Humans do not exist in the material world, nor the spiritual, but as a soul, in their mind. Each has a physical life and a spiritual life: they are not satisfied with physical food alone (Mt. 4 v 4, 1 Cor. 10 v 3-4). They are aware of the dangers to their physical life but spiritually they are naive and vulnerable.
Originally man’s union with God’s in-breathed Spirit was central to His existence (Gen. 2 v 9, Rev. 2 v 7). He gave him access to God’s help and advice. The purpose of his existence was to love, know, learn from and obey God as his Father. His future position is as that of Jesus: the intermediary between the infinite Father and His finite creations (Col. 1 v 12-22, 2 v 6-17).
The first man called Adam was warned that if he decided God’s words were false and fed off other sources of wisdom as if true he would automatically be cut off from God’s holy, uncontaminated life forever (Mt. 12 v 31-34, Jn. 8 v 38). He knowingly did it (1 Tim. 2 v 14) so God’s physical presence withdrew.
Only when separated from God’s kingdom (Jn. 18 v 36, Col. 1 v 13-19, 2 Tim. 4 v 18) in their own independent domain are people free to choose to love, honour and obey based solely on faith in Him and His words. This is not possible during the Millennium so none are saved until the end (Rev. 20 v 3).
Our independent life on earth is not inherently wicked but swings from good to evil depending on whether we love and accept our Father’s purpose. If like Adam we love and seek to establish our own kingdom on earth (Ezk. 18 v 20-23, 1 Jn. 2 v 12-17) our whole environment becomes ruled by death until Jesus reigns as our King (Rom. 8 v 20-25).
He can do anything but does not do anything without a purpose. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth by His great power (Gen. 1 v 1, Jn. 1 v 1-3) out of the desire to share His love with others (Jn. 1 v 9-13, 3 v 16-21). The purpose is to give a purpose to doing even greater works in a limitless future. God the Father wants children to teach how to do everything beyond anything we can imagine.
Without an act of faith in His purpose it is impossible to please God (Lk. 16 v 29-31, Jn. 8 v 32-47, 12 v 9-11, 37, Rom. 9 v 8-13, Jas. 1 v 2-7). Faith is not based on proof but proof follows faith (Heb. 11 v 1-6). The kingdom of God does not appear before you: it appears as it is received within you (Lk. 17 v 20-21, Jn. 14 v 12-17, 1 Cor. 3 v 11-16).
There is a third kingdom that seeks to defeat the Father’s plan and therefore debase us. It’s lord is the author of lying and death (Mt. 12 v 33-37, Jn. 8 v 41-45). As Satan, our adversary, it uses seduction and lies to lure the naive, who question God’s purpose, into its booby-trap. It uses fear to make them serve It’s purpose which is to take over God’s creation as its king (Is. 14 v 12-19, Mt. 4 v 8-10).
God’s plan is based on the very simple principle: love the Lord your God and love others as you are loved (Lk. 17 v 3-4, 1 J v 14-17). So why does it seem so complicated? Because self-loving people have conjured every unfounded idea they can muster to do the opposite (Rom. 1 v 17-23, 3 v 10-26).
Our magnificent cosmos is entropic. God’s material creation is not designed to last forever. When it has fulfilled its purpose He will bin it (2 Pt. 3 v 9-16). The Sun shrinks 0.1 % every 100 years. If it was lit 1,000,000 years ago the earth would have evaporated. The mass extinction events show life on earth is a temporary blip that is drawing to a close. The DNA of the whole human race is descended from one family about 10,000 years ago. This is a scientific fact that the godless hide from at their peril.
From birth human nature depends on the love and support of others (1 Cor. 13). All who reject His law of love (Is. 55 v 6-13, 1 Cor. 3 v 18-21) will be cut off from His presence and provision forever. Ambitious people with their own short lived purpose have lives that turn to dust (1 Kg. 3 v 9-14, Prov. 28 v 26).
Adam was given authority over creation (Lk. 8 v 24-25) but no power so God made an invisible host of powerful servants in various ranks to aid and protect His children (Deut. 28 v 1-14, 2 Kg. 19 v 20, 33-35, Mt. 26 v 53-54). A life sustained by God’s power is fear-free (Ps. 18, Is. 65 v 14-25).
Self-love is the opposite of true-love. Those who reject His love and purpose have to ‘recharge’ their batteries from the ‘batteries of others. The idea of being free to be me, as my own god, is to the cost of others. They follow Satan’s/Darwin’s gospel based on a pyramidal food chain (Gen. 3 v 4-5, 6 v 11-13, Ezra. 8 v 22). They live off the lives of those they climb over.
Survival of the fittest is unsustainable so becomes self-destructive. Self-sustained humans are not immortal: they are predestined to die. Death and the fear of death invade everything (Rom. 8 v 20-23, Rev. 6 v 2-17). Those trapped and enslaved have hopeless and futile lives. They think death and destruction is the only way out.
When people with God given free will do whatever they like (Deut. 28 v 15-68, 2 Chr. 30 to 36) God does not interfere until He is asked to (Mt. 7 v 7, 9 v 27-29, 13 v 24-30) or until the chaos becomes catastrophic (Gen. 11 v 6-8).
All Adam’s descendants are faced with the same test: to seek and be guided by God’s Tree of Life and Love as one of His children or do the opposite and serve the lord who hates and rules by fear in a ‘dog eat dog’ world (Gal. 5 v 13-24). Its seductive Tree of Good and Evil (Gen. 3 v 6), like a free gift advert, only gives out of self-interest with the aim of taking much more. Lies and Evil are presented as good so the truth and good are replaced with evil (Is. 5 v 20-24, Lk. 22 v 3-6).
Governments that seek to establish their godless kingdoms are automatically invaded and taken over by Satan. Potential sons of God are drained of strength and free will. They are reduced to a numbered, disposable item as with death camps and algorithms (Rev. 9 v 20-21, 14 v 10-12). Artificial intelligence is artificial. It gives the answers its programmers want.
It justifies annulling the individual’s free will so they will walk passively from a dream world into Satan’s abattoir. This most powerful, god-like, covering or overseeing spirit (Ezk. 28 v 12-19) was called Lucifer, as the first light made on day one (Is. 14 v 12). Before God made us as powerless creatures He had no use for powerful servants (Heb. 1 v 14, Rev. 19 v 10).
As the first and most magnificent created being, who oversaw the waking up of the universe, it thought it should rule over God’s creation. When it saw Adam it refused to serve such a pathetic being as a man (Heb. 2 v 5-15). It rebelled, set up its own kingdom and persuaded one third of the angelic host to join it (Rev. 12 v 3-4).
Within 40 days of being free to choose (Num. 14 v 34-37, Lk. 4 v 1-4) Adam decided to please himself and do whatever he thought was good so he accepted the guidance of the lying, anti-God spirit called Satan. Satan’s gospel is: “You can change God’s words into whatever you think is good for you. If you do what you think is good you will not die but become an immortal” (Gen. 3 v 4-5: but in Satan’s bankrupt kingdom (Rom. 5 v 21).
When Adam also ditched God’s love in favour of Satan’s self-glorifying purpose God’s plan was seemingly ruined and Satan became undefeatable. However God’s plan included the defeat of Satan (Eph. 1 v 4, 1 Pt. 1 v 18-21). From the day Satan launched its foolproof plan to rob God of His creation (Is. 14 v 12-15) it was predestined to fail (Lk. 10 v 17-22). There is no liable alternative to God’s eternal, love powered purpose.
The state of the human race is in rebellion and defiant of its owner (Lk. 20 v 9-18). They want to whatever they like (Gen. 11 v 6) so love is replaced with self-centred strife. Disunity, disorder and the fear of death reigns.
We are heading for a new world order with one amalgamated religion except who will be its supreme god-like leader (Rev. 14). It will only be unified in worshipping mankind’s version of God that is not a life giving creator but a life-threatening one that you have to appease.
It allows you to do whatever you think is good for you providing you bow to it as your god (Gen. 2 v 16-17, 3 v 4-7, Lk. 4 v 4-8). But the Accuser you pay to drop your case is not the Judge (Rev. 12 v 10). It cannot save those who do are predestined to die and suffer eternal anguish (Is. 14 v 4-17, Lk. 16 v 13-25, Rev. 13 v 4, 18 v 4-10).
It is the opposite of the true Father-God who loves and gives a new eternal life to all who love His promised Saviour as their redeemer. God is omniscient: His tests of man’s obedience do not change with every wind of fashion (Job 19 v Eph. 4 v 12-16).
Those who pursue their own plan remain incompatible with God (Is. 55 v 6-9, Rom. 8 v 5-9). Their religion is an attempt to save their self-centred life (1 Jn. 1 v 5-10) by manipulating God’s words (Lk. 10 v 29, 13 v 11-17). They forget their tenure is only on a lifetime lease.
They compromise between being good or bad by hiding their sins and weaknesses under a facade of good works (Gen. 3 v 11-13, Mt. 23 v 28-35, Jn. 9 v 16-34). Their religious rights lawyers justify their free will to do as they please in their independent kingdom by imposing endless laws.
The self-justified believe the lie of their religious spirits. Gnostics think one day they will evolve into angels playing harps in the clouds. They do not progress into immortals but become carnal degenerates (Rom. 1 v 16-32).
Our inherited, independent, God-defying life is guilty of unpardonable rebellion (Mt. 22 v 4-7. Lk. 20 v 9-20). It cannot be forgiven. Only those whose sin is covered by Jesus dying in their place (Jn. 1 v 10-14, 29-32, Heb. 9 v 22-28) will gain his holy resurrected life (Heb. 10 v 14-25).
Salvation is based solely on your acceptance of His loving purpose and your attitude to Jesus as your Lord and Saviour (Ps. 86 v 5-13, Eph. 2 v 4-10, 3 v 20, 1 Pt. 1 v 2 v 1-8). Finding God is humbling but very exciting.
Satan’s self-justifying and glorifying gospel (Mt. 7 v 20-29) is not just a placebo for the lost but a poisonous medicine that makes their mortal condition terminal. Those who gain a knowledge of God’s grace but reject it are doomed (Lk. 16 v 22-31, Heb. 10 v 26-31, 2 Pt. 2).
The world is now poised on the brink of atomic self-annihilation. Not even Satan wants creation to descend into its original formless chaos as a ‘lake of fire’.
The defiant are not regenerate. Even their ‘good’ works generate death and evil (Ezra 8 v 22). They boast of saving the climate and ecology that their very nature is destroying. They have pointless, futile lives that descend into depravity and eternal darkness.
When god-like supermen choose to be independent of His life and provision (Gen. 3 v 5, Is. 14 v 12-17) He must accept their free will and withdraw His restraint of evil (Gen. 6 v 11-13, 2 Thess. 2 v 4-12). When He no longer sustains it all descends into chaos and death reigns (Jude 15-25).
The Father of all life does not want anyone to die (Mt. 18 v 11-14, 1 Tim. 2 v 4-6) the essence of His nature is love. His unfathomable love must offer a way for undecided to repent before they die regardless of the cost to self.
God so loved the lost that He sent Jesus to die as a human for our sin in our place (Gen. 15 v 12-17, 22 v 15-18, Heb. 6 v 12-20). When the godless life we have inherited dies those promised, as in ‘marriage covenant’, to Christ (Eph. 1 v 13-23) will be joined to his Father’s family life (Acts 2 v 36-40, Rom. 5 v 17-21 to 7 v 4, Col. 2 v 2-19). His promised new man would fulfil the Holy Spirit’s tests of holiness (Gen. 3 v 14-15, Lk. 4 v 1, 13, 22 v 53, Jn. 10 v 17-18).
All need to repent for only God the Father is rich enough to support them in His home for an extravagant eternity (Jn. 14 v 1-3). Even life on earth can only flourish under God’s protection and law of love (Deut. 29 v 9, 19-26, Lk. 10 v 25-37).
God’s Second Adam would be a human descended from the first Adam’s God-breathed life from before he sinned (Heb. 2 v 14-18). He was conceived by a virgin through God’s breath of life (Gen. 2 v 7, Lk. 1 v 26-35) as stated in 1 Timothy 2 v 12-15.
It should read: Woman was formed from Adam before he sinned. He was not deceived but she was. She shared in her husband’s (X+Y) fallen nature (Gen. 3 v 6-7) but nevertheless she passed on Adam’s pre-fall life (X+X) directly from woman to woman to Mary: Lk. 1 v 35-56) through her still God-related nucleus of life (Gen. 3 v 20, Rev. 12 v 4-5). Eve did not die because she had disobeyed her husband, not God. Adam could have forgiven her (Num. 30 v 6-8).
So women should rest securely in God’s love and faith with an untroubled mind. Women are saved by faith in the new man born by a woman (Heb. 1 v 6, 2 v 6-18, 5 v 7); not by childbearing in general. This Saviour named Jesus is fully human and fully related to the Father: he is truly God and truly human (Php. 2 v 5-16).
All who are sorry for their sin and want to turn back the Father’s provision and to accept and obey His words as true (Mt. 6 v 9-32) before they die, can be saved by making a covenant to love, honour and obey God’s second Adam (Gal. 3 v 13-18, Heb. 6 v 11-20). Those who do not will be destitute (1 Jn. 5 v 16).
The first Adam’s descendants inherit his mortal nature so only those joined to Jesus’ death-to-self (Lk. 22 v 42-45) can be joined to his immortal, resurrected life (Rom. 6). The insincere self-preserving will not make it (1 Cor. 11 v 26-32).
The self-excusing religions of uncommitted Christians (Mt. 25 v 1, Jas. 1 v 5-8, 4 v 4-12) try to appease both God and Satan (Rev. 2 & 3). They have one foot on the rescue boat and the other foot still stuck on the sinking ship which contains their treasures (Ezk. 18 v 26-32, Joel 3 v 14, Lk. 12 v 31-34, 18 v 24, 28-30, 1 Tim. 6 v 7). Those who hesitate will flounder.
In the very act of illegally taking authority over the life of God’s new, sinless man (Lk. 4 v 5-8) Satan’s authority was crushed (2 Cor. 5 v 19-21)! It assumed that Jesus as sinless man could not suffer God’s judgement of death (Gen. 2 v 17, Mt. 27 v 40). It was impossible to imagine that God’s visible person, even as the Son of Man, could ever be separated from his Holy Spirit and his Father (1 Cor. 2 v 8).
On the gallows on Mount Moriah (Gen. 22 v 2-18) Jesus died as a sin offering for our sin against the Father (Lk. 23 v 22, 2 Cor. 5 v 21). The Father turned His back on his beloved Son (Mt. 27 v 45-54). The eternal love within the Godhead divided!
The cost for our salvation could not have been greater. It should make us collapse in tears. We are not worth such a great and terrible price but God Almighty thinks we are. So how extravagant must His plan for us be (Heb. 2 & 4)? Beyond anything we can ask about or comprehend (2 Cor. 12 v 1-4, Eph. 1 v 17-23, 2 v 1-18).
Despite Satan’s delaying tactics the Father’s plan to have many sons born with His life is nearly finished (Col. 2 v Heb. 2 v 10-15, 10 v 12-22). His perfect number of born again children will be harvested at the end of the times of the Gentiles (Lk. 21 v 24, 34-36, Rom. 11 v 22-32, 1 Thess. 3 v 11-13, 4 v 13-18). The earth will then be judged and not one supporter of Satan’s kingdom will survive (Mt. 13 v 30).
The redeemed will then reign with Christ on Earth as the lords of creation for a thousand years (Rom. 8 v 18-34). During the millennium reign of Christ the world destroyer called Apollyon (Is. 14 v 12-21) is chained. Christ’s presence and intervention on earth limits a person’s freedom to choose between being one with His heart, will and acts or to rebel and defy him so at its end there is a final test (Heb. 4 v 1-6, Rev. 20 v 7-15).
During the millennium reign of Christ the world destroyer called Apollyon (Is. 14 v 12-21, Rev. 20 v 1-3) is chained but people still rebel (Zech. 14 v 9, 17-19). All the terrible acts of evil are engendered by Satan but are instigated and carried out on earth by men (Jas. 1 v 13-15). It is the self-justified who present evil and deceit as good (Mt. 23 v 27-28).
God’s law is very simple: love the Lord your God first. The self-centred love self first. They want to be their own god and be free to do whatever they like in man’s kingdom on earth. They accept Satan’s advice (1 Sam. 15 v 21-23, 16 v 14-15, 1 Kg. 22 v 18-25) and become unified with its will as children of the devil (Mt. 16 v 22-23, 23 v 13-15, Jn. 8 v 44-47, Acts 13 v 10).
They are not free but become hosts to spiritual parasites (Mt. 8 v 28-31). Anti-Christ spirits need to control man’s independent kingdom or they will lose their freedom (Mt. 8 v 28-32, Lk. 4 v 34). Those who support their will knowingly adhere to a lie (Rom. 1 v 22-32, 7 v 19-25). As a result the world is crippled by self-consuming sin and illnesses.
The self-determined have a futile struggle for survival full of disappointments and pains. When they become unbearable, instead of crying to God to save them from the terrors of hell, they choose death as the way out and so are immersed in remorse and torment forever.
You arrive in this world with nothing and everything you gain from the works of that mortal nature will be left behind (Lk. 12 v 16-34, 1 Cor. 3 v 11-23). All God’s creation belongs to Him (Ps. 50 v 9-23). He lets us borrow it for a while to judge by our acts what we hide in our hearts (Mt. 15 v 11-20, Rom. 10 v 8-11, Rev. 20 v 11-15).
Adam originally had no consciousness of sin and death (Gen. 2 v 25) so trying to be good proves you are not good. Trying to survive means you know one day you will die.
God’s law is very simple: love the Lord your God first then love others as you are loved (Lk. 17 v 3-4, 1 Jh. 2 v 14-17). As Abel, Job and the Israelites practiced; if you were sorry for the things you thought and did that offended God the Father then claiming the death of the substitute that He had promised to send.
A perfect animal that was innocent of killing was sacrificed as confirmation. The priest performed daily sacrifices to cover the daily sins of the people. Jesus died as the perfect ‘lamb of God’ (Heb.7 v 27-28, 9 v 13-15). Those who sincerely repent for their offences (1 Cor. 11 v 28-32) and evoke the poured out blood of Jesus can progress beyond the repeated sacrifices into the finished work of Jesus.
Many Christians who try to establish their human holiness are try to clime the descending escalator instead of the ascending one (Ezra 8 v 21-22, Rom. 8 v 2-4, 26-39, 10 v 3-13). Those who do not progress due to a lack of faith anger God (1 Cor. 10 v 2-12, Heb. 4, Jas. 1 v 2-12).
The self-centred love their temporal life, want to be their own god and be free to do whatever they like. They accept Satan’s advice (1 Sam. 15 v 21-23, 16 v 14-15, 1 Kg. 22 v 18-25), identify with It’s will and become as children of the devil (Mt. 16 v 22-23, 23 v 13-15, Jn. 8 v 44-47, Acts 13 v 10).
They are not free but become hosts to spiritual parasites (Mt. 8 v 28-31) whose freedom depends on making people support their anti-Christ will (Rom. 1 v 22-32, 7 v 19-25). All the terrible acts of evil are engendered by Satan but most are instigated and carried out on earth by men (Jas. 1 v 13-15). They present evil and deceit as good (Mt. 23 v 27-28). As a result the world is crippled by self-consuming sin and illnesses.
The lost like Schopenhauer who look for answers to their lost state by examining their lost state will be trapped in it forever. The self-elevated do not become gods but slaves to degradation (Mt. 7 v 16-20).
The idea that humans evolved by magic from lower species is metaphysical nonsense. Species only devolve due to mutations of original DNA. Survival of the fittest does not promote the best but the version most suited to the changes in climate. As seen with the dinosaurs, Darwin’s top heavy, pyramidal food chain is heading for the mass extinction of all the advanced species.
Self-survivalist are not superior people but just live off the tier below them. Blessed are the peacemakers or in other words those who prey on others will have cursed lives. They will discover that the riches they spent their lives collecting leave them eternal poor (Mt. 6 v 19-24, Lk. 12 v 19-31, 18 v 22-27).
All who worship nature as their maker waste their futile lives trying to stop it killing them! People with hopeless aims like; climate changers, meteor deflecting, contacting life on unreachable planets, health, food and fuel concerns and economies based on ever increasing demand, have lost their raison d’etre.
Everyone recognises that the young and weak should be governed by God’s law of love but the fear for self-survival is imposed upon them in the classroom does the opposite. They are freely introduced to every form of evil through their personal electronic blinkers but the fact that only God is good is censored (Jas. 1 v 17-26).
Today the world is blinded to the fact that it is threatened by corrupted institutions, droughts, fires and floods, financial instability, plagues and epidemics, earth quakes and volcanism, fuel crisis, air and water pollution with Christian countries financed and ruled by foreign powers with strange gods as warned in Deuteronomy 28.
The Bible warnings and prophecies are based on knowledge (Heb. 11 v 10); man’s predictions are guesses based on trial and error. The rebellious who justify their own ideas on right and wrong stubbornly repeat their errors (Gen. 35 v 1-5, 2 Sam. 8 v 16, Ezra 8 v 21-23, Mt. 4 v 10).
Over 27 wars are ravaging countries and displacing millions all because the Maker’s handbook has been replaced with the ideas of metaphysical dreamers (Deut. 28). A liberator at Belsen, faced with unimaginable inhumanity, reach the horrible conclusion that anyone who accepted the teaching of a spiritual, demonised man would also do unspeakable, self-degrading evil.
Ideologies and religions that want to rule the world make all conform to their image (Rev. 17 v 1-16, 19 v 2-3) so they persecute and kill those the Father seeks to convert into Christ’s image (Jn. 9 v 20-34, 12 v 9-11, 19 v 4-8). They are either seducers like Isis as God the Mother or enforcers like her killer son Baal (2 Kg. 17 v 13-18).
The nations they dominate produce sexually obsessed people and self-centred god-like-men who are violent bullies (Gen. 3 v 5, 16). God’s order for mankind to rule over the natural world is reversed (Gen. 1 v 28-31, 3 v 17-19, 6 v 5-19). Truth is replace with falsehood and history is rewritten to hide the unpalatable truth.
History does not prove we do not change but that our fallen nature is incapable of changing. My hopes are crushed by the reality that life is full of losses, injustice, sickness, tragedy and death. My dream or virtual reality is shattered by the truth that sinful, self-centred humanity is a hopeless mess.
All humans are equally precious to our Father-God. He is the only judge of what is true so compromises with what He has judged as bad are bound to end badly (Heb. 12 v 5-11, Rev. 2 & 3). Those who accept His laws are good can be redeemed from their futile, mortal lives.
“You shall know the truth and the truth will liberate you” (Jn. 8 v 31-32). The self-justified who want to revive their mortal lives (Jn. 8 v 42-47) blind themselves to the truth live in a make-believe world fuelled with strong drink, drugs and carnal spiritual highs (Num. 25 v 1-3, 1 Cor. 11 v 18-21, 29, 12 v 1-3, Col. 2 v 18-19, Jude 8-12).
The self-justified who try to save their old nature hide their sin from God so they are not released from the consequences of their sin (Deut. 28 v 15-48, 1 Kg. 18 v 24-40, Jer. 44 v 15-27). They pretend to live in the light but they are ruled by fear and walk in darkness.
The old sinful nature cannot be saved; it must die (Rom. 8 v 36-39). You have to be reborn into Christ nature and gain a new heavenly body to live in God’s kingdom (Rom. 8 v 4-13, 1 Cor. 15 v 47-50). Holy people with spiritual airs are frauds. Only Christ is sinless.
Those who want to do it ‘my way’ have frustrated, pointless, futile lives. Their perverse, self-justified god-defying ways cut them off from God’s life and purpose. Their sin is unto death (Gen. 2 v 17). Oh wretched man! Who will save me from this pointless life of turmoil and grief (Rom. 7, Gal. 3, Heb. 6)?
We were made to become one with Christ as Children of God (Rom. 8 v 1-21). We are meant to learn to sit with Christ on the driving seat of creation (Jn. 14 v 12-23, 15 v 3-14). Like Adam we are meant to ask God’s teacher about anything we do not know (Zech 4 v 11-14, 16 v 7-15, 17 v 17-23) not accept the self-elevating reasoning of a fraudster.
Without Christ I am unhappy and buffeted by every wind that blows away the unreal world that I weave to shield me (Gen. 3 v 8-10, Eph. 4 v 14). With him I experience a new, eternal reality that sets me free from the old man’s godless, death bound state (Num. 23 v 20-24).
Those who accept the life of God’s sinless second Adam by faith before their self-centred nature dies can be judged as righteous again (1 Cor. 15 v 47-57). They return to their Father-God’s original commandment of only trusting in Him for help and advice (Job 42 v 3-6, Jn. 14 v 6-17, Rom. 8 v 26-39).
God’s Holy Spirit exposes any sin in a person’s heart (Heb. 2, 4 & 12) and cleanses it (Acts 5 v 3-4, 9 v 1-6, Jas. 4 v 6 v 12, 1 Jn. 1 v 5-10) if you let him! Those who do not trust God’s teacher (Is. 55 v 8, 1 Cor. 2) get stuck in the desert between the old and the new life (Heb. 3 v 17-19, 11 v 1-6). Those who do not believe him for a new promised life will get nothing (Jas. 1 v 2-8).
When His chosen nation worshipped and obeyed Him all their enemies brought them gifts (Gen. 12 v 1-3, 1 Kg. 10 v 9-11, Ezra 8 v 21-22, Rom. 8 v 18-28). When they were enticed into worshipping their false gods their enemies trashed them and made them their slaves (Jer. 19 v 3-13, 39 v 1-18).
Christians should not be superior and self-glorifying but humbled by their pathetic self-centred ways (Jn. 13 v 36-38, Acts 3 v 2-12, 9 v 1-16). They should demonstrate the power of Christ’s love to set people free from their fearful self-saving lives (Rom. 5 v 8, 7 v 18-24). Too many Christian books that sell are self-centred stories about what God has done for me. Testimonies are only good if they show how wonderful and merciful God is despite the wretchedness of self (2 Cor. 11 v 18-30, Php. 3 v 4-19).
Christians who view life from their earthly perspective instead of from Jesus’ talk about how Satan’s powers are ruling their world. They only make sin and death conscious people fearful (Gal. 3, Heb. 2 v 14-15). They Jesus has taken authority over those powers.
God is in charge of everything (Dan. 4 v 34-37, 5 v 17-30, Mt. 22 v 44, Heb.10 v 12-22). It is Him who is judging the nations (Ps. 2 v 1-12). If Christians entered into His rest and sat at His footstool they would see what is happening from His perspective (Prv. 3 v 5-18, Eph. 2 v 6, 10-12, Php. 3 v 20).
The letter to the Hebrews talks about us as being schooled to be co-rulers with Christ over all our Father’s creation (Heb. 2 v 10-18) in order to enter into the finished work of Christ and learn to sit with him as kings and priest (Heb. 4 v 2-3, 11-16, 6 v 1, 12 v 5-6). This is not a suggestion but an order (Heb. 12 v 22-29).
All who repent and cry to Jesus for mercy are cleansed of the power sin has over them (1 Jn. 3 v 8-24). The humble who know they are weak and not gods are not just saved from eternal suffering but transformed by Jesus’ love and made acceptable to the Father as His children (1 Cor. 1 v 24-31, 2 Cor. 12 v 9-10).
The fire of God (Mt. 3 v 11) marks they are ready to do the things of God, not as gods but as if God on earth for He alone deserves and can wear that glory (Ex. 3 v 11, 7 v 1-5, 1 Kg. 18 v 36-38, Acts 2 v 3, 9 v 3, 15). If you do not let the Holy Spirit change your thinking into that of Christ (Jn. 16 v 12-15, Rom. 12 v 1-2, 1 Cor. 2 v 2-16, 2 Cor. 4 v 16, Eph. 4 v 23, Col. 3 v 1-17, Heb. 3 v 1-17) you will remain deceived, fearful and wretched.
Trust and obey Christ via his Holy Spirit (Heb. 6 v 11-18, Col. 1 v 9-22) and you will walk as a son of God (Col. 2 v 6-19). Many religious people are unholy because they invest their faith in the prompts of any spiritual superstition or occult revelation (Deut. 13, 18 v 9-22) yet they have no faith in God’s words.
If they try to get rid of their spiritual obsessions using human therapies their influence will be compounded and the stronghold will become near impossible to shift (Mt. 12 v 43-45, 17 v 16-21). Too many of those who mess about with Satan find their children are plagued by strange fears and nasty voices. Read the following post on ‘Pulling Down the Strongholds of the Mind’ (2 Cor. 10 v 3-7).
Christians who pray “deliver us from evil” (1 Chr. 29 v 9-18, Mt. 6 v 13) are largely ignorant of Satan’s devices (2 Cor. 2 v 11). To be a holy people fit to house His holy name (Jn. 16 v 33) we must become overcomers by faith in Jesus’ words (Rom. 12 v 21, 1 Jn. 5 v 4-5, Rev. 2 v 7, 17, 26, 3 v 12, 21).
When gross darkness covers the earth the Lord God turns on the light (Is. 60 v 2, Jn. 1 v 3-17, 29, 3 v 15-21).
