Matthew 6:16 Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

People hunger and thirst to eat the food and drink the from the cup of their souls, because most people love the works of their own hearts. It is who they are, and they walk its course. So where the heart is, that where their treasure is, and their heart is on the world and the world is their reward. People are the products of their own hearts, and the blind spirit within is the consumer.

Revelation 13:16-17 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

We all buy and sell the contents of our own hearts, and since that content makes our minds blind, people can only assume the above is about something of the Earth. Regardless of the fact that the words in revelations, are words about things being revealed. And so with all our worldly buying and selling of contents, the things of the spirit are sealed, and yet to be revealed, by that rock whom all are called out of the world and chosen with. (Ecclesia)

Matthew 16:17-19 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; (On this rock, of revelation are people called out by the Father, and that's what Jesus was sent into the Earth to do) and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. (Because the knowledge from God helps fight against the wiles and lusts of the soul) And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: (Revelation gives people the true spiritual knowledge) and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. (The truth will set people free)

Revelation, which comes not by flesh and blood, but by the spirit of God. Religion comes by flesh and blood, and the knowledge of men.

Deuteronomy 32:31-34 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: (Remember wormwood, that star that made a third part of the waters bitter, meaning the spirit, that third part of man) Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?

And so here was are held captive by the wisdom of this world, the wisdom of Solomon, which turns us away from God, and thus we are held captive by our hearts knowledge of good and evil. For we have made that our rock, and not the Father's revelations, we don't seek God in the spirit within, we instead seek the knowledge of man.

Revelation 1:18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

Why did Jesus talk about overcoming this world on numerous occasions?

John 7:7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

Granted many people claim to love Jesus, but they love the idea of Jesus, meaning they love the idea of being sinful, not changing, not helping people and doing no works in the spirit, and think just because they have been educated to believe on a name, that they will be saved, blindly following the the traditions and doctrines of men. They do however hate what he taught, because that would mean that they are wrong.

Matthew 15:8-11 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

Meaning to say, all that is in the world will go onto your hearts, adding to its already great knowledge of good and evil. Problem is people allow that evil to come out of their hearts, and rule over the spirit. So if you have the leaven of doctrine in you, and then you go out into the world to sell it to people, it is your own works that condemns you. Your own hearts, which lack the knowledge of truth.

1 John 3:19-21 And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.

Unfortunately, people's confidence is in their own wisdom of the world, and of their own hearts, and so by the works of their own hands are all people condemned.

Jeremiah 1:16 And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

They have put the knowledge of their own hearts and imaginations above that of God, a God that they do not know, or believe in, hence why people seek man and his knowledge for these things in vain. Well they do to love the idea of Jesus, but because of the nature of their hearts, they turn away from the truth and listen to fables.

2 Timothy 4:3-4 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

To be blunt, people only listen to and follow what they want to believe. For example if you are of the alternative right, you have your leaders and beliefs that people seek after, having itching ears, willing to listen, follow and fight for these men who proclaim themselves to be wise, even though for the most part their ideas are foolishness, obnoxious and are of a bullying and contentious nature. Their idea of being outspoken is to be insulting.

Job 5:13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward (Contrary) is carried headlong.

And if you're of the Far Left the same is true, for these people seem to think they know what is best for all people, but lacking the main ingredient of forgiveness, they become more harsher in spirit than those they condemn.

Proverbs 6:14 Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.

But both have one thing in common, and that is the fact that they're both ruled by their own hearts, and the heart will lean to what it is most used to, to what it lusts after. Like with any addiction, patterns are hard to break. However, that is an example, we are all addicted to our hearts, and we have unwittingly made it our Father, a father that seeks not peace, but to have all war with their brethren.

John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Even worse we worship his other children of disobedience, for it is they who he works within and through. So, we need to turn to the Father in spirit, to be quickened in spirit, turning us away (Repenting) from the evil works and lusts of our own hearts, towards the Father within, and his knowledge of righteousness, where we'll be given the keys to the kingdom.

Ephesians 2:1-3 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

Our own hearts make us filthy, with its unclean food that we eat, and so must be made clean. Like how Jesus made the leper clean, when he came into the flesh as the word made flesh. Now we must use God's word from the spirit to make our spirit clean, so that on its last day in the flesh it is resurrected back into Heaven.

John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Overcoming this world and receiving the keys to hell and death from Jesus should be the aim. Those keys are the Morning Star, the Day Star that arises in our hearts, that gives us confidence in God, the spiritually trans-formative knowledge from God, his words of truth.

Revelation 2:28 And I will give him the morning star.

Revelation, his Grace, the Hidden Manna, Eating from the Tree of life, the Rod of Iron, that enables you to shatter through all delusions of this world, and know the ultimate truth. In short, you'll have truth faith, and not the feigned faith witnessed in this world by the religious and those that call themselves spiritual.

1 Peter 1:21-23 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; (The glory is a restored spirit, fit for Heaven) that your faith and hope might be in God. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth (Since the soul works for it own lusts of the world, it needs to be made clean) through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

People seem to be counting on things working backwards, in hoping to receive something they haven't even bothered to look for, such is their love for this world. 

John 12:25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

Now listen closely, a shadow of good things to come, but not the very image of.

Nehemiah 4:20-22 In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us. So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared. Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day.

But first, know what the labour is. Turn to the Father and ask, and then receive in the place of peace, which is the spirit (Jerusalem). Since only through him can we purified our naturally corrupt souls. And when the Day Star arises in our hearts, which is the source of this knowledge, that will then help keep the spirit pure and uncorrupted, since the seed of this world corrupts it to begin with. If we turn to him in full faith he will fight for us, helping us through the tribulations, because the soul will fight back, make no mistake about it, with its armies it will seek to make the spirit desolate and turn it away from God, back into the cares of this life. So keep watch lest you are defiled by what comes out of your hearts, and spread your understanding given from God, which purifies it. Again, understanding is given and added, nor not worked out with your hearts.

Revelation 3:21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

Who is talking to you, the spirit or the flesh, within which lays your hearts whisperings to your mind, which is spirit, which the heart is enmity with, continuously. Causing people to follow after the hearts lusts which are of the world. That which people think they're are is what they must overcome.

Revelation 2:11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches (Those called out by God, not the physical church) He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.

Welcome to the special place. The actual place of judgement, the Lake of fire, the second death, where the spirit of man is refined like silver, and slowly over time, purified. That third part of man, the first two being the body and soul.

Matthew 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

All in accord with the Father's good news, brought to the Earth (Hell) by Jesus, who has the keys to our release.

Zechariah 13:9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.

You get the point right? You refine silver in the fire of a furnace.

Isaiah 48:10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

Aka, called them out of this world. Which the religious authority ruling this world corrupted the meaning of with the world Church, and thus shutting the door to the kingdom for those that truly sought it.

2 Chronicles 6:26-27 When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, (Heaven, which is within) and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them; Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.

But because no one truly seeks it anyway because of religious doctrine and the wisdom of this world, the people haven't receive revelations, and the knowledge of the kingdom of Heaven and its righteousness hasn't rained upon the spirit of man, and the land remains barren, and thus nothing has grown for anyone to inherit. The land has dried up, because there is no rain, and there is no sower to sow, and no seed to grow.

Matthew 23:13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

And partly because of the above, there is a famine in the world of the true the knowledge of God, because like locusts, the religious authorities and their children eat all of the good food of the land for themselves. They steal it from the people, and the people hunger for the words of truth, but none have it.

Matthew 23:15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. 

Just where is Jesus saying hell is, if one is to overcome this world? The devil is in the details. Also Jewish people don't go around the world converting people, so he was talking about all religions, using the religious authority of his day as the vehicle to communicate that. aka as a parable. Jewish people don't come in his name saying that 'I am Christ', and deceive many do they now.?

Matthew 24:5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; (Christian) and shall deceive many.

Nor do they claim to follow in the way of a false prophet who claimed to be the last, who seemingly was more focused on only earthly lusts like uniting earthly tribes under one God, by force, all the while saying peace, peace, but there was no peace, but sudden destruction. Certain people like to meditate terror in the name of their God. Which is man's own heart and lusts, and such do many abominable things to their own kind even.

Isaiah 33:18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?

The Christian and Islamic fascination with Israel is almost funny, since Israel is similitude for Heaven in the spirit and Jerusalem is the spirit, that place of peace that people neglect to turn to.

Hosea 12:10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.

Unfortunately, they missed the whole the Kingdom of Heaven is within thing, and that Jesus words were about the spirit and the life, and that the flesh profits nothing. Now can you see how there is a famine in the land, that land being the spirit? There is no comfort in the flesh, only death.

John 15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

Some people even become atheists as an escape from the burdensome locusts, all the while others continue on in their strong delusions, promoting their lies as truth, professing their love for God and Jesus, all the while acting wickedly, and supporting political policies that harm the people, in short spreading pestilence throughout the land, within and without.

2 Chronicles 7:13-14 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

It is very easy to quote scripture, but behind most the words are empty, the law of the Father is not written in their hearts, and they follow their own law. A mind that is on the Father, does his laws, and his law is one, and that law is to 'Do good' and as written on that law hangs all of the 'Law and the Prophets'

Luke 3:4-6 As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.

Here the desire of one should be the desire of all, and that is that all flesh shall see salvation. That is what the Law and the Prophets were built upon. Rest assured that the Father's will, will be done, for he sent the Lord God into the flesh as Jesus to do just that. As I've said before, he was crooked and now he has been made straight, and so must we be.

Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.

Jesus had to suffer in the flesh because of it, but we must also suffer in the spirit, and face many tribulations here, which we must resist with the help of the Father, all the while we sing the song of salvation for all. Meaning to say, to preach the Gospel, the good news, and the news is only good.

Isaiah 7:15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

If it is not, then you should know the fruit, and if you don't, you'll be eating the bitterness of that fruit.

Matthew 5:26 Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.

Which will only prolong your stay here, until you are made straight, like how Jesus was.

Isaiah 26:1-3 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

This Earth the furnace of affliction, the place of earthly tribulations. Hell, in short. Where some are redeemed (Chosen) out of before the end, or if not, will be at the fullness of the gentiles or the fullness of the generations. It is not eternal or everlasting as most have been lead to believe. Again, they're keys to release from hell and death. Now, if people don't realise what this place really is, how are they're hoping to be released? Turn to the father within, and in turn, he'll turn to you, drawing yourself to him.

Isaiah 1:25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:

Hell is a place of the purification of the spirit. Not eternal torment, which is a deliberate corruption in the Bible into scaring people into worship not God, but their religious authority on the Earth. Is that the Good News? God's will is that all people see salvation remember.

2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

So you can know his will by simply knowing the difference between good and bad, but don't forget only God is good, so turning to him, seeking after his righteousness, will slowly renew your mind, and transform you into something that is good also. Unless you expect the words of man about God to make you perfect, in which, like all, will fail, as you've with many members and leaders of religion, even til this day.

Matthew 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Who best to teach you righteousness, but the Father himself. It is he that anoints with the truth of the spirit, not man of the flesh. Again, remember the reason for the crucifixion (Death of the flesh) and the resurrection. (Rising of the Spirit)

Matthew 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

It's okay being good on the outside, but to be good within, is to desire having righteous thoughts towards all people, at all times, no one better than the next. And only being ruled by righteousness ones deeds would be in line with the, Father's will. We have to build the 'I and the Father are one' relationship, instead of worshipping a name in vain.

Jeremiah 16:12 And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:

Currently we are at one with the world, the flesh and the soul, walking the course of the world as the children of wrath. Hence the need to overcome the world itself, lest we are consumed by it again. We do that by entering into the spirit, so that we can receive instruction from God, who is a spirit. Like attracting like.