By Grace Through Faith

How many of you are righteous?

When we repent and God forgives us, God imputes His righteousness to us.

KJV Romans 4:3-8
3. For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
4. Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
5. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
6. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
7. Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
8. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
Grace keeps us in a continual state of righteousness by faith.
KJV Romans 5:20
20. Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
Our spiritual condition is maintained by a constant cleansing of our sins.
KJV 1 John 1:9
9. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
This keeps the spots, blemishes and wrinkles out of our garments.
KJV Ephesians 5:26-27
26. That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27. That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
We need to be further clothed with the white robe of righteousness that we receive when we enter the kingdom. This will be our own righteousness and not imputed by God. This is the change.
KJV 2 Corinthians 5:1-4
1. For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
3. If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
4. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Now, because of our faith, God calls us righteous, it is the righteousness of God by faith. At present the righteousness in us is not ours, it is Gods imputed to us.
KJV 2 Corinthians 5:21
21. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
It is as if we wear baby clothes now but formal attire when in the kingdom.
KJV Matthew 22:11-14
11. And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
12. And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
13. Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
14. For many are called, but few are chosen.
We maintain the baby clothes with the gospel message; if we dirty ourselves God will change our diaper.
KJV 1 John 2:1-2
1. My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
2. And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
In the kingdom, God will have full grown sons and daughters that cannot dirty themselves anymore. When we are baptized into Jesus, this is our first new diaper, our first cleansing of all past sins but we continue to dirty ourselves to the end of this life; however the frequency of those times we need changed should decrease as we grow talents. This is bearing fruit to God, growing in His spirit. This is how we, the saints, are the righteousness of God through Jesus Christ.
For a broken spirit is to God a sacrifice and a broken contrite heart God will not despise.
KJV Psalms 51:17
17. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
God knows our heart and that our sins break it as we feel sorrow and disgust over it, we repent, ask forgiveness and God forgives.
KJV 1 John 3:19-21
19. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
20. For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
21. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
All of this is Gods doing, it is His will. Our broken human spirit because of our sins is a living sacrifice to God who knows we have a contrite heart. Contrite means grief and sorrow over doing wrong, Godly sorrow, that leads us to repent. King David committed adultery and murder; Psalm 51 was written to express David’s extreme sorrow over these sins, he repented deeply and we know God forgave him. God will forgive us too.

This is the gospel, this is Gods will. Our part in this is to believe and through our lives of experiencing this love and mercy be made stronger spiritually.
KJV Romans 5:1-2
1. Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
2. By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
This grace is always present for us and we should boldly go to God to obtain mercy and forgiveness at any time.
KJV Hebrews 4:16
16. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Love and God

Most people today when hearing the word “love” think of sexual intercourse. Love is not sex. Sex is a method of showing, expressing love in a marriage and any other use of sex than this is sin.

KJV Hebrews 13:4
4. Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
 
So then people who think love is sex are of a sinful mind, carnal minded.
 
KJV Romans 8:5-7
5. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
6. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
　
 The carnal mind has no understanding of what love is and operates under lust and not love at all. Carnal minds mistake lust for love. God is love and is the only true kind of love that is not selfish or conditional. The word charity in the verses below is the word “love”.
 
KJV 1 Corinthians 13:1-13
1. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
3. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
4. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5. Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6. Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7. Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
 
In the Greek language the words for love are; agape, philia and eros. Agape is the love God and Jesus have, philia is human level love for friend and family and eros is love that includes sexual intercourse in a marriage. Both philia and eros love are a shadow of agape. Agape is what we need.

 The scripture tells us that God loves the entirety of human kind and in order to provide for them a future that their minds cannot even imagine gave the only righteous human being that ever lived, His son, as our messiah. God wants to change us to be like Jesus. Jesus, when on this Earth, gave us the example of the kind of character and love God wants us to have and this is how Jesus was Gods image and one with God. Godly love was shown to us, demonstrated to us by Jesus.
 
Love your enemies, pray for your enemies, do good to your enemies and to those who treat you with hatred and persecute you.

 If someone were to rape and kill your wife would you be able to respond to that person in the manner Jesus spoke about?

 It is just not in our nature to have the mind to respond to these evils with love.

Jesus gave his life for people like this; Adolf Hitler, Osama Bin Laden, Barack Obama, You and me. Many people think that since they have not committed the horrible sins of Hitler or Bin Laden they are “good people” but the truth is that all people sin and in the eyes of God sin is death to the sinner. If the prophets say that no one is righteous, no not one, then no one is good either. We are all evil and deserving death for the sins we do. This is where the love of God enters by the man Jesus Christ. Jesus gave his life for us while we were still sinning, still doing things worthy of death.
Our minds are not like the minds of God and Jesus that have a form or type of love that is as far above human love as heaven is above the Earth. In stark contrast our love when compared to God and Jesus does not even exist. This Godly love must be given to us, placed into our human spirit by the Holy Spirit of God. This Godly love is how Jesus fulfilled the law and enabled Jesus to be incapable of sin and shows to us what we must be changed into to be in the kingdom of God.

The saints of God, the elect, the 144,000 have been given a portion, a measure of the Holy Spirit and Godly love to the degree that we only have a beginning in this process of spiritual transformation to become like God and Jesus. This is the spiritual Genesis unlike the physical Genesis of Adam and is the true creation God desires of which Jesus was the first born. While saints we still sin and even though grace will cover the sin it remains that we are yet capable of sin our entire life in the flesh. Scripture says that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God and that all unrighteousness is sin. This means that in the kingdom of God sin nor the potential to sin will not exist at all. So then, how will the saints ever be in this kingdom if they are yet capable of sin all their lives?
The truth is that the saints die as sinners and while they were alive grace did cover their sins but in the kingdom there is no grace because there is no sin. This raises a very important question; How can sinning saints enter a kingdom where sin does not exist? There is an answer to this question and it is one of the many deep things of God.
 
It is necessary to define spiritual terms to understand.
 
Grace is the program under the new covenant in Christ whereby the sins of a saint are forgiven because of faith.
 
Faith is an unseen hope, the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. The saints believe God and Jesus in the message of the gospel.
 
Salvation is when you are an immortal spirit being incapable of sin in the kingdom of God.
 
Righteousness is the character quality of being unable to sin and currently God, Jesus and the holy angels are the only beings with this quality.
 
Impute is to give something to another that is not their own as when God imputes His righteousness to the saints because of the faith and grace mentioned above.
 
Sin is whatever is not of Gods love. Sin is of the mind, it is thoughts and intents of evil and when the thought is acted upon reveals the sin but if not acted upon hides the sin in the heart of the sinner where it is still sin and worthy of death.
 
Gospel is the good news God sent Jesus into the world to preach which contains all the elements described above and many more.
 
Love is God and God is love. All things that are good and wonderful that have no evil at all given freely, by free will, from the one who loves to the one loved.
 
Godly sorrow is having our minds opened by God to see how short we fall from His love.
 
Repentance is the desire in us, once we experience Godly sorrow, to desire to be changed by God into the image of Jesus who God created in His own express image and likeness of love.
 
All these things combined in the saints is a beginning only and not the finish as we are yet like clay in the hands of the potter. If we live our lives to the end holding fast to them we can to a degree overcome some of the nature of the old man we once were and for God to build the new man in us, this is bearing fruit unto God. This process must be of our own free will choice as all of our heart, mind, body and spirit must desire Gods will for us and be in total agreement with God as to what God intends to do to us, the change He must make in us, so that we can be in the kingdom of God.

The way God created Jesus Christ was different from us as Jesus was born directly of God and not through the human reproductive act. Jesus was without measure filled with the Holy Spirit and was incapable of sin because he was the exact character of God in love.
God had to do this because the perfect life of Jesus would be the only acceptable sacrifice for sin. This is why Jesus was the first born. Jesus at birth already had the mind of what we hope to have to be in the kingdom. During his life on Earth Jesus did not have to struggle to not sin because he was the first born with a kingdom mind. God, through Jesus, has proven to us that He can change us if He already created Jesus as our example and it is extremely important to God that this change is what we ourselves desire with all our heart.
Let this mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus; a mind like God Himself, of true love, incapable of sin. Jesus was created this way but we were not and must be changed. God can see our heart and our struggles with sin and our love for Him and even though we still sin and are weak God shields us with His grace so we can grow spiritually and bear fruit, change even a little, for he who is faithful in little is faithful in much. God can see that we want what He has offered us even though we are weak and have little understanding of it.
 
KJV Hebrews 4:13
13. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
 
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.
 
God, through Jesus, has provided for us everything we need for now and for the future while we yet remain in a weakened state still sinning.
 
KJV 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17
16. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
17. Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.
 
KJV 2 Timothy 1:9-10
9. Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
10. But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
 
KJV Romans 8:28
28. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
 
KJV Romans 8:37-39
37. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39. Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
 
There is not a one of us that by our own merit deserves this. This was all done by love.
 
Every time you and I sin all of these things should flood into our minds as a witness of the great love of God who is willing to forgive and keep us in this hope we have.
 
While the agape love of God may seem a far away thing from us that seed has been planted in us and while we are not able to see any growth in ourselves God can see all things. We have been commanded by God, Christ and the Apostles to love with a love that we have never had until receiving the Holy Spirit. What this love asks of us may seem impossible, but all things are possible with God.
 
KJV Romans 12:9-21
9. Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
10. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
11. Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
12. Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
13. Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
14. Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
15. Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
16. Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
17. Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
18. If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
19. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
20. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
21. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
　
When we were carnal the love described above was impossible and even now with Gods spirit we struggle against our old man. Love is the key, the power and the knowledge to produce in us the will of God.
 
KJV Ephesians 3:16-19
16. That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
17. That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
18. May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
19. And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
　 
God is love and that is why He made us and what He is transforming us to become. We are only at the Genesis of this looking for the Revelation.

At that day when the sons of God will be revealed the human spirits of just men will be made perfect weather dead or alive and will be sealed in righteousness and placed into a glorified spirit body, immortal and unable to sin and we will be in the image and likeness of God and Christ. 

This is the kingdom of love.

Did Jesus Struggle To Not Sin?

Did Jesus Struggle all His Human Existence to Not Sin?

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Is the verse below saying that Jesus struggled not to sin?



KJV Hebrews 12:2-4

2. Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

3. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

4. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.



What it is saying is that Jesus endured the constant attack of sinners against himself and that he had to endure this attack even to his death on the cross.


Jesus gave his life for us so that we may some day enter the kingdom of God, become immortal and be incapable of sin. It is important to remember that sin will not exist in the kingdom of God and that Jesus gave his life to make this possible. Of what value and caliber do you think the life of Jesus would have to be in order to accomplish this? In other articles I have written I speak about the character of Jesus as being an exact copy of his God and Father. This means that Jesus, like God, was unable to sin or be tempted with evil. Think, if his life makes it possible for us to be unable to sin in the kingdom then it would have to be of value in Gods eyes to be the payment to make this possible.



Jesus was called the first born of many brethren. What this means is that Jesus, when born into humanity, possessed a kingdom mind, a mind as ours will be in the kingdom, only Jesus was first. Jesus was a human being with the character of God and this is why his life could be the payment for the sins of the world.



Jesus was totally filled with his Fathers Holy Spirit to such a degree that his mind was in complete agreement with God. Jesus had the same love as God has as this is how Jesus fulfilled the law.



In the article, “The Myth of Potential Sin”, I go into detail about how there are only two kinds of beings that exist; those who are sinners and those who cannot sin. This makes potential sin a myth and a lie. Jesus then had to be one of these two kinds and since Jesus was directly conceived by the Holy Spirit of God and totally filled with that spirit he was incapable of sin and could not be tempted with evil.



Jesus many times was angered and frustrated with the people around him, even his own disciples.



KJV Matthew 17:17

17. Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.



KJV Mark 9:19

19. He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him unto me.



KJV Luke 9:41

41. And Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? Bring thy son hither.



KJV Matthew 15:16

16. And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?



KJV Mark 4:13

13. And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?



KJV Mark 7:18

18. And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;



KJV Luke 11:40

40. Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?



KJV John 3:10

10. Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?


What do you suppose a righteous man like Jesus had to put up with from all the sinners around him? Scripture speaks of Lot, who was far less than Jesus, and his ordeal with sinners; how much more the Christ.


KJV 2 Peter 2:7-8

7. And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

8. (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)


Jesus told us that we had to be perfect like God but was he? This perfect condition is to be made unable to sin in order to be in the kingdom; who made Jesus unable to sin, he was born that way. Jesus ascended to heaven to the right hand of God where sin cannot exist; so then he had to be unable to sin or he could not have entered.



Jesus never struggled not to sin but was under constant attack by sinners. Another article that explains how God created the soul of Jesus, “Did Jesus have a Nature Just Like All Men?” is recommended reading.



The man Jesus was a far better man than anyone else who has ever or will ever live and he had to be in order to be the messiah.

 

Fellowship

Monday, May 12, 2014

To have fellowship with other of Gods saints is a blessing in this time near the end of the age since the church is scattered to the four winds and extremely few in number. Jesus said that where two or three are gathered together in his name that he is there also.

KJV Matthew 18:20
20. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

It is interesting that Jesus said, “two or three” and not two or three hundred or thousand, indicating that Jesus knew the church would be scattered and few in number.

KJV Hebrews 10:24-25
24. And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
25. Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

It has been my experience that God has never called and chosen a person alone and without a fellow believer to fellowship with. A man alone is prey for the Devil as he has no help if he falls.

KJV Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
9. Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
10. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
11. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
12. And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

If the Devil gets a hold on one the other can help him escape.

KJV James 5:19-20
19. Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
20. Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

More than one is needed and the more the better as this provides safety from Satanic attack.

KJV Proverbs 11:14
14. Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellers there is safety.

This was common practice in the first century church.

KJV Acts 2:42
42. And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
KJV 1 John 1:3
3. That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
KJV 1 John 1:7
7. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

Through fellowship the saints share the spiritual revelations they receive with one another. As all of Gods saints are prophets and prophetesses they need to hear one another fully and closely, to learn from what is revealed.

KJV 1 Corinthians 14:29-32
29. Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.
30. If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.
31. For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
32. And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

The saints are to speak and believe the same things and there is to be no division over doctrine; this is why fellowship is so important as in a group of two or three false ideas leading to lies can be detected as the others judge what one says. At the word of two or more witnesses is a matter established but the word of one is worthless.

KJV 2 Corinthians 13:1
1. This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
KJV Matthew 18:15-20
15. Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
16. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
17. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
18. Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
19. Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
20. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
KJV Numbers 35:30
30. Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.
KJV 1 Timothy 5:19-20
19. Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.
20. Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.

This agreement of witnesses is a spiritual checks and balance system that prevents error or deception from entering the fellowship. As all the saints have the Holy Spirit and should be skilled in the scripture and gifted with discernment in the truth but the words of a novice, a babe in Christ, must be closely examined and not ignored. It is not a contest to see who is the best at something as all spiritual knowledge is from God and if any of us knows anything this is why. The prophet who is found in the wrong or error must fall into agreement with the majority view and hold his or her peace.

Pride, envy or jealously have no place in these holy fellowships, and remember, Jesus is there with you.

In my personal experiences concerning these things within the small group I fellowship with, I have seen these things in action. There have been times when one of us was wrong and another or the others call him or her on it and bring the issue to debate by comparing what was said by the one with all the truth learned by all over the years and with this group of spiritual minds contemplating and discussing arrive at a decision that remains final unless more revelation comes from God on the subject. We are not to be carnal about this but spiritual. The desire of all is the truth, is it not.

KJV Philippians 3:14-16
14. I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
15. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
16. Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.

The carnal false churches of this world have experienced division over doctrine and leadership because when one of them seeks to have his or her way over that of the others splinter groups are born.

The true church of God is not a splinter group and no one in this church should ever splinter off when having the Holy Spirit and be in disagreement over a matter. God will handle these issues and not us so there is no need for one to splinter off to correct some supposed error. In patience wait for Gods instruction and be of a mind that can deal with problems without carnal responses for the sake of unity and love in the spirit of God.

 

Carnal People

Friday, April 25, 2014

　

There are only two types of people in existence today; Converted and carnal. What separates these people is weather or not they have the Holy Spirit of the Father. All of what is called Christianity today is carnal; unconverted people deceived by Satan and believing in non-scriptural lies, fables and ideas of a fleshly mind. This, I know, is rather sharp language but it is the truth.
Carnal people have none of the fruits or gifts that can only come by Gods spirit. Carnal people try their best to mimic spiritual things but the true people of God can see the fakery. Carnal people do not have the faith and grace needed for the hope of salvation; simply put, they are not nor have they ever been Christians.
Gods elect saints are true Christians and possess the Holy Spirit and are being saved by grace through faith in the message of the gospel and acknowledgement of Jesus as messiah and son of God. The saints are learning the truth by way of divine revelation of what was lost from the first century AD.
Carnal people cannot lose something they never had and was never given to them in the first place. The hope of the carnal person is to be converted and this they do not recognize because they falsely think they are converted. Carnal people are deceived by Satan and are Satan’s children, the children of disobedience.
Is the kingdom of God truly everlasting with no end and is the everlasting life the saints are promised only for a designated time? Some people play with words rather than see the true meaning of those words in the complete text to understand the meaning. The word for everlasting in Greek is “aionios”;
Strong's Ref. # 166
Romanized aionios
Pronounced ahee-o'-nee-os
from GSN0165; perpetual (also used of past time, or past and future as well):
KJV--eternal, for ever, everlasting, world (began).
Some say that this word does not mean forever without end but this word is used to describe Gods kingdom and the type of life the saints are promised in that kingdom.
KJV Matthew 19:29
29. And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
KJV 2 Peter 1:11
11. For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Will the kingdom of God and the life the saints have in it expire, are these things only for a designated time? The lake of fire is said by some to be only temporary and they play with the word “aionios” to say that this lake of fire purges away all evil to supply salvation to the entirety of human kind, some going as far as to include the Devil and his fallen angels.
This lake of fire is truly forever and ever with no end but is not for human beings to be purged but totally and completely destroyed whereas the Devil and his fallen angels exist in it forever in torment. The everlasting destruction below is describing the lake of fire and the word used for everlasting is “aionios”;
KJV 2 Thessalonians 1:8-9
8. In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
9. Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
No one will ever live forever and ever in torment except for Satan and his fallen angels, the human beings who are cast into the lake of fire are destroyed forever and ever, they will never live again. The lake of fire is not the vehicle of salvation, only Jesus is the savior, not fire. The lake of fire cleansing theory is a false gospel because there is no other way to be saved other than Jesus Christ. Anyone who has had the Holy Spirit and rejects all that comes with the spirit to live in unrepentant sin will be destroyed forever and ever. The sacrifice of Jesus will not serve as payment for this unpardonable sin.
KJV Hebrews 10:26-27
26. For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth (After being given the Holy Spirit), there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins (The sacrifice of Jesus will not pay for this type of sin),
27. But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries (This is the lake of fire).
Carnal people cannot commit the unpardonable sin because they do not have the Holy Spirit.
This is one reason why God is not offering the hope of salvation to all of humanity at this time; because God, who is omniscient, knows that the vast majority of human beings would commit the unpardonable sin and God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance, a condition required to have the hope of salvation.
KJV Luke 13:3
3. I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
It is an act of Gods mercy and love for humanity that He does not call and choose us all at the same time.
Gods love is truly unconditional. The saints are converted to establish a relationship in this Godly love with their creator. Godly Love then becomes the spiritual glue that binds us and God together; we love God because He first loved us. Carnal unconverted people do not have this spiritual connection of Godly love but are cut off from God because of sin. To have this connection means that you know God to the degree God is revealed whereas carnal people do not know God but think of Him as a trinity or binary deity.
The converted know the message of the gospel but the carnal minds think they have an immortal soul that consciously survives death to go to bliss in heaven or torment in hell and some believe in the false rapture and keeping the works of the law. These people should not even be called Christians as it defiles the true meaning of the word.
Love is the key to understanding Gods reason for creating humanity. What God is developing in the saints is His love, a love that cannot sin and is the fulfillment of the intent of the shadow law. If a person will not cooperate with God while having the Holy Spirit and is bent on following the way of Satan, God will forever and ever destroy that person, both body and spirit, in the lake of fire. This does not change who God is or show some inability on His part to save all people, as those who teach universal salvation think, because it is not Gods first cause for creating humanity, it is as stated above; humans must become like God and Jesus, LOVE, or else they will not have life. True Godly love has been proven by the shadow law that it cannot be legislated or forced upon anyone but must be accepted by a response of love from the one God shows love too. The very foundation of love is laid upon the free will acceptance of love between two parties. The shadow of this is marriage, as Jesus loved the church men should love their wives. Who forced you to love your wife or for that matter anyone you love? You love because you want to by your own free will choice.
If some people go to the lake of fire this has no negative effect on God, for God will go the uttermost to save people, but if a person with knowledge refuses to love God, refuses to repent and obey the gospel, God has no use for them. Losing a person to the lake of fire is not a failure for God it is separating sheep from goats or chaff from wheat; it is accomplishing what Gods will is. God has always been God and always will be God and has never changed; why would anyone think humanities creation by God would change Him? Will our sin or righteousness add to or take anything away from God?
KJV Job 22:3
3. Is it any pleasure to the almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
KJV Job 35:6-8
6. If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
7. If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
8. Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
Humanity cannot add to or take anything away from an eternal God. Humanity is given the hope by God to enter into the love that God is. All humanity is like raw material, clay in the hands of the potter, who makes vessels, some will be of honor some dishonor and God in eternity has known who will be in each category. God did not mar those vessels of dishonor but those vessels became marred on their own while in His hand, while converted they failed, but those of honor were successful in their election. God will in four stages offer salvation to humanity; The 144,000, the innumerable multitude, the millennium and second resurrection and while the vast majority of all humanity will receive salvation there will be some that will not. At this time it is the first stage, the 144,000, who have this opportunity and they must focus on it and let the world alone, turn away from them who are Satan’s ministers and children and give themselves completely to God and Christ, it is our time now, the carnal will follow later.
KJV 1 Peter 4:17-18
17. For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
18. And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
This article is written for Gods scattered elect saints. The reason for it is to help show that we should not be trying to convert the carnal world for this is Gods business not ours as only God has the omniscience to do this. We should not attempt to preach the gospel to the world as only God gives the eyes to see and the ears to hear its message, God grants repentance to those He has already written in the lambs book of life from the foundation of the world and in this current age there will only be 144,000 of them. What we need to do is focus on our growth and attempting to do some work we have not been given to do will only take our focus off of our own spiritual growth. I am one like you, an elect saint of God, and in my early years of conversion I had to learn this lesson. The small group of saints that I fellowship with have focused on our growth and we let the world alone. This blog I write does expose lies and gives the truth on many spiritual subjects in the hope that some of Gods scattered elect may stumble upon it and contact me. This blog is not an effort to convert the carnal world because no one can convert anyone but God and Christ. Even when Jesus was on the Earth and after three and a half years of preaching his gospel and doing miracles only 120 people of the thousands that heard him believed and were converted on Pentecost.
The saints must not waste their time but use it to grow to become the very best servant of God and Christ that they can be. I do not have all the truth but if I spend the vast majority of my time on things not given to me it is assured that my learning will suffer. We will only cheat ourselves if we do these things. Our hearts should be on the further conversion of ourselves rather than on a carnal world. We need to study scripture asking who, what, when, where, how and why in prayer to God seeking answers. We serve our Lord and master in spiritual things not the carnal world that cannot even understand them. We are the bride of Christ and we need to make ourselves ready.