From John chapter 15, we read the following scriptures - "I AM the true vine" and "My Father is the husbandman."
Every branch in Me that bears no fruit is taken away and every branch that bears fruit is purged so that it may bring forth more fruit. [Further] you are clean through the Word which I have spoken to you. Abide in Me for a branch cannot bear fruit of itself. The branch must remain in the vine.
I AM the vine. You are the branches. Abide in Me and you shall bring forth much fruit. If anyone does not abide in Me, he becomes withered and men will gather it up to be used as firewood!
Whereas, if ye abide in Me, and my Words abide in you then you shall ask what you will and it shall be done. Herein is My Father glorified that you bear much fruit.
As my Father has loved Me so have I loved you. If you continue in my instructions, then you shall abide in my love even as I have kept my Father's instructions and I abide in His love.
These things have I said to you so that my joy might remain in you. This is my instructions - Love one another even as I have loved you.
Why? Because there is no greater love than this -- that a man lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends when you do whatsoever I instruct you. From henceforth, I will no longer call you servants for a servant does not know what His Lord is doing. [Instead} I now call you My friends for all things that I have heard of My Father I have made them known to you.
You have not chosen Me. I have chosen you and I ordain you that you now should go out into the world and bring forth fruit.
If the world hates you, remember that the world hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the unbelieving world, the world would love you but because you are not of the world, that they hate you. [But remember],I have chosen you out of the unbelieving world. That is the reason the world hates you. Remember the Words that I said to you - "If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you for you have believed upon Me!"
If I had not come and spoken my Words to them, they would have remained in darkness as to what sin was but now they have no place to hide. For My Word has pierced their conscience. He that hates My Word hates My Father also.
If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they would not have had consciousness of sin. But now have they seen and hated both Me and My Father for it was My Father who dwells within Me, He who does these works and speaks these Words.
They simply hate Me for no justifiable reason! But when the comforter (who is the Spirit of Truth) comes upon you and dwells within you, then you shall bear witness concerning me. For you are My 0ffspring! God Bless You!
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness
Monday, April 30, 2012
Sunday, April 29, 2012
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 409
Recognizing that we have been born of God and received of His Spirit is an awesome feeling. This understanding is not because we of ourselves have become enlightened for we realize that within us the dark night of sin ruled and reigned. Rather, it is the realization that God came looking for us, even when we were so lost and deceived. Up until this point, we had resolved ourselves into thinking that what we now have is our lot in life and as a consequence, remained in total darkness devoid of any knowledge of God.
While we searched for the meaning of life, admittedly, some of us followed the forms of religion as advocated by the ruling powers. We were born into this world and exposed to that institutional construct which was a seated form. In this context, unfortunately, we never really questioned the form. We simply followed the crowd.
Therein, religion introduced us to all sorts of images and pictures. Men and women clothed themselves as priests with a variety of other attending ministers attired in all sorts of paraphernalia. Bestowed upon these priests and ministers - often among themselves - were titles exalting them to a position of authority. The authority of these presumed leaders becoming more established as light (and yet in reality total darkness) as each generation passed. And in the end, so deceived and chained were we with religious darkness we crucified JESUS who was the WORD of God. And, by so doing religion figured to put their erroneous falsity back on even keel! This kind of institutional religious mindset continued until total darkness embraced all people. We followed this pattern because we were lost!
Still, God did not intend that any one should perish. This is why God came looking for us. Through His grace and mercy, God made a way which is the only way whereby man could be saved. And because of the light of His Words - His Wisdom and Truth - the gospel message that was delivered into this deceived world was so great that many hid their faces from this glorious light of truth. Regardless of the initial human response, this light of truth shone much brighter than the noon day sun for the light (His Words) and the knowledge of God which is the only true gospel message still melts into the inner chambers of our hearts.
Yes, JESUS was the corn of wheat that died (kernel) and in so doing the life of the Holy Spirit has brought forth a multitude of redeemed offspring! We who believe and are baptized into His death become His offspring. Being His offspring, His Holy Spirit works within us enabling us to walk in the light and truth of the knowledge of God. Indeed, we are the people who by God's grace and mercy are no longer alienated from God, but are now redeemed sons and daughters of God.
Therefore, grow in grace. We have a Saviour named JESUS who will never leave us for we are His offspring! Peace be to one and all - each and every one of us - who have chosen to become enlightened of God! Peace be!
While we searched for the meaning of life, admittedly, some of us followed the forms of religion as advocated by the ruling powers. We were born into this world and exposed to that institutional construct which was a seated form. In this context, unfortunately, we never really questioned the form. We simply followed the crowd.
Therein, religion introduced us to all sorts of images and pictures. Men and women clothed themselves as priests with a variety of other attending ministers attired in all sorts of paraphernalia. Bestowed upon these priests and ministers - often among themselves - were titles exalting them to a position of authority. The authority of these presumed leaders becoming more established as light (and yet in reality total darkness) as each generation passed. And in the end, so deceived and chained were we with religious darkness we crucified JESUS who was the WORD of God. And, by so doing religion figured to put their erroneous falsity back on even keel! This kind of institutional religious mindset continued until total darkness embraced all people. We followed this pattern because we were lost!
Still, God did not intend that any one should perish. This is why God came looking for us. Through His grace and mercy, God made a way which is the only way whereby man could be saved. And because of the light of His Words - His Wisdom and Truth - the gospel message that was delivered into this deceived world was so great that many hid their faces from this glorious light of truth. Regardless of the initial human response, this light of truth shone much brighter than the noon day sun for the light (His Words) and the knowledge of God which is the only true gospel message still melts into the inner chambers of our hearts.
Yes, JESUS was the corn of wheat that died (kernel) and in so doing the life of the Holy Spirit has brought forth a multitude of redeemed offspring! We who believe and are baptized into His death become His offspring. Being His offspring, His Holy Spirit works within us enabling us to walk in the light and truth of the knowledge of God. Indeed, we are the people who by God's grace and mercy are no longer alienated from God, but are now redeemed sons and daughters of God.
Therefore, grow in grace. We have a Saviour named JESUS who will never leave us for we are His offspring! Peace be to one and all - each and every one of us - who have chosen to become enlightened of God! Peace be!
Friday, April 27, 2012
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 408
We are the offspring of God in Christ. God has fathered all of His children in a Son’s body. Indeed, JESUS was the very SEED of the Holy Spirit because there was no other party involved. God who authored all seed - both the male and female seed that proceeded forth from Adam and Eve - has now in these last days raised us up a second Adam to redeem the first Adam’s fallen race.
All having sinned resulted in each and every one of us being alienated from fellowship with our Creator. In order to redeem man, another sinless man had to be found. For by one man, sin entered into the world, so therefore it necessitated that a sinless man must die in order to negate the decreed punishment of sin.
Adam was forewarned of God of the penalty that would be imposed on the world if he were to eat of the fruit of two trees. But as we know from reading Genesis, Adam and Eve went ahead and ate of the tree anyway. Kind of like they say today - doing their own thing! As a consequence, we are now inheritors of the sin, sickness, pain, agony, and hunger.
Still, God so loved His creation. Therefore, God became in fashion like his creation (flesh). In so doing, God provided two SEED'S. One seed was the pure untainted female SEED that God planted into Eve. The second SEED was the pure untainted male SEED that God planted into Abraham. (For detailed account, please review the numerous earlier presentations made on this subject)
Before moving on, it may be necessary to revisit the original Eden Garden where innocence was the norm. Therein, Adam and Eve were tempted by the devil. God had forewarned Adam concerning eating fruit from either of the two forbidden trees. Even though Adam was aware of the penalty of death that would be incurred resulting in their disobedience to God’s instruction, he ate of the fruit anyway. God told Adam but Adam did not tell Eve. So EVE was in ignorance as to what God had said. Therefore, it is declared of God that it would be the SEED of a woman that would at the fullness of time bruise the serpent's head.
Adam was in sinful disobedience, his natural seed inheriting a sinful nature. If there had happened to be another man who was without sin (unfortunately there was not), then any offspring born of them would not inherit a sinful nature. We also know that Adam and Eve were both naked when they sinned.
We see the same nakedness in the New Testament. When one observes JESUS nailed to the Cross, He was also naked. In this latter case, it was ‘only naked’ sin that was being dealt with in the redemption of creation. Nothing else! Nothing can be added to the penalty of sin.
This is the covenant between God who is Spirit and God Himself as a Son! This covenant is not dependent upon you or I. Indeed, this covenant was JESUS the Lamb of God and child of the Holy Spirit, in whose veins did flow the life giving blood of His Father who is the Holy Spirit.
Yes, it was God as a Son who laid down His life as a Son, enabling all who believe in the sacrificial offering of the Lord’s own sinless body to receive the free gift of eternal life. Our redemption purchased of God! Therefore, there cannot be any additions added.
We cannot hasten past the crucifixion of the Lord of Glory, as if it were only a fleeting thought. Why? Because without the crucifixion of JESUS no one can be saved. God having said that without the shedding of His blood there is no remission of sin. This is why God did not offer someone else. Rather, God sacrificed Himself! This explains why there is no other offering. All that men and women can do is stand in the offering plate along with two companions sincerity and truth, thanking God for all He has done!
It is here that we can now proceed from redemption into salvation, being baptized into the name of JESUS the Christ, and receiving the promised gift of the Holy Spirit that indwelt JESUS!
All having sinned resulted in each and every one of us being alienated from fellowship with our Creator. In order to redeem man, another sinless man had to be found. For by one man, sin entered into the world, so therefore it necessitated that a sinless man must die in order to negate the decreed punishment of sin.
Adam was forewarned of God of the penalty that would be imposed on the world if he were to eat of the fruit of two trees. But as we know from reading Genesis, Adam and Eve went ahead and ate of the tree anyway. Kind of like they say today - doing their own thing! As a consequence, we are now inheritors of the sin, sickness, pain, agony, and hunger.
Still, God so loved His creation. Therefore, God became in fashion like his creation (flesh). In so doing, God provided two SEED'S. One seed was the pure untainted female SEED that God planted into Eve. The second SEED was the pure untainted male SEED that God planted into Abraham. (For detailed account, please review the numerous earlier presentations made on this subject)
Before moving on, it may be necessary to revisit the original Eden Garden where innocence was the norm. Therein, Adam and Eve were tempted by the devil. God had forewarned Adam concerning eating fruit from either of the two forbidden trees. Even though Adam was aware of the penalty of death that would be incurred resulting in their disobedience to God’s instruction, he ate of the fruit anyway. God told Adam but Adam did not tell Eve. So EVE was in ignorance as to what God had said. Therefore, it is declared of God that it would be the SEED of a woman that would at the fullness of time bruise the serpent's head.
Adam was in sinful disobedience, his natural seed inheriting a sinful nature. If there had happened to be another man who was without sin (unfortunately there was not), then any offspring born of them would not inherit a sinful nature. We also know that Adam and Eve were both naked when they sinned.
We see the same nakedness in the New Testament. When one observes JESUS nailed to the Cross, He was also naked. In this latter case, it was ‘only naked’ sin that was being dealt with in the redemption of creation. Nothing else! Nothing can be added to the penalty of sin.
This is the covenant between God who is Spirit and God Himself as a Son! This covenant is not dependent upon you or I. Indeed, this covenant was JESUS the Lamb of God and child of the Holy Spirit, in whose veins did flow the life giving blood of His Father who is the Holy Spirit.
Yes, it was God as a Son who laid down His life as a Son, enabling all who believe in the sacrificial offering of the Lord’s own sinless body to receive the free gift of eternal life. Our redemption purchased of God! Therefore, there cannot be any additions added.
We cannot hasten past the crucifixion of the Lord of Glory, as if it were only a fleeting thought. Why? Because without the crucifixion of JESUS no one can be saved. God having said that without the shedding of His blood there is no remission of sin. This is why God did not offer someone else. Rather, God sacrificed Himself! This explains why there is no other offering. All that men and women can do is stand in the offering plate along with two companions sincerity and truth, thanking God for all He has done!
It is here that we can now proceed from redemption into salvation, being baptized into the name of JESUS the Christ, and receiving the promised gift of the Holy Spirit that indwelt JESUS!
Thursday, April 26, 2012
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 407
This gospel reveals JESUS - who is the SEED of promise - and in which SEED all the nations of the earth can be blessed. This gospel became necessary when God Himself was veiled in flesh as a righteous man. For God declared that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. In this context then, there is none righteous, no not one.
But the hidden plan of God was gradually being unveiled. Right from the beginning, God had a plan for man even though at times we cannot comprehend what God has in store for us. Indeed, we often scratch our heads endeavouring to understand what is man that the Lord god would be so mindful of Him.
Yes, Lord you have made man a little lower than the angels. Still, you set man over the works of your hands and crowned man with glory and honour. When man turned aside from your Word, it was here that you imparted into EVE a SEED of promise. A SEED of yourself emanating from yourself. So that in the process of time, you would clothe your Promised SEED in sin prone flesh, thereby initiating at the fullness of time your hidden plan of redemption.
That is, you would through your love, mercy and grace purchase us who were your enemies and bring each and every one of us who believed back to innocence. And this redemption plan, purchased through the sacrifice of your own blood (the blood of your Holy Spirit).
In our ignorance of prophetic scripture, we indeed crucified JESUS. We were spurred along by religious zealots who in pretence professed to be God’s ministers, and in the end duping us into believing that such was the case!
But God’s love for His disobedient creation was much greater than our sin of beguiled disobedience. Because of God's love for us, there never can be anything that can separate us from God’s love. God has manifested His Love to us whilst inside a prone to sin body, a body in which body He willingly inherited all of our sins and demerits. But even death did not deter JESUS from His purposed mission, which was to redeem and restore the fallen sons of God.
This is why JESUS died and was buried in a tomb. As stated in the scriptures, "Except a corn of wheat falls into the ground and dies it remains alone." However, if the corn of wheat were to die, in dying the potential life within the SEED springs forth as a multitude of the same SEEDS.
In this example, JESUS is the SEED and we are the offspring of the SEED of JESUS. In this same SEED as afore promised of God in prophecy, all the nations of the earth will be blessed.
To become one of the offspring, certain criteria must be willingly adhered too. First of all, one must recognise that JESUS put Himself on the cross for you and I who are the guilty ones. We must repent before God for our sinful deeds, giving thanks to God with a grateful heart. If one is not willing to offer themselves on these terms, then the door of redemption will remain closed!
If, on the other hand, one willing repents with a grateful heart, then their sins are remitted in full by the same JESUS has put Himself in our place. We then receive the gift of redemption. And now having received redemption, God commands that you be baptized into the likeness of JESUS death. In so doing, you will receive the promised gift of the Holy Spirit that comes forth from the SEED of Life within the kernel of wheat - JESUS!
As such, you become the offspring of JESUS. We are now the children of God in Christ! We have been born again as a new spiritual creation, dwelling within us is the same Spirit as was in the man JESUS the Christ! This Spirit is the Holy Spirit. We are ALL members of that ONE SEED and because we are the offspring of the SEED, we now hunger for the things of God, endeavouring to walk even as He walked!
But the hidden plan of God was gradually being unveiled. Right from the beginning, God had a plan for man even though at times we cannot comprehend what God has in store for us. Indeed, we often scratch our heads endeavouring to understand what is man that the Lord god would be so mindful of Him.
Yes, Lord you have made man a little lower than the angels. Still, you set man over the works of your hands and crowned man with glory and honour. When man turned aside from your Word, it was here that you imparted into EVE a SEED of promise. A SEED of yourself emanating from yourself. So that in the process of time, you would clothe your Promised SEED in sin prone flesh, thereby initiating at the fullness of time your hidden plan of redemption.
That is, you would through your love, mercy and grace purchase us who were your enemies and bring each and every one of us who believed back to innocence. And this redemption plan, purchased through the sacrifice of your own blood (the blood of your Holy Spirit).
In our ignorance of prophetic scripture, we indeed crucified JESUS. We were spurred along by religious zealots who in pretence professed to be God’s ministers, and in the end duping us into believing that such was the case!
But God’s love for His disobedient creation was much greater than our sin of beguiled disobedience. Because of God's love for us, there never can be anything that can separate us from God’s love. God has manifested His Love to us whilst inside a prone to sin body, a body in which body He willingly inherited all of our sins and demerits. But even death did not deter JESUS from His purposed mission, which was to redeem and restore the fallen sons of God.
This is why JESUS died and was buried in a tomb. As stated in the scriptures, "Except a corn of wheat falls into the ground and dies it remains alone." However, if the corn of wheat were to die, in dying the potential life within the SEED springs forth as a multitude of the same SEEDS.
In this example, JESUS is the SEED and we are the offspring of the SEED of JESUS. In this same SEED as afore promised of God in prophecy, all the nations of the earth will be blessed.
To become one of the offspring, certain criteria must be willingly adhered too. First of all, one must recognise that JESUS put Himself on the cross for you and I who are the guilty ones. We must repent before God for our sinful deeds, giving thanks to God with a grateful heart. If one is not willing to offer themselves on these terms, then the door of redemption will remain closed!
If, on the other hand, one willing repents with a grateful heart, then their sins are remitted in full by the same JESUS has put Himself in our place. We then receive the gift of redemption. And now having received redemption, God commands that you be baptized into the likeness of JESUS death. In so doing, you will receive the promised gift of the Holy Spirit that comes forth from the SEED of Life within the kernel of wheat - JESUS!
As such, you become the offspring of JESUS. We are now the children of God in Christ! We have been born again as a new spiritual creation, dwelling within us is the same Spirit as was in the man JESUS the Christ! This Spirit is the Holy Spirit. We are ALL members of that ONE SEED and because we are the offspring of the SEED, we now hunger for the things of God, endeavouring to walk even as He walked!
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 406
We are the body of Christ! Within the body of Christ, each believing member exercises a particular function according to the operational gifts imparted to believers by His Holy Spirit. To each one of us, He divides the gifts as He wills. In this context, the Holy Spirit bestows gifts to each member so that they - through the exercise of these given gifts - the whole body of the Christ (which is the temple of the Spirit of God) may remain vibrant.
At the same time, the body of the Christ can be recognized by unbelievers (or those outsiders among us who are not yet saved) as being the offspring of JESUS. So that they too can declare the body of the Christ to be JESUS people, reporting that the God of truth is in the midst of them.
Indeed, we are the offspring of JESUS who has SEEDED us and fathered us in His death. As previously discussed, JESUS is likened to a corn of wheat that has fallen into the ground and died and by reason of the kernel flesh dying, the SEED within the kernel (flesh) exposes the SEED of LIFE. From that SEED brings forth a harvest of new wheat - or in this analogy, JESUS PEOPLE. The same life that was in the original SEED now indwells the offspring who also now within themselves carry the SEED of Christ!
So it is not really the "old" you that is the driving force working within you. Rather, it is the power of the Holy Spirit that was in the man JESUS the Christ who now indwells you. We believed in the sacrificial offering of the body of Christ, who we repeatedly declare is the very SEED of the Holy Spirit. We having sincerely believed, having called upon His name JESUS, being baptized in water after the likeness of His burial, and having willingly obeyed, we arose from the water a new spiritual creation. Now we are alive to the awareness that it was God in the man Christ JESUS who loved us and laid down His life for each believer’s personal redemption.
Therefore, we are the offspring of the SEED of the Holy Spirit, the kernel covering the SEED of the Holy Spirit that died in order to permit the SEED of life within the kernel to multiply.
Thus, we are now many offspring of that one SEED body whose body is the Christ. And as such, the work of the Holy Spirit that brought forth redemption is finished. Moreover, the keys to the Kingdom of God we have received and JESUS has commissioned believers to go into all the world and preach this redemption - salvation - good news gospel message to one and all. God bless you all as you go forth.
At the same time, the body of the Christ can be recognized by unbelievers (or those outsiders among us who are not yet saved) as being the offspring of JESUS. So that they too can declare the body of the Christ to be JESUS people, reporting that the God of truth is in the midst of them.
Indeed, we are the offspring of JESUS who has SEEDED us and fathered us in His death. As previously discussed, JESUS is likened to a corn of wheat that has fallen into the ground and died and by reason of the kernel flesh dying, the SEED within the kernel (flesh) exposes the SEED of LIFE. From that SEED brings forth a harvest of new wheat - or in this analogy, JESUS PEOPLE. The same life that was in the original SEED now indwells the offspring who also now within themselves carry the SEED of Christ!
So it is not really the "old" you that is the driving force working within you. Rather, it is the power of the Holy Spirit that was in the man JESUS the Christ who now indwells you. We believed in the sacrificial offering of the body of Christ, who we repeatedly declare is the very SEED of the Holy Spirit. We having sincerely believed, having called upon His name JESUS, being baptized in water after the likeness of His burial, and having willingly obeyed, we arose from the water a new spiritual creation. Now we are alive to the awareness that it was God in the man Christ JESUS who loved us and laid down His life for each believer’s personal redemption.
Therefore, we are the offspring of the SEED of the Holy Spirit, the kernel covering the SEED of the Holy Spirit that died in order to permit the SEED of life within the kernel to multiply.
Thus, we are now many offspring of that one SEED body whose body is the Christ. And as such, the work of the Holy Spirit that brought forth redemption is finished. Moreover, the keys to the Kingdom of God we have received and JESUS has commissioned believers to go into all the world and preach this redemption - salvation - good news gospel message to one and all. God bless you all as you go forth.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 405
In post 404, we saw the footprint God has on our lives as our creator, redeemer, Saviour and friend. God who is with us throughout the sands of time even though at times - at least in our eyes - may appear obscure. Still, what we need to recognize here is that the plan of God on our lives is always prevalent. JESUS not only authored the scriptures but appeared upon earth as a man, displaying healings, miracles, signs, and wonders.
Unfortunately, man’s ideas at times seem stuck in cement, sometimes bringing forth arguments against the same scriptures whereby eye witnesses at the time testified to what they saw. That is, the positive miracles, signs, and wonders wrought by JESUS.
For example, the man born blind that JESUS healed. As the scriptures state, JESUS momentarily disappeared from sight. In the interim, religious men approached the blind man who now had 20/20 vision. These religious men cross examined the once blind man asking how this could have happened. Indeed, they even challenged his parents as to how such a thing could happen. The parents replied by saying, "Ask him. He is old enough to speak." So once again, the religious men challenged the young man but the religious prosecutors did not like the man’s answers. Some might suggest that their ego was deflated. So they said to the man, "Who are you to teach us?" The young man simply declared - All I know is that ‘Once I Was Blind But Now I See!
Whether man believes in the miracles Jesus performed really matters little. Why not? Because man's unbelief does not alter the course of the world. Further, the Book of Life only records whether one has faith in God or whether their life is the result of unbelief. When JESUS preached that the Kingdom of God has come near man, He did so in order that we could now know the truths concerning the Kingdom of God. And JESUS preached the Good News in Word by illustrating the life of the Kingdom of God by discharging sickness and demonic oppression. Therefore, healing the blind so that they could see.
How? JESUS, God with us, being the Son of the Holy Ghost healed the blind! The same Holy Ghost that fathered the man JESUS. For JESUS was and is the SEED of the Holy Ghost. In JESUS, all the fullness of the Godhead did dwell bodily! (Colossians 1:17; Colossians 2:9)
JESUS being likened to a corn of wheat that if the SEED of wheat is not planted, it remains as one corn. JESUS walked upon earth as one corn. However, when JESUS was murdered at Calvary and then planted (buried) in the tomb, then the corn SEED multiplied in number. From that one SEED comes forth many more. In short, the one SEED fathered many more SEEDS in the process of the ONE SEED dying!
JESUS is the SEED of the Holy Ghost. The very life of God as a Son was murdered and buried. From that ONE SEED comes forth offspring which in this case is a whole multitude of JESUS PEOPLE born of the ONE SEED of His holy Spirit whose sin prone flesh carcass (kernel) was buried. A new spiritual people born out of the SEED of the Holy Ghost within (the kernel)emerge these offspring are the children of God’s SEED.
This is the message we now preach to the world. The same message as was preached by the SEED of the Holy Ghost who fathered them. Those who now go about healing the sick and casting out devils. Why? Because the offspring inherited the power and nature of the very same God who fathered them!
Stand in the offering plate.
Unfortunately, man’s ideas at times seem stuck in cement, sometimes bringing forth arguments against the same scriptures whereby eye witnesses at the time testified to what they saw. That is, the positive miracles, signs, and wonders wrought by JESUS.
For example, the man born blind that JESUS healed. As the scriptures state, JESUS momentarily disappeared from sight. In the interim, religious men approached the blind man who now had 20/20 vision. These religious men cross examined the once blind man asking how this could have happened. Indeed, they even challenged his parents as to how such a thing could happen. The parents replied by saying, "Ask him. He is old enough to speak." So once again, the religious men challenged the young man but the religious prosecutors did not like the man’s answers. Some might suggest that their ego was deflated. So they said to the man, "Who are you to teach us?" The young man simply declared - All I know is that ‘Once I Was Blind But Now I See!
Whether man believes in the miracles Jesus performed really matters little. Why not? Because man's unbelief does not alter the course of the world. Further, the Book of Life only records whether one has faith in God or whether their life is the result of unbelief. When JESUS preached that the Kingdom of God has come near man, He did so in order that we could now know the truths concerning the Kingdom of God. And JESUS preached the Good News in Word by illustrating the life of the Kingdom of God by discharging sickness and demonic oppression. Therefore, healing the blind so that they could see.
How? JESUS, God with us, being the Son of the Holy Ghost healed the blind! The same Holy Ghost that fathered the man JESUS. For JESUS was and is the SEED of the Holy Ghost. In JESUS, all the fullness of the Godhead did dwell bodily! (Colossians 1:17; Colossians 2:9)
JESUS being likened to a corn of wheat that if the SEED of wheat is not planted, it remains as one corn. JESUS walked upon earth as one corn. However, when JESUS was murdered at Calvary and then planted (buried) in the tomb, then the corn SEED multiplied in number. From that one SEED comes forth many more. In short, the one SEED fathered many more SEEDS in the process of the ONE SEED dying!
JESUS is the SEED of the Holy Ghost. The very life of God as a Son was murdered and buried. From that ONE SEED comes forth offspring which in this case is a whole multitude of JESUS PEOPLE born of the ONE SEED of His holy Spirit whose sin prone flesh carcass (kernel) was buried. A new spiritual people born out of the SEED of the Holy Ghost within (the kernel)emerge these offspring are the children of God’s SEED.
This is the message we now preach to the world. The same message as was preached by the SEED of the Holy Ghost who fathered them. Those who now go about healing the sick and casting out devils. Why? Because the offspring inherited the power and nature of the very same God who fathered them!
Stand in the offering plate.
Monday, April 23, 2012
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 404
The light shines in the darkness and yet the darkness does not comprehend the light. Before proceeding let me clarify a very important point concerning the SEED of PROMISE - which SEED is the SEED of the Holy Ghost - which SEED when manifested is JESUS the Christ - who is God Himself with us - and in that SEED is the very SEED of His holy Spirit - in which dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
Concerning the genealogy of Cain: In Genesis chapter 4, there is a short genealogy pertaining to Cain (after Adam and Eve had been put out of the garden of Eden). Cain having murdered his brother Abel went out from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in an area east of Eden in the land of Nod. There, Cain built a city Enoch, named after the name of his firstborn son Enoch. In verses 20-22, we read the details concerning the capabilities of Cain’s offspring.
Concerning the SEED of PROMISE genealogy: In Genesis chapter 4 verses 25-26, we read that Adam knew his wife again bearing him a son called Seth who then bore a son named Enos. Note here that men began to call upon the name of the Lord. In chapter 5 verse 1 this is the generations of Adam. Neither Cain nor Abel are mentioned here. We immediately went from Adam to Seth to Enos.
The promised SEED was imparted into Eve. God spoke concerning the promise that the SEED of a woman would bruise the serpent's head. The promised SEED did not travel from Eve into Cain or Abel but rather the promised SEED traveled from Eve into Seth and from Seth into Enos, continuing on to Noah and then into Sarah.
As we also know from reading the scriptures, Sarah was barren. But God had promised to Abram that in his SEED (Christ) would all the nations of the earth be blessed. God planted into Abram the SEED of promise in which all the nations of the earth were going to be blessed through faith.
In Luke chapter 3:23, we read the genealogy of the promised SEED (which promised SEED is the Christ) tracing the genealogy all the way back to verse 38 where we read the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam. Note that there is no mention of Cain or Abel. Why is this? Because the promised SEED did not travel into either of them.
In Matthew Chapter 1:1, we read the book of the generation of JESUS the Christ the son of David, the son of Abraham. Here we follow the travels of the now two SEEDS of promise as they traveled from Abraham and Sarah into Isaac and so forth until the two promised SEEDS were brought together by the Holy Ghost into the womb of a surrogate mother Mary.
All of the afore-mentioned refers to the ministry of the Holy Ghost down through the ages. Hidden from the wise and prudent but revealed now unto babes in Christ. Treasure these things in your heart for salvation is from the Lord our God who has become our Saviour!
Stand in the offering plate.
Concerning the genealogy of Cain: In Genesis chapter 4, there is a short genealogy pertaining to Cain (after Adam and Eve had been put out of the garden of Eden). Cain having murdered his brother Abel went out from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in an area east of Eden in the land of Nod. There, Cain built a city Enoch, named after the name of his firstborn son Enoch. In verses 20-22, we read the details concerning the capabilities of Cain’s offspring.
Concerning the SEED of PROMISE genealogy: In Genesis chapter 4 verses 25-26, we read that Adam knew his wife again bearing him a son called Seth who then bore a son named Enos. Note here that men began to call upon the name of the Lord. In chapter 5 verse 1 this is the generations of Adam. Neither Cain nor Abel are mentioned here. We immediately went from Adam to Seth to Enos.
The promised SEED was imparted into Eve. God spoke concerning the promise that the SEED of a woman would bruise the serpent's head. The promised SEED did not travel from Eve into Cain or Abel but rather the promised SEED traveled from Eve into Seth and from Seth into Enos, continuing on to Noah and then into Sarah.
As we also know from reading the scriptures, Sarah was barren. But God had promised to Abram that in his SEED (Christ) would all the nations of the earth be blessed. God planted into Abram the SEED of promise in which all the nations of the earth were going to be blessed through faith.
In Luke chapter 3:23, we read the genealogy of the promised SEED (which promised SEED is the Christ) tracing the genealogy all the way back to verse 38 where we read the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam. Note that there is no mention of Cain or Abel. Why is this? Because the promised SEED did not travel into either of them.
In Matthew Chapter 1:1, we read the book of the generation of JESUS the Christ the son of David, the son of Abraham. Here we follow the travels of the now two SEEDS of promise as they traveled from Abraham and Sarah into Isaac and so forth until the two promised SEEDS were brought together by the Holy Ghost into the womb of a surrogate mother Mary.
All of the afore-mentioned refers to the ministry of the Holy Ghost down through the ages. Hidden from the wise and prudent but revealed now unto babes in Christ. Treasure these things in your heart for salvation is from the Lord our God who has become our Saviour!
Stand in the offering plate.
Saturday, April 21, 2012
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 403
Chorus: He came to me - He came to Me - I could not go to where He was so He came to me - That’s why He died at Calvary - I could not go to where He was so He came to me.
We have been born from above. We have become a new creation fashioned in the image of the Second Adam who is JESUS the Christ. The Lord Himself out of Heaven who was veiled in flesh even as the first Adam was accomplishing God’s purposed redemption for sinful man. He did this so that man through the sacrifice of God’s veil of flesh body (His prone to sin Adamic body) we the fallen race - who were because of sinful disobedience were alienated from God - could be saved. Now through the sacrificial death of JESUS the child of the Holy Spirit has provided for us - the Adamic race - a way to be partakers of free redemption from all guilt of sin. JESUS the only just sinless person died for us therefore bringing the scales of justice for those of us who have sinned to equilibrium!
This is why we believe that JESUS (God manifest in the flesh) laid down His life for us. It is also why we respond by being baptized in water (buried in the likeness of JESUS' death) arising out of the water after the fashion of JESUS' resurrection and therefore fully justifying us from all sin.
You may ask why? JESUS was the corn of wheat that came from Heaven to earth and died, and because the corn of wheat died, it brought forth a great multitude of offspring. We are the offspring for we have been planted into the likeness of His death. Therefore, we who are JESUS'offspring are similarly resurrected with Him becoming the children of God in JESUS.
We have just said that we are JESUS' offspring. Formerly we were Adam's offspring tainted with sin, having souls that were dead to the things of God. As it is written in the scriptures, the natural man receives not the things that be of God. The things of God are spiritual and natural man as we are well aware is not spiritual.
The Second Adam was spiritual. Inside the body of JESUS did dwell the Holy Spirit which is a quickening spirit. We being the offspring of JESUS are quickened by His Holy Spirit, therefore becoming a new creation created in the image of JESUS who is Our Father. JESUS having fathered us in His death. We are His offspring bearing the image of JESUS. This makes all of us together are the Christ. The Holy Spirit who indwelt the man JESUS the Christ now indwells us and thus we are now members of JESUS' bones and JESUS' flesh.
Please note that we are not all the "same" members within JESUS' body. Within this one body, each member is placed within the body of JESUS as it pleases the Holy Spirit. After all, we are now the body which the Holy Spirit has redeemed to Himself. We the redeemed of God having been born again of blood, water and Spirit are not just a body of flesh. Rather we have through salvation in JESUS the Christ become ‘the Temple of God.' In this temple, the Spirit of God is pleased to dwell.
Therefore, there is only one body, and one Spirit.. We are the one body and the Spirit of Christ within us is the Holy Spirit. Praise the Lord!
In the next post, we will proceed into the ‘Ministry of the Spirit" where we expand upon His redeemed body purchased to Himself by His own blood.
Friday, April 20, 2012
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 402
We have been bought with a price. Therefore we ought to glorify God in our mortal bodies! Why? Because our bodies are the temple in which the Holy Spirit is pleased to dwell! We should also note that we have a new covenant today. This new covenant is not patterned after the former covenant - the Sinai covenant delivered to the people by Moses and written on stone.
Rather, this New Covenant is a covenant (God in Christ) of redemption. A promise SEED covenant pronounced to Adam and Eve whilst they were still in the Eden garden. The promise being that the SEED of a woman would bruise the serpent's head. The SEED spoken of here is the SEED of the Holy Spirit which SEED travels down through the ages from generation to generation until the fullness of times should come.
JESUS - GOD with us - is the manifestation of those SEEDS being brought together in the womb of a young girl name Mary. A young girl who was surrogate mother of the child JESUS who is the SON of GOD. God with us as a Son. JESUS being the SEED of the Holy Spirit.
God as a Son was manifest in the flesh to destroy the works of the devil. As the scripture declares, JESUS said, "I have come that they might have life!" Conversely, as we also know from the scriptures, the devil’s purpose was to kill and destroy. The battle of Good verses Evil now being displayed. This is because through one man, sin had entered into the world. It therefore necessitated - to balance the scale of justice - that a righteous man must die. But this could not be any righteous man that must die, but a righteous man that should also bear upon His body the agony and pain incurred from the sin that came about from Adam’s disobedience.
But there was not to be found any one upon earth who was righteous! That is why God speaks of a SEED of Promise. JESUS then is the manifestation of the Promised SEED and it is JESUS who is God with Us who we crucified in our ignorance at Calvary. This means that JESUS is the Lord of Glory who laid down His sinless body for you and I. And in whom upon His excruciating death paid fully the demands of justice for disobedience.
Because of Jesus' sacrifice, man has been redeemed back to God through the sacrificial death of JESUS who alone is the door to reconciliation. JESUS is the only door to salvation. There is no other door, although there are those who might suggest otherwise. Do not follow their erroneous deception. Search the scriptures for yourself.
For it is written, "Except a corn of wheat falls into the ground and dies it abides alone. But if it falls into the ground and dies it no longer remains alone. It multiplies."
JESUS is the corn of wheat which was crucified, died, buried and then resurrected for us. We who believe in JESUS and are willingly baptized into His death and therefore planted in the likeness of His death (into a watery grave) arise from that watery grave in like manner of JESUS' resurrection to become a new creation. Redeemed by JESUS' blood, buried with Him, and resurrected with Him. A multitude more than the stars of heaven brought forth from that corn of wheat JESUS.
We are the JESUS People springing forth from that everlasting Covenant of GOD IN CHRIST. Read Acts chapter 2:37-42 and Romans chapter 6. Peace to all!
Rather, this New Covenant is a covenant (God in Christ) of redemption. A promise SEED covenant pronounced to Adam and Eve whilst they were still in the Eden garden. The promise being that the SEED of a woman would bruise the serpent's head. The SEED spoken of here is the SEED of the Holy Spirit which SEED travels down through the ages from generation to generation until the fullness of times should come.
JESUS - GOD with us - is the manifestation of those SEEDS being brought together in the womb of a young girl name Mary. A young girl who was surrogate mother of the child JESUS who is the SON of GOD. God with us as a Son. JESUS being the SEED of the Holy Spirit.
God as a Son was manifest in the flesh to destroy the works of the devil. As the scripture declares, JESUS said, "I have come that they might have life!" Conversely, as we also know from the scriptures, the devil’s purpose was to kill and destroy. The battle of Good verses Evil now being displayed. This is because through one man, sin had entered into the world. It therefore necessitated - to balance the scale of justice - that a righteous man must die. But this could not be any righteous man that must die, but a righteous man that should also bear upon His body the agony and pain incurred from the sin that came about from Adam’s disobedience.
But there was not to be found any one upon earth who was righteous! That is why God speaks of a SEED of Promise. JESUS then is the manifestation of the Promised SEED and it is JESUS who is God with Us who we crucified in our ignorance at Calvary. This means that JESUS is the Lord of Glory who laid down His sinless body for you and I. And in whom upon His excruciating death paid fully the demands of justice for disobedience.
Because of Jesus' sacrifice, man has been redeemed back to God through the sacrificial death of JESUS who alone is the door to reconciliation. JESUS is the only door to salvation. There is no other door, although there are those who might suggest otherwise. Do not follow their erroneous deception. Search the scriptures for yourself.
For it is written, "Except a corn of wheat falls into the ground and dies it abides alone. But if it falls into the ground and dies it no longer remains alone. It multiplies."
JESUS is the corn of wheat which was crucified, died, buried and then resurrected for us. We who believe in JESUS and are willingly baptized into His death and therefore planted in the likeness of His death (into a watery grave) arise from that watery grave in like manner of JESUS' resurrection to become a new creation. Redeemed by JESUS' blood, buried with Him, and resurrected with Him. A multitude more than the stars of heaven brought forth from that corn of wheat JESUS.
We are the JESUS People springing forth from that everlasting Covenant of GOD IN CHRIST. Read Acts chapter 2:37-42 and Romans chapter 6. Peace to all!
Thursday, April 19, 2012
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 401
It was for you and me that JESUS died at Calvary. My eyes were opened wide, and I saw His wounded side. Oh yes, it was for me He died at Calvary!
This is the starting point. The point where we must all - each and every one of us - start if we are going to move forward for without the shedding of JESUS' blood, there cannot be any remission of sin. For it was God who is before all things, who laid upon Himself all of our anxiety, cares, and sin.
Yes God is Spirit. The Spirit of God, upon counselling with Himself decided that He was going to show Himself in visible form. As such, God stepped out of the unseen and shows Himself in form. It is evident that God had a plan. We are not here by accident.
In the beginning, God created man as an earthly image of His own spiritual form. And into that earthly form, God breathed the breath of life. As a consequence, man becomes a living soul. But man in his innocence really was easy picking for the devil. Man was perfect in image but he also very gullible believing every lying tongue at the time. For as we know from Genesis, man knew only good.
Fortunately, God knew before man was ever created and put Adam and Eve in the garden, that man was an unfinished work in progress. Yes, admittedly, man was a living soul but that innocent soul life was soon to become a dead soul reducing man to a place that stagnated his growth beyond his present stature. As we read, Adam and Eve disobeyed God and a death sentence was pronounced upon all living souls. For God had decreed that the soul that sins (the sin of disobedience to God’s instructions) would surely die. Adam and Eve were put forth out of the garden entering into a new school of life. That school is what we today might refer to as the ‘School of Hard Knocks’ where all the works of the devil were the norm. But in reality Adam and Eve were total strangers and foreigners in this new other world.
It also meant that their natural productive seed was no longer pure. Sin now inhabited their seed their two sons Cain and Abel were typical examples of a fall from innocence! God was aware of their plight but God has a higher plan for man. Remember, man is a work in progress. As such, God gave a promise that the SEED of a woman would bruise the head of a serpent, the devil’s head. This explains why that promised SEED passed into Seth as presented in the genealogical record scribed in Matthew and Luke.
This new school that they were now registered in however, has never produced 3 month wonders. Indeed, we are all in attendance to this new world being introduced to sin and depravity on a regular basis. In fact, men and women fell so deep into sin that the animals in the barnyard were better behaved. Morality went out the window. Everyone was walking according to his own untutored mind. That is, until the flood came taking them all away. The exception was the eight persons and the animals! As we read in the scriptures, these eight persons entered into the Ark and God CLOSED the door.
Later, Abraham who was called a friend of God and believed God was blessed of Him because of His faith. Apart from Abraham believing in God, Abraham naturally was hardly what one might consider normal. For example, Abraham offered his wife to another person to save himself. Abraham then takes his servant girl and fathers a child with her. Abraham sends the child along with his mother packing. Abraham takes his son, ties him onto an alter, and is about to drive a knife into his son when Melchisedec meets Abraham. When the two meet, Melchisedec blesses him with bread and wine which Melchisedec had in His hands. (In God’s hands is bread and wine. The bread typifying His Life in flesh and the wine typifying His blood.) As we read, Abraham endeavours to add to the blessing by offering money.
What was happening here is that God was giving Abraham a promise that in His SEED (which is Christ the SEED of the Holy Spirit) would all the nations of the earth be blessed. Abraham misinterprets the message, thinking that the promise concerns his natural Adamic seed. Abraham takes a knife and circumcises all his household. Oh Lord, such were some of us who likewise believed, even as Abraham believed but were equally messed up!
But Lord you came, put us upon your shoulders and carried us home which is why believing in God is good. Indeed, it is the SEED of the Holy Spirit - JESUS - who alone can save. He willing shed His blood for us. JESUS the ‘Lamb of God’ was like a sheep before the shearers. Still, the Lord our God opened not His mouth. He came to make a redemptive way and it is He alone who can deliver! The Lord Our Creator has become our Saviour! Let God’s work of redemption usher in the plan of God for our lives. Peace be!
This is the starting point. The point where we must all - each and every one of us - start if we are going to move forward for without the shedding of JESUS' blood, there cannot be any remission of sin. For it was God who is before all things, who laid upon Himself all of our anxiety, cares, and sin.
Yes God is Spirit. The Spirit of God, upon counselling with Himself decided that He was going to show Himself in visible form. As such, God stepped out of the unseen and shows Himself in form. It is evident that God had a plan. We are not here by accident.
In the beginning, God created man as an earthly image of His own spiritual form. And into that earthly form, God breathed the breath of life. As a consequence, man becomes a living soul. But man in his innocence really was easy picking for the devil. Man was perfect in image but he also very gullible believing every lying tongue at the time. For as we know from Genesis, man knew only good.
Fortunately, God knew before man was ever created and put Adam and Eve in the garden, that man was an unfinished work in progress. Yes, admittedly, man was a living soul but that innocent soul life was soon to become a dead soul reducing man to a place that stagnated his growth beyond his present stature. As we read, Adam and Eve disobeyed God and a death sentence was pronounced upon all living souls. For God had decreed that the soul that sins (the sin of disobedience to God’s instructions) would surely die. Adam and Eve were put forth out of the garden entering into a new school of life. That school is what we today might refer to as the ‘School of Hard Knocks’ where all the works of the devil were the norm. But in reality Adam and Eve were total strangers and foreigners in this new other world.
It also meant that their natural productive seed was no longer pure. Sin now inhabited their seed their two sons Cain and Abel were typical examples of a fall from innocence! God was aware of their plight but God has a higher plan for man. Remember, man is a work in progress. As such, God gave a promise that the SEED of a woman would bruise the head of a serpent, the devil’s head. This explains why that promised SEED passed into Seth as presented in the genealogical record scribed in Matthew and Luke.
This new school that they were now registered in however, has never produced 3 month wonders. Indeed, we are all in attendance to this new world being introduced to sin and depravity on a regular basis. In fact, men and women fell so deep into sin that the animals in the barnyard were better behaved. Morality went out the window. Everyone was walking according to his own untutored mind. That is, until the flood came taking them all away. The exception was the eight persons and the animals! As we read in the scriptures, these eight persons entered into the Ark and God CLOSED the door.
Later, Abraham who was called a friend of God and believed God was blessed of Him because of His faith. Apart from Abraham believing in God, Abraham naturally was hardly what one might consider normal. For example, Abraham offered his wife to another person to save himself. Abraham then takes his servant girl and fathers a child with her. Abraham sends the child along with his mother packing. Abraham takes his son, ties him onto an alter, and is about to drive a knife into his son when Melchisedec meets Abraham. When the two meet, Melchisedec blesses him with bread and wine which Melchisedec had in His hands. (In God’s hands is bread and wine. The bread typifying His Life in flesh and the wine typifying His blood.) As we read, Abraham endeavours to add to the blessing by offering money.
What was happening here is that God was giving Abraham a promise that in His SEED (which is Christ the SEED of the Holy Spirit) would all the nations of the earth be blessed. Abraham misinterprets the message, thinking that the promise concerns his natural Adamic seed. Abraham takes a knife and circumcises all his household. Oh Lord, such were some of us who likewise believed, even as Abraham believed but were equally messed up!
But Lord you came, put us upon your shoulders and carried us home which is why believing in God is good. Indeed, it is the SEED of the Holy Spirit - JESUS - who alone can save. He willing shed His blood for us. JESUS the ‘Lamb of God’ was like a sheep before the shearers. Still, the Lord our God opened not His mouth. He came to make a redemptive way and it is He alone who can deliver! The Lord Our Creator has become our Saviour! Let God’s work of redemption usher in the plan of God for our lives. Peace be!
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 400
Holy Spirit Ministries Canada requests that prayer be made for the following nations! May all JESUS redeemed and born again believers who read this lift up your voice with one accord petitioning on behalf of these listed nations so that they may all be partakers of all aforementioned promised blessings of God in Christ which effectively because of Calvary is bequeathed to them as their INHERITANCE resulting from the substitute death of their Saviour and Redeemer the Lord JESUS the Christ.
Yes, JESUS has freely WILLED all of His rightful inheritance to His redeemed born again offspring as their inheritance. These redeemed born again believers are the offspring of the SEED of the Holy Spirit who is JESUS the Christ. God Himself manifest in the flesh as a Son. JESUS is the Prince of Peace.
The nations are as follows:
United States - South Korea . Russia - Germany - Argentina - Australia - Bangladesh - France - Kenya - Nigeria - Malaysia - Venezuela - United Kingdom - Japan - Thailand - Ireland - Ukraine - Canada - Brazil = Dominican Republic - Slovakia - Philippines - Columbia - Hong Kong - Sweden - India - Netherlands - Pakistan - Taiwan - Palestinian Territories - Tanzania - Denmark - Singapore - Latvia - Switzerland - Equador - Gabon - New Zealand - Saudi Arabia - Spain = Georgia - China -
Pray also that China takes the wall away. We are blocked!
Preach also as never before. And do not be discouraged! Do not be cast down. Earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered to the believers! Turn neither to the right nor to the left. Love the Lord even as He has loved you and given Himself as the once and for all time sacrifice. God’s grace and mercy will hold you fast.
Peace to all from your brother Bill and sister Betty - fellow labourers together with you in JESUS our Lord. Holy Spirit Ministries salute all of you !
Yes, JESUS has freely WILLED all of His rightful inheritance to His redeemed born again offspring as their inheritance. These redeemed born again believers are the offspring of the SEED of the Holy Spirit who is JESUS the Christ. God Himself manifest in the flesh as a Son. JESUS is the Prince of Peace.
The nations are as follows:
United States - South Korea . Russia - Germany - Argentina - Australia - Bangladesh - France - Kenya - Nigeria - Malaysia - Venezuela - United Kingdom - Japan - Thailand - Ireland - Ukraine - Canada - Brazil = Dominican Republic - Slovakia - Philippines - Columbia - Hong Kong - Sweden - India - Netherlands - Pakistan - Taiwan - Palestinian Territories - Tanzania - Denmark - Singapore - Latvia - Switzerland - Equador - Gabon - New Zealand - Saudi Arabia - Spain = Georgia - China -
Pray also that China takes the wall away. We are blocked!
Preach also as never before. And do not be discouraged! Do not be cast down. Earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered to the believers! Turn neither to the right nor to the left. Love the Lord even as He has loved you and given Himself as the once and for all time sacrifice. God’s grace and mercy will hold you fast.
Peace to all from your brother Bill and sister Betty - fellow labourers together with you in JESUS our Lord. Holy Spirit Ministries salute all of you !
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 399
YOUR THRONE O’ GOD IS FOREVER AND EVER.
Unto the Son it was said, "Your throne O' God is forever and ever." God has glorified His Son JESUS, Seed of His Holy Spirit, which SEED was conceived into the womb of a young virgin named Mary. The child's GIVEN NAME was to JESUS declared by an angelic messenger of God to be Immanuel which by interpretation is God with us. Yes, JESUS is God manifest in the flesh, appearing as man. Indeed He was, for His sin-prone flesh appearance was in semblance to one of Adam’s race.
In other words, JESUS was fathered by the Holy Spirit. God having declared JESUS to be His Son, for JESUS came forth from the SEED of the Holy Spirit. The child clothed upon in flesh but the Spirit of life within the flesh was the Life of God. Not a part of God as some have suggested but rather, altogether God. For it is declared in the scriptures that in JESUS dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily!
One cannot see God for God is Spirit. In fact, no man has ever seen God. It's like the analogy of the sun. One cannot look directly at the sun or they would be blinded by its light. But one can look at the light of the sun when that same light is shone upon the moon and all will be well.
So it is with JESUS. Jesus is a light much brighter than the noon day sun which one could not look upon. However, when the Light of God is veiled as it were in flesh, then one can look upon the light of God. As it is declared, one can now see the glorious gospel of God in the face of JESUS who is God Himself manifest in a veil of flesh appearing in fashion as one of Adam’s sin prone race.
If we go back to the beginning, when Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, they were naked. It was in this unclothed state that they sinned. At Calvary JESUS also was unclothed but in the latter example, it was that unclothed state of flesh alone -- JESUS -- who bore our sin. It was in His unclothed body that He paid the price for the redemption of all who believe and receive. There is no additional requirements to this redemption! Why? Because with this one sacrifice, the demands of justice were negated. That which was sacrificed at Calvary was the body in which the Spirit of God was pleased to dwell. We crucified the sinless, yet prone to sin body of the Lord of Glory JESUS!
This is why there is no obtainable salvation in any other. For at Calvary, God as a Son laid down His life for us. How does anyone think that they are ever going to escape from the wrath of God if they count His sacrifice as meaningless? Yes, death was the penalty for sin.
While the world through much of its proliferation of so-called worldly wisdom chooses to ignore God, their unbelief does not negate that GOD is or that God loves us. While they might attempt to prove that dumb matter created wisdom, God's handiwork continues to show forth. While there are those that profess themselves to be wise, in so doing, as the scriptures state, they often become as fools. They become as fools simply because the Heavens will continue to declare the Glory of God. The earth will continue to show forth God’s handiwork.
Rather than sinking deeper into the barnyard of sin, let's return to God for God has opened wide His arms of love for you and I. Come home today. Ask God for forgiveness and let Him put a ring on you finger claiming you as His own. For He and He alone has paid the price for our redemption.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 398
JESUS breathed upon His disciples, saying to them "Receive you the Holy Spirit."
In JESUS did dwell all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Indeed, JESUS was God Spirit veiled in an Adamic sin prone body coming forth out of Heaven to seek and to save His creation from an otherwise lost eternity. JESUS did not come to condemn the world. That was not His purpose. His purpose was for all of Adam’s fallen offspring to receive redemption which He by Himself was going to secure as a gift. Redemption whereby all persons through faith would be granted an opportunity to be saved from the barnyard of sin.
In this context then, the Spirit of God within the man JESUS outsmarted the devil, who would never have dreamed that God who made all things and by whom all things exist would be willing to lay down His own flesh and blood body as a sacrificial offering upon a roman cross at Calvary. But as the scriptures point out, who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor? God indeed did lay down His life for us.
When JESUS said to His disciples that He was going to leave them and that they would see Him no more (in the flesh). He also added that He would not leave them orphans or comfortless. This is why JESUS breathed upon them saying prophetically that they would receive of His breath -- whose breath is the breath of the Holy Ghost.
Then He opened their understanding that they might more accurately comprehend the Scriptures. In Acts chapters 1-2, they all received the Holy Ghost which is said to have sat on them causing them to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. In other words, their tongues were speaking so fast that it seemed as if their tongues were on fire.
Up until this moment, the Holy Spirit had never been imparted to anyone. This is because the Holy Spirit was not as yet given, because JESUS was not yet glorified. With the outpouring of the Spirit was the pronouncement that JESUS was and is now glorified!
God glorified His Son JESUS, thus declaring, that JESUS is both LORD and the CHRIST!
Paul the last of the apostles, chosen of JESUS to bear His Name [JESUS] to the Gentiles could say the following concerning the gospel. That which he preached was not of man and neither was it taught by man, Moreover, neither did he [Paul] receive the gospel message of man but rather through the Holy Spirit revelations of JESUS the Christ!
JESUS said when we receive His Holy Spirit, then His indwelling Spirit shall lead and guide believers into all truth. The Holy Spirit indwelling within believers shall glorify me - JESUS - and shall bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said to you!
JESUS said to His disciples that He had many things yet to say to them but until they were endued with power (the Holy Spirit) they would be unable to digest these spiritual depths.
For example, the Spirit of the unseen God declared to His Son JESUS - "Thy Throne O’ God is Forever and Ever." Let all the angels of God WORSHIP the Son. And the voice from Heaven saying this is MY BELOVED SON - Hear HIM! For JESUS is the builder of the TEMPLE OF GOD. For without MY SON JESUS there is no temple for He is the corner stone of My temple in which I am pleased to dwell. As the scriptures point out, this temple is not made of brick and mortar but rather constructed with redeemed living stones being to Me as adopted sons and daughters.
Have I not said, "Let my son go that He may worship ME?" So that they can enter into the Kingdom of God, into the promised land that flows with milk and honey, as a holy nation, a peculiar people, a people which were previously not a people , a people that I foreknew before the foundations of the world. The ISRAEL of GOD!
Grow in the grace and knowledge of God our Saviour!
In JESUS did dwell all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Indeed, JESUS was God Spirit veiled in an Adamic sin prone body coming forth out of Heaven to seek and to save His creation from an otherwise lost eternity. JESUS did not come to condemn the world. That was not His purpose. His purpose was for all of Adam’s fallen offspring to receive redemption which He by Himself was going to secure as a gift. Redemption whereby all persons through faith would be granted an opportunity to be saved from the barnyard of sin.
In this context then, the Spirit of God within the man JESUS outsmarted the devil, who would never have dreamed that God who made all things and by whom all things exist would be willing to lay down His own flesh and blood body as a sacrificial offering upon a roman cross at Calvary. But as the scriptures point out, who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor? God indeed did lay down His life for us.
When JESUS said to His disciples that He was going to leave them and that they would see Him no more (in the flesh). He also added that He would not leave them orphans or comfortless. This is why JESUS breathed upon them saying prophetically that they would receive of His breath -- whose breath is the breath of the Holy Ghost.
Then He opened their understanding that they might more accurately comprehend the Scriptures. In Acts chapters 1-2, they all received the Holy Ghost which is said to have sat on them causing them to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. In other words, their tongues were speaking so fast that it seemed as if their tongues were on fire.
Up until this moment, the Holy Spirit had never been imparted to anyone. This is because the Holy Spirit was not as yet given, because JESUS was not yet glorified. With the outpouring of the Spirit was the pronouncement that JESUS was and is now glorified!
God glorified His Son JESUS, thus declaring, that JESUS is both LORD and the CHRIST!
Paul the last of the apostles, chosen of JESUS to bear His Name [JESUS] to the Gentiles could say the following concerning the gospel. That which he preached was not of man and neither was it taught by man, Moreover, neither did he [Paul] receive the gospel message of man but rather through the Holy Spirit revelations of JESUS the Christ!
JESUS said when we receive His Holy Spirit, then His indwelling Spirit shall lead and guide believers into all truth. The Holy Spirit indwelling within believers shall glorify me - JESUS - and shall bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said to you!
JESUS said to His disciples that He had many things yet to say to them but until they were endued with power (the Holy Spirit) they would be unable to digest these spiritual depths.
For example, the Spirit of the unseen God declared to His Son JESUS - "Thy Throne O’ God is Forever and Ever." Let all the angels of God WORSHIP the Son. And the voice from Heaven saying this is MY BELOVED SON - Hear HIM! For JESUS is the builder of the TEMPLE OF GOD. For without MY SON JESUS there is no temple for He is the corner stone of My temple in which I am pleased to dwell. As the scriptures point out, this temple is not made of brick and mortar but rather constructed with redeemed living stones being to Me as adopted sons and daughters.
Have I not said, "Let my son go that He may worship ME?" So that they can enter into the Kingdom of God, into the promised land that flows with milk and honey, as a holy nation, a peculiar people, a people which were previously not a people , a people that I foreknew before the foundations of the world. The ISRAEL of GOD!
Grow in the grace and knowledge of God our Saviour!
Monday, April 16, 2012
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 397
In that SEED shall all the nations of the earth be blessed! The question is whether you have you received the Holy Spirit of JESUS since you believed?
God has said He would pour out of His Spirit upon all flesh in the latter days. Ask the Lord for forgiveness. Be baptized into His death, burial, and resurrection and this will which secure the promise of God’s Spirit that will be imparted to you. For by obedience to God’s command you now inherit the rich inheritance WILLED to you as a LIVING WILL by God our Saviour. For that is exactly who JESUS was.
Yes, JESUS is the well of living water. JESUS ONLY is the source. He that drinks of the water JESUS gives shall never thirst spiritually. Why? Because the Holy Spirit blood flowed in the veins of the man JESUS the Christ and the life of God's humanity is in the blood.
It was the Lord who sacrificed His own body on a Cross at Calvary, purchasing for man the right to INHERIT REDEMPTION. It was because of His Sacrificial offering that any and all living persons can now through faith in JESUS' sacrificial death receive freely the gift of the Holy Spirit of Life that was in the man JESUS the Christ. This inherited redemption is available to all who accept JESUS as their One and Only Saviour.
God was in Christ reconciling the World to Himself. God's spiritual humanity, love, mercy, compassion and truth were embodied in the man JESUS the Christ, who was as the scripture declares God manifest in the flesh. It was in that body that all the fullness of the Godhead dwelt bodily. Jesus was God with us as a Son. Indeed, we are fallen images of that pure humanity.
JESUS was that pure humanity who saw our plight and our hopelessness and because God is Love, God made a way whereby man could be redeemed. Saved. In order to do this, man’s redemption required the death of a sinless man. (It must be a man for it was by one man’s disobedience that sin entered into man) Therefore, to meet the demands of justice it necessitated another’s death. Look back through the Old Testament, for example, and see how many human sacrifices were carried out endeavouring to remove the guilt of sin but unfortunately all such endeavours were fruitless.
God put Himself in our place fulfilling all the demands of sin by the sacrifice of His own prone to sin and yet sinless body. God’s love and mercy redemptive mission was now accomplished by God Himself at no cost whatsoever to man. This kind of love and mercy is beyond our capacity to pen. Beyond our capacity to understand. Beyond our capacity to express because this kind of love - simply put - emanates from God. Yes, God is love!
JESUS, being the Son of the Holy Spirit INHERITS all things, for has He has said that all that my Father has is mine, and all that is mine is yours.
This is the Last LIVING WILL or TESTAMENT of JESUS prior to His Crucifixion. GOD covenanted with Himself. God did not covenant with either you or I. God covenanted with Himself as a Son and that Covenant is an everlasting Covenant, independent of us. For Salvation is of the LORD. Paid in full for each and every one of us.
As a consequence, what we do have is the Last Living Will or Testament of the man JESUS the Christ who bequeathed all of His rightful inheritance to us. His redeemed people which He purchased to Himself with the shedding of His own blood. This is why God offers all forgiveness if we would recognize His substitution death at Calvary.
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Now the decision is in your hands. You have reached the crossroads, the Armageddon of life if you will. It is your decision and your decision alone, God has commanded that all men and women repent. Why? Because redemption has been obtained by God’s Grace and Mercy. You and I now have an opportunity to return to that exact place where Adam made the wrong decision.
Now its your turn. You decide either to continue as you are now or to call upon the name of the Lord your God thanking Him for His unconditional love toward us - fallen men and women. If you decided to accept God’s redemption, enjoy the wonder, love and grace that is Jesus. Enjoy His comfort. And follow on as the early believers were encouraged to do in Acts chapter 2. That is, repent and be baptized into the name of JESUS the Christ. Spirit. God bless you all!
God has said He would pour out of His Spirit upon all flesh in the latter days. Ask the Lord for forgiveness. Be baptized into His death, burial, and resurrection and this will which secure the promise of God’s Spirit that will be imparted to you. For by obedience to God’s command you now inherit the rich inheritance WILLED to you as a LIVING WILL by God our Saviour. For that is exactly who JESUS was.
Yes, JESUS is the well of living water. JESUS ONLY is the source. He that drinks of the water JESUS gives shall never thirst spiritually. Why? Because the Holy Spirit blood flowed in the veins of the man JESUS the Christ and the life of God's humanity is in the blood.
It was the Lord who sacrificed His own body on a Cross at Calvary, purchasing for man the right to INHERIT REDEMPTION. It was because of His Sacrificial offering that any and all living persons can now through faith in JESUS' sacrificial death receive freely the gift of the Holy Spirit of Life that was in the man JESUS the Christ. This inherited redemption is available to all who accept JESUS as their One and Only Saviour.
God was in Christ reconciling the World to Himself. God's spiritual humanity, love, mercy, compassion and truth were embodied in the man JESUS the Christ, who was as the scripture declares God manifest in the flesh. It was in that body that all the fullness of the Godhead dwelt bodily. Jesus was God with us as a Son. Indeed, we are fallen images of that pure humanity.
JESUS was that pure humanity who saw our plight and our hopelessness and because God is Love, God made a way whereby man could be redeemed. Saved. In order to do this, man’s redemption required the death of a sinless man. (It must be a man for it was by one man’s disobedience that sin entered into man) Therefore, to meet the demands of justice it necessitated another’s death. Look back through the Old Testament, for example, and see how many human sacrifices were carried out endeavouring to remove the guilt of sin but unfortunately all such endeavours were fruitless.
God put Himself in our place fulfilling all the demands of sin by the sacrifice of His own prone to sin and yet sinless body. God’s love and mercy redemptive mission was now accomplished by God Himself at no cost whatsoever to man. This kind of love and mercy is beyond our capacity to pen. Beyond our capacity to understand. Beyond our capacity to express because this kind of love - simply put - emanates from God. Yes, God is love!
JESUS, being the Son of the Holy Spirit INHERITS all things, for has He has said that all that my Father has is mine, and all that is mine is yours.
This is the Last LIVING WILL or TESTAMENT of JESUS prior to His Crucifixion. GOD covenanted with Himself. God did not covenant with either you or I. God covenanted with Himself as a Son and that Covenant is an everlasting Covenant, independent of us. For Salvation is of the LORD. Paid in full for each and every one of us.
As a consequence, what we do have is the Last Living Will or Testament of the man JESUS the Christ who bequeathed all of His rightful inheritance to us. His redeemed people which He purchased to Himself with the shedding of His own blood. This is why God offers all forgiveness if we would recognize His substitution death at Calvary.
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Now the decision is in your hands. You have reached the crossroads, the Armageddon of life if you will. It is your decision and your decision alone, God has commanded that all men and women repent. Why? Because redemption has been obtained by God’s Grace and Mercy. You and I now have an opportunity to return to that exact place where Adam made the wrong decision.
Now its your turn. You decide either to continue as you are now or to call upon the name of the Lord your God thanking Him for His unconditional love toward us - fallen men and women. If you decided to accept God’s redemption, enjoy the wonder, love and grace that is Jesus. Enjoy His comfort. And follow on as the early believers were encouraged to do in Acts chapter 2. That is, repent and be baptized into the name of JESUS the Christ. Spirit. God bless you all!
Saturday, April 14, 2012
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 396
The glorification of JESUS is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit even though it is important to note that the Holy Spirit was as yet not given because JESUS was as yet not glorified.
Prior to His ascension, JESUS tells His followers to stay at Jerusalem until they become endued with power. JESUS had breathed upon them saying, "Receive the Holy Spirit." Here, the Holy Spirit refers to the breath of JESUS and the power that JESUS spoke of resulting from the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Acts 1 and 2 record the fulfillment.
Earlier, as we read in Genesis, God had breathed upon Adam. As a result, man became a living soul. Sort of short lived for Adam and Eve because they disobeyed God resulting in a soul that dies because of their sin. But the message does not end there. God in Christ provided obtainable redemption for all mankind at Calvary. It was there that God laid down His own life to negate the curse of sin.
Yes, God Himself allowed His sinless body to become cursed to secure redemption for you and I. Why did He do this? Because God is not willing that any one should perish. Indeed, God desires that all people are saved and that in the sacrifice of God’s body, men and women can now return to the very same conditional situation intended for Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
This is why we - ALL of us - are offered redemption. It is also at this juncture that you must decide whether to grasp hold of redemption or not. In other words, you are now one at the crossroads. The Armageddon of life. The choice is whether you wish to continue as you are or return to the Lord who dearly loves you and desires to save you. The same God who loves you even more than His own life!
It is your call! Do not judge yourself unworthy of redemption. Rather, receive God's plan for your life. His plan is that you advance your being to things that are eternal moving into a new birth experience.
In this new place, you will learn that JESUS taught that we must be born again of water and of the Spirit in order to see the Kingdom of God. JESUS in the scriptures states that if we are not born again of water and of the Spirit, we cannot enter into the Kingdom of God!
At the end of the day, it is immaterial what others may say concerning these matters for JESUS is the Word of God manifest in flesh. It is His Word that brings all things to fruition. The Holy Spirit through the mouths of JESUS' chosen apostles declared the message of JESUS to the audience of 3,000 in Acts 2. And toward the conclusion of this message, the audience became troubled in spirit, crying out to the men and brethren. "What must we do?"
The apostles said that they must repent and be baptized into the Name of JESUS the Christ for the remission of sin and upon their so doing they in turn would receive the Gift of the Holy Spirit.
This is the Promise of God. A promise not only to them but an enduring promise to their children and those that are afar off also. The Promise extending to all of us down through the ages who make a decision to gladly receive the Holy Spirit message of redemptive salvation!
This is why JESUS is NOW glorified and we of His Holy Spirit do all receive. It is why our soul is redeemed and why now God in Christ breathes upon His flock His Holy Spirit enabling us to worship JESUS the Christ in God. Yes, worship JESUS the Christ in God and not in the deadness of a form. Rather, worship in newness of spirit!
And no, we are not talking about religion or any other institutional obstacle that man creates. What we are saying is that when we come to God our Saviour there is no middle man or woman acting as an intermediary. There is only one that can save us from our sins. Call upon JESUS today. Stand in the offering plate!
Prior to His ascension, JESUS tells His followers to stay at Jerusalem until they become endued with power. JESUS had breathed upon them saying, "Receive the Holy Spirit." Here, the Holy Spirit refers to the breath of JESUS and the power that JESUS spoke of resulting from the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Acts 1 and 2 record the fulfillment.
Earlier, as we read in Genesis, God had breathed upon Adam. As a result, man became a living soul. Sort of short lived for Adam and Eve because they disobeyed God resulting in a soul that dies because of their sin. But the message does not end there. God in Christ provided obtainable redemption for all mankind at Calvary. It was there that God laid down His own life to negate the curse of sin.
Yes, God Himself allowed His sinless body to become cursed to secure redemption for you and I. Why did He do this? Because God is not willing that any one should perish. Indeed, God desires that all people are saved and that in the sacrifice of God’s body, men and women can now return to the very same conditional situation intended for Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
This is why we - ALL of us - are offered redemption. It is also at this juncture that you must decide whether to grasp hold of redemption or not. In other words, you are now one at the crossroads. The Armageddon of life. The choice is whether you wish to continue as you are or return to the Lord who dearly loves you and desires to save you. The same God who loves you even more than His own life!
It is your call! Do not judge yourself unworthy of redemption. Rather, receive God's plan for your life. His plan is that you advance your being to things that are eternal moving into a new birth experience.
In this new place, you will learn that JESUS taught that we must be born again of water and of the Spirit in order to see the Kingdom of God. JESUS in the scriptures states that if we are not born again of water and of the Spirit, we cannot enter into the Kingdom of God!
At the end of the day, it is immaterial what others may say concerning these matters for JESUS is the Word of God manifest in flesh. It is His Word that brings all things to fruition. The Holy Spirit through the mouths of JESUS' chosen apostles declared the message of JESUS to the audience of 3,000 in Acts 2. And toward the conclusion of this message, the audience became troubled in spirit, crying out to the men and brethren. "What must we do?"
The apostles said that they must repent and be baptized into the Name of JESUS the Christ for the remission of sin and upon their so doing they in turn would receive the Gift of the Holy Spirit.
This is the Promise of God. A promise not only to them but an enduring promise to their children and those that are afar off also. The Promise extending to all of us down through the ages who make a decision to gladly receive the Holy Spirit message of redemptive salvation!
This is why JESUS is NOW glorified and we of His Holy Spirit do all receive. It is why our soul is redeemed and why now God in Christ breathes upon His flock His Holy Spirit enabling us to worship JESUS the Christ in God. Yes, worship JESUS the Christ in God and not in the deadness of a form. Rather, worship in newness of spirit!
And no, we are not talking about religion or any other institutional obstacle that man creates. What we are saying is that when we come to God our Saviour there is no middle man or woman acting as an intermediary. There is only one that can save us from our sins. Call upon JESUS today. Stand in the offering plate!
Friday, April 13, 2012
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 395
And the Lord has made no difference between the Jews and the Gentiles. Indeed, there is neither Jew nor Gentile, male nor female, bond or free in the body of Christ. Together, we are all ONE in JESUS the Christ. Why is this? Because the scriptures state that there is no respect of person with God. For all have sinned and as a consequence, here is none righteous. No, not one person.
Further, Christ died for every one of us because we are all guilty of unbelief in God our Saviour. Still, God commended His Love toward all of us whilst we were yet sinners. And He laid down His life so that we might have salvation. Therefore, whosoever calls upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved. Not because of works of righteousness that we may or may not have done, but by reason of God’s mercy. It is He that saves all those who believe!
This means that based on the foregoing references from the Bible, man cannot save himself. This explains why the scriptures declare that the Lord our God has become our Saviour. And that there is no salvation in any other name than the Name of the Lord our God whose name is JESUS! The name JESUS which is given of the angel. JESUS! God with us as a Son.
Unfortunately, if one listens to religious traditions, there appears to be considerable confusion pertaining to God’s Name. But when we read the Bible, we learn that God has a Name which is ABOVE every other name in Heaven and on Earth. This name is declared to be JESUS! (the GIVEN name)
When Paul asked the Lord, "Who are you?" the Lord replied, "I AM JESUS." One would think in a situation where the question is evident and the response this specific, that there would be no need for further questions. Similarly, if the Lord introduced HIMSELF as being JESUS, the logical process would be for the debates to cease. However, because admittedly, there are enemies of the Glorious Gospel of God, opposition to the truth surfaces at times. Still, one cannot deny the gospel -- the gospel that is seen in the face of JESUS the Christ. For it was and is God’s Spirit that indwelt the man Jesus the Christ, reconciling the fallen world to Himself.
This means that while some continue looking for the Father, they should be reading the scriptures for the truth. Surely one understands, from even our own human experience and especially if they themselves are a father, that their fatherhood is dwelling inside their body. As such, I will never be able to view your fatherhood. This is not to suggest that I do not recognize your fatherhood as you display it in a son's body.
Moreover, you are one spirit encased in a flesh body as a son. In that flesh body your spirit manifests as a son, father and spirit. But you yourself are not three persons. For instance, when I meet you for the first time I do not say, Hello, Hello, Hello as if I am meeting three separate and distinct persons. Of course not, I introduce myself to you by name. This is where the misconception arises. For when a Trinitarian assembles believers together, he does say "HELLO, HELLO, HELLO" for in his own mind, often, He believes that God is three distinct and separate persons.
Philip in the New Testament had that same problem as the Trinitarians today have. Philip is looking at JESUS and asks, "Show us the Father and we will be satisfied." JESUS replied to Philip who reflected a Trinitarian viewpoint, "Have I been so long time with you and yet you have not known me?" Essentially, what Jesus was saying to Philip is that you are a Trinitarian for if you have seen Me -- seen Jesus -- you have seen the Father. Why then are you saying show us the Father and we will be satisfied?
Yes, JESUS is the name! The name is not JEHOVAH or YAHWEH. Nor is the name YESHUA or any other devised scriptural presentation that religion likes to present. The scriptures are clear on this point. IN JESUS DWELLS ALL THE FULLNESS OF THE GODHEAD BODILY! This includes the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Peace to all JESUS people!
Further, Christ died for every one of us because we are all guilty of unbelief in God our Saviour. Still, God commended His Love toward all of us whilst we were yet sinners. And He laid down His life so that we might have salvation. Therefore, whosoever calls upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved. Not because of works of righteousness that we may or may not have done, but by reason of God’s mercy. It is He that saves all those who believe!
This means that based on the foregoing references from the Bible, man cannot save himself. This explains why the scriptures declare that the Lord our God has become our Saviour. And that there is no salvation in any other name than the Name of the Lord our God whose name is JESUS! The name JESUS which is given of the angel. JESUS! God with us as a Son.
Unfortunately, if one listens to religious traditions, there appears to be considerable confusion pertaining to God’s Name. But when we read the Bible, we learn that God has a Name which is ABOVE every other name in Heaven and on Earth. This name is declared to be JESUS! (the GIVEN name)
When Paul asked the Lord, "Who are you?" the Lord replied, "I AM JESUS." One would think in a situation where the question is evident and the response this specific, that there would be no need for further questions. Similarly, if the Lord introduced HIMSELF as being JESUS, the logical process would be for the debates to cease. However, because admittedly, there are enemies of the Glorious Gospel of God, opposition to the truth surfaces at times. Still, one cannot deny the gospel -- the gospel that is seen in the face of JESUS the Christ. For it was and is God’s Spirit that indwelt the man Jesus the Christ, reconciling the fallen world to Himself.
This means that while some continue looking for the Father, they should be reading the scriptures for the truth. Surely one understands, from even our own human experience and especially if they themselves are a father, that their fatherhood is dwelling inside their body. As such, I will never be able to view your fatherhood. This is not to suggest that I do not recognize your fatherhood as you display it in a son's body.
Moreover, you are one spirit encased in a flesh body as a son. In that flesh body your spirit manifests as a son, father and spirit. But you yourself are not three persons. For instance, when I meet you for the first time I do not say, Hello, Hello, Hello as if I am meeting three separate and distinct persons. Of course not, I introduce myself to you by name. This is where the misconception arises. For when a Trinitarian assembles believers together, he does say "HELLO, HELLO, HELLO" for in his own mind, often, He believes that God is three distinct and separate persons.
Philip in the New Testament had that same problem as the Trinitarians today have. Philip is looking at JESUS and asks, "Show us the Father and we will be satisfied." JESUS replied to Philip who reflected a Trinitarian viewpoint, "Have I been so long time with you and yet you have not known me?" Essentially, what Jesus was saying to Philip is that you are a Trinitarian for if you have seen Me -- seen Jesus -- you have seen the Father. Why then are you saying show us the Father and we will be satisfied?
Yes, JESUS is the name! The name is not JEHOVAH or YAHWEH. Nor is the name YESHUA or any other devised scriptural presentation that religion likes to present. The scriptures are clear on this point. IN JESUS DWELLS ALL THE FULLNESS OF THE GODHEAD BODILY! This includes the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Peace to all JESUS people!
Thursday, April 12, 2012
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 394
In Noah's day, there were only eight souls saved. The reason for this is that these people were in the Ark surrounded by water. Still, those eight persons found refuge as the waters rose and the Ark passed through the waves. Still, the others perished in the water.
This is an important analogy because it shows to some extent how baptism does also now save us. For example, the water prefigured the waters of baptism through which you and I are now brought to safety. Baptism then is foreshadowed through this example to now save us.
Therefore, it is not only the putting away of the filth of the flesh, the mere removing of physical stain or the mere washing of dirt from the flesh. It is not only the mere cleaning of the body but rather the answer of a good conscience. The craving that is within for a conscience that is right with God. The prayer for a clean conscience before God. The request unto God for a good conscience. The ability to face God with a clean conscience through the resurrection of JESUS the Christ. (I Peter 3 elaborates on this point).
And with reference to the old Israel coming out of Egyptian captivity, note that they all passed through the water. In so doing, they were baptized by following Moses into the water. In other words, they were all delivered from the Egyptians, albeit the Egyptians who followed perished in the water.
The scripture states this. "Do you not know that as many of us as are baptized into JESUS the Christ are being baptized into His death! (Romans 6)
So today, we have a choice between religious and institutional traditions that attempt to make the Word of God non effective or to no effect and the scriptures. Do we want to have a "form of godliness" without power or do we choose to recognize that Jesus' name alone has all the power? (Matt 28:18) Further, according to Col 3:17, it is in Jesus' name alone that we should perform all words and deeds. Remember that neither is there salvation in any other name than Jesus (Acts 4:12).
This choice includes choosing between the religious traditions instituted by men that suggest that the trinity or triad formula of the so-called church fathers of AD 300 is worth hanging on to or willingly obeying and believing JESUS' words as recorded in Luke 24:47 for instance. We know that the latter choice - believing that Jesus is the only name whereby we can be saved - is the truth.
We also know that Peter was the apostle used of the Holy Spirit to present the key to the Kingdom of God message to the Jews in Acts 2 and to the Gentiles in Acts 10. In both events, persons received the key and in both cases many people responded by believing in Jesus. Paul, the chosen apostle of JESUS who preached His name among the nations said that he was baptised in water whilst he called upon the name of JESUS. And in so doing, God washed away all his sins!
If you want to read further references, check out the following scriptural verses: Acts 22:16, Acts 16:15-33, Acts 18:8, Acts 19:1-6, Gal 3:27, and Gal 1:6. Like at the wedding feast Mary said to the water bearers, whatsoever JESUS tells you to do, then do it. Peace be! Comfort one another with these words!
This is an important analogy because it shows to some extent how baptism does also now save us. For example, the water prefigured the waters of baptism through which you and I are now brought to safety. Baptism then is foreshadowed through this example to now save us.
Therefore, it is not only the putting away of the filth of the flesh, the mere removing of physical stain or the mere washing of dirt from the flesh. It is not only the mere cleaning of the body but rather the answer of a good conscience. The craving that is within for a conscience that is right with God. The prayer for a clean conscience before God. The request unto God for a good conscience. The ability to face God with a clean conscience through the resurrection of JESUS the Christ. (I Peter 3 elaborates on this point).
And with reference to the old Israel coming out of Egyptian captivity, note that they all passed through the water. In so doing, they were baptized by following Moses into the water. In other words, they were all delivered from the Egyptians, albeit the Egyptians who followed perished in the water.
The scripture states this. "Do you not know that as many of us as are baptized into JESUS the Christ are being baptized into His death! (Romans 6)
So today, we have a choice between religious and institutional traditions that attempt to make the Word of God non effective or to no effect and the scriptures. Do we want to have a "form of godliness" without power or do we choose to recognize that Jesus' name alone has all the power? (Matt 28:18) Further, according to Col 3:17, it is in Jesus' name alone that we should perform all words and deeds. Remember that neither is there salvation in any other name than Jesus (Acts 4:12).
This choice includes choosing between the religious traditions instituted by men that suggest that the trinity or triad formula of the so-called church fathers of AD 300 is worth hanging on to or willingly obeying and believing JESUS' words as recorded in Luke 24:47 for instance. We know that the latter choice - believing that Jesus is the only name whereby we can be saved - is the truth.
We also know that Peter was the apostle used of the Holy Spirit to present the key to the Kingdom of God message to the Jews in Acts 2 and to the Gentiles in Acts 10. In both events, persons received the key and in both cases many people responded by believing in Jesus. Paul, the chosen apostle of JESUS who preached His name among the nations said that he was baptised in water whilst he called upon the name of JESUS. And in so doing, God washed away all his sins!
If you want to read further references, check out the following scriptural verses: Acts 22:16, Acts 16:15-33, Acts 18:8, Acts 19:1-6, Gal 3:27, and Gal 1:6. Like at the wedding feast Mary said to the water bearers, whatsoever JESUS tells you to do, then do it. Peace be! Comfort one another with these words!
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 393
God has declared that JESUS who we crucified is BOTH Lord and the Christ. God descended and man ascended. The Word - the wisdom was veiled in flesh. The Word or Wisdom was and is God. When God spoke, lo it came to pass. Therefore, it is by faith that we believe the worlds were framed by the Word / Wisdom of God. The Word / Wisdom was always with God and never apart from God. Now that Word / Wisdom is to be made manifest in creation.
Yes, the unseen Spirit of God showing forth Himself in visible spiritual form. And in visible spiritual form God is going to call into visible created form all things that were previously invisible. Things existing in the unseen spiritual world. God is going to rule and reign over His own visible creation for the visible creation is God Himself in visible form.
Initially God steps out of the spiritual world and shows forth Himself in visible spiritual form. No God was not pregnant. God Himself came forth from the spiritual realm stepping into another dimension previously unknown. Not as another God but the SAME God previously UNSEEN, now revealling Himself in spiritual visible form.
Not created but begotten. Not begat. The Spirit of God who fills all things is now appearing in visible spiritual form. We are created earthly images. Created in the likeness of God’s now visible spiritual form! God breathed into man and man became a living soul, who God called sons of God. A perfect earthly image of God.
However, the devil showed up and deceived man into disobeying God’s Word. The result was man and woman were banished from the garden of Eden! As a consequence of man’s removal from the Garden man entered into the school of hard knocks -- life. In the days ahead, even until now, man is tempted and tried. Kind of like being on a roller coaster ride. Man messes up really bad until the flood takes man away. The exception is one man named Noah who by the grace of God was found to be righteous in the eyes of the Lord!
God having prepared an ark of safety (which ark typifies the Ark of the New Testament whereby the Lord JESUS the Christ and our baptism into His death saves us). Note: the SEED of promise (Christ) implanted first into Eve was now indwelling Noah and so the genealogy of the SEED of Christ continued.
God's redemptive promise in the midst of all the turmoil down through the ages continued in most part as an unknown. Hid from man’s wisdom. Abraham received a promise like Eve had -- that in him and in His SEED will all the nations of the earth be blessed. Of course, even though Abraham was given the promise he was in the dark as to the meaning. Abraham then thought that the promise pertained to his natural seed.
However, that was not the promise. The promised SEED (Christ) continued passing from generation to generation -- from Abraham into Isaac to Jacob.
Man once again messed up so bad that God added a Law by His servant Moses. Note that the Law was added 430 years after God gave Abraham the Promise of a SEED wherein all nations would be blessed. But the law was not an addition to the promise terminating with the entrance of the SEED of promise. No the law failed miserably. Indeed, if it had not been for God stepping in to provide a means of salvation, mankind would cease to be.
So at the time called the fullness of times ‘which is the time when the SEEDS of promise to EVE and Abraham should be brought forth together by the Holy Spirit whose SEEDS they both were, are now brought together into the womb of a young surrogate girl. Therein, the child is clothed in sin prone flesh inasmuch, as Mary’s sin prone flesh was incapable of doing otherwise. The child's given name was and is JESUS.
JESUS being the Son of the Holy Spirit was God with Us, veiled in sin prone flesh and appearing in fashion as a man. Of course, within the sin prone flesh did dwell the spiritual humanity of God Himself who will -- within that body -- FULFILL all the requirements of the Law. He would do so whilst being tempted and tried in all points like as we and yet never succumbing to the temptation.
Now the law was added UNTIL the SEED should come. Then JESUS, offered Himself as a sin offering virtually undoing the penalties imposed upon man by Adam and Eve’s initial disobedience. JESUS the lamb of God! Yes indeed He most certainly was, being the only begotten Son of the Holy Spirit. JESUS willingly sacrificed His own Son body so that we may now inherit freedom and grace from all penalties, returning to that place where our ancestors Adam and Eve had fallen from.
Within this context, we are now being declared to be adopted sons and daughters of God by Redemption. GOD DESCENDED AND MAN ASCENDED! Through faith in the FINISHED work of redemptive salvation purchased for us by JESUS the Christ ho is God manifest in the flesh as a Son.
Thank GOD in Christ today. Peace to one and all!
Yes, the unseen Spirit of God showing forth Himself in visible spiritual form. And in visible spiritual form God is going to call into visible created form all things that were previously invisible. Things existing in the unseen spiritual world. God is going to rule and reign over His own visible creation for the visible creation is God Himself in visible form.
Initially God steps out of the spiritual world and shows forth Himself in visible spiritual form. No God was not pregnant. God Himself came forth from the spiritual realm stepping into another dimension previously unknown. Not as another God but the SAME God previously UNSEEN, now revealling Himself in spiritual visible form.
Not created but begotten. Not begat. The Spirit of God who fills all things is now appearing in visible spiritual form. We are created earthly images. Created in the likeness of God’s now visible spiritual form! God breathed into man and man became a living soul, who God called sons of God. A perfect earthly image of God.
However, the devil showed up and deceived man into disobeying God’s Word. The result was man and woman were banished from the garden of Eden! As a consequence of man’s removal from the Garden man entered into the school of hard knocks -- life. In the days ahead, even until now, man is tempted and tried. Kind of like being on a roller coaster ride. Man messes up really bad until the flood takes man away. The exception is one man named Noah who by the grace of God was found to be righteous in the eyes of the Lord!
God having prepared an ark of safety (which ark typifies the Ark of the New Testament whereby the Lord JESUS the Christ and our baptism into His death saves us). Note: the SEED of promise (Christ) implanted first into Eve was now indwelling Noah and so the genealogy of the SEED of Christ continued.
God's redemptive promise in the midst of all the turmoil down through the ages continued in most part as an unknown. Hid from man’s wisdom. Abraham received a promise like Eve had -- that in him and in His SEED will all the nations of the earth be blessed. Of course, even though Abraham was given the promise he was in the dark as to the meaning. Abraham then thought that the promise pertained to his natural seed.
However, that was not the promise. The promised SEED (Christ) continued passing from generation to generation -- from Abraham into Isaac to Jacob.
Man once again messed up so bad that God added a Law by His servant Moses. Note that the Law was added 430 years after God gave Abraham the Promise of a SEED wherein all nations would be blessed. But the law was not an addition to the promise terminating with the entrance of the SEED of promise. No the law failed miserably. Indeed, if it had not been for God stepping in to provide a means of salvation, mankind would cease to be.
So at the time called the fullness of times ‘which is the time when the SEEDS of promise to EVE and Abraham should be brought forth together by the Holy Spirit whose SEEDS they both were, are now brought together into the womb of a young surrogate girl. Therein, the child is clothed in sin prone flesh inasmuch, as Mary’s sin prone flesh was incapable of doing otherwise. The child's given name was and is JESUS.
JESUS being the Son of the Holy Spirit was God with Us, veiled in sin prone flesh and appearing in fashion as a man. Of course, within the sin prone flesh did dwell the spiritual humanity of God Himself who will -- within that body -- FULFILL all the requirements of the Law. He would do so whilst being tempted and tried in all points like as we and yet never succumbing to the temptation.
Now the law was added UNTIL the SEED should come. Then JESUS, offered Himself as a sin offering virtually undoing the penalties imposed upon man by Adam and Eve’s initial disobedience. JESUS the lamb of God! Yes indeed He most certainly was, being the only begotten Son of the Holy Spirit. JESUS willingly sacrificed His own Son body so that we may now inherit freedom and grace from all penalties, returning to that place where our ancestors Adam and Eve had fallen from.
Within this context, we are now being declared to be adopted sons and daughters of God by Redemption. GOD DESCENDED AND MAN ASCENDED! Through faith in the FINISHED work of redemptive salvation purchased for us by JESUS the Christ ho is God manifest in the flesh as a Son.
Thank GOD in Christ today. Peace to one and all!
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 392
God was in the man JESUS the Christ reconciling the world to Himself. So if this is the case, the question is where will or can a person find God? Of course you would find God where He revealed He was. That is, in the man JESUS the Christ. For God is one Spirit. The Spirit of God is everywhere with the exception of one place and that place is inside a man’s inner being. His heart. Man through disobedience was cut off from fellowship with God resulting in sin laying between God and His creation.
Since that beginning in the Garden, we have learned that here is none who have not sinned. Why? Because all of us have sinned. All of us are exiled. Yes, each and every one of us. But God is not unaware of our lost estate for there is nothing hid from God's eyes.
Indeed, God is going to have for Himself a visible created Kingdom fashioned after His spiritually invisible Kingdom. This means that creation [obviously] is a work in progress. First, God steps out of the spiritual world to reveal Himself in visible spiritual form. Then He creates man in an earthy image of His form. God breathes into man the breath of life which in turn allows man to become a living soul. Man messes up and is, as a consequence cursed. This acts as a death sentence pronounced upon Adam and Eve and out of the Garden of Eden they are sent.
Still, God who knows the end from the beginning has all the bases covered. Before any creation came forth, God knew that He would have to be man’s Saviour. For it is written, JESUS is as a lamb slain before God had created anything. Note here that JESUS was not created.
So out of the garden the two went. Their growth was now impeded because of sin. Instead of being tutored by God, they now were under the rule of a new schoolmaster. The devil. However, prior to their expulsion from the garden, God in His mercy planted into Eve one new seed of promise, which SEED would in future time ‘bruise the serpent or devil's head.'
The Christ [life] of God was in that SEED. God implants into Abraham another SEED of promise saying to Abraham that, ‘In this SEED will all the nations of the earth be blessed." Now we have two SEEDS. These two SEEDS passed into Isaac, but were not to be born of Isaac. The SEEDS pass through ISAAC into JACOB journeying on as in the genealogy until what is called the fullness of times arrives. It is during this time the two SEEDS had arrived in a young virgin girl.
The Holy Spirit now brings His own two promised SEEDS together into the womb of Mary, who is a most willing and consenting surrogate mother. She expresses great joy over having been chosen of God to be the surrogate mother of the Lord. Her Spirit rejoices in God her Saviour. She was blessed among women but not as some might suggest -- above women.
The angel then declares that the holy thing that shall be born of Mary shall be called the Son of God and the child’s GIVEN name JESUS -- Immanuel or God with us.
The expression THING refers to a body that is clothed in Adam’s sinful flesh for in such flesh was the SEED of the Holy Spirit clothed upon in Mary’s sin prone womb.
JESUS, being the SEED of the Holy Spirit was in that child. The child appearing as we are. However, in this child dwells the eternal Spirit of God. You see JESUS was God Himself manifest in flesh as a man. The indwelling Spirit was the very life of God whose SEED JESUS was.
So if one wants to come to God the question is this. Who is the Father of all things? Has this been revealled to you? Yes, one must come to the Son for in the Son dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And if you desire to talk to God and you think that you cannot find Him, just call upon His name JESUS. I can guarantee that the Spirit of God who was in the man JESUS will come to you faster than your eyes can twinkle.
Conversely, if you chose not to come to JESUS who is the Son of the Holy Spirit you can never be saved. For JESUS is God Himself as a Son, man’s only Saviour. JESUS or GOD with Us sacrificed His Son's body for you and me, so that we could now be to the Holy Spirit the body of Christ. A people redeemed by the blood of the Holy Spirit. The ISRAEL of God. A Holy Nation. A Temple in which the Holy Spirit is pleased to dwell. A Temple not made with man’s hands.
Peace to all!
Since that beginning in the Garden, we have learned that here is none who have not sinned. Why? Because all of us have sinned. All of us are exiled. Yes, each and every one of us. But God is not unaware of our lost estate for there is nothing hid from God's eyes.
Indeed, God is going to have for Himself a visible created Kingdom fashioned after His spiritually invisible Kingdom. This means that creation [obviously] is a work in progress. First, God steps out of the spiritual world to reveal Himself in visible spiritual form. Then He creates man in an earthy image of His form. God breathes into man the breath of life which in turn allows man to become a living soul. Man messes up and is, as a consequence cursed. This acts as a death sentence pronounced upon Adam and Eve and out of the Garden of Eden they are sent.
Still, God who knows the end from the beginning has all the bases covered. Before any creation came forth, God knew that He would have to be man’s Saviour. For it is written, JESUS is as a lamb slain before God had created anything. Note here that JESUS was not created.
So out of the garden the two went. Their growth was now impeded because of sin. Instead of being tutored by God, they now were under the rule of a new schoolmaster. The devil. However, prior to their expulsion from the garden, God in His mercy planted into Eve one new seed of promise, which SEED would in future time ‘bruise the serpent or devil's head.'
The Christ [life] of God was in that SEED. God implants into Abraham another SEED of promise saying to Abraham that, ‘In this SEED will all the nations of the earth be blessed." Now we have two SEEDS. These two SEEDS passed into Isaac, but were not to be born of Isaac. The SEEDS pass through ISAAC into JACOB journeying on as in the genealogy until what is called the fullness of times arrives. It is during this time the two SEEDS had arrived in a young virgin girl.
The Holy Spirit now brings His own two promised SEEDS together into the womb of Mary, who is a most willing and consenting surrogate mother. She expresses great joy over having been chosen of God to be the surrogate mother of the Lord. Her Spirit rejoices in God her Saviour. She was blessed among women but not as some might suggest -- above women.
The angel then declares that the holy thing that shall be born of Mary shall be called the Son of God and the child’s GIVEN name JESUS -- Immanuel or God with us.
The expression THING refers to a body that is clothed in Adam’s sinful flesh for in such flesh was the SEED of the Holy Spirit clothed upon in Mary’s sin prone womb.
JESUS, being the SEED of the Holy Spirit was in that child. The child appearing as we are. However, in this child dwells the eternal Spirit of God. You see JESUS was God Himself manifest in flesh as a man. The indwelling Spirit was the very life of God whose SEED JESUS was.
So if one wants to come to God the question is this. Who is the Father of all things? Has this been revealled to you? Yes, one must come to the Son for in the Son dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And if you desire to talk to God and you think that you cannot find Him, just call upon His name JESUS. I can guarantee that the Spirit of God who was in the man JESUS will come to you faster than your eyes can twinkle.
Conversely, if you chose not to come to JESUS who is the Son of the Holy Spirit you can never be saved. For JESUS is God Himself as a Son, man’s only Saviour. JESUS or GOD with Us sacrificed His Son's body for you and me, so that we could now be to the Holy Spirit the body of Christ. A people redeemed by the blood of the Holy Spirit. The ISRAEL of God. A Holy Nation. A Temple in which the Holy Spirit is pleased to dwell. A Temple not made with man’s hands.
Peace to all!
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 391
Then JESUS opened their understanding so that they too might understand the scriptures. Amazingly, some folks endeavour to translate the New Testament by what they think the Old covenant is saying. But that cannot be done accurately. If we use the analogy of the scriptures being a jig saw puzzle, then we know that while there may be shadows, the shadows will have no relevance until that same shadow fits into the appropriate situational happening!
The apostles for example were always in the dark. Or at least without understanding. That is until JESUS expounded to them what the true meaning of His prophetic Word meant or conversely, the event concerning Himself that was about to be fulfilled!
Further, the New Testament reveals the true meaning of scriptural types and shadows, particularly those that are hidden in the Old covenant. Note that of those that are hidden in the old covenant, in all cases these speak of JESUS. For JESUS said that within the volumes of the book it is written of Me. We also learn from the scriptures that when the Son of God came, He gave us an understanding so that we may know Him who is true. Know that we are in Him that is true, even in His Son JESUS the Christ. And similarly know that He is the true God that provides eternal life. (I John 5:20)
Prior to the crucifixion, the Jews are called Israelite or the title of God's chosen people. After the crucifixion, they are called Jews -- a sign that through their rejection of the Christ the Kingdom of Heaven has been taken away from them and given instead to the redeemed believers from all nations. Therefore, the people who were not a people prior to the crucifixion of JESUS have been grafted into the tree of life. The natural branch was cut off because of their unbelief. This was when
Christianity came to the Gentiles.
The Gospel begins with the words. "The book of the genealogy [in Greek Genesis] of JESUS the Christ. The promised SEED implanted into Eve by the Holy Spirit and that SEED is the Seed that will bruise the serpent’s head. The second SEED of promise was implanted into Abraham and another genealogy is presented!"
Both of these SEEDS were the SEEDS of the Holy Spirit of God which travelled down through the ages until the fullness of time arrived. That time was when the Holy Spirit brought these two seeds of promise together into the womb of a surrogate virgin girl. The angel declaring to Mary that that which is conceived within her is of the Holy Spirit. These seeds coming forth from the Holy Spirit is declared to be ‘God with us' and the given name is JESUS.
Still, even in the face of the scriptures, many will still endeavour to establish that JESUS was the natural son of Joseph and Mary and that JESUS was buried in the family grave. This may, in part explain why the Jews were cut off -- because of their continuous unbelief.
Do you recall how the Jews had the Roman guards protect the tomb into which the body of JESUS was laid? At the time, the Jews were terrified in case someone should come and remove JESUS' body. But regardless of their efforts, the stone which blocked the entrance to the tomb was rolled away. When they looked in, the body garments were still lying in the same place. Only the head wrappings were set aside. These wrappings indicate that the HEAD of the Church body -- JESUS -- was finished with death. Yes, indeed. He arose from death!
JESUS wept over Jerusalem saying, "How often would I have gathered you under my wings and you would not come." Sadly, this is because unbelief prevents anyone from entering into the promised blessings! In fact many profess Abraham to be their father. But Abraham rejoiced in the SEED of promise JESUS! Abraham being the father of faith for it is recorded that Abraham believed God and his faith was accounted to Him as being righteous!
The apostles for example were always in the dark. Or at least without understanding. That is until JESUS expounded to them what the true meaning of His prophetic Word meant or conversely, the event concerning Himself that was about to be fulfilled!
Further, the New Testament reveals the true meaning of scriptural types and shadows, particularly those that are hidden in the Old covenant. Note that of those that are hidden in the old covenant, in all cases these speak of JESUS. For JESUS said that within the volumes of the book it is written of Me. We also learn from the scriptures that when the Son of God came, He gave us an understanding so that we may know Him who is true. Know that we are in Him that is true, even in His Son JESUS the Christ. And similarly know that He is the true God that provides eternal life. (I John 5:20)
Prior to the crucifixion, the Jews are called Israelite or the title of God's chosen people. After the crucifixion, they are called Jews -- a sign that through their rejection of the Christ the Kingdom of Heaven has been taken away from them and given instead to the redeemed believers from all nations. Therefore, the people who were not a people prior to the crucifixion of JESUS have been grafted into the tree of life. The natural branch was cut off because of their unbelief. This was when
Christianity came to the Gentiles.
The Gospel begins with the words. "The book of the genealogy [in Greek Genesis] of JESUS the Christ. The promised SEED implanted into Eve by the Holy Spirit and that SEED is the Seed that will bruise the serpent’s head. The second SEED of promise was implanted into Abraham and another genealogy is presented!"
Both of these SEEDS were the SEEDS of the Holy Spirit of God which travelled down through the ages until the fullness of time arrived. That time was when the Holy Spirit brought these two seeds of promise together into the womb of a surrogate virgin girl. The angel declaring to Mary that that which is conceived within her is of the Holy Spirit. These seeds coming forth from the Holy Spirit is declared to be ‘God with us' and the given name is JESUS.
Still, even in the face of the scriptures, many will still endeavour to establish that JESUS was the natural son of Joseph and Mary and that JESUS was buried in the family grave. This may, in part explain why the Jews were cut off -- because of their continuous unbelief.
Do you recall how the Jews had the Roman guards protect the tomb into which the body of JESUS was laid? At the time, the Jews were terrified in case someone should come and remove JESUS' body. But regardless of their efforts, the stone which blocked the entrance to the tomb was rolled away. When they looked in, the body garments were still lying in the same place. Only the head wrappings were set aside. These wrappings indicate that the HEAD of the Church body -- JESUS -- was finished with death. Yes, indeed. He arose from death!
JESUS wept over Jerusalem saying, "How often would I have gathered you under my wings and you would not come." Sadly, this is because unbelief prevents anyone from entering into the promised blessings! In fact many profess Abraham to be their father. But Abraham rejoiced in the SEED of promise JESUS! Abraham being the father of faith for it is recorded that Abraham believed God and his faith was accounted to Him as being righteous!
Monday, April 9, 2012
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 390
Let us build three tabernacles - one for you Lord, one for Moses (law) and one for Elias (prophets). Well, if you recall from the scriptures, that pronounced thought received an immediate reaction from heaven. In this case, it was not just "forgive them Father for they know not what they do" but rather "forgive them for they do not understand the intensity of what they have just spoken."
This is not to suggest that Moses (representative of the law) and Elias (representative of the prophets) was not important. Indeed, Moses and Elias were instrumental in the plan of God’s salvation. However, what we need to note here is that the directive Words of God came to them. These Words of God did not originate in them. There is a difference. Moses and Elias were, so to speak, faithful servants ministering only the message which was committed to them.
But JESUS was and is the LORD of Glory manifest in the flesh. Manifest as a Son over His own household! JESUS being God who was formerly unseen is now God with us. This means in the simplest terms that JESUS is the source of all Word. As it is written, "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God." (John 1)
Yes! The Word spoken through the mouth of the man JESUS was God’s own Word! This is why the people pressed toward JESUS -- to hear the Word of God -- for JESUS Word was spoken with power. In other words, JESUS is the same God who spoke the worlds into existence. For it is written that without JESUS there is nothing made that is made. All things exist by JESUS and for JESUS.
Therefore, JESUS is the unseen Spirit of God seen. In looking for God, it was Jesus who turned up. God then is not three distinct and separate persons as some religious folks (and others) like to suggest. That revised falsification of the scriptures did not come from God but of man, appearing first in 300 AD by the so called church fathers.
For it is written ... even though being found in fashion as a man, JESUS thought it not robbery to be equal with God. When JESUS speaks, it is God who is speaking. It is the Spirit of God within that veil of flesh speaking. How often did JESUS say in the scriptures that it was not Him/ME (in the flesh) that speaks and does these things but rather, it was/is His/My father within Me, it is He that does these things. This is why JESUS must have the pre-eminence in all things. Down through the ages it was the Spirit of the Christ within persons that caused them to delight in the Lord. This delight did not come about of themselves.
And the reason why this message is so important? Well, when people speak about King David or Solomon, there is, at times a tendency to exalt them to sainthood. They do so even when they know that both David and Solomon were very bad dudes. Remember, David would become a condemned convict for premeditated murder, a planner and schemer of evil, and even an adulterer. In terms of Solomon, how many women's lives did he waste in his endeavour to satisfy the cravings of his flesh? Evil flourished within them. And such were some of us until JESUS appeared in our lives.
JESUS on the other hand came and preached peace. He preached the beatitudes and about love, mercy and compassion. Never before upon this earth had a man lived and spoke as JESUS did. For JESUS was the Life of God Himself, manifest in the flesh as a Son. This explains why we ought to endeavour to walk in His footsteps recognizing that it was the Spirit of the humanity of Christ within persons that caused them to bring forth the psalms, the hymns and spiritual songs. It was also this same Spirit of the humanity of Christ that causes men to speak Words of wisdom.
For in the beginning was the Word - JESUS! Come to Jesus today! Let Him show you the power of love that transcends all understanding!
This is not to suggest that Moses (representative of the law) and Elias (representative of the prophets) was not important. Indeed, Moses and Elias were instrumental in the plan of God’s salvation. However, what we need to note here is that the directive Words of God came to them. These Words of God did not originate in them. There is a difference. Moses and Elias were, so to speak, faithful servants ministering only the message which was committed to them.
But JESUS was and is the LORD of Glory manifest in the flesh. Manifest as a Son over His own household! JESUS being God who was formerly unseen is now God with us. This means in the simplest terms that JESUS is the source of all Word. As it is written, "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God." (John 1)
Yes! The Word spoken through the mouth of the man JESUS was God’s own Word! This is why the people pressed toward JESUS -- to hear the Word of God -- for JESUS Word was spoken with power. In other words, JESUS is the same God who spoke the worlds into existence. For it is written that without JESUS there is nothing made that is made. All things exist by JESUS and for JESUS.
Therefore, JESUS is the unseen Spirit of God seen. In looking for God, it was Jesus who turned up. God then is not three distinct and separate persons as some religious folks (and others) like to suggest. That revised falsification of the scriptures did not come from God but of man, appearing first in 300 AD by the so called church fathers.
For it is written ... even though being found in fashion as a man, JESUS thought it not robbery to be equal with God. When JESUS speaks, it is God who is speaking. It is the Spirit of God within that veil of flesh speaking. How often did JESUS say in the scriptures that it was not Him/ME (in the flesh) that speaks and does these things but rather, it was/is His/My father within Me, it is He that does these things. This is why JESUS must have the pre-eminence in all things. Down through the ages it was the Spirit of the Christ within persons that caused them to delight in the Lord. This delight did not come about of themselves.
And the reason why this message is so important? Well, when people speak about King David or Solomon, there is, at times a tendency to exalt them to sainthood. They do so even when they know that both David and Solomon were very bad dudes. Remember, David would become a condemned convict for premeditated murder, a planner and schemer of evil, and even an adulterer. In terms of Solomon, how many women's lives did he waste in his endeavour to satisfy the cravings of his flesh? Evil flourished within them. And such were some of us until JESUS appeared in our lives.
JESUS on the other hand came and preached peace. He preached the beatitudes and about love, mercy and compassion. Never before upon this earth had a man lived and spoke as JESUS did. For JESUS was the Life of God Himself, manifest in the flesh as a Son. This explains why we ought to endeavour to walk in His footsteps recognizing that it was the Spirit of the humanity of Christ within persons that caused them to bring forth the psalms, the hymns and spiritual songs. It was also this same Spirit of the humanity of Christ that causes men to speak Words of wisdom.
For in the beginning was the Word - JESUS! Come to Jesus today! Let Him show you the power of love that transcends all understanding!
Sunday, April 8, 2012
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 389
Melchisedec met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the Kings and blessed Him. Of all places, who would have thought that the Priest of God would appear and then in appearing bring in His Hands bread and wine. The point to note here is that God’s promise to Abraham concerning the SEED Christ was given 430 years before the Law was given. This point is equally important because it shows that the redeemed of the Lord are not under Moses' Law. Neither are we under that covenant. To listen to some religious folks today, one might actually be led to believe that we are still under the Law.
But the good news is that we are not under law. We are not under Moses because the Mosaic Law is not of faith. What we are, even as Abraham was, is justified by faith. Further, grace and truth came by JESUS the Christ! Salvation is not hinged upon any works of righteousness which we have done. Rather, JESUS, God manifest in the flesh has wiped the slate clean from the error of our ways. Man’s salvation from God Himself becoming Man’s saviour would have otherwise been an impossibility for God has decreed that all have sinned and fallen short of His required righteousness. Note also that Melchisedec did not appear to Abraham at any designated time as presented under the Law. Why? Because we are not under the old covenant.
If we were under the old covenant, then Christ would have died in vain and the promise of redemption in Christ would be unobtainable through faith alone! Thankfully, this is not the case. Is it any wonder that Paul declares in Galatians "Who has bewitched you?" Before your eyes JESUS has been presented as the end - the conclusion - to the Law! These believers had began so well in their faith but then in time began to think later that they were perfected by the works of the Law. For example, they started to keep days, months, times and seasons to which Paul responded, "I am afraid for you. Have I bestowed labour upon you in vain?"
As stated repeatedly, JESUS died to bear our sins in His own body at Calvary. JESUS was buried. His sin prone body cursed. But then JESUS rose from the tomb after 3 days and 3 nights for our justification. JESUS' death, burial, resurrection justifying us freely from all things which the Law because of the weakness of our flesh could have never accomplish! It was then that JESUS ascended into heaven and sat down indicating that the work of our redemptive salvation is now complete. And that, this great salvation cannot be amended by anyone.
Yes, JESUS our High Priest after the order of Melchisedec and not after the order of the Law has in His hands bread and wine symbolical of His own flesh and blood. Therefore, we do not come together in any particular day. For as often as we eat this bread and drink this wine we remember the ONE sacrifice of the Son of God who is the Child of the Holy Spirit! As such, we come boldly to the Throne of Grace because in God’s hands is the New Testament! Today, call upon JESUS. Reach out to Him. For He will PASSOVER you giving to you freely the gift of eternal life! Peace to all in JESUS name!
But the good news is that we are not under law. We are not under Moses because the Mosaic Law is not of faith. What we are, even as Abraham was, is justified by faith. Further, grace and truth came by JESUS the Christ! Salvation is not hinged upon any works of righteousness which we have done. Rather, JESUS, God manifest in the flesh has wiped the slate clean from the error of our ways. Man’s salvation from God Himself becoming Man’s saviour would have otherwise been an impossibility for God has decreed that all have sinned and fallen short of His required righteousness. Note also that Melchisedec did not appear to Abraham at any designated time as presented under the Law. Why? Because we are not under the old covenant.
If we were under the old covenant, then Christ would have died in vain and the promise of redemption in Christ would be unobtainable through faith alone! Thankfully, this is not the case. Is it any wonder that Paul declares in Galatians "Who has bewitched you?" Before your eyes JESUS has been presented as the end - the conclusion - to the Law! These believers had began so well in their faith but then in time began to think later that they were perfected by the works of the Law. For example, they started to keep days, months, times and seasons to which Paul responded, "I am afraid for you. Have I bestowed labour upon you in vain?"
As stated repeatedly, JESUS died to bear our sins in His own body at Calvary. JESUS was buried. His sin prone body cursed. But then JESUS rose from the tomb after 3 days and 3 nights for our justification. JESUS' death, burial, resurrection justifying us freely from all things which the Law because of the weakness of our flesh could have never accomplish! It was then that JESUS ascended into heaven and sat down indicating that the work of our redemptive salvation is now complete. And that, this great salvation cannot be amended by anyone.
Yes, JESUS our High Priest after the order of Melchisedec and not after the order of the Law has in His hands bread and wine symbolical of His own flesh and blood. Therefore, we do not come together in any particular day. For as often as we eat this bread and drink this wine we remember the ONE sacrifice of the Son of God who is the Child of the Holy Spirit! As such, we come boldly to the Throne of Grace because in God’s hands is the New Testament! Today, call upon JESUS. Reach out to Him. For He will PASSOVER you giving to you freely the gift of eternal life! Peace to all in JESUS name!
Friday, April 6, 2012
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 388
What follows is a partial list of evidence disputing the authenticity of Matthew 28:19 A Collection of Evidence Against the Traditional Wording of Matthew 28:19 written by Clinton D. Willis [CWillis@ipa.net]
Catholic Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger:(today’s pope ref.) He makes this confession as to the origin of the chief Trinity text of Matthew 28:19. "The basic form of our [Matthew 28:19 Trinitarian]profession of faith took shape during the course of the second and third centuries in connection with the ceremony of baptism. So far as its place of origin is concerned, the text [Matthew 28:19]came from the city of Rome." The Trinity baptism and text of Matthew 28:19 therefore did not originate from the original Church that started in Jerusalem around AD 33. It was rather, as the evidence proves, a later invention of Roman Catholicism -- completely fabricated. Unfortunately, very few know about these historical facts.
"The Demonstratio Evangelica" by Eusebius: Eusebius was the Church historian and Bishop of Caesarea. On page 152, Eusebius quotes the early book of Matthew that he had in his library in Caesarea. According to this eyewitness of an unaltered Book of Matthew, it could have been the original book or the first copy of the original book of Matthew. Eusebius informs us of Jesus' actual words to his disciples in the original text of Matthew 28:19: "With one word and voice He said to His disciples: "Go, and make disciples of all nations in My Name, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you." That "Name" is Jesus.
On page 61 Professor and Church historian Walker, reviles the true origin and purpose of Matthew 28:19. This text is the first man-made Roman Catholic Creed that was the prototype for the later Apocryphal Apostles' Creed. Matthew 28:19 was invented along with the Apocryphal Apostles' Creed to counter so-called heretics and gnostics that baptized in the name of Jesus Christ! Marcion although somewhat mixed up in some of his doctrine still baptized his converts the Biblical way in the name of Jesus Christ. Matthew 28:19 is the first non-Biblical Roman Catholic Creed! The spurious Catholic text of Matthew 28:19 was invented to support the newer triune - Trinity -doctrine. Therefore, Matthew 28:19 is not the "Great Commission of Jesus Christ." Matthew 28:19 is the great Catholic hoax! Acts 2:38, Luke 24:47, and I Corinthians 6:11 give us the ancient original words and teaching of Jesus! Further to this point, is it not also strange that Matthew 28:19 is missing from the old manuscripts of Sinaiticus, Curetonianus and Bobiensis?
The Catholic University of America in Washington, D. C. 1923, New Testament Studies Number 5: "The Lord's Command To Baptize An Historical Critical Investigation." by Bernard Henry Cuneo. Quoting from page 27, "The passages in Acts and the Letters of St. Paul. These passages seem to point to the earliest form as baptism in the name of the Lord. ... Is it possible to reconcile these facts with the belief that Christ commanded his disciples to baptize in the trine form? Had Christ given such a command, it is urged, the Apostolic Church would have followed him, and we should have some trace of this obedience in the New Testament. No such trace can be found. The only explanation of this silence, according to the anti-traditional view, is this the short christological (Jesus Name) formula was (the) original, and the longer trine formula was a later development."
To you and I is the Word of Salvation sent. Therefore, save yourself from this untoward generation and be obedient, obeying the message of the Holy Spirit as recorded in Acts chapter 2 verses 37-42. It was here that the first 3000 believers were gladly baptized into the Name of the Lord Jesus the Christ. Peace to all as you submit to the command of the Holy Spirit of JESUS!
Catholic Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger:(today’s pope ref.) He makes this confession as to the origin of the chief Trinity text of Matthew 28:19. "The basic form of our [Matthew 28:19 Trinitarian]profession of faith took shape during the course of the second and third centuries in connection with the ceremony of baptism. So far as its place of origin is concerned, the text [Matthew 28:19]came from the city of Rome." The Trinity baptism and text of Matthew 28:19 therefore did not originate from the original Church that started in Jerusalem around AD 33. It was rather, as the evidence proves, a later invention of Roman Catholicism -- completely fabricated. Unfortunately, very few know about these historical facts.
"The Demonstratio Evangelica" by Eusebius: Eusebius was the Church historian and Bishop of Caesarea. On page 152, Eusebius quotes the early book of Matthew that he had in his library in Caesarea. According to this eyewitness of an unaltered Book of Matthew, it could have been the original book or the first copy of the original book of Matthew. Eusebius informs us of Jesus' actual words to his disciples in the original text of Matthew 28:19: "With one word and voice He said to His disciples: "Go, and make disciples of all nations in My Name, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you." That "Name" is Jesus.
On page 61 Professor and Church historian Walker, reviles the true origin and purpose of Matthew 28:19. This text is the first man-made Roman Catholic Creed that was the prototype for the later Apocryphal Apostles' Creed. Matthew 28:19 was invented along with the Apocryphal Apostles' Creed to counter so-called heretics and gnostics that baptized in the name of Jesus Christ! Marcion although somewhat mixed up in some of his doctrine still baptized his converts the Biblical way in the name of Jesus Christ. Matthew 28:19 is the first non-Biblical Roman Catholic Creed! The spurious Catholic text of Matthew 28:19 was invented to support the newer triune - Trinity -doctrine. Therefore, Matthew 28:19 is not the "Great Commission of Jesus Christ." Matthew 28:19 is the great Catholic hoax! Acts 2:38, Luke 24:47, and I Corinthians 6:11 give us the ancient original words and teaching of Jesus! Further to this point, is it not also strange that Matthew 28:19 is missing from the old manuscripts of Sinaiticus, Curetonianus and Bobiensis?
The Catholic University of America in Washington, D. C. 1923, New Testament Studies Number 5: "The Lord's Command To Baptize An Historical Critical Investigation." by Bernard Henry Cuneo. Quoting from page 27, "The passages in Acts and the Letters of St. Paul. These passages seem to point to the earliest form as baptism in the name of the Lord. ... Is it possible to reconcile these facts with the belief that Christ commanded his disciples to baptize in the trine form? Had Christ given such a command, it is urged, the Apostolic Church would have followed him, and we should have some trace of this obedience in the New Testament. No such trace can be found. The only explanation of this silence, according to the anti-traditional view, is this the short christological (Jesus Name) formula was (the) original, and the longer trine formula was a later development."
To you and I is the Word of Salvation sent. Therefore, save yourself from this untoward generation and be obedient, obeying the message of the Holy Spirit as recorded in Acts chapter 2 verses 37-42. It was here that the first 3000 believers were gladly baptized into the Name of the Lord Jesus the Christ. Peace to all as you submit to the command of the Holy Spirit of JESUS!
Thursday, April 5, 2012
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 387
Why air brush the scriptures with catchy one liners? For your words and my words cannot revise or supplement the written scriptures. Indeed, the Gospel is God’s Word brought down from Heaven and delivered to us in the face of JESUS the Christ who was and is ‘God manifest in the flesh.' In appearance even as we are. For it was not possible that He should appear otherwise. If He had, then He would have been alien to us. However, when God became man, we gain insights into why He desired to be made like unto His brethren.
In the beginning, we know that Adam (and Eve) sinned. As a consequence, we inherited his sinful nature which he brought upon himself by dismissing God’s instructions. As it is written, by one man’s disobedience sin entered into the world and the judgment for disobedience to the Word of God was death. Therefore to undo the imposed death penalty necessitated the death of a sinless righteous man. But since there was no such person to be found on earth, God was willing to make the sacrifice Himself. Because every one of us has sinned, God found in Himself a way whereby man could obtain redemption. A way to compensate for the fact that Adam’s now sinful seed could not bring forth any such person. And that being the case, all things would have remained in that sinful realm forever.
But God stepped into an otherwise impossible situation declaring, "I the LORD your God will become man’s Saviour!" Think about this for a moment. "I the Lord your God will become your Saviour!" Then as we read from the scriptures, God provides of Himself a pure Holy un-defiled SEED. A NEW blood line that is so unlike the Adamic blood line. The blood whereof we speak here is the blood of the Holy Spirit.
Yes, God provided two seeds of Himself -- one female and one male. These two seed lines are presented in the scriptures. The first genealogy emerging from Eve and the second from Abraham. These two seeds were brought together in the womb of a consenting virgin girl named Mary. In her womb the child of the Holy Spirit was clothed upon in sin prone flesh coming forth from her in appearance as we are. The child was given a name. His name is JESUS the same child declared in the scriptures to be ‘God with us.' So what is God’s name? Think about it. If ‘JESUS was God with Us’ then surely God’s name must be JESUS!
In this context, God has declared ‘that there is no salvation to be found in any other name. While admittedly, there are some who would argue this point by inventing names or translating JESUS into another language, their attempts to revise the scriptures does not negate what the Bible says. The Scriptures - the Word of God - still stands correct even when one attempts to air brush the scriptures. The message is remains accurate. That is, JESUS is the GIVEN name and in that Name shall we trust.
Still, in some circles, the name of JESUS remains despised. Like the devil they believe there is a God. They forget that the devil also knows God’s name and trembles. Further, unlike the devil, those that choose to despise Jesus have no idea who God is. Neither will they if they don't attempt to know Him. For how can anyone trust in a God that one does not know?
The scriptures provide similar scenarios that we can learn from. For example, Paul believed in God and went about doing what he believed at the time was God’s business. From Paul's perspective, this meant getting rid of the JESUS people. In fact, Paul was watching and consenting to Stephen being stoned to death. But that incident as we read in the scriptures was the straw that broke the camel's back. JESUS was no longer sitting down! Rather, JESUS was on His feet about to intervene when Stephen prayed. It was here that the course of history was altered. This is not to suggest that judgment was not administered. Indeed, it was. JESUS cut off the feet of the Jews. As it is written, the scriptures declared that they always resisted the Holy Spirit, even as their fathers before them also did. When JESUS later met Paul, He confronted him saying, "It is hard for you to kick against your conscience." Paul cried out ‘Who are you Lord? and JESUS answered, "I AM JESUS!"
As such, there is no salvation to be found in any other name. Even when others try to reshuffle the scriptures 2000 years after the fact, there is no other name whereby people can be saved. There is only one name. That name is JESUS. Jesus is the given name. It is this name that is ABOVE every other name in Heaven and on earth! Save yourself from those who oppose the testimony of eye witnesses! Read Acts chapter 2 verses 37-42 and follow the example of the first 3000 believers who gladly obeyed the scriptures. Peace be to all who submit to Jesus willingly.
God bless you all!
In the beginning, we know that Adam (and Eve) sinned. As a consequence, we inherited his sinful nature which he brought upon himself by dismissing God’s instructions. As it is written, by one man’s disobedience sin entered into the world and the judgment for disobedience to the Word of God was death. Therefore to undo the imposed death penalty necessitated the death of a sinless righteous man. But since there was no such person to be found on earth, God was willing to make the sacrifice Himself. Because every one of us has sinned, God found in Himself a way whereby man could obtain redemption. A way to compensate for the fact that Adam’s now sinful seed could not bring forth any such person. And that being the case, all things would have remained in that sinful realm forever.
But God stepped into an otherwise impossible situation declaring, "I the LORD your God will become man’s Saviour!" Think about this for a moment. "I the Lord your God will become your Saviour!" Then as we read from the scriptures, God provides of Himself a pure Holy un-defiled SEED. A NEW blood line that is so unlike the Adamic blood line. The blood whereof we speak here is the blood of the Holy Spirit.
Yes, God provided two seeds of Himself -- one female and one male. These two seed lines are presented in the scriptures. The first genealogy emerging from Eve and the second from Abraham. These two seeds were brought together in the womb of a consenting virgin girl named Mary. In her womb the child of the Holy Spirit was clothed upon in sin prone flesh coming forth from her in appearance as we are. The child was given a name. His name is JESUS the same child declared in the scriptures to be ‘God with us.' So what is God’s name? Think about it. If ‘JESUS was God with Us’ then surely God’s name must be JESUS!
In this context, God has declared ‘that there is no salvation to be found in any other name. While admittedly, there are some who would argue this point by inventing names or translating JESUS into another language, their attempts to revise the scriptures does not negate what the Bible says. The Scriptures - the Word of God - still stands correct even when one attempts to air brush the scriptures. The message is remains accurate. That is, JESUS is the GIVEN name and in that Name shall we trust.
Still, in some circles, the name of JESUS remains despised. Like the devil they believe there is a God. They forget that the devil also knows God’s name and trembles. Further, unlike the devil, those that choose to despise Jesus have no idea who God is. Neither will they if they don't attempt to know Him. For how can anyone trust in a God that one does not know?
The scriptures provide similar scenarios that we can learn from. For example, Paul believed in God and went about doing what he believed at the time was God’s business. From Paul's perspective, this meant getting rid of the JESUS people. In fact, Paul was watching and consenting to Stephen being stoned to death. But that incident as we read in the scriptures was the straw that broke the camel's back. JESUS was no longer sitting down! Rather, JESUS was on His feet about to intervene when Stephen prayed. It was here that the course of history was altered. This is not to suggest that judgment was not administered. Indeed, it was. JESUS cut off the feet of the Jews. As it is written, the scriptures declared that they always resisted the Holy Spirit, even as their fathers before them also did. When JESUS later met Paul, He confronted him saying, "It is hard for you to kick against your conscience." Paul cried out ‘Who are you Lord? and JESUS answered, "I AM JESUS!"
As such, there is no salvation to be found in any other name. Even when others try to reshuffle the scriptures 2000 years after the fact, there is no other name whereby people can be saved. There is only one name. That name is JESUS. Jesus is the given name. It is this name that is ABOVE every other name in Heaven and on earth! Save yourself from those who oppose the testimony of eye witnesses! Read Acts chapter 2 verses 37-42 and follow the example of the first 3000 believers who gladly obeyed the scriptures. Peace be to all who submit to Jesus willingly.
God bless you all!
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 386
"And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." (Luke 1:35)
The scriptures clearly say that JESUS was conceived of the Holy Ghost. Further, the angel, as a messenger of God declared to Mary that holy thing which is conceived in her was of the Holy Ghost. Mary upon hearing this news states, "How can this be seeing that I have never known a man?" So how can these things be? Let's start at the beginning.
Do you remember when Adam and Eve were in the garden of Eden just prior to being cast out? God gave a promise that the SEED of a woman would bruise the serpent's head. Well, that promised SEED was implanted into Eve. Later, Adam and Eve had children - offspring - named Cain and Abel. As we read later in the scriptures, we see that sin was manifested in Cain and Abel's lives. Later, another son named Seth is born. Then, as the scriptures report, men began to call upon the name of the Lord.
What we learn from this is that in order to call upon the "name" of the Lord, obviously the LORD must have had a name. What happened is that the promised SEED had passed through EVE into Seth. From Seth's birth the genealogy of the SEED passed down through the ages. (Further details on the genealogy can be found by referring to previous posts).
The scriptures later state that Abraham also received a SEED of promise. So we now have two seeds of promise. Abraham and Sarah then have a son named Isaac and the two seeds of promise now pass into Isaac. Another genealogy is then recorded in the scriptures starting from Abraham.
In reviewing the records, the scriptures show how the promised two seeds travel throughout the era. These are the two seeds that were brought together in the womb of a surrogate mother Mary. Not of Mary. Rather the child seeded by the Holy Ghost was the Son of God. The child was clothed upon with sin prone flesh, for Mary's body was incapable of doing otherwise. Why? Because Mary herself was a product of Adam’s sin prone race. Plus, the child conceived of the Holy Ghost had in His veins the blood of the Holy Ghost.
The same blood which was shed at Calvary. Yes, the blood of His holy Spirit - pure, holy and un-defiled. God's blood for JESUS was God HIMSELF manifest in sin prone flesh. On the inside He was God but on the outside He appeared as a man. Therefore, He is the Author of the New Testament. Our salvation was purchased for us by the same God who is the Holy Ghost while similarly a man. God Himself manifested as a man. (I Timothy 3:16)
"He was in the world and the world was made by Him and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own and His own received Him not." (John 1:10-11)
God in Christ. God our Saviour.
His name is Jesus. (Matthew 1:21-23)
Jesus - God in the flesh fulfilled all the required penalties that justice required for man’s ransom. And He said, "It is finished!" This is why we live in the New Testament. The Old Covenant has no bearing whatsoever upon the new. Remember that the promised SEED of the New Testament preceded the Law by 430 years. Therefore, the old cannot be an addendum to the New testament. This is because the new is the unearned gift of God to ALL those who believe in Him.
"By grace are ye saved through faith ..." (Ephesians 2:5, 8)
"But if I do, though ye believe not Me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in Me, and I in Him." (John 10:30, 38)
Stand in the offering plate.
The scriptures clearly say that JESUS was conceived of the Holy Ghost. Further, the angel, as a messenger of God declared to Mary that holy thing which is conceived in her was of the Holy Ghost. Mary upon hearing this news states, "How can this be seeing that I have never known a man?" So how can these things be? Let's start at the beginning.
Do you remember when Adam and Eve were in the garden of Eden just prior to being cast out? God gave a promise that the SEED of a woman would bruise the serpent's head. Well, that promised SEED was implanted into Eve. Later, Adam and Eve had children - offspring - named Cain and Abel. As we read later in the scriptures, we see that sin was manifested in Cain and Abel's lives. Later, another son named Seth is born. Then, as the scriptures report, men began to call upon the name of the Lord.
What we learn from this is that in order to call upon the "name" of the Lord, obviously the LORD must have had a name. What happened is that the promised SEED had passed through EVE into Seth. From Seth's birth the genealogy of the SEED passed down through the ages. (Further details on the genealogy can be found by referring to previous posts).
The scriptures later state that Abraham also received a SEED of promise. So we now have two seeds of promise. Abraham and Sarah then have a son named Isaac and the two seeds of promise now pass into Isaac. Another genealogy is then recorded in the scriptures starting from Abraham.
In reviewing the records, the scriptures show how the promised two seeds travel throughout the era. These are the two seeds that were brought together in the womb of a surrogate mother Mary. Not of Mary. Rather the child seeded by the Holy Ghost was the Son of God. The child was clothed upon with sin prone flesh, for Mary's body was incapable of doing otherwise. Why? Because Mary herself was a product of Adam’s sin prone race. Plus, the child conceived of the Holy Ghost had in His veins the blood of the Holy Ghost.
The same blood which was shed at Calvary. Yes, the blood of His holy Spirit - pure, holy and un-defiled. God's blood for JESUS was God HIMSELF manifest in sin prone flesh. On the inside He was God but on the outside He appeared as a man. Therefore, He is the Author of the New Testament. Our salvation was purchased for us by the same God who is the Holy Ghost while similarly a man. God Himself manifested as a man. (I Timothy 3:16)
"He was in the world and the world was made by Him and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own and His own received Him not." (John 1:10-11)
God in Christ. God our Saviour.
His name is Jesus. (Matthew 1:21-23)
Jesus - God in the flesh fulfilled all the required penalties that justice required for man’s ransom. And He said, "It is finished!" This is why we live in the New Testament. The Old Covenant has no bearing whatsoever upon the new. Remember that the promised SEED of the New Testament preceded the Law by 430 years. Therefore, the old cannot be an addendum to the New testament. This is because the new is the unearned gift of God to ALL those who believe in Him.
"By grace are ye saved through faith ..." (Ephesians 2:5, 8)
"But if I do, though ye believe not Me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in Me, and I in Him." (John 10:30, 38)
Stand in the offering plate.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 385
The scriptures confirm that there is only one God and only one mediator between God and man. The mediator is the man JESUS the Christ. For it was God Himself as a Son who is the One Mediator that intervenes for us. He having laid down his natural life which He had received in the womb of His surrogate mother Mary. For it is written that it was God Himself as a Son who mediates over His own household. And who is His household? Us! We are the household.
Further, there was none righteous. No not one. There was none who could pay the price for man’s redemption. Therefore, God in His love and mercy veiled Himself in flesh and dwelt among us as a ‘man’ living a sinless life. And even though He was tempted and tried in all points even as we are, He was perfect.
Further, no man took JESUS life. Why? Because that would have been an impossibility. For at any point in time, the Lord of Glory JESUS could have called for a legion of angels to deliver Him from captivity. Instead, JESUS willingly allowed mankind to maul His natural body for you and I.
As we know, the wages of sin is death. But in this case, death being the penalty of sin was wrongfully administered for JESUS who committed no sin. Yet upon His sinless, (yet prone to sin) body was laid the sins of the whole world. This dedication to you and I was previously decided upon in prayer and that, as a consequence He would drink the cup of our sin. Not my will states the scriptures but Thy will be done! “…
Therefore, there is no escape from the great and terrible wrath of God which must be poured out inadvertently upon all those who reject the offer of salvation which He (God as a Son) Himself through much pain and agony obtained. The offer of salvation whereby mankind should be freely exonerated from all sin.
This is why it will no longer be death alone that is the required punishment. Or that mercy will no longer available. Indeed, when the door to mercy closes, the door of wrath will open. In this regard, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Here we speak of an eternal death in a place called Hell, where there is no death as we know it. Rather, only eternal torment. Yes, agreed, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
This is why we should turn to God, recognizing the immeasurable and unconditional love of God which has been demonstrated before the whole world. This is also why we have been made fully aware through the scriptures that at Calvary, the crucifixion was the pivotal point where good and evil fought the battle for man’s redemption. At this time, the devil thought that if JESUS were crucified that would be his victory. Oh but how wrong he was. For in the death of Christ my Lord, we the prisoners of sin were set free. At Calvary, the raging battle was declared - over. The victory won! This is why we bring forth the Royal Diadem and Crown JESUS the Christ Lord over all!
Today, as a consequence of the sacrifice Jesus made on the cross, we have a New Testament written in blood. His blood! Spilled for you and I so that we might find salvation. A New Testament that cannot be likened to the old covenant which was written in stone. And thus, you and I are free by the sacrifice of the one God who made the heavens and the earth. For it is He Himself (as a Son) who has bore all of our sin in His own body upon a tree!
This is why we are no longer under the law. This is why we can be confident in loving the Lord our God - JESUS even as He has first loved us! Believe and receive JESUS today. Thank Him for all that He does each and every day for you and I. And then follow Jesus as the first 3000 did in Acts 2:37-42. Why? Because you can be saved because He redeemed you!
Sunday, April 1, 2012
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 384
This post pertains to the universal proclamation of the Gospel.
The scriptures state that because of their unbelief, the Jews exiled themselves from the blessings that were offered freely to each and every one who believed in the one God who had down through the ages set forth great and precious promises. Indeed, God Himself appears in flesh to actuate all the afore promised blessings.
First, the prerequisite being that God by Himself must purchase redemption. Redemption then ushers in a new age of Grace and Mercy! Within this context, the Gentiles believed and received the afore mentioned promises. They did so not because they were deserving of such but rather they inherited the promises even as Abraham had in days of yore. They simply believed that God alone can save and as such, it was accounted to them as righteousness.
If we read the scriptures, we learn that JESUS told the Jews that the promise of the Kingdom of God would be taken away from them and given to another nation -- if they did not believe. We also read that a kingdom must be established on principles and JESUS -- God with us -- sowed the seed of the first principles in both Word and deed. This is the Gospel of the Kingdom of God.
Every kingdom has a door of entry. In fact, GOD in the man JESUS the Christ is the ‘passport required’ to show that one is a citizen of the Kingdom of God. There is only one door. This is the gospel message we are to preach to all nations starting at Jerusalem. Preaching repentance and remission of sins to all nations. The first 3000 to believe were told to repent and be baptized into the name of JESUS who is the Christ for the remission of all sin. (Acts 2:38)
And upon obediently doing so they received the promised gift of the Holy Ghost to indwell them. The same offer stands today! This gospel is your passport to eternal life -- officially stamped by God’s promises -- officially sealed with His Holy Spirit Of Promise.
While the church fathers of the day continue to issue false passports saying that one can be saved by priests or by Mary or by transubstantiation or by being baptized into the titles (father, son, spirit,) the scriptures still stand as the authentic Word of God. The rest is just man-made institutional religion pushing the traditions of men. Do not fall for this pretentious gospel!
Come to the kingdom of GOD. Read Acts chapter 2 verses 37 thru 42 for your edification and learning. And then, stand in the offering plate with your Lord God and Saviour.
The scriptures state that because of their unbelief, the Jews exiled themselves from the blessings that were offered freely to each and every one who believed in the one God who had down through the ages set forth great and precious promises. Indeed, God Himself appears in flesh to actuate all the afore promised blessings.
First, the prerequisite being that God by Himself must purchase redemption. Redemption then ushers in a new age of Grace and Mercy! Within this context, the Gentiles believed and received the afore mentioned promises. They did so not because they were deserving of such but rather they inherited the promises even as Abraham had in days of yore. They simply believed that God alone can save and as such, it was accounted to them as righteousness.
If we read the scriptures, we learn that JESUS told the Jews that the promise of the Kingdom of God would be taken away from them and given to another nation -- if they did not believe. We also read that a kingdom must be established on principles and JESUS -- God with us -- sowed the seed of the first principles in both Word and deed. This is the Gospel of the Kingdom of God.
Every kingdom has a door of entry. In fact, GOD in the man JESUS the Christ is the ‘passport required’ to show that one is a citizen of the Kingdom of God. There is only one door. This is the gospel message we are to preach to all nations starting at Jerusalem. Preaching repentance and remission of sins to all nations. The first 3000 to believe were told to repent and be baptized into the name of JESUS who is the Christ for the remission of all sin. (Acts 2:38)
And upon obediently doing so they received the promised gift of the Holy Ghost to indwell them. The same offer stands today! This gospel is your passport to eternal life -- officially stamped by God’s promises -- officially sealed with His Holy Spirit Of Promise.
While the church fathers of the day continue to issue false passports saying that one can be saved by priests or by Mary or by transubstantiation or by being baptized into the titles (father, son, spirit,) the scriptures still stand as the authentic Word of God. The rest is just man-made institutional religion pushing the traditions of men. Do not fall for this pretentious gospel!
Come to the kingdom of GOD. Read Acts chapter 2 verses 37 thru 42 for your edification and learning. And then, stand in the offering plate with your Lord God and Saviour.
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