God

By

Lee

Monday, January 2, 2012

The trinity doctrine states that God is three entities in hypostatic union in one God and the three are co-eternal, co-equal in attributes and at no time are separate but each are distinct from another.

God is the object of our worship and the source of all things we have and hope for, the origin and revealer of truth concerning everything we should believe. It is absolutely necessary that we come to know God as much as it is possible, as much as God has revealed about Himself in the scriptures, otherwise all of what we believe would not be true.  God wants us to know Him.

KJV Jeremiah 9:23-24
 23.  Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
 24.  But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.

Jesus knew God his Father.

KJV John 10:15
 15.  As the Father knoweth me, even so I know the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

Jesus came to reveal the Father, to reveal what God is like.

KJV Matthew 11:27
 27.  All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.

KJV John 1:18
18.  No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

Do you understand and know God?  God has revealed in scripture things about Himself through the prophets, Apostles and Jesus His son.  We cannot know God in entirety but the things that are revealed about God are for us so that we can know and understand to the degree we are able.  After all if we worship God and apply Gods truth incorrectly the result is all in vain.

KJV Titus 1:15-16
 15.  Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
 16.  They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

KJV Matthew 15:8-9
 8.  This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
 9.  But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

 God, in scripture, tells us what He is like and how He is to be worshipped.  The next verses are the words of Jesus.

KJV John 4:23-24
 23.  But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
 24.  God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Notice there is no trinity here, the Father is God and is spirit and must be worshipped in spirit and truth.

The only worship God will accept is in spirit and in truth therefore it is absolutely required that we worship God as God instructs.  What does “in spirit”  and “in truth” mean? 

Verse 24 above says God is a spirit and all human beings have a human spirit and our worship of God is by this spiritual connection and not by any physical means.  All types of physical works that we do are unacceptable as a means of worshipping God.  The keeping of any day, abstaining from certain foods, offering sacrifices or building churches and temples are all physical things and are not of the spirit. Both Judaism and Christianity practice these things in an attempt to use physical things to worship a God who demands that our worship of Him be in spirit. True worship of God is in our human spirit connected to Gods Holy Spirit and has nothing of the physical involved.  Through this spiritual connection we can be taught what Gods truth is.

KJV John 16:13
 13.  Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

We can come to know what true life is.

KJV John 6:63
 63.  It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Jesus taught us that Gods Spirit is the only way to life and truth.  People who use any physical thing to worship God do not have the spiritual connection and therefore substitute physical things in place of spiritual.  This physical type of worship is no different than that of ancient Israel and the professing Christian churches today.  Our contact with God is 100% spiritual and 0% physical. 

When we study the scripture we must not add physical ideas into the meaning of spiritual things but spirit must be used with spirit to come to the correct meaning of scripture.

KJV 1 Corinthians 2:13
13.  Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

God reveals even the meaning of deep spiritual things by His Spirit joined to our human spirit.

KJV 1 Corinthians 2:9-10
9.  But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
 10.  But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

It is impossible for any of us to know spiritual things unless God reveals them to us by His Spirit to our human spirit, there is no other way.

Now let us see what scripture has to say about God.

God is omniscient, which means God knows absolutely everything.

KJV Isaiah 46:9-10
 9.  Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
 10.  Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

God is omnipotent or He has all power.

KJV Revelation 19:6
6.  And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.

God is omnipresent or is not bound by time and space but fills heaven and Earth eternally.

KJV Jeremiah 23:24
 24.  Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.

God is eternal with no beginning or end and has always existed.

KJV Isaiah 57:15
 15.  For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

Here we see that God is omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent and eternal; no other being has these attributes, they are unique to God alone.  While other beings can be like God in other ways these four attributes remain eternally only Gods.  This is the 

part of Gods glory that He will not give to anyone else.

KJV Isaiah 42:8
8.  I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

The attributes of God are part of what makes God who He is and if another being had these attributes that would mean there would be other Gods and we should know this is not the case.

KJV Isaiah 43:10
10.  Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.

The one true God is the only God that exists or will ever exist, there are and will be no others.

This evidence directly from scripture disproves the idea that God is a trinity.  How would it be possible to have more than one being who is almighty or omnipotent?  If you were almighty that means you alone have absolute power that no one else has and if someone else did you would no longer be the almighty.  You cannot have two or three “almighties” anymore than you can have multiple omnipresent, omniscient or eternal beings. The attributes of God are such that no one attribute can be taken away and yet still have God.  An example of this would be that if you take away Gods eternal existence, God would no longer be omnipresent, it would mean there would be a non-existent period of which there would be no knowledge or power present, it would eliminate omniscience, omnipresence and omnipotence if the eternal attribute were removed. The same will hold true if any other attribute of God was lacking.  All four attributes are interdependent and must be present to confirm the reality of God. The idea that God gave up being God to become a man is totally unscriptural. The idea that Jesus became a man but yet possessed all the attributes of God is also unscriptural.  If you are God but give up everything that actually makes you God, are you still God?  If you are truly human like Jesus was but yet possess all the attributes of God how could you be in all places simultaneously, how could your body of flesh be eternal?  Jesus is called by Trinitarians, God in the flesh, and they mean by this that Jesus was actually God.  The trinity says the three are distinct but never separate so Jesus would have to have been Father, Son and Holy Spirit in the flesh. How could God become a man but still retain all of His attributes?  It is an absurd impossibility that is totally illogical and in total disagreement with scripture.  Scripture states God is eternal, has always lived and will always live, If Jesus died then how could he have been God?  If Jesus did not really die then how are you saved? 

Jesus made the following statements in scripture:

KJV John 14:28
 28.  Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.

Jesus says the Father is greater than he is. How can this be if the trinity doctrine says that all three never cease being God and are co-equal?

KJV John 17:3
 3.  And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

Jesus says that his Father is the only true God. What about Jesus and the Holy Spirit?

KJV Mark 13:32
 32.  But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.

Here Jesus says he does not know the day and hour of his return, why not if he is God and knows all things?

Jesus also said many times that he had a God and that this God was his Father and our God and Father too.

KJV Matthew 27:46
 46.  And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

KJV John 20:17
 17.  Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.

KJV Revelation 3:12
12.  Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

The Apostles knew Jesus was not God and that Jesus had a God who was his Father as well as our God and Father.

KJV 2 Corinthians 11:31
 31.  The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

KJV Ephesians 1:3
 3.  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

KJV 1 Peter 1:3
 3.  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

All in the early church knew Jesus was not God and that there was only one God and Father of us all including Jesus.

KJV Ephesians 4:6
 6.  One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

The prophets write about God creating Jesus.

KJV Isaiah 43:7
 7.  Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.

KJV Isaiah 49:5-6
 5.  And now, saith the Lord that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.
 6.  And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.

There is no doubt that the above scriptures of Isaiah is speaking of Jesus as are those below.

KJV Psalms 22:9-10
 9.  But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
 10.  I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou 

art my God from my mother's belly.

KJV Psalms 22:16-18
16.  For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
 17.  I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
 18.  They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

KJV Isaiah 49:1-2
1.  Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The Lord hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.
 2.  And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a Polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;

KJV Isaiah 49:5
5.  And now, saith the Lord that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.

If according to the trinity idea God is 3 distinct inseparable entities in an eternal co-equal union with all 3 needed to define 1 God then consider what this would mean.  We all know Jesus died and if he died all 3 must have died since all must maintain an equal status in order to meet the trinity claim.  So if Jesus died then the Father died and the Holy Spirit died.  According to the idea of the trinity, God is dead, because whatever is true of any one of the 3 is true of all 3.  If Father, Son and Holy Spirit are all dead then who would resurrect Jesus? 

KJV 1 Corinthians 15:14
14.  And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.

Some teach a different type of trinity idea that says Jesus emptied himself of his divinity and became a man, if this is true and Jesus gave up being God, then Jesus was not God.  It seems that even those who believe in the trinity actually do not agree. 

Here is an interesting scripture.

KJV 1 Corinthians 11:3
 3.  But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
However, I want you to realize that Christ has authority over every man, a husband has authority over his wife, and God has authority over Christ.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the head of Christ is God - Christ, as Mediator, has consented to assume a subordinate rank, and to recognize God the Father as superior in office. Hence, he was obedient in all things as a Son; he submitted to the arrangement required in redemption; he always recognized his subordinate rank as Mediator, and always regarded God as the supreme Ruler, even in the matter of redemption. The sense is, that Christ, throughout his entire work, regarded himself as occupying a subordinate station to the Father; and that it was proper from his example to recognize the propriety of rank and station everywhere.

People's New Testament
11:3 But I would have you know, etc. The order of rank is that Christ is the center, with the Father above and man below him; and in the family the man is first and the woman second. That is nature's order.

None of these explanations supports the idea of the trinity.  Now to a scripture that speaks of the final victory of God.

ASV 1 Corinthians 15:27-28
 27.  For, He (God) put all things in subjection under his(Jesus)feet. But when he (God) saith, All things are put in subjection, it is evident that he (God) is excepted (not included) who did subject all things unto him (Jesus).
 28.  And when all things have been subjected unto him (Jesus), then shall the Son also himself be subjected to him (God) that did subject all things unto him (Jesus), that God may be all in all.

The verses above say that when all things are fulfilled and God has given Jesus his inheritance, that is all that God created, God puts in subjection to Jesus. God is not under the subjection of Jesus but Jesus is under Gods subjection.  In the kingdom of God, God will reign supreme with Jesus in authority under God.

Jesus was a special human being created by God in righteousness and true holiness.  Jesus, while not having the attributes of God, possessed Gods character. Jesus had the same love as God has along with mercy, compassion, kindness and joy.

Jesus was the new man God created and when we are baptized into Jesus we put on the new man, we put on Christ.

ASV Galatians 3:27
 27.  For as many of you as were baptized into Christ did put on Christ.

ASV Ephesians 4:20-24
 20.  But ye did not so learn Christ;
 21.  if so be that ye heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:
 22.  that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
 23.  and that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
 24.  and put on the new man, that after God hath been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

Jesus is the new man we put on and he was created by God.  We are the old man before we come to Jesus and put on the new man.  Gods Holy Spirit in us transforms us to become like Jesus.

KJV 2 Corinthians 3:18
 18.  But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.


KJV Romans 8:29
29.  For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

Jesus was the first human being ever to become a glorified spirit being and this is why Jesus is called the first born of many brethren.  All the saints have the hope that at the resurrection when Jesus returns to be changed into the same image that Jesus is now. So if the saints are to become like Jesus are the saints God?

KJV 1 John 3:2
 2.  Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

Now to address the Holy Spirit. Who is the Holy Spirit?

The Father is the Holy Spirit.  The Father is holy and the Father is a spirit therefore the Father is the Holy Spirit.  Jesus had a Father who is the only true God and the Holy Spirit of the Father conceived Jesus in the womb of Mary.  There is no third entity of a trinity that is the Holy Spirit.  Think, that if scripture says that the Holy Spirit overshadowed Mary and produced Jesus, then the Holy Spirit would be the Father of Jesus and not the entity called the Father.

KJV Luke 1:34-35
 34.  Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?  (Mary was asking how she would become pregnant without having a husband.)
 35.  And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, (Gabriel told Mary that the Holy Spirit would make her pregnant)and the power of the Highest (The Holy Spirit is the power of the Highest or of God the Father)shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

The Holy Spirit is the power of God the Father, the one and only true God and is what created Jesus in the womb of Mary.  To believe the trinity idea would mean that the entity called the Holy Spirit would have been the father of Jesus rather than the Father.

Do you see how illogical the trinity idea is and how it causes confusion?  How did the idea of the trinity come to be?  Below is an article from Wikipedia that gives the history of how Jesus became God. I have added my comments in bold red.




How Jesus Became God

First Council of Nicaea
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The First Council of Nicaea, called by the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great in AD 325, was the first ecumenical (from Greek oikumene, "worldwide") conference of bishops of the Christian Church.     Constantine was a pagan
 The purpose of the council (also called a synod) was to resolve disagreements in the Church of Alexandria over the nature of the Trinity. The popular presbyter Arius, for whom the Arian controversy is named, led the party which contended that if Christ is the "Son," then he had a beginning, and there was a time when he was not. Bishop Alexander of Alexandria contended for the position that Christ, the second person of the Godhead, had no beginning and was co-eternal with the Father. Athanasius, in his early twenties at the time, accompanied his bishop to the council and became recognized as a chief spokesman for the view that the Son was fully God, co-equal and co-eternal with the Father. ( This idea proven by scripture to be incorrect)
The principle effort was to find a formula from Scripture that would express the full deity of the Son, equally with the Father. (Take note that they could not find this “formula” from scripture so they invented one in the word “homo-ousios) However, the Arians readily agreed to all such formulations, having interpreted them already to fit their own views. Finally, the Greek word homo-ousios (meaning "of the same substance, or nature, or essence") was introduced, chiefly because it was one word that could not be understood to support the Arian view. The first Nicene Creed was therefore drafted with the word homoousios and surprisingly endorsed by all but two of the 300+ attending Bishops.   (Here we must take time to ask an important question.  If Jesus was indeed God how could something so important be forgotten?  You would think that the Apostles and all those after them would have made this clear if it were true.  Did people forget Jesus was God?  That would be like forgetting George Washington was the first president of the USA.  I submit that if Jesus was God that information would not have been lost but rather taught as doctrine all along.  This fact alone casts serious doubt on the very reason to have a council to address the matter.)
The result was therefore a ruling against Arianism. The two disenting bishops, Secundus and Theonas, along with Arius, were sent into exile although the Arian controversy continued for years.
The Council of Nicaea was historically significant because it was the first effort to attain consensus in the church through an assembly representing all of Christendom. (How could this council represent all if those who took opposition to the trinity were sent into exile to silence them?)
With the creation of the Nicene Creed, a precedent was established for subsequent ecumenical councils to create a statement of belief and canons which were intended to become orthodox for all Christians. (Take careful not here, the word canons means the bible, the scripture.  These men came out with a new bible that would support the trinity idea that they had made official doctrine.  What this means is that the bible today was deliberately altered, words and phrases changed or added tosupport the idea of the trinity.)It would serve to unify the Church and provide a clear guideline over disputed matters on what it meant to be a practicing Christian, a momentous event in the history. (In truth what these men did was introduce one of the most horrific heresies that has been taught and now after 1700 years  the trinity heresy has become engrained and thought of by millions of uninformed people to be the truth when it is a lie.)
Arius
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Arius (AD 256 - 336) was an early Christian theologian of Libyan descent, born in Antioch. He was described by Epiphanius as "tall, grave, and winning" [1].
Arius taught that the Son of God was not eternal, and was subordinate to God the Father (a view known generally as Arianism). Although he attracted considerable support at the time, Arius' views were deemed heretical at the Council of Nicaea, leading to the formation of the Nicene Creed.

 
 Other councils followed that led to even more heresies added.

 
List of the first seven ecumenical councils
Only the first seven councils are summarized here as these have the most relevance to Protestant Christianity. Other subsequent councils are of particular interest only to Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy.
1.    First Council of Nicaea, (325); repudiated Arianism, adopted the Nicene Creed. This and all subsequent councils are not recognized by nontrinitarian groups: Arians, Unitarians, and Jehovah's Witnesses, etc.
2.    First Council of Constantinople, (381); revised the Nicene Creed into present form used in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches and prohibited any further alteration of the Creed without the assent of an Ecumenical Council.
3.    Council of Ephesus, (431); repudiated Nestorianism, proclaimed the Virgin Mary as the Mother of God, and also condemned Pelagianism.
4.    Council of Chalcedon, (451); repudiated the Eutychian doctrine of monophysitism, described and delineated the two natures of Christ, human and divine; adopted the Chalcedonian Creed.
5.    Second Council of Constantinople, (553); reaffirmed decisions and doctrines explicated by previous Councils, condemned new Arian, Nestorian, and Monophysite writings.
6.    Third Council of Constantinople, (680–681); repudiated Monothelitism, affirmed that Christ had both human and Divine wills.
7.    Second Council of Nicaea, (787); restoration of the veneration of Icons and end of the first Iconoclasm
         (This means the worship of images of Jesus, dead “saints” and the virgin Mary or idol worship was restored.  Is the Catholic church the final say for you in all matters of faith?  Basically the Catholic church turned Christianity into an abomination.)

Council of Ephesus
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The Council of Ephesus was held in Ephesus, Asia Minor in 431 under Emperor Theodosius II, grandson of Theodosius the Great. Approximately 200 Bishops were present. The proceedings were conducted in a heated atmosphere of confrontation

Yea and recriminations. It was the third of the so-called Ecumenical Councils. It was chiefly concerned with the heresy of Nestorianism. 

According to the Council, Nestorianism overemphasized the human nature of Jesus at the expense of the divine. The Council denounced Patriarch Nestorius' teaching as erroneous. Nestorius taught that the Virgin Mary gave birth to a man, Jesus Christ, not God, the "Logos" ("The Word", Son of God). The Logos only dwelled in Christ, as in a Temple (Christ, therefore, was only Theophoros: The "Bearer of God".) Consequently, Virgin Mary should be called "Christotokos," Mother of Christ and not "Theotokos, "Mother of God." Hence, the name, "Christological controversies". (Nestorius was correct in what he taught.)
The Council decreed that Jesus was one person, not two separate "people": complete God and complete man, with a rational soul and body. The Virgin Mary is "Theotokos" because she gave birth not to man but to God as a man. The union of the two natures of Christ took place in such a fashion that one did not disturb the other. (I have given you scripture that proves this entire idea a lie and false)



In the end it is up to you the reader to prove all things and if your personal salvation is a treasure to you, you will not entrust it to some other man, not even me.  You need to study and prove what you believe asking God to guide you, after all God will not lie to you but men can.  I did this 18 years ago and have discovered that all the teachings of what calls itself Christianity are wrong.  This fits well with what the end of days is to be like.

KJV 1 Timothy 4:1-2
 1.  Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
 2.  Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

KJV 2 Timothy 3:1-5
 1.  This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
 2.  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
 3.  Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
 4.  Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
 5.  Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

KJV Jude 1:4
 4.  For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.  (Notice they are mentioned separate)

KJV Revelation 12:9
 9.  And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

The trinity is just one lie, there are many more, while there is time go to God and ask Him to teach you the truth.

The Truth About Temptation
And the Kingdom Mind
By
Lee
Monday, January 9, 2012

KJV James 1:2-4
 2.  My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
 3.  Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
 4.  But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

Why should we view falling into temptations as a joy?  Temptations try or prove our faith because in order to resist giving in to the temptation we must use the Holy Spirit and exercise our faith in what God promised.

KJV 1 Corinthians 10:13
 13.  There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Gods Spirit in us will help us to not give in to the temptation and provides a way to escape Satans efforts to get us to think about the evil and consider in our minds, think in our thoughts of the evil.  As I have explained in other articles, sin is our thoughts, the words and deeds are the manifestation of those thoughts and that we do not have to commit the act only think of it and this is what sin is.  Jesus confirms that it is our evil thoughts that defile us and are sin. There is no such thing as “potential sin” if we are born sinners, sin is what we are.

KJV Matthew 15:19-20
 19.  For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
 20.  These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.

The temptation then is not sin, it is not a sin to be tempted, but sin is the entertaining of the evil idea, considering it in our minds. James describes this.

14.  But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
 15.  Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

The temptation, if it involves being drawn into lust and entices us is what sin is and sin brings death. Lusting is breaking the 10th commandment and all manner of sin involves lust because we must think about the sin in our mind and that causes a desire in us to manifest the sin outwardly using our members, our body, as a servant of sin.  This is what defiles us and as Jesus said it is our evil thoughts.  In reality, what we need saved from is our evil thoughts, our evil nature that we acquired by being servants of the Devil.

KJV John 8:34
 34.  Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.

KJV 1 John 3:8
 8.  He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Jesus was manifested to destroy this work of the Devil in us.  Since sin is our evil thoughts this means that our minds must begin a process of change so that we no longer think evil and if we do not think evil we will not do evil. It is no wonder then that the law could never give salvation. God through Jesus transforms our way of thinking and is purifying our minds.  It is the mind, the spirit of man, that God is working with.  Below are  scriptures that tell us this.

KJV Isaiah 26:3
 3.  Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

KJV Romans 7:25
25.  I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

KJV Romans 12:2
 2.  And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Our minds must be renewed, changed, so that we no longer even think of doing evil.  This is the kingdom mind being developed in us now and will be completed when we enter the kingdom.

KJV Ephesians 2:3
 3.  Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

KJV Ephesians 4:22-24
 22.  That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
 23.  And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
 24.  And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Who is this new man we are to put on that God created in righteousness and true holiness?

KJV Galatians 3:27
27.  For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

KJV Ephesians 2:15
 15.  Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;

KJV Colossians 3:10
 10.  And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

The new man is Jesus.  We put on Jesus at baptism.  Jesus was in the image of him who created Jesus, Jesus was in the image of God and we are being transformed to be in the image of Jesus.
Who had the perfect mind, the kingdom mind that we should want in us?

KJV Philippians 2:5
 5.  Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

Jesus already had a mind of the kingdom and he is our example of the mind we are to develop. We are being transformed of mind to be like Jesus was when on this Earth.

KJV Philippians 4:7
 7.  And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

KJV Colossians 1:21-22
 21.  And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
 22.  In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

In the body of Jesus, in his flesh and by his death, God made it possible for us to be of the kingdom mind as Jesus was when in the flesh.

KJV 2 Timothy 1:7
7.  For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

The reason Jesus never sinned is because he had the mind we hope to be given when born into the kingdom of God and the kingdom mind is unable to sin therefore Jesus was unable to sin.  How can the temptation of Jesus be a farce if it is overcome by a kingdom mind?  Jesus was our example of the kingdom mind. Jesus was tempted but he could not be tempted with evil as we so often are. The saints are yet capable of sin and will be as long as we are in the flesh.  The saints are a work in progress.

A good work is being done in us and will be completed in the day of Christ Jesus but as a man Jesus was the demonstration to us of that completed work.  Haven’t you ever asked, how did Jesus ever live 33 years and never sin?  It was not just a matter of making good choices, it was because God created Jesus righteous.

KJV Isaiah 53:11
11.  He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

You and I were not righteous until God imputed righteousness to us because of our faith in this man Jesus. Jesus was born of God and had no human father, God was his Father.  Gabriel told Mary that her child would be born by the power of the Highest, the power of the Father.  Jesus was born of God.

KJV 1 John 3:9
 9.  Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

In order to believe Jesus could have sinned you would have to believe that Jesus was not born of God and that Jesus was not righteous.  If we are to develop the mind of Christ then it is the kingdom mind in Christ that we must be transformed into.

In order to be the first born of many to follow, to be the object of our salvation by the will of God, it was necessary that the mind of Jesus be kingdom quality in a fleshly body. Jesus was a human being in the sense that he was a soul but he was a soul of a much higher level and we are all souls.  The soul of Jesus was accepted by God as the sacrifice for the sins of the world and therefore was of far greater value than all other souls and this because his human spirit was as ours will become when we enter the kingdom of God. 

KJV Isaiah 53:10
10.  Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

For the saints to have the hope in the kingdom to be unable to sin, this man Jesus had to have a mind or spirit that was unable to sin. If while in the flesh Jesus was the king of the kingdom of God then would not the king have a kingdom mind?

KJV Luke 22:29
 29.  And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;

KJV John 18:37
 37.  Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

KJV John 1:49
49.  Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel.

KJV John 12:15
 15.  Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.

The kingdom mind is a mind that cannot sin because it was born of God and even if tempted by the Devil will not respond to evil, it cannot be tempted with evil. If this type of mind would be placed into a human body and become a soul then this soul would be a far different soul than all other souls.  Due to a total absolute and complete sinlessness and possessing his flesh in righteousness when he died his body would not decay as other men.  The life of this soul, this man, would be priceless in the eyes of God so much so that if others would have faith in him God would forgive their sins and begin a process in them to transform them into the same mind.  This perfect man would be as perfect as his Father and God because he told us that we would have to be also.  This perfect, righteous and impeccable man would be of the same love as his Father and God, a love that cannot think evil and therefore cannot sin.  The saints would have confidence and hope in this man that they can be delivered from the bondage of sin and in a future kingdom where they will be made unable to sin as this man was unable to sin and also being made immortal as this man was. 

The Myth of Potential Sin
By

Lee
Friday, December 30, 2011

Adam and Eve were the only potential sinners that have ever lived.  After Adam sinned, sin entered the world and all humanity became sinners.  Sin is like pregnancy, you are either pregnant or your not.  All of humanity has sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, with only one exception, Jesus Christ.

KJV Hebrews 1:3
3.  Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Jesus is described as being the brightness of Gods glory and sin is falling short of the glory of God.

KJV Romans 3:23
 23.  For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Jesus did not fall short of the glory of God because he was the brightness of it.  This is why Jesus could not sin.

You and I were not created the same way as Jesus.  Jesus was directly conceived by Gods spirit and had no human father.  Jesus was born of God.  Jesus was a soul but of a higher level than any other human being.

KJV Luke 1:35
35.  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.

Jesus was a human being that was directly born of God for a special reason and his human spirit was unable to sin because…………….

KJV 1 John 3:9
 9.  Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

When the saints are born into the kingdom of God they will be made unable to sin just as Jesus was when he was on Earth as a man.  Jesus had to be a human being, a man, because God commanded that if a man brought sin and death into the world a man would have to provide for a resurrection of the dead.

KJV 1 Corinthians 15:21
 21.  For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.

Jesus did not provide the resurrection of the saints to being unable to sin as a spirit being but as a man, a human being. Since Jesus would be the one God would use as messiah God directly conceived Jesus in the womb of Mary making Jesus born of God and unable to sin. 

You and I  were not born this way.  We all came from Adam and Eve and are sinners, we do not have the potential to sin, we are sin.

KJV Romans 5:8
 8.  But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

KJV Romans 5:19
19.  For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

KJV 1 Timothy 1:15
15.  This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

So then, saying that we have the potential to sin is a misnomer or oxymoron, sin is what we are and what Jesus came to save us from.  If we say that we only have the potential to sin we are denying the reality of what we are.  The phrase “potential sin”  combines two words that do not go together, similar phrases would be; almost pregnant, half dead, bright darkness, half truth or potential messiah.  We must come to see what sin really is to understand why we need saved by Jesus from sin.

Everyone that I have ever spoken to or written to about this subject thinks that sin is any type of evil that people do as an outward act that can be seen or heard by other people.  This is not what sin is.  Sin is how we think, if we think evil we are evil as Jesus himself told us.

KJV Matthew 5:27-28
 27.  Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
 28.  But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

KJV Matthew 15:18-20
 18.  But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
 19.  For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
 20.  These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.

The word “heart” is another way of saying our human spirit.  It is our spirit that Jesus came to save.

KJV Hebrews 12:23
23.  To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

KJV 1 Corinthians 5:5
 5.  To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

KJV John 3:6
 6.  That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

KJV John 6:63
 63.  It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

All human beings including Jesus have a human spirit.

KJV Job 32:8
 8.  But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

KJV Proverbs 20:27
 27.  The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly.

KJV Zechariah 12:1
1.  The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel, saith the Lord, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.

KJV 1 Corinthians 2:11
 11.  For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

This spirit of man is what Jesus calls the heart and the heart of all human beings is sin.

KJV Jeremiah 17:9-10
 9.  The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
 10.  I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

KJV Ecclesiastes 7:20
 20.  For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

KJV Matthew 7:11
 11.  If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

KJV Romans 3:10-12
 10.  As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
 11.  There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
 12.  They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

All this evil and sin is now what humanity is and needs saved from, the condition of the defilement of our human spirit that we acquired from Satan the devil.

KJV 1 John 3:8
 8.  He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

KJV John 8:44-45
44.  Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
 45.  And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.

This statement of Jesus applies to all people, we are all children of Satan until we come to Christ. Jesus was not of the Devil but of God and to even think Jesus could have sinned is of the Devil.

KJV Acts 26:18
18.  To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

Sin is a condition of our human spirit that can manifest itself by outward acts but the true sin is a result of our defiled human spirit.
Your body can only perform what your human spirit directs it to do.  Sin is a spiritual problem not a physical one but since sin is manifested physically by words and deeds people incorrectly think the act is the sin rather than the thought. 

KJV Psalms 10:4
 4.  The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

KJV Proverbs 16:3
 3.  Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.

KJV Proverbs 20:9
 9.  Who can say, I have made my heart (thoughts) clean, I am pure from my sin?

Since Jesus was born of God and not a descendent of Adam like all of us he was unable to sin.  Jesus was called the second Adam.  The first Adam ate of the wrong tree but the second Adam ate of the tree of life and if we feed on him we can live too. 

Potential sin is a myth, a lie, and we are all sinners but Jesus was not a sinner and was unable to sin.  The love of God is the highest form of love and this love is what fulfills the law.  Jesus fulfilled the law with this Godly love that was in him.  Gods love is unable to sin and this love was in His son. The question, could Jesus have sinned is asked by those who lack knowledge and fail to search the scripture sufficiently to find the answer.  The answer is no, Jesus was incapable of sin. 

Sin is defined in scripture in many verses, here are a few:

KJV Romans 14:23
23.  And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.

Jesus is the one we are to have faith in, how, if his spirit was like ours full of evil thoughts and desires just as any child of the Devil? If Jesus was like us then we have no messiah, his spirit would have been defiled just as ours is.

KJV 1 Corinthians 15:56
 56.  The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

The 10th commandment says lust is sin.  Lust is the inner thoughts of sin that produce the outward manifestations of words and deeds that are evil. Lust is thinking of sin, of planning to do evil.  Did Jesus have this nature in him?  Some think he did.  Jesus Was Gods love in a man and Jesus always did good and never evil because his thoughts, his mind was like that of God Himself.

KJV James 4:17
 17.  Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

KJV 1 John 5:17
 17.  All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.

A person is unrighteous if they sin and sin is our thoughts and what we are while the acts are only the manifestation of our thoughts. A person is either righteous or unrighteous, there is no in between, no potential sin.  God has a zero tolerance for sin you either are sin or your not.  You are either righteous or unrighteous.  So what was Jesus?

KJV Isaiah 53:11
 11.  He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

Jesus Christ was righteous.

KJV Proverbs 21:4
 4.  An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.

KJV Proverbs 24:9
 9.  The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.

KJV John 8:34
 34.  Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.

Jesus defined sin, defilement, as coming from the heart or spirit of people, we are sin.  Was Jesus a servant of sin? 

KJV 1 John 3:4
 4.  Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

Jesus fulfilled the law by the love of God for Gods love is the fulfillment of the law.  Gods love thinks no evil therefore can do no evil.  Jesus was the love of God manifested in the flesh.

KJV 1 Corinthians 13:5
 5.  Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

You and I either are or have been guilty of sin and deserve to die.  The death of Jesus for those who believe will pay this price for us so that we can have the hope of everlasting life when Jesus returns to Earth to give it to us.  All of this was made possible by a man who some say had the potential to sin but chose not to sin.  As I have shown, sin has no potential but is a fact of who and what we are.  If you are alive then you are a sinner.  The only way other than Jesus to never sin again is to die.

KJV Romans 6:7
 7.  For he that is dead is freed from sin.

If you die rejecting Jesus knowingly and willingly you will be dead forever.  Only a living person can think, have thoughts and perform acts as a result.  When you are dead you cannot even think, therefore you cannot even sin.

KJV Psalms 146:4
 4.  His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

KJV Ecclesiastes 9:10
10.  Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

 Jesus came to save our human spirits from the defilement of sin, the thoughts and intents of our heart that are evil and can be manifested by outward acts or words.  How can Jesus save us if he was infected by the same thing as we are?  Jesus exampled and displayed to us the divine nature of his Father and God.  This is how Jesus was the image of the invisible God, the express image of the person of God.  This is how Jesus could say, I and my Father are one, if you have seen me you have seen the Father.  To accuse Jesus of being a “potential sinner” is a dishonor to him and his Father.

KJV John 5:23
 23.  That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.

Anyone who says Jesus was a “potential sinner” has insulted Jesus and God.

Jesus, as a man, provided to the saints access  to the divine nature of God so that by our partaking of Gods nature we can have all the benefits now and in the promised life to come. 

KJV 2 Peter 1:4
4.  Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

We are corrupted because of our lust, the thoughts and intents of our human spirit that is evil but we can escape this by taking part in Gods nature whereby we hope for the promises. Jesus, as a man, had this divine nature, not in part but in its fullness. The divine nature of love that conquers all evil and sin, that is unable to sin.

Jesus came, as a man, revealed the Father in this way to us but you must believe this, you must believe Jesus.  Jesus came to save us from ourselves, save yourselves and believe.

WARNING

WARNING
By
Lee
Monday, December 12, 2011

The scriptures contain many warnings of what the last days will be like and how at that time many people will turn from the truth and believe lies.  As you read the scriptures below ask yourself, is it possible that I could be deceived? 

KJV 1 Timothy 4:1-2
 1.  Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
 2.  Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

KJV 2 Timothy 3:1-5
1.  This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
 2.  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
 3.  Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
 4.  Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
 5.  Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

KJV 2 Peter 2:1-3
1.  But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
 2.  And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
 3.  And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

KJV 2 Peter 3:3
 3.  Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

KJV 1 John 2:18-19
 18.  Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
 19.  They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

KJV 1 John 4:1
 1.  Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

KJV 2 John 1:7
7.  For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

KJV 3 John 1:9-10
 9.  I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.
 10.  Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church.

KJV Jude 1:4
 4.  For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

KJV Acts 20:29-31
 29.  For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
 30.  Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
 31.  Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.

KJV Matthew 7:15
15.  Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

KJV Matthew 24:4-5
4.  And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
 5.  For many shall come in my name, saying I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

KJV John 16:2
 2.  They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

KJV 2 Timothy 4:3-4
 3.  For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
 4.  And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

KJV Revelation 12:9
 9.  And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Satan has not been inactive, since the beginning he has caused division and false doctrine by using certain men as tools to try to tear down what Jesus built.  If there is only one truth then why are there so many churches?  You would think that there would be only one church with one perfect truth as it was when the church was given the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost.  Very soon after Pentecost Satan began his work of deception by changing the truth into a lie using unconverted men to infiltrate the church and cause division and eventually take over the name of the church.  When the second century began this work of Satan was well in place and what emerged was a church claiming to be of God and Christ but proclaiming a false gospel.  This false gospel has been handed down through the generations and is believed today by all in the worlds churches.  In truth the Christianity you see in today’s world is not the truth and is false.  The warnings of Jesus and the Apostles given in the scriptures above have come to pass but since the lies were planted centuries have passed and the lies have become engrained and accepted as doctrine.  The worlds churches are the Babylon God now calls people out of and not into, the synagogues of Satan that masquerade as Gods church. 

KJV 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12
11.  And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
 12.  That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

The Oracles of God
By
Lee

If anyone desires to understand scripture and know the truth they must base all their research upon the oracles of God.  What are the oracles of God?  The oracles of God are the old covenant writings by the prophets and holy men who wrote the scripture by inspiration of the Holy Spirit of God.  This makes the view of the understanding uniquely Jewish or from Jewish thought because it was to the nation of Israel that God gave His oracles.

KJV Acts 7:38
 38.  This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:

The old covenant writings are the source of understanding, the lively oracles, and the place to begin your search for truth. Jesus and the Apostles taught the gospel from the old covenant writings because the new covenant writings were not yet written.

KJV Romans 3:1-2
1.  What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
 2.  Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

The Jews had an advantage over the Gentiles because they had the oracles, the beginning of knowledge.  The new covenant writings are a further revelation of those oracles that contained the knowledge of salvation in shadow form. Only by the light of Christ on the oracles can the shadows be explained to gain knowledge and wisdom.

KJV Hebrews 5:12
 12.  For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

Many of the Jews in the days of Jesus would not come to light so that they could see what the shadow of the oracles were to teach them.  Instead they remained in the shadows practicing the works of the law in a vain attempt to become righteous by their own works.

KJV 1 Peter 4:11
 11.  If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

The foundation of truth begins with the oracles and proceeds from there into the light of Christ to reveal the meaning of those shadows. Today the churches have substituted Greek thought and ideas in an attempt to find truth that is uniquely Jewish in origin. If the shadows of salvation were given to the Jews why would someone look for truth in Greek ideas that had a culture far removed from Jewish ways. Salvation is not from the Greeks but from the Jews.

KJV John 4:22
 22.  Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.

Jesus was a Jew and he came to shed light upon the oracles of God.  Greek thought, ideas or philosophy are far away from the truth and to interpret scripture from this mind set will always lead to error.  The Greeks were a pagan people who had ideas about life, death and God that were completely wrong but yet most people today who claim to be Christian base their beliefs on this type of thinking and this has led to a multitude of false teachings.

Early in the primitive Catholic church an intense dislike developed for the Jewish people because they blamed the Jews for the death of Jesus and because of this they separated themselves from anything perceived to be Jewish and substituted their own Greek ideas for those that God gave to Israel. The oracles God gave to the Jews no longer had Jewish understanding but pagan Greek.  It is no wonder there are so many churches today all claiming to be Christian but teaching different doctrines.  The substitution of Greek thought to define Jewish thought  has produced Babylon.

If you desire to know the truth on any doctrine use the definition of words describing that doctrine from the old covenant writings, the oracles of God, as the truth from Genesis to Revelation will remain pure.  Truth never changes unless you change the way it is thought out and then it becomes a lie.  Greek plus Jewish will equal lie but Jewish plus Jewish will equal truth. Jesus was not a Greek but a Jew and if truth is to be revealed it will begin with the oracles of God.  An example of how Greek ideas changed the truth of the oracles of God is the false belief in the immortal soul that lives on after death in either heaven or hell.  This is a classic Greek idea of paganism that is in total opposition to the truth of the oracles of God and alien to Jewish thought.  If the oracles define what death is then that truth has not changed and is the same today as when it was written by the Holy prophets of God.

KJV Ecclesiastes 9:10
10.  Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

KJV Psalms 146:4
 4.  His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

KJV Isaiah 38:18-19
 18.  For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
 19.  The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

KJV John 3:13
 13.  And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

The oracles plainly say that the dead are dead and have no life in any way, shape or form but Greek ideas changed this truth into a lie because Greek pagan beliefs in an after life entered and replaced Jewish thought.  Even the false idea of  life after death in heaven or hell is of Greek pagan belief and is totally against what the oracles teach about death.  Jesus taught that only by a resurrection from the dead can a man ever live again and this only because of belief in him as messiah and son of God.

KJV John 3:16
 16.  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Notice one must believe in Jesus to not perish and to have everlasting life.  If you do not you will perish, die, cease to exist.
Everlasting life is a gift from God because of our belief in Jesus and we do not have this life by nature if it is a gift through faith.

KJV Romans 6:23
 23.  For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord.


KJV John 4:10
 10.  Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

Everlasting life, immortality or living forever is a promise of God to the saints that will be fulfilled when Jesus returns and resurrects the saints to immortality.


KJV 1 Corinthians 15:52-57
 52.  In a moment, in the twinkling of an
eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
 53.  For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
 54.  So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
 55.  O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
 56.  The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
 57.  But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

KJV 1 John 2:25
 25.  And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even everlasting life.

Do you see how Greek ideas have turned the truth of the oracles of God into a lie?  This is only one example, there are many more and in this blog I expose these lies and tell you the truth of the oracles of God.

THE BAPTISM OF JESUS

The Baptism of Jesus

By

Lee

In Matthew 3 Verses 13 to 17 is the account of Jesus being baptized by John the Baptist.

Matthew 3:13    Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him.

This would be the symbol of the death and resurrection of Jesus into which we are baptized.

14 And John tried to prevent him saying, “I have need to be baptized by you and you are coming to me?”

John said he needed to be baptized so why would anyone else think baptism is not needed and John had the Holy Spirit from his mother’s womb. Luke 1:15     It is just like Cornelius, it does not matter if you have the Holy Spirit first you still need baptized.

15. But Jesus answered and said to him, “permit it to be so for now for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.”  Then he permitted him.

John understood what Jesus said and agreed to baptize Jesus.

Daniel 9:27 “to bring in everlasting righteousness”

16. Then Jesus when he had been baptized came up immediately from the water and behold the heavens were open to him and he

saw the spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon him.

Daniel 9:27 “to anoint the most holy”

17. And suddenly a voice came from heaven saying, “This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.”

To understand these verses we must ask the questions; who, what, where, when, how and why and depend upon God to answer them from the scripture.

First we know that Jesus was without sin and was unable to sin because God created Jesus righteous, Jesus was as righteous as God, and this is how when we see Jesus we see the Father.  Jesus had no need to be baptized for himself, which means he did this for another reason.  That reason Jesus told John, who first tried to prevent the baptism saying he had need that Jesus baptize him, was to fulfill all righteousness.  What could it mean to fulfill all righteousness?  Scripture says that through Jesus the saints become righteous.  Through our faith in Jesus as Gods son and messiah, we are accounted to be righteous just as Abrahams faith was accounted to him for righteousness. John the Baptist had no authority to baptize with the Holy Spirit.  Matthew 3:11   This is confirmed in Acts 19:1,2,3,4,5  It was by the laying on of hands that a person received the Holy Spirit, Acts 8:18   Acts 19:6   1 Timothy 4:14  John did not lay hands on Jesus.  

In the book of Romans chapter 4 the faith of Abraham is accounted by God as righteousness and Abraham is called the father of the faithful and we saints are all of the seed of Abraham through Jesus.

Romans 4:11 says that circumcision was given to Abraham as a sign, a seal of the righteousness of the faith he had, faith in God and a future messiah and son of God.  This seal or sign of circumcision is replaced in the new covenant by baptism and the baptism of Jesus was that act of replacement for all the ancient saints that had never been baptized.  We know that circumcision was done away in Christ who gave his flesh as the true sacrifice and not the flesh of the foreskins of men but , until Christ came, circumcision was the seal God gave to Abraham.  Just as all Israel in 1 Corinthians 10:1-2 were baptized into Moses while passing under the cloud and through the sea all the saints both ancient and modern are baptized into Jesus.  Thus all righteousness is fulfilled.

Therefore, our righteousness and all righteousness was fulfilled by Jesus in the act of being baptized by John the Baptist.

 The saints who lived before Jesus like Noah, Abraham, Moses and David all knew of the messiah and the message of the gospel and looked forward in faith to the first advent but none of them were ever baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.

Luke 10:24 “For I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see and have not seen it and to hear what you hear and have not heard it.”

While it is true all these ancient saints had the Holy Spirit, they were never baptized. 

A new covenant example of this is the story of the house of Cornelius that received the Holy Spirit first and then later baptized in the name of Jesus.  This happened to show the Apostles that God was calling the Gentiles into the faith as well as the Jews.  The ancient saints needed baptized in the name of Jesus and that God would confirm Jesus as His son and messiah. 

This confirmation from God is in verses 16 & 17 with the Holy Spirit anointing Jesus for his ministry as messiah and that Jesus was indeed the son of God by a voice from heaven.

David in Psalm 20:1-6 speaks of this future baptism of Jesus in Verse 2 the help from the sanctuary is the helper, the Holy Spirit.

Verse 3 your burnt sacrifice is your broken contrite heart that is to God a sacrifice.

Verse 4 God grants you the desire of your heart for where your heart is there your treasure will be also.

Verse 5 then we will rejoice in God and in His salvation and set up our banners or plant our flag in Him as He answers our petitions or prayers. 

Verse 6 God saved Jesus from the grave and set Jesus at His right hand. When Jesus was baptized by John God answered from His holy heaven with a voice saying, “This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.”  Jesus is the right hand of God the saving strength of us all. 

Verse 9 All the saints of the time before Jesus called to God to save them in the messiah they had faith in even though they knew Jesus would not be born in their lifetime. The King, the great God answered this psalm when God confirmed Jesus as messiah and His son at his baptism by John the Baptist.

And thus, it is as Jesus told John, “It is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.”

Physical circumcision was outward in the flesh before the time of Jesus and was a sign God gave to Abraham.

Matthew 11:13 “For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.”

Jesus would fulfill all the prophecy about himself, the things of the law concerning him; the sign of circumcision ended at the baptism of Jesus, and baptism took its place.

A “sign” is like a promise, token or prelude to a future event that looks to fulfillment.  This sign of circumcision indicated Abraham’s faith in messiah and the gospel.  This sign of circumcision was fulfilled at the baptism of Jesus and Abraham’s faith was confirmed.

Romans 15:8 Now I say that Jesus Christ has become a servant to the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the Fathers.

Genesis 17:11 “And you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin and it shall be “sign” of the covenant between you and me.”

This was not the old covenant that God was talking about; it was the new covenant because God did not make the old covenant with Abraham or any of the Fathers.

Deuteronomy 5:3 “The Lord did not make this covenant with our Fathers but with us, those who are here today, all of us who are alive.”

Circumcision was a sign for the new covenant baptism of Jesus that fulfilled the faith and imputed righteousness of the saints before the new covenant began to be preached to the world and was not affected by the giving of the law as Paul says in Galatians 3:15-18.  

When Jesus was baptized, the new covenant great comission came into effect and circumcision since being fulfilled was done away and replaced with baptism in Jesus that is of the inner heart and not outward in the flesh.  It is now by the flesh of Jesus and not by a sign in the flesh of man.

God gave the new covenant to Abraham but because Jesus was not yet born and baptism not yet instituted God gave the sign of circumcision that would expire when Jesus would be baptized by John the Baptist. Romans 2:28-29 explains this fact. 

Baptism is to the new covenant as circumcision is to the old.  If you were not circumcised you could not enter the old covenant or keep the Passover and if not baptized could not enter the new covenant or keep the Passover of Jesus, see Mark 16:16.  Romans 4:11-12 states that baptism was a sign of the faith of Abraham that would apply to both circumcised and uncircumcised.

The cutting of the foreskin was replaced by the cutting of the heart, see Acts 2:37-38, these Jews were cut to the heart or circumcised in the heart and were ready to be baptized and receive the Holy Spirit. 

Romans 4:16  I will paraphrase; That the promise might be sure to all the seed----Jesus was baptized by John to fulfill all righteousness----not only to those under the law and circumcision but also to those of faith and baptism.

Jesus fulfilled all the law and once fulfilled it is no longer to be observed otherwise it would deny the fulfillment, the work of Christ. And this is why today we no longer circumcise we baptize.

If you are reading this paper baptism should become most important to you as it was with Jesus and John the Baptist and to honor the command of Jesus to be baptized in His name to receive all the promises God gave to Abraham, to become Abraham’s seed and heir to those promises. 

If you feel that GOD has called you, you have been taught some basic truth and you realize the law only kills you and your only hope is Jesus Christ then you need to be baptized in the name of Christ only but if there is no one around to do this then you do it alone in a private place.  Totally immerse yourself in water after you have acknowledged your sins and when you come up out of the water ask GOD to forgive you and give you HIS Holy Spirit.  After this GOD alone through Jesus will be your teacher and Jesus is your GOD appointed leader.   You are a babe in Christ with only basic spiritual knowledge but you will grow in grace and knowledge as time passes.  GOD will be with you.

FORGIVENESS

By

Coni

Matthew 6:12-15- In order for God to forgive you, you must be willing to forgive others.

Matthew 18:21-35- there is no limit to how many times God forgives us so there is no limit to how many times we forgive our brother.

Luke 17:3-4- The guilty party should ask or repent to receive forgiveness and each time we are to forgive.

Ephesians 4:32 – Forgiveness and mercy is to teach us something.

Colossians 3:13 this is repeated

John 20:23 – We are to become like Jesus who had power on Earth to forgive sins.  See Matthew 9:6 and 1 John 4:17 and Matthew 18:15-35.

God is willing to forgive if we ask and repent of our sins and we must accept that forgiveness putting the sin behind us and move forward.  Mercy and forgiveness are a function of Gods love extended to us.  Just as God will not forgive the unrepentant we cannot either, in this case their sins are retained.

In order to be forgiven, we also have to be willing to forgive others. Sometimes we will have to be willing to forgive repeatedly. There is no limit to the times we may have to forgive, we are in the world but not of the world and this is unfortunately the way things are. We always pray for forgiveness from the Lord, but we as individuals must be able to forgive others as well.

        On a personal level, as a converted person, when someone does wrong to you they must ask for your forgiveness, but if they do not ask you for your forgiveness, then we need to forgive them anyway because we are converted and wishing to be more like Christ. For instance when on the cross, Jesus said, “Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do”. We all do things and think things we need to ask the Lord forgiveness for and we need to forgive others whether they are converted or not. If we as individuals are truly trying to be more like God and Christ, we must behave like Christ, and forgive and forget the sins our transgressors. 

        Like Jesus, we have the power to forgive sins of others who ask for forgiveness. Being able to forgive is a learned trait for us; it takes practice and is always a work in progress, a development of character so to speak. We will need this character trait in the millennium, so we need to be willing to practice what we believe so that it becomes first nature to us.  Even now, we partake of the divine nature of God and of His son Jesus. 2 Peter 1:4 – “by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”

God is creating us after His image and likeness and forgiveness is part of this process.