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God requires all His children to love Him as their Father with all their being and love other people as they are loved (Lk. 10 v 25-37). All Adam’s self-saving descendants are guilty of breaking God’s command and shamed by their lack of love for others (Gal. 3 v 19-27).
The self-righteous will be condemned by the same law they use to judge others (Mt. 6 v 14-15). Jesus did not come to condemn everyone to death: he came to redeemall who accept him as their Lord and Saviour (Jn. 8 v 10-12, 9 v 35-41) from the curse of the Law of Sin unto Death.
John 1 v 1-13: Before measurable time began the infinite God has a visible person through whom He made His finite creations. He reveals the love and life of the infinite Creator to people who are ignorant of His love and purpose for making everything.
God sent messengers to inform all who did not know Him that His visible person would visit the Earth to tell them about His great love that desires to share His eternal life with all who want to know, love and obey Him as His children. Those who reject His life know their life on earth will die but they believe a lie about what happens next (Mt. 7 v 20-24, 1 Jn. 1 v 1-10).
John 3 v 13-36: No one on earth can be compatible with God’s life but the visible person of the infinite Father came down to our world to take to heaven all who believe his words (Jn. 14 v 1-31).
Christianity is not a religion but a person (Lk. 13 v 27). It is Jn. 16 v 7-15, Heb. 9 v 16-17). It is the reinstatement through Jesus’ death of repentant people who have accepted the Father’s will (that Adam’s children have rejected) to fill His mansion with many children born of His life (Jn. 14 v 2, 16 v 7-15, Heb. 9 v 14-17).
Religion is a set of laws that you choose to live by. I was brought up during the scarcities World War 2 so I never throw away anything that might be useful. Everyone’s religion is different and based on their will which generally has nothing to do with our Father-God’s will. It is not based on the love of God but the fear of losing the blessings of this temporary life.
It is man’s way of fooling his conscience that doing his version of God’s laws is not sinful (Gen. 4 v 7-16, Acts 9 v 1-5). It is the enemy of God’s will (Rev. 19 v 1-9).
The basis for any alternative belief is based on the lie of Genesis 3 v 3-7. Man’s alternative, indwelling, spirit guide (Rom. 7 v 17-24) started its reign by questioning his Woman on God’s words (Lk. 4 v 1-12). She replied: God said (to Adam) “If you follow or even just believe there is an alternative to God’s will and purpose you will lose oneness with my life (Jn. 8 v 23-29) and die”. But the Serpent (Rev. 12 v 9-12) said to the woman “What nonsense; of course you won’t die. For God knows that on the day you decide for yourself what is good or evil you shall become an independent, eternal, godlike, spiritual being like me” (Ezk. 28 v 13-17).
She fell for the con because she liked the idea of being as important as her husband. She did not die for she disobeyed his command (Gen. 2 v 17, 22, 1 Tim. 2 v 13-14). When her husband returned from surveying his kingdom she persuaded him that he could rule it as his own god.
He could have annulled her mistake (Num. 30 v 6-8) but he obeyed her attractive proposal and deliberately disobeyed God’s command. His sin and that of all mankind is wanting to be a God-like one and do what I want like a naughty child who wants to play with fire. It is called pride.
The Serpent or Devil (Jn. 8 v 42-56), was immediately cursed; to be reduced to the level of the lowest of animals. This Opposer of God’s will (Satan), together with the other anti-Christ free spirits will be judged and bound (Ezk. 28 v 18, Mt. 8 v 29) but first they are used to test the hearts’ of all who are sorry for their disobedient lives (1 Pt. 5 v 8, 2 Pt. 2 v 7-12).
Woman was deceived and Adam was fooled (Rom. 1 v 22, 1 Tim. 2 v 12-14). Satan however, as the greatest of God’s creatures knew exactly what it was doing so its sin was unforgiveable (Is. 14 v 12-17). It had supplanted men as the lords of God’s creation (1 Jn. 5 v 19) forever!
Suddenly they knew they were divorced from God’s life and will and in mortal danger (Gen. 3 v 8). They were consumed with guilt and fear. Their self-sustained life started to die. God’s purpose for their lives was lost so they had a personality crisis (Heb. 2 v 15). Their lives became a meaningless struggle for self-survival (Gen. 3 v 7-8) in which they decided what was right or wrong for ‘me’ (Gen. 4 v 6-8, 23-24, 11 v 5-6, Jg. 21 v 25). Man’s defensive, religious cover-up started (Is. 64 v 6-12).
All who reject God as their life giver (Gen. 2 v 7) and establish their own alternative kingdom of heaven on earth (Mt. 4 v 3-10) are self-conscious, sin-conscious and death fearing (Gen. 3 v 4-5, Is. 14 v 12-17, Ezk. 28 v 13-19). Their cover-up is totally abhorrent to God (Mt. 7 v 21, Lk. 11 v 24-26, 18 v 10, Jn. 8 v 3-9) and His presence is terrifying to them (Mt. 21 v 42-45, Rev. 6 v 16).
Without the Father’s life and purpose we have a pointless, hopeless and loveless battle for survival against nature (Gen. 3 v 17-19, Job 27 v 8-23, Rom. 7 v 21-25, 8 v 20-22, Heb. 2 v 5-18). Everyone born does not know who, what or why they are. They are lost.
From an early age they have to build an outer personality or alter ego to protect themselves that they then have to defend (Mt. 23 v 25-35). The image they project is false yet they judge others according to their values (Jas. 4 v 4-12).
They seek temporal riches with attached rewards and health benefits to save them but they have no lasting benefit (Lk. 12 v 19-32, 16 v 19-31, 18 v 25). All the self-centred survivalists who stick to their self-justified alternatives to God’s will (Gen. 2 v 9-17) are self-powered and so are predestined to die.
Your religious beliefs and values are therefore a measure of how good or evil you are. The religious values of a country determine whether its people are blessed or cursed (2 Chr. 13 v 18, 14 v 11-13, 36 v 11-21). Complete religious freedom is a therefore a recipe for a divided, ungovernable society that descends into a breakdown of law and order and is taken over by a dictator.
So the permissive religious liberty of politically correct atheist, secularist and humanist is a demonic religious belief. Those who believe in Darwin’s ultra-racist theory, that they are superior apes, kill and consume their their enemies as apes and demons do.
Nothing derived from Adam’s broken life is acceptable to God. Self-centred Christianity is an abomination (Lk. 18 v 9, 1 Cor. 10 v 2-5, Heb. 3 v 2-5). God promised that all who accept His promised holy (one minded) redeemer (Gen. 3 v 14-15, Mt. 4 v 1-11) and wanted to accept the guidance of His omnipresent, Spirit again could after the death of their doomed life (Rom. 6) be joined to the life of His tangible person again (Gen. 3 v 15, Job. 19 v 25-29).
God had foreseen that we would try to go it alone (Jn. 1 v 4-14, 3 v 3, 14-21, 34-36, 2 Tim. 1 v 9). Regardless of the cost, His great love had a plan that would save us and bind us to His life forever (2 Tim. 1 v 9).
However the cost to God’s love was horrendous: the eternal love bond between the Almighty Father, His attendant Holy Spirit with His visible entity (Php. 2 v 1-11) was cut open to let us in (Mt. 27 v 45-50). The veil in the temple that separated repentant, blood covered people from God’s perfect love was completely removed (Mt. 27 v 51-54).
The presence of Jesus, his Holy Spirit and His Father can now dwell within our hearts (Jn. 14 v 23-28). We are not holy but Jesus is (Mt. 4 v 4, 10, Heb. 2 v 9-18). He wants your heart to be open to him (Heb. 4 v 9-16) and he will win it (Heb. 3 v 7-14). Only his love can free us from our doomed self-centred lives (1 Jn. 4 v 9-19).
They are not made free, proud, self-consumed, spirit beings, like Satan (Is. 14 v 12-17, Mt. 4 v 4-10) but humble, obedient children like Jesus who exercise the Father’s will (Gen. 1 v 2-3, Acts 3 v 5-23). Jesus was born in our likeness so we might be reborn in his likeness (Php.2 v 3-13). By grace you are saved through faith; not of any self-attainment but purely as the gift of God to do the works of God (Lk. 15 v 17-24, Eph. 2 v 4-10).
Those reborn of God’s words and those of Satan’s self-centred words are being separated into bundles by good and bad spirits (Mt. 13 v 30, Lk. 16 v 22-23). Only those who humbly cry to God for forgiveness and mercy will be saved (Ex. 2 v 23, Jg. 6 v 7-10, Ps. 40). Only the sincere have an understanding of who Jesus is and believe they are who God says they are (Jg. 6 v 12-14, Jn. 1 v 44-51).
He has conquered the power of death and replaces a deceitful, meaningless, wasted, sin driven, fearful, self-centred, life with a purposeful, Jesus-centre life, full of truth, love, joy, peace, hope and goodness. It is a covenant that is confirmed with gifts (Eph. 1 v 4, 9-14, 2 v 5-18, Heb. 11 v 1, 6, Jas. 1 v 2-5).
Jesus not only came from heaven to find you, he died to save you from your sin and death ruled life. He has wiped out the unsurmountable barrier that prevents people from knowing him. All He asks of you is to choose between a self-powered eternity without hope or a God centred life full of love joy and peace. Prayer, thanksgiving and praise (Ps. 100) must come from the love in the heart of God-saved and dependent souls.
Those who love him want obey him out of love. That love prompts them to share their Saviour with others. To share in bringing salvation to a lost soul is as wonderful as seeing any new born baby. The change in those born of God’s gift of life should attract others more than any persuasive preaching. They cannot abide in sin (1 Jn. 1 v 5-10, 3 v 2-11). They learn to destroy years of Satan’s work by using the authority given them in Jesus’ name (Mt. 12 v 28-32, Lk. 10 v 3-12, 16-22).
Their walk with God must conform to the record of His promises and lessons in the collection of books called the Bible. The words of His anointed prophets are eternal truths (Lk. 24 v 44-49). All humans who remain independent of God’s life will die but all who seek God’s heart and mind will be gifted a new life after the old dies (Ezk. 18 v 26-32).
The difference between our failing human life and the immortal life that Jesus’ death has earned for us is so great that we can only realise a taste of it on earth (Php. 3 v 8-17). It has to be based on faith in the enormity of the cost to God’s person. Faith in that knowledge allows you to do works like Jesus did (Jn. 14 v 11-13) but take your eyes of Jesus and you will sink back into the fears of your self-powered nature (Mt. 14 v 26-31).
The choice is simple: choose to obey God’s words and you will live; reject Him and you will be judged with Satan (Josh. 24 v 13-23). Those who choose to remain independent of Jesus’ life create a make believe world ruled by a false god. Doing the Lord’s good works without knowing and obeying the Lord defeats their purpose.
All alternative purposes to the Father’s plan are the opposite of His in every aspect. God’s good works require you to obey His will as your Father. The self-righteous do the reverse (Is. 64 v 4-9). They do not do His will but tell Him what they want Him to do which is contrary to His will (Deut. 10 v 12-20).
The contrary things in their lives that they pray against are meant to make them repent and turn back to seeking and obeying His will (Deut. 27 & 28). If they do He will lift them up and shower them with blessings (Mal. 3 v 3-16 so the world will know what it is like to walk according to His will (Is. 61 v 2-3).
The self-justified seek to save their self-centred lives: they ordain a priest to separate their will from the one minded God. A heavy spiritual veil protects them from His presence. Like Satan they will be cut off from life forever (Lk. 13 v 23-29, 34-35).
Their ministers are self-important and rewarding persons who want to build their own kingdom of heaven on earth (Mt. 7 v 15-23, Acts 20 v 29, 1 Pt. 4 v 17, 2 Pt. 2 v 1-21, Jude). The wilful build imposing buildings with towers (Gen. 11 v 4-7) and fight with others for dominance (Gen. 11 v 4-5). Most Cathedrals are monuments that glorify their builder instead of God (Mk. 13 v 1-4, Lk. 19 v 45-48).
They become swamped with biased news and doctrines that refute God’s truth (Jer. 7 v 9-28). They are led by a pseudo-holy, divisive, self-centred spirits (Mt. 12 v 31, 23 v 28-33, Jn. 8 v 43-47, Acts 20 v 28-35, Rev. 1, 2, 3, 19 v 1-9). The love of God is replaced with the love of self so the fear of judgement and death remains (1 Sam. 8 v 5-18, 2 Pt. 2, Rom. 7 v 14-25).
Their inability to do God’s will results in believing God’s love overrules His judgement so they condone all sorts of ‘do whatever you like’ forbidden, degrading practices (1 Cor. 10 v 5-13, Heb. 3). When the ‘salt’ (Mt. 5 v 13, Col. 4 v 5-6) that stops society becoming totally corrupt becomes corrupt it becomes redundant and is thrown away (Rev. 2 & 3). All national bodies (like the government, social services, employment, education, law courts, police, defence, fuel and food supplies) start to fragment. An enemy of law and order has done this (Mt. 13 v 24-30).
As a result even determined atheists call for the reformation of the Christian values. When churchmen become self-justified and centred their spiritual leanings come from false holy spirits (Gen. 3 v 5; ‘as gods’).
No one is good or holy. Spiritual people live a lie (Rom. 3 v 23-28, Gal. 2 v 3, 3 v 22, 1 Jn. 1 v 5-10). They repeat Cain’s, Nimrod’s (mystery Bablylon: Is. 14 v 4, Rev. 14 v 7-11, 17 v 18), Pharo’s, Uzziah’s, Nebuchachadnezar’s, the Pharisees’ and the Gnostics’ sin of thinking they were as gods (Gen. 3 v 5, Is. 14 v 13-23).
You do not have to seek God in an alien heaven: He seeks you on an alien earth (Mt. 18 v 10-14, Lk. 19 v 5-10, Jn. 4 v 22-26, 35). Our Holy Father who lives in perfect peace has made it possible for us to walk and talk with Him via His infinitely powerful, omnipresent, Holy Spirit, not just when we are in a holy huddle but when we are in a terrible mess or cannot find the car keys.
God has not given up on you yet (Lk. 13 v 7-9). A father does not reject his baby because it is smelly: his love washes away the smell. You cannot become God-centred if you keep Him out of your messy death fearing life (1 Jn. 1 v 4-10, 3 v 16-24). He judges those who pretend to be good as hypocrites (Lk. 18 v 9-17).
He does not break the wilful soul: he mends it. Only the unloved child is not disciplined and taught the difference between right and wrong or good and evil (Heb. 11 v 6, 40, 12 v 1-15).
Those who press on through the discipline (1 Cor. 10, Eph. 2 v 1-18) enter into His world. They sit with Jesus as sons of our Father who lives in heavenly places. To discover how read the psalms of a shepherd boy name David (1 Sam. 16 v 7, 17 v 37, 45-47). Like Jacob the wrestler, those who surrender their self-survival to their Saviour become princes among men (Gen. 18 v 17 v 32, 35 v 1-10, 45 v 7-8, Dan. 2 v 47-48, 1 Sam. 18 v 28-29, Job. 42 v 3-8).
He is not found through wisdom but gives wisdom (1 Cor. 1 v 22, 2 v 6-12). Self-centred wisdom is self-justifying (Php. 2 v 21, 1 Pt. 5 v 6-10) and based on deliberate lies and half-truths.
God’s holy Spirit beckons (Mt. 20 v 15-16, 22 v 11-14) but he cannot accept Adam’s descendants in heaven until they are refined and tested (Gen. 22 v 2-18, Jn. 21 v 15-17, Acts 19 v 15-20, Rom. 8 v 16-27, 1 Cor. 10 v 11-22, 11 v 29-32). A father who opts-out of correcting and disciplining his children is self-centred. He does not love them but does them great harm (1 Sam. 2 v 12, 22-24, 30-36).
Humanists believe there is no god so they do whatever they like (Gen. 11 v 1-6). When their society descends into chaos and their natural world turns against them they cry and die. The death fearing appease the angry god of this natural world whenever she threatens to kill them by spending billions on nature conserving projects but their sinful lives reject their maker protection (Ps. 50 v 3-23).
This world is the school where to learn what is true and what is false; good or bad. It is the only limbo where individual people decide to accept God’s love, discipline and truth or Satan’s fearful, evil, sinful lies (Rom. 8 v 5-10). Most religions are just a social gospel whereby the death fearing try to keep God off their case. They are stuck in limbo.
Man’s ideologies, religions, philosophers, psychiatrists, scientists and politicians have no answer to this problem because they are the problem. Their pointless and hopeless self-survival mode is the opposite of their Father’s purpose.
Jesus is as the rescue ship that calls on us to jump from the sinking ship before it is too late. Proud, self-elevated survivalist will go down with their ship (Is. 14 v 13-24, 28 v 14-20).
Those who do not want to leave their earthly baggage behind will not make it (Mt. 6 v 19-30, 1 Tim. 6 v 7). People who think things change slowly do not repent for their wasted life until it is about to end. They resist the Holy Spirit’s cleansing and teaching (Jn. 16 v 8-15, 1 Thess. 19-24, Heb. 4).
Sin and self-conscious people who believe in God but do not know Him fear suffering and losing their salvation. They have no assured hope (Heb. 11 v 1-2). They have insecure, death-fearing lives that are misled and undermined by their accusing, antichrist, spiritual guide (Rev. 1 v 20, 12 v 9-12). Those who are blessed by God and pay a tithe as protection money stop when they think the danger is over (Gen. 14 v 18-24).
Salvation does not depend on what you know but on who you know (Mt. 7 v 21-23, Gal. 4 v 6-11, Rev. 3 v 17-20). The Lord God creator of heavens and the earth does not want your service; He wants your heart (Ps. 50 v 5-15). God Almighty the creator of the heavens and the Earth is not someone who needs us to support and carry Him (Ps. 50 v 10-23, Acts 5 v 38-39): He carries us (Is. 44 v 6-25).
Christianity is not a religion but a love story about a Father who seeks a helpmate for His Son (Gen. 2 v 7, 20-24, 24 v 48-65, Eph. 5 v 22-33). The most handicapped child is as precious to Him as the most noble. Their ministry is to weigh the hearts of the self-centred survivalists before they die.
In this world a man who fathers an unwanted baby can make the baby pay with its life before it has uttered a cry. God is a Father who takes responsibility for all humans born of Adam before they utter a cry. Only those who reject His love have to fend for themselves forever.
Now you know why Satan attacks the oneness of marriage, adulterates procreation, aborts new life and makes sex a profane thing. Death centred cults make a covenant of ‘marriage’ with Death (Rom. 7 v 1-6, Jude. 10-11): they sacrifice babies. When they die they will be trapped in Satan’s incinerated kingdom for ever (Gen. 4 v 9-15, 9 v 4-6).
A ‘marriage’ with God’s being is full of love and delights. God does not delight in the death of anyone. It is not God’s will that any should perish (Mic. 7 v 8, Jn. 3 v 15-21). If before you die and are lost forever (Rom. 10 v 8-13) you repent for your rejection of his love and call on the name of Jesus to save you (Jn. 3 v 3, 16-19) he will (Ezk. 18 v 26-32)!
Our Father can help you to decide but not negate your god given free will. His will is based on the Law of Love and Life (Acts 9 v 3-6): the will of His enemies is based on the Law of Fear and Death. The lovers of self who refuse to bow to His love will not make it (Lk. 10 v 25-28).
He chastises them but they only pretend to repent (Ex. 7 v 2-5, 10 v 16-19, 28, 14 v 5-18). His schooling is challenging but it is supported by God’s patience and love so it is a lot easier Rom. 8 v 24-38, Heb. 4 v 1-16) than any alternative. Those who reject His teaching will have very troubled lives and a much more terrible, inescapable future.
The unrepentant who opt out of school early, through escapism, intoxication, drugs, self-abortion (suicide), meet up with very evil, lying egos who drain them of their humanity. They behave much worse than animals (Rom. 1 v 23-32). Those who excuse such behaviour will be judged with them.
You gain Jesus’ eternal life by making an eternal covenant with him: to forsake all other loves for as long as you two live (Eph. 1 v 6-14, 18-23, 2 v 1-10). A covenant is sealed with the offering of precious gifts: you give him your life and he gives you his (Gen. 22 v 2, 8-18, 1 Jn. 3 v 14).
God made such a blood covenant unto death with Adam. Like him we break it and so are cut off from His eternal life. To be one with our Father forever we need a new unbreakable covenant like the one He made with Abraham (Gen. 17 v 1-3) that is gifted to us as his like-minded descendants (Gen. 12 v 1-3, 15 v 1-21). Jesus has died for our sin in our place (Gal. 3 v 16-17, Heb. 9 v 1-8, 10 v 15-27).
An act for or against God or others can be short lived but the effect, memory and record of it cannot be changed (Ps. 109, Mk. 9 v 41-50). It remains as a perpetual fire: only repentance can cleanse it as if washed with the ‘salt’ of God’s Word (Ps. 79 v 5-9).
If we confess our sin (1 Jn. 1 v 5-10) Jesus’ blood or death buys us out of our slavery to sin and death (Rom. 7 v 23-25, 8 v 1). He has paid for our sin so our record is annulled (Ps. 51 v 1-19, Jer. 31 v 31-34, 2 Tim.1 v 10, Heb. 10 v 19).
We are reunited with our Father-God as part of His family (Mt. 7 v 13-20, Jn. 14 v 7-23). Only Jesus deserves all our praise, honour and glory forever. We no longer live in the past but pursue our new future (Rom. 8 v 23-29).
The Apostles first saw Jesus as the promised Messiah (Mk. 8 v 29-33, Jn. 1 v 41; not as Is. 53 v 3) then after his resurrection as “My Lord and my God,” but when revealed as the King they fell at his feet (Mt. 17 v 6, Rev. 1 v 17-18).
When he returns to rule over the Earth, all left alive will fall at his feet. Jesus is the visible person of the infinite God who is the Father of all life (Josh. 5 v 13-15, Mt. 26 v 63-64, Jn. 8 v 56-58, 10 v 30, Heb. 1 v 2-8), yet he took upon himself the form of a servant (Jn. 6 v 38-40, 62, Php. 2 v 6-10).
For our transgressions he was cursed as if smitten by God (Is. 53 v 3-9). He was rejected and despised by men but now he is exalted as the Lord of all creation. The name of Jesus is greater than any other name ( ). He is the King of kings and Lord of Lords, to those who honour him.
A fountain of life has been opened in a barren place (Num. 20 v 8-12). All who wash in it will be cleansed from their sins (Zech. 13 v 1-2). On the day God’s children accept Jesus as their Lord and King the Holy Spirit will be free to dwell with them (Jn. 14 v 10-23). Their prayers in Jesus’ name will be answered and those bound by sin and the fear of death will be set free (Jn. 8 v 32, 16 v 13).
They talk to Jesus daily and let him will wash away all the dirt that is broadcast from other voices (Jn. 13 v 8-10, Heb. 9 v 14-15, 12 v 5-15, 25-29). Do not shout at God but speak to Him in Jesus’ name and He will answer (Deut. 4 v 7, Job 42 v 3-6, Ps. 91 v 15, Job 42 v 3-6, Ps. 91 v 15, Jer. 33:3, Mt. 7 v 7, 21 v 22, Lk. 11 v 9, Heb. 11 v 6, 1 Jn. 3 v 22, 5 v 14).
At his name every creature must bow with fear and trembling (Phl. 2 v 6-16). And he shall reign for ever and ever: HALLELUJAH! And us? We train to rule with him. You who do not see him as precious have been warned (Lk. 12 v 4-5, 1 Pt. 2 v 7-8). Kiss the Son lest he be offended by you (Ps. 2 v 7-12, Rom. 9 v 15).
The redeemed are bought at a terrible cost. Those who do not love him but distain his love and curse his name experience hell before they are lost forever (Lk. 22 v 48, Jn. 14 v 24, Rom. 1 v 18). Some repent before they are swallowed by death as burning branches snatched from the fire (Jude 14-25). Those who still obey the alluring voices of their alter egos will drown in a sea of sin (Jas. 1 v 6-25).
Those who hate him and blaspheme his name are self-cursed (Ex. 20 v 5-7). They bow to a war lord who cannot save but sacrifices them to his death centred god. The god who needs men to defend its name by killing those who do not honour it is a desperate god.
All births, marriages, deaths, special anniversaries are remember once a year. Jesus’ only new commandment is to celebrate the new feast of Passover. He ordered his disciples to hold a memorial of the Lord’s Supper (Mt. 15 v 12, 1 Cor. 5 v 7-8) as their new blood covenant unto death (Ex. 12 v 13-14).
The Old Passover with a sacrificed lamb has now been fulfilled in heaven (Lk. 22 v 15-20). Only the memorial unleavened bread and wine remain from the end of the Passover meal: the unleavened bread, his dead body; the red wine, his poured out life (Gen. 9 v 2-6, Lev. 10-16, Lk. 22 v 19, 1 Cor. 11 v 23-26). Each occasion this very holy, annual feast is held reminds us that that ‘In me dwells no good thing’ (Rom. 7 v 17-19, 8 v 4-8).
There is no life in that bread. There is only a promise of death to mankind’s fallen human life in that cup (Gen. 9 v 2-6, Lev. 17 v 10-16, 1 Cor. 10 v 16, 11 v 27-32). To save us the Lamb of God had to become sin and be separated from the Father in our place (Jn. 3 v 14, 2 Cor. 5 v 15-21). It should make us more than thankful to the Father and Jesus for his selfless sacrifice. The cross symbolises our sin unto death (Num. 21 v 5-9). It is meant to appal and humble us not be idolised (2 Kg. 18 v 4, Jn. 3 v 14).
Our death bound human life has to be put to death with Jesus’ humanity (Acts 2 v 38-47, Rom. 6). This is a work of obedience to the Holy Spirit’s still small voice and never our self-willed Adamic nature (Heb. 4)! Those who are baptise but resist the Holy Spirit and want to keep their self-centred life will (Rom. 10 v 20-21, 1 Cor. 10 v 1-15, Heb. 3 v 12-19).
The Passover marks the end of a life of self-survival, enslaved to sin and the fear of death, that we inherited from Adam (Rom. 5 v 8-17), and inheriting from Jesus the Holy Spirit led life that Adam discarded. To rise with his eternal life requires faith in God’s promises (Eph. 2 v 1-10, Heb. 11 v 1-6, 12 v 22-29).
Jesus did not just die as a criminal, he also suffered the terror of being cut off from the Father and Holy Spirit (Mt. 27 v 46, Lk. 22 v 42-44, 23 v 46). There was no evidence of any wrong doing so he was assaulted in court to provoke him to err. Legalism justifies evil! The politically motivated Roman judge pronounced him innocent but then ordered his back to be torn with flails and head crowned with thorns until he was no longer recognisable (Is. 52 v 14).
Why? To release believers from the power of injustice, shame, mental and physical torment and fear of damnation (Is. 50 v 6-10, Rom. 8 v 30-39). The King of kings and Judge of judges will vindicate them (Is. 52 v 10-15, 53 v 11-12, Rev. 12 v 11).
The veil of the temple separated the holiness of the Father from the oil lamp and the show bread which represent the accessible Holy Spirit (Lev. 24 v 5-9, Ps. 23 v 4-6) and Jesus as the bread of new life. Only partaking of that living ‘bread’ from heaven can give you his eternal life (Lk. 4 v 4, Jn. 6 v 57-63). There is no spiritual life in physical foods (Jn. 6 v 27, 1 Cor. 10 v 19-22).
Those who use leavened bread in place of his dead body (as with daily breaking of bread) and juice instead of fermented red wine (as his life blood), as a spiritual pick-me-up to make them feel good, are idolatrous (2 Kg. 18 v 4, 1 Cor. 11 v 26-32). Those who like crucifixes that show a sanitised version of Jesus’ death and remember his Passover supper whenever they like, remain fixed in the self-determined ways of their sin and death ruled life (5 v 8-14). Their traditions make the word of God lifeless (Mt. 15 v 8-14, Mk. 7 v 13-15) so they remain stuck, as a looped recording, on the wrong side of the cross.
No one can come into God’s presence except through a relationship with Jesus (Jn. 14 v 1-7). All who worship any other form of god will remain sin and self-conscious and ruled by fear instead of sacrificial love (Heb. 2 v 10-18).
Many, if not most, people are saved when they are dying (Ezk. 18 v 26-32, Rom. 10 v 6-13). Pain makes us cry to God as the only one who can help. The danger for those who are their own god and opt out early through euthanasia is that their hopeless lives turn into a helpless state of eternal torment.
Those who desire to just be friends with God try to please Him by obeying His 10 laws that only condemn the disobedient (Mt. 7 v 21-27, Gal. 3 v 22-29). The sentiment is good but they do not experience oneness with the life of their Lord (Lk. 18 v 18-23) because they offer him much less than their loving Father requires (1 Jn. 1 v 5-10).
Sin and self-conscious people who believe in God but do not know Him have no assured hope (Heb. 11 v 1-2). They fear suffering and losing their salvation. They have insecure, death-fearing lives that are misled and undermined by their accusing, antichrist, spiritual guide (Rev. 1 v 20, 12 v 9-12).
The aim of God’s Ten Commandments is not to condemn the disobedient to hell but make them realise their godless situation is hopeless (Acts 9 v 1-6, Rom. 7 v 22-24, Heb. 4 v 11-16). The things that are too difficult for people to change are made possible by the love of Jesus. He gave up his holy abode for a stable that we might be saved (Lk. 18 v 24-30, Heb. 11 v 6).
There is no self-determined way you can be changed and saved (Is. 55 v 6-13, Jn. 14 v 6, 1 Cor. 2 v 9-16, Col. 3 v 1-10, Heb. 10 v 19-22). You will not find God in any holy place that people reverence (Lk. 21 v 1-9).
God observes the heart (Rom. 10 v 10, Jas. 4 v 8-10): religious observances, sacrificial acts or pilgrimages at best show Him you seek to know His will (Php. 3 v 4-16). If you just seek spiritual experiences (Gen. 3 v 6-7, 22-24) you will gain a false spirit (Rev. 1 v 20, 2 & 3) and be disowned by Jesus (Mt. 7 v 15-23).
The unrepentant who pursue evil thoughts have to deliberately sear their god consciousness (Ps. 2, Jer. 39 v 5-9). Those who distain ‘the Lamb of God’ (Ex. 12 v 5-20, Lk. 22 v 20, Rom. 6 v 3-18, 8 v 1-13, 1 Cor. 11 v 23-27) will not be redeemed from the angel of death (Ex. 12 v 29-30, Jer. 34 v 18-20, Lk. 16 v 22).
You must offer up your dying life in exchange for his eternal life now. Choose you this day whom you will serve (Deut. 30 v 10-20, Josh. 24 v 15)? The Law of Life (Lk. 10 v 25-28) or the Law of sin and death (Gal. 3 v 5-14).
Repentance is life changing (Lk. 19 v 1-10, Acts 2 v 37-43, 10 v 30-44, Rom. 8 v 14-31, Eph. 2 v 4-18, 2 Cor. 5 v 17). You leave your old existence and start a new life as one with the lover of your soul by surrendering your dying life to death (Heb. 10 v 8-18, 11 v 4) with Jesus’ humanity (1 Cor. 6 v 17-20, Gal. 3 v 19-24). After your old body dies you will inherit a new body like his (1 Cor. 15 v 50, Php. 1 v 6-10).
The gift of righteousness by faith is confirmed or assure by what follows (Heb. 11 v 1, 6, Jas. 1 v 2-8). A Christian’s new life is born of the faith of Abraham (Jn. 8 v 39, Gal. 3 v 14, 26-29). In confirmation of your genuine or proven faith in him you will receive the same indwelling Spirit of life of Christ Jesus (Gen. 2 v 24, Rom. 8 v 11-17, 12 v 1-3, Php. 3 v 8-16). When he has separate the ‘chaff from the wheat; the dross from the silver’ (Lk. 3 v 16-17), he will present you to your Holy Father in heaven (Lk. 3 v 22, Acts 2 v 1-4).
In our Father’s ‘house’ the whole atmosphere is saturated with His love. It is like floating in a golden sea. It is so wonderful that you will want to rest in it forever and ever. Of course there are even more wonderful and exciting experiences to come, but there is no worry. We will get there in the end (Php. 1 v 6, 3 v 9-16).
All are guilty (Job 19 v 25-28, Rom. 7 v 23-25, 8 v 1-8) but not all repent (Eph. 2 v 1-18). Those who do not confess they are sinners and their self-justified and powered lives will die are beyond saving (Ezk. 18 v 23-32, Mt. 12 v 31-35, 16 v 4, Rom. 10 v 6-13). Pride does not just stop the guilty from repenting but makes them hate God’s will, and attack and kill His messengers (Mt. 21 v 22-27, 45-46, Acts 7 v 51-58). Such self-survivalists are death fearing legalists (Heb. 2 v 14-18) who pretend to be good yet continually fail (Rom. 7 v 14-25).
Religious practices are for those who excuse their sin and self-conscious lives (Mt. 9 v 16-17, Lk. 18 v 9-14, Acts 9 v 1-6) and ignore his prompts (Heb. 4 v 7-16, 1 Jn. 1 v 7-10). The half-hearted and double minded love reading about such wonderfully changed lives but they remain stuck in limbo (Jas. 4 v 1-12) because they do not want to change. They want a spirit that will revitalise their old static lives.
They are the friends of the Bride of Christ (Ps. 45 v 14), who have some Bible knowledge (Zech. 4 v 11, Rev. 11 v 4) but wait till the last minute to decide to leave or to stay (Mt. 25 v 9). Half leave it too late. Without the demonstration of the new life and gifts bestowed by God’s Holy Spirit (Jn. 16 v 8-11, Rev. 2 v 16-17) the worldly only see such watered down, self-centred believers as frauds (2 Pt. 2 v 15-22).
Wake up (Ex. 12 v 12, Mt. 24 v 42 51, 1 Thess. 5 v 1-5, Rev. 3 v 3)! It is harvest time: the Jews are back in their God-given land (Lk. 21 v 28-33). The Book of Revelation warns the churches about what will happen any day soon (Mt. 13 v 30, 25 v 10-13). Those in bondage to worldliness will be cast into outer darkness (Gal. 4 v 28-30). There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth (Mt. 24 v 42-51).
The self-centred are guided and justified by an inner spirit or alter ego as their god or alternative source of light and wisdom (Jn. 10 v 9-38, Acts 9 v 1-6). It leads them into disobeying God the Father’s will and sinning against self and others (Rev. 1 v 4, 20, 12 v 7-12).
Instead of asking His Holy Spirit to explain where they are wrong the self-righteous tell Him that He is a liar (Mt. 12 v 30-37, Acts 10 v 13-20, Jas. 4 v 1-12, 1 Jn. 1 v 5-10). They do not change because they think they do not deserve to go to hell for eternity (Is. 6 v 6-7). When Jesus warns them (Mt. 16 v 1-12) and proves they are wrong they want to kill him.
Jesus’ humanity has died for our treason. Those who accept their corrupted human life must die (Gen. 2 v 17) and bury it into his death through water will rise again with his life by the power of his Holy Spirit (Acts 2 v 37-38, 19 v 1-7, Rom. 6 v 14, Heb. 4). Now as a man and God he rules over all the Father’s creation (Heb. 2 v 5-15).
He who could not be exalted any higher (Php. 2 v 5-16) became as low as you are in order that you could be made as righteous as he is and be acceptable to our Father forever. Not as an Elohim but the same person with a new more durable body (Job. 19 v 25-29, Lk. 3 v 38, Jn. 20 v 20-29, Rom. 7 v 24-25, 1 Cor. 15 v 45-53, Eph. 4 v 22-24).
He sanctifies us by putting Jesus’ thinking and will into our hearts (Heb. 8 v 10-12). As our eternal Priest Jesus makes us acceptable to our perfect Father (Heb. 9 v 28) to the extent that we can rest in His presence (Heb. 12 v 23-29). There is no fear; His perfect love casts out all fear.
Jesus poured out life, by one blood sacrifice wash us to keep us free from sin forever (Jn. 13 v 7-10, Heb. 7 v 25, 9 v 13-28, Rev. 7 v 14-17). His human death annuls your unworthiness (Php. 2 v 5-13, 1 Tim. 1 v 9-10). Those who love and accept him as their new Lord will rise again with his sinless life (1 Cor. 6 v 14-20, Eph. 1 v 6-14). Salvation or the promise of a new life is just a prayer away (Lk. 23 v 40-43).
Those who seek to know God as their Father must freely believe and accept His love before they receive Him (Heb. 11 v 6, Jas. 4 v 1-12). The reality of His love is then received as a gift that is experienced through His omnipresent Holy Spirit (Heb. 11 v 1). Those who bump into Jesus, before or even as they die (Ezk. 18 v 26-32) lose their fear of death. They are never the same again (Lk. 8 v 46-48).
Only though our personal relationship with Jesus Christ (Col. 1 v 13-23), as our Lord and Saviour, can we have oneness with the Holy Spirit and our heavenly Father (Lk. 3 v 16-17, Jn. 3 v 29-36, 14 v 16, 16-23). Only those who surrender their self-conscious, sin conscious, dying life to death with Jesus’ humanity can inherit God’s holy eternal life.
Salvation does not depend on you obeying and loving God but on Him choosing you. He uses your reaction to others and the ups and downs of this troubled life to determine not how good or bad you are but whether you are saveable. Many of those He chooses are not based on how good they are but on whether they are ready to repentant. Those who think they are good and do not need saving commit the unforgiveable sin (Mt. 12 v 30-32).
Repentance is life changing (Lk. 19 v 1-10, Acts 2 v 37-43, 10 v 30-44, Rom. 8 v 14-31, Eph. 2 v 4-18, 2 Cor. 5 v 17). The unrepentant who opt out of school early through escapism, intoxication, drugs, abortion or self-abortion (suicide) will have very troubled lives and a much more terrible, inescapable future.
As at the time of Noah and Lot (2 Pt. 2 v 5-9) God’s grace warns them but most ignore God’s warnings and waste the time of grace that He always gives before they are cut off from the light (Lk. 10 v 12-16, 2 Pt. 2 v 5-15, Rev. 2 v 5). School only seems to last forever. People who think things change slowly do not repent for their wasted life until it is about to end.
The two thousand years of the Age of the Gentiles is over. Jesus’ Gentile Church, with its fixed number of souls that make up the Bride of Christ is nearly complete (Lk. 21 v 24, Jn. 10 v 28, 21 v 8-11). When the full number is reached she will leave very suddenly (1 Cor. 15 v 49-52). Half of her fellow travellers wake up too late (1 Thess. 5 v 2, Rev. 3 v 3).
Why is it that many of ideas shared on the wise and foolish virgins are written by those who have not read what is says? In Matthew 25 the friends of the Bride are not engaged to Christ (Ps. 45 v 13-15). He does not know them and they do not love and know him (Mt. 25 v 12).
All the friends of the Bride have not committed their lives to anyone as their Lord and Saviour (Jas. 2 v 17-26). They know something about Christ from the Holy Spirit inspired wisdom or oil (Mt. 25 v 7-8) poured out by God’s friends (Zech. 4 v 11-14, Lk. 16 v 27-31, 24 v 44, Eph. 4 v 7, 5 v 23-27, Rev. 11 v 4-13).
They all have oil in their lamps but the Bride and Groom are 6 hour late. They wake up at midnight to trim the wicks and raise their lights but their oil is too low (Mt. 25 v 8).
The ‘wise’ or ‘prudent’ (phronimos) have brought their near empty oil ‘vessels’ with them just in case (Mt. 25 v 4, Rom. 12 v 16, Rev. 11 v 4-13). In that last 10 minutes their Bible knowledge is just enough to make them acceptable (Lk. 18 v 13-17) but not enough to share it (Jn. 21 v 7-11). So the imprudent, who do not know enough about who Jesus is, do not make their minds up till it is too late.
Not all those anointed with oil are saved (2 Kg. 9 v 3, 10 v 31, Mt. 25 v 8-12, Jn. 11 v 49-51, 1 Pt. 2 v 5-8). Those who just seek spiritual experiences are not holy but self-centred and indulgent (Deut. 18 v 9-14).
An anointing from a spirit is not the same as receiving Jesus’ life within you and becoming a temple of the Holy Spirit (Jn. 14 v 17-24, Rom. 8 v 9, 1 Cor. 3 v 16-17, 6 v 19, Eph. 1 v 13, Col. 2 v 3-17). The self-justified (Mt. 7 v 21-23) who do not commit their life to him before they die are still as self-willed as Adam was (Lk. 18 v 17-27, Rom. 8 v 4-10).
Saul’s reign ceased after two years when God removed his anointing and sought another who would serve His will with all of his heart (1 Sam. 13 v 13-14, 15 v 23, 16 v 13-14, 1 Kg. 14 v 8). Saul continued to rule but under the anointing of a perverse, antichrist spirit (1 Sam. 16 v 15, 18 v 10-11, 20 v 32-33, 22 v 17, 28 v 6-7).
God’s will and purpose is to surround Himself with children born of His life. The greatest spiritual obstacle is man’s self-defensive religion. Those who fear judgement and death are still under Satan’s curse (Rom. 7 v 24, Gal. 3 v 10-14) and in terrible danger (Eph. 5 v 6-17). Those who draw back (Heb. 10 v 38-39) are not just snuffed out but share in their demon’s fate (Ezk. 28 v 15-19).
Those who surrender their wilful lives to God’s Holy Spirit, like Abel, Jacob and David are comforted as children of God. They are set free from sin (Num. 23 v 8, 19-24) but those who turn away from God’s warnings become cursed (2 Pt. 2 v 9-22).
Many believe in Jesus but do not act by faith on his promise (Heb. 4 v 16, Jas. 4 v 3-10, Jude 5) so they do not receive his new life (Heb. 11 v 1, 6, 12 v 9, 22-29). They have teachers, who do not believe or even know the truth, who preach that self-love without God’s laws is good (Heb. 12 v 5-17).
Again and again under the Old Covenant religious people believed the prophets who said what they wanted to hear (Ex. 32 v 1-6, 21-25, 1 Kg. 22 v 17-25). They rejected those who called them to return to God’s will to save them from their self-saving godless, sin and death ruled lives (Jer. 42 v 9-14, 44 v 16-27).
As a result they are cursed (Deut. 31 v 26-30). They and the nation they serve become enslaved to their pagan enemies (Deut. 27 v 14-26, 28 v 15, 45-48) and bow to their cursed practices (Lev. 20-13, Deut. 22 v 5). When the number of Bible believers in a church becomes less than a tolerable amount they are snuffed out (Gen. 18 v 32, Ps. 51, Rev. 2 & 3). Only a few souls are saved from God’s wrath (Lk. 13 v 23, 1 Pt. 4 v 7-18, Jude 23).
What must you do to be saved (Micah 6 v 5-16, Acts 16 v 30-34)? Revival requires repentance with fear, trembling and tears before you receive the joyful gift of a new life centred on Christ,
Under the New Covenant man’s old way of life must be cut away before the new can be revealed (1 Cor. 10 v 1-13, Heb. 4 v 10-16). Those too attached to this world will turn back at the last minute (Gen. 19 v 14, 23-26): there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth (Mt. 24 v 44, 51).
Today worldly people, who reject God’s call to seek His will, want and believe for a religious revival that will save their insecure world from self-destruction. They want a saviour to save and bless their godless lives (Jas. 1 v 10-11).
