THOUGH NONE GO WITH ME

The more and more I study the scriptures the less and less I find myself looking for Christ to set up a physical kingdom on this earth.  But the more and more I read the writings of other Christians, even those who claim to have “come out of Babylon”, the more I see of this same looking forward to a physical kingdom, a kingdom to be set up on this earth, in which the spiritually mature (“the elect”) will come forth in “the first resurrection” and “rule and reign with Christ for a thousand years”.

How is it that those of us who know that the Jews did not recognize their Messiah because they were looking for an earthly king to rule over an earthly kingdom, who believe that Jesus Christ IS THE MESSIAH and that HE IS, even now, RULING AS KING over a SPIRITUAL Kingdom (WITHIN)… are (not unlike the Jews, but very much like them) still looking for a physical kingdom to be established on this earth, just as are the Jews?

I have read the wonderful writings of so many brothers and sisters in Christ who believe, as I do, in the salvation of all men and nearly every one of them is looking for a physical kingdom in which to rule and reign with Christ during “the millennium”. They look forward to coming forth in “the first resurrection” and speak of the judgment which is to follow “the second resurrection” at the end of “the millennium” – though they are not counting the resurrection of Jesus when it comes to “the first resurrection” and nowhere in the entirety of scripture can one find the words “the second resurrection”. Not that I do not understand, as I was once looking for the same. But no more!

There is so much that I see differently now from when I first came to believe in the salvation of all men that I have to ask myself: “What makes me think that I am the one who is seeing these things correctly, especially when so many others are in agreement and I am in the minority?” But then I, like they, are also in the minority when it comes to believing God for the salvation “of the world” and not just for a small or limited portion of it. So what does truth have to do with the number of people who might (or might not) believe something? Especially when “many are called but few are chosen” and “few there be that find” the straight gate and the narrow way that leads to life?

So while I may think that those who disagree with me have not gone “far enough” to understand spiritual truths, they might think I have gone “too far” and am looking at things “too spiritually”. And, indeed, I am not unfamiliar with the accusation. I have even been accused of “Gnosticism” – though I do not know what it is they think I have in common with the Gnostics.

Truly, even those accused of “heresy” themselves by Orthodoxy can be quick to throw that same accusation around themselves when they come up against those with whom they disagree, even their fellow Unorthodox Christians. I guess you can be “too Unorthodox!!” And though I suppose you can be (anything is possible), how does one go about reconciling the differences that they have with others while still being true to the Lord? For we ALL believe as we do because we believe that our beliefs are founded in the Truth, don’t we? I sure hope so!!

Granted, there are some who rely on the teaching of others rather than searching these things out for themselves, but what happens when that is not the case at all? What happens when we think we have “left Babylon” only to find ourselves disagreeing with others, who claim to have done the same, over different things? Not just arguing over the doctrine of “eternal torment” but over what and where the Kingdom of God is? What (or Who) the resurrection of the dead is? Even over the number of resurrections there will be? Over what is meant to be understood “spiritually” and what is meant to be taken “literally”? How do we deal with all of these differences… when we are all claiming to be “spiritually minded” and we all believe that we are hearing from the Lord and being lead by the Spirit?

Surely we cannot deny that the Lord will answer a prophet according to the many idols of his heart and even send us strong delusion that we might believe a lie, but the existence of those differences do not, in and of themselves, prove “strong delusion” or even the existence of “idols”, do they? And even if they do how are we to know “who is the one with the idol(s)”?

We can also not deny that many claiming to hear from Lord or to have a word from the Lord have not actually heard from the Lord at all. So how are we to know the difference, except by the power of the Holy Spirit? And once we have heard from the Lord do we not recognize His voice and know when He is speaking and when He is not? Perhaps not always, but I do believe that the more we hear from the Lord the better we are able to discern His voice and differentiate it from all other voices. We may also know when He is being silent and we are being required to “wait in the Lord”. Let us then wait!

But how then should we handle our differences? If I feel the Lord is telling me one thing and someone else feels the Lord is telling them something different, what am I to do? What should any of us do?  Should we doubt them? Should we doubt ourselves? Perhaps we are both wrong, all wrong? And what if we are the only one standing on the side of the argument on which we stand! Then what?

Some may think that the answer to this question is easy… if you are the only one who sees something – or if very few others see as you do – it is most likely you who is not standing in the truth. But, while I think that is certainly possible, I don’t necessarily think that it is always going to be the case. And should we not being willing to stand on the truth, even if we stand alone? For, if we are standing on the Truth are we ever really standing alone?

Are you willing to stand up for what you believe, even if your only witness is Him who cannot be seen standing with you? I am!

That being said, my initial answer to my question was actually going to be: “This is a hard question to answer.” But as soon as I typed those words I knew they were not true; that, for me, there could be only one answer: “Let God be true, but every man a liar.” And as soon as those words came to me I immediately thought of the title of a movie that I saw some time back: “Though none go with me”.

I knew of the hymn but thought it was base on a passage of scripture (and maybe it is) but I could not find it. But in searching for it, I came across this blog. It mentions not only the movie but the book on which the movie was based. It contains a brief excerpt from the book and it is worth reading – even as the blog itself is worth reading. As it is so true… that we do not always know what we are getting ourselves into when we pray for a deeper relationship with the Lord. Nor do we know how or when He will answer that prayer or what it might mean to us in the way of our suffering with Christ… nor that it might mean that we will have to say: “Though none go with me, still I will follow!”

So while I venture to always have an open mind, I know that neither I nor any of us will ever be convinced of an error apart from the Lord revealing that error to us. And I’d rather stand firm in an error that I believe is the truth, something that came from the Lord, than to go around always doubting myself or being unsure of what I believe or what I should believe or why. I have seen people like that and I think that must be what it means to be “lukewarm”.

So while I will ALWAYS recognize that “I could be wrong” (as I have been wrong about MANY things in the past and do not claim to now have “all truth” just because I have let those “many” things go) I will also ALWAYS place my trust in God rather than man. And unless or until God tells me that I am seeing amiss and opens my eyes and ears to a new/different understanding, I am going to stand firm in that which I currently believe. (And this correction may come though other men, so please no one think I am saying otherwise…. I have gotten many a revelation through the body of Christ… and sometimes the person through whom it comes doesn’t even know it and can’t even see it themselves, but still it is given – because it comes from God through the Spirit.)

I don’t believe that God shines the Light of Truth on us all at once. How could He? How could we survive that? That is why we must grow and mature… starting out as babes, seeking the sincere milk of the word… until we are able to partake of solid food… and eventually the meat that has been prepared for us… which is provided “in due season”.

So, to those who might not see things as I do, I say: Let’s not let our differences cause us to forget that we are all a part of the same body, the body of Christ. Let us not allow our differences to cause division in the body. Let not the eye say to the hand “I have no need of you”.  Let us always remember that we should not be “forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is”.

Let us continue to “reason together” until “we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.”

All Blessings in Christ!

THE HEAD OF EVERY MAN IS CHRIST

Most of us may recognize the title of this study from Paul’s first letter to the church at Corinth, but how many of us actually pay enough attention to “the order” of the words that we actually understand what Paul was saying?

Let’s check it out:

1Co 11:3  But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

Most do not seem to notice that Paul does not “order” the words in such a way as to say that proper “headship” begins with women at the bottom and ends with God on top, putting God over Christ, Christ over men and men over women. NO!

Paul says, here, that “the head” of EVERY MAN is CHRIST; and “the head” of THE WOMAN (singular) is THE MAN (singular); and “the head” of CHRIST is GOD.

Many will use this passage of scripture to keep women in a subordinate position to men in the church, even use it to subordinate wives to their own husbands in the family unit. But this was never Paul’s intention. It is about CHRIST (THE MAN) and THE CHURCH (THE WOMAN, a MANY-MEMBERED BODY).

Paul made this clear in his letter to the church at Ephesus, though that is another passage that is used, incorrectly, to subordinate women – even with their own husbands.

Eph 5:17-33 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Brothers and sisters, can we not see that we are to “submit to one another” (v21), that Paul is, here, using the husband/wife relationship to teach us about “Christ and the church” (v32)? And he is not advocating that women/wives are to be subordinate to or considered in anyway inferior to men or even their own husbands?

Paul is oftentimes used to subordinate women to men, even wives to their own husbands. Despite the fact that Paul commends several women throughout his epistles, referring to them as “co-laborers” and even “deacons” people read Paul’s words to Timothy about not suffering a woman to teach, nor usurp authority over the man, that they just run with it, drawing all of the wrong conclusions, thinking that Adam and Eve are being used to support the subordination of the wife to the husband rather than realize that Adam and Eve (the husband/wife relationship) were understood (and used) by Paul as figures of “Christ and the church”, which is why Paul says of “Eve”: “Notwithstanding SHE shall be saved in childbearing IF THEY continue in faith”.

1Ti 2:11-15 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

Brothers and sisters in Christ, when it comes to “the church”, to “the body of Christ”, we all (every one of us, regardless of gender) are part of “EVE” (“a woman”). We are not THE HEAD, the head IS CHRIST. And Christ is the head OF EVERY MAN.

The “woman” that Paul suffers “not to teach” is not “a woman” after a carnal truth, but after a spiritual one, that has nothing to do with how we see people “after the flesh”. We are to know no man after the flesh. (2 Cor 5:16)

A “woman” is the spiritual equivalent to “a child”, even “a babe”. Paul is, here, talking about those who are spiritually immature, those who have yet to be “delivered of the child” who are, themselves, still in need of one to teach them.

Heb 5:12-14 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

Jesus spoke of these same things himself when he told his disciples (all male) that they would be as “a woman” whose hour has come “to be delivered of the child”.

Joh 16:19-28 Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do ye enquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me? Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you. And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.

Paul speaks of his own “travail in birth”:

1Co 13:11  When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Something that he went through “again” with others whom he referred to as “my little children”, as he waited for Christ to be formed in them:

Gal 4:19  My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

You see, brothers and sisters, it is all about “Christ in you”. That is “the hope of glory”. And it is not until we have been “delivered of the child” by having Christ formed in us that we are able to teach others. For until that time comes the word of God cannot come “out of” us. It can come “unto” us only. And until that time comes Paul says: “Let your women keep silence in the churches” (for God is not the author of confusion):

1Co 14:33-40  For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church. What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only? If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord. But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues. Let all things be done decently and in order.

We are “to learn” in silence and all subjection; we are not to be “ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”

2Ti 3:1-7 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Paul is not subordinating women to men. These “women” are not “women” according to the flesh. Scripture says that when the Lord pours out His Spirit: “your sons and your daughters shall prophesy” and prophesy is for the edification of the church. And Paul said: “… ye may ALL prophesy one by one…”
The Lord likens the spiritually immature to “babes” to “children” to “women”:

Isa 3:4-5,12 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable…. As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

And it is ‘these’ to whom Paul refers.

So, then, let ~YOUR WOMEN~ keep silence in the churches for it is not permitted ~UNTO THEM~ to speak.  :o)

ALL FLESH is commanded to be SILENT!

Zec 2:13  Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.

The only one who should be speaking IN THE CHURCH is ~THE MAN~ who is ~THE HEAD~ which is Jesus Christ.

The head of EVERY MAN (the many-membered body of Christ) is CHRIST; the head of THE WOMAN (the church) is THE MAN (Christ) and the head of CHRIST is GOD.

This was sort of a revisit to my “Was Paul a misogynist?” study, but I thought it was worth going over again and bringing in 1 Cor  11:3 which I did not discuss as part of that study.

All Blessings in Christ!
Christine

HE HATH MADE HIM TO BE SIN FOR US

According to scriptures, Jesus was made sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

2Co 5:21  For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

How was Jesus “made sin” for us? Was it because “forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same”? (Heb 2:14) Was it because he was “made of a woman”? (Gal 4:4)

Or was it because He was put to death by being hanged on a tree?

Mat 27:35  And they crucified him, ….

Because “he that is hanged is accursed of God”:

Deu 21:22-23 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God); that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

Paul refers to this in his letter to the Galatians:

Gal 3:13  Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

By being hanged on a tree, Jesus became cursed under the law. He also became “guilty of all”:

Jam 2:10  For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, HE IS GUILTY OF ALL.

He that knew no sin was “made sin” for us “that we might be made the righteousness of God in him”. By His stripes we are healed. (1 Pet 2:24) “Christ hath redeemed us from the law, being made a curse for us”.  He “abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain (Jew and Gentile) one new man, so making peace”. (Eph 2:13-22) That “they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him that died for them and rose again”:

2Co 5:15-21 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

All Blessings in Christ,
Christine

The Second Coming of Christ

I’ve been hearing lots of talk lately about “the second coming” of Christ.

Some believe that this is a second physical manifestation of Christ on earth that has yet to take place. 

Others seem to believe that this second coming was fulfilled in 70AD at the time of the destruction of the city of Jerusalem. 

So I thought I would just throw together a few passages of scripture that I believe address Christ’s coming “the second time” but seem, to me, to show that neither of the above is the case, but that the Lord IS, WAS and IS TO COME; that salvation takes place from WITHIN, not from without; for CHRIST IN YOU is the hope of glory.

Col 1:27
To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is CHIRST IN YOU, the hope of glory:

Christ comes “the second time” UNTO THEM THAT LOOK FOR HIM:

Heb 9:28
So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and UNTO THEM THAT LOOK FOR HIM ((shall he appear)) THE SECOND TIME ((without sin unto salvation)).

How does He come? As “another comforter”, even THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH:

Joh 14:16-20

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU COMFORTLESS: I WILL COME TO YOU. Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. AT THAT DAY YE SHALL KNOW that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I IN YOU.

And it is WHEN HE IS COME that THE WORLD IS REPROVED of sin, of righteousness and of judgment:

Joh 16:7-16

Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And WHEN HE IS COME, HE WILL REPROVE THE WORLD OF SIN, and OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, and OF JUDGMENT: Of sin, BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE NOT ON ME; Of righteousness, BECAUSE I GO TO MY FATHER, AND YE SEE ME NO MORE; Of judgment, BECAUSE THE PRINCE OF THIS WORD IS JUDGED. I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit WHEN HE, THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, IS COME, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify ME: for he shall receive OF MINE, and shall shew it unto you. ALL THINGS THAT THE FATHER HATH ARE MINE: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you. A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and YE SHALL SEE ME, because I go to the Father.

 

He came first to dwell WITH MEN… now He comes to dwell IN MEN. 

I don’t see that limited to a single event that took place in 70AD, though I can see what happened in 70AD to the temple in Jerusalem and the people of that city as a physical manifestation of the spiritual truth that it points to / reveals – the destruction or tearing down of that which is natural/physical/seen so that all that remains is THE TRUTH, that which is SPIRITUAL / UNSEEN. 

Nor do I see it as a second physical appearance of Christ on earth that has yet to take place.

I see it as the manifestation of the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Truth, the Spirit of Christ WITHIN US, as CHIRST is formed IN THEM THAT BELIEVE. It is the manifestation of THE SONS OF GOD.

It is neither future nor past…. But IS, WAS, and IS TO COME.

Rev 1:8
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which IS, and which WAS, and which IS TO COME, the Almighty.

Bringing LIFE… TO THE DEAD… every man in his own order… (1 Cor 15:22-23)

And though NO MAN KNOWS the day nor the hour, we know perfectly well the times and the seasons… for we know that THAT DAY COMES as a thief IN THE NIGHT.

Mat 24:36
But OF THAT DAY AND HOUR KNOWETH NO MAN, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

1Th 5:1-2

But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves KNOW PERFECTLY that THE DAY OF THE LORD so cometh AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT. 

For HE COMES….. UNTO THEM THAT SLEEP. And those who sleep SLEEP IN THE NIGHT!!

1Th 5:4-10
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. 

But we are not to be OF THE NIGHT, but OF THE DAY, for Christ gave himself as an offering for us, so that we might be CHILDREN OF THE DAY and CHILDREN OF THE RESURRECTION. SO let us AWAKE and ARISE FROM THE DEAD, and Christ shall give us light! Let us walk circumspectly, not as fools, but AS WISE, understanding what the will of the Lord is.

Eph 5:1-17

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them. For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth); Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. 

Knowing that the way of LIFE IS ABOVE TO THE WISE, that he may depart from hell beneath:

Pro 15:24
The way of LIFE IS ABOVE TO THE WISE, that he may DEPART FROM HELL BENEATH.

All Blessings in Christ!!

Christine