Romans 2:11 For there is no respect of persons with God.

A person is a collection of their heart's thoughts, opinions, attitudes, imagination and memories, and through the emotions our spirit is bound in vice like grip by them. Like the Jewish people in Egypt, we're held captive in a land that is not ours.

Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

Sadly most people don't know that they're held captive by their own hearts, because they believe in their own hearts, and they believe that it is who they are. Which is natural because people haven't been taught anything else.

Ecclesiastes 1:9-11 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us. There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

Unfortunately, as the body dies, so must ones character, which includes all memories, attitudes, experiences. That is the second death, and the lake of fire is where we now dwell. In hell. Thankfully, Jesus brought the keys to hell and death.

Job 13:12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

But the spirit lives forever, that third part that is held captive by the other two parts, the body and soul, the clay and the ashes.

Revelation 2:27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.

The above is Jesus in spirit talking to John of Revelation who was in spirit. So Jesus being in spirit, clearly isn't the Father. Regardless, remember who is the clay, and what the pit is we're in, and what must be brought out of it.

Psalm 40:2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

And what brings you out of it? The rock of revelation.

Zechariah 13:8-9 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.  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.

That is about the Father renewing people in spirit, in mind, and the fire, those tribulations, are what we must face if we seek to overcome our evil hearts, which we must be circumcised from in spirit if we wish to be released from prison.

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.

Because the work of the spirit, destroys the works of the soul in us, and the Father's words, circumcises the heart, dividing the spirit asunder from it. Making its mysteries known to the renewed mind, which was formally blind.

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Only the Father can reveal the secrets, which is why it is he that one must turn to first and foremost.

Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Do not respect persons when it concerns these things, because those of the world will only speak of it through their wicked hearts imaginings.

Psalm 44:21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

A heart that people cherish, because again, people are nothing but products of their evil hearts, hearts which the unwitting spirit within thinks it is good for food, and so walks its course.

Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

A course that is conformed to this world, full of the knowledge off good and evil. Polluted and double minded.

1 Corinthians 14:25 And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.

We're unaware of the many devices of the heart that we're held prisoner by, and since it is in that crooked serpent's nature, Satan to deceive, then we are deceive if the secret isn't revealed to us by the Father.

Proverbs 19:21 There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand.

Even worse, we're unaware that the heart within us all is Satan. And as I keep saying, the Old Testament is a shadow of good things to come, but not the very image of.

2 Corinthians 2:11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

The Soul knows what it is, and what it does, and it doesn't want the spirit to know what it really is, and it want people eating from its tree of knowledge of good an evil, and not the tree of life.

Luke 8:11-12 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.

People are not the master of their own hearts, and yet it is the very thing that people trust in the most. Be very wary of people who trust in their own hearts. In fact, have no respect for persons.

John 2:24-25 But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men, And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.

That's not to mean to disrespect people, but learn what is with yourself, controlling you, and then you know what is in all men, controlling them.

Luke 16:15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

We're all children of disobedience, children of wrath. We are all son's of perdition, and we are all men of sin, but none can see, because Satan is in the road, in front of men, instead of behind the spirit within. In short, he exalts himself in all people in the kingdom that is within, proclaiming himself to be God, while working iniquity in us in a mystery.

Proverbs 23:6-8 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee. The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

The heart is deceitful and wicked, who can know it? We don't even know our own hearts, and it would be foolish to trust in the heart of another, so neither eat the food of your own heart, nor that of another's when it concerns the things of the spirit. So in human terms you can have respect people, but when it concerns the spirit, certainly do not.

Luke 14:25-27 And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them, If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

Respect no persons, not even your own understanding when it concerns the things of the spirit, for that knowledge comes from God only. That cross which we all must bare to be crucified on, is our own personality, a creation of the soul, flawed and containing the knowledge of evil which it acts upon. That law of sin within our members, which we express outwardly. People call it ego for the most part. It is quite literally the outward expression of Satan, our own hearts. Get it behind you, since you are the spirit enslaved by it.

2 Thessalonians 2:3-12 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

That wickedness is revealed by the Father, and you'll find that the man of sin is yourself, since before the renewing of the mind, the mind lives wantonly in sin. Something Jesus apostles explained clear enough below.

Romans 7:14-23 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.  For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

So through our hearts we serve the world, and through our spirit we serve God. Good treasure doesn't come from the flesh, it comes from the Father, and knowledge from the spirit pours into the heart, destroying its works within us, and slowly breaking the soul's hold over us.

Psalm 51:9-11 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

Sin isn't eradicated by just a click of the fingers, it is slowly dissolved over a lifetime, as the spirit is regenerated in the knowledge and righteousness from the Father, in Heaven, that comes not with observation, the kingdom that is being taken with violence, within, by the works of Satan. In short, our minds are constantly being plagued our own hearts, and its armies surround Jerusalem, ready to take it by force, and leave it desolate.

Romans 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

And serving the law of sin is what brings a famine over the land, which is your mind. So, a mind needs to be taught to serve the law of God, and it is taught by turning first within to God.

Romans 6:5-7 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin.