The Sons of Men

What would you do if you came across an important secret? What if this secret could change the way you think about your self? What if this secret could offset the weather of your energy? What if you learned that, what you thought was for you, actually wasn’t? What would you do?

There are many secrets within the Bible: secrets that have to be searched out, translated, examined, and refined for understanding. But then there are secrets that are hidden in plain sight, secrets that if unconscious to, we will pass by them as if they aren’t there. I guess, then, such a secret, if passing by what is plainly in front of us, isn’t honestly a secret, but is a mistake on our part. 

The Bible tells us the secret exercise of theologians and scientists within the religious world. This secret really isn’t a secret, but because we may not give enough care to language and context within the Bible, we pass over two very telling verses:

“I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end,” Ecclesiastes 3:10,11.

The author of the book of Ecclesiastes put their self to the test, exercising themselves in the lifestyle of the sons of men. Who are the “sons of men”? The phrase is revealing, because these are men that are born from or conceived by men. This idea is put together from how it says, “For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God,” Hebrews 5:1. 

“Son,” to the Bible’s mind, doesn’t actually mean a biological son to a father. “Son” is a term understood from how it says, “To Titus, mine own son after the common faith,” Titus 1:4, and, “Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith,” 1 Timothy 1:2. 

When the Bible mentions “son,” in its truest context, the Bible is mentioning no literal or biological child, but a priest or a minister that has become the priest or the minister of a priest or minister, these two bound together by the passing down of doctrine or philosophy. This idea is again understood from how it says, “He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length,” Proverbs 29:21. 

The “sons of men” are a category of individuals within the Bible. The “sons of men” are priests born from priests; said in present terms, these are priests and ministers graduated from universities and seminaries with the “seed” of men within their mission and understanding. 

The Bible tells us a secret about this group. The author of Ecclesiastes spent time living the lifestyle of the “sons of men” and wrote a report on the experience; Ecclesiastes is that report. The author found out that the “sons of men” are given a curse from God. This “curse” is as its says:

“I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith,” Ecclesiastes 1:13.

The “sons of men” are plagued with a desire to only know what is within “the world” of religion and nothing more. Said again in present terms, the mind of the “sons of men” cannot extend beyond their philosophy or theology. It is not I that is making this report, but the Bible, and we do well, if our concern is inward growth and development, to take knowledge of what the Bible is saying. 

Why is this important? Why is the Bible saying this? Why is the Bible “hating” on “the sons of men”? There is a dislike for the “sons of men” because this group dislikes the actual philosophy within the Bible. Instead of understanding what the Bible is articulating, they meander through handwritten philosophy and theology. The Bible speaks ill of them because they speak ill of the Bible, even while professing to speak from it. 

This is important to know because the exercise of the “sons of men” is not our exercise. After living the delusion of the “sons of men,” the author of Ecclesiastes concluded that their religious or doctrinal lifestyle and habits were vanity. Taking their experience into consideration, the author writes:

“I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts,” Ecclesiastes 3:18. 

The exercise of the “sons of men” should be left to the “sons of men.” We spend our mind, time, and energy in the realm of the “sons of men,” peddling their theories, maintaining their approach, and consenting to their frame of mind. Our conversation does not know its self because the “sons of men” have control of it. True justification is resurrecting from the threshold of the “sons of men”; we have to know this. 

A Reason To Love

Why exercise love?

If the true synonym and definition of "love" is "edification"; as it says, comparing two verses revealing this definition, "Ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another," 1 Thessalonians 4:9, and, "Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another," 1 Thessalonians 5:11; what benefit is gained when exercising love?

When we love, when we edify, we transcend our present level of consciousness to enter into a higher level of personal and environmental awareness. When we edify, we are refreshing another mind. When we edify, we are allowing that other mind to form connections that it never knew existed. To edify is to then correctly comfort, and when "comforting," we demonstrate the living God's devotional character, who says, "I, even I, am he that comforteth you," Isaiah 51:12. 

What does it mean to "comfort"? We find the definition of the word, "Comfort," in the saying, "Ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted," 1 Corinthians 14:31.

If "comforted" by the living God, one is learning from the living God. If learning from the living God, one is being edified by the living God. If edified by the living God, then one is actually loved by the living God. This is why it says of one taught by the living God’s wisdom, "The LORD hath loved him," Isaiah 48:14, and, "I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee," Revelation 3:9.

When the living God "loves," or "edifies," our conversation's conscience actually undergoes a transition. That transition is from depending on the pen and judgment of theologians to living by the devotional knowledge engraved upon the heart of the mind when learning of and proving the Bible's words. 

The intention behind the Bible's wisdom is to cut the conversation off from the theories of trained experts on religion to revive the conversation through "comfort," which is why it says, "I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass; and forgettest the LORD thy maker"? Isaiah 51:12

The point is to understand that the devotional mind has a Creator, that by learning of our personal faith’s Creator, we may retain principles of wellbeing to know that our human being is blessed by the same Creator. In this sense, the "love," "comfort," or "edification" of the living God is for advancing our level of personal and devotional consciousness, and when "loving," we are to do the same for another mind. 

We may now know why it says, "Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren." 1 John 3:16

The living God laid down His "life" for our conversation's conscience. What is this "life" that was offered? Since it says, "Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee," Psalm 63:3, we may know that the "life" offered is the "lovingkindness" offered. 

What is the living God's "lovingkindness"? It says, "Let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me," Psalm 40:11, and, "Thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth," Psalm 26:3, and, "Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth," Psalm 119:88, and, "O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart," Psalm 36:10. 

We learn, from these verses, that the living God's "lovingkindness" is actually His "righteousness." This "righteousness" is His "truth," which "truth" is the "word" or "testimony" of His mouth, and we know how it says, “Out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding,” Proverbs 2:6. This makes perfect sense, seeing as how it says, "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth," John 17:17, and, “By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many,” Isaiah 53:11.

Now, if it is written, "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us," John 1:14, it is fair to conclude that the testimony of the living God's mouth found its self perfectly demonstrated by one peculiar mind. This demonstrated “knowledge,” “understanding,” or "testimony" is, in all actuality, what was laid down or offered for our personal and devotional wellbeing. When we therefore read, "Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances," Ephesians 2:15, we are actually reading about what was annihilated or cut off from that "testimony," even a religious philosophy encouraging sanctity through the pen of ancient and modern theologians, or “through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men,” Colossians 2:8, and not through “the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,” Colossians 1:9. 

As the living God put His testimony of revival and reform into the universe for the edification of any and every willing mind, so too it is our responsibility to mimic His act, placing into our age that testimony we have received when sincerely learning of and proving the science of His mouth. The character of His testimony is a philosophy of advancing personal and devotional consciousness, making it right to "love" as we have first been "loved." There is then a very great need to "love," and we should not shy away from its course of learning, because we are all born to assist another in their advancing personal and devotional awareness, even like as the living God, though the wisdom of His "lovingkindness," intends to do for our inward person.