LOCK STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS
To the Elect of Loving Father Son and Holy Ghost, the True
Church, The Bride of Jesus Christ by the precious Blood of the only begotten
Son of God who gave Himself a ransom and died for us: (Ho. 13/14, Math. 20/20,
Mk. 10/45, 1 Tim. 2/6).
THUS SAITH THE LORD
GOD:
"AND THE LORD GOD
FORMED MAN OF THE DUST OF THE GROUND," GEN. 2/7.
"IN THE SWEAT OF THY FACE SHALT THOU EAT BREAD, TILL THOU RETURN UNTO THE
GROUND; FOR OUT OF IT WAST THOU TAKEN: FOR DUST THOU ART, AND UNTO DUST
SHALT THOU RETURN." GEN. 3/19.
"AND THE LORD GOD
SAID UNTO THE SERPENT, BECAUSE THOU HAST DONE THIS, THOU ART CURSED ABOVE ALL
CATTLE, AND ABOVE EVERY BEAST OF THE FIELD; UPON THY BELLY SHALT THOU GO, AND
DUST SHALT THOU EAT ALL THE DAYS OF THY LIFE:" GEN. 3/14.
Before you gave your life to Christ, you were the devil`s
meat, given over to him by Loving Father in Gen. 3/19, you were SO CURSED. You belonged to the Serpent, the Dragon,
Lucifer, Satan, the Devil. You were his to do with as he pleased as the above
scriptures attest too. (2 Tim. 2/26).
When you came to Christ however,........YOU BECAME HIS, A
"PURCHASED POSSESSION" OF GOD BY HIS OWN LIFE, CLEANSED BY HIS BLOOD:
YOU NOW BELONG TO LOVING FATHER THROUGH CHRIST JESUS HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON:
(Acts 20/28, Eph. 1/14).
YOU ARE BOUGHT WITH A
PRICE,..........LOCK STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS; FROM THE HAIR OF YOUR
CHINNY CHIN CHIN RIGHT DOWN TO THE TIPS OF YOUR BIG
TOENAILS,......YOU BELONG TO GOD THE FATHER THROUGH JESUS CHRIST TO DO WITH AS
HE SEES FIT:
THUS SAITH THE LORD
GOD:
"WHAT? KNOW YE NOT
THAT YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST WHICH IS IN YOU, WHICH YE HAVE
OF GOD, AND YE ARE NOT YOUR OWN? FOR YE ARE BOUGHT WITH A
PRICE: THEREFORE GLORIFY GOD IN YOUR BODY, AND IN YOUR SPIRIT, WHICH ARE GOD`S."
1 COR. 6/19-20.
"FOR I THE LORD
THY GOD AM A JEALOUS GOD, EX. 20/5, "FOR THOU SHALT
WORSHIP NO OTHER GOD: FOR THE LORD, WHOSE NAME IS JEALOUS, IS A JEALOUS
GOD: EX. 34/14.
YOU HAVE BEEN BOUGHT
WITH A PRICE,........YOU HAVE BEEN JEALOUSLY ESPOUSED TO LOVING FATHER
THROUGH JESUS CHRIST HIS BELOVED ONLY BEGOTTEN SON AMEN:
THEREFORE,...........................THUS
SAITH THE LORD GOD:
"I BESEECH YOU
THEREFORE, BRETHREN, BY THE MERCIES OF GOD, THAT YE PRESENT YOUR BODIES A LIVING
SACRIFICE, HOLY, ACCEPTABLE UNTO GOD, WHICH IS YOUR REASONABLE SERVICE."
RO. 12/1.
"FOR NONE OF US
LIVETH TO HIMSELF, AND NO MAN DIETH TO HIMSELF. FOR WHETHER WE LIVE, WE LIVE
UNTO THE LORD; AND WHETHER WE DIE, WE DIE UNTO THE LORD: WHETHER WE LIVE THEREFORE,
OR DIE WE ARE THE LORD`S. FOR TO THIS END CHRIST BOTH DIED, AND
ROSE, AND REVIVED, THAT HE MIGHT BE LORD BOTH OF THE DEAD AND LIVING." RO.
14/7-9.
We are to give our
"bodies", "present our bodies" to The Lord, "holy
acceptable unto God which is our reasonable service".
WE BELONG TO HIM BODY SOUL AND SPIRIT TO DO WITH AS HE SEES
FIT, TO QUICKEN US, TO HEAL US, TO DELIVER US, TO GIVE US OVER TO SATAN
"FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF THE FLESH",..... IF HE SO WILLS, (2 Cor.
12/7, 1 Cor. 5/4-5, notice here that it is not at our behest this is done, IT
IS AT HIS:),......(which will happen if we are not obedient to HIM in "taking
up our cross and denying self daily", [Math. 16/24, Mk. 8/34, Luke 9/23],
if we "do not reckon ourselves to be dead indeed to sin", [Ro. 6/11],
if we do not "mortify the deeds of the body by the spirit", [Ro.
8/13], if we decide to "sow to the flesh and not the spirit". [Ro.
6/16, 8/13, Gal. 6/8]. If we choose to be rebellious,.. disobedient):
THE INSTRUMENT FOR THE
DESTRUCTION OF OUR SINFUL FLESH IS TO BE THE CROSS BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY
GHOST:
THUS SAITH THE LORD
GOD:
"KNOWING THIS,
THAT OUR OLD MAN IS CRUCIFIED WITH HIM, THAT THE BODY OF SIN
MIGHT BE DESTROYED, THAT HENCEFORTH WE SHOULD NOT SERVE SIN." RO. 6/6.
"FOR IF YE LIVE
AFTER THE FLESH, YE SHALL DIE: BUT IF YE THROUGH THE SPIRIT DO
MORTIFY THE DEEDS OF THE BODY, YE SHALL LIVE. FOR AS MANY AS ARE LED BY THE
SPIRIT OF GOD, THEY ARE THE SONS OF GOD." RO. 8/13-14.
THE CROSS, (which we
are to make a decision to "take up daily"), IS THE INSTRUMENT OF THE
DEATH OF THE OLD MAN IN BAPTISM BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY GHOST.
THUS SAITH THE LORD
GOD:
"KNOW YE NOT, THAT
SO MANY OF US AS WERE BAPTISED INTO JESUS CHRIST WERE BAPTISED INTO HIS DEATH?"
RO. 6/3.
THEREFORE, "HOW
SHALL WE, THAT ARE DEAD TO SIN, LIVE ANY LONGER THEREIN?" RO. 6/2.
"THEREFORE WE ARE
BURIED WITH HIM BY BAPTISM INTO DEATH: THAT LIKE AS CHRIST WAS RAISED UP FROM
THE DEAD BY THE GLORY OF THE FATHER, EVEN SO WE ALSO SHOULD WALK IN NEWNESS OF
LIFE. FOR IF WE HAVE BEEN PLANTED TOGETHER IN THE LIKENESS OF HIS DEATH, WE
SHALL BE ALSO IN THE LIKENESS OF HIS RESURRECTION:" RO. 6/4-5.
"FOR HE THAT IS
DEAD IS FREED FROM SIN." RO. 6/7.
THUS SAITH THE LORD
GOD:
"EVEN SO NOW YIELD
YOUR MEMBERS SERVANTS TO RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO HOLINESS." RO. 6/19. AMEN.
"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. AMEN. GAL. 2/20.
"AND THEY LOVED
NOT THEIR LIVES UNTO THE DEATH." REV. 12/11.
Bevan Kluver,
Straight Talk Ministries,
Ph/Fax 07 55452874,
www.straighttalkmin.org
bevan.kluver@bigpond.com
"speaking the truth in love, in the spirit of meekness,
earnestly contending for the faith:"
HELPING HIM PREPARE A BRIDE WITHOUT SPOT OR WRINKLE:
HATING EVEN THE GARMENT SPOTTED BY THE FLESH: