The journey

John 8:31-32 So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

As I continue to Branch out and learn more and more about the Bible and the misinterpretation of many words and the infiltration of religion that has come from it it really has caused me to really think hard about everything that I read.

I am learning truths that are coming from the real interpretations of the words and not from religious leaders preaching and their interpretations. The last year and a half I have been doing a lot of my own research and researching what I’ve been listening to.  Making sure that I’m not getting a false teaching.  You have to be so careful even strongs corcordance,  if you’re not careful has religious undertones with certain descriptions. You have to rely on Holy Spirit.

I had to remind myself that when I hear something that goes against everything and I mean everything that I have been taught I have to tell myself this.

The truth that has the most potential to set me free also has the most potential to offend me.

If I hear something that goes against the grain and it offends me, bothers me, whatever it is.  I need to go to Holy Spirit and ask, why does this bother me so much?

What is it in me that I am trying to protect. Is it an early teaching, is it something that my dad taught me? What is it? What’s the reason I have to hold on to what I’ve been taught versus the possibility that what I just heard could be a new truth. I’ve been going back and forth with this for the last year and a half.

John 8.31 Jesus then said to those Jews who were believing in him, Taking my 1word to its complete conclusion and then to abide in seamless union with its 1logic, is to truly be my disciples. (Here, he is not referring to some future “red-letter-edition Bible” highlighting his “words”; Jesus is speaking about the 1Logos defining his “I-am-ness”, face to face with God before time was, then documented in prophetic language in ancient Scripture, and now unveiled in incarnate human form, as in a mirror. The word logos means intelligence as an interconnected network of things known; the sum total of logic.
The verb form of the noun logos is lego, to point out with words; a gathering, linking and combining of thoughts in an intelligent manner; thus, it suggests a woven-together discourse. Its Hebrew equivalent is dabar דבר meaning word, [which is the vehicle that stores and carries thought]; in its feminine form, דברה Deborah means honey bee! Imagine the honey bee at work; irresistibly attracted to flowers and spontaneously pollinating it, while gathering and converting the nectar into wholesome honey!)