.e., “among thorns” (worldly distractions, who) “bring no fruit to perfection” (Luke 8:7,14) in the sower soweth the seed parable; i.e., Gideon’s 9,700 support soldiers] about [by] much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid [Gk: tell] her therefore that she help me. And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful [Gk: anxious about, take thought] and troubled [Gk: to make “turbid”, disturbed] [distracted] about many things: But [only] one thing is needful [Gk: required, necessary]: and Mary hath chosen [i.e., as a Christian, you choose to be either a Martha (a support soldier, one of the 9,700) or a Mary (a combat soldier, one of the 300)] that good [i.e., “good ground”] part [which is the most profitable to God and Kingdom part of My (whole) ministry], which shall not be taken away from her.

3.   (Luke 15:16-20) And he [The Prodigal Son, but really, The Fallen Angel (in a human body)] would fain [Gk: longed to] have filled his belly with the husks [the empty seed-pods] that the swine [pigs] did eat: and no man gave [even a morsel (a crumb) of food] unto him [in stark contrast to just previously when many men and many women swarmed him during his (stage, phase, period) of “riotous living” Luke 15:13]. And when he came to himself [“When he came to his senses” NIV] [notable of “a sound mind” 2 Tim 1:7], he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, And am no more worthy [i.e., a humbled man] to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

a.    (James 4:7,8) Submit [Gk: to subordinate; to obey: be obedient] yourselves therefore to God. Resist [Gk: stand against] the devil, and he will flee [Gk: run away; shun, vanish: escape] from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

                                                                         i.      (Luke 16:13) No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon [Gk: wealth (personified)] [i.e., Satan, who is “the god of this world” 2 Cor 4:4)].

 
Amen