ROBERT’S OPEN DECLARATION!”
My position in presenting these postings is done not as a pastor, minister, or teacher of God’s words. They are brought forward as messages to be discerned by those receiving them and choosing personally how to react. Scriptural foundation for their delivery Ezekiel 33:9
Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
It is with great love for all given to me by Yeshua that you are receiving them. Luke 10:16
[16]He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.  And all of God’s children say Amen and Amen

SPIRITUAL FOUNDATION!

Galatians 5:19-21 NKJV
Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, [20] idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, [21] envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

COMMENTARY

Our freedom from the above evils is through receiving salvation. However, we might, through our ignorance of God’s laws, find a remenent of a misunderstood evil still  with us. In defining this evil, we gain the understanding of how it presents itself into the realm of our acceptance.

The Merriam Webster dictionary defines sorcery as the use of power gained from the assistance or control of evil spirits, especially for divining : NECROMANCY
2: MAGIC sense 2a

One of man’s recognized weaknesses is the seeking of power and control over their lives and their surroundings. However, these traits are a direct connection back to the one evil, which most do not understand or are unable to discern properly.

Sorcery, as offered in the definition earlier described, is easy to recognize; however, in a subtle form, being offered as knowledge it becomes difficult for many to discern without having heavenly wisdom being offered by the Holy Spirit. Luke 21:15 KJV
For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.

If it be our care to act under the guidance and power of the blessed Spirit, though we may not be freed from the stirrings and oppositions of the corrupt nature which remains in us, it shall not have dominion over us.

Believers are engaged in a conflict in which they earnestly desire that grace may obtain full and speedy victory. And those who desire thus to fully give themselves up to be led by the Holy Spirit are not under the law as a covenant of works, nor exposed to its awful curse.

It is here that we find the first inkling of a deception occurring within many.Their hatred of sin and desires after holiness should reveal their part in the salvation of the gospel. The works of the flesh are many and manifest. And those described sins  shut men out of heaven. Yet how many, calling themselves Christians, live with them, and say they hope for heaven!

The fruits of the Spirit, or of the renewed nature, which we are to do, are named. And as the apostle had chiefly named works of the flesh, not only hurtful to themselves, but tend to make them so to one another; here  chiefly describes the fruits of the Spirit, which tend to make believers agreeable one to another, as well as content in having made their full submission to Yeshua.

Galatians 5:22-25
[22]But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
[23]Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
[24]And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
[25]If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

The fruits of the Spirit plainly show that such are led by the Spirit. By describing the works of the flesh and fruits of the Spirit, we are told what to avoid and oppose, and what we are to cherish and cultivate; and this is the sincere care and endeavour of all real Believers and Followers being required of them to find the narrow path, which is now revealed as the act of complete submission of your life unto Yeshua who now receives all of your love all of your soul, and all of your strength.

It becomes clear these attributes were the basis of the righteousness Calab and Joshua maintained in order for God to recognize their righteousness was sincere as they were fully committed and as such, allowed to cross the Jordan into the promised land. For today’s disciples, being fully committed to these attributes would  dispell all the remnants of seeking after power to control their lives and their surroundings and those in them.

Through gaining this knowledge and embracing this wisdom being offered, it becomes easy to understand how to fully embrace our Savior’s, love, peace, compassion, and fulfillment of His grace.

We would, now having this wisdom, recognize that to actually gain the desired control over our being, we must willingly and fully submit ourselves to God Matthew 22:37-38 KJV
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. [38] This is the first and great commandment.

As I have related in many previous postings, to live fully submitted to God, and having taken your hands off the reins of your life and completely turned them over to God, to live in and by faith takes a huge amount of courage and trust on your part which is reflected in scripture quite brightly in Matthew 7:14 KJV
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

The action of completely submitting your life to God removes you from the curse of God’s law spoken of in Deuteronomy 28:45 KJV
Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:

In doing this act, you will have removed yourself from any remenent of sorcery within your life. The curses spoken of in Deuteronomy 28:46 KJV
And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed forever.

These curses shall be lifted from among those with the courage to completely submit themselves to Yeshua and allow him to take full control of their lives and let go of any semblence of control they believe they might have through the remenent of sorcery. Here, we find the fulfillment of the three gifts promised in Psalm 91:1-16. Health, Strength, and our guarantee of the first two, Long Life.