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I’m going to suggest a simple practice which is a manner of opening up to multi-dimensional perception. You have a sheet of paper that you drew on a circle on. You get another round object that is smaller in circumference than the first circle. You draw that smaller circle in the center of your original circle. If it’s too small, you’ll notice that this won’t work. If you get it too small, then your perception will focus either on one circle or on the other circle. If you get it too largein other words, if the new circle is too much the size of your original circlethen they just blend as a band. You want it not too small and not too large. It sounds like a nursery rhyme. Ideally, the new circle should be about two-thirds the size of the original circle. Then you sit down and you do your gazing practice. What you do is, you’re gazing at both circles at the same time.

You’re seeing them in your field of awareness simultaneously. And you’re not trying to make one or the other disappear. Something really interesting will begin to happen. What happens is that you begin to feel, in your perception, radiance coming out of one circle and going into the other. Now that radiance is a movement of energy that you are perceiving.

Its as if there’s some kind of energy exchange between the two circles. There is an energy exchange between the two circles. The new circle has to be the right size; if you make it a quarter of your original circle, it doesn’t work. If you make it 90% of your original circle, it won’t work either. You want to be somewhere around 65 to 70% of the size of your original circle. In gazing at these two circles, you are actually beginning to feel something like concentric waves. In fact, they will actually begin to expand beyond the outer circle.

We spoke about a circle being a two-dimensional figure, mathematically its x2 + y2=1. If we wanted to make a three-dimensional figure, mathematically it would be x2 + y2 + z2 = 1. We’d have depth there. We would actually have a sphere. We would have dimensional depth there, like a ball, a sphere, or the earth.

Then we go to four-dimensionality, which we call the dimension of time. From the perception of three dimensions, four-dimensionality is like a ball being inflated to its maximum inflation and then deflating and going back to being a one-dimensional dot like the expanding and contracting universe.

When we go to five dimensions, what we’re seeing is not from the perspective of the third, but from the perspective of the fourth. What we are seeing is a vortex, spinning with a center. What we’re doing is that we’re beginning to perceive four-dimensionality going into five-dimensionality.

Yogi Sean is the student of Swami Ramananda and the author of Dancing in the Fire of Transformation and The Everyday Sanyasin.

Sent church is definitely a popular saying that is everywhere these days. the notion that we are obligated to categorize places of worship, missional, has since the beginning of creation been a tiny bit odd to me. come on, shouldnt all bodies of Christ be missional in their very nature? Shouldnt a church, at its very base, yearn to connect their culture and neighborhood with the good news as a missionary would in a another country? Isnt that what the bodies of Christ is commanded to do in the final charge of Christ in Matthew 28:19? Our own city deserves this style of church. Church in Austin is slowly gravitating to what Christ instructed in Holy Word.

Jesus gives the command in Acts 1:8 saying, “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” Acts 1:8 justifies this subject as, right before Jesus Christ ascends to Heaven, He sends the disciples on a story that would begin right in their own community. He begins with their local place of Jerusalem, and then enlarges the call to the far parts of the earth.

As disciples of Jesus, we are not moved to social clubs, but to be missional persons who are aggressively going out and connecting with others right where they are with the story of Christ. We have seen this throughout history: God sends Abraham on a mission to exit his city and his people and go to the land that God would show him (Gen. 12:1), God motivated Moses on a mission to restore an enslaved people and lead them to freedom (Exodus 3:8-10), God motivated Jesus on a mission to creation to pull all things to Himself through the crucifixion (Colossians 1:20). And now God is sending people on a mission to engage homes, cities, peoples, and even nations with the message of Jesus (Matt. 28:19 Mark 6:7 Luke 10:1 John 20:21 Acts 1:8). If we reject this urge and continue to see the churches like a members only country club ” urging that people fix their act, pay their fees, and come to our place of worship God will continue His mission without us.

The Trinity of Scripture is a controversial subject among many in the Christian Community. I would estimate that (90% of the Christian Community believes in the Trinity.)

What is the Trinity? The Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost(Spirit). We all know about the Father and The Son. So lets look at The Holy Ghost. The Bible calls Him by many different names,

1. The Holy Ghost. The Bible in the New Testament, list the Name of Holy Ghost 89 times, starting with, Matthew 1:18 and ending with, Jude 1:20
2. The Holy Spirit. 10 times beginning with, Luke 11:13 and ending with, 1Thessalonians 4:8.
3. The Spirit of truth. 4 times, John 14:17, 15:26, 16:13 and 1John 4:6.

4. The Comforter. 3 Times John 14:26, 15:26 and 16:7.

This is not to say that other examples are not listed but these others are spiritually discerned. The Most controversial scripture in the Bible concerning the Trinity is found in, Matthew 28:19, Jesus commanded the disciples to; “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.”

In this verse above all others, are the four words that has brought about this controversy; ” in the name of ” Many teach that there is not a Trinity because of these four words. They believe that these words signify a separation of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

I reject this teaching because of the multitudes of other verses that concur with the Trinity. What many don’t understand is that The Holy Ghost(i.e. Spirit) is the Spirit of God. So how can God be separate from His own Spirit. Jesus gave us the answer to this when He stated in Matthew 10:20, “For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.” This spirit that He spoke of was the Holy Spirit, “The Spirit of your Father.”

1Th 4:8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his “Holy Spirit.” Jesus stated that He was in the Father and the Father was in Him and He and the Father were one, so How being that Jesus and the Father being one disavows the Holy Spirit being one also with Jesus and the Father, making up the Trinity?
We as human beings cannot separate our spirit from ourselves for the spirit within us is who we are. The Body is dead without the spirit. So there fore, God cannot be without His spirit, for God is spirit.
Lets look at Numbers 6:26, The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

Countenance is; to give assurance or courage to; to support; to aid by favor; to prevent from shame or dismay, to support; to encourage; to abet; to vindicate; by any means. Literally, the contents of a body; the outline and extent which constitutes the whole figure or external appearance. Appropriately, the human face; the whole form of the face, or system of features; visage. This is only done thru the Baptism in The Holy Ghost. As Jesus promised in,
1. John 14:16 Tells us that the Comforter, “abides with you for ever.”Denoting the Holy Ghost.
2. John 14:26 Tells us that the Comforter, “which is the Holy Ghost” Replaced Jesus as the director of all truths in Scripture and in life., Who reminds us of all things Jesus taught.
3. John 15:26 Tells us that the Comforter proceeds (Comes From) from the Father(God), he(A Person) shall testify(To affirm or declare solemnly for the purpose of establishing a fact. To bear witness to; to support the truth of by testimony.) of me(Jesus):
4. Acts 8:15-17 Tells us how the Spirit of God is Received by the laying on of Hands. Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost: (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)
(Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.)

5. Gal 3:1-4 Tells us that the Spirit of God is received by Faith and not works. “O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?”
Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
Acts 8:15-17 is showing us that the third part of the Trinity is vital to the salvation of man after the Baptism. We are indowed with three diferent spirits,
1. Our Soul Spirit.(Who we are.)
2. The Spirit of Christ(We have the Mind of Christ.) and
3. The Holy Spirit.(Ghost.Who takes controll of our Physical man and keeps him under bonds to Christ.)

Act 1:2 Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: Act 7:51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. So as far as an excuse to use Matthew 28:19, to say that there is no trinity, we see by compareing scripture with scripture we can prove that there is and always was and will be a Holy Trinity.

(Refs. Mat-3:16, Mat-3:17; Gen-1:26; Num-6:24-27; Isa-48:16; 1Co-12:4-6; 2Co-13:14; Eph-2:18; 1Jo-5:7; Rev-1:4-6. end part 1. Part 2 will deal with, ” The Unholy Trinity.”

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The Christian Gnostic (Knowledge) Gospel of Judas was made public this week and Judas was the hero not the betrayer. This was just the tip of the iceberg - The Christian Gnostic Gospels also tell us that Jesus was not crucified. The Christian Gnostic Gospels pre date the 4 Gospels kept in the New Testament. The Gospel of Judas was one of the Christian Gnostic (Knowledge) Gospels burned by the Church Fathers at the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD and discovered in Egypt in the town of Naj Hammadi by a peasant in 1945. The numerous Gnostic Knowledge Gospels of Christ were burned by the Church Fathers because they made the 4 Gospels which they put in the New Testament in 325 AD look ridiculous. In the Gospel of Judas, Judas was the hero and most trusted disciple doing the will of Christ. Pope Benedict looked like the boy putting his thumb in the hole in the levee this week when he called Judas a “Double Crosser”, sticking to the party line despite the new evidence to the contrary.

Well, this revelation about Judas is nothing compared to the others in the Christian Knowledge Gospels. In the Koran, (Sura Chapter 4:156) the angel Gabriel who brought Mary the good news tells the Prophet Muhammad that in fact Jesus was not even crucified, a likeness, an impostor was, because this was the story in the Christian Knowledge Gospels which were burned by the Church Fathers forever (they hoped) 1,700 years ago.

The Gnostic Gospel of Judas never mentions the crucifixion or the resurrection. Seth was the third child of Adam and Eve. There was a group of Gnostic (Knowledge) Christians named after Seth, Sethians. In the Christian Gospel called “The Second Treatise of The Great Seth”, 56.6-19 in NHL 332, Jesus Christ told Simon, “It was another…who drank the gall and the vinegar; it was not I… it was another Simon, who bore the cross on his shoulder. It was another upon whom they placed the crown of thorns. But I was rejoicing in the height (the hills) over… their error. And I was laughing at their ignorance. (for thinking it was I who they were crucifying)”. The Christian Gnostic Knowledge Gospels contradict the 4 Canonized Gospels in the New Testament endlessly. The 4 New Testament Gospels contradict themselves endlessly. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

One need only look right in the Holy Bible to see what is really going on. God the Father said through Prophet Isaiah that the Bible writers, the Priests and Prophets who wrote the Bibles, “the scribes were creating for the people a shelter, a refuge, of lies and falsehoods, (Isaiah 28:14-15) which would cause the people to fall backward and be broken and ensnared and taken.” (Isaiah 28:9-13). God the Father called the Holy Bible “The Word of Satan!” God said to the scribes, “You prophesy by Baal, Beelzebub, Satan!” (Jeremiah 2:8). God the Father said, “They (the scribes) say, ‘Says the Lord’, when the Lord has not sent them, and yet they wait for the fulfillment of their word!” (Ezekiel 13:6). Jesus launched into an absolute diatribe in Matthew 23 calling the Bible writers, the scribes, lying venomous snakes who spewed their own divisive racist deadly hateful lies right into your Holy Bible and signed them, “said God”, and “said Jesus”. Jesus lambasted the scribes and those who followed the same Old Testament followed by Judaism, Christianity and Islam today.

In fact, Hell itself is an invention of the modern Bible Writers. In the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible every time Hell is mentioned there is an asterisk beside it. The Bible was written in Greek, and every time that Jesus says Gehenna or Sheol your modern Bible Writers substitute their own word, “Hell”. Gehenna was a place outside of Jerusalem where the Jewish and non Jewish people sacrificed their children on fire altars to the God Baal, Satan. Sheol was a place underground where both the good and the bad spirits dwelled together after death. Jesus spoke of Sheol all the time. According to Jesus right in the Bible, everyone goes to Hell, Sheol, after death, both the good and the evil spirits. How long can Christianity survive on a foundation of what God the Father endlessly calls “lies” right in the Holy Bible? Hasn’t it caused enough suffering, or will you all allow it to now lead you all into extinction in Nuclear World War 3?

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Geoff Neilson has written “7 quick steps proving HWA is the
endtime Elijah,” that Herbert W. Armstrong was the prophesied
individual to come in the power and spirit of Elijah, as taught
by the former Worldwide Church of God and still believed by many
of the branches of the Sabbath-keeping Church of God but not all
of them or every individual within them believe he
completely fulfilled that great restoration role but that
he served as an Elijah to the Church and there yet remains for
the appearance and work of an Elijah to the nations:

#7–If Elijah has not already come, then (a) the endtime
hasn’t started; (b)everyone in the Church’s doctrine is in a
state of huge disrepair until he comes and restores all things,
(c) and no-one in our day has ever understood endtime
prophecy.

That’s hysterically throwing the baby out with the bathwater
and proving that too many have built their whole “house” upon a
man rather than the WORD OF GOD. Mr. Rupert knew, taught and
observed the biblical Sabbath, festivals, dietary laws and our
Israelite identity, and prophesied of the great apostacy, long
before God’s apostle was sent to take these already revealed
truths to the world in a BIG WAY, as prophesied, laying the
foundation (like Mr. Rupert did for him) for the TWO
WITNESSES who will finish the Work. Mr. Armstrong
finished the Work God gave for him to do. It’s time to go
forward, to look ahead, and continue to let God’s Word correct
and improve our understanding.

I thank God for His apostle Her
bert W. Armstrong and give tremendous credit to the man,
but my life and beliefs are based on the WORD OF GOD that
remains alive and lasts forever, and it has the last say on
every subject.

Mr. Armstrong was given the gift of inspired understanding, but
he was not a prophet or he wouldn’t have made a single mistake!
As Chanah wisely notes, if we say, against his own words, he was
a prophet, then you’re making him out to be a false prophet, and
I certainly don’t think that’s your intention.

Your intention, I believe is to honor God and His servant, but
we’re to give credit due where credit is due - nothing more or
less. Mr. Armstrong isn’t anybody less because he wasn’t a
biblical prophet - and prophets are sent to the NATIONS
with strong messages, not pretty platitudes appropriate for the
times. Mr. Armstrong wrote of the time coming when the PLAIN
TRUTH would drop like a BOMBSHELL about the origins
of traditional Christianity.

That time has come! No more black tie dinners and diplomatic,
refined and harmless speech, now it’s time to tell it like it
is, drop all pretense and ROAR GOD’S FINAL WARNING TO THIS
WORLD! We won’t merely say, as was appropriate at that time,
“A Strong Unseen Hand from Someplace” will save us, we’ll herald
the coming of the King of the Jews, the King of Israel, who will
rule with a ROD OF IRON and knock some sense into the
heads of state! He will smash all opposition! He will liberate
Jerusalem and reign as King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

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Babylon: Europe’s Rise and Fall

For those of you who have entered into a true Spirit-filled, surrendered walk with the Lord where God and Jesus are now leading and directing your life in the direction They want it to go in - one of the first things that you will find happening to you is that God will start to prune out the people that He does not want in your life and start to bring in the people that He does want in.

As you will see in the Scripture verses listed below - the Bible tells us to choose our friends carefully, that he who walks with wise people will become wise himself but that he who keeps company with fools will he himself be destroyed. The Bible tells us that we not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers and that we are to stay away from people who cause divisions and offenses and to withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly.

This does not mean that we cannot “work” with the lost, the downtrodden and the people who need to find God and His message of salvation. When Jesus came to our earth in the flesh - He always went after the sinners and outcasts. But when Jesus went after these sinners - it was always for the purpose of getting them saved and cleaned up.

Jesus did not chase after everyone. He ripped on the Pharisees and many of the high-ranking Jewish leaders. Some people are open to be helped - others are not. The Bible tells us to stay away from “dogs” and beware of people who are “evil workers.”

The first thing God will do with your life is to start to set some boundaries. He will now decide the path that you will now follow in Him. He will be leading you into the jobs He wants you to have. If you are single and not married yet - He will lead you to the mate that He wants you to marry if it is in His will for your life that you get married.

And once the boundary lines start to go up - one of the first things that God will start to do is decide who is going to come into those boundary lines and who will be going out. In other words - God will be deciding who your true friends are going to be and who will not.

The main reason God will be helping you in choosing who your true friends are going to be is because His ultimate aim for you while living down here on earth is to “transform” and “sanctify” you. In other words - He wants you to “spiritually grow up.”

The Bible tells us that we are transformed by the “renewing of our minds” and God’s ultimate aim for us is our sanctification - where He starts to begin to make us to become more holy like Himself.

The reason God will start to take out the friends in your life that He does not want you to have is because some of those people may be negative influences in your life. They may not be open to “growing in God” like you are and all they will do is try and hold you back when you start your own spiritual growth in the Lord. They will start criticizing and making fun of you and all they will end up doing is stunting your growth in the Lord.

God will not put up with this and He will thus be taking these bad influences out of your life very early on once you enter into this surrendered walk with Him. For those of you who are married and have children - it is the same thing when you do not want your children hanging out with other children who you know would be a bad and negative influence on your child.

You know that if your children start hanging out with the wrong crowd - that they can become very easily corrupted in a very short period of time. As a result, you will become very protective on who your children will be choosing to be their friends once they become old enough to start choosing who their playmates are going to be.
It is the exact same way with God the Father! That is why God will be moving to take out these negative influences very early on in your walk with Him. Once that starts to happen - you have to go with the program or you could cause God to start pulling back on you. And once that starts to happen - you will start to “backslide” and everything could start to shut down.

If you allow God to prune out the people that He does not want in your life - then what He will start to do is to bring in the people that He does want you to be friends with. I call these types of friends “God friends.” These will be other Godly, Spirit-filled Christians who are truly walking in good stead with the Lord and they will now be the people that you will be able to share your walk with!

As you will see in the Scripture verses listed below - you will need other Christian friends to help you grow in the Lord. The Bible tells us that we only “know in part.” No one has all the answers. By sharing your walk with other good solid Christian friends - you can each help each other out in your pursuit of the knowledge and ways of God.

You will know some things about God they may not know and they will know some things that you may not know. You thus are able to contribute to each other’s storehouse of knowledge.

One of the verses listed below state that two friends can sharpen each other up like “iron sharpens iron.” Just like one piece of iron can make the other piece of iron extremely sharp by rubbing up against it - two solid Christian friends can have the same type of affect on one another by sharing their own personal walks in the Lord with one other.

By having other solid Christian friends to share your journey with - you will literally accelerate your growth and development in God because you will have more than one source in which to feed and learn from. You will be learning about God from your own personal adventures with Him - but you will also be learning more about God from your other friends’ personal journey with Him.

How many of these types of God friends can you expect God to bring in? Only God will be able to answer that for each and every one of you. Some may only get one or two to start off with - others may get 5 or 10. Let God make the decision as to how many and when they will be brought into your life.

What I have learned is that it is not the quantity or amount that comes in - but it is the quality. You are much better off having just one or two good, solid quality friends as versus 10 or 15 that are not as good quality as the one or two may be.

Every Christian is operating at different levels of spiritual development with the Lord. God knows best who would be best suited for you at the level that you are currently operating at with Him. When God does bring in these types of special God friends to share your journey with - they are real treasures. These God friendships will be Anointed by God Himself due to the “feedings” that will occur in them.

Sadly, what you will find out very early on, is just because someone may be a saved and born again Christian does not mean that this person has his or her “act” together in God. Some have become too judgmental and too critical in their walks with the Lord. Some have become arrogant and pompous - thinking that they have all the answers to everything. They will tend to look down on anyone else that is not operating at the knowledge levels that they are operating at.

Some have become so flakey in their walks with the Lord - that they have lost touch with reality and you won’t be able to “connect” with any of them. God knows best as to who will be best suited for you - so let Him guide you to the ones that He wants you to connect up with.

I have seen God do this so many times for others - that I literally consider it a miraculous piece of work - especially as to how He gets you to meet some of these people in the first place. Some of these “chess moves” are quite incredible as most of these people will be total strangers to you until God moves to match the two of you up.

The other thing that could occur besides God matching you up with total strangers is that He may move on someone else you know - but that you are not particular good friends with. That person gets saved and “plugged in” - and then he or she finds out that you too are saved and plugged in - and now a good God friendship starts to build up as you now have something in common with one another to start to build a good solid friendship with.

This could be another member in your family, someone that you may work with, a friend who you may have known from your past, someone you may see at church from time to time but never really talked with or someone you may meet on the internet through a chat room. The possibilities are endless as to where these people may come from.

These God friends can come from anywhere and at anytime - so keep your radars up - as you never know when God may move to bring one of them into your life.

Now I’ll go to the actual Scripture verses confirming all of the above for you.

The Scripture Verses

1. Choose Your Friends Carefully

This first verse specifically tells us to choose our friends carefully! Here it is:

“The righteous should choose his friends carefully for the way of the wicked leads them astray.” (Proverbs 12:26)

2. Benefits of Choosing Good God Friends

Here are some very interesting verses showing you why God does want you to have other good friends in which to share your walk with.

Here are 6 really good verses showing you that there is safety in the multitude of counselors, that plans go awry without other people to hash things out with, that “war” is waged by wise counsel with others, that learning is increased by listening to wise counsel and that if you cease to listen to wise counsel that you will start to stray from being able to acquire more knowledge in God.

• “Where there is no counsel, the people fail; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.” (Proverbs 11:14)
  
• “A wise man is strong, yes, a man of knowledge increases strength; for by wise counsel you will wage your own war, and in a multitude of counselors there is safety.” (Proverbs 24:5)
  
• “Every purpose is established by counsel; by wise counsel wage war.” (Proverbs 20:18)
  
• “Without counsel, plans go awry, but in the multitude of counselorsthey are established.” (Proverbs 15:22)
  
• “Listen to and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter days.” (Proverbs 19:20)
  
• “Cease listening to instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.” (Proverbs 19:2)

3. As Iron Sharpens Iron

This next verse is extremely fascinating as it tells us that two friends can sharpen each other up as iron sharpens iron. A true God friend can help keep you sharp in the Spirit, let you know when you are getting too far off track, help you get through and make sense of some of the downswings that can occur in your walk, confirm and help bear witness when you are on the right track, give you pep talks when needed and help keep you in the game when you start to get too mad and too frustrated when things do not go your way.

You each serve to help keep each other “up” in the Lord so you both can continue to stay on the straight and narrow road that God has you set on. You can also help each other out if one starts to be tempted to do something they should not be engaging in. Here is the verse:

“As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.” (Proverbs 27:17)

4. Do Not Be Unequally Yoked with Unbelievers

These next set of verses tells us not to be yoked together with unbelievers, foolish men, “dogs”, evil workers, those who are disorderly, reckless, contentious, always causing trouble and strife, etc.

There is one verse in particular that specifically tells us that “evil company corrupts good habits.” This verse perfectly shows what can happen to any of your children if they start hanging out with the wrong type of people.

Here are 7 good verses showing us to stay on our side of the fence and to stay away from the bad apples who have no desire for God or anything that He stands for.

• “Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement has the Temple of God with idols? For you are the Temple of the living God.” (2 Corinthians 6:14)
  
• “He who walks with wise men will be wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.” (Proverbs 13:20)
  
• “A scoffer seeks wisdom and does not find it, but knowledge is easy to him who understands. Go from the presence of a foolish man, when you do not perceive in him the lips of knowledge.” (Proverbs 14:6)
  
• “Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers …” (Philippians 3:2)
  
• “But we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which you have received from us.” (2 Thessalonians 3:6)
  
• “Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you have learned, and avoid them. For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple.” (Romans 16:17)
  
• “Do not be deceived: “Evil Company corrupts good habits.” Awake to righteousness, and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God.” (1 Corinthians 15:33)

Conclusion

Just as God saw fit to create Eve for Adam in the Garden of Eden when He first created the first man - God still places an extremely high value on personal friendships and He will make sure to lead the right people and the right number of people in your life so that you can each help each other out to go farther and fly higher in the Lord.

When Jesus first started to send the 12 apostles out to walk with His Anointing - He would send them out “two by two.”
Once you enter into a real supernatural walk with the Lord - you will go “nuts” if you do not have someone to share your walk with. There are simply too many God things that will start to happen in your life and you will need someone to talk with, to vent with, to share with, to learn from one another and to help keep each other on track.

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