Authority   Worth Considering    5/11/21    Trinity Fellowship at Kealia,    Ken Smith<><

Definition of Authority by Merriam-Websterhttps://www.merriam-webster.com
AUTHORITY
English Language Learners Definition of authority : the power to give orders or make decisions : the power or right to direct or control someone or something. : the confident quality of someone who knows a lot about something or who is respected or obeyed by other people.

So, let us start in our quest for understanding here with the first abuse of authority.

12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!  13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:  14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.  Isaiah 14:12-14

Ezek. 28:13-18″ “13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.  14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.   15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.   16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.   17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.  18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.

So in the beginning, before Adam, GOD created a spiritual world that also allowed for freewill.  It appears that lucifer was created to cover the works of God in our solar system including earth.  So in this event 2/3rds of the Angles stayed submitted and 1/3 of the angles left became demons.  God Gained Michael and Gabrael and lost lucifer.  But now the angels that are with God are there because they want to be there and want to serve GOD.   So there is both freewill and righteousness without manipulation of any kind.

It appears that lucifer misjudged GOD’S loving peaceful humility as to being soft and weak and decided to reign on earth.  But in the absolute foreknowledge of GOD, this decision of pride and rebellion was also known as also the ultimate destruction of lucifer.  And all was used by God in the creation of Adam as the first species in the image and likeness of God to perfect the use of freewill to grow into righteousness.  So only one NO tree in the Garden of Eden was allowed to still belong to lucifer and to help Adam grow in learning how to use freewill.   All of the other trees were all yes and to enjoy.  But GOD already knew that Adam would fail but that the second Adam (Jesus) would prevail four centuries later.

So we are born into a world where most of the trees of choice cause death but where there is still the one tree of Christ Jesus to bring life.   And it is up to us to gather around that Tree of Life or not.

Let’s look at the 3 temptations of Eve that caused the spiritual death to both Adam & Eve.   First off Eve was created to help Adam, not to take charge of Adam.   Adam needed a wife, not a mother.  So then at the temptation why is Eve in the conversation at all.  And why is Adam just standing by her and listening.  And then lets look at the temptations,  every day we get the same 3 temptations.  Can you pick them out from the lies and ½ truths ?

Now the serpent was more subtle and crafty than any living creature of the field which the Lord God had made. And he [Satan] said to the woman, Can it really be that God has said, You shall not eat from every tree of the garden?  2 And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat the fruit from the trees of the garden,  3 Except the fruit from the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.  4 But the serpent said to the woman, You shall not surely die,  5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing the difference between good and evil and blessing and calamity.  6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good (suitable, pleasant) for food and that it was delightful to look at, and a tree to be desired in order to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she gave some also to her husband, and he ate.  7 Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves apron like girdles.

For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh [craving for sensual gratification] and the lust of the eyes [greedy longings of the mind] and the pride of life [assurance in one’s own resources or in the stability of earthly things]—these do not come from the Father but are from the world [itself].  1 John 2:16    And these are the same 3 temptations that lucifer used on Jesus.  Matt.4:2-10,    Notice here that Jesus only used the words of Moses as the authority to defeat lucifer.

We often pray the Prayer, “Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will be Done on Earth as in Heaven.  Our Heavenly Father has set up an authority structure on Earth to help us get ready to live with HIM in Heaven.  He is total authority but wants to live in a peaceful loving gentle family of humility and righteousness.   We are now in a temporary earthly time dimension to learn how to do just that.  If we are going to see the Glory of Jesus then there must be Loving Authority and Unity. And if we would rather not, there is nothing outside of GOD but void.  The order of authority training goes simple like this: Children, Women,  Mother, Men, Father, Deacons, Elders, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Heavenly Father.  And it is loving authority by choice and not be manipulation. 

Jesus prayed this prayer:   “20 Neither for these alone do I pray [it is not for their sake only that I make this request], but also for all those who will ever come to believe in (trust in, cling to, rely on) Me through their word and teaching,  21 That they all may be one, [just] as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe and be convinced that You have sent Me.  22 I have given to them the glory (power) and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one [even] as We are one: John 17:20-22,    Heb.13:17.  We are in school learning how to use our freewill and become obedient in humility or we are in the world walking in pride and rebellion.

Yours, in HIS great Love & Wonderful Grace and Mercy, Ken<><   www.Trinity-Aloha.org

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LOVE & OBEDIENCE,      “WORTH CONSIDERING”   5/6/21

The other evening as going to bed I was talking to the LORD or HOLY SPIRIT about love.  He was sharing with me that GOD’S kind of LOVE “does no harm.”  Obviously there is a lot of pain, suffering and harm in our world today.  So we are not all on the same page about all this.  Of course there is also the law of sowing & reaping.  We often ten to blame GOD for what we brought on to ourselves.

Seems the problem is our ability to rationalize and to presume that we do no harm, when actually,  we do.   We are taught to train up a child in the way they shall go and when they get to be an adult that will be their life style.   So obviously our system of training children in becoming adults is not working.  Especially with porn and atheism in our school systems today.  My parents never ever taught me anything about becoming an adult.  It was bad and good, obedience/disobedience,   blessings or punishment and rather soft on the punishment.  Like one time when about 6 years old I embarrassed  my mother and she whipped me with willow switches on my bare legs all the way home for 3 blocks.  And she was wrong in what she did.  The problem is that we don’t realize it but it is by example that we do most of the training.  “Monkey see, monkey do.”   And most of our love is very selfish, it is really about us.   Jesus taught us as Christians to love our enemies and to do good to them who use us badly.  Jesus taught us to go find the one out of one hundred that is lost.  We sit in our own little  comfort  zones and become our own lord and do what we want to and then tell the world that we are Christian.   By what example do we find this in Holy Scripture ?  By and large the church, so called, has opted to change GOD’s Truth into being self serving.   “If GOD wants them, HE can save them, HE does not need me.”   “The Bible teaches in Hebrews that I don’t need or have any other authority over me but the Holy Spirit.”   But then many break the 4th commandment in saying GOD said it when HE did not.  We have holding pens called churches that tell souls that GOD want’s them rich and to be successful and forget about Job and what he went through due to his bad doctrine of fear being allowed in his family.  We tend to make our truth to be God’s Truth and it will not stand in the judgment.

I came away from my conversation with the Holy Spirit feeling a lot different about what it means to “Do No Harm” in seeing it from an eternal perspective of GOD and not a subjective space of me being in charge full  of rationalization and manipulation.   And knowing the example that I am to set in the world as an example being a Christian or a  (willing slave of Christ Jesus.)  It gave me a deep feeling of responsibility of really putting on the mind of Christ and clothing myself with what he likes and does not like.  And yet it was not an intrusion into my rights but a deliverance from my rights so I could enter into the joy of my LORD.   So what in my life helps others to become like Jesus is of the Holy Spirit.   And what in my life as being self protective,  unproductive and ego centered is not.    What is all about Jesus as to what is opposed as about me.  Our Creator God has invited us to decide to live with Him in Righteousness in a Kingdom with a King.  This is the best form of government if with a good king and it is totally top down.  So we are either in a school learning to become obedient for HIS Kingdom, or we are children of this world learning to protect our own little kingdom turf.  In Rev. 22:14-17 we see the final graduation.  “Blessed are they that “DO” His Commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.”  Most so called Christians, have no idea WHAT ARE  of the true commandments of Jesus and much less, learning to be obedient..
  

“WORTH CONSIDERING”   “REVIVAL”   “GREAT LAST HARVEST OF SOULS”
6:00PM EDT 5/5/2021 Stephen Strang   (Facebook/Chris Reed)     As the social and spiritual climate in our nation gets worse and worse, talk of an end-times revival, even a third Great Awakening, is on the rise. Many young leaders are now declaring the approach of a coming revival, among them a 36-year-old Indiana pastor named Chris Reed, who had a supernatural encounter with an angel whose words agree with this prophetic perspective.      Reed’s encounter took place in what he calls “the libraries of heaven” with an angel he says was named “The Fear of the Lord.” In this encounter, Reed felt a holy reverence and awe as he was drawn to a bookcase labeled “The Supernatural” and to a specific book there titled “The Seven Spirits of God.”     On the front cover were the words “The Spirit of the Lord.” Each page, he told me, was thick and white, like a book within itself. The first page was titled “The Spirit of Wisdom”; the next “The Spirit of Living Understanding or Revelation”; the third, “The Spirit of Counsel”; the fourth, “The Spirit of Might” and the sixth, “The Spirit of Knowledge.” These correspond to the description of the seven Spirits of God listed in Isaiah 11:2.     Reed turned the book over, and the back cover read, “The Spirit of the Fear of the Lord.” He glanced up and then down to see that the back cover had been torn off, and all the pages in the book fell out. He was left holding the front cover, which also read, “The Spirit of the Lord.”     The angel with him in this library said, “Do you understand what you’re seeing? What you are seeing is the result of when the fear of the Lord is missing in the church. You lose the spirit of counsel and might. You lose the spirit of wisdom in everyday situations, knowing how to apply knowledge and wisdom. You lose the spirit of revelation, so people operate out of intellect and head knowledge.”     Finally, he said, “When you lose the fear of the Lord, all you’re left with is an atmosphere.” Reed instantly thought of the many church services he had been in where he didn’t see the spirit of might in the form of miracles or the spirit of knowledge in words of knowledge or revelation, but people still said, “We feel the Spirit of the Lord. We feel the presence of the Lord.”     “There’s got to be more than just an atmosphere and a feeling that the Spirit brings,” Reed says. “We’ve got to have the full, complete Spirit of God at work, or all we’re left with is an atmosphere.”     The full work of the Spirit comes when the fear of the Lord is present, he says. That means a reverential awe and a hatred of all kinds of sin, according to Proverbs 8:13, which says, “The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way and the perverse mouth I hate.”     “Holiness, godliness, returns to the church when there is a sovereign outpouring of the spirit of the fear of the Lord,” Reed says. But it doesn’t end there. Reed drew my attention to Acts 5:11, where Ananias and Sapphira lied about their giving and died. The result was that “great fear came on the entire church and all who heard these things.” This immediately led to the return of signs and wonders at an unprecedented level, a supernatural unity, a heightened respect of the church by the world, exponential growth and harvest of souls, angelic activity and the healing of the sick in unprecedented ways. All these results are found in Acts 5, after the fear of the Lord returned to the early church.     “So much is tied to a restoration of the fear of the Lord,” Reed told me. “There is a complete, sevenfold, perfected element of the Spirit of God at work in the church again. That’s what we want.”

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Aloha Saints, Family & Friends,   Beloved of Jesus and me,   Ken<><

Seems my life lately has been getting cluttered with stuff lately.   A home in Kealia to complete.  A lot down the street 7 doors to clean up and make into a youth outreach ministry.   Thinking of calling it the FireHouse as a home burned down there 5 years ago and the LORD is wanting us to be filled with the fire of the Holy Spirit.  So lets do a little study together on Holy Spirit Fire today.   1st we tend to think of fire as destructive but actually the basic elements are not destroyed only changed back into basic building blocks that can be used again and again.  In the amplified Bible FIRE is mentioned 527 times and 78 in the New Testament.  One of the places in the N.T. that gets my attention is Heb. 12:25:   “ See to it that you do not refuse [to listen to] Him who is speaking [to you now]. For if those [sons of Israel] did not escape when they refused [to listen to] him who warned them on earth [revealing God’s will], how much less will we escape if we turn our backs on Him who warns from heaven? 26 His voice shook the earth [at Mount Sinai] then, but now He has given a promise, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the [starry] heaven.” 27 Now this [expression], “Yet once more,” indicates the removal and final transformation of all those things which can be shaken—that is, of that which has been created—so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, and offer to God pleasing service and acceptable worship with reverence and awe; 29 for our God is [indeed] a consuming fire.

So, if we are being trained to be like HIM, Gen 1:26 there are some big changes ahead for us.  Of course God also created in us a FreeWill so we can decide, (IF) we don’t want it.  Jude writes about this.  “ 13. … wandering stars (suns), to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.   So for me, I really don’t want to go there.   So what do I need to do to change to grow into that LIGHT/FIRE of God to be like Jesus?

2 Peter 3:10-11 gives us a prophesy concerning the big change ahead.   “But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will vanish with a [mighty and thunderous] roar, and the [material] elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and  the earth and the works that are on it will be [a] burned up.  11 Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be [in the meantime] in holy behavior [that is, in a pattern of daily life that sets you apart as a believer] and in godliness [displaying profound reverence toward our awesome God],   Also in Matt. 24-25.

So for us,  it starts out in Ezek 28:18 (Prophesy concerning lucifer:)  “You profaned your sanctuaries.  By the great quantity of your sins and the enormity of your guilt,  By the unrighteousness of your trade.  Therefore I have brought forth a fire from your midst;  It has consumed you,  And I have reduced you to ashes on the earth.  In the sight of all who look at you.”    So guess what: We are being trained to be that fire in Christ Jesus, Heb. 1:6-7:   And when He again brings the firstborn [highest-ranking Son] into the world, He says,  “And all the angels of God are to worship Him.”  7 And concerning the angels He says, “Who makes His angels winds, And His ministering servants flames of fire [to do His bidding].”   Jesus also shared about this in Luke 3:15-17:  “Now the people were in a state of expectation, and all were wondering in their hearts about John, as to whether he was the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed). 16 John answered them all by saying, “As for me, I baptize you [only] [a] with water; but One who is mightier [more powerful, more noble] than I is coming, and I am not fit to untie the strap of His sandals [even as His slave]. He will baptize you [who truly repent] with the Holy Spirit and [you who remain unrepentant] with [b] fire. 17 His [c] winnowing fork is in His hand to thoroughly clear His threshing floor, and to gather the wheat (believers) into His barn (kingdom); but He will burn up the chaff (the unrepentant) with unquenchable fire.”   This study only scratches the surface of this great truth.  Really not preached much any more?????

Yours, in His great Love. Wonderful Grace & Mercy,   Ken<>< www.trinity-aloha.org
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There is but ONE church of Christ Jesus, all who trust, love & obey are members.

 I Have not been sending along the Worthy Brief much lately, too depressing.   Sadly our national heritage of freedom is being quickly eroded away in a great quest for power.   As a nation we have elected many into office that are there due to their own quest for power. 

But George did send along this following statement concerning faith.   “Take a leap of faith!”
Luke 17:5-6 And the apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.” So the Lord said, “If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.  

The African Impala (an African antelope) are amazing creatures that can jump to a height of over 10 feet and cover a distance greater than 30 feet. Yet Impalas can be kept in a zoo inside an enclosure with a simple 3-foot wall. Why? Impalas will not jump if they can’t see where their feet will land. Do we have something in common with these antelopes? Able to take great leaps of faith, but refusing to do it unless we can see where we’ll land?      George Mueller said of faith, “Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man’s power ends.”  In Biblical terms: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”  True faith cannot see how the landing will occur…it simply leaps under the conviction that it WILL occur. Remember, Biblical faith begins where our power ends! Your family in the Lord with much agape love, George Baltimore,  Worthy Brief <worthybrief@worthynetwork.com&gt;