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Welcome Again,

I am pleased to be able to be here again for another PathSeeker Weekly. I am more pleased to be able to bring to you a Gospel Message from Jesus Christ on a weekly basis. The very name of Jesus is light in times when hopes dim towards darkness.

I am still continuing with the main focal points within my main scripture reference of:

Romans 12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Now here in part two of this verse “but be transformed by the renewing of your mind” I have going over some of the aspects of the character of Jesus. When ever we take these aspects and the actions of Jesus and apply these things to our daily lives we are becoming transformed to the renewed mind of Christ.

1 Peter 1:16 because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.”

We have probably all heard this verse or some form of before in our lives. But this is one of the many keys of becoming like Christ and to be able to prove what is Gods will for your life. Christ was Holy in all the aspects of His life and it was His will to do the will of His Father. Before I get carried away here I would like for you to see this verse along with the context it was written.

NIV 1 Peter 1:13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. 14 As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. 15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; 16 for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.” 17 Since you call on a Father who judges each man’s work impartially, live your lives as strangers here in reverent fear. 18 For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.

Prepare your mind, v.13, …do not conform, v.14. This text is somewhat similar to the words written down by the apostle Paul in our main reference of Romans 12:2. Being holy is a not only a characteristic of Christ but is also a characteristic of God the Father. In verse 16 of the above text it says “for it is written:” These words were indeed written:

Leviticus 11:44-45 For I am the Lord your God. You shall therefore consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am holy. Neither shall you defile yourselves with any creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
45 For I am the Lord who brings you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
19:2 Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them: You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.
20:7 Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God.

There are even different variations of this also from the words of Jesus and the apostle Paul:

Matthew 5:48 “Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Ephesians 5:1 Therefore be imitators of God as dear children.

Be holy, be perfect, be an imitator these are all commands to be as God. Jesus came and gave us physical example of how it is to be as God. Jesus was tempted of the devil, He was beaten and could have felt as though God had deserted Him. Yet through all He faced He showed us how to be as God. Sure it is true Jesus was the Son of God and could actually do anything but He did not fail in showing us that even though we are human we can imitate Him. He also showed us, because of our inability to be perfect, just exactly what Grace and Forgiveness is all about.

John 8:3 Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, 4 they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. 5 “Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?” 6 This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear. 7 So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.” 8 And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. 9 Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. 10 When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, “Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?” 11 She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.”

Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.” These are words Jesus speaks to every one of us. Jesus knows we all sin and fall short of the glory of God ( Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, ) and if were not for Grace non of us would make the grade. 1 Peter 1:18 tells us that were redeemed (bought for a price) not by silver or gold but by the very blood of Jesus. Jesus has paid the way for us all to be holy with His precious blood. The blood of Jesus has cleansed us from the disease that has been deteriorating our bodies since Adam and Eve sinned in the garden. Kind of like the way chemo-therapy is to remove cancer from a body but only His gift of cleansing cleans your body of all sin and death. We no long have sin within us we are made holy by Grace God has given you.

Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? 3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

Should we continue in sin and just let grace take care of it? Personally I would not want to take the chance. Two questions for example I ask men. Would you want to be sitting in a strip club when Jesus parts the clouds? Do you think He is going to take you with Him after finding you there? If you have know the truth of Jesus and His Grace and have called upon the name of the Lord, then you have been saved. But we are also told to be Holy as He is Holy after we have been saved. After being taught by Jesus with Him telling you that all you have to do is look a woman with lust in your eyes then you have sinned. you know that when Jesus parts the clouds and finds you in a strip cloud you are smack dab in the middle of sin. We are told that no sin will be able to go into Heaven. So if you are in the middle of sin I don’t figure you will go with Him. Then you will probably cry out and say, “what about grace? Grace comes before death, before resurrection. After you have been resurrected with Christ you should be as He is which is, Holy.

Daily we all sin. Even after being reborn with Christ in resurrection. Sin is just in our nature. But we can try to be holy, and this is something really amazing about God is that He knows and gives us a benefit of the doubt. All God wants of you is to strive to be perfect as He is perfect. Strive is to try with desire, desire to be perfect in all you do. Above all strive to be sinless, is what and all God expects.

There are two types of sin: knowingly sin and unknowingly sin. Do the best you can to avoid temptation which leads to knowingly sin. Confess unknowingly sin when it becomes known to you. And one day in judgment of your life you will be as Joshua.

Zechariah 3:1 Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to oppose him. 2 And the LORD said to Satan, “The LORD rebuke you, Satan! The LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is this not a brand plucked from the fire?” 3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the Angel. 4 Then He answered and spoke to those who stood before Him, saying, “Take away the filthy garments from him.” And to him He said, “See, I have removed your iniquity from you, and I will clothe you with rich robes.” 5 And I said, “Let them put a clean turban on his head.” So they put a clean turban on his head, and they put the clothes on him. And the Angel of the LORD stood by. 6 Then the Angel of the LORD admonished Joshua, saying, 7 “Thus says the LORD of hosts: ‘If you will walk in My ways, And if you will keep My command, Then you shall also judge My house, And likewise have charge of My courts; I will give you places to walk Among these who stand here.

In closing I would like to say, that it is my hopes and prayers that all who read this to please take this into account and test these words to the words of God. Allow the Holy Spirit to be your guide in all of your studies of Gods word. And please ask of and always remember, to have Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior

Thank you and God Bless,
Tommy Harmon

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Welcome again to the PathSeeker Weekly

Here at the PathSeeker we are excited to say we are getting more and more visits to our site. The one most exciting aspect to this is the facts we are bringing the Good News Gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the world. Jesus had told all to go out into the world teaching the gospel and this is only our small effort to do so. It is our hopes and prayers that who ever comes here can find Jesus for the first time or be encouraged by the washing of His word.

Romans 12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

I just can’t express enough the message found within this one verse of God’s holy word. Through the processes we have already covered though this makes finding Gods will a little easier. I know there is so much more than what I have already covered in the past. I hoping that with what is yet to come there may be more understanding in finding Gods will within our lives. As an overview avoiding conformation to the world and taking up citizenship in the Kingdom of Heaven instead. By the transforming or renewal of the mind towards the mind of Christ. These two steps are very valuable to prove Gods acceptable and perfect will for our lives. Not just your personal life but the life of the body of Christ, His holy church

As Jesus taught while He was here You must be born again to see the Kingdom of God .

John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

This is one of the things I can not stress enough and is the beginning of finding Gods will. Jesus said u must be born again. By accepting Christ as Lord and Savior is not merely enough. Many people today are deceived into believing they can accept Christ and that is enough. Even from many pulpits here in the Us today this deceptive message is being taught. I am somewhat liberal within the teaching I bring forth but the message I teach is about Gods grace and the gospel of Jesus Christ. The Gospel of Jesus is not a lawful message but is a gospel of grace. Even though it is not difficult to become a part of the Kingdom of God there are still something’s that need to be meet. The action of becoming born again is the beginning of these actions. And becoming born again is a part of the cleansing Christ has offered through His blood He shed as the sacrifice for our sins. Becoming born again is not difficult. That is one of the wonderful things Jesus has enabled as part of His redemption. Becoming born again is a process like Jesus described to Nicodemus.

John 3:5 Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

Becoming born again begins in the spirit. The spirit is driving force which believe it or not has a lot of pull the way the outer flesh part of someone to react. One of the things also not preached from many pulpits concerns the spirit which drives us. In the world today many do not perceive the Holy Spirit of God as a living Spirit. The word spirit and many automatically think Casper the friendly ghost or haunting and so forth, but do not understand the Holy Spirit of God as the a gift Jesus has promised. Many do not understand the spiritual battles fought in the heavenly realms.

Ephesians 6:12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

 It seems any more you mention the word demon and people are ready to hand you a straight Jacket. Spirits are as real as real can be. The spirits of demonic prescience are all still active just as they were when Jesus walked upon the earth. Our enemy, the evil one, has crept inside the church’s of today and within the culture we live. The desensitization of evil is one of the arrows within his arsenal and because of this in today’s western culture the majority of people do not even believe in evil forces.

Titus 3:3 For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, 5 not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Our old spirit was a spirit of the world. A wonderful thing happened, Jesus sent the Holy Spirit just as He had promised.

John 14:16-21 16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever– 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. 19 “A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also. 20 At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. 21 He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”

The spirit inside us accepts the Holy Spirit from the time we accept Jesus into our lives. The Holy comes gives the washing of our sprit and and the renewing of transformation to become citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven . A cleansing takes place that begins to transform and renew the spirit within us. Coupled with the Holy spirit we become transformed into holiness with God.

Why does Jesus tell us we can not see the Kingdom of Heaven unless we are born again?

1 Corinthians 3:11-17 11 For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, 13 each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. 14 If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. 16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17 If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

1 Corinthians 4:5 5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each one’s praise will come from God.

Moses had worn a veil to hide the radiance of the glimpse of Gods glory. Because his face had such a shine from the bright radiance. The text goes to say that not only was the radiance of Moses’ face block by the covering of the veil but also the personal meeting with God even through the reading of the Law of Moses. The law of Moses Is legalistic and does not show all of Gods glory. There was a veil in the tabernacle that prevented everyone from entering within the Holy of Holies which housed the earthly presence of God. As the text says even as the law of Moses was read their minds were still blinded to the fullness of Gods glory which is found In Jesus Christ.

Just as after Jesus drew His last breath upon the cross the veil within the temple was torn and taken away. Through the resurrection of Jesus a new covenant with Jesus as high priest has been established. Still however to this day their is still a veil which covers the heart of those as the Law of Moses is read. Only the saving grace of Christ can remove the veil from the heart, as when one turns to the Lord the veil will taken away.

John 4:24 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Now we know the Lord the is spirit and Jesus in a conversation with the Samaritan woman at the well. With the incoming of the Holy Spirit within your life and the renewing of the sprit inside you, the togetherness with the Lord has become possible. When the Holy Spirit removes the veil all of Gods mercy and grace is shown instead of 

The joining of the spirit inside and the Holy Spirit brings forth the ability to worship in spirit and in truth. The joining of the sprits enable us to see the Kingdom of God through unveiled eyes enabling the opportunity to walk with the Spirit of God

In closing I would like to say, that it is my hopes and prayers that all who read this to please take this into account and test these words to the words of God. Allow the Holy Spirit to be your guide in all of your studies of Gods word. And please ask of and always remember, to have Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior

Thank you and God Bless,
Tommy Harmon

Use this link to read a simple prayer to open your hearts door and let Jesus in.

Please use the comments link below. I would like to hear your remarks to these messages.

*All scripture quotes are from the The New King James Version (NKJV) of the Bible unless otherwise noted

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Welcome Again, to another PathSeeker Weekly.

In the spring of a new year all around you everywhere you look  you can see the evidence of new life beginnings in nature. Trees are full of blooms and new buds of life. During this time of new life and beauty I would like to speak this week of how we are like the trees and are able to be fruitful with the likeness and rebirth of ourselves through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. I am still focused on the ongoing study of:

Romans 12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

By not conforming to the world, you have been given the chance to be transformed through the resurrection with Christ to become children of God and Brothers and Sisters of Christ Himself. Like nature that bears witness to the creation by dying to old growth, we too as Christians have been given the chances to die to our own past old growth and replenished with the new life of Christ. Resurrected and transformed physically and spiritually towards the mind of Christ.

John 15:1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 “Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 “You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. 6 “If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. 8 “By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.

One of the steps of becoming Christ like or acquiring the mind of Christ comes from pruning. Jesus is the true vine, and God the Father is the vinedresser. Jesus allowed God take or prune from Him everything about Him that was unfruitful so He Himself could become even more fruitful and Holy towards God the Father. Jesus was truly connected with God. He was connected in a way that everything He did, He did not do for Himself but for the approval of His Father. As a child He said to His human parents” Luke 2:49I must be about My Father’s business? He said other things all the time like:

• Matthew 11:27 “All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.

• John 6:38 “For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

• Luke 22:42 “…Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done.”

• John 10:30 “I and My Father are one.”

• John 3:35 “The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into His hand.

The entire ministry of Jesus was revolved around connected and bearing fruit for God the Father. All of what He did, He did first to show His love for the Father and second to show His love for His neighbor as Himself. This why He is able to say that: “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.” Just as Jesus was connected to the vine of God we are connected to Him. Like He would be unable to bear fruit without God, we are unable to bear fruit with out Jesus. Because He is connected to the vine of God, we are also connected to God.

God is the vinedresser, the one who prunes away what is dead and useless. He can take and use Christ to be the sprout from which all living and fruitful branches come. When you accept Christ you become connected to the same vine as a branch that has it roots deeply rooted to God the creator of all things. Jesus has taken what God has pruned from you, what is dead and unfruitful, and taken the waste and thrown it into the fire. Jesus has allowed the way for you to be reborn or transformed through resurrection into new life and fresh growth just as nature does during the transition from the death of winter to new life in spring.

Galatians 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Sin is death, it is unfruitful, and it is from roots that come from means other than life. Last week I discussed how Jesus had taken the keys of death and Hades. How through death with Him on the cross you share in His resurrection of new life as a new born again child of God. Now you are a new branch grafted onto the vine of life. All disease and death that has kept you in the dark and unfruitful has been cut, removed and thrown into the fire. Now you take upon yourself the new life force which waters from the springs of life and roots are deeply planted besides these still healing waters. Now you are able to produce fruit that will ripen and produce seed to carry on the very Good News (Gospel) of life with Jesus Christ.

Jesus said “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.” Take Jesus’ words abide (live) in them and what your heart truly desires will be done for you. Take His words, be like Him, do what it is that God wants for you to do. Allow God to take from you what is not right. Become like Christ, be His disciple, learn from Him and let His words guide you towards the path He has for you to travel. “By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.

When Jesus walked and talked here on this earth he had with Him a following of students “Disciples”. They spent their time with Him listening and watching everything He had done. Disciples would here or see a teacher and admire what the Teacher would do or say. The disciples would learn his ways and pattern their lives to be more like the teacher or Rabbi (which means teacher). Disciples would later on be able to teach and spread the words or teachings of the one from which they had learned. The disciples of Jesus had not only learned and could teach what they had learned from Him. They also received the abilities to the wonderful things He had done by allowing Him to become their true hearts desire just as He had come to do the desire of God.  There was still one characteristic the early disciples had that was a characteristic of Christ and is still one of the characteristics of Disciples of Christ today, to bare fruit.

Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

As you abide in Christ, the fruit you bare is fruit of the most flavorful and useful for nourishment. The fruit you bare not only are of use but also bare witness as to whom you have placed all trust. God has pruned or removed from you the desires of the flesh and has given you life from the one true vine of Jesus. Through belief of Jesus as Gods one and only Son and have died to fleshy desires, you have become grafted to the vine with Christ. You are now able to put forth the same fruit as Christ. Fruit that loves, full of joy and peace, from Christ you can withstand longsuffering, show kindness and withstand evil by self-control. Christ is your strength because He waters from the springs of life. You are able to do and withstand troubles because you are connected with Him. You can bare the fruits of the spirit because they come from the root of the vine which is rooted in Christ.

Still there is one thing about fruit that is so wonderful. Inside of fruit is a seed. The fruit you have become is also able to give away itself as a seed. In side you is a seed which has all the characteristics of Christ. Inside you the seed has the life giving force Christ has given to you. You can take this seed and plant it in soil and Christ and the Holy Spirit will nurture this seed into life of another new creation. Jesus wants us to be able to take and go forth and make new disciples. Plant them; feed them nourishment from the Word of God.

Since God has removed and destroyed the dead and dying branches from you. Show the world the vine of life, by your fruits. Drop and scatter seeds throughout the world. Remember these words from Jesus in no matter what situation arises;

“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.”

Thank you and God Bless,
Tommy Harmon

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Please use the comments link below. I would like to hear your remarks to these messages.

*All scripture quotes are from the The New King James Version (NKJV) of the Bible unless otherwise noted