-THE WRITTEN WORD-
He Who was in the beginning, Whom we have heard, Whom we have seen with our eyes, Whom we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life. (For the Life was manifested, and we have seen Him, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, Who was with the Father, and was manifested unto us).
He Whom 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”…1 JOHN 1:1-3.
“Jesus the same yesterday, and today, and forever.”….Hebrews 13:8.
-THE REVEALED WORD-
Men and brethren, there are two opposite and sharply divided kingdoms on planet earth: the kingdom of light which is the kingdom of God on earth, empowered by God through the Holy Ghost, and the kingdom of darkness which is also the kingdom of this world, and empowered by satan and his forces. And the living also is sharply divided into these kingdoms – one is either in the kingdom of God or in the kingdom of darkness.....there is no middle course.
People of the world, what Master Jesus came into the world to do, in the form of a man, was to restore entire humanity to the kingdom of light, that is His own kingdom, even the kingdom of His Father. He did not come to create another religion, never! He came to restore man to the image of God – to the original purpose of the Father in creation.
In the beginning God created Adam and Eve. He created them in His image, the image of Jesus Christ. And He created them to live forever with Him and in Him. He created them for His Christ, through His Christ and for His Christ. That is what He said, and no mortal or angel can question Him. The only one who dared to, even satan, was immediately cast down with his agents. Beware!
But Adam and Eve fell into sin – they ate the forbidden fruit. And they fell, and when they fell they lost the very image of God. They became just a perfect mixture of sand and water , with a mind and spirit. They lost the Spirit of God which was what made them the image of God in the first place..
In their fallen state, Adam and Eve went on to procreate. And humanity is the product of that procreation. Therefore, humanity came forth, not in the image of God, but in the image of the fallen Adam and Eve – of sand and of water, with spirit and a soul. The image of God was forever lost on humanity.
But before Christ came into the world in the form of a man, heaven tried several ways to reconcile humanity back to God – to bring humanity back to the original intention of God in creation, to return humanity to the image of God, to return humanity to life everlasting.
The experiment began with Noah and with partial success. God then called out father Abraham from humanity, and through Him fashioned another generation of those who should become His image. The state of Israel was manifested in that process. God gave them laws and called them His people. And sent His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ to perfect His work in them. But they did not understand God's intention, and rejected that offer.
Therefore with Israel of old God could not restore man fully to His image. though some were able to break forth into that image, just a handful.
There was then a meeting in heaven on how to restore humanity to the image of God - that the purpose and ordination of God in creation would not end in vain. And our Lord Jesus Christ, the second Person of God in three Persons, opted to sacrifice Himself in order to save humanity, to return humanity to the very image of God, even to His own image.
And this God the Son came down and took the name Jesus. He cast away His deity, lived amongst men, and taught folks, not just how to return to the image of God but much more also how to live as image of God. And because the folks He lived amongst were not images of God, they misunderstood Him, especially when He declared the He was the Son of the living God. They called that blasphemy, not realizing that He had come to make them also sons and daughters of the same God.
The only Son of God, God the Son, called Himself the Son of God, and that was judged by folks as blasphemy! And He was found guilty of that blasphemy, molested, abused, beaten almost to death, and then crucified.
But it was as ordained by the Father, and as accepted by the Son. He must of necessity die, that through His death, and glorious resurrection, all humanity may be saved and reconciled to Him and to the Father.
Master Jesus died to destroy the adamic nature in man, in all humanity. He did not die to create a religion. He died to return man to the new Garden of Eden, which is His kingdom, even the kingdom of His Father.
Men and brethren, religion is the creation of men under the influence and manipulation of satan. Jesus Christ died for the whole world, His creation, including for those who claim they created religions.
It is satanic, vile and scandalous to allude religion to our Lord Jesus Christ. Whosoever does that is speaking guile and will give account.
Those who follow religion only end up as the image of whosoever founded their religion. And that is the reason for all the killing and mayhem all over the world by some who claim they are appeasing the gods of their religion. But whosoever follows Christ and His salvation ends up as the image of the living God. Religious folks do have a very hard choice to make here.
Brethren, our Lord Jesus Christ did not even come to create a Church on earth. He came to change the world, to turn humanity to Himself, even to the Father. And those that accept His saving grace would often gather in a certain place, to celebrate Him, to rejoice in what He has done, and to prepare themselves to meet Him face to face in heaven at last. That gathering, not the place itself, is what the Church of Jesus Christ is all about.
Church, as heaven sees it, is the gathering of the people of God to sharpen one another, for revival, for empowerment, for communion. The true Church of Jesus Christ is as a Gasoline station where people of God gather to refuel their engines on their way to heaven. Beware of those you gather with in name of Church!
Those who accept what Jesus did for humanity must correctly be referred to as the children of God. Nobody is a child of God until he or she has accepted what Jesus Christ did for humanity, and then accept Him as Lord and Savior that He is.
Jesus died to create sons and daughters of God. He did not just die to create Christians as a group of folks who worship Him in a certain place. No He did not. He died to return folks to His image, the sinless image, through sanctification by the Holy Ghost.
And if one continues in sin even after receiving Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, he or she would automatically fall back into the adamic nature all over again. And whosoever remains in that state and dies will not see Jesus Christ face to face - he or she will never make heaven at last. This is the word of the living God. Beware.
Brethren, folks were first called Christians by the people of the world, in Antioch, in the days of the first apostles of Christ. They were so called because they lived the way Christ lived even in the days of His flesh. They were called Christians because they lived by the precepts that Jesus taught even in the days of His flesh. They lived the life of God amongst men, and they were rightly described as Christians.
But the heavenly name for those who accept Christ here and live even as He lives is the son or daughter of the living God.
What you are reading is not a mental exercise, God forbid! It is directly from Him whom many call God but scarcely know, Whom many dishonor by claiming that they belong to this or that religion.
It is an insult to God for one to claim that he or she belongs to this or that religion. It is a direct challenge to the authority of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost - and the consequence is everlasting life in the lake that burns and quenches not..
We all are creations of God through His Son Jesus Christ. And we are created to serve the same God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Those who talk religion are actually saying that what God did in sending His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, the second Person of the Trinity, is vanity.
Those who see Christ just as a Prophet, and even compare Him with some folks He created, are under the delusive influence of satan without realizing it.
Satan, who instigated those who murdered our Lord, is yet the one cajoling folks that our Lord Jesus Christ is not the only Way to God. And many believe Him, even to their eternal peril. Satan is the inventor of religion. He created it to divert the attention of folks from their Savior Jesus Christ.
It is a strange thing for some folks to describe our Lord Jesus Christ as one of the messengers of God. He is the ONLY Messenger of God. And He is not just the Messenger of God; He also is the Message of God – indeed the ONLY Message of God to humanity.
Jesus Christ is the life of humanity – without Him there is no life. When Adam sinned and was driven out of the Garden of Eden, he became a living dead. He was alive yet dead – he had lost the God in him through sin. But when Master Jesus came as the second Adam, He brought back life; He brought back God, he brought back Himself to humanity. Therefore whosoever does not have Jesus Christ is dead even while still living.
Whosoever does not have Christ in his or her life is godless in this life. It is vain to talk about God outside Christ – those that do such are mere story tellers, atheists, philosophers, psychologists and historians, religious zealots, New and Old age groups, christian scientists, faculties of religious studies scattered all over the world.etc., whose theories will perish under the fervent heat of heaven..
Men and brethren, to whom much is given much is also expected. God has given us Himself in His only begotten Son. Accept what He did and be saved. For these things are written, that we might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing we might have life through His name.
*The third, and by His grace the last part of this message, would lead us to the end of this matter. It is as revealing as it is compelling. Please follow it to the end - God is waiting for you at the end of it all*.
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