Permanent revolution was a theory developed by Mao Tse-tung in China for his followers.
But if we look around us, everything is changing faster and faster, we are indeed facing a permanent revolution with tremendous changes in the world!
But what about us? Do we also make voluntary and permanent changes to our person?
Knowing how to change ourselves, day after day, is vital as we approach the times of the end and the time marked for the end of this age.
Elohim is in favor of our change, but in a good way. Note, however, that Elohim does not change according to James 1, verse 17:
" Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning."
His Son, Jesus Christ, does not change either as we read in Hebrews 1, verses 5 and 10 to 12:
" 5 For to which of the angels did He ever say: “You are My Son, Today I have begotten You”? And again: “I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son”?...
10 And: “You, Lord, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands. 11 They will perish, but You remain; and they will all grow old like a garment; 12 Like a cloak You will fold them up, and they will be changed. But You are the same, and Your years will not fail.”
It is still necessary to understand what is not changing in Elohim and his Son:
· They do not change their perfect character
· They do not change their attitude of judgment and command
· Neither do they change their relation to the law and to the 10 commandments put in place by Elohim.
David writes about Yehoah Elohim's eternal and unchangeable commandments and righteousness in Psalm 119, verses 151-152 and 159-160:
" 151 You are near, O Yehoah, and all Your commandments are truth.
152 Concerning Your testimonies, I have known of old that You have founded them forever. ...
159 Consider how I love Your precepts; revive me, O Yehoah, according to Your loving kindness.
160 The entirety of Your word is truth, and every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever.”
Since we are far from resembling Jesus, it is our duty if we want to be part of the family of Yehoah Elohim to make every effort to change and acquire the same behavior as Jesus about the commandments. This is what Jesus reminds us of in Matthew 19, verses 16-17:
16 Now behold, one came and said to Him, “Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?” 17 So He said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, Elohim. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”
By the way, unlike the teachings to some extent inspired by Satan, of most churches in this world, Jesus insists that our obedience to the commandments be done without negligence and without forgetting the details, according to Matthew 23, verse 23:
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone."
So if we look at ourselves, do we see change and do we want to change? If we are believers, we should discover day after day new rules of life described in the Bible, but how will these rules influenced our desire for change? Be careful, I did not write in what did they change your life but how did you change your life by yourself!
If you have read carefully the Ten Commandments, you have discovered the existence of a day of rest in the week, you have discovered the rejection and destruction of all idolatry items, both material (such as religious statues and small objects of the same kind fruits of " popular piety") and spiritual (adoration of a man or science as an end in itself and not as a tool of discovery and progress). You may have also discovered healthy eating rules.
But now, after all these discoveries, can you say that you have reached the status of Jesus Christ, our example, and that you don’t need anymore change?
Do you think that you've done enough and that Elohim should accommodate with you as you are? Will you tell Him, what do you want, my Father, I am like that and these are my little cute sins that you should bear with?
If this is your plan, be aware that it will not at all please to our Father. Let us read how, on the contrary, our Father loves to hear people speaking about their faults, in Jeremiah 31, verses 18-19:
“18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself: ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, like an untrained bull; restore me, and I will return, for You are Yehoah my Elohim.
19 Surely, after my turning, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck myself on the thigh; I was ashamed, yes, even humiliated, because I bore the reproach of my youth.”
We must encourage ourselves to sail and reach a life with a permanent change. Let us not remain idle in our sins, but let us work in depth to find what is evil in us and to eliminate it. Let's be convinced that we are far from perfect.
But questions arise immediately:
HOW DOES ONE CHANGE?
WHAT IS THE MEANING OF CHANGING OURSELF?
The answer to these questions will help us to get out of our torpor, to wake up and resume the fight against our carnal nature that must be put to death.
Changing.
There are two complementary ways to change in the right direction from the viewpoint of our Creator:
The first change is a passive attitude, it is easy since it is enough simply to do nothing where we were active but in the wrong direction. Paul tells us about it in Romans 8, verses 12-13:
“12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. 13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.... "
Therefore this first way of changing consists in abstaining from carnal desires that must be put to death, those that are not guided by the Holy Spirit. Just stop doing what our physical man wants us to do, otherwise we put ourselves at the mercy of Satan. About this, we must be wary of human wisdom as brilliant as it looks; read the warning of James 3, verses 13-18:
“13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. 15 This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. 16 For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. 18 Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.”
As such, here are few examples of what we must refrain from, of what we must not do anymore by being more passive:
Do not enter into quarrels in any way (Proverbs 20: 3):
“ It is honorable for a man to stop striving, since any fool can start a quarrel."
Refrain from vain speeches, especially at our leisure time (Isaiah 58: 13-14):
“13 If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on My holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy day of Yehoah honorable, and shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words, 14 Then you shall delight yourself in Yehoah; and I will cause you to ride on the high hills of the earth, and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father. The mouth of Yehoah has spoken.”
Do not judge (Matthew 7: 1-5):
“1 Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. 3 And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye? 5 Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye."
What else…
Paul in his Epistle to the Ephesians, chapter 5, verses 3-4, gives us some more examples of changes by a passive attitude:
“3 But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; 4 neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. "
These kind of changes should not only be obtained by a passive physical attitude but should also be done in spiritual thought!
Now let us move to the second way to change, the active one this time!
In the verses of Paul that we have just read, we naturally find the path that leads us to a second way of changing. Indeed, if we stop all the actions of our physical body and do nothing, we are entitled to death because we are not born to do nothing.
By analogy with our birth as a baby, after baptism, the man who comes out of the waters of baptism (interesting to note here that the word water in Hebrew is always a plural: maïm), is like a resurrection to a new life. Such a man, after his baptism, has undertaken to stop or kill all carnal deeds AND TO REPLACE THEM BY ACTIONS THAT CONSIST IN A POSITIVE AND ACTIVE CHANGE, THE CONTRARY THE PASSIVE ONES THAT ARE EXPECTED TO DISAPPEAR.
So this is a phase where we must act and we will have to select our actions by choosing those that will be inspired by the Holy Spirit. These actions will no longer be dependent on the carnal man of the past but on the spiritual man looking at the future.
All these changes are not meant for death but for eternity in the world to come, the Kingdom of Elohim that the whole creation wishes to see (I Corinthians 15):
"35 But someone will say, “How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?” 36 Foolish one, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies. 37 And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain—perhaps wheat or some other grain. 38 But Elohim gives it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body."
Let me repeat, we must therefore take action but while being the fruit of our thoughts, of our invention, of our creation, they will also have to be in conformity with the Holy Spirit in us, if we have received it most of the time by laying of hands after baptism. This kind of action, the fruit of our positive thoughts, will be very similar to the way Jesus-Christ is acting. He is our example, do not forget it.
This kind of active changes that we will be able to make on ourselves permanently will be a good investment for the eternity we wish so much. These qualities of our spiritual man will be useful for the tasks our Father will be pleased to put on our shoulder for his majestic project.
Let us make an analogy with Jesus: he is for us, men on this earth from which we have been drawn, a Savior, since he was crucified and has been resurrected. But for his Father, he is a Savior who serves Him according to His desire, in His image. The person who today bears the name of Jesus, but who before that had borne the title of Elohim, has always had that attitude that pleased his Almighty Elohim! Elohim, the Word, also pleased the Almighty Elder of Days, the Elohim of the Elohim, when He participated in the creation of the heavens and the earth.
So to summarize this first part, we have spoken about a passive way to change, which consists in abstaining from any bad action inspired in general by the flesh.
There is also an active way of changing, that consists in replacing as soon as possible the emptiness left by the absence of bad action by good ones.
The Word of Elohim shows us many examples similar to those given above and we are going to develop some of them.
Replace quarrels by peace.
Let's read Psalm 34, verse 14:
"Depart from evil and do good; Seek peace and pursue it.."
Let's read Matthew 5, verse 43-48:
"43 You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, 45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47 And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so? 48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect."
These verses are to be put in our hearts and we must not practice them only with the lip as the Pharisees would do!
Replaces empty words with one word, but useful.
There is indeed a useful way of speaking, that which pleases our Father. So, on the Sabbath day of rest, let us follow the example given in Psalm 105, verses 1 and 2, and speak instead of being silent:
" Oh, give thanks to Yehoah! Call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the peoples! 2 Sing to Him, sing psalms to Him; Talk of all His wondrous works!"
Instead of judging others, judge yourself.
Let's read Proverbs 23, verse 19:
" Hear, my son, and be wise; and guide your heart in the way.”
To reach finally the famous Permanent Change.
But why should we change? Well, we should change by correcting ourselves in the hope of overcoming and being accepted into the Kingdom of our Father by His grace. We will thus receive eternal life and about this, let us read how Jesus is describing the access to eternal life (Matthew 7):
"14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it."
Would you imagine yourself on the way and suddenly stopping your trip, without continuing? Interrupt your trip and keep doing your current bad habits and even going back to past bad habits? Do not add anything new and good to your man, do not take away anything bad from your person?
IT IS NOT SO THAT YOUR CREATOR WILL ACCEPT YOU!
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS A KINGDOM WITH AN ENDLESS GROWTH!
Let's read that in Isaiah 27, verse 6:
" Those who come He shall cause to take root in Jacob; Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit."
And also Isaiah 9, verse 6 and 7:
“6 For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder. and His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty Elohim, everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, to order it and establish it with judgment and justice from that time forward, even forever. The zeal of Yehoah of hosts will perform this.”
And believers are invited to participate in all these projects by being already today a prefiguration of this growing Kingdom, a prefiguration with whom the Father collaborates as we see in John 15, verses 1-2:
" 1 I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit."
It means that once we are in Jesus-Christ, we are part of his body, of the Church, of the House or Temple of his Father, and this process started from the moment we began to repent, after having been baptized and finally after having received the Holy Spirit.
Only then will our Father begin His work as a talented winemaker, for He will begin to carve us, if at least we bear fruit; He will do this so that we carry infinitely more fruits. It is therefore time for my sisters, my brothers and my readers to take the road again, to see the path we have followed as we progress along the path, because it is a path that we follow carefully. We must avoid at all costs to find ourselves as a wreck that goes at the mercy of the waves. On the contrary, we must be navigators who go towards the goal: our new man; this goal will be attained through our permanent change, as Paul writes in I Corinthians 9, verses 25-27:
" 25 And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. 26 Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. 27 But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified."
The Bible.
Our Father has given us a very useful tool to help us in our business: a special mirror so that we see ourselves as we are in reality, a mirror that does not lie, which shows us in full light on the one hand the defects to eliminate with the help of our Divine Winemaker, and on the other hand the qualities to make fruitful.
This faithful and very precious mirror is the Bible, the Word of our Father, as James confirms in his epistle, in chapter 1, verses 21-25:
“21 Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does. "
What should we keep: Weekly and annual Sabbaths as described in the bible or the feasts and celebrations as they are celebrated in the world around us?
An example of a change that is offered to us on a silver plate is the following one: Are you ready to abandon completely the feasts as they are celebrated by the world around you and your family and switch to the ones celebrated by our Father as indicated in the Bible? It is well known that most of the feasts kept today in the world such as Christmas and New Year (also known as Saint Sylvester) have a pagan origin. Even if most people do not see this as religious ceremonies but find this as a good opportunity to meet with the family or friends, they are in any case pagan festivals! What a beautiful victory today for Satan! Indeed, think about it: the holiday season that starts with All Saints day (Halloween in the Anglo-Saxon world) and which, through the feast of St. Martin’s day celebrated in the Germanic countries, Saint Nicholas, Christmas, New Year and is ending with the three kings feast in early January, find their origin in the roman saturnalia holydays or even earlier pagan feasts adopted by the Roman Empire.
The Bible sometimes gives us surprising clues to understand the origin of religious tradition of today’s world; for instance, let us read carefully Jeremiah 3, verses 12-13:
“12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say: ‘Return, backsliding Israel,’ says Yehoah; ‘I will not cause My anger to fall on you. For I am merciful,’ says Yehoah; ‘I will not remain angry forever. 13 Only acknowledge your iniquity,
That you have transgressed against Yehoah your Elohim, And have scattered your charms to alien deities under every green tree, and you have not obeyed My voice,’ says the Lord."
Think for a moment: does not this habit of the past fit with famous traditions kept today? What do most people do at Christmas? Do not they make a Christmas crib with a little baby representing Jesus, statues representing his parents and the three wise men ...? Do not they put this crib UNDER A GREEN TREE, THE CHRISTMAS TREE?
Another very popular tradition in Europe, if you walk in the forests, isn’t it common to see chapels or places of worship under particularly majestic bushy trees? These chapels and similar objects are place for worship and very often processions, or pilgrimages are organized to go and pray to the statue of saints located there!
This is what Jeremiah’s prophecy is speaking about, but 2700 years ago!
So, if you understand that, will you acknowledge your ignorance, will you do what Yehoah is asking from his believers in verse 14 to hope to return to Zion?
“Return, O backsliding children,” says Yehoah; “for I am married to you. I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.”
Paul also encourages us with the same kind of warnings in his Epistle to the Galatians, chapter 4, verses 8 to 18 and noting especially verses 10 and 17
" 8 But then, indeed, when you did not know Elohim, you served those which by nature are not gods. 9 But now after you have known Elohim, or rather are known by Elohim, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage? 10 You observe days and months and seasons and years. 11 I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain.
12 Brethren, I urge you to become like me, for I became like you. You have not injured me at all. 13 You know that because of physical infirmity I preached the gospel to you at the first. 14 And my trial which was in my flesh you did not despise or reject, but you received me as an angel of Elohim, even as Christ Jesus. 15 What then was the blessing you enjoyed? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me. 16 Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?
17 They zealously court you, but for no good; yes, they want to exclude you, that you may be zealous for them. 18 But it is good to be zealous in a good thing always, and not only when I am present with you. "
What you read above requires some explanation. Have in mind that Paul is writing to Galatians, formerly pagans, asking them not to return and keep feast days, or months or the years with feasts like they did while being pagans. Paul is asking them not to listen to the pagans around them pressing them to join them in their pagan traditions. The zeal of these pagans is not pure because the Galatians, new converts from or coming out of the pagan world of Galatia, **became like trouble shooters for their neighbors as they are not keeping any more the events and traditional festivals so popular in their country. As a consequence these pagans are trying to force the new converts to come back the pagan way of keeping holydays and yearly calendar. They were asked to leave their freedom in Christ freshly acquired by not keeping anymore the Sabbaths according to the 4th of the 10 commandments, nor Passover, Pentecost and the festival of the seventh month! To some extent, these pagan Galatians are doing exactly the same as the so-called "Christians" of today pushing people to keep Sunday as the day of rest, Christmas and New Year as well as some other feast-days in the calendar. They make us believe that Elohim does not attribute on the way we decide how to keep days of rest and holydays.
Paul speaks very specifically about those people around us in Galatians 1, verses 6 and 7:
“6 I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, 7 which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ.”
Today, the European people are doing the same against believers seeking for the truth. I remind you that Europe appears very much as the revival of the Beast via its seventh and last head as described in Revelation 13 and 17. You can find detailed explanation about this somewhere else in this website. these same Europeans will spend fortunes to maintain or renew old places of worshipping even if they are often empty and unused most of the time. These mostly catholic believers will worship paintings or statues of Jesus crucified as he was still like that today. They don’t pay attention to what Paul tells us about similar people doing the same in his day, according to Galatians 3, verse 1:
“O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified?”
Those people want to lead you today in their dissolutions away from everything that our Creator informs in his Manual for a happy and eternal life, His Bible.
These people will make you believe that their dissolute morals are the fruit of the freedom that man must take to appreciate all aspects of life and that Elohim is not against all this and does not waste his time in all these little details; They will tell you that, after all, you are expected to become like god.
Be careful with this kind of reasoning, because it already existed in the time of the prophet Elijah, who lived in the kingdom of northern Israel. In his time, indeed people also believed in Yehoah, but not only as they were also worshipping Baal. They followed the traditions of both. But let us meditate on the dramatic appeal of Elijah, the only one antitled to speak in the name of Yehoah, in I Kings 18, verse 21:
" 21 And Elijah came to all the people, and said, “How long will you falter between two opinions? If Yehoah is Elohim, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.” But the people answered him not a word.. . "
No, we cannot celebrate Sundays, Christmas and New Year's Eve, Easter, Pentecost, Assumption on August 15, and celebrate the festivals given in the Bible that are, I remind you Sabbaths, Passover, Pentecost, and the seventh month celebrations ending with the Feast of Tabernacles (huts). No need to seek excuses and reasoning because if we let ourselves go to do this, how do you expect that the prophecy of Ezekiel 20, verse 20 can be fulfilled:
“20 hallow My Sabbaths, and they will be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am Yehoah your Elohim.”
If you don’t sanctify sabbaths (weekly and annual festivals), you will remove any distinctive sign allowing the world to recognize that the Yehoah of the Bible is your Elohim!
The weekly Sabbath is the day of the week during which we can worship Yehoah and His name, admiring His creation and its consequences. There is a big difference between the festival of Yehoah and for instance the Christmas party: dring Yehoah’s festival, we have the opportunity to admire our Father's Creation such as living trees and while during Christmas, people are gathering near a dead tree, the unfortunately famous Christmas tree that surprisingly you can see today in even non-Christian countries like China and Japan.
And what if we do not change anymore!
Let us ask the question about the consequences of not changing or interrupting our voluntary process of change. What are we going to become? Will we be able to remain among the people of our Father? Of course not! We will be an easy prey for Satan who will manage to seduce us once we will find on our way one of the antichrists. You will step by step move away from the Creator's environment, since you will find His way of life obsolete and useless because you will no longer understand its meaning and value. Elohim will indeed make you blind and deaf according to your desire to distance you from His knowledge. This future is for you a certainty according to I John 2, verses 15 to 19 and 4, verses 5 to 6:
" 15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. 17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of Elohim abides forever. 18 Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us....
John 4: “5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. 6 We are of Elohim. He who knows Elohim hears us; he who is not of Elohim does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error."
If you do not change enough, our vinedresser, Elohim, will not prune you and you will bear less and less fruit and these fruits will lose their flavor and gradually you will get away from our Father and His ways.
TAKE YOUR COURAGE WITH TWO HANDS!
So renounce to believe that you are as you are and that nothing can make you change. Get to work and be your own master builder, start making changes that will beautify you, every day a little bit. Start today, right now.
An important rule to succeed in this work and to facilitate your work and also facilitate the entry in your life of your Creator is to demonstrate
your humility!
Let us be humble, never be too sure of ourselves against the other. Let our Father teach us before responding or acting impetuously in the face of others, and let us be inspired by Jeremiah's attitude, chapter 28, verses 1 to 17:
“17And it happened in the same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, who was from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of Yehoah in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying, 2 “Thus speaks Yehoah of hosts, the Elohim of Israel, saying: ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. 3 Within two full years I will bring back to this place all the vessels of Yehoah’s house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon. 4 And I will bring back to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah who went to Babylon,’ says Yehoah, ‘for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’ ”
5 Then the prophet Jeremiah spoke to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests and in the presence of all the people who stood in the house of Yehoah, 6 and the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! Yehoah do so; Yehoah perform your words which you have prophesied, to bring back the vessels of Yehoah’s house and all who were carried away captive, from Babylon to this place. 7 Nevertheless hear now this word that I speak in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people: 8 The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries and great kingdoms—of war and disaster and pestilence. 9 As for the prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet comes to pass, the prophet will be known as one whom Yehoah has truly sent.” 10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck and broke it. 11 And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, “Thus says Yehoah: ‘Even so I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years.’ ” And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.
12 Now the word of Yehoah came to Jeremiah, after Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying, 13 “Go and tell Hananiah, saying, ‘Thus says Yehoah: “You have broken the yokes of wood, but you have made in their place yokes of iron.” 14 For thus says Yehoah of hosts, the Elohim of Israel: “I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him. I have given him the beasts of the field also.”
15 Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, “Hear now, Hananiah, Yehoah has not sent you, but you make this people trust in a lie. 16 Therefore thus says Yehoah: ‘Behold, I will cast you from the face of the earth. This year you shall die, because you have taught rebellion against Yehoah.’ ”17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.”
Jeremiah did not answer on his own but waited for Yehoah's inspiration and then took his courage with both hands to convey the strong message about Hanania, a message of death.
David also sang the benefits of humility in Psalm 119, verses 67-71:
" 67 Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep Your word.
68 You are good, and do good; Teach me Your statutes.
69 The proud have forged a lie against me, but I will keep Your precepts with my whole heart.
70 Their heart is as fat as grease, but I delight in Your law.
71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn Your statutes.”
Let's also read Proverbs 22, verse 4:
" By humility and the fear of Yehoah are riches and honor and life.”
If you change, nothing will ever stop you in your royal walk towards life and you will be able to say like David, in Psalm 119, verse 46:
“I will speak of Your testimonies
also before kings, and will not be ashamed.”