INFERENCES AND ASSUMPTIONS

 

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IN THIS WORLD OF DARKNESS AND DEATH

THAT MEN LIVE IN, ON THIS EARTH,

IT IS POSSIBLE TO BE TAKEN OUT BY GOD

AND SO WHILE LIVING HERE PHYSICALLY

WE SPIRITUALLY LIVE IN THE HEAVENS WITH GOD AND CHRIST.

OUR SOURCE IS GOD’S TRUTH TO BE TAUGHT BY GOD HIMSELF.

THERE IS A ROCK THAT ALONE IS GOD’S TRUTH

WITH NOTHING ELSE ALLOWED TO BE THERE.

A ROCK THAT RISES OUT FROM THE RIVER OF LIFE,

                 IN WHICH WE ARE TO BE,

IN ORDER TO GROW UP INTO TREES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.

 

 

THE PREFACE:

 

INFERENCES AND ASSUMPTIONS: THAT HAVE CAUSED IMPROVISATION.

 

The following material is to the church, because of the conniving, manipulating INFERENCES AND ASSUMPTIONS by men of God’s Word.

God is a God of great fullness and intends that believers are to know His Fullness and to be fully satisfied, and the church be the manifold wisdom of God to Principalities and Powers.   Ephesians 3: 14-19    Ephesians 3: 10-12

 

Interpretations and assumptions of Scripture have hindered God’s Word and kept mysteries unexplained. 

The Reformation came and went, Bible and church ‘Heroes’ came and went, each bringing forth fragments of Truth.  However the cross remains the symbol of the Trinity, and the centralization of Jesus as God.

It is only the Truth, taught by God the Father as The Spirit of Truth that sets us free, which continually expands The Word of God and deepens one’s fellowship with God and Christ. 

Revelation 3: 14-21     John 16: 13-15     1 John 1: 3

The following scriptures are the ammunition of The Trinity Doctrine that requires defusing, making its powder wet, because to be trusting anyone else but God the Father as God alone will have serious eternal consequences not of blessing but of condemnation.

The following studies require the mind of the reader to clearly define and keep in mind that -

when God is spoken of, it is speaking of the Father who is the One True God, according to His Son.

John 17: 3    1 Corinthians 8: 6    Ephesians 1: 17

 

 

The scriptures under discussion in order,

 

John 1: 1-2    Revelation 1: 8    Revelation 22: 13    Colossians 1: 19  &  2: 9    John 2: 19    John 10: 18

 

Hebrews 1: 8-10    John 14: 9    John 20: 28    John 10: 25-38    Isaiah 9: 6-7

 

Genesis Chapters 1 & 2    Proverbs 8: 22-36    Colossians 1: 15-17    Hebrews 1: 2

 

Hebrews 1: 6    Romans 9: 3-5    1 Corinthians 12: 13

 

The Scriptures used.

N.I.V.,  K.J.V.

The Hebrew Scriptures/ English translation

The Tanakh

 

 

 

SCRIPTURAL IDENTIFICATION:

John 1: 1-2  In the beginning was The Word.  The Word was with God and The Word was God.  He was WITH GOD in the beginning.

 

THE WRONG INFERENCES AND ASSUMPTIONS: 

That Jesus is God because it is stated that he who is the Word of God, WAS GOD: a basis for the Trinity.

 

THE TRUTH:

John 1: 1-2  speaks of TWO Persons.  One is named The Word, the other is named GOD.  They are WITH EACH OTHER in complete communion and fellowship.  God is THE HEAD OF CHRIST and thus the Head of The Word.

1 Corinthians 11:3.

 

We believe that The Word is Jesus Christ the Son of God, but NOT in the position of GOD.

John 1: 1

This verse glorifies the one we know as The Word as to his COMPLETE ONENESS WITH GOD.  The Spirit of God, by John the writer, was AUTHENTICATING the one who was called The Word, Jesus, as to his relationship and authority with God.

This verse sets out the distinct, unique differences of the one we know as The Word of God, from the angels, mankind and God.

This verse reveals the importance and effect of GOD’S WORD SPOKEN BY THE WORD.

John 1: 1 calls us to recognize what THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD HAS TO SAY AS TO HOW, WHEN AND WHY HE, THE WORD, WAS CREATED

 

HOW THE WORD CAME INTO BEING.

Proverbs 8: 22-31  God in his Wisdom SPOKE THE WORD into being.  This was HIS NAME.  The Word was created, appointed, chosen, and loved by God BEFORE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD FOR HIS SPECIAL PURPOSES.

1 Peter 1: 20

 

WHY IS THE WORD HIS NAME?   Because GOD SPOKE HIM INTO EXISTENCE.

God created The Word in His Image and Likeness, and Radiance, the exact representation of His Being.  He was God’s Work.

 

WHEN THE WORD CAME INTO BEING:

God BEFORE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD spoke him into existence.     Revelation 3: 14

Proverbs 8: 22–31 he was brought forth BY GOD SPEAKING, TO BE THE FIRST BORN of Creation. 

A God does not BRING HIMSELF INTO EXISTENCE.

The Word was with God when God set the heavens in place all by Himself and marked out The Foundations of the Earth.  THEN HE WAS THE CRAFTSMAN at His Father’s side rejoicing always in God’s presence, rejoicing in His whole world, delighting in mankind whom God had created.

 

WHY THE WORD CAME INTO BEING:

He was appointed from eternity to do a peculiar work for God in relation to man.  It was not God’s plan for Christ to be crucified.  It was not God’s original plan, purpose or need, when He created mankind; nor when Christ was chosen, by God before the creation of the world.  It was after the Fall of man that Jesus Christ came, sent by God to be the Second Adam, The Lamb of God, to fulfil God’s Plan of Man’s Salvation.

Isaiah 45: 12     1 Peter 1: 20     Ephesians 1: 9-10     1 Corinthians 15: 20-28.

 

Before Jesus came as God’s Last Word to mankind we can relate ‘The Word’ to The Angel of The Lord who had no given name such as Gabriel or Michael, but as God said of him to Moses “My Angel goes with you, listen to him and pay attention to what he says.  Do not rebel against him.  He will not forgive your rebellion since My Name is in him.”     Exodus 23: 20-25.

ANY MESSAGE THE WORD SPOKE, FOR GOD, AS THE ANGEL OF THE LORD WAS GOD’S WORD AND NO OTHER’S.

His position as the Word was that he must be listened to because there are consequences for failing to heed his Words because they are God’s Words, the expression of God Himself.

Matthew 7: 24-27     John 12: 44-50.

 

Story after story in The Old Testament, The Word would fulfil his Name and Title powerfully displaying his relationship to God as Messenger and Mediator for God.

The Message he gave, IT WAS GOD, and the messenger/THE WORD was GOD’S REPRESENTATIVE OF GOD.

 

Genesis 15:1  we see him named as The Word of God.  Genesis 16: 7-14 we see him mistaken for God.  Judges 6: 11-24 we see him preferred to God.  Exodus 3: 2-6    Job 16: 19-21 we see him as the mediator for man to God.  Genesis 48: 15-16 He was seen as a Deliverer AND CALLED A SON OF GOD.  Daniel 3: 13-30.  We see him named as The Messenger of the Covenant of GOD’S LAST WORD to mankind.  He was Wisdom from God.

Hebrews 1: 1-2     1 Corinthians 1: 31.

 

Colossians 1: 15.  THE WORD as the image of the invisible God, the First born of all creation, CONNECTS HIM TO BEING IN THE LIKENESS TO THE SONS OF MEN OF WHOM AFTER THE FALL AND THE TIMES OF NOAH, GOD SAID THAT MEN WOULD CONTINUE TO BE MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD AS GOD HAD MADE THEM.   Genesis 9: 1-17.

To be MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD does NOT make US to be God. 

 

THE COMING OF THE WORD TO MANKIND.

When God spoke The Word into the womb of Mary, he was to be The Way to The Father and to be THE FIRST BORN OF THE RESURRECTION.   1 Corinthians 15: 15-28.

Christ Jesus, God’s only begotten Son was brought from the past into the present, to continue on into the fulfilling of ALL HIS NAMES AND WORK AS THE WORD.  E.g. Jesus, the Son of Man, Saviour, The Son of God, Christ and Lord, Melchizedek, King on David’s throne.

Isaiah 9: 5-7     Daniel 7: 9-14     Daniel 10: 5-6  reveals the Glory of The Word as the Son of Man, and Revelation 1: 10-18 reveals him as Christ the head of the church, who as The Son of Man is to be seen in his continual Glory until his reigning on David’s Throne.

 

Before he reigns on David’s Throne, Christ as The Word will act and speak out THE FURY OF THE WRATH OF GOD UPON UNBLIEVERS OF THAT TIME FOR GOD, AS IF IT WILL BE GOD DOING IT.

Revelation 19: 11-21

 

The way to God BY THE WORD is for man TO CONSIDER JESUS, as The Word from God.

1 Timothy 3: 16.

 

The work of vindication by The Spirit of God was to cause the establishment of the IMPUGNED EXISTENCE OR TRUTH OR MERIT OR JUSTICE OF, which we would say is in relation to Christ making man CALL TO QUESTION, TO CHALLENGE to discover God’s Truth and God Himself through Christ, The Word.

 

THE WORD AS THE SON OF MAN AND AS CHRIST AND LORD, is the effect of being a STUMBLING STONE A THORN OF CONTENTION to all those who would be contentious of God’s New way and standards of godliness.

He is the mystery of God that is Christ in you, the hope of Glory.  The mystery that the prophets and angels longed to see, which God kept secret until the exaltation of The Word, to Christ and Lord, and then the mystery was unfolded.

 

It is through Christ’s work as The Word, as The Way, The Access, The Door, The Stone and the mystery of godliness that mankind comes to God.

What God planned, predestined and chose for men was to be holy and blameless and adopted as Sons.  This plan was made BEFORE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD.  However due to man’s fall, all of this was held over, but God made A Way and it all became operative AFTER the coming of Jesus as The Way to God The Father.  THE ONE WHO TAKES THE BELIEVER THROUGH GOD’S EXITS AND ENTRANCES IN COMING TO GOD.

John 14: 6    1 Peter 2: 6–10    John 16: 13-15    2 Corinthians 3: 17-18    Colossians 1: 24-27    1 Peter 1: 10-12    Ephesians 1: 3-14    2 Peter 1: 2    Matthew 7: 21-23    Ephesians 1: 3-14    Matthew 25: 34    Romans 8: 15- 17    Ezekiel 44: 5     Ezekiel 43: 10-12     Ephesians 2: 18-22

 

 

Christ Jesus as The Word has another Name, which is yet to be revealed to those whom he would make to be a Pillar in the Temple of HIS GOD.

He will write on them the Name of HIS GOD and he will also write on them HIS NEW NAME.  Does this appear that Jesus IS God or WAS God in the sense of the position of God?

Revelation 19:11-16    Revelation 3: 11-12

 

ISAIAH 46: 8-10   REMEMBER THIS FIX IT IN MIND AND TAKE IT TO HEART YOU REBELS I AM GOD AND THERE IS NO OTHER NONE LIKE ME.

 

 

FINAL CONSIDERATION

Before Jesus came as The Son of Man HE WAS WITH GOD, and in his work FOR GOD, he was God’s PERFECT REPRESENTATION.  It was as if HE WAS GOD and this appeared to be so because this is what God intended.

**Exodus 4: 15-16 and Exodus 7: 1-2 are examples of what The Word was for God, which was NOT uncommon for God to use this means with others apart from The Word.

Galatians 4: 15  Paul had the same thought when he said  “You welcome me as if I were the Angel of the Lord, or even Christ himself.”

We are to imitate God, be like Christ.  Does this make us God and Christ?  We do not think so.

 

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The position of God IS NOT SHARED.  See clearly God The Father and The Word, whom we know as Jesus Christ, who is one WITH GOD in His aims and purposes but always they remain as the two persons of - God The Father AND His Son, The Word.   Be warned Isaiah 22: 20-22

 

**     THE WORD:  As the Angel of The Lord WAS GOD to the faithful of Israel.

         THE WORD:  was GOD to the disciples.

In other words he conveyed what WAS GOD.

He conveyed the reality of GOD to them.  He conveyed the existence of GOD to them.

He conveyed God’s Promises and Warnings as if it WAS GOD.

The disciples last words to him were, “We believe you came from God.”

          

He was satisfactorily in God’s place.  What he said, it was believed that this was what God said, because his knowledge of God conveyed his intimate relationship with God his Father.

 

As Baptised believers, we are to and we can fellowship with God our Father, because of the Work of THE WORD, Jesus Christ, who doesn’t need to be GOD FOR US.

 

Christians who trust in Jesus AS GOD is because they don’t believe, know nor realize his work IS TO BRING MAN TO GOD who is GOD THE FATHER.

 

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SCRIPTURAL IDENTIFICATON:

Revelation 1: 8    “I am the Alpha and the Omega” says the Lord God.

Revelation 21: 5-8  He said to me ”It is done; I am the Alpha and Omega the Beginning and the End”, says the Lord God who sits on the throne.

Revelation 22: 12-15   I am the Alpha and Omega the First and the Last the Beginning and The End, is the message of God given by His Angel to John.

 

THE WRONG INFERENCES AND ASSUMPTIONS:

In Revelation 22: 12-16   It is assumed that Jesus said these words of himself, as The Alpha and Omega and therefore he is God, because this is said of God in Revelation 1: 8

This is mainly because of the ‘red writing’, which is in most Bibles today elevating the words that are said to be Jesus’ words.  In truth it is only verse 16 which are Jesus’ words, which are not lifting him up as Alpha and Omega nor The Beginning and The End.

 

THE TRUTH:

The NAME and title of the Alpha and the Omega only refers to God Himself.  The confusion does not lie in Revelation 1: 8 or 21: 3-8, as it is God who was seated on the Throne who said these words.

These verses require very careful reading as to who is saying what and about whom.

In the beginning of Revelation Chapter 1 verses 1-3, God gave Jesus revelation to show his servants what must soon take place, and it will.

Now in Revelation 22: 1–15  The Lord, the God of the Spirits of the prophets sent His angel to show His servants the NEW THINGS relating to the Eternal Kingdom that must soon take place, and it will.

Revelation 22: 7  is God’s message by His Angel and John is overcome and seeks to worship the angel.  He is told “don’t do that, worship God”, who is the Alpha and the Omega.

The angel continues with God’s message in verses 10- 15 and then in verse 16 are the words of Jesus, for the church of his coming role as King of Kings and Lord of Lords, which will come to pass before God’s New City will eventuate.

It is by God’s angel that God is referred to as Alpha and Omega.

It is Jesus’ words that refer to himself as the root and the offspring of David, the Bright Morning Star, meaning, The Son of God.  Verse 16

 

The name, Alpha and the Omega, represent the totality of all God’s Words in regard to His plans, which are expressed in His Word, which shall never pass away until it has accomplished what God has said that it would.  Neither shall He.

 

 

SCRIPTURAL IDENTIFICATION:

Revelation 22: 13   I am the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End – God said.

Revelation 1: 17 I am the First and the Last, Jesus said as Head of the church.

Isaiah 41: 1   I am the First and the Last.  God said.

 

THE WRONG INFERENCES AND ASSUMPTIONS:

Both of these titles are used to give strength to the deity of Jesus because it is combined with the Title of Alpha and Omega, stated to be God’s name and Title.

 

THE TRUTH:

It is true that both the Father and the Son are the First and the Last but only the Father is the Alpha and Omega, and the Beginning and the End.  He knows the End before the Beginning.  Revelation 1: 17    Isaiah 41: 4    Isaiah 46: 8-10

 

In Jesus testimony to John he clearly declares,  “I am the First and the Last”, but never does He testify that he is The Beginning and the End, which is related to God’s position and work as Alpha and Omega.  Revelation 22: 13

The First and the Last is the essence of any place or position throughout time. 

In Isaiah 41: 4  God himself gives understanding to this name.  He said “I the Lord – I AM GOD, with the first of them and with the last I AM HE”. 

 

He has been this through the generations from the beginning which brings Jesus into the picture as the first and the last by promising, “Lo I am with you always”, which only eventuates according to the works that Jesus can do in accordance with his God given position and authority, as Christ and Lord.

 

God the Father and the Son, by their own Spirits, will live in men in order to carry out their own work intimately to the first and the last believer revealing an I AM in their unique capacity of being ever present in every generation and century which, ‘I Am’ means.

   They work together to achieve man’s salvation from the curse of Adam and deliverance out of the Death Realm to bring a believer to Eternal Life.

 

ALL*** WILL*** BOW TO GOD       and at the NAME OF JESUS men ***SHOULD***BOW.

John 5:17    John 14: 13-28    1 Corinthians: 15: 22    1 Corinthians 8: 6    Romans 8: 10-11    Galatians 1: 1    Revelation Chap. 2 & 3    Isaiah 45: 22-24    Philippians 2: 6-11

 

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God alone is God and IS the Beginning and the End, Isaiah 46:8-10 whose Will and Power it is to begin and to end what He has begun in the realms of the earth and the heavens, who knows when He and Christ will completely fulfil all His Words in dealing with, not only the earth and mankind, but also the spiritual realms.

Acts 1: 6    Matthew 20: 20-23    1 Corinthians 15: 20-28    Matthew 24: 36

 

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SCRIPTURAL IDENTIFICATIONS:

Colossians 1: 19  For God was pleased to have all His Fullness dwell in Jesus.

Colossians 2: 9   For “In Christ” all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form.

 

THE WRONG INFERENCES AND THE ASSUMPTIONS:

It is believed for God to dwell in Jesus to mean this is how God became flesh rather than God indwelt Jesus who is the Son of Man by the means of the fullness of His Spirit.  He lived in Jesus’ physical body without being that body. 

They do not understand the difference between the person of Jesus and the spiritual body of Christ called, In Christ.

These two verses are believed to be saying the same thing.

 

THE TRUTH:

The verse Colossians 1: 19 is referring to Jesus as the Son of Man.  The other verse Colossians 2: 9 is speaking of the Spiritual body of Christ which is to be In Christ, which is not speaking of the person of Christ, but of where he is the Head.   Ephesians 1: 22    Ephesians 4: 5-6

The two scriptures convey the importance and necessity for God’s Fullness, for the believer.

It is essential to understand what it means to be In Christ and who is the only One who can place us there.

 

In Colossians 1: 19 Jesus received the fullness of God at his Baptism with The Spirit of God Himself in order that God fulfil the Name of Immanuel to Jesus and for God to carry out His “Criteria of the blood” which He established in Covenant Form to Noah in Genesis 9: 5-6.

This was in order to redeem and reconcile mankind to Himself by revoking the curse on Adam and open a closed heaven, to accommodate the Holy ones who were waiting for release from Paradise, to go to heaven.

Reconciliation with God only occurs through Baptism with Holy Spirit by Christ, when as a result God will baptise the Baptised believer into the Spiritual Body of Christ i.e. to be In Christ.

Luke 3: 21-23     Matthew 1: 23     Isaiah 7: 14     Genesis 9: 5-6     Colossians 1: 19     John 3: 13     Matthew 27: 51-53     Hebrews 9: 24     Ephesians 4: 7-10     1 Corinthians 12: 13-18     2 Corinthians 5: 17     Ephesians 4: 5-6.

 

GOD’S CRITERA OF THE BLOOD:

Reconciliation with God is achieved by TWO WORKS that are to be seen in THE ONE SACRIFICE of Jesus who was a GUILT Offering and a SIN OFFERING.  These two works speak of progression, first to the cross, to Jesus as a Guilt Offering, because of man’s coupling with Adam’s sin.  BUT the believer is not out of the Death Realm and therefore is not reconciled to God and will not be until Baptised with Holy Spirit.

Isaiah 53: 10    Romans 8: 3    John 1: 29    Romans 3: 25    Galatians 4: 6    Romans 8: 10 not 11,    Colossians 1: 27 not 28,    John 1: 33-34

 

It is essential to know the work of The Sin Offering described in Romans 6: 3-14 and Colossians 2: 9-13, called THE INSTANTANEOUS SPIRITUAL PROCESS because it is only when THIS work is done that reconciliation with God is completed and the believer is IN CHRIST.  This is how we become what God had planned or predestined and chose man to be BEFORE CREATION.

1 Corinthians 12: 13-18    Ephesians 1: 3-4    2 Corinthians 5: 14-21    Colossians 1: 27 & 28    Matthew 15: 13    Romans 8: 15-17

 

It is essential to be Baptised with Holy Spirit by Christ because Jesus said, “Not to believe to be baptised, one is condemned”.  This is because they are still uncircumcised in heart and are in Death and the reconciliation with God is incomplete because unless one is In Christ, one has only the Spirit of Christ and NOT the Spirit of God the Father by whom we are Born Again.

Mark 16: 14-18    Romans 8: 10    Romans 6: 6    2 Corinthians 5: 17    John 14: 23    John 3: 3-8

 

Colossians 2: 9   it is In Christ where all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form.  The place WHERE those who are baptised with Holy Spirit BY Christ have been placed into by God Himself, where God The Father’s own Spirit is in all, over all, and through all who are in that Body because they have been made TO DRINK OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD and He has testified, through the believer,  “Jesus is Lord.”

Ephesians 4: 5-6    1 Corinthians 12: 3–18    John 15: 26    Romans 10: 9

 

The requirement of God’s Fullness in Sons of God is in order for God to be healer, deliverer, provider, protector and comforter and to know the work of God the Father’s Seven Spirits that operate by the power of His Spirit.  All this is for those In Christ to be enabled to accomplish the Greater Things than Jesus did because they can only be accomplished by The Spirit of God in and through us, and also to partake of the promises and fullness of God’s New Covenant.

Ephesians 4: 5-6    Ephesians 3: 14-19    John 14: 12-17    Hebrews 8: 10-12    Hebrews 10: 15-18

 

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To say In Christ dwells the fullness of God is correct when in relation to the Body of Christ, into which Baptised believers are placed by God, and are said to be In Christ, in the Fullness of God’s Spirit.  But it does not mean the Person of Jesus as it does in Colossians 1: 19,  which relates to his time as The Son of Man. 

Colossians 1: 27-28     Ephesians 4: 4-6

 

Those who are unbaptised with Holy Spirit in particular will find this work of God’s fullness in man hard to understand, because they do not know the work of Baptism with Holy Spirit in them and their reconciliation is NOT Complete   Ephesians 4: 5-6

 

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SCRIPTURAL IDENTIFICATION:

John 2: 19

The Jews demanded a miraculous sign for Jesus to prove his authority for all the words he said concerning the Temple being His Father’s House.

John 2: 19   Jesus answered them “Destroy this Temple and I will raise it again in three days.”

John 2: 21   But the Temple he had spoken of was his body.

 

THE WRONG INFERENCES AND ASSUMPTIONS:

It has been assumed and given the meaning that Jesus raised himself from the Dead.

Because Jesus said, “destroy me and I will raise IT in three days.”

It was after Jesus’ resurrection that the disciples believed that The Temple Jesus spoke of was his body – but which one?    The human or the Spiritual body of Christ?    Or both.

 

THE TRUTH:

The verse holds a double meaning of great importance in relating Jesus’ body and its resurrection to the raising up of the Spiritual Temple of God.

The physical Temple Jesus spoke of would be destroyed; but Jesus was seeing another Temple: a spiritual one that men could not defile.

Hebrews 10: 5-10    Hebrews 4: 14    Ezekiel Chaps. 40-47    Ephesians 2: 18-22    John 3: 3-8

 

The subject of John 2: 19 is the Temple of God, NOT Jesus’ body.  However, in relation to his human body, which was raised in three days, IT WAS THE PURPOSE AND THE MEANS OF GOD FOR THE SPIRITUAL TEMPLE TO BE BUILT BY CHRIST.

 

The disciples who were sanctified by their belief and were baptised in Holy Spirit at Pentecost would have been the first to be built into the Spiritual Temple by Christ, with the Holy Ones who were raised at the death of Jesus and who are the foundation of this Spiritual Temple, with Christ himself the Cornerstone.

Together they are in the Spiritual Temple, which Christ continues to build up with Baptised believers as Living Stones to become a dwelling in which God lives by His Spirit.

 

The beginning of the raising of The Spiritual Temple of God was on the day of Jesus’ resurrection when God, His Father declared him to be The Son of God and on his ascension exalted to be Christ and Lord.

John 17: 13-19    Acts 2: 4    Matthew 3: 11-12    Ephesians 2: 18-22    1 Peter 2: 4-10    Romans 1: 3-4    Acts 2: 31-36    Matthew 27: 51-53    Ezekiel Chap. 44-47

 

A WARNING:

It is worthy to note that to believe that Jesus is God because he raised himself from the dead goes against the scriptures and God’s requirement for salvation.   Romans 10: 9    Galatians 1: 1

In fact Ephesians 1: 19–20 makes it very clear that the raising of Jesus out from the Death Realm called for God’s mighty power which He had to exert.

It is essential to relate to Jesus’ human body to appreciate what this means for us, in relation to being Sons of God, co-heirs with Christ, having been taken into spiritual realms that would not be open or in existence without the work of the man Christ Jesus. All according to God’s plan.

 

 

SCRIPTURAL IDENTIFICATION:

John 10: 18  Jesus said that he had the authority to lay down his life and authority to take it up again.

 

THE WRONG INFERENCES AND ASSUMPTIONS:

Jesus words have been taken to mean that he could raise himself up from death.  It is believed that he is God.

 

THE TRUTH:

It is not the matter of power but authority that Jesus is speaking about as The Good Shepherd saying many times  ‘I will lay down my life for the sheep, only to take it up again.  No one takes it from me, I lay it down of my own accord.”  In other words Jesus knew he was to be killed, not by accident or any plot of man, but a part of God’s purposes in man’s salvation.     John 1: 29

 

John 17: 1-5  This God given sense of authority caused questioning as to who did he think that he was to say that he knew God and called Him Father.

 

Others like Nicodemus had seen the miracles and recognized the authority that Jesus had but they would question among themselves why is this man declaring that he would die for mankind/sheep.  They knew the scriptures that said NO MAN could redeem another.  So how could Jesus a mere man claim that he would die for the sheep?   Psalm 49: 7-9***

Would he lead an army?  Under whose leadership?  Considering that he was only the son of a carpenter.  They did not know that he was The Immanuel, which he had been since his Baptism with and by the Spirit of God Himself.

Isaiah 7: 14    Matthew 1: 23    Colossians 1: 19    Luke 3: 21-22

 

The authority Jesus EMINATED and SPOKE with was his confidence and assurance in the reality of God His Father and of his understanding as to who he had been and who he was to be and to do.  On one hand he had authority as a man to do his own will, to have a choice to let it all happen but it is another thing to do what God’s will was.  He was looking to God, not man, yet he respected the established Laws of service of The Old Testament but he went beyond the authority of the established priesthood who believed they were in their eyes, the Law.

 

He knew that his death and its purpose would be in God’s will and Time.

He knew his authority was God given because he KNEW HIS FATHER GOD.

John 17: 5 & 24     Hebrews 10: 5-10     Hebrews 5: 7-10     Matthew 12: 3-7     Mark 8: 34-38     John 8: 14-18

 

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AS SAID BEFORE To believe that Jesus raised himself from the dead goes against Scripture and God’s Criteria of Salvation in order to gain Eternal Life.  It robs God of His Glory and Power, AS DOES THE TRINITY.

 

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SCRIPTURAL IDENTIFICATION:

Hebrews 1: 8-10  but about the Son He says “ Your throne O God will last for ever.” 

THE WRONG INFERENCES AND ASSUMPTIONS: 

Jesus is God because of the words relating the Son to the throne of God.

It appears that God is calling His Son God.

This is establishing the fact that God The Father is equal with God the Son.

 

THE TRUTH:

Hebrews 1: 8-10 is an extract from Psalm 45 and is not to be seen in isolation from this Psalm, which is a prophetic and glorious picture concerning the one we know to be Christ and Lord, the Son of God.

It describes what are the Son’s aspirations and purposes for God, and describes what the Son is like.  It is Psalm 45: 6 and Hebrews 1: 8 that causes great excitement magnifying the work and the purpose of the Son, to exalt the throne of God.

Psalm 45: 1-5 and 7-8 is what the son loves, righteousness, and has been set above his companions by God, which he was, to Christ and Lord, The Son of God, to sit AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD ON HIS THRONE.     Acts 7: 54-56.

 

The book of Hebrews does not expose Jesus as being God rather it is the intention of the writer to exalt The Son of God’s True Position as Christ and Lord, High Priest of the Order of Melchizedek and Head of the church, the Household of God.

The apostles declared Jesus to be Christ the Son of God.  The Devil recognized this; the spirits declared this and Jesus declared this.

Acts 2: 32-36    Psalm 110: 1-10    Hebrews Chapter 7    Ephesians 1: 22    Hebrews 2: 5 to 3: 6    Luke 4: 1-11    Mark 5: 6-8    Mark 14: 60-62

 

WHOSE THRONE IS IT?  Hebrews 1: 8

We know that Stephen in Acts 7: 54-60 testified as he was dying to seeing the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God where God said, that His Son would be seated.

The throne from which God declared The Son would receive a Kingdom of which he would be King of Kings.  Luke 22: 69    Psalm 110: 1    Daniel 7: 9-14    Isaiah 66: 1

 

Revelation Chapter 4 reveals a Throne.  The One sitting on it is The Lord God Almighty, with His Seven Spirits identifying Him as God, as to how He does His Work.

Revelation 4: 2-11    Revelation 1: 4

 

Revelation Chapter 5 is speaking of one who is at the Right Hand of Him who sits on The Throne who is identified by the angels as The Lion of The tribe of Judah, the Root of David and The Lamb of God which Jesus identifies himself as being this in Revelation 22: 16.

 

The Lamb holds the seven Spirits of God, which is his work as the Baptiser with Holy Spirit of God.

Revelation 3: 1    Acts 2: 31-36    John 1: 33-34    Revelation 5: 6

Revelation 5: 13-14 The Angels sing, “To Him who sits ON THE THRONE, [GOD] AND to the Lamb be praise and honour and glory and power.”

 

Two persons are seen.  God who’s Throne it is and Jesus the Son of God who would seek always to lift up His Father’s Throne and His position and power as The One True God.   John 17: 3

 

The parables are the evidence of God as king who sent His Son to mankind.  The king would have the throne.  A well-meaning mother asked Jesus that at least one of her sons would sit at his right in his kingdom.  Jesus said that these places belong to those for whom they had been prepared by my Father.  This is speaking of when Jesus Christ will sit on his throne as king during the days of the 1000 years reign on David’s Throne, which is not to be confused with THE ETERNAL THRONE upon which God sits as King OVER ALL.

Isaiah 66: 1 & 22    Matthew 25: 31    Daniel 7: 9-14**** Revelation 20: 4

 

Who overcomes the world, only he who believes that Jesus is The Son of God.   1 John 5: 10   Anyone who believes in The Son of God has this testimony in his heart.

Luke 1: 32-33  “He will be great and will be called the son of the Most High” – and will exalt God’s Throne.

 

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Who is the Son of God if the Son is said to be God?   Who is the God of Jesus, if he is God?

It would appear that for Jesus to be the Son of God, it is a trivial position, in the opinion of the church.

John 20: 17     2 Corinthians 1: 2     Galatians 1: 3     1 Peter 1: 3     1 Corinthians 8: 6

 

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SCRIPTURAL IDENTIFICATION:

John 14: 9  He who has seen me has seen The Father

 

THE WRONG INFERENCES AND ASSUMPTIONS:

To see Jesus is to see God the Father and this supposedly confirms their oneness and Jesus as God.

Therefore because Jesus is believed in as Saviour, and he is God then it is believed that one knows God who gives us all that was to be received, at the cross.

 

THE TRUTH:

The disciples knew Jesus as the Son of Man.  They knew the presence and the fellowship of God through Jesus because God by His Spirit dwelt in Jesus.  It is essential that WE know TWO Persons, Jesus Christ and the Father the One True God.

John 17: 3    John 14: 23     1 John 1: 3

 

How it works. 

Those who would seek to know God, the Father; He will draw them to Jesus.  John 6: 37-47 

and convict them of sin, righteousness and judgement.   John 16: 7 –11

One is to repent towards God and to have faith in Jesus as the Lamb of God.  God gives Christ’s spirit who calls out to God the Father on their behalf.

Acts 20: 21    John 1: 29    Galatians 4: 6    Romans 8: 10 NOT 11    Colossians 1: 27 NOT 28

 

They are to love Christ and to obey his command to be baptised with Holy Spirit in order to be raised out of the Death Realm by the work of THE INSTANTANEOUS SPIRITUAL PROCESS, which precedes Baptism WITH Holy Spirit.  This work is in the process of access to God the Father, into The Spiritual Temple of God and to receive God’s Spirit by whom we are Born Again.  God baptises the believer into the Spiritual Body i.e.  In Christ, where we are to fellowship with The Father and with The Son.

John 14: 13-17    Acts 1: 4-5    Romans 6: 6    Matthew 3: 11-12    Romans 6: 13-14

Colossians 2: 9-13     Ephesians 2: 18-22    John 3: 3-8    1 Corinthians 12: 13-18     Romans 8: 11    Colossians 1: 28    John 14: 23    1 John 1: 3

 

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Isaiah 22: 20-25  For a believer who knows Jesus only and would indicate that one knows The Father because they speak to Him, Isaiah warns believers from doing this, replacing the Father with Christ and giving to him the Glory that is God’s alone.  God said they would be cut down.  The zeal of The Lord will accomplish this.

 

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SCRIPTURAL IDENTIFICATION:

John 20: 28  Thomas said to Jesus  ”My Lord and my God.”

 

THE WRONG INFERENCES AND ASSUMPTIONS:

It is believed what Thomas said because Jesus was in agreement with him, because no reply was recorded, that it was true what he was inferring that Jesus was not only his Lord and also one step further his God.  That the titles were speaking of one person not two.

 

THE TRUTH:

The disciples never believed that Jesus was God.  It was awesome enough to know he was the Christ, the Son of God, and the Promised One that God was to send.   Luke 2: 8-40

To appreciate the truth of this revelation of Thomas is to note the words of Jesus in John 14: 19-23, that relates to the day of his resurrection.  He promised TWO PERSONS would come to those who would believe: and this is what Thomas believed in John 20: 28.

Jesus was in agreement with Thomas because he knew that Thomas had understood and was applying what Jesus had been teaching the disciples throughout John Chapters 14 – 16 in particular, which “MADE THEM BELIEVE THAT JESUS CAME FROM GOD”.

John 16: 29–30     John 14: 5

 

The disciples and any believer, are to know this fact that they are to receive the Spirit of the Father whom Jesus called The Spirit of Truth and also The Spirit of Jesus.  WE WILL COME AND MAKE OUR ABODE IN YOU.

And so after the resurrection Jesus visited the disciples and he breathed upon them saying, “Receive the Holy Spirit,”  They received the Spirit of Christ by faith, which fulfilled Jesus’ words of “I will be in you.”  This was in order to make their spirits alive and to cover them with his righteousness.

John 20: 22-23    Romans 8: 10 BUT NOT 11    Colossians 1: 27 BUT NOT 28.

 

Just before his ascension to His God and Father he commanded them to go on and wait for the Baptism with God’s Spirit.

Acts 1: 4-5    Colossians 1: 28    Romans 8: 11 

This was accomplished at Pentecost for the disciples and is accomplished today when Christ baptises a believer with Holy Spirit, which is the Promised Spirit of God to those who ask.

For a believer today to know Jesus as Saviour is NOT TO KNOW GOD.  Like the disciples we are redeemed in order to receive the Promised Spirit of God.  We are to know Jesus first and then God the Father.    Galatians 3: 14     John 14: 13-17

 

The disciples were not ignorant in regard to the work of the Spirit, of which Jesus spoke of many times, by teaching “Come to me and drink whoever believes in me, streams of Living Water will flow from within him.”  By this he meant the Spirit they were to receive at Pentecost.  This relates to being Born Again of “Spirit Living Water”, the condition of receiving is  “Love me and my Father will love you AND WE WILL COME AND MAKE OUR HOME WITHIN YOU”, by their individual Spirits in us.

 

John 14: 6-28    Acts 2: 4    Joel 2: 24-28    Matthew 3: 11-12    John 20: 17    John 7: 37-39    John 3: 3-8    Ezekiel 36: 26-28    John 14: 23    John 10: 38

These verses clearly portray two persons.

 

Now Thomas WAS NOT WITH THE DISCIPLES WHEN JESUS BREATHED HIS SPIRIT ON THEM.   The disciples told him that they had seen the Lord.  He wanted proof.  One week later Jesus came and revealed himself to Thomas.  He was to stop doubting and to believe.  Thomas’ reaction was to say “My Lord,” recognizing Jesus, “AND My God,” recognizing and believing that God was still present in Jesus who was still empowered by his Father’s Spirit until after his ascension to being Christ and Lord.  1 Peter 3: 18

 

TWO PERSONS were being recognized. by Thomas saying, “my Lord and my God.”   One he could see, the other was by faith, as Mary was told by Jesus of His God and her God and His Father and her Father.  John 20: 17***

 

REVELATION THAT IS REQUIRED TODAY

Thomas had gained revelation and great understanding of the relationship and position of the Father to His Son, a revelation which the Church has not recognized.  It is to the church and for the church that Paul would declare in 1 Corinthians 8: 6

“For us there is ONE GOD, The Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live and there is but ONE Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.”      Do you believe this??

 

“Now this is Eternal Life that they may know YOU THE ONLY TRUE GOD and Jesus Christ whom you have sent”.  JESUS SAID.

John 17: 1-5    1 John 2: 24-25    1 Corinthians 8:6    James 2: 19

 

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We are to know two persons and their Spirits and two works; to inherit Eternal Life.  One is God the Father; the other is Jesus the Son.     John 5: 17    1 John 2: 24-25     1 John 5: 1-5

 

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SCRIPTURAL IDENTIFICATION:

John 10: 25-38   Jesus said,  “I and the Father are one”

 

THE WRONG INFERENCES AND ASSUMPTIONS:

It is believed that by these words of Jesus that he was on the same level of position, power and authority as The Lord God Almighty.

THE TRUTH:

The above verses that have been related to Thomas’ revelation of two persons, Jesus and God the Father should correct the wrong inferences and associations of Jesus as God.  His Oneness with His Father is not plans, power and authority but of mind, aim and purpose.

It is the Truth that Jesus as the Son of Man was one with his God and Father just as he was throughout The Old Testament and as he is now as Christ and Lord, the Son of God.  He does not have any plans that he considers better than His Father’s.  He does not consider equality with his God.

 

In Gethsemane Jesus’ oneness with His Father was tested, as to his oneness with God’s will and purposes, as he questioned, God’s will.  Luke 14: 32-42

When Jesus testified to this oneness to knowing the Father, the teachers of the Law considered this to be blasphemy that he should believe that he was God’s Son.

They were  questioning his Sonship, believing himself to be the Christ, the Messiah NOT his Godhead, WHICH IS THE FATHER ALONE, HE IS HEAD.    1 Corinthians 11: 3

The church has expanded this verse today to mean that Jesus is God, resting on assumptions and inferences.  They forget that Jesus prayed to his Father for those who would believe that they be one as they are one, forgetting that Paul exhorts sons of God to be of the same oneness, being likeminded, having the same love, one in Spirit and in purpose, to imitate God as Jesus did because this is the criteria for the gaining of Eternal Life.

Philippians 2: 6    Philippians 1: 25 to 2: 3     Mark 14: 32-42     John 10: 36     John 17: 9-12     1 John 2: 24-25     Ephesians 5: 1-2

 

 

SCRIPTURAL IDENTIFICATION:

Isaiah 9: 6-7  “ For to us a child is born, a son is given, he shall be called wonderful counsellor, mighty God everlasting Father, prince of Peace.  He will reign on David’s throne.  The zeal of the Lord almighty will accomplish this.”

 

THE WRONG INFERENCES AND ASSUMPTIONS:

This verse is used to declare that Jesus is God; which is the essence of the Trinity Doctrine.  The Son will be human and divine.  He is God the Son.

Their authority for assuming that Jesus is God has been through the translations from Hebrew into Latin and English, failing to appreciate the Theos of Israel: One God who works in seven ways by His One Spirit.  1 Corinthians 8: 6    Revelation 1: 4

 

THE TRUTH:

God’s purpose of Isaiah 9: 1-7 is to give Good News to His people Israel of a Son that would rule on David’s Throne where peace would reign.  This is the context of these verses.

However the many commonly used translations of Isaiah 9: 6-7 differ from the original Hebrew “a child IS born, a son IS given unto us.”  The government IS upon his shoulders. 

His name from the Hebrew is  “WONDERFUL IN COUNSEL IS GOD THE MIGHTY THE EVERLASTING FATHER AND RULER OF PEACE.

This is the Counsel that Jesus spoke of to his disciples that they should receive.  John 14: 13-17 this is not speaking of Jesus.

 

The translation from The Tanakh, of Isaiah 9: 6 is not the same.  “A child HAS been born to us, a son has been given and authority has settled on his shoulders and he shall be NAMED  [NOT CALLED] “The mighty God is planning Grace.”   The Eternal Father a peaceable ruler.” which is relating to David’s Throne and kingdom, with Christ ruling for 1000 years, to gain peace without limit.  The zeal of God will accomplish this. 

 

Whatever the translation in regard to the birth of this Son, what God had said would be carried out.   The Son IS TO BE THE MEANS OF HOW THE MIGHTY GOD THE FATHER WOULD CARRY OUT HIS PLAN TO GIVE FAVOUR OR GRACE TO MANKIND. 

Daniel 7: 9-14    Luke 2: 13-14    Romans 1: 3-4    Genesis 9: 5-6

 

God’s given name to Jesus was prophetic.   e.g. Joel means Jehovah is God, which did not indicate that Joel was God but his message for God.  Ezekiel means that God is strong and his message for God was God’s strength.    John the Baptist was specifically named John.  God gave the Son his name and God planned to do HIS work of being *the everlasting Father who planned Grace through His Son, who would fulfil his name for God.

Matthew 1: 21    Luke 1: 13-17    Malachi 3: 1    John 1: 29-34    John 3: 16    Colossians 1: 19-20

 

THE SON OF GOD FULFILLS HIS NAME:

Jesus Christ and Lord have been given many names.

Isaiah 9: 6 God’s servant, Immanuel, The Lamb of God, Melchizedek, head of the church, the First and the Last, Baptiser with Holy Spirit.  He holds the key of David, as the Son of God whose eyes are like blazing fire: the Amen, the Faithful and true witness and the ruler of God’s creation.  The prince in God’s Spiritual Temple of which he is the Cornerstone.  He is The Prince, the mediator of the unbaptised, the intercessor to the Baptised with Holy Spirit, the builder of The Spiritual Temple of those who are the believers.   In all of this he is The Word.

 

He will judge the church as to who will inherit Eternal Life, who will rule with Christ when he rules on David’s Throne for 1000 years then this prophecy of Isaiah will know its fulfilment.  He has a name yet unknown, but will be made known to those whom he judges to inherit Eternal Life with Himself and God BECAUSE THEY DID THE FATHER’S WILL.

 

Matthew 1: 21    Hebrews chapter 7    Revelation Chapters 1-3 & 5    John 14: 6    John 1: 29-34    Matthew 13: 37-42 to Matthew 13: 47-50    2 Corinthians 5: 10    1 Peter 2: 4-8    Romans 8: 26-27

Ephesians 2: 18-22    Ezekiel Chapters 40–47    Daniel 7: 9-14    1 John 5: 1-5    Revelation 3: 11-13    Revelation 19: 12    Matthew 7: 21-23

 

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Jesus’ bringing the believer to The Father fulfils His Name and Work as The Way to The Father.  Jesus said on that Day you will no longer ask of him but of The Father.

John 16: 23-28    We ask not or ask amiss, by asking the wrong person, and so we have not.

 

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SCRIPTURAL IDENTIFICATION:

Genesis Chaps. 1 & 2    Proverbs 8: 22-31    Ephesians 4: 7-10    Hebrews 1: 2    Colossians 1: 15-17

The Elohim of God and Christ.

 

THE WRONG INFERENCES AND ASSUMPTIONS:

It is assumed because the word Elohim relates to God as creator and Jesus Christ as a creator, that Jesus is God. They are not realizing that the word Elohim is speaking of a work of creation of which both God and the Son have been participants.

Just as it is assumed that because Jesus said, “ My Father and I are one, “ that this relates to the one Spirit, and again this is inferred and assumed that this speaks of Jesus, as God.

 

THE TRUTH:

THEIR NAME IS THEIR WORK:

 

God’s given names, and Christ’s given names differentiate from each other in their works, purposes and position.  They do share some, eg. Elohim.

****Genesis chapters 1 & 2 and Proverbs 8: 22-31 define very clearly that what God The Father made and created, He did alone.   But while God did this work alone, the word Elohim is in the plural, the ‘us’ of Genesis 1: 26.  This relates to  ‘a craftsman’ whom we know as Christ who was at The Father’s side and according to Scripture, while he was ‘a craftsman’ he did not do any of the work because God did it alone.

 

HOW DOES CHRIST SHARE THE NAME ELOHIM?

This is described in ****Colossians 1: 15-17, WHICH IS NOT speaking of God’s work described in Genesis Chapters 1 and 2, when Jesus was a Craftsman at His Father’s side as stated in Proverbs 8: 22 –31

 

It was WHEN, as the exalted Christ and Lord, he created “all things” spiritual IN Heaven, which God had established all by Himself and ON earth which God had established, visible and invisible whether thrones, rulers, powers or authorities.  All Good Things in order to accommodate the believers who would come to God, through Christ’s work as Lamb and as Baptiser with Holy Spirit.

John 1: 3-4    Matthew 13: 37-42    Colossians 1: 13-14   (Christ’s Kingdom, the Courts of the Spiritual Temple) for those who know the work of Jesus as The Lamb of God, but are unbaptised with holy Spirit.

Matthew 13: 47-50    1 Corinthians 12: 18    Ephesians 2: 18-22   (The Kingdom of Heaven, the Sanctuaries of the Spiritual Temple for those who having known the work of Jesus as Lamb of God, as Christ he baptises them in Holy Spirit.)

 

Note Ephesians 1: 17-21  When God The Father raised Jesus from the dead; upon his ascension THE Father seated him at His right hand IN THE HEAVENLY REALMS, above all rule, authority, power, dominion, every title that can be given in the present Age and the one to come.  It has been presumed that Christ has been given authority over these powers and dominions.  This is the wrong emphasis.  It is where he IS that is the powerful place for position.  THERE IS NO AUTHORITY OR POWER THAT CAN RULE OVER HIM OR US WHO ARE IN GOD’S SPIRIT AND ARE SEATED IN THE HEAVENLIES.

On one hand those unbaptised are under their power.  God freed them from ‘the Dominion’ of Darkness, when they came to the cross, but until they know the Spiritual Circumcision by God and Christ in the work of Romans 6: 3-14 and Colossians 2: 9-14 they will remain in the Death Realm under the Power of the Body of Sin.

Colossians 1: 13-14.  On the other hand the baptised in God’s Power and Armour are to deal with the rulers, powers, authorities of this dark world and against the Spiritual Forces in the Heavenly Realms.

Acts 2: 31-36    Colossians 1: 15-18    Ephesians 1: 17-23    Ephesians 2: 6    Ephesians 4: 5-6    Ephesians 6: 10-18    Ephesians 3: 10-12    Romans 6: 6    Mark 16: 14-18

 

Christ created the Kingdom of Christ, which holds those unbaptised with Holy Spirit

Matthew 13: 37-42   Colossians 1: 13-14

He created the kingdom of Heaven to accommodate those who were baptised with Holy Spirit.   Matthew 13: 47-50

These kingdoms, belonging to Christ with his angels are part and parcel of the progression of Jesus’ work as Christ and Lord and Prince in charge of God’s EXITS AND ENTRANCES FROM THE WORLD TO THE PRESENCE OF GOD.

John 14: 6    Ezekiel 43: 10-12     Ezekiel 44: 5

 

CHRIST’S ANGELS man both these Kingdoms which shall pass away in the fullness of God’s Time, when all judgements by angels, Christ and God shall be finished and those who WILL INHERIT ETERNAL LIFE WILL ENTER THE ETERNAL KINGDOM OF GOD.

Revelation 20: 11-12    Mark 13: 26–27    2 Corinthians 5: 10    Matthew 7: 21-23

Revelation Chapter 21

 

Hebrews 1: 2 states that it was through the Son’s work as Christ and Lord that God made the universe.  It is as Christ and Lord that he continues to work TO FILL THE UNIVERSE, thus creating, with all who would praise God, and be the Manifold wisdom of God to spiritual Rulers and Principalities and Powers

Ephesians 4:7-13    Ephesians 6: 10-18    Ephesians 3: 10-12    Ephesians 2: 6

 

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It is the error of the church to be blind to the fact that from the very beginning God the Father, The One True God and the Son of God have worked together in the affairs of mankind.  Jesus does not need to be God in order to create what God has said he was to create.  God is Not Jealous of His Son BUT He is of His own Name and Glory.  This He does NOT Give and another.      Why do men do this??

 

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SCRIPTURAL IDENTIFICATION:

Hebrews 1: 6  and again when God brings His Firstborn into the world He says “Let all God’s angels worship him.”

 

THE WRONG INFERENCES AND ASSUMPTIONS:

It is believed that God the Father is telling all angels to worship the Son of God as God, because worship is directed to him, therefore he is God.

 

THE TRUTH:

It is amazing how many scriptures have been focused on to prove the Deity of Christ Jesus, which originally were to give importance to the man called Jesus.  Not just an ordinary man but one sent from God, begotten of God coming out of the past into the present and on to the future.

Nowhere can it be seen that God said when He brought His Firstborn into the world that angels should worship him, and certainly NOT AS GOD.

This reference would appear to indicate what God would say, rather than what God did say, as there is no evidence of this reference elsewhere.

 

The birth of Jesus is recorded and in Matthew 2, the Magi who sought out the one born King of The Jews in order to worship him would have been as King not as God.  The effect upon the shepherds was that they spread the word, concerning what they had been told concerning this child.  They did not worship the child.

The angels worshipped God when His firstborn came into the World, THEY PRAISED GOD.

Luke 2: 11-20  When Jesus was taken to the Temple for circumcision, Simeon, a righteous and a devout man with the Holy Spirit upon him, when he saw Jesus HE PRAISED GOD, for the coming of the expected Messiah.

In Revelation Chapter 5 we see angels singing a New Song about the one we know as Jesus the Lamb of God.  They called him The Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, who has triumphed.  These are Jesus Christ’s names.  They sang  “You are worthy” because he was slain purchasing men for God, making them to be a kingdom and priests TO SERVE OUR GOD and they will reign on the earth.”

In a loud voice they sang,  “Worthy is the Lamb to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and praise, To HIM who sits on the throne AND TO THE LAMB praise honour glory power for ever and ever.”

 

Daniel chapter 7: 9-14 reveals God’s establishment of His Son into the authority, glory and sovereign power with all people, nations, and men of every language will worship him in the time of his 1000 years reign on the Throne of David.  Those who will rule with Christ will worship him as King of Kings and as Lord of Lords, BUT NOT AS GOD.

Revelation 20: 19–16  to  20: 6    Revelation 22: 21-22    Romans 8: 15–17

 

As believers we are to give ALL PRAISE AND THANKS TO THE FATHER, because all of our expectations are In The Father alone who is The Lord God almighty and if there is any other, God said, I do not know of any other, and this includes His Son. 

Ephesians 5: 20    Isaiah 46: 5    Isaiah 45: 5–7    Isaiah 45: 22

 

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By grasping on to this verse to exalt Jesus as God, what glory and purpose God has given to him is being lost.

 

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SCRIPTURAL IDENTIFICATION:

Romans 9: 3-5  Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of Christ, who is God over all, forever praised!  Amen.  NIV

 

Romans 9: 3-5  Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever.  Amen.  KJV

 

THE WRONG INTERPRETATIONS AND ASSUMPTIONS:

This quote has centred Christ to be God over all.

 

THE TRUTH:

For Paul, Peter and John to clearly define and make clear the relationship of God The Father and Jesus as the Son, this would not be saying Christ is God;  who is over all, to mean, Christ is God.

1 Corinthians 8: 6    1 Corinthians 11: 3    John 17: 3    2 Corinthians 1: 3     Ephesians 1-3

1 Thessalonians 1: 2-3    1 Peter 1:3    1 John 1: 3    Ephesians 1: 17 

 

The people of Israel are the stated “theirs” in this scripture.  Theirs are the patriarchs from whom is traced the human ancestry of Christ, especially from Abraham to whom God promised great promises.

From Genesis to Malachi is the evidence of God over all this who delivered, established, chastised, blessed, protected and glorified Israel with the one known as  The Angel of The Lord who WITH GOD protected Israel.  The who, are the Patriarchs, KNOWN by GOD, from whom and down through their ancestral line came Joseph to whom God gave his son to care for, to be seen as Joseph’s son.  All this was God’s plan.

God had the help of The Angel of The Lord, (Jesus) in many matters in regard to His dealings with Israel and even before that time, but on all occasions it was to be seen that there were two persons, one being God who was in charge of it all and The Angel of The Lord whom we know to be Jesus.  The Word.

Genesis 14:19-20 & 30    Genesis 16: 7-13    Genesis 22: 6 -18    Genesis 48:15-16    Job 16: 19-21    Exodus 14: 19-31    Exodus 3: 2-5

 

God by The Tabernacle and The Temple established His symbolic presence and gave Laws that allowed man’s approach to Him in faith through established Exits and Entrances and a Priesthood.  The sacrificial system and the depth of meaning and work of the sacrifices give light as to the spiritual work which we can know, through Jesus as our Guilt and Sin offering, the works which still stand as God’s Way to Himself.  Jesus the promised Messiah, given to Israel, was SENT FROM GOD FOR THEIR REDEMPTION.     And he came out from the Patriarchs as to his human ancestry and human nature. 

Isaiah 53: 10    Romans 8: 3    Ezekiel 44: 5    Ezekiel 43: 10-12    Ephesians 2: 18-22    Romans 1: 3-4

 

It is required to read Romans Chapters 9 - 15 to see how ALL are God’s plans, purposes in order that God might display His power and His Name to be proclaimed in all the earth, as The One who keeps His Word, and He is God.

John 3: 16    Genesis 15: 13-16    Genesis 17: 1-8    Exodus 2: 24

 

Christ in this verse belongs to the ‘glories’ of Israel, and is NOT GOD.  Israel is not to glory or to rest in what historically was done for them but to accept God’s New Way to Himself, through Christ as Lamb of God and as baptiser with Holy Spirit which is not only for Israel but for the whole World:  in order to be saved and to know eternal life with God and Christ.

 

All the promises to Israel have become viable to the church, because of Israel’s failure to produce a faith that pleased God.  They will only receive God’s Favour by The One Way that all men must come if they would know God.

 

The Jewish Christians are taught, Jesus is God.  This will hold drastic eternal consequences.

Hebrews 8: 10-12    Hebrews 10: 15-18    Matthew 21: 43    Ezekiel 36: 26-38    Isaiah 22: 20-25

 

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There is only one Way to God as there is only ONE WHO IS GOD, THE FATHER.

 

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SCRIPTURAL IDENTIFICATION:

1 Corinthians 12: 13    All those Baptised by ONE SPIRIT into one Body were all given ONE SPIRIT to drink.

 

THE WRONG INFERENCES AND ASSUMPTIONS:

Because Jesus is centred as God it is believed that this verse applies to him.

Because of only knowing Jesus and because of believing that there is only One Spirit, consequently it must be speaking of God who he is.  This is associated with his Oneness with God.

 

THE TRUTH:

IT MUST BE CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS THE SPIRIT OF THE FATHER, WHICH SPEAKS OF HIM ALONE.  THE SPIRIT OF GOD DOES NOT SIT APART FROM HIMSELF BUT SPEAKS OF HOW HE DOES HIS WORK; BY HIS OWN SPIRIT.

 

THE ONE SPIRIT REFERS TO GOD THE FATHER ALONE NOT THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST.

Paul is being very emphatic that there is One Spirit of One Person and that is of God The Father who ALONE does a work THAT NO ONE ELSE CAN DO.

 

In relation to this verse it is GOD’S SPIRIT ALONE into whom we are Baptised.  This work of Baptism was done by Christ and it is the Criteria to be baptised first by Christ into God’s Spirit that we drink of The One Spirit into whom we are Baptised, which is God The Father’s Spirit.

 

It is God alone, by His Spirit, the Only One who can do this work, which is to place or Baptise the Baptised believer who has drunk of God’s Spirit, into the Spiritual Body of Christ,  i.e. to be IN CHRIST.  Here The Spirit of God The Father is in us, through us and over us.

 

For the work of The One Spirit to be accomplished, the believer is to first have the Spirit of Christ, which is given to us BY GOD THE FATHER when we come believing to the cross.  Christ is to then baptise us with The One Spirit, The Only One Spirit whom we must have to be Baptised by, into the Spiritual Body, In Christ.

Galatians 1: 1    Colossians 1: 19    Galatians 4: 6    Romans 8: 10 and 11    Ephesians 4: 5-6    1 Corinthians 12: 3-18    John 14: 23

 

The Oneness of God and Christ is in their Aims and Purposes.  IT IS NOT THEIR SPIRIT PERSON, WORK OR POSITION.    John 5: 17

Paul is being emphatic that The One Spirit is not relating to numerics that there is only One Spirit, BUT to ONE PERSON who alone does a Work, which can be done by NONE OTHER.

 

Christ has his own work as does God The Father who by His One Spirit works in seven ways, which are:

The Spirit of Truth    John 15: 26    John 14: 17    John 16: 13-15

The Spirit of Life  -  Romans 8: 1-2

The Spirit of Holiness  -  Romans 1: 3-4

The Spirit of Glory  -  1 Peter 4: 14

The Spirit of Grace  -  Hebrews 10: 29b

The Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation  -  Ephesians 1: 17

The Spirit of Adoption  -  Romans 8: 15-17    Revelation 1: 4  &  4: 4-5

 

THE WORKS THAT GOD ALONE CAN DO.

Many would ask OF JESUS to do what is God’s work alone.  This is why many have become embittered because Jesus Christ will not do His Father’s Work that is God’s work alone.

God The Father by His Spirit works as provider, healer, restorer, present help, shield, peace, comforter, counsellor and teacher of His Truth.

2 Corinthians 1: 3-11    1 Corinthians 1: 18-19    1 Corinthians 2: 9-16

God The Father by His Spirit is the Only One who can raise mankind from the Death Realm and place them in the Spiritual Body of Christ giving His Spiritual gifts and He confirming through us “Jesus is Lord” by His Spirit giving His Praise.

 

It is the Fruit of God’s Spirit, which speaks of God’s personality by which we are to be transformed into the likeness of Christ.  We are to ask all things of The Father, who is to teach us Truth about Himself and His Son.

Ephesians 1: 17    Galatians 1: 1    1 Corinthians 12: 3-11    Romans 2: 29    Galatians 5: 16-26    2 Corinthians 3: 17-18    John 16: 23-28    John 16: 13-15    1 Corinthians 2: 9-10

 

The believer receives the Spirit of Christ at the cross, who is NOT the Spirit of God, and they will be impoverished unless they do receive The Spirit of God The Father through Baptism with Holy Spirit and by that be completely reconciled to God.

 

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It is God The Father who we are to ask of all things, Jesus said.  And this is only possible to those Baptised with Holy Spirit.  However, if the believer is trusting, clinging and hoping in Jesus as God and Father, there will be disillusionment because of unanswered prayer.  More so not to do the will of God The Father will result in the failure to inherit Eternal Life, Jesus said.

 

You must know the Father and Christ for real.  You cannot be fanciful but to know them and to fellowship with them who dwell in us.  Fanciful is not Faith.

John 16: 23-28    Isaiah 22: 20-25    Matthew 7: 21-23    1 John 2: 24-25    John 14: 23

 

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FINALLY

 

Dear believers,

 

We do trust that this material has been read with absence of a spirit of argument and confrontation because this is not the purpose we have towards you.

If you have realized the error of trusting in Jesus as God, we would encourage you to repent before God just telling Him and asking Him to help you, to understand the consequences that are eternal to continue in this.

This is essential in order to be judged by Christ, to inherit Eternal Life, the criteria of which is to do the will of God The Father who must be known in order to be able to do this, as Jesus did. 

Ephesians 1: 17    John 16: 13-15    1 Corinthians 2: 9-10    1 John 2: 24-25

 

In the name of God the Father and Jesus Christ, The Son of God.

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