Five Ways To Start A Fire
What are the five ways to start a fire?
Fire - the rapid oxidation of a material producing heat and light.
Fire is essential for human life and has been universal among all people groups throughout the ages. The heat from fire kills harmful bacteria when food is cooked. The heat from fire has kept people warm when they otherwise would have frozen. Fire has been the main source of light that has driven back the darkness of night throughout most of human history. Fire has been a source of protection from wild animals throughout the centuries for everything fears it.
Fire is also destructive. The Hebrew word for fire is "esh" and is where the English word "ash" comes from. Its word picture in ancient Hebrew is "the strong destroyer". Fire is the strong destroyer for there is nothing that fire will not destroy if it can burn hot enough. Fire will also spread its destruction as it spreads to where ever it finds oxygen and fuel. For these reasons fire has been used as a weapon throughout the centuries from flaming arrows to thermobaric bombs. The Russians claim that the fire from their largest bomb named "The Father of All Bombs" simply vaporizes everything in its strike zone.
Since fire is so useful and deadly everyone has had to find ways to produce it. Fortunately, there are at least five ways to start a fire.
One way to start a fire is friction. This often done by placing the sharp end of a pointy stick in a hollowed spot in the surface of a log that has been filled with tender and then rotating the stick back and forth rapidly. This often done with the assistance of a bow drill.
Another way to start a fire is with a spark. This is usually done by striking hard rocks (usually some type of chert such as flint) together to produce sparks that are shot into the tender.
Fire can also be started by concentrating light. One example of this is using a curved reflective or transparent surface to place the focal point on the tender. This is how a fire is stared with a magnifying glass or how Archimedes set the ships of the Romans on fire using curved bronze mirrors. If light can be concentrated in a straight line it produces an even hotter fire. This also how a laser can cut through solid steel.
Electricity has long been known to start fires. Benjamin Franklin invented the lightening rod because his parents perished in a fire started by lightening. Every time a car is started a small fire is ignited by electricity to begin the internal combustion. The magicians of the ancient Egyptians are believed to have used lemon batteries to "magically" start fires.
Lastly fire can be started by chemical combustion. This happens when white phosphorus (aka brimstone) comes in contact with air such as when it was expelled from the Earth and then rained down on Sodom and Gomorrah. Aluminum and zinc powder ignite when they contact water. Greek fire chemically produced a flaming ball of gas that rolled over the surface of the seas.
In the same way, there are five ways for to start the fire of the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka the Holy Ghost) burning in our lives.
This fire comes when you are the baptized in the Spirit of Truth (Luke 3:16).
The baptism of the Spirit of Truth was promised by the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) long before the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) came to the Earth (Joel 2:28-29). He started the fire that comes from the baptism of the Spirit of Truth when that promise began being fulfilled shortly after the Man of Truth went back to Heaven (Acts 2:16-18).
This baptism in the Spirit of Truth and fire is not the same as the baptism in water after you repent of your sins (Matthew 3:11). The Father of Truth sent Yochanon the Mikveh man (John the Baptist) to baptize people in water but He sent the Man of Truth to baptize people in the Spirit of Truth (John 1:33).
The Man of Truth is the one that baptizes people in the Spirit of Truth (Mark 1:8). He never baptized anyone in water (John 4:1-2).
The fire can be started by following the instructions that were personally given to you by the Man of Truth. He told his followers to wait in Jerusalem for the promise of the Father of Truth (Luke 24:49). He told them that this promise was the baptism of the Spirit of Truth (Acts 1:4-5). They did as they were told (Acts 1:12-14). It was obedience that brought the blessing to them at the appointed time (Acts 2:1-4). It will be no different with you.
How did people of Jerusalem know that the fire had been started in the upper room? When the fire started the Children of Truth (those who obey the Father of Truth because they love Him) began to release the sound of power (Acts 2:2-4). The Sound of Power was the evidence that the fire had been started in those that obeyed the instructions (Acts 2:33). It will be no different with you.
The fire can be started by going at a meeting of the Children of Truth and having hands laid on you by someone that has been given the gift giving the baptism of the Spirit of Truth through the laying on of hands. Phillip the Evangelist preached the Man of Truth and demonstrated the power of the Spirit of Truth in a city wide revival (Acts 8:5-8). The people of Samaria believed his preaching and even those involved in witchcraft came to repentance (Acts 8:9-13). Despite all that the Spirit of Truth was doing in Samaria and how receptive people had been to the Word of Truth people walked for two days to get someone to start the fire (Acts 8:14). Cephas (Peter aka Simon aka Simeon) and Yochanon (John) the Apostles of Truth made a two day walk to start the fire (Acts 8:14-15). Even though people had been baptized in water in the name of the Man of Truth and the Spirit of Truth had come to live in them the fire had not been started (Acts 8:16). They laid their hands on people and then the fire was started when people were baptized in the Spirit of Truth (Acts 8:17). The ability to lay hands on people to start the fire is a gift that the Father of Truth gives to only some people (Acts 8:19-20). It will be no different with you.
How did people of Samaria know that the fire had been started in Samaria? The people apparently released the sound of power when the fire started because everyone could see the sign that the fire had started (Acts 8:18). It will be no different with you.
The fire can be started by a sovereign decision of the Spirit of Truth to fall on people when they believe the Word of Truth that is being preached. Peter the Jew (Cephas aka Simon aka Simeon) was sent to preach to the Gentiles (Acts 11:11-12). Cornelius the Gentile had wanted to hear the Word of Truth so he could be saved (Acts 11:13-14). Peter the Jew only preached on how to be saved and said nothing about the baptism of the Spirit of Truth (Acts 10:34-43). Yet these Gentiles they were baptized in the Spirit of Truth (Acts 11:15). The fire had been started in the Gentiles when they were baptized in the Spirit of Truth (Acts 11:16). The fire can be started by the Spirit of Truth before people are even baptized in water (Acts 10:47-48). The Father of Truth can give the gift of the baptism of the Spirit of Truth to anyone as soon as they come into the House of Truth because they believe the Word of Truth that is preached (Acts 11:17). It will be no different with you.
How did the Jewish believers with Peter the Jew know that the fire had been started in the Gentiles? Cornelius the Gentile and the other Gentiles with him released the sound of power (Acts 10:45-46). It will be no different with you.
The fire can be started by an encounter arranged by the Father of Truth. Shaul (Paul aka Saul) came across Jewish disciples that he did not even know on his way to Ephesus (Acts 19:1). These disciples were not baptized in fire and had not even heard of the Spirit of Truth (Acts 19:2). These Jews were disciples of Yochanon the Mikvah man (John the Baptist) that had only been baptized in water (Acts 19:3). It was not enough to be baptized in water since they had not first came into the House of Truth (Acts 19:4). Once they came into the House of Truth then they had to be baptized in water again even if they have been baptized before (Acts 19:5). It will be no different with you.
How did Shual (Paul aka Saul) know that the fire had been started in these Jewish disciples after they came into the House of Truth? These Jewish disciples released the sound of power after he laid hands on them (Acts 19:6). It will be no different with you.
You might find yourself thinking that none of these ways to start a fire will work for you. The Man of Truth may never visit you personally. There may not be any meetings where people are being baptized in the Spirit of Truth by the laying on of hands for you to participate in. You may not be in a meeting where the Spirit of Truth sovereignly falls upon everyone while the Word of Truth is being preached. The Father of Truth may not arrange an encounter with someone that has the gift of baptizing people in the Spirit of Truth thru the laying on of hands. Do not despair. There is one more way to start a fire that is always available.
You can just ask the Father of Truth to give you the gift of the baptism of the Spirit of Truth. He will give you this if you want it bad enough to be persistent (Matthew 7:7-8). If you ask Him for anything good He will not give you something bad instead (Matthew 7:9-11). He will give the Spirit of Truth as He promised to everyone (Luke 11:13). Every good thing comes from the Father of Truth (James 1:17). It will be no different with you.
Whether the Father of Truth starts the fire directly or one of the other way the sound of power is always released (Mark 16:17). It will be no different with you.
Why do you need the fire started?
If you are a Child of Truth then you need the fire that comes from the baptism of the Spirit of Truth. You need the fire to carry out the great commission to bring people into the House of Truth (Mark 16:15-18). You need the fire so that you can give indisputable proof that you are giving people the Word of Truth (Mark 16:20). You need the power of the fire so that you can be as effective as possible in doing your part in bringing salvation to everyone on the Earth (Acts 1:8). You need the fire as a witness from the Father of Truth of all that you have heard from the Man of Truth (Hebrews 2:3-4).
Why is the fire not been started in so many of the Children of Truth?
The traditions handed down by religious professionals has prevented the fire from starting as surely as trying to start a barbecue with a lighter under water. The Word of Truth has no effect when religious tradition keeps people from acting on it (Matthew 15:6). The fire has been prevented from being started in many of the Children of Truth who are imprisoned by religion instead of following the Man of Truth as he intended (Colossians 2:8). The fire is started as a work of faith in those that choose the Father of Truth over religious tradition (2 Thessalonians 1:11).
Traditions handed down by religious professionals may cause you to think of multiple types of baptisms and the laying on hands as strange. However the Book of Truth (the Bible) says that these truths are fundamental teachings of the Word of Truth. They are as basic as repentance from dead works, faith in the Father of Truth, the resurrection from the dead of all people and eternal judgement for those that did not remain in the House of Truth (Hebrews 6:1-2).
Tradition may tell you that this promise was for a few select Jews in a Jerusalem that lived a long time ago. The promise of the Father of Truth is for anyone that hears of it (Acts 2:39). The Father of Truth gave the gift of the fire of the Spirit of Truth to Cornelius and the other Gentiles because it is available to Gentiles (Acts 11:17-18). The promise of the baptism of the Spirit of Truth was not just for the Jews but everyone that has came into the House of Truth (Romans 4:16).
Can you have the fire started?
If you are not a Child of Truth then you must come into the House of Truth so the fire can be started. The fire cannot be started until you come into the House of Truth (Acts 2:38). There is the even better gift of eternal life that is promised to those that come into and remain the House of Truth (Romans 6:23). You come into the House of Truth by surrendering your life to the Man of Truth because you believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9-11). The fire can be started in your life if you will come into the House of Truth (Hebrews 6:4-5).
Come into the House of Truth.
Fire - the rapid oxidation of a material producing heat and light.
Fire is essential for human life and has been universal among all people groups throughout the ages. The heat from fire kills harmful bacteria when food is cooked. The heat from fire has kept people warm when they otherwise would have frozen. Fire has been the main source of light that has driven back the darkness of night throughout most of human history. Fire has been a source of protection from wild animals throughout the centuries for everything fears it.
Fire is also destructive. The Hebrew word for fire is "esh" and is where the English word "ash" comes from. Its word picture in ancient Hebrew is "the strong destroyer". Fire is the strong destroyer for there is nothing that fire will not destroy if it can burn hot enough. Fire will also spread its destruction as it spreads to where ever it finds oxygen and fuel. For these reasons fire has been used as a weapon throughout the centuries from flaming arrows to thermobaric bombs. The Russians claim that the fire from their largest bomb named "The Father of All Bombs" simply vaporizes everything in its strike zone.
Since fire is so useful and deadly everyone has had to find ways to produce it. Fortunately, there are at least five ways to start a fire.
One way to start a fire is friction. This often done by placing the sharp end of a pointy stick in a hollowed spot in the surface of a log that has been filled with tender and then rotating the stick back and forth rapidly. This often done with the assistance of a bow drill.
Another way to start a fire is with a spark. This is usually done by striking hard rocks (usually some type of chert such as flint) together to produce sparks that are shot into the tender.
Fire can also be started by concentrating light. One example of this is using a curved reflective or transparent surface to place the focal point on the tender. This is how a fire is stared with a magnifying glass or how Archimedes set the ships of the Romans on fire using curved bronze mirrors. If light can be concentrated in a straight line it produces an even hotter fire. This also how a laser can cut through solid steel.
Electricity has long been known to start fires. Benjamin Franklin invented the lightening rod because his parents perished in a fire started by lightening. Every time a car is started a small fire is ignited by electricity to begin the internal combustion. The magicians of the ancient Egyptians are believed to have used lemon batteries to "magically" start fires.
Lastly fire can be started by chemical combustion. This happens when white phosphorus (aka brimstone) comes in contact with air such as when it was expelled from the Earth and then rained down on Sodom and Gomorrah. Aluminum and zinc powder ignite when they contact water. Greek fire chemically produced a flaming ball of gas that rolled over the surface of the seas.
In the same way, there are five ways for to start the fire of the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka the Holy Ghost) burning in our lives.
This fire comes when you are the baptized in the Spirit of Truth (Luke 3:16).
The baptism of the Spirit of Truth was promised by the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) long before the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) came to the Earth (Joel 2:28-29). He started the fire that comes from the baptism of the Spirit of Truth when that promise began being fulfilled shortly after the Man of Truth went back to Heaven (Acts 2:16-18).
This baptism in the Spirit of Truth and fire is not the same as the baptism in water after you repent of your sins (Matthew 3:11). The Father of Truth sent Yochanon the Mikveh man (John the Baptist) to baptize people in water but He sent the Man of Truth to baptize people in the Spirit of Truth (John 1:33).
The Man of Truth is the one that baptizes people in the Spirit of Truth (Mark 1:8). He never baptized anyone in water (John 4:1-2).
The fire can be started by following the instructions that were personally given to you by the Man of Truth. He told his followers to wait in Jerusalem for the promise of the Father of Truth (Luke 24:49). He told them that this promise was the baptism of the Spirit of Truth (Acts 1:4-5). They did as they were told (Acts 1:12-14). It was obedience that brought the blessing to them at the appointed time (Acts 2:1-4). It will be no different with you.
How did people of Jerusalem know that the fire had been started in the upper room? When the fire started the Children of Truth (those who obey the Father of Truth because they love Him) began to release the sound of power (Acts 2:2-4). The Sound of Power was the evidence that the fire had been started in those that obeyed the instructions (Acts 2:33). It will be no different with you.
The fire can be started by going at a meeting of the Children of Truth and having hands laid on you by someone that has been given the gift giving the baptism of the Spirit of Truth through the laying on of hands. Phillip the Evangelist preached the Man of Truth and demonstrated the power of the Spirit of Truth in a city wide revival (Acts 8:5-8). The people of Samaria believed his preaching and even those involved in witchcraft came to repentance (Acts 8:9-13). Despite all that the Spirit of Truth was doing in Samaria and how receptive people had been to the Word of Truth people walked for two days to get someone to start the fire (Acts 8:14). Cephas (Peter aka Simon aka Simeon) and Yochanon (John) the Apostles of Truth made a two day walk to start the fire (Acts 8:14-15). Even though people had been baptized in water in the name of the Man of Truth and the Spirit of Truth had come to live in them the fire had not been started (Acts 8:16). They laid their hands on people and then the fire was started when people were baptized in the Spirit of Truth (Acts 8:17). The ability to lay hands on people to start the fire is a gift that the Father of Truth gives to only some people (Acts 8:19-20). It will be no different with you.
How did people of Samaria know that the fire had been started in Samaria? The people apparently released the sound of power when the fire started because everyone could see the sign that the fire had started (Acts 8:18). It will be no different with you.
The fire can be started by a sovereign decision of the Spirit of Truth to fall on people when they believe the Word of Truth that is being preached. Peter the Jew (Cephas aka Simon aka Simeon) was sent to preach to the Gentiles (Acts 11:11-12). Cornelius the Gentile had wanted to hear the Word of Truth so he could be saved (Acts 11:13-14). Peter the Jew only preached on how to be saved and said nothing about the baptism of the Spirit of Truth (Acts 10:34-43). Yet these Gentiles they were baptized in the Spirit of Truth (Acts 11:15). The fire had been started in the Gentiles when they were baptized in the Spirit of Truth (Acts 11:16). The fire can be started by the Spirit of Truth before people are even baptized in water (Acts 10:47-48). The Father of Truth can give the gift of the baptism of the Spirit of Truth to anyone as soon as they come into the House of Truth because they believe the Word of Truth that is preached (Acts 11:17). It will be no different with you.
How did the Jewish believers with Peter the Jew know that the fire had been started in the Gentiles? Cornelius the Gentile and the other Gentiles with him released the sound of power (Acts 10:45-46). It will be no different with you.
The fire can be started by an encounter arranged by the Father of Truth. Shaul (Paul aka Saul) came across Jewish disciples that he did not even know on his way to Ephesus (Acts 19:1). These disciples were not baptized in fire and had not even heard of the Spirit of Truth (Acts 19:2). These Jews were disciples of Yochanon the Mikvah man (John the Baptist) that had only been baptized in water (Acts 19:3). It was not enough to be baptized in water since they had not first came into the House of Truth (Acts 19:4). Once they came into the House of Truth then they had to be baptized in water again even if they have been baptized before (Acts 19:5). It will be no different with you.
How did Shual (Paul aka Saul) know that the fire had been started in these Jewish disciples after they came into the House of Truth? These Jewish disciples released the sound of power after he laid hands on them (Acts 19:6). It will be no different with you.
You might find yourself thinking that none of these ways to start a fire will work for you. The Man of Truth may never visit you personally. There may not be any meetings where people are being baptized in the Spirit of Truth by the laying on of hands for you to participate in. You may not be in a meeting where the Spirit of Truth sovereignly falls upon everyone while the Word of Truth is being preached. The Father of Truth may not arrange an encounter with someone that has the gift of baptizing people in the Spirit of Truth thru the laying on of hands. Do not despair. There is one more way to start a fire that is always available.
You can just ask the Father of Truth to give you the gift of the baptism of the Spirit of Truth. He will give you this if you want it bad enough to be persistent (Matthew 7:7-8). If you ask Him for anything good He will not give you something bad instead (Matthew 7:9-11). He will give the Spirit of Truth as He promised to everyone (Luke 11:13). Every good thing comes from the Father of Truth (James 1:17). It will be no different with you.
Whether the Father of Truth starts the fire directly or one of the other way the sound of power is always released (Mark 16:17). It will be no different with you.
Why do you need the fire started?
If you are a Child of Truth then you need the fire that comes from the baptism of the Spirit of Truth. You need the fire to carry out the great commission to bring people into the House of Truth (Mark 16:15-18). You need the fire so that you can give indisputable proof that you are giving people the Word of Truth (Mark 16:20). You need the power of the fire so that you can be as effective as possible in doing your part in bringing salvation to everyone on the Earth (Acts 1:8). You need the fire as a witness from the Father of Truth of all that you have heard from the Man of Truth (Hebrews 2:3-4).
Why is the fire not been started in so many of the Children of Truth?
The traditions handed down by religious professionals has prevented the fire from starting as surely as trying to start a barbecue with a lighter under water. The Word of Truth has no effect when religious tradition keeps people from acting on it (Matthew 15:6). The fire has been prevented from being started in many of the Children of Truth who are imprisoned by religion instead of following the Man of Truth as he intended (Colossians 2:8). The fire is started as a work of faith in those that choose the Father of Truth over religious tradition (2 Thessalonians 1:11).
Traditions handed down by religious professionals may cause you to think of multiple types of baptisms and the laying on hands as strange. However the Book of Truth (the Bible) says that these truths are fundamental teachings of the Word of Truth. They are as basic as repentance from dead works, faith in the Father of Truth, the resurrection from the dead of all people and eternal judgement for those that did not remain in the House of Truth (Hebrews 6:1-2).
Tradition may tell you that this promise was for a few select Jews in a Jerusalem that lived a long time ago. The promise of the Father of Truth is for anyone that hears of it (Acts 2:39). The Father of Truth gave the gift of the fire of the Spirit of Truth to Cornelius and the other Gentiles because it is available to Gentiles (Acts 11:17-18). The promise of the baptism of the Spirit of Truth was not just for the Jews but everyone that has came into the House of Truth (Romans 4:16).
Can you have the fire started?
If you are not a Child of Truth then you must come into the House of Truth so the fire can be started. The fire cannot be started until you come into the House of Truth (Acts 2:38). There is the even better gift of eternal life that is promised to those that come into and remain the House of Truth (Romans 6:23). You come into the House of Truth by surrendering your life to the Man of Truth because you believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9-11). The fire can be started in your life if you will come into the House of Truth (Hebrews 6:4-5).
Come into the House of Truth.
Labels: Baptism, Fire, Gifts, Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit, Ruach HaQodesh, Science
posted by The House Of Truth @ June 08, 2013
<< Home