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The Meno of Abiding (Part 1)

If you have not read Rebekah the Savior of Israel it would be advised that you to do so, as much in this article is related to issues spoken of in that article.

Recently I received an e-mail newsletter from a deeper life ministry containing an article on John 8:31-32. Normally I tend to have little desire to read such things these days. I was about to delete it when I felt checked in my spirit. I knew of this fellowship and its preacher through a mutual friend, but I had never met them or been to their fellowship, which should be of little surprise to any who have read articles written on this site.

As I thumbed thought this newsletter I came to the “featured article” which had been penned by some other preacher associated with this deeper life ministry. What caught my eye was the Greek words the writer used in the opening paragraphs and how the definitions of these words that were that he had placed in “quotes.” Definitions that this had preacher knowingly inserted his own words into, in order to help him to be able to speak things that were neither in the KJV text nor in the original Greek.

I was a bit bothered by this technique employed by this preacher. (Sadly this practice is all too common. –And is generally employed to redefine biblical terms to suit one’s religious agenda.) So I put that aside for the moment and read on, wondering what the Lord was seeking to draw my attention to in this article. As I read the next few paragraphs I was appalled when this writer again appealed to the Greek in a second bible passage, and this time he was all the more flagrant with his insertions in “quotes” completely skipping the Greek definitions altogether and this time inserting only his own words in what was clearly designed to deceive the reader into believing their were given the true meaning of these words. He had no doubt done so purposely, as he knew the Greek in this case “was a dry well” as to what he was teaching. At that point I felt compelled by the Lord to write on this text and respond to certain assertions made by this writer in his article.

The first quote from this article we will cite is as follows:
”In John 8:31 Jesus says, If ye continue in my word ye are my disciples indeed. The word "Continue" signifies “to abide, or to dwell, consciously and willfully. (These two words have nothing to do with the actual or implied Greek definition of the word continue.)” Thus, we have a “purposeful” and “aggressive action” as opposed to a passive and indifferent attitude.”(We see here in this, that his teaching reflects only his insertions)

John 8:31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue (Greek Meinete) in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;

Before we look at the Greek, as readers of this site are aware the Lord has given us great revelation in recent days concerning the Mishnah / Talmud and its continuing influence upon the church of this hour. The Lord has also opening up unto us that both John the Baptist, and Jesus Christ’s were at all out war on the Mishnah / Talmud and its disciples. In light of this we need to comment here that the word “Jews” here is not used in the Gospels of “The Children of Israel” but rather it was used of the members of another competing rabinical school. Here we read of a sect of Israelites that called “The Jews” no doubt meaning that they were the “True Jews” (These would seem to have been more conservative in their views) In another passage they gladly except Christ declaring the Pharisees to be corrupt and hypocritical in their teachings. In that same passage we read that a number of their followers were also desirous of following Christ. Showing that there was not a uniform opinion of Christ among the schools who’s heads sat upon the Sanhedrin (What we mention here is significant to the passage cited above – as to our understanding here who Christ is speaking these words to.)

Moving on now to the Greek, the word Continue in the Greek is "Meinete" or "Meno" which in the Greek Lexicon is defined as: To Dwell, To Lodge, To Sojourn. --Also we will mention here that the word “Meinete” is 2 Person =You, Plural = All, “Meinete” is in the Aorist-1 Tense = Occurring once and for all, or At a point of time, and “Meinete” is also Subjective = So that this "Dwelling” or “Abiding" Is Not Definite, But A Possibility.

Without giving a long “rambling” discussion covering ground we have spoken of already in several other articles, we will only say that Almost without except the words in the Greek New Testament have their origin and are defined in the Greek Septuagint. We will mention here once again that the Greek Septuagint was the bible that Christ, and Paul the Apostle used. And many of their quotes are directly from the text of the Greek Septuagint. – So as part of any one’s study of Greek words they must go beyond the Concordance and Greek Lexicon definitions typically used, and look up these words directly in the Greek Septuagint, and in so doing many times they will find a better, a truer, and a more exact definition of these words than they would find in a typical Concordance or Greek Lexicon.

By my count the Greek word Meno is used some 55 times in the Greek Septuagint.

In Genesis 24:55 we find the first use of this word:
Genesis 24:55 And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel (Rekekah) abide (Meno) with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.

Here we see that the word Meno does not carry the meaning in the Greek Lexicon (Which is not uncommon) Here Rebekah already clearly dwells with her family, and yet her family asks that she might "Abide" or "Stay" with them. What they are seeking here is that Rebekah would stay: “Under their rule”, or stay “Under the influence of Laban and her Mother. (This same thing also occurred with Abraham when his father and Lot “Abided” with him and were seeking to influence and have decision making power over what God was speaking to Abraham.) In this case of the redemption of Rebekah, her scheming mother and brother upon seeing the wealth of Abraham that was presented, wanted more time to negotiate further over the bride for the son of promise. And these “hirelings” were summarily denied any further right to continue their self-serving discipleship, shepherdship, or rulership, over the bride. Once the bracelets were clasped upon Rebekah’s wrists she was no longer of the house of Laban and her Mother. She had been purchased; she had been redeemed in the name of the son of promise by the nameless self-less servant. And she was now placed under his watch and care until the hour in which she was to be delivered without spot and wrinkle to the son of promise. So she was no longer allowed to “Meno” "To Stay, or To Continue” under the corrupt rule or corrupt influence of the house of Laban and her Mother.

Here Meno is better understood as one being: "Under Tutors and Governors"

John 8:31 Then said Jesus to those (In the rabbinical order of the) Jews which believed on him, (Had His bracelets clasped upon their wrists) If ye continue (Meinete To leave the Meno of the house of Laban, and dwell under My rulership or influence) in (The house of) My word, then are ye my disciples indeed; (Whether they understood Christ words here or not, Christ was saying here: You can not belong to the rabbinical order of the Jews and be My disciple.)

Genesis 45:9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, and tarry (Meno) not. (In the land of famine.)
In this second passage, we see again that Meno again means something different than “To Dwell, To Lodge, To Sojourn" as stated in my Lexicon. Here while it is translated "To Tarry" we see that the meaning from the context means something more than "To Wait” or "To Continue.” First in this passage the issue was not one of “Dwelling, Lodging or Sojourning” in a fixed place or location. Rather Joseph has been made a Lord and as the fulfillment of his prophetic dream Israel and all of his household are to come and “Meno” Joseph. That is that they are to come away from”, or “come out of”” the house of another, that they might come under the rulership and under the influence of the house of Joseph, whom the Lord had raised above them. So in that regard between these two passages we see the true meaning of “Meno.” That “Meno” does not have the idea of being bound to a geographical location, but rather being or coming under the rule or authority of someone.

To contrast this we now will briefly discus the Greek word katoikein – which is the word for “To Dwell or Where One Live, or Where One Abides” This word is used well over a hundred times in the Septuagint.

A sample passage is:
Psalm 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell (Katoikein) in the house of the LORD forever.

Now we will attempt to address what the writer of this article has asserted in the first quotation we have cited. That the word "Continue" signifies "To abide or To dwell Consciously and Willfully.”

Within the above quotation marks the writer first declares the incorrect textbook meaning of the word “continue.” – On this point we will not rail against him, because the majority of those who call themselves teachers or preachers either have no knowledge of Greek or Hebrew whatsoever, or cursorary at very best. So these preachers and teachers feed their flocks with approximates, approximates from Strongs’ Concordance, Approximates from Vines Word Studies or some where else giving their hearers the impression they have some expertise and competence in what they do not. And this is one of the ways that so much false teaching and false doctrine is perpetuated.

This dealing in approximates (Or lying, cheating, or stealing) is not limited to a single area but it in fact tends generally to be a lifestyle. The life of King Saul is especially instructive in these areas. Saul was called, chosen, and anointed of God. – These things are not debatable. God also poured His Spirit out upon Saul similarly to the 70 elders in the wilderness with Moses. God declared the would make Saul into a new man, and scripture notes that Saul did become a new man but Saul like the ministry today was beholden to the people rather than to God. And Saul finding himself woefully short in many area’s to conduct the office he had been given did not like Samuel or Moses fall before the Lord and cleave unto the Lord so that if God did not speak or do something that they would ride the ship down. Saul instead was a man of action and demonstration (We would call this today showmanship or being an entertainer) and in order to keep his audience happy Saul had to do a lot of approximates, (We would call these today shortcuts or quick fixes.) To be “The friends of men” requires approximates. But whosoever foists these approximates upon the children of God, the same becomes the enemy of God.

And this is one of the ways that so much false teaching and false doctrine is perpetuated.

James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. (We need to ask here who is the world that James is speaking of? The answer is the ungodly and those that are un-Christ like.)

We will mention here that most preachers today take no pains or make little effort in searching out what they teach. Among the majority of preachers and teachers today there is a woeful sloppiness in their bible study techniques, there is a woeful sloppiness in their prayer lives, and a woeful sloppiness in their being discipled unto the Lord.

Some assemblies have come to some grasp of this – and to combat this they no longer accept Pastoral candidates from off the street (Having met the Lord in a powerful way and being on fire for God) nor do they except candidates from some one year or two year bible school (That are more hands on and Scripturally based.), Instead they instead actively seek out those with DD’s. And invariably what they end up getting is a sophisticated wolf in sheep’s clothing that is well trained so that he speaks his lies and approximates all the more smoothly.

On a small aside here:

1 Corinthians 5:9-11 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company (Sun-Ana-Mignousthai To mix together,To mingle oneself with, To associate with.[Paul is citing here Ezekiel 20:18 And I said to their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the traditions of your fathers and keep not their ordinances and have no fellowship with their practices, nor defile yourselves with them. Paul is declaring that this is the passage that Christ is citing in: Luke 11:44-46 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them. Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also. (While they loved Christ giving the Rabbinical School of the Pharisees a drubbing, they understood the meaning of the words of Christ here that if they were to have any fellowship, association, of business dealings with the Pharisees they themselves would be defiled. And this saying greatly dismayed them for they understood that in order to obey this saying that they would have to abandon their seat on the Sanhedrin that the Pharisees led. Similarly the rich young ruler was stymied by his having to give up his great wealth from which sincerely he wanted to be a wealthy philanthropic patron of Christ – to which Christ replied that those that would seek to do so would be barred from the kingdom of heaven. Here now Christ declares to any of those in these Rabbinical Schools that had any notion that they could use their office to be a philanthropic patron of Christ (To the Glory of God) would also be barred from the kingdom of heaven. And to follow Him, these men needed to cast aside their seats of authority that were linked with the Pharisees illegal and corrupt rule. [Their having obtained the seat of Moses from the wife of Alexander the Great.] Today this is equated to the works of the Christian Coalition, Doctor James Dobson and other unscriptural Christian lobbyists and lobbying organizations.) with fornicators: Yet not (I did not mean for you to cut off yourselves) altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of (A preach to, company with and eat with) the world (As Christ Himself did in the Gospels to the consternation of the Scribes and Pharisees etc. – but in disobedience to Christ the church as it fell began to systematically separate itself from those who they had been sent to and live in Monasteries, Christian communes or communities, By having church splits, and having one’s children attend Christian schools.) But now I have written unto you (to correct any such though and to restate what I meant from the beginning. That you are) not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother (Lokking back now to Paul linking Luke 11:44-46 to Ezekiel 20:18 we clearly see that Paul is speaking of the Pharisees and their Talmudic Christian disciples here. So that if any one of these “Talmudic Brethren” whether they be a he or a she) be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, (The Pharisees had moved their idols from being of wood and stone to a discipling to themselves and to their Rabbinical order and of the written word.) or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. (Here Paul clearly states we are not to cut ourselves from being in the company or eat with the company of fornicators, the covetous extortioners and Idolitors as longer as they are unsaved.)

However if they are “Talmudic Believers” that would identify themselves as “True Brethren” (Seeking the preeminence over others) And they are a fornicator, or covetous – Those who love and enrich themselves with the things of this world, and or preach and teach so. or an idolator, Those who disciple themselves to a man, ministry, or denomination, by coming under submission to any of these and taking them as their covering. The Apostle Paul warns of this exact thing in: Acts 20:30 Also of your own selves [From the midst of the church] shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after themselves, or a railer, One that is given to anger, prejudice, Or one who preaches and teaches men the hatred of the Scribes and Pharisees (Aka their Talmudic writings.) or a drunkard, This is not one who drinks alcohol, beer, or wine, in moderation or even becomes tipsy or drunk –This is a drunkard who has become enslaved to drink and drunkenness or an extortioner This is another angle of the prosperity gospel in which believers are extorted into paying tithes and offerings of money to ministers and their ministries because if they do not so they and their households and their relatives will not be blessed by God –aka they shall be cursed.

Paul declares there that any who either do these things or seek to do these things – they are the enemies of God. Or in the words of Christ they are wolves (Or Pharisees) in sheep’s clothing.

Speaking once more to bible study habits, over the past 35 years I have come to know a number of preachers from a variety of different denominations and In my youth by God’s grace I was allowed to sit with them in their studies and offices as they prepared their messages. And what I saw them do was revamping either older sermons of theirs, modifying someone else’s messages, using someone else’s bible study notes, taking stuff from some other peoples books or taped messages – In one case an anointed Evangelist/teacher used to laugh as he prepared to teach what he called “Leftovers.” (In Isaiah God calls these preachings and teachings “filth and vomit.”

I remember the anticipation I had being allowed to sit in these preachers’ offices, wanting to see them as they prayed, wanting to see them as they waited before the Lord to hear a fresh word, wanting to feel the anointing and closeness they had with God. – Most of these preachers talked a good game from the pulpit in their sermons about waiting on God, having to personally hear from God, and speaking a word in season, – but the reality of this was NONE of these pastors in my sight ever prayed or waited on God for a word. – No anointing ever fell in their offices. And as they studied there was no fellowship with God in Spirit. Many spoke of this “As a chore,” or a duty in which they were forced to come up with something for this service or that meeting. So that the majority of what they ended up putting together were in regards to what they had been thinking about on and off the week before or they would cobbling together through some combination of rummaging through old notes, study books, or other people’s stuff.

And yet back then I also was then able to observe them in the meetings as they taught and preached. I saw that in most cases their words were anointed, and after these meetings invariably people would come up to these men and women and would tell them how great their messages were, how what they had spoken had really spoke to them personally, how their were spiritually ministered to, or how these preachers and teachers had answered questions that they had.

Later when I went to Bible School I also had by God’s grace been given the opportunity to observe the teacher’s and guest preachers prepping for meetings, At times I was allowed to sit an hour or more silently watching and listening as they put together a sermon or a teaching. Looking back The Lord purposely took me places and allowed me to see things that few others see (And this was at some cost, as in my doing this I earned the ire and resentment of quite a few students.) For the most part I found that practices of these teachers mirrored much of what I had seen in other preachers and teachers before. Specifically that is none sought the Lord for what they were to speak. None of them waited on God as they put together their notes. God did not manifest himself as they studied, and there was no discernable fellowship in Spirit so they too in my sight would putting something together based on what they had been thinking about on and off in the last day or two or they would cobble together through some combination of old notes, study books, or other people’s stuff.

Truthfully at the time I was not consciously disappointed, as I had come to understand that this is how things were done. But in my spirit I was hungering for something more, something deeper, and something closer to God, so I continued searching even though I was not really conscious of what was going on..

I finally found what I was seeking in some old timers in their 70’s 80’s and 90’s (Brother Sexton, Brother and Sister Finn, Sister Wertz, Brother Maupin, Brother Hoyer and a few others.) These men and women were markedly different, as they walked with God moment by moment. As they prepared to minister they would wait on the Lord, and as they would do so the anointing would come in their room or office. They sought God for what to speak and the Lord would powerfully speak to them. Just sitting silently as they studied waited or prayed was wonderful. And they were eager for young people to have such an interest not in them but in the Lord. And in a way I can see that this is the place where the Lord has brought me.

Few articles that I write are written in a day or afternoon. Few are written even in a week. Most articles take me weeks, and this one so far has taken about two months to write. I am at the beck and call of the Lord for what to write and speak and not the reverse. And I need to say here that this is the place that the Lord desires each and every one of His children to be, this personal hearing and personal knowledge of God is the perpetration for the end time. Not all the other pattern oriented teachings that are heralded by populist teachers.

Over the years also the preachers and teachers I spoke of left to their own devices would tell me that message didn’t matter as much as the anointing. Others would stress being about to enter into a prophetic state while they preached where they could speak things higher than themselves, others would say that the words that they spoke did not matter at all they were merely little dump trucks or vehicles that could carry the anointing to their hearers.

But we know from scripture and from Christ and the Apostles that these notions are utterly false. We know that the Christ to his Apostles, and the Apostles to the early church had precise teachings and that any deviation from those set truths anointed of not were false and to be shunned.

2 Timothy 2:15-17 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane and vain babblings: (This is Paul’s definition of teaching that is not approved or directed by God. And the words of those who either do not, or are not able by the Spirit to rightly divide the word of truth.) for they (Their corrupt words and teachings.) will (cause an) increase unto more ungodliness (In them and their hearers). And their word(s) will eat as doth a canker (cancer): of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus; (Two noted false teachers of the day.)

Galatians 1:6-10 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another (Eteron Some other, or Different) gospel: Which is not another (Allo To change, To alter, To transform – Which cannot transform – As Christ is not its guarantor or administrator.); but there be some that trouble (Tarassontes To agitate, To trouble with fear, To terrify) you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. (This “being accursed” goes not only to the preacher, but to their hearers as well. – And as we have spoken before the plethora of Gospels that are being preached, in Word of Faith circles, in Deliverance circles, in Evangelical circles, Fundamentalist circles, in Pentecostal circles, and in Charismatic circles – is NOT the Gospel that Christ or Paul preached. They may use some of the words or some of the verses but the terms and terminology that these use has been altered to suit these churches, these ministries, and denominations purposes to draw disciples after themselves and to addict men to their ministries and teachings – and this is at great variance with God and Christ. – Paul here declares these are all without excuse and will stand accursed before God. And in that hour Christ shall sit upon His throne and say why did you not read my words and if you did not understand my words why did you not imitate my actions, and these shall stand speechless and the Lord shall say depart from me ye workers of iniquity for I never knew you. And He shall cast them out into eternal darkness where there shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. – My friends the time of entertainment and games is over. The time of repentance is at hand. Be no more deceived, be no more partakers of this evil, this is the hour of those that would seek to walk uprightly before the Lord to stand up and be counted.

So moving back now to our discussion of the base article here now we have an article in which a bible teacher tells us that the Greek word for continue (Meno) carries implicit in its definition that it is "Conscious" and "Willful" in nature. My friends this is both dishonest, and misleading. This is dishonest because this teacher has purposely made these “critical word insertions” to bolster and justify words he wanted to teach, that are neither in the KJV, nor in the meaning of word for “Continue” in the original Greek. – Intentional or not this Vain Babblings. This is feeding the flock of God with approximates. And these are the marks of vessels and ministries of dishonor.

The word Meno as already demonstrated has nothing to do with “A Mental State” or one “Being Conscious" or one making a “Conscious Choice.” Nor has it anything to do with any "Willfulness," of one’s personal desires, one’s will, or one’s wants. We need to realize that Christ has no room for our personal desires, our wants, or our willfulness. And elsewhere in speaking of the man Adam and his creation out of common dirt, – we have spoken to the fact that God has no need of arrogant dirt.

For one to “Meno” requires little or nothing. One can “Meno” when they are asleep, or one can “Meno” while they are unconscious. Thus a slave in chains can “Meno,” and even an ox being a creature of humble understanding can pull a plow in a field can “Meno”.

Matthew 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

To take His yoke upon us, and to learn of Him, is to learn of His meekness, and it is learn of and partake of His lowliness of heart. – This is utterly different than having one’s walk built upon the twisted and warped foundation of “Conscious Choice” and “Willfulness” of the flesh. And this is despite however “good” the intentions of men might be in their making these. The problem with the church is that it has been in the hands of sinful men making “Conscious Choices” and “Willfully” doing things since its fall in the second century. In truth the Church of today church filled to overflowing with all of these works of the flesh so much so that there is little or no room for God even in the groups that consider themselves the most spiritual. Believers today are so addicted to the these snake oil salesmen, with their spiritual dog and pony shows, that if all this were to suddenly cease – you would see what is spoken of in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 The great falling away occur.

2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

As we have spoken many times before that when the Antichrist shall rise –he shall seek to destroy all these little Antichrists and all their little Houses of the Antichrist, so that at the end of this age brick and mortar churches shall cease, there shall be no more pews, the continual false sacrifice shall cease, brick and mortar church worship shall cease with the sound of all its high tech sound systems, fanciful choreography and professional song, the tithe and all offerings to these local churches shall cease, in that day there shall be no more sermons and teachings, and Christian Television and Radio shall cease. In other words every work of man and every conscious carnal choice and every willful thing that has been made and declared as the image and likeness of God by men that believers have been compelled to partake of, and bow to since the early church fell shall cease -- and this shall cause the great falling away. For all those that are addicted to all of these things shall have nothing left that they might prop themselves up before the Lord – so they will simply fall away.

So then what shall remain? One’s personal relationship with God, as what has developed or cultivated in personal prayer, in personal worship and personal study of the word of God that -- and these things shall they carry in them and these things shall remain in them. These altar of ones is not bound by a structure or geographical location -- their altar is wherever they are, and with whomsoever the Lord brings to share and partake of it whether the Lord brings to you a Baptist a Roman Catholic or even a Mormon all are created in His image and likeness and all are precious in His sight and all thus deserve your fellowship companionship and your eating with. When Christ prayed for one entire chapter before He died that His body might be one – You can rest assured that this will have to be fulfilled in households all over the globe just as it was always intended before He cones again. Because most everything we see that has been corrupted in the church that has been made with hands today, will be returned once more to their rightful place and pure form within the household and even upon the marital bed where the two shall be gathered – to present themselves, and their households before the Lord.

Recently the Lord spoke in my ear a few things a few things that have enthralled my soul. The one I will mention here is that concerning the bride of Christ’s and in particular our brideship unto Him. Those whom He would seek are those that have become meek and lowly of heart. He seeks that those who are at the door of the marital chamber would willingly, joyfully, and with great gladness, leave their own personal desires and the desires that have been imposed on her by others at the door. (As spoken of Rebekah once the bracelets were clamped on her wrists, that she was no longer to fulfill the desires and wants of her parents and relatives from the house of Laban.)

That is, in our relationship with Christ all of the bride's desires, wishes, wants, and even her own will are to be left at the door, before entering – into this so great a salvation. For we have seen by the spirit that the bride of Christ is to abandon her desires, not unto a vacuum as has been preached by Jesse Penn Lewis, Watchman Nee and a host of others, for there is no such thing as a vacuum in Christ. (And Christ himself speaks very negatively of concept of the self-emptying of ones soul.) The truth of what Christ is seeking here in His beloved is a joyful and willing decrease. And the first cause of this decrease is not the fruit of a self-conscious and self-willed asceticism, – that we can lift ourselves up by our own bootstraps into a pseudo holiness. – But rather it is our learning of Him that produces as its fruit and increase as we come to longingly desire His desires His wishes and His wants in us – as is becoming of any true bride.. – Of which Paul spake: I must decrease that He might increase.

In The Parable Of The Empty House, Jesus begins speaking of a house having had a demon cast out of it, and shortly thereafter the house then becomes clean swept. Apparently this cleaning was through some agency of “conscious willfulness” on the part of the homeowner, as unlike what is preached today, this house didn’t just clean and sweep itself, while the homeowner played video games, went off hunting and fishing, and in between spent some quality time watching baseball and football games. Sometime shortly after the Divine first cause, the filth and trash that was left behind by this demon was cleaned up, repairs were made and the trash was removed from the premises.

We note here that if this house had belonged to a Pharisee he would have incessantly washed on the outside of the building, and done a lot of grounds keeping, while leaving the inside of the house looking like a dump, so in effect the house of a Pharisee would look like a white-washed sepulcher, complete with all manner of rottenness growing the on the floor, walls; and ceiling. Perhaps this is why we don’t read of too many demon possessed Pharisees in the Gospels.

(Though this may be hard to discern, Christ in The Parable of the Empty House is speaking against Talmudic Asceticism with all its trappings of its self-abuse and it’s bottomless self-emptying void.)

We need to comment here that the subject matter of this parable is NOT the demon possession of houses or people, with demons oozing out of anywhere and anything just ready to possess you, despite the fear mongering Pentecostals and Charismatics in deliverance circles. – (Much of these notions had their origin some 130 years ago with John Alexander Dowie.)

The Parable of the Empty House instead relates strongly with The Parable of the Sower. In one we have the emissaries of the wicked one hijacking the seed that was sown, and in the other we have the emissaries of the wicked one breaking in and hijacking the entire house.

In one what was hijacked was seed that was not being committed – to the watering and nurturing of the depths of the soil (We note here in this statement of Christ, that the enemy and his minions do not do any digging for seed to steal. – These in fact, only seek out what is carelessly laid out in the open for their taking at will.)

In other parable what is hijacked is a house or we shall add here Household that was not committed to the watering and nurturing of Strongman of the House, which first is Christ and the Holy Spirit’s indwelling, But this speaks also of a husband that is a living and active high priest over the household watering and nurturing his wife and children. (We note here that the enemy and his minions do not seek out the house of the Strongman or the household with high priest, but according to Christ’s words here, these in fact only seek out houses, and households that have been carelessly emptied as an end unto itself – and such houses or households are open and exposed, to their be taken at will.)

2 Timothy 2:26 And that they may (Possibly not definitely) recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive (Greek Ezo-Gremenoi, - Ezo is Zuos which means: To Be Alive, or Living. And Agreuo – or Agra means: To take in hunting by bow, spear or snare, or To catch fish by hook spear or net. We also note here that Ago means: To Force or Drive Away, To Incite into a dangerous or careless behavior, To Drag Away, To Separate, for the express purpose of being hunted down as prey, To be stolen or To be seized as booty.) While what we have here a very powerful and clear definition of Ezo-Gremenoi; we know from other lessons that when a Greek word begins with “A” the “A” usually means “not” --something. So even with all of this we are not down to a definitive word that tells us what is not happening or not being done here. In this case we find the answer in the Greek word A-Gregor “A” - Not and “Gregor” To be watchful, attentive, and vigilant.

So we see that as stated in The Parable of the Sower and The Parable of the House and now in 2 Timothy 2:26 That the “prey” or the “dust” here that has been made into the “meat” of the serpent and his minions, and this is due in large part to the fruitless mediocrity of the Careless, those that are Not Watchful, and Not Vigilant. We might further describe this walk before the Lord of the empty house or empty household as a: Non-fruitful, self-serving spirituality that feigns quality of spirit, spiritual depth, and nobility of spirit towards the things of God – but in reality it is no more than the illusion in the image and likeness of Talmudic Pharisees. –

The direct application of this is that pastors and teachers and ministries that preach and teach their high-sounding empty words, and the host of false promises that they neither have power to deliver, nor do they themselves walk in.

Is this imagined or are these things so?

1 Corinthians 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. (Here Paul states that the evil and perverse conditions that are described in the word of God – are common to all men. And that within all these common deeds that are described in the bible – no one was bound by fate or lacked free will to do any of the evil or corrupt deeds that they did. But that all could have at any time turned to and sought the Lord and the Lord by His grace they would have given then a way out. So that conversely these men and women whether they were preachers or prophets or the common believers of scripture, their deeds were evil, not by accident, but by design. In scripture all were the way they were good and evil, and did the deeds they did good and evil, because that was exactly the way they want to be, and those were the exactly the deeds they wanted to do.

So this common reality of absolute sin and corruption of the ministry – that for the most part has been hid from the sight of the common believer is devastatingly described in the Gospels by no less than Jesus Christ Himself.

Luke 11:52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. (What we are saying is this was not just a one time at a point of time, by a certain group of men – as is preached with great relish and pride. We are stating that these things have been spoken as ensamples of things common to men that surrounded and sought to overwhelm Christ and the Apostles and that now surrounds and seeks to overwhelm all believers.)

– Many would strenuously disagree here, because of personal bias towards a pastor or a particular preacher or ministry. --

The Lord would say these do so by invoking over themselves a willfully blindness – and how that many times these have heard the still small voice of God’s spirit striving with them as they have heard their pastors and teachers the pass on corrupt and perverse things they have spoken – and they have stopped their ears from the voice of the Lord – saying it instead was the voice of the devil speaking condemnation. The truth concerning this bias is that in it these men and women bear witness against themselves, as they love the darkness that is preached and teached and they knowingly call this darkness light. And having flooded their beings with darkness they now fear walking away from their lamp of darkness, – and having to work out their own salvation with fear and trembling and enter by themselves into the priesthood of all believers by themselves – and take up His yoke and learn of Him for their self. – And this is more than these can bear so they deny these things are do – to their own damnation.

Isaiah 28:5-6 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people, (This is the bride of Christ, those who indeed have entered into becoming kings and priests before God, whoare called the remnant, the few, and the Ek-lectos of God) And for a spirit of judgment (That fell upon the 70 elders) to him that sitteth in (The) judgment (Seat of Moses), and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate (Of the enemy.)

We clearly see here this prophecy is pertaining to “The high calling of God in the church.” We see it is “The Call to be Kings and Priests unto God,” and that this calling as Christ declared “Shall only be partaken of by a few” or the “residue” of the whole of what we see as the earthly church made by hands. We further see that this calling is spiritual and entails the infilling and moving of the Spirit particularly in the area of judgment, -- which we have discussed in the movings and visitations of God’s Spirit – as God has declared it in Genesis as His Spirit striving with men so that this judgment unto true sanctification must first come upon this residue this remnant this few before this judgment in the Ek-Lectos of God it can become a strength to those who would war against gates of the kingdom of darkness with the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimonies of what God has wrought in them.

Isaiah 28:7-8 But (Instead of the Ek-Klesia having entered into what is spoken of above, Isaiah by the eye of the Spirit discerns here what neither the blind shepherds nor their blind sheep can see.) they also have erred through (A self-seeking, willful drunkenness and orgy of the flesh as if by) wine, and through strong drink (So that they are) are out of the way (Of salvation.); The priest and the prophet have erred through (this) strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine (Of the cup of abominations of the Great whore), they are out of the way through (because of this) strong drink; they err in vision, (they have had dreams and visions and they proceed to prophesy falsely about them.) they stumble in (teaching and declaring righteous and) judgment. For all tables (Upon which they serve their bread to the hungry) are full of vomit and filthiness, (In Hebrew filthiness means: feces and urine. – Note that this also is the identical charge as to what is in the cup of the Great Whore in Revelation.) so that there is no place clean. (This is an allusion to the uncleaness of the Pharisees then and now and the utter defilement of all who partake of the regurgitated Talmudic doctrines and teachings they offer their sheep.)

As we declared above Isaiah by the eye of the Spirit discerns here what neither the blind shepherds nor their blind sheep can see. – Understand that in the temple in Jerusalem there were never tables set up where priests and prophets broke bread together while laying in their own vomit and “covered with” filthiness (Hebrew – feces, and urine.) God is speaking here of a vileness and utter corruption that has overthrown the entire ministry in the Ek-Klesia from its self-proclaimed blind prophets to its self proclaimed blind pastors and teachers that bear their rule by them.

And in this exact frame of reference spoken of above we find that in this place of vomit covered tables and filth covered priests and prophets that this is a nursery where they feed babes in Christ – and God asks:
Isaiah 28:9-10 (Seeing these abominations in the Ek-klesia. To) Whom shall He teach knowledge? and whom shall He make to understand (His true) doctrine? (This is the utter rejection of the earthly Church that is made by hands and this is the breaking off of its corrupt and withered branches.) Them that are weaned from (Not weaned from, Hebrew To suck) the milk, and drawn (Hebrew To take) from the breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: (God says here that He is going to take these babes away from this and to himself and His own breast. And this is what these babes partake of that come out from the “Meno” of the House of Filth and Vomit (Of the great whore) and come under the “Meno” of the Household of the Lord. These grow in grace as they give suck and take from the breast of the Holy Spirit.)

Psalm 8:2-9 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength. Because of thine (God’s) enemies, (satan and his angels) that thou (Those who have entered the Priesthood of All Believers -- the Ek-lectos of God) mightest still (Bring to silence) the enemy and the avenger (Both being attributes of satan.)

The priest and the prophet have erred through (this) strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through (because of this) strong drink; they err in vision, (they have lying dreams and visions and prophesy falsely.) they stumble in (teaching and declaring righteous) judgment. For all tables (Upon which they serve their bread to the hungry) are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean. (For my babes and sucklings to feed.)

By the eye of the Spirit Isaiah sees the true fruit of the “Conscious” and “Willful” choices of the flesh, and on this regard we have the whole of Scripture and the whole of Church History that testifies of these very things are indeed common to men and have occurred time after time after time despite the best intentions of men.

If we were to turn once more to The Parable of the Empty House, we would see that the selfish, self-serving walk depicted here directly correlates to the interpretation Christ gave in The Parable of the Sower concerning the states of heart of a believer in the hardened ground, the stony ground, and the thorny or weed filled ground. – in each of these states the field was empty and fruitless – just as the house and what ground could have been productive in the kingdom of God instead was hijacked to be used as a byword in all the other fields and by this a creeping rot has occurred that has gone from household to household and church to church.

One final point on The Parable Of The Empty House. When one has been delivered from the “House of the Serpent,” it is more than that they are no longer dwelling or abiding in there, it is that they no longer "Meinete" or "Meno" the serpent and his minions. They are no longer under the authority or rulership of the serpent. The serpent no longer defines the rules for, speaks for, or negotiates for them, because these are no longer the serpent’s servant or slave.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 --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.

You have been purchased with the inesteemable blood of Christ.

Matthew 11:29 Take My yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
When Christ spoke these words he did not speak of us yoking ourselves, much less enabling ourselves in this by our own “connscious mental efforts” or “wllfulness of the flesh” – Instead Christ here declares that this yoke is His own.

Ephesians 2:8-10 For by grace (Charis) are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift (This Charis-ma issues forth) of God: Not of (Mens) works (Regardless of whether these works are produced by one’s perceived mental tenacity, or physical prowess.), lest any man should boast. (This boasting is a glorying in one’s self, and one’s sufficiency, which are polar opposite of Christ being the glory of the Father, and the Church being the glory of Christ. and the wife being the glory of her husband.)

So when Christ speaks of “Take my yoke upon you” the “taking” here is only in our willing submission (And I see here by the Spirit that willingness is the joyful willingness of a small child to do the will of their mother or father.) as opposed to our “willfulness.”. – For the actual receiving of this yoke is not of ourselves just as the yoke is not of our making. So the receiving of it is by the grace of Christ and He gives His yoke to whom He will. And as such the yoke is “something spiritually imparted.”

To the man of the flesh this yoke appears as ethereal in nature, without substance and thus unreliable -- just as the wind in its comings and goings. – And to the consternation of the man of the flesh neither the “Charis” of God, nor the yoke of Christ can be held in the hand and thus placed under their control, neither can they speak of these with any certainty as to their seeming appearance or disappearance in individuals, households and churches.

John 3:8 The wind bloweth (The Spirit breatheth) where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound (report) thereof, but (The man of the flesh) canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 2:13-15 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; (By the breath of the Spirit) comparing (speaking) spiritual things with (Those that are) spiritual. But the natural man (As Nicodemas) receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

To the man of the Spirit the yoke of Christ and the grace of God have substance depth height and breadth, and as such it can be felt upon one’s self, and sensed when it is upon others as well.

This is how we are able to discern one another by the Spirit. And this though is carried in the statement of Christ “My sheep know my voice.” This is a intuitive knowing, at one time it was not uncommon to see husbands and wives so “in tune” or “at one” with each whether saved or unsaved they knew each others words and each other’s thoughts. Christ Himself was so “in tune” or so “at one” with the Father that He knew His words and thoughts at all times.

Psalm 133:1-3 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore. Right now we are speaking of the unity of Christ and the father – and here we see Christ was given life forevermore. We see also concerning the subject of the church and brethren flowing together in unity that as the Apostle John declares; when this occurs (As sporadic as it does) that those involved become partakers of the cleansing of Christ blood. What do you suppose in a marriage occurs when the husband and wife flow together both in flesh and the Spirit?

Elsewhere in Ezekiel and the Book of Revelation this yoke of Grace from God is declared as a mark not made with hands. A mark that is only visible to the Lord, the Angels of God and men and women that walk in the Spirit. And as the time of the end draws near it becomes increasing important that we recognize this unseen mark of God in one another.

If one wishes to take His yoke upon them and learn of Him, one is first to learn of Christ’s meekness. Generally speaking that means that those that are of “the moody ox company” or “the stubborn ass company” who will not willingly bow the knee to His quiet call, nor bow their head so in submission that Christ may slip His yoke upon them, – Christ will simply pass them by and go with another else will be obedient and submissive. (From dawn to dusk

Psalm 131:2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, (Become meek and lowly of heart) as a child that is weaned (Breast fed) of his mother: my soul (Before the Lord) has even (Become) as a weaned (Nursing) child.

Christ seeks those that are meek and lowly of heart that would nuzzle Hs hand as they “take” His yoke upon them.

While it may be true that Jesus sees this in the Spirit where it is not yet in the flesh, men routinely twist the good graces and mercies of the Lord to their own conceits. – Having no fear of God, that they in fact are not the only game in town, and that just as Christ broke off the branches of Israel, and Christ is not forced (Despite what is written in Talmudic/Calvinistic doctrine) to deal with any one of us.

On the other side there are certainly cases in Scripture where God will force His yoke upon someone at certain times and for a specific purposes, but such is the few and far between. But in the end, despite God using them however powerfully and profoundly, many of these same vessels were afforded no more special graces as in Balaam, Eli, and King Saul. As these men bided away their time away having fun in the sun – but eventually in their lives (As we have seen played out in the lives of countless careless half-hearted believers) the night comes. And the serpent and his minions come to take back what was once theirs and they break in the house/ household, and plunder and bind and enslave all that are therein.

Isaiah 37:28-30 I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, -- therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, -- and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

The truth is once one is delivered, after the glory of the Lord fades, the serpent will return seeking out this one and that one. And those that have not been truly washed and cleansed, and he will seek to place a hook in their jaw throw nets and ropes upon them and then drag them back into the house of the serpent from when they came, and back under the serpent’s “Meno” -- his cruel rulership and bondage.. -- And more times than not such a one becomes far more corrupted, and pulled far deeper into the mire of sin, than they were before they had escaped the house of the serpent the first time.

Sadly if you have been a Christian for any amount of time you have seen this very thing occur time after time with people who you loved who once served the Lord. .

Despite men’s best “conscious” and “willful” efforts, there is no third alternative between the kingdom of darkness and the kingdom of light. Today is a day when all lines between in the world and church have been blurred out by an ever-creeping moral relativism. Who among these national preachers and ministries in the land cries out against these things? Who among these national preachers and ministries in the land fears the Lord above men and preaches the truth to their own hurt? God help us. God deliver the church from the lying lips of these hirelings.

Speaking once more about the Bride of Christ giving up her personal desires, her personal wishes, her personal expectations, and her personal wants: We want to make it very clear here that we are mot speaking of or implying that she should do so that she might be the personification of The Parable of Empty House in all its acetic Talmudic glory. Boasting of her self-emptiness, glorying in how holy she has become through her abusing her self and her flesh, and extolling how she has made herself feel just all so worthy. (How very Roman Catholic.)

No! We are saying that the bride in giving up, her desires, and does so only to take up her husband’s desires, and make them her own.

John 4:34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me, and to finish His work.

In the bride of Christ in abandoning her will, and taking up her Lord and Master’s will, needs as Christ did with the Father’s to make His will and the works when and how He desires is the focus of her life and breath. In John 4:34 we see here that Christ draws spiritual and physical sustenance from discerning hearing and then doing the will of the Father. He was partaking of the breath/life of God that is in every word that proceedeth.

For as God in the beginning breathed or spoke life (Speaking is breathing while making sound) and the common dirt rose and became a living soul – so as we seek God and discern the voice of the Lord, and begin to exercise ourselves in hearing more than just His breath our the sound of a mighty rushing wind, we become partakers of the very life and substance of these words in our being obedient. And the life and substance is what men call ministry --

In this same manner the Church individually and by households needs to come to this discerning, hearing and obedience regardless of personal cost so that Christ’s will and His desire become their "meat" and “drink.”

This is the word becoming flesh.

In this same manner as Christ himself partook spiritually and physically as he heard and obeyed the will that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Father. – In other words He made it His delight to do the will of the Father, and joyfully sought the Father’s face and communed with him moment by moment. Jesus did not only do this that the Father’s will and desires might be His own, but Christ discipled or disciplined Himself so much so to the Father so that Jesus’ words were not His own but His words were the Father’s who sent Him.

John 5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear (Of the Father) I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

John 6:38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

John 14:21 She that hath (Spent day and night to discern and cultivate a hearing of) my commandments, and keepeth (Treasureth and delighteth in obeying) them, This is my true betrothed bride that loveth (Agapeo-eth) me: and This is the betrothed bride that loveth (Agapeo-eth) me shall be loved (Agapeo-eth) of my Father, and I will love (Agapeo) her, and will manifest myself to her.

Christ is declaring here that agape involves a spiritual attentiveness, in discerning His voice, Hearing His voice, and then in that which is spiritual becoming physical -- in obedience to His voice in a joyful disbursing of the sustenance you have received in your loving of your neighbor as yourself.

Even though Christ put aside His own will and His own desires, to the place of this continually speaking the words that proceedeth from the mouth of the Father – Christ still was a distinct person with a distinct /unique personality. God is not seeking personality murder in this. What we are speaking of here is the true meaning of Christ being the “glory” of God -- Christ was the outshining or the praiseworthiness of the Father because he did these things. So also the church is to be the “glory” of Christ. And of this Paul and the writer of Hebrews speak of that we do not yet seek all things under Christ’s feet -- and this is one of those areas.

This is why the issue of being yoked together with unbelievers is especially difficult. Because God’s commandments of obedience, submission , nurturing and feeding etc by a believing wife towards her husband does not change one iota whether one’s husband is saved or unsaved. And this can be said also of a husband of an unbelieving wife.

If putting the yoke of Christ upon you and seeking to walk as Christ walked, with the same obedience as He served God is viewed as an unreasonable bondage to you – you can chose to depart and go your own way – as many of Christ’s disciples decided His sayings were hard and left Him.

John 6:64-66 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him. And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, (Greek El-Thein. El To come or To return, Thein –Tithemi – To lay down or To lay aside. Christ here is saying that no on can totally commit or total surrender) except it were given (De-Do-Menon. De On the other hand, Also, or Now, Do – Didomai To be given, To be bestowed, To be presented Meno To dwell, sojourn, or abide Under The rule or The influence, or The authority of the House of Christ. ) unto him of my Father. From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

Here “hidden in the Greek” Christ ascribes new and powerful attributes to our discussion of the word “Meno”. For we see here that those who Christ seeks that would be his disciples are the whosoevers are to come under the rule, and under the influence of the House of Christ, – But here we can see that there is these great masses of false-disciples, that though outwardly they confessed and professed that they were His disciples, and that these great masses of false-disciples showed up at all the right meetings to be seen with Him as He taught and worked His great signs and wonders (Just as Arron did with Moses before the incident with the Golden Calf where he caused all of Isreal the worship the Beast, the Image of the beast and the symbol of the beast.) – There was ONE great outward difference between these and the twelve Apostles and the seventy – these did now follow the requirement that they had to as His disciples dwell, sojourn, and physically abide with Him 24/7 and thereby walk as He so walked.

And it is here that Christ declares for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear the difference between the many of the false-disciple and the few of the true-disciple.

The Meno of the many false-disciples is the Meno of the Pharisee for it has it’s origin in man and the flesh. Therefore the MENO of the false-disciple and the Pharisee is driven by zealots, so that these outwardly demonstrate their zealotry one to another in how they profess and confess their belief in God before men. The Meno of the false-disciple and the Pharisee is also one that is ever-shrouded in the “spiritualizing away” of their duties and obedience before God – so that the true nature of their corrupt walk is ever-cloaked and hid before the eyes and ears of men.

The Meno of the few of the true-disciples is the Meno of Christ Himself which has its origin in God and the Spirit. Which Meno Christ declares is De-Do-Menon – “The gift of Meno” from the Father. This Meno of Christ is Not driven by men but is one that is driven or that proceedeth forth the Father. So that the Meno of Christ is after the Spirit is as a sweet savor that is well pleasing to Father, rather religious stench that rises from the MENO of men. As Christ walking in this true Meno from His heavenly Father, He heard the word that proceedeth from the mouth of the Father, and through this Gift of MENO from the Father, Christ walked in submissive obedience, Christ made himself of no reputation, Christ sought not His own, and Christ clothed Himself in righteousness. So are His true-disciples also to walk having entered into this Gift of Meno.

And so a wife is to walk having entered into the Meno or her husband, whether He is saved or unsaved.

Over a year ago in another article I wrote: I perceive by the Spirit that these “other disciples” in fact did not sell all to follow Him. That they did not travel on foot extensively following Christ, and that they did not sleep in the rain and under the stars at night. Instead at night each one went to their own homes. (When I wrote this I only had in mind the passage where Christ says: Foxes have holes and birds have nests but the son of man has nowhere to lay his head.) At the time I had no idea about the meaning of the word “Meno.” Or how the understanding this word that we see Christ addressing this very subject with his wanna-be disciples and followers in John chapters 5-6.

Oh how manifold are the blessings of the Lord! Oh how when He speaks He does confirm and confirm and confirm.

This is why I feel so at peace and so at rest with what I write.

These “Many” other disciples were from up and coming families, and the well to do. They were following the young and handsome prophet from Galilee. They were doing so because it had become fashionable to do so. Rather than being disciples indeed, these were a multitude of fair-weather fad followers of Christ that when the sun rose melted into the earth as the multitude of the manna in the wilderness.

Look now at the following verses:

John 15:7 If ye abide (Meno) in me, and My words abide (Meno) in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. (Knowing now what Christ is demanding of us in using the word “Meno” here, this greatly alters our perception of not only what Christ is truly seeking, but of how we have fallen woefully short in our walks. And because of this our prayers are: Weak, sickly, and many of them sleep.)

John 5:38 And ye have not His (The Father’s) word abiding (Meno) in you: for whom He hath sent, Him ye believe not. (Here we see that despite the outward confession and profession of the faith of these – these received NOT the “Gift of Meno.” And because these “Meno-ed” NOT, these could NEVER inwardly believe. – So we see here also that faith and belief stem from one’s “Meno”

How can a wife profess that she loves, believes in, and trusts her husband when she never has never forsaken her own Meno and the Meno of her father’s House and come under her Husband’s Meno?

It would be a very powerful thing for a wife to come up to her husband and say “I Meno you.”

The Meno of Abiding (Part 1)

If you have not read Rebekah the Savior of Israel it would be advised that you to do so, as much in this article is related to issues spoken of in that article.

John 8:31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue (Greek Meinete) in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;

By my count the Greek word Meno is used some 55 times in the Greek Septuagint.

In Genesis 24:55 we find the first use of this word:
Genesis 24:55 And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel (Rekekah) abide (Meno) with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.

Here we see that the word Meno does not carry the meaning in the Greek Lexicon (Which is not uncommon) Here Rebekah already clearly dwells with her family, and yet her family asks that she might "Abide" or "Stay" with them. What they are seeking here is that Rebekah would stay: “Under their rule”, or stay “Under the influence of Laban and her Mother. (This same thing also occurred with Abraham when his father and Lot “Abided” with him and were seeking to influence and have decision making power over what God was speaking to Abraham.) In this case of the redemption of Rebekah, her scheming mother and brother upon seeing the wealth of Abraham that was presented, wanted more time to negotiate further over the bride for the son of promise. And these “hirelings” were summarily denied any further right to continue their self-serving discipleship, shepherdship, or rulership, over the bride. Once the bracelets were clasped upon Rebekah’s wrists she was no longer of the house of Laban and her Mother. She had been purchased; she had been redeemed in the name of the son of promise by the nameless self-less servant. And she was now placed under his watch and care until the hour in which she was to be delivered without spot and wrinkle to the son of promise. So she was no longer allowed to “Meno” "To Stay, or To Continue” under the corrupt rule or corrupt influence of the house of Laban and her Mother.

Here Meno is better understood as one being: "Under Tutors and Governors"

Genesis 45:9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, and tarry (Meno) not. (In the land of famine.)
In this second passage, we see again that Meno again means something different than “To Dwell, To Lodge, To Sojourn" as stated in my Lexicon. Here while it is translated "To Tarry" we see that the meaning from the context means something more than "To Wait” or "To Continue.” First in this passage the issue was not one of “Dwelling, Lodging or Sojourning” in a fixed place or location. Rather Joseph has been made a Lord and as the fulfillment of his prophetic dream Israel and all of his household are to come and “Meno” Joseph. That is that they are to come away from”, or “come out of”” the house of another, that they might come under the rulership and under the influence of the house of Joseph, whom the Lord had raised above them. So in that regard between these two passages we see the true meaning of “Meno.” That “Meno” does not have the idea of being bound to a geographical location, but rather being or coming under the rule or authority of someone.

To contrast this we now will briefly discus the Greek word katoikein – which is the word for “To Dwell or Where One Live, or Where One Abides” This word is used well over a hundred times in the Septuagint.

A sample passage is:
Psalm 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell (Katoikein) in the house of the LORD forever.

And this is one of the ways that so much false teaching and false doctrine is perpetuated.

On a small aside here:

Matthew 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

Is this imagined or are these things so?

– Many would strenuously disagree here, because of personal bias towards a pastor or a particular preacher or ministry. --

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 --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.

You have been purchased with the inesteemable blood of Christ.

To the man of the Spirit the yoke of Christ and the grace of God have substance depth height and breadth, and as such it can be felt upon one’s self, and sensed when it is upon others as well.

Psalm 133:1-3 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore. Right now we are speaking of the unity of Christ and the father – and here we see Christ was given life forevermore. We see also concerning the subject of the church and brethren flowing together in unity that as the Apostle John declares; when this occurs (As sporadic as it does) that those involved become partakers of the cleansing of Christ blood. What do you suppose in a marriage occurs when the husband and wife flow together both in flesh and the Spirit?

Christ seeks those that are meek and lowly of heart that would nuzzle Hs hand as they “take” His yoke upon them.

Isaiah 37:28-30 I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, -- therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, -- and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

Sadly if you have been a Christian for any amount of time you have seen this very thing occur time after time with people who you loved who once served the Lord. .

No! We are saying that the bride in giving up, her desires, and does so only to take up her husband’s desires, and make them her own.

John 4:34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me, and to finish His work.

This is the word becoming flesh.

John 6:38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

And it is here that Christ declares for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear the difference between the many of the false-disciple and the few of the true-disciple.

And so a wife is to walk having entered into the Meno or her husband, whether He is saved or unsaved.

Oh how manifold are the blessings of the Lord! Oh how when He speaks He does confirm and confirm and confirm.

This is why I feel so at peace and so at rest with what I write.

Look now at the following verses:

It would be a very powerful thing for a wife to come up to her husband and say “I Meno you.”

In Genesis 24:55 we find the first use of this word: Genesis 24:55 And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel (Rekekah) abide (Meno) with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.

In Genesis 24:55 we find the first use of this word: Genesis 24:55 And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel (Rekekah) abide (Meno) with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.

In Genesis 24:55 we find the first use of this word:
Genesis 24:55 And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel (Rekekah) abide (Meno) with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.

In Genesis 24:55 we find the first use of this word:
Genesis 24:55 And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel (Rekekah) abide (Meno) with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.