May 2003
F 05/02	Romans 3:10 Isaiah 59	The most pernicious lie is that you are getting better.
M 05/05		Leaven is the engine of the world because you see need and lack. The unleaven is the body of Christ from which a believer receives his sustenance. The mystery of God, when filtered through the mind, becomes distorted because self-interest becomes the focus.
T 05/06
W 05/07
T 05/08		The feast of first fruits. Everything is opposite to what the world and your mind thinks is right: Death is life, captivity is freedom, and the cross is the tree of life.
F 05/09	Ester 6 Ezekiel 4	Many of the major events in scripture occur during the counting of the omer.
M 05/12	Hebrews 1 John 16	Counting of the omer. Fleeing the revelation of Christ because we still want the illusion of being in control. God's own arm got him the victory, we lost.
T 05/13	Matthew 24 Luke 17:20 2 Peter 3 1 John 4	The kingdom comes not by observation. The kingdom of God is in you.
W 05/14	Hebrews 10:14	Knowing the danger you are in. Knowing that you have been made perfect by one offering.
T 05/15	Ezekiel 1:3	You don't think about it, you act in his name and thereby depend on him.
F 05/16	Ezekiel 1:22	To rely on your mind is to be a slave to the natural processes, including judgment. When God is the source of your next thought, you just act.
M 05/19
T 05/20
T 05/22
F 05/23	Exodus 18:25 Acts 1 Acts 4
S 05/25		How often your own sustenance comes from the things of the world rather than God. Believing that gain is godliness.
T 05/27	2 Corinthians 3-4 2 Corinthians 6 1 Corinthians 4:8	How a believer responds to loss is a sign of whether he believes that gain is godliness.
W 05/28	Romans 3	When you know the law you will know that you are the chief of sinners.
T 05/29	1 Timothy 6 2 Timothy 3	Godliness is to know that He is working in you and that all is as it should be. Ungodliness is to believe that it is up to you to decide, plan, do, or fix something.
F 05/30	1 Timothy 6 Philippians 4:10 Hebrews 13 3 John 1	Godliness has nothing to do with worldly gain. Contentment is the permanent awareness that all is perfect and is at it should be.
June 2003
M 06/02	Matthew 22:37 Micah 6	If you love God with all your heart, soul, and mind, then there is nothing left. The subtlety that beguiled Eve was that she needed something other than what God provided.
T 06/03	1 Corinthians 10	The whole purpose of time and space is to threaten your idolatry.
W 06/04		Idolatry will occur when things are not happening when and how you think they should. Believing that the Lord has abandoned you is the first step to idolatry. Waiting is the expression of your love for God.
T 06/05	Deuteronomy 18	What the human race lost at the fall. Witchcraft is what we do every day.
F 06/06		One outcome of the fall is wanting to know what's next. Satan will have you believe in the bloodless self-redemption where you don't have to die.
M 06/09
T 06/10	Matthew 6:22 Matthew 7:21 James 1:8 James 4 Jeremiah 2:33 Job 11 Psalm 12	A believer never has to make a decision. If there are options, you wait.
W 06/11
T 06/12
F 06/13
M 06/16		God does not love the human race. His love is centered on his son and his bride. Where does that leave you? Christ in you, the hope of glory.
T 06/17		More on the basics of being a believer.
T 06/19
F 06/20
M 06/23	John 3:16 1 John 2:15 1 John 3:16 Romans 5:8 Romans 8:5 Isaiah 40:15	Understanding the love of God.
T 06/24	Luke 24:13-	The disciples did not recognize Jesus after the resurrection. Later their eyes were opened.
W 06/25
T 06/26	1 Corinthians 12 1 John 4	When you give importance to anything but God, you've been led away to the dumb idol. A gentile has to have idols.
F 06/27	Genesis 3:14 Genesis 49:9 Numbers 21:5 John 3:11 Deuteronomy 18 Psalms 16	Evidence of the mystery of Christ throughout the Old Testament. False hope will choke out the true hope, which is Christ in you.
M 06/30	Isaiah 7:14, 9:2, 11, 49, 52:13, 59:10, 61, 62:11	Examples of how the Old Testament testifies only of Christ. It's all the same story. The human race failed and God's own arm got Him the victory.
July 2003
T 07/01	Isaiah 53 2 Corinthians 2:14	The Old Testament is about the revelation of Christ. To be lukewarm is to be a chameleon, adjusting yourself to accommodate the world of men.
W 07/02	Jeremiah 23:5- Romans 2:28 Acts 26 Acts 28:30	Your witness is only of Jesus and where he appears to you.
T 07/03	Revelation 12:7 John 14:27 Matthew 5:38 Matthew 10	Resist not evil and resist the devil. What you resist you affirm and grant it power. The bondage of the fear of death comes from associating self with the physical body. This is the false self. The real self is spirit.
M 07/07	Ezekiel 36 Job 42	The real land of God is you.
T 07/08
W 07/09	Daniel 2:24 2 Chronicles 7 2 Chronicles 36:21 Jeremiah 26:4 Daniel 9	Daniel 9 is often used to justify dispensation, but they forget Daniel 2. After the stone there are no more kingdoms or nations.
T 07/10
M 07/14	Daniel 9:20 Matthew 24:15 2 Thessalonians 2	More on the Old Testament revelation of Christ. The mystery of God is revealed only in your supplication - putting your head in the jaws of the lion. It starts with seeing the abomination of desolation.
T 07/15	Daniel 9:24 John 19:30 Hebrews 10:9 Revelation 21	The 70 weeks. "It is finished." Contentment is knowing this truth.
W 07/16	Matthew 6:7-13 1 John 4:1	How do we view the many diverse translations of the Bible into English? Has the written word been so watered down as to lose its meaning?
T 07/17	Ecclesiastes1:1	Taking the Lord's name in vain does not mean cussing. The real meaning has to do with idolatry. Repentance is a way of life, not a single act. It's knowing that you don't deserve your next meal or even your next breath.
F 07/18	John1:1-13	He who takes the Lord's name in vain will not be guiltless. To associate God's name with that which is corruptible is taking it in vain.
M 07/21	1 Corinthians 10:1	Survival of the fittest is the driving principle of the world. Therefore, seeking to be the fittest locks you into the way of the world. This is in opposition to the way of the Spirit.
T 07/22	John 1	Receiving the fullness of Christ depends not on time but on obedience and faith. There are phases to the spiritual journey - the world, the wilderness, the promised land, and the New Jerusalem. Ultimately you must abandon self because you cannot see God and live.
W 07/23	Psalms 19 Hebrews 2:8	All is under his authority. How can anything be out of place? When you see what appears wrong, it is an opportunity to see Christ.
T 07/24	Ezekiel 8:7	The great transgression. Mind-talk, the survival mechanism for fighting abandonment.
F 07/25	Hebrews 9:11- Ezekiel 8:11 Ephesians 3:14	The nature of the human race. Even our so-called conscience is the accumulation of personality and culture.
M 07/28	Ecclesiastes 3	The theology of glory vs. the theology of the cross. The theology of the cross opposes all that the world considers important. In the theology of the cross, suffering is not strange.
T 07/29		We may believe we are born to greatness but we are born to die. Only Christ is born to greatness. We can only partake in the inheritance through him. The singular purpose of the cross is to make men conformable to Christ. Free will is just a wonderful deception.
W 07/30	John 5:33-	There is no cure for what you are. You can only leave it behind. That is the theology of the cross.
T 07/31	2 Timothy 4	We want to believe that we are improving. That shot of glory from a religious conferences and revival doesn't work and it doesn't last.
August 2003
F 08/01	Genesis 2:16 Genesis 3:1-	To be an observer is to be a coward. Just be.
M 08/04	Philippians 3:7 2 Peter 3	What is a gain to me is a loss to Christ. In the world, loss has no merit. But in order to enter the kingdom of God, all that did not originate from heaven must be discarded.
T 08/05	Deuteronomy 27:26 Galatians 3 Romans 4	The curse of the fall. How-to can't mix with grace.
W 08/06		The will of God for you is Jesus Christ. But to live as Christ requires your death.
T 08/07	1 Corinthians 10 Numbers 9:15	Adam was perfect in mind and body and Eve was even better. What did we lose as a result of the curse?
F 08/08	John 21:21 Isaiah 8	A look the history of man's relationship to God.
M 08/11	2 Corinthians 4	The mind and the senses are not made to see spirit, yet it is the overriding reality.
T 08/12	Psalm 39 Isaiah 54	"To live is Christ and to die is gain" precludes the idea of zero.
W 08/13	Jude 1:10	What is ungodliness? Not knowing that the sacrifice of the Son of God is sufficient for all and for all time.
T 08/14	Philippians 4:4	What does it mean to be born again? Most think that accepting Jesus as their personal savior makes them a better person, that they have now gained something and are now improved. To be born again means you are dead. You are not changed or improved, you are a totally new creature.
F 08/15	Matthew 11 Psalm 116:8 Mark 11:23	Why is His yoke easy and His burden light? Because He has finished the work and there is nothing for you to do.
M 08/18	2 Chronicles 7:11 Daniel 9:20	The temple of God is us. Can you, for the first time in your life, remove yourself from the picture?
T 08/19	Psalm 119 Isaiah 54 Exodus	The born again phenomenon. Truth is the sustained consciousness of error. Stillness is a thing of the soul in which there is no internal disturbance.
W 08/20		Man continued to fail in the attainment of holiness. In the end, only Christ, the begotten Son of God achieved holiness. Now we have life only through Him.
T 08/21	Philippians 1	God will not force you or overpower you in order to have fellowship with you. You must abandon yourself.
F 08/22	Philippians 1:18- Philippians 2:1-	Even the worst circumstances, according to the world, can be a testimony to the power of God. Let this mind be in you that was in Christ.
M 08/25	Philippians 2:1-9	Why did He empty Himself? His response is always dependence on the father. Let this mind be in you.
T 08/26	Ephesians 6	Is there murmuring and complaining as you go through life, or are you working out your salvation with fear and trembling?
W 08/27	Ephesians 6:11 Isaiah 32:13	The whole armor of God must be put on. The warfare is not outside, it is internal. Christ did not respond the way we do to the world around us.
T 08/28	Philippians 2:12
F 08/29	Philippians 3	The world is driven by cause-and-affect, which is the enemy of grace.
September 2003
T 09/02	Philippians 3:7	Being made conformable to his death. Prophesying. Exhortation.
W 09/03	Philippians 3 Romans 11:32-12:2	Your ideas are attempts to flee the revelation of Christ. Once you've made yourself a living sacrifice you are God's business.
T 09/04	Philippians 3:10-15 1 Peter 1:3 Hebrews 2:8	The nature of resignation. Being ready at any time for the unexpected grace. Seeing that all things are put under him.
F 09/05	Philippians 3:12- 2 Timothy 4:1 Colossians 1:19	What does it mean to fill up the affliction lacking in the body of Christ?
M 09/08	Philippians 3:18 Romans 10:6 Romans 5:10	Even by the enemies of the cross, Christ is preached. You must know that Christ is in you.
T 09/09	I Corinthians 13	We cannot make love just another commandment. Love will remove all self-justification. There is no wiggle room.
W 09/10	Philippians 4:4	To have the mind of Christ is to return to the place of joy. What are you allowing to rob you of that joy? Do you see only the perfection in all things?
T 09/11	Philippians 4:11	Contentment is the state of being that comes of faith. Through prayer and supplication comes the peace of God.
F 09/12	Colossians 1	The gospel is preached to the whole world; it's the same everywhere. The meaning of "faithful."
M 09/15	Colossians 1:3-	The truth of the Gospel is preached to the entire world. There is nothing left for you to do. When you abide in Christ, you can't make a mistake.
T 09/16	Colossians 1:9 1 Thessalonians 4:1	You are sanctified by presenting yourself as a living sacrifice. Fornication is going anywhere else except to God for anything. Abstaining from fornication is how you honor the Father.
W 09/17	Colossians 1:12 Luke 22:47 Ephesians 6:10	We are delivered from the tyranny of darkness into the place of his love, which is in Jesus Christ. The tyranny of darkness is manifested in self-seeking. The hour of tyranny ended at the cross.
T 09/18	Colossians 1:14	Returning to the kingdom of tyranny, the slave market. What a man thinks in his heart, so he is.
F 09/19	Colossians 1:16 1 Corinthians 14	God did not reconcile to Himself your mind. Your mind is still Satan's playground. Trying to become something, to create your self, is the essence of sin.
M 09/22	Colossians 1:22 Titus 1:15 1 Corinthians 6:9- Hebrews 9:13 Hebrews 10:23 Hebrews 6:1	Only when Christ is your life, your identity, can you be pure.
T 09/23	Colossians 1:20-23 Hebrews 11:7	You are born again in His perfection, after which there is only repentance. You may return to the kingdom of darkness or you may remain in Christ.
W 09/24	Colossians 1:23	The yoke of Christ is easy and his burden light. Freedom from the tyranny of self is the source of joy.
T 09/25	Colossians 1:26 Colossians 2:1	In Christ there is rest, peace, and joy. Out of Christ, there is striving, strife, and anxiety.
F 09/26	Colossians 2:1-7	The body of Christ is knitted together in love by compassion. You have to participate in the body; there are no observers.
M 09/29	Colossians 2:7-11	There is no progression of spiritual growth. We are complete in Christ. We are buried with him in baptism.
T 09/30	Colossians 2:8-11	Everything that can be known of God is permanently at home in Christ. You are complete for His purpose, not for your purposes.
October 2003
W 10/01	Colossians 2:14 Matthew 22:1-14 Ephesians 5:20	Knowing that you are forgiven by the blood of Christ, you forgive yourself. The quickest way to become a spot on the garment is to not be vulnerable, to hide. When you keep things inside, you are sitting in judgment.
T 10/02	Colossians 2:14	We are buried with him in baptism and we are resurrected with him. Being risen with him is the only safe place to be.
F 10/03	Colossians 2:14-15 1 Corinthians 15:45-58	Our debt is paid, once and for all. If you take it upon yourself, your debt is overwhelming. Christ has triumphed over all. Now we rest in him.
M 10/06	Colossians 2:15-19	How did Christ triumph openly? He never listened to his mind.
T 10/07	Colossians 2:16-23	Do we receive our nourishment from the head of the body, which is Christ? Are we knitted together as a body? Does our sustenance originate of Christ?
W 10/08	Colossians 3:1	Hypocrisy is to be different outside from what you are inside. Hypocrisy is your natural state and it is taught by the world's system. You deal with it in the body by complete vulnerability, no matter the cost.
T 10/09	Revelation 13:1 Colossians 3:1-3	Satan's job is to get you to believe in you. The essence of sin is self-seeking. Set your affections on things above.
F 10/10	Colossians 3:3	The book of Colossians. You will seek what you place your affections on - this message is repeated again and again in scripture.
M 10/13	Colossians 3:3-8	How much of your thoughts are dedicated to things of this world? It is what the scripture calls filthy communication. You are the temple of God. Would you bring those things into the temple?
T 10/14	Colossians 3:8-15	The basic principles in Colossians. Forgiveness is your business; reconciliation is God's business.
W 10/15	Colossians 3:16	You've got to say what's there. The gift of the Spirit is to be used, otherwise you will lose it. Are you ready to just be rather than trying to be? Faith is you dying and Him living. Anything else is just a mind game.
T 10/16	Colossians 3:18	The marriage is designed to typify the relationship between Christ and the church. A marriage based on need, rather than the mystery of God, will fail.
F 10/17		Preparations for a wedding - The man offers security, the woman offers fidelity.
M 10/20	Colossians 4:1	You don't have your own agenda; your boss doesn't have his own agenda. You work in faith, which works by love.
T 10/21	Colossians 4:1-3	Is your speech seasoned with salt? The saints, apostles, the disciples - they're just ordinary people like you and me. This concludes the book of Colossians.
W 10/22	Galatians 2:16-20	The essence of Christianity says that we must fail at everything before we see the truth. We begin with faith in Christ; we are justified by the faith of Christ, giving no thought for ourselves. This is the definition of freedom, joy, and peace.
T 10/23		The first consecration of Abraham: he left the land of is fathers. The Spirit of God moves on you. You see the emptiness and futility of life, you find out that the earth is not your home, that you are no longer fit. You are fed up.
F 10/24	Galatians 3:1-10 Genesis 3:11-19	Abraham completely understood the curse. Then he saw Christ's day and was glad.
M 10/27	Luke 14:25-26	Abraham's second consecration: Leaving his family. The leaving of your family is spiritual, but its real and it has real consequences.
T 10/28		Self-realization, self-protection and self-fulfillment are the mortal enemy of the cross of Christ. To have zeal is to hate with perfect hatred anything that keeps you away from the total and complete abandonment of self.
W 10/29	Matthew 18:1-6	Except you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. There can't be any conversion if you are still in the picture.
T 10/30	Isaiah 53	All of the consecrations of Abraham were to protect the seed. You must also protect the seed. You protect it by revealing it.
F 10/31	Matthew 21 Isaiah 51 & 52	The gospel is about Christ in you, the hope of glory, and His Revelation is all that matters. God's love is centered in Christ. The best you can be is a broken vessel.
November 2003
M 11/03	Galatians 5
T 11/04	Matthew 18:3	Becoming as a little child is the opposite of what we think we should do.
W 11/05	Acts 7	Before God's appearing, Abraham saw the end of himself and the emptiness and futility of all that was considered important.
T 11/06		The Holy Spirit is doing one thing in the world. He is revealing Christ.
F 11/07	I Corinthians 1:17-18	Sanctification. Transparency.
M 11/10	Ephesians 4:13-15	Abraham saw that truth cannot be anything that changes with time. Only by emptying oneself can someone speak the truth.
T 11/11	Ecclesiastes 3	God has wrought all our works in us. He has made everything beautiful in his time.
W 11/12	Titus 2:11-3:10 I John 1:1-8 Galatians 4:19-	Eternal life is not subject to time. When Abraham saw this he left everything.
T 11/13	Luke 22:28-32	You don't have a test. Everything that is happening to you is really happening to Christ in you.
F 11/14		The biggest problem man has is finding what it means to live by faith.
M 11/17	Colossians 3 Hebrews 2	Christ is all and in all.
T 11/18	Psalm 138
W 11/19	Hebrews 4:14-16	Everything that God is doing in and through us is the opposite from the way we are wired.
T 11/20	Luke 22:28-32 John 6:47-71	Satan has desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat. Are you going to continue with Him in His temptations, or do you still think there is something going on with you?
F 11/21	Hebrews 4:12-16 Revelation 19:11-13	The Word of God
M 11/24		Michael's rebelliousness
T 11/25	Isaiah 64:1-4 I Corinthians 2:3-9	What it means to wait on God.
W 11/26	Isaiah 40 Psalm 38	Wait only on Him. Be thankful for your poverty and need.
December 2003
M 12/01	Daniel 5	You have been weighed in the balance and have been found totally lacking.
T 12/02	Luke 4:17-21 II Corinthians 12:1-9	The gospel is to the poor, broken failures. Those are the only ones who can hear.
W 12/03	Genesis 13 II Corinthians 6:3-10	Third consecration of Abraham: he left all of his possessions.
T 12/04	Galatians 3 Luke 8	The Bible's purpose is to show you that you are a stupid failure that can do nothing. It's not a handbook.
F 12/05	Genesis 15	Abraham's horror of great darkness.
M 12/08	Genesis 15:12-16	In the horror of great darkness, Abraham saw Christ's day and was glad.
T 12/09	Romans 7	One way to be deceived is to focus on doing what you think is good.
W 12/10	Isaiah 58 & 59	Abraham saw his own hopelessness and apprehended the meaning of sin. All your way is the way of iniquity. The seed of the Lord is now your life. The Sabbath rest.
T 12/11		(PG-13) Every person is a "truth seeker" but you don't keep pushing, you sell out for something tangible to worship. It's time that you got real. The last thing we need is more religious bullshit.
F 12/12	Galatians 4:19-31	Every single time you want a "how to" you are desiring to be under the law.
M 12/15	Galatians 4:19-21 Romans 3:10-20	The purpose of the law.
T 12/16
W 12/17
T 12/18
F 12/19
M 12/22
T 12/23
W 12/24
M 12/29
T 12/30	I Timothy 6:10 I Corinthians 15	Fall into the ground like the pecan, thou fool. He alone has immortality.
W 12/31	Mark 4	No effort. Our attempts to help only hinder.
January 2004
M 01/05	II Peter 1:1	"Servant"
T 01/06	II Peter 1:1	"Peter"
W 01/07	II Peter 1:2
T 01/08	Psalm 139
F 01/09
M 01/12	II Peter 1:2-4	"Peace." Walk away from the dung.
T 01/13	II Peter 1:4-8	Do you have the guts to live the christian life, or are you going to live in your aloneness?
W 01/14	II Peter 1:4-19	Stop the insanity.
T 01/15	II Peter 1	Tent for a night.
F 01/16	II Peter 2	What is heresy?
M 01/19	II Peter 2	Leaving self behind.
T 01/20	II Peter 2
W 01/21	II Peter 2:4	Locked in time vs. free in eternity.
T 01/22	II Peter 2:8-8 I Timothy 6:6	Being in a position where God has to provide.
F 01/23	Jude	Background on the book of Jude. Sorry about all the coughing.
M 01/26	II Peter 2:9-10 Romans 13:1-4	The meaning of whining.
T 01/27		Forgiveness. Dying to self. Gossip.
W 01/28	II Peter 2:10	Ronnie's Mother
T 01/29
F 01/30	II Peter 2:15-22	Wells without water. The true vomit. Digging around in the dirt.
February 2004
T 02/03	II Peter 3:1 Philippians 2:5	The mind of Christ. Harry's question about correcting behavior.
W 02/04
T 02/05	Revelation 19	The illusion of time. The view from the desert.
F 02/06	II Peter 3:9-10 I Thessalonians 4:13-5:6 Revelation 12:7, 3:1-6 Revelation 16:8-15	Thief in the night. Longsuffering.
M 02/09	Jude 1:1	Spiritual family vs. natural family.
T 02/10	Jude 1:2	Mercy and grace vs. guilt and misery
W 02/11
T 02/12
F 02/13
M 02/16	John 3 I Peter 1:22 John 8:19 John 17:4 Romans 13:1	In the world but not of the world. The purpose of the world is antagonism.
T 02/17	Obeying civil laws. The law of love.
W 02/18	Jude 4-8	Dreamers. Ideas. The meaning of "Jesus is Lord."
T 02/19		Q and A day.
F 02/20	Jude 8-9	Railing accusations.
M 02/23
T 02/24	Jude 10-11	The way of Cain.
W 02/25
T 02/26	Matthew 23:15 Mark 7:14	You are the one who tortured Christ.
F 02/27	Luke 2:1-14 Numbers 6:22	Peace
March 2004
03/02	Jude 10-12
03/03	Jude 12,13 I Corinthians 13	Raging waves, wandering stars.
03/04	Jude 13-17
03/05	Jude 17-19	Mockers. Going Crazy in your mind.
03/08	Jude 17-23 I John 3:16 Luke 23:39-46 James 3:8-18	Walk in the Spirit.
03/09	Jude 19 II Corinthians 13:3-5 I Corinthians 4:1-5	How do you know Jesus Christ is in you?
03/10	Romans 7:18	Spirit vs. sensual. Rebellion. What is going to cause you to leave peace today?
03/11	Jude 17 Haggai 1:3-14 Romans 4 Isaiah 40:27	"Sensual". Prayer is desire for God.
03/12	Jude 20 Jeremiah 1:4-10	"Beloved"
03/15	Jude 20 Galatians 2:16 Galatians 3:9 Romans 8
03/16	Jude Hebrews 2:8	Tim LaHaye is an idiot.
03/17	Jude 20 Philippians 4:4	The key sacrament of communion is to remind you from where comes your essential sustenance.
03/18	1 Corinthians 12:8-	The gifts of the Spirit. Tongues. A gift of the spirit if: cannot be held onto, does not depend on external conditions or devices, does not focus attention on your self, doesn't violate your will.
03/19	Luke 4:16-18 I Corinthians 12:1-2	The gospel's foundation is Jesus Christ. If it's about self, it is a false foundation.
03/22	I Corinthians 12 II Corinthians 3:15-4:6	No idols are good ones.
03/23	I Corinthians 12:2 I Thessalonians 2:1-4	Calling Jesus accursed vs. calling Him Lord.
03/24	I Corinthians 12:3 I Corinthians 6:15-20 II Corinthians 6:14-18	Spiritual gifts are not for self-realization.
03/25	I Corinthians 12	Making decisions vs. no options
03/26
03/29	I Corinthians 12:4 Galatians 5:16	Spiritual gifts.
03/30	I Corinthians 12:8	Wisdom
03/31	John 6:27-29 John 5:30	Time and eternity.
April 2004
04/01	John 5:16	The Sabbath.
04/02	John 17 John 4:34 II Thessalonians 2:1	Speaking what's there. Gossip.
04/05	John 5:17- Isaiah 28:8 John 6:27- John 8	To operate as a believer means to abandon rational thought, procedures, and agendas because you now have a new source of guidance and information.
04/06	John 5:17-22 John 5:30-32 John 6:28 Isaiah 38:8 John 8:25	How believers operate.
04/07
04/08	John 3 Luke 16	There is no greater deception than that being in Christ is a benefit to us. Do you want to partake in the new creation? Leave you behind.
04/09	Leviticus 23 Romans 4:3 Hebrews 4 I John 4 Ezekiel 8:7	Passover
S 04/11		Melito of Sardis Homily
04/12		Passover
04/13		Passover
04/14		God is in control.
04/15	Luke 24	The counting of the omer.
04/16	Luke 24 Leviticus 23:14 Luke 24:25 Acts 1	Counting of the Omer.
04/19	John 20, 21 Matthew 13	Still counting of the Omer.
04/20	Hebrews 5	Christ did not do man any good / The tests of the human race…
04/21	Matthew 21:33 I Peter 1:14, 23	A guy named Cerinthus.
04/22	Ephesians 1:15-23	Something going on with you? Openness and confession.
04/23	Romans 5 John 14:15
04/26	I Corinthians 12:7-11 Luke 14:7, 6 Proverbs 25:6-7 I Kings 4	Spiritual Gifts
04/27	I Corinthians 1:17 Matthew 22	Wisdom
04/29	Luke 22:7 I Kings 3:16-28 Matthew 2:13 Acts 26:12	More on wisdom
04/30	John 2, 4	Man's wisdom. Relics of the past.
May 2004
05/03	I Corinthians 12:8 John 7:11 I John 2:18	Knowledge
05/04	I Corinthians 12 Colossians 1:24	The mystery: Christ in you, the hope of glory.
05/05	I Corinthians 12:8,27 Revelation 12	The cross
05/06	Matthew 3	The gift of knowledge: seeing as Christ sees.
05/07	Matthew 3, 11 Revelation 11	The ultimate word of knowledge: The axe is laid to the root of the trees.
05/10	Revelation 11 Romans 3:10 Galatians 2:19	More about knowledge.
05/11	Ephesians 3, 4:11, 2:18 Galatians 5 I Corinthians 12:8, 14:1	The importance of prophesy - bubbling forth instead of damming up
05/12
05/13	I Corinthians 12:8	The Gift of Faith
05/14	Romans 15:18 II Corinthians 1:18	Faith
05/17	Acts 4:10, 25 Philippians 3 I Corinthians 12:8 Romans 3:19	Faith and boldness
05/18	Acts 4:23-31	Being 'with one accord' -- John Rutledge
05/19	Matthew 17:19 Mark 11:20	Faith like a mustard seed. Forgiveness.
05/20
05/21	I John 5	Do you believe Jesus is the Christ?
05/24		The gift of faith. Self-awareness, the fruit of the fall, is eliminated by faith.
05/25	I John 1:5-10 I John 3:4-12 Luke 17:6	As regards the gift of faith.
05/26	Ephesians 3	Humility is the acceptance, with gratitude, of all things internal or external that come into your life. Humility is the most powerful force in the universe.
05/27	Ezekiel 8:6 Psalm 139	The gift of faith is the ability to shift from your consciousness to his no matter what is before you.
05/28	I John 2:9-14	The gift of faith as regards little children, adolescents, young men, fathers.
June 2004
06/01	Genesis 2:16	Faith vs. naming things. Humility.
06/02	Galatians 1:3 Colossians 1:9 Romans 8:20 Galatians 6:12	Flesh and Spirit
06/03	Daniel 2:42, 7:13	The gift of faith and the Lord's prayer.
06/04	Galatians 6:14-16 Galatians 2:20-3:2 Romans 10:6 Colossians 1:3	If you're still trying to improve yourself or add something to you, it can't happen. Without your death you will not follow after Him. You'll just try to use the mystery of God for your own self-realization.
06/07	Galatians 5:1-16 Galatians 6:7	More on the gift of faith.
06/08	Isaiah 32 and 40 Ezekiel 36:16	The quietness and assurance that it is finished
06/09	Acts 2	Zeal
06/10	Acts 2 Joel 2:28 Hebrews 8 II Thessalonians 2 II Timothy 6:13 II Timothy 3 & 4	The last day.
06/11	Hebrew 8 2 Corinthians 15:5 1 Peter 1	You start the process by believing in him but end up living by the faith of him. Faith is common; it is the test of faith that is precious.
06/14	Hebrews 13:8 Luke 22:24 John 8:31	Bearing His reproach outside the camp.
06/15		Gary asks the question - What sticks in these Bible studies?
06/16	Mark 7:14	Still on the gift of faith. Prophesy - saying what is there, not judging what to say.
06/17	Genesis 6 Genesis 8:20- Job 14 Psalm 51 Isaiah 57	The fundamental problem is that we don't believe we are fallen. We still believe we hold the solution.
06/18	Hebrews 10:35 Micah 6:6	Faith
06/21	Isaiah 57:10 Genesis 1:1 I Corinthians 15:42	The gift of faith requires your emptiness.
06/22	Luke 4:5 Acts 17:1 & 7 I Thessalonians	Emptiness, self-abandonment and the gift of faith.
06/23	Matthew 16:13 Isaiah 57:1 Matthew 24:23 II Corinthians 3:14 II Corinthians 2:14	Gift of faith: Christ, the anointing.
06/24	Hebrews 11 Judges 1 I Peter 1:6	Hope. Christ is the ONLY living Hope.
06/25	Job 6:16 Psalm 16:7 Psalm 31:21 Psalm 33:13 Psalm 78:5 Psalm 119:81,114,145 Psalm 130:6	The word "hope," as defined in the English language, does not exist in the Old Testament. In the New Testament, it refers explicitly to Jesus Christ. Hope is confidence, trust or refuge. Anything else is idolatry.
06/28	Jeremiah 17 Joel 3:16 Isaiah 64:1 I Corinthians 2 & 13 Judges 1 Romans 5	Hope, faith, and waiting on Him.
06/29	Mark 1:14 Luke 17:20 1 Peter 1:3 Philippians 1:15 2 Corinthians 3	More on faith and its relationship to hope. The time is at hand, it is finished.
06/30	Ephesians 1:1-23 Ephesians 2:5	The destruction of idolatry, personal desires, and hopes.
July 2004
07/01	Colossians 1 I John 2:28 Hebrews 6:13 Hebrews 7:13 Hebrews 10 & 11	Christ is the only Hope that doesn't disappoint.
07/02	Hebrews 11 Isaiah 63	Hope is the enemy of faith when hope is about your plans, ideas and agenda for the future.
07/06	Acts 28:16 Jeremiah 14 & 17	Christ, the Hope of Israel.
07/07	Ecclesiastes 3:10 Matthew 23:27 II Chronicles 24:17	Travail that never ends. The seething blood.
07/08	Genesis 10:15 Joshua 18:21 II Samuel 5	The Jebusites
07/09	Zechariah 10 Habakkuk 2:18 Jeremiah 10 Jeremiah 1:8	Word study of 'bus'
07/12	Ecclesiastes 3:10 Romans 5 I Corinthians 10 Judges 1 Isaiah 57 Exodus 34:10	Only true Hope - the resurrection of Christ in you.
07/13	Joshua 15:63 Judges 3 I Chronicles 21:18	Jebusites. Hope.
07/14	Psalm 31:19 Psalm 33:10 Psalm 39	Hope
07/15	Mark 1:14 Daniel 2:42 Daniel 9:20-24 Hebrews 12	Christ's message: This is the age of messiah; time is fulfilled.
07/16	Matthew 11 Galatians 3:19	Time is fulfilled.
07/19	1 Peter 1:3 Titus 2	The gift of faith permits you to see that you have been invaded from beyond.
07/20	Colossians 1:19	The signal for repentance.
07/21	Revelation 12:7 Isaiah 32:13	"Wondering after the beast."
07/22	II Corinthians 5:13 Romans 5:10 Matthew 21:33 Romans 4	The gift of faith cannot be apprehended by our flesh.
07/23	John 14:27 Ruth 4 Romans 14:17 Isaiah 57	Happiness vs. joy.
07/26	Romans 5:17 Isaiah 8:13 Isaiah 29	Baptism. The peace of "it is finished."
07/27	I Chronicles 10 Hebrews 10:19	Who do you believe? David or the Jebusites?
07/28	Ephesians 3:14 Isaiah 55	One person completely yielded to God is the most powerful force on the face of the earth. If you still want something, go do it until you discover the futility.
07/29	1 Peter 1 Numbers 9:15	You are garrisoned by the power of God through the gift of faith. You can't live in both the world of your mind and the world of faith. If in doubt or in fear, wait, rest, do nothing. If you sell out, you have opened the gates to the enemy.
07/30	I Corinthians 12 Matthew 3:5 I Corinthians 12	Word of wisdom / word of knowledge
August 2004
08/02	2 Corinthians 1:18 Acts 18:24 1 John 2:9	When considering the gifts of the spirit, the predicate is - are you in him?
08/03	I Corinthians 12:7 Deuteronomy 32:39 Isaiah 19:19 Matthew 13:10 Luke 4	The gifts of healing.
08/04	John 12:36 Matthew 13	The gifts of the spirit cannot be placed on the flesh. Healing.
08/05	Isaiah 53:4 Matthew 5 Leviticus 11:44 II Peter 3:9	Healed means perfect , whole, complete, lacking nothing.
08/06	Disciple's Prayer	Jesus didn't heal everyone.
08/09	Luke 4:16 Hebrews 2:15	Fear. Shame. The teenage years.
08/10	I Corinthians 12 Mark 1:21 I John 5	3 kinds of healing
08/11	Mark 16:17-18 Luke 1:1-4	Saying what's there.
08/12	James 5 John 5:39	Psychosomatic conditions vs. creative healing miracles. 3 Greek words for healing.
08/13	Genesis 20 Exodus 15:22	Blessed (rafa) means 'not subject to the fates'.
08/16	Ezekiel 13:3-16 Jeremiah 6:14 Matthew 11	Healing. Peace. The evil of "healing the wound slightly".
08/17	Numbers 12	Leprosy. Exalting oneself. The waters of purification.
08/18	Exodus 4:2 Leviticus 13:9	Work vs. Debt. Cleansing the temple requires constant repentance.
08/19	Genesis 12:1,2,3 Genesis 3:14	God's promise is to the seed and not to the human race. More on leprosy.
08/20
08/23	II Kings 5:1-4 Luke 4:23 Ephesians 5:11 II Corinthians 10:3 II Thessalonians 2	Naaman as the type of Christ. The significance of leprosy of the forehead in scripture.
08/24	1 Samuel 17 Joshua 24:13 1 Corinthians 10	We all have giants that we fear in our mind, which are the problems that we can't solve. It is Christ in you that can cut off the head of your giants.
08/25	Revelation 6	How many horses have you let out?
08/26	James 1:12 Ezekiel 9	Lust brings forth the leprosy of the forehead. Doing of the word does not mean going forth in your own course of action.
08/27	Revelation 6	The body of Christ is eternal, no regard to time. Until, in you, the seventh angel stands and proclaims "there is time no longer" you can't understand the Bible.
08/30	Revelation 6:1 James 1:12 Revelation 4	The 4 Horses
08/31	Revelation 13 Daniel 7 Revelation 12	The Antichrist
September 2004
09/01	Revelation 12:7 John 3	The gift of God is eternal life - life without regard to time.
09/02	Revelation 6 Isaiah 32:13	The fifth seal. The real self is under the altar, protected from the universe of time and space.
09/03	Revelation 6 Ezekiel 9 Hebrews 12:12	The sixth seal. Experiencing the shaking of your reality.
09/07	Galatians 5:29	Loving your neighbor as your self. If you're living in Christ it comes naturally.
09/08	Galatians 5:14	There is no compatibility between the spirit and the flesh. One is suppressing the other.
09/09	Psalm 34 Isaiah 65:17-25	Tale bearing is the spreading of leprosy. Three are affected by tale bearing: the one spoken of, the listener and the speaker.
09/10	John 3:14 Numbers 21	The snake is doomed to eat dust. There is no way out.
09/13	Matthew 6:19 Matthew 7 Ephesians 4:22,29 Jude 10 Revelation 19 1 Timothy 6:8 2 Corinthians 2:14	Corrupt means 'subject to decay or rust.' Can anything that comes forth from the human mind not be corrupt?
09/14	1 Peter 1	All that is natural is corruptible. We must be about that which is incorruptible.
09/15	Matthew 11 Jeremiah 6:13 2 Peter 3	Nothing can take you from Christ but your mind.
09/16
09/17	1 Corinthians 8 2 Corinthians 13:5 Galatians 6 1 Timothy 6	The moment you think you are right you've left spirit and entered judgment. The only answer is - you are dead and Christ is alive.
09/20	Psalm 27	Being at rest, on the mercy seat, under the wings of the cherubim. Do you have the courage to confess when you've left it?
09/21	Revelation 6 Hebrews 12	The shaking is always going on and you are constantly seeking refuge from it.
09/22	Zephaniah 1:14 Revelation 6:12	The shaking has to happen in you. When it happens, are you going to run and hide in your mountains?
09/23	Revelation 6:16	Your self-seeking mind is the only enemy of God. If you want to be a disciple, prepare to go to war with your mind.
09/24	Revelation 7	All the world is wondering after the beast.
09/27	Matthew 3:13 Daniel 9:23	You enter the kingdom by no longer being a debtor to the flesh. The kingdom of heaven is here and now.
09/28	Matthew 4 Numbers 9:15	A cloud of doubt means that you rest and wait on him. It is not up to you to do something. It's up to him. Rest in that peace. Obligation to do something robs you of the joy of love.
09/29	Acts 1:6 1 Thessalonians 4:13 2 Peter 3:7	Do you have a template over your religious life, a prejudice by which you filter your Christianity?
09/30	John 15 1 John 4	The allegory of the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. There is nothing in the world that deserves your attention. All you do is be. The vine and the husbandmen are in control.
October 2004
10/01	2 Corinthians 4:7	You have to push the limits of your ambitions, thoughts and ideas to see that they are vanity.
10/04	Philippians 4	If there is something that you feel you must do, go quickly and do it. The sooner you discover the futility and emptiness, the better. Can you, instead, learn from the experiences of your brothers? Either he is the vine and you are the branch or you are your own God.
10/05		The most despised thing in your mind is weakness, dependency. To your mind, the cross is still the symbol of shame. Can you glory in affliction? Anxiety and depression are signals that you are trying to carry the burdens that are for His shoulders.
10/06	Ephesians 3	Why is everything spiritual diametrically opposite to the tendencies of the human mind? Why did God make it this way? You can't go at it alone because at some point you will be deceived and will need exhortation from others. The only place of the spirit is in the now.
10/07	Psalm 92	The palm tree, because of its extraordinary and unique characteristics, is the symbol of Messiah. The pomegranate is another important symbol.
10/08	Ecclesiastes 5	Repentance is the way to stop the voices in your mind.
10/11	John 10	The four basic needs. The meaning of the feasts. The meaning of the sheepfold.
10/12	Ecclesiastes 1	Let's review Ecclesiastes, just the basics.
10/14	Ecclesiastes 1:12	Vexation of spirit is chasing after the wind.
10/15	Ecclesiastes 1:14 Galatians 3:22	Are you consumed by what your eyes desire? How long will it be until you know it is all empty and meaningless?
10/18	Ecclesiastes 3	There is a time for everything. But when you pick up the cross the time for everything else is over.
10/19		What is in the 'name' of God? What does it mean to pray in the 'name' of Jesus?
10/21	Ecclesiastes 3:11 Exodus 3:11	The 'I am' can have no modifiers from our standpoint; he cannot be named. Are you in awe of his name or do you apply his name to your flesh which is corruptible?
10/22	Mark 9:36 Matthew 10:16	You cannot be 'in his name' unless you mortify the flesh.
10/25	1 John 5 Hebrews 1 Galatians 4 1 John 4	To be in his name is to be in his character, in his nature.
10/26	Matthew 10:38 John 14:19 Romans 5:6 1 John 4	Being in his name.
10/28
10/29	Proverbs 31 Ecclesiastes 3:15 Ecclesiastes 12:9 Psalm 139:7	The fear of God is the beginning of true wisdom. To take upon yourself the act of fulfilling the law is to become a hypocrite. Only one is able to do this and it isn't you.
November 2004
11/01	Ecclesiastes 3:15	When you are threatened with exposure, you will react defensively and offensively. This is how you know self is still there.
11/02	Ecclesiastes 3:16 1 Peter 4
11/03	Romans 2:25 Ecclesiastes 3:18 2 Peter 2:8 Isaiah 64	Circumcision in the Old Testament is what baptism is now. Without the circumcision that comes of Christ we are only beasts made from the dust.
11/04
11/05	Ecclesiastes 3:20 Hebrews 5:8 Hebrews 7:3 1 Peter 1:22 1 Peter 1:3	God's own seed got him the victory. Everything else failed.
11/08	Matthew 13 Galatians 1:6	An offense, a snare, will move you towards self-seeking and away from self-abandonment.
11/09	Galatians 2:11	We always want to know ahead of time what to do about a situation. This is the opposite of having the faith of Christ.
11/10	Ecclesiastes 4:7 Genesis 3 Genesis 11:3	Our modern culture emphasizes ideas and imagination, which only lead to aloneness. Scripture tells us that it is not good for man to be alone.
11/11	Deuteronomy 17 Matthew 18	In the works of your own imagination you are only one witness, and this is unreliable and illegal. Without another witness you alone in your own little closet, not even aware of all the creations of your own mind.
11/12	Ecclesiastes 4:13	Self-seeking is covering the real gold, and the spirit will hammer away at you until it shines through. You can't do it alone.
11/15	Ecclesiastes 4:14	Planning ahead is putting God where he is not. He is in the here and now.
11/16	Ecclesiastes 5	Who is the fool? The only way that the voices can be silenced is to know that they are lies. If you cannot bring shame to the voices yourself, then the brethren must.
11/17	Ecclesiastes 5:3-8	The way we flee from the emptiness. It is what drives the world. Can you exist without something to do?
11/18	Ecclesiastes 5:7	The only way to stop the mind talk is to know that it cannot stand against "It is finished."
11/19	Ecclesiastes 5:7 Job 1:19 Psalm 49 1 Timothy 6:3 1 John 2:12 Isaiah 32:13	Fear of the Lord begins when you know that all in the world is illusion. To be content, without regard to the world, is the ultimate test of the fear of God.
11/22	Ecclesiastes 5:8	What happens when you undertake a cause? The cause becomes your food. This is a form of walking according to the course of this world.
11/23	Ecclesiastes 5:8 Ecclesiastes 6:1 1 Corinthians 5:9 Hosea 14	What is fraudulent must be exposed without regard to consequences.
11/24		Marriage. Personal relationships. The communty.
11/29	2 Corinthians 13:4
11/30	Mark 19 Romans 8:20 Titus 2:11	Regeneration is the seed of Christ manifested in you. We've been translated into the kingdom and it has nothing to do with this world. The issue of the flesh has been settled; it is no longer to be tested because it is finished.
December 2004
12/01	John 19:28 Galatians 1:9- John 2:23-3:1- Ezekiel 37	The mystery of regeneration, continued. For regeneration, you must be born again. He has already translated us. "We're not waiting for some yo yo rapture thing, it's already happened"
12/02	Genesis 1:26 2 Corinthians 13:5	Regeneration, continued. "Faith is living your life in his likeness instead of his image." More on the issue "Jesus loves you?" And, why don't scholars and other people have the same point of view?
12/03	Isaiah 1 Isaiah 26	What is a reprobate? What does willing and obedient mean? Why is 'free will' a deception? "The mystery is that he chose you to contain His life."
12/06	Luke 15:11 2 Corinthians 5:14	Regeneration again. The story of the prodigal son is the story of the human race. "My son was dead, now he is alive."
12/07	Proverbs 3 John 10	Delighting in chastisement. "The greatest blessing in the universe is not getting what you think you want."
12/08	John 3:29 John 4:16- John 5	"The best you can ever be as a human being is, a friend of the bride groom."
12/09	Matthew 11:25 Acts 15 Galatians 4:21	Can the branch do the job of the vine? Are you growing your own root, trying to be the vine? "The channel to Godliness is choked by you."
12/10	1 John 2
12/13	Luke 1:28	Mary as an example of what it means to be born again - The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee when you are fed up with everything else. God shall over shadow you and you are on the mercy seat.
12/14	1 Peter 5 Philippians 1 2 Corinthians 10	The purpose of the Holy Spirit is to exalt and reveal Jesus Christ. If you are in rebellion, you are saying to the Holy Spirit, "come and get me." Every man from the beginning of time has run from the place of no hope. Stop the insanity, be at rest.
12/15	Isaiah 40 Isaiah 9 Isaiah 37:31 Isaiah 1:5	Never an excuse for leaving peace. The only enemy you have is your mind. Your warfare is over.
12/16	Matthew 10:19	Trinity does what it does because that is what is put before us to do. There is nothing special here. Fraud cannot be tolerated.
12/17		The power of the broken heart.
12/20	Isaiah 40	More on the meaning of 'born again'. "If you hold back you hate, if you withdraw, you murder." The faith of Christ is within us.
12/21	Colossians 1:13- Colossians 2:4	The normal reaction to affliction is to leave, to fix it, or "it's someone else's fault." The purpose of the affliction is that you would be humbled, emptied. Either we are made perfect by one offering or we have more to do than we can dream of.
12/22	2 Corinthians 11:10	The mystery of obedience. Are you trying to transform yourself or, are you transformed in a new creation?
12/23	Colossians 1:27 Colossians 2:10 Isaiah 50:6 Isaiah 57	Have any of your hopes and dreams ever brought you anything? Your are perfect, you need nothing but what you have. The trappings of our affluent society serve only to take us further away. Weakness only brings you to revelations.
12/24	II Corinthians 2:14	Some peoples lives are made of an almost infinite number of truces with no reconciliation. Forgiveness is your job; reconciliation is God's job.
12/27	Isaiah 50:5- Isaiah 57-10 2 Corinthians 4	Christians are not champions. According to the world's definition we are failures. Do you know you are the chief of sinners?
12/28	II Corinthians 4	Honesty and shame. "Who told you that you are naked?" We cover our shame so well we forget it. Dilute the wine enough and it becomes difficult to distinguish it from water. Everything in society is moving towards the gratification and the enhancement of the isolated self.
12/29	2 Corinthians 4:3 Revelation 12:7 Genesis 1 Matthew 5	You are created as a vessel to contain light. Self-realization automatically causes blindness to this mystery. By the grace of God, you own all that you are, your cold, your pain, your circumstances. Why do you seek to change it?
12/30	2 Corinthians 4- Philippians 3:7	The moment that self is the issue, the vale comes down and you are blinded.
12/31	2 Peter 1	If you're still thinking about getting better, you are ignoring human history. And you are trying to keep alive the lie.
January 2005
01/03	2 Corinthians 4:11 James 1:13-14	The mystery is that, we of like precious mind, are always given unto death so that the resurrected life of Christ can be revealed in us.
01/04	2 Corinthians 4:15 2 Corinthians 11:23 2 Corinthians 5:18	Everything that you hate, God uses for His purpose. Quitting, in your mind, is the greatest enemy of regeneration.
01/05	Ecclesiastes 6 2 Corinthians 2:14 2 Corinthians 4	Back to Ecclesiastes, after a major detour. The believer's duty is to advocate what is right without regard to the consequences.
01/06	Ecclesiastes 6:6	Whatever the labor is for the appetite, the cavity can never be filled. To speak of the mystery is to take on the office of Elijah.
01/07	Ecclesiastes 6:6 Philippians 3	Your are created to want everything but only Christ will satisfy. We no longer have 900 years to live in order to experience the vanity of everything. This is why we have community - your experiences are not your own but, to be shared with the body of Christ.
01/10	1 Corinthians 1 2 Corinthians 4:15	We are not concerned with activity, we are concerned with receptivity. If you know and practice "how-to," then there isn't dependence on God.
01/11	Revelation 12:7 2 Thessalonians 2	The idea of zero. Wondering after the beast. Blasphemy (self-seeking).
01/12	Ephesians 2:16 Colossians 1:9
01/13	1 Corinthians 5:6	The leaven of the Pharisees, Saducees, and Herod. Illusion of the private self.
01/14	Romans 4	If it takes conscious effort, you've left the mystery. Can you believe that you can live a life without effort? A true believer can not answer the question "What do you do?"
01/17		Ole talks about his conversion and what Norman Grubb said.
01/18	Ecclesiastes 6 1 Peter 3	Encouragement to rebel, push the barriers. Why? As long as you live in the universe of your own imagination, you are your own god. The real God does not exist in your imagination.
01/19	Ecclesiastes 7 Daniel 3	The terror of God. Going to war with your rebellion. Do you worship cause-and-affect? Do you try to rise above the clouds? Or, do you wait on him?
01/20	Ecclesiastes 7	The good name of Messiah cannot be applied to flesh. Cause-and-affect is the enemy of mercy and grace.
01/21	Ecclesiastes 7 Revelation 14:12 1 Corinthians 15:13 Hebrews 4	The good name and the anointing oil. Reckon that you are dead and let Christ be in you.
01/24		What does it mean to be at rest?
01/25	Ecclesiastes 7 Galatians 2:16	More on the good name. Do we live by his name or our by own understanding? The evidence of spiritual maturity isn't hearing from God, it is silence.
01/26	2 Corinthians 5	Your life is an illusion because Jesus Christ was the last member of the human race, and the human race died on the cross. Who does that make you?
01/27	Romans 6:6 Galatians 2:17	Understanding the fear of God.
01/28	Isaiah 28 Colossians 2:12-	Time is the great deceiver. The only reason time exists is because of our rebellion. Christ will not be an add-on to your life, he is your life.
S 01/30		1st Methodist, Sherman TX
01/31	Colossians 2:6	Trying to die to self only elevates self because you're working it. Salvation of the isolated self is a trick of the antichrist.
February 2005
02/01	Ephesians 1:16- Genesis 3:22	Naming something means you have dominion over it. To label a thing provides the delusion of control over it. God cannot be named. His faithfulness means you never have to be concerned with your life.
02/02	Romans 7:5-	The law is to shut you up and bring you to reckon that you are dead.
02/03	Romans 7	We have the capacity to do good but the inability to do it. When you try to do good, the evil one is right there with you. Debt.
02/04	Ecclesiastes 7 Isaiah 32:13 Job 42	We are spiritually insane when we keep relying on our selves again and again and expect a different result. Blessed means "not subject to the fates."
02/07	Ecclesiastes 7:8 Romans 5 Proverbs 14:29	Patience. Glorying in affliction. The evil of coping.
02/08	Ecclesiastes 7:10 Proverbs 21:19-22 Psalms 48 Isaiah 53	Remembering only the good times and pleasures while forgetting the pain and suffering is part of the great deception.
02/09	Ecclesiastes 7:12-13	The number of man - 666.
02/10	Ecclesiastes 7:13-14 2 Chronicles 7 James 5:7-12	Our nature is to seek prosperity and run from adversity. If you've made plans, you've made an oath. Do you have a pre-determined course of action?
02/11	Ecclesiastes 7:14 2 Corinthians 13:3-	We, in the world, believe it is heroic to cope. But the power of God is with those who have come to the end of themselves and have seen the vanity.
02/14	Ecclesiastes 7:15 1 Timothy 1:17- 2 Timothy 2:16- Job 11	Why does time continue? As long as you are alive God is looking for your repentance.
02/15	Job 11 Leviticus 25 Psalm 37:5 Matthew 17	The only reason time and space exists is for your transfiguration to take place. Christ left his own transfiguration and endured the cross so that you can experience the same transfiguration.
02/16	Ecclesiastes 7:16 Proverbs 25:16,27 John 10:1	Filling yourself with anything in order to attain glory is foolishness because you, the self, can't have glory. The purpose of self-consciousness is so you can see the inadequacy of it and get rid of it.
02/17	Ecclesiastes 7:17-	The evidence that you believe another gospel is that you think suffering is strange. Worldly repentance is to say "I'm sorry, I'll do it better next time."
02/18	Ecclesiastes 7:18 I Thessalonians 4	Being free indeed vs. putting on your own constraints. If you are debating things in your mind you're arguing with a loser.
02/21	Ecclesiastes 7:19-21 Ezekiel 28	Tyre is the fortress of your mind and a type of antichrist. David is a type of Christ.
02/22	Matthew 15:21 Ecclesiastes 7:22 Romans 3:9-	Resting in the fact that greater is he who is in you than any demon who is in the world.
02/23	Ecclesiastes 7:23
02/24	Ecclesiastes 7:24-25	The travail causes you to either become a victim or to become humble. The mind is programmed for self-seeking and you can't reverse this. You can only empty yourself of it.
02/25	Ecclesiastes 7:26 Revelation 17	The allure of the whore of Babylon is to cause you to go anywhere else but God for your sustenance.
02/28	Ecclesiastes 7:26 Numbers 25	Truth is the sustained consciousness of your own error. Coping is the worst thing you can do spiritually.
March 2005
03/01	Ecclesiastes 7:26 Numbers 25 John 19:31-	The spear of Phinehas and the centurion.
03/02	Numbers 25 John 11:47	More on the crucifixion and the spear of Phinehas. Why go anywhere but to the Father for anything?
03/03		Gary speaks on trust and self-denial.
03/04	Ecclesiastes 7:26 John 19	Ripping of the vale and exposing the holy of holies occurs in each of us.
03/07	Ecclesiastes 7:26
03/08		The bones of Messiah cannot be broken. More on the spear of Phinehas. The greatest gift of all is Christ. Don't sell him for some earthly idea or trinket.
03/09	Romans 10	The meaning of the crucifixion.
03/10	John 2:15-	How do you deny Jesus Christ? Do you complain, are you discontent, do you want things to be different?
03/11	Ecclesiastes 7:27 Genesis 3:22	You have one God or you have many. With many gods, there is room for your own inventions. When you judge for yourself what is good, evil is present also.
03/14	Ecclesiastes 7:29 Genesis 3:22-24	The inventions of our minds are the antithesis of God's desire.
03/15	Ecclesiastes 7:29 Psalm 99 Psalm 106	Man's inventions displease God.
03/16	Ecclesiastes 7:29 Psalm 106:19-30	Concluding summary on man's inventions.
03/17	II Timothy 3:1-5 Hebrews 2:10-15	The risk of faith vs. keeping yourself alive.
03/18	Ecclesiastes 8:1-3 II Corinthians 10:1-6 Ezekiel 8:5-12	Leaving the eternal now.
03/21	Ecclesiastes 8:3 Ezekiel 9 Proverbs 3	You can't change perfection. You can't add to eternity.
03/22	Ecclesiastes 8:3 Job 5 Hebrews 12:1-11	Leaving the now is leaving His presence.
03/23	Matthew 6:6 Psalm 27:1-5 Psalm 31 Psalm 91 Genesis 28:14-15	You leave His presence every time you lean on your own arm of understanding and try to figure something out.
03/24	Leviticus 26:14-46	Despise thou not the chastening of the Lord.
03/25	Colossians 1:12-29 Deuteronomy 28:15-
03/28	Ecclesiastes 8:1 Luke 16:15 I Samuel 16:7 Isaiah 55:6-9 Exodus 34:29-35	Spiritual wisdom is beyond our ability to understand with our mind. Golden calfs.
03/29	Ecclesiastes 8:1 Galatians 3:11-20 Exodus 19:1-6	A mystery happens when wisdom is full - it causes the face to shine. It requires leaving the familiar patterns and living in constant dependence on God.
03/30	Romans 8:28-39 Luke 22:39-53 John 18:1-12	If you don't know that Christ is in you, you can't repent. The only way you can know it is by unknowing everything else.
03/31	Ecclesiastes 8:1 Numbers 6:22-27 Matthew 17:1-2 Romans 11:33-12:2 Job 41 & 42	'Shine' means 'ray of light' and 'luminous'. The only way the light within you can be revealed is when everything else in you is destroyed.
April 2005
04/01	II Corinthians 3:12-4:13 Psalm 31 James 1:22-25 Galatians 2:16-20	Transfiguration. Transparency.
04/04	John 3:16-21	Self-redemption. Molten images of brass, silver, and gold.
04/05	Ecclesiastes 8:1 I Corinthians 13 Hebrews 2:6-9	Seeing through a glass darkly. Your mind is the only obstacle to peace because your mind is the only thing that is not subject under Him. Problem is, you don't speak what's there.
04/06	Psalm 67 Psalm 80	The light within is darkened by you. You love the darkness more than the light because you want your own redemption. You love your imagery and illusions of control. You must take the risk to open your mouth and speak.
04/07	Ecclesiastes 8:1 Psalm 139 Psalm 80:14-19	Wherever you go he is there. The only place he is not is in the thoughts and imaginations of your mind.
04/08	Matthew 8:10-13, 23, 25:30, 4:12-17, 5:13-18	Darkness
04/11	Ecclesiastes 8:1 Proverbs 4:10-19 II Samuel 23:1-4	What keeps His people from being a shining light? There is nothing you can do to improve yourself. What is required is your own death.
04/12		The Plagues on Egypt. 1st plague: the river of life turned to blood.
04/13	Genesis 3:14-15	2nd plague: frogs. God's people had accepted the gods of Egypt.
14/14	Exodus 8:16-32 Job 42:1-6	3rd and 4th plagues -- Lice causes you to abhor your flesh; flies defile your form of worship.
04/15	Exodus 9:1-12 Isaiah 1:5-7	5th plague on Egypt - pestilence on the livestock.
04/18	Exodus 9:8-12 Deuteronomy 4:14-20 Isaiah 26	6th plague: boils. The world is an iron furnace.
04/19	Exodus 9:13 Proverbs 16:1-4 Psalm 23 Romans 9:13-23	How can a loving God send evil and cause hurt?
04/20		Let the plagues destroy your gods. Entering the land won't take place while you are trying.
04/21	Exodus 9:13-35 Revelation 8:1-8 Revelation 16:21 Isaiah 28:8-15 Isaiah 32:13-20	The purpose of the plagues is to cause your heart to melt. Not one value system that you've accepted can withstand them. 7th plague: HAIL!
04/22	Exodus 10:1-20 Isaiah 40:12-22 Jeremiah 51:13-14, 26-27	Locusts
04/25	Exodus 10:21-29 Genesis 15:7-16 Matthew 27:41-45 Isaiah 50:10-11 Revelation 6:12-14 Revelation 10:5-7	Darkness. We've spent our lifetime avoiding the darkness. We kindle our own sparks. The night has come where no man can work.
04/26	Isaiah 42 I John 2:7-14	There is nothing you can do to overcome the darkness.
04/27	John 1:1-15 John 3:18-21 Genesis 1:1-5 Exodus 10:22-23 Galatians 2:16-19	Darkness and Light
04/28	Review of the Plagues.	The plagues are everything that has gone wrong with you. They are not optional. Their purpose is to cause you to reject the idols and value systems of the world.
04/29	Exodus 11 & 12	The death of the firstborn. You and I are the ones who killed the Passover Lamb.
May 2005
05/02	Leviticus 23	Counting of the Omer
05/03	Isaiah 52:10-12 II Corinthians 6:11-17	Counting of the Omer starts when Christ is resurrected in you. The 49 gates of impurity represents coming out of everything you think is good.
05/04	Proverbs 31:23 Luke 18:18-	The first fruit offering represents the resurrection of Christ.
05/05	Acts 1:1-4 Luke 24:12-33	Counting of the Omer, going through the gates of impurity, being rid of all that you think is good.
05/06	John 20:17-21:19	The single most important thing that happened during the counting of the omer.
05/09	I Corinthians 1:17-18 II Corinthians 2:14-17 James 1:22-25 Isaiah 57:1-10	The meaning of the preaching of the cross.
05/10	Romans 11:33-12:2	Holiness through complete yieldedness.
05/11	Acts 1:4-11 Acts 2	Christ's ascension
05/12	Matthew 22:34-40	Counting the Omer - giving importance to Him only, with all they heart, soul and mind.
05/13	John 15:7-12	The oneness of God and the work of the Holy Spirit.
05/16	Proverbs 18:17-19 Numbers 16 Numbers 3	The purpose of Pentecost is that you will no longer take offense.
05/17	Isaiah 9:6 Numbers 16 I Corinthians 10:1-14 Ezekiel 8:7-12	The idea of Pentecost is that the government is no longer on your own shoulders. Every time you take something in your own hands, you are participating in Korah's rebellion. Note: We only got half of this morning's Bible study. The battery died. Sorry.
05/18	Acts 2	The Day of Pentecost
05/19	Isaiah 25 & 26	The destruction of your walls and fortresses must be total.
05/20	Acts 2:14-47	Pentecost: You cannot know that everything is finished until you are finished with everything. It is not good news to you unless you've come to the end of yourself.
05/23	Jeremiah 3	There is either the bride or the whore.
05/24	Genesis 3:22-24 Revelation 20:11-21:3 II John Hebrews 10:5-20 Colossians 1:12-22	From that Passover to the Pentecost, the whole universe was turned upside down. It's finished.
05/25	II Thessalonians 2	We are in the last day. You can't see it is finished until you see that you're finished.
05/26	Acts 7:54-60 Acts 9:1-16 Acts 26:11-16	The Damascus Road experience. It is hard for you to resist the divine impulse. Seeing Jesus as all and in all.
05/27	I Timothy 3:16 Romans 8:28-39 John 16:1-15 I Peter 4:1-6	The Ascension sealed the fate of the human race.
05/31	Isaiah 50:5-11 Isaiah 57:1-10	Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.
June 2005
06/01	Ephesians 1:15-23	All was made possible by His ascension. Pentecost turned everything upside down - the Holy Spirit brought the New Jeruselem down.