Those who shear the Spirit do not acknowledge the importance of Jesus Christ. 

1 Samuel 25:9-11

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“So when David’s young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all these words in the name of David, and waited.” 1 Samuel 25:9 David’s men relayed the message of goodwill to the sheepshearer and asked for a favor in return. The requested favor was for food and anything else the sheepshearer might feel to give. After making the request, they were made to wait.

For a Spirit filled person to ask a favor of those who make it their way of life to reduce the human spirit and Spirit of Christ to just about nothing, it is a long wait. That is part of the process of shearing the human spirit and wearing it thin to build a wall against the Spirit of Christ. Wait, wait, wait; lines, lines, lines; delays, delays, delays, are common events nowadays. These are also the days where the thing which forms what we think, feel, and do wants to dominate over the human spirit. They figure by putting the human spirit in stop-mode they are killing it. At the same time, they are hostile to the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Their goal is for the image of the beast to live and speak through us while preventing the image of Christ from living and speaking through us. They even want us to be weary of waiting for the day which Jesus Christ comes back.

“Then Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, “Who is David, and who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants nowadays who break away each one from his master.” 1 Samuel 25:10 Nabal, the sheepshearer, acted like he never even heard of David, nor even heard of David’s father. That is absolutely false because everyone was singing the praises of David, the son of Jesse. That is the very reason that Saul wanted David dead. With malice in the sheepshearers heart, he referred to David as a common servant, which in those days was a blow to the esteem and human dignity of the human spirit.

Today, the name of Jesus Christ means nothing to the masses who dominate cities around the world. They certainly do not recognize Him as the Son of God. In fact, His Holy name gives them more reason to accost the human spirit and to be harsh and abrasive towards those who lift up the name of Jesus. They consider those who embrace the Spirit of Christ to be the least in society and not deserving of human dignity nor their respect. They are shearing the Spirit. They only honor those who allow the image of the beast to live and speak through them by welcoming the thing which forms their thoughts, feelings, emotions, and behaviors.

Jesus Christ wants us to be humble, not boastful harsh, and abrasive. As quoted below,

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,  who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you; He is just and having salvation, lowly and riding on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey.Philippians 2:5-8 and also Zechariah 9:9

“Shall I then take my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men when I do not know where they are from?” 1 Samuel 25:11 The economies of today are designed for those who shear the human spirit and are harsh and abrasive to the Spirit of Christ. Their money, resources, possessions, and prosperity are withheld from Christianity to prevent the human spirit from prospering in the Spirit of Christ. Their attitude is hostile against prospering anybody except those who work to shear the Spirit and work to enable the image of the beast to live and speak through a person. They refuse to acknowledge God, His Son Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, and Christianity as a whole.

When we acknowledge Jesus Christ, He will acknowledge us.

Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 10:32

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11