Why His Name is Given as 'I am'

God, when asked His name by Moses simply said "I am". In saying He doesn't need a name because He was when nobody else was, the Father, by calling Himself 'I am' says He was there when no other being existed and He made all others. Now only one more oerson could say He needs to name - nobody to distinguish Him from - the one who was second in existence because with just Father and Son they neither need a name because there is none beside them in the beginning. So this is what Jesus says by 'I am' - He had existence before anything else or other person except God so neither needed names. Now He carries that unique quality and right forward to after creation because everything and every person is created by Him and the Father so still there is by right no need to give a name. He can just say 'I am' at that should be enough.

What is Freedom

What is Freedom? It is said to be about chiices- ability to choose. I find Jesus made the choice - I have to not lie, not be taken over by hate, not commit immorality. The other choices become mine if I let His choices come first. I need the truth about where His choices for me (or anybody) end and my choices left to me can begin. This knowledge of this truth is surely freedom. Surely this truth is what is called light. So having it I can make choices while affirming and living consistently with His choices (obedience and adherence) - walking in light.

So to learn what choices He makes for me - mainly lifestyle choices - and where the choice can be mine - to learn this I must follow Jesus learning from Him and giving Him the choices He makes and learning more about this day after day.

The Kingdom of His Throne (ancient King David of Israel's Throne as it happens) is given those who do this with Lord Jesus now risen from the dead as King on this throne.

The True Freedom

In the teachings of Jesus in the gospel of John: If you are free to sin (to lie, hate, commit adultery, etc) you are not free. If you are free to sin you are a slave to sin. If you cannot sin you are truly free. John expressed this further in his epistles. Because of the importance of the veracity of John's testimony of Jesus' teachings like this one the later disciples had to focus on who learned from John so a disciple of John came to the fore named Polycarp. Yet today we have a witness alive still namely Lord Jesus Himself and by following the teachings in John's writing we can actually find that Jesus confirms these His teachings directly to each follower by keeping the promises to disciples of His interspersed within those teachings. He is alive to do this and His word is in Revelation - the  book John wrote based on Jesus' appearance to Him long after Jesus rose from the dead - that He, Jesus Christ, is the one who lives and was dead and is alive forever - even holding the keys of death and the place of the dead.

Born of the Spirit or still a child of Satan

We have today a witness in The Gospel of John of how Jesus Christ taught in detail and the words He used to move people from darkness into light. It is there we find Jesus casting doubt on the idea that everyone is a child of God and showing a deeper truth that lying is a symptom that all is not well with us and Satan is really the father of us when lies are on our tongues. Jesus sets it straight - no child of God behaves like that but only children of Satan lie all the time and any tendency we gave to lie is a symptom we let Satan rule our actions. The Christ died for you and me which means a calling to be better than Satan so Jesus gives this truth to set us free and a Spirit of truth to show us the power of truthfulness. Now what we need to believe is that Jesus commands we no longer lie as Satan lies but be determined to keep telling truth with lies eradicated as much as we can and Jesus will make it more established that we live like this when we hold to this teaching of God's that Jesus Christ taught in the world and the Gospel of John records so we can have life in Jesus' name. Then we can be children of God who hear the Spirit speaking to us yet know not where this wind comes from or to whence it goes - this is how Jesus said it is with those born of the Spirit.

Opinion: God Judges Nations

God answers prayer when poor people pray, especially ones who follow His Son and the teachings He gave. If we feel injustice we can pray for justice. When we combine this teaching of Jesus with the teaching He gave on faith - pray and do not doubt in your heart and God will do it - it results in judgment surely administered. What then about Pharoah (Moses and Pharoah - that Pharoah)? Well when, I find, a government and country are not pleasing to God or have lost the approval of God, it seems to me, prayers for justice get mire and nore frequent and when a few in that country believe in God with faith like Jesus taught and always pray with faith and often feel injustice perhaps from poverty and weakness against 'the system' which does nit support their needs but supports the injustices of the better off, disasters can become frequent. If the people (Hosea 8) appoint leaders more approved by God it can break a downward spiral. Otherwise the judgments can get worse and worse as God answers prayers of the poor with faith and a war can develop between the system and its servants and God. Eventually it gets like the war God waged first on Egypt and its Pharoah then on the surrounding wicked peoples. So it need not get like that but if it does it may be God has hardened people to show His power. War between God and a nation or nations. It happens. I was glad when God once, in my view, gave grace to my country when judgments were getting frequent looking like the situation might get towards some kind of war of God on the country and then a new leader being appointed reversed that spiral and showed there could be a better path if the same leader were apponted again. To date that merciful situation has triumphed over the judgment-filled one and prayer against an unjust system seems now nowhere near like as necessary as it was (or maybe we just don't have the poverty today.

Becoming A New Creation

As for how long sanctification - becoming a new creation - takes, well in my case decades but I'm probably a challenged sluggish learner, struggling to apply Jesus' teachings and His apostles' teachings (The Father's teachings) in my life. I reckon however long it takes to come to enough knowledge of the truth and enough faith in the message of truth from God to be set free from lying and hating and other such things, it comes to an initial fulifilment when the Holy Spirit is clearly heard within - the wind from whence you do not know where it comes or to where it goes. Then rebirth has become a reality for you but sin after that is dealt with by the Father - now your father - giving you life and others praying Him to do so. That can mean painful discipline. But a new creature has come into the world.

Sanctification: What is it?

What is sanctification? I find greatest clarity in John 8 and 1 John about those who believe still needing to be free from slavery to sin. If you sin, says Jesus, you are a slave to sin, and He said it even to those who believed. To me this explains that justification by faith still needs to be followed by sanctification. In John 8 it is first believers following Jesus by adhering to His teachings then Jesus Himself sanctifying them setting them free from sin (which I personally equate to sanctification) through these followers knowing the truth. Truth, Jesus stated later in His prayer for the disciples before His crucifixion, sanctifies. "Sanctify them by your truth", He prayed to the Father, "Your word is truth." Now my own feeling is that the logic is given by Jesus that if by sinning it is slavery to sin then any sin is slavery so to be free from thiscslavery means no longer sinning. It is not hard and fast it seems when you consider that life has to be given by God to a person once set free but sinning afterwards as John teaches in his epistle 1 John. So it isn't an exact science. Another factor is rebirth of the Spirit that comes with this sanctification. The one sinning is of Satan - believing but not yet sanctified. Spirit transforms into one not sinning and this makes them a child of God in the sense Jesus meant it. This is by hearing Jesus' words of spirit (or the gifts or anointing it later is added in John' epistle). It involves love toward Jesus so the words are nor rejected.   For a parallel in Pauline teaching (teachings of Apostle Paul) there is his message to Ephesians that they were taught in accordance with the truth that is Jesus to put off falsehood and speak truth ... to be angry and not sin ... to not give a foothold to Satan - paralelling John 8 and 1 John which is interesting because the Ephesians may historically have received this directly from John in Ephesus.

Avoiding All Use of Violence

Violence. Those who live by it die by it. The real 'temple' being built by Christ can be built in peace because of the power of Christ's name to overcome evil instead of use of violence so that builders can have hands free of bloodshed. If we choose to weild His name and rely on its power we can put away the sword. There is a place for war even in religious causes and scripture makes it clear but the overriding peace of Christ gives an alternative by the power of God's name for the building of a house for Him without bloodshed. Without the name of Lord Jesus we would have to accept that there will tend to be a need to keep readiness for the resistance to violence in some way - and Apostle Paul had to resort to asking worldly rulers for armed protection in direst of times and even had to invke his being a Roman Citizen to get help from the Roman government of his time so this might be necessary after first asking the peace of Lord Jesus' name for justice. It is not incompatible to seek both God's peace and that of the police and even armed forces. So far no bloodshed by priestly 'builders of the Temple of God' is necessary but Paul shows there is a limit to even this peace when times are allowed by God to get more dire still. Yet even here martyrdom is a passive peaceful option if grace is given for it to this extreme - resisting temptation even to the point of shedding blood. The risk is then that violence might take us over as when Peter cut the High Priest's servant's ear.

In Jesus time on Earth all kinds of atrocities were being committed including the beheadng of John the cousin of Jesus - The Baptist. Jesus did not take up arms even then. That is for governments but governments were at that time the perpetrators so then it is for angels and eventually for God Himself who takes kingdoms and give kingdoms, exalts to kingship and humbles kings. In cases of injustice and atrocities seemingly unpunished there is prayer. God may answer prayers with what seems to the oppressors like atrocities or terrorism but has God's hand sometimes. Jesus now has David's throne and rules the kngdom of God which is believers but believers still have to pray and even to intercede for perpetrators and if it is a matter for Jesus the Lord then He will judge and show mercy as He deems fit according to God's will who gave Him The Kingdom. God as Father of the Kingdom folk loves them day by day and is very fatherly to them and notes those in His Son's kingdom with special love.

By a carpenter

"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade." - Desiderius Erasmus

The carpenter who with His Father made mankind does remake people using words of spirit and the faith and adherence those words inspire. Spirit is remaking a few people and influencing many of the others so that, by the resulting remade people, it becomes clear how the carpenter and His Father intends mankind to be - but eventually any who still are way off track the carpenter will have to finally destroy once the number of all the remade folk is complete in His eyes. If spirit is excluded by fools who maybe do not know what they do then there is nothing left by which the remaking is done - spirit and words of spirit are the only way used by the carpenter to remake anybody. To many the philosophy of the age excludes the importance of spirit so society suffers the neglect of salvation from the final destruction and the mini destructions that mark the lead to the carpenter taking over.

Of course He might have not actually have been a carpenter but He was known as a carpenter's son since people thought Joseph was His father, not realising He was Son of God, The Father.

Strive to Enter

“Do your best to go in through the narrow door; because many people will surely try to go in but will not be able. The master of the house will get up and close the door; then when you stand outside and begin to knock on the door and say, ‘Open the door for us, sir!’ he will answer you, ‘I don't know where you come from!’"
- Jesus of Nazareth, First Century AD

Summary so far

So now I summarise the Gospel as follows. It summarises both old and new testament to help people understand the way to be saved the destruction when God judges every dead and living person in the future.

The kingdom and throne of David as spoken of in scripture is a refuge for the people of faith to keep them safe under the auspices of Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God who can keep them because God is His Father and His God. This keeps them from evil as the wickedness pervades and  the hardness against the truth pervades that lost the Jews this Kingdom when they crucified Jesus the Christ who God sent them - His Son.

This fulfills the need for God to make some righteous and then to destroy the wicked with righteous judgment.

The ancient Jewish Law of Moses contains a description, effectively, of what God regards as right behaviour such as has been called righteousness. It does not have power to make you behave that way just by reading it. You might behave that way already without ever reading it. The will of God has been to save people by bringing them to behave rightly like the rigteousness described in the Law of Moses and then to rid the world of those still wicked by Jesus judging everyone justly. To bring this all about Jesus came. He taught how to follow Him once you believe in Him. The gospels tell about His time on Earth and how He came from being with the Creator during creation to being first a baby then working miracles as an adult and being crucified as the sacrifice to pay for wrong behaviour. God then raised Him to life again to never die again. This is truth you will know if you follow Jesus Christ and take the promise to geart He has given that in following Him you can find the right way to live to be saved the destruction of the coming judgment.

The only way to escape wrong behaviour is to follow Jesus as Jesus showed by dying for those who follow Him to pay for their wrongs. If people could have been made righteous another way He would not have died on a criss or even have come to die at all because He would not have needed to,

Jesus Christ by allowing His own crucifixion and death showed His 100% belief that following Himself is the only way to true righteousness like the righteousness the Law of Moses describes. It shows His belief in His own promises - promising that righteousness to those who believe in and follow Him. God seconded this belief by raising Him, His Son, from the dead and setting Him at His right hand as Lord and promised King - the Christ.

True Righteousness

Jesus Christ by allowing His own crucifixion and death showed His 100% belief that following Himself is the only way to true righteousness like the righteousness the Law of Moses describes. It shows His belief in His own promises - promising that righteousness to those who believe in and follow Him. God seconded this belief by raising Him, His Son, from the dead and setting Him at His right hand as Lord and promised King - the Christ.

Gospel

2 Chronicles 7:17-19 American Standard Version (ASV)

"And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and mine ordinances; then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel."

Psalm 132:10-12 American Standard Version (ASV)

"For thy servant David's sake Turn not away the face of thine anointed. Jehovah hath sworn unto David in truth; He will not turn from it: Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne. If thy children will keep my covenant And my testimony that I shall teach them, Their children also shall sit upon thy throne for evermore."

Isaiah 9:6-7 "For to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given; and the government shall be upon His shoulder, and His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father [of Eternity], Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from the [latter] time forth, even forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this."

Luke 1:31-33 American Standard Version (ASV)

"And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most High: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end."

Luke 12:31-33 American Standard Version (ASV)

"Yet seek ye his kingdom, and these things shall be added unto you. Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell that which ye have, and give alms; make for yourselves purses which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief draweth near, neither moth destroyeth."

Matthew 21:42-44 American Standard Version (ASV)

"Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner; This was from the Lord, And it is marvelous in our eyes? Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken away from you, and shall be given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. And he that falleth on this stone shall be broken to pieces: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will scatter him as dust."

It came to me as revelation in a dream but when I woke some of these verses came to mind to prove it and now more turns up in scripture too. It astonished me how God took this away from those who crucified His Son. I never put it all together till now. I had been asking God, after discussing the old and new covenants, to understand the new covenant. Last night it came in a dream and these verses. It is the new covenant to be a subject of Jesus as He is on David's throne and will reign over all the Earth soon. To be His means you are in this kingdom. He your king. He your Lord. Your Master. Knowing Him like this. He started and sealed it with His crucifixion blood. The Lamb of God. This is the new testament, new covenant, fulfilment of God's will which He, Lord Jesus will cause to be accomplished and you with Him if you are in His kingdom under this reign God gives Him on the throne of David. This is the Gospel.

Matthew 28:17-19 American Standard Version (ASV)

"And when they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted. And Jesus came to them and spake unto them, saying, All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth. Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit:"

What Did Christ Fulfill When He Fulfilled the Law?

So the fulfilment of Law by Christ - what was it really? It was to fulfill the purpose, as requested by the righteous of far distant past, that God find a right path toward destroying the wicked to cleanse the earth so righteousness could take over once and for all.

King David's Throne

The Kingdom of King David was foretold beyond King David's life to be eternal and now it is Lord Jesus, Isa, the Christ, on the throne of the Kingdom for ever but it has been taken from those who do not believe this and given to those who do. Not only is Jesus now Lord on the Throne of God at God's  right hand over the Universe, angels, nature but God has installed Him on King David's throne to rule over all kingdoms a thousand years after which it is prophesied He will give the kingdom over to the Father, His God.

Spiritual Gifts

Regarding spiritual gifts which come with the Gospel to believers, these gifts come, when authentic, from the Throne where Christ is installed where the Spirit is a river of life flowing from it out to the fearers of God who believe what God says through Jesus Christ. Remember. The new testament covenant had made it so people can receive this Spirit and these gifts, when authentic are the very real manifestation of that. It cost Jesus His blood on the Calvary cross and all through future history it will cost Him personally the devotion of His future life to the new covenant made by God with the new people He has bought. These gifts, do not despise them, when authentic, are the visible manifestation and guarantee by which we know this covenant of the new testament is real. They are a deposit of the reality of things to come including the Resurrection which is just as real as these gifts. The gifts prepare people, real people around the world, for this Resurrection - for the return of Jesus Christ. In some cultures it is a girl who is given a dowry by a suitor or the suitor's father - like Rebecca given a dowry by Isaac's father Abraham on Isaac's behalf so she could show that gift off to her father and mother and friends and relations as proof of the sincerity and reality of the suitor or suitor's father's intentions to marry her, if she agreed. Think how excited that makes her if the dowry is extravagant and the suitor has means to support her through having a wealthy father. Think how that is when the father and suitor are on the Throne of Glory over all the Universe!

Real gifts of the spirit give proof of where they are from - a taste of the glory of heaven and the powers that will raise the dead and the powers of the coming age. When real they leave you fully aware of that. And aware it all liies before you as a reality that can be yours when you persist in it obediently. Love God. Rejoice in the names written in heaven and the manifestation of that in these gifts being found on earth in real people's lives. Ignore the false manifestations and rejoice in the real ones. Let the real ones build you up and bring you into being part of God's Temple if you are worthy of that by His grace and faith in Jesus Chirst - faith in His blood.

Amazing Grace

Do you think a lot about what Christian scriptures call gifts of the Spirit - also known as charismata - grace gifts? Maybe it worries you that if you continue to follow Jesus Christ you will come to experience such things. Focus on grace - all that it is. It is a way of living. It is underpinned by certainty that God won't let you down if you truly follow His Son - like Peter walking on water because he was told to do so by the Lord Jesus. How grace manifests is not so important as the importance of basing your life on it. If you fear the unknown then just remember it is Jesus who calls you to it. If you trust Him because of who He is then you will overcome that fear.

An Excerpt of Jesus Christ's Teaching (John 8)

An except of Jesus Christ's teaching from not long before His crucifixion as recorded in the Gospel book of John (chapter 8):

"... I have much more I could say to judge you. But I tell people only what I have heard from the one who sent me, and he speaks the truth.”

They did not understand who he was talking about. He was telling them about the Father. So he said to them, “You will lift up the Son of Man. Then you will know that I Am. You will know that whatever I do is not by my own authority. You will know that I say only what the Father has taught me. The one who sent me is with me. I always do what pleases him. So he has not left me alone.” While he was saying these things, many people believed in him.

So Jesus said to the Jews who believed in him, “If you continue to accept and obey my teaching, you are really my followers.You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

They answered, “We are Abraham’s descendants. And we have never been slaves. So why do you say that we will be free?”

Jesus said, “The truth is, everyone who sins is a slave—a slave to sin. A slave does not stay with a family forever. But a son belongs to the family forever. So if the Son makes you free, you are really free.

An Opinion - My Hunch

Maybe many, many people in Christian circles are unaware of the significance of the words in John 8. The masses could perhaps be ever hearing and not understanding even in Christian circles and Muslim circles. The possibility occurs to me that just as I went years oblivious to this message so others are like that too. Do people trust all sorts of things about Church but not yet trust Jesus Christ. Likewise in mosques perhaps Mohamed is trusted and his prophesies but not the Christ in whose name the prophesies seem to be given - Isa, the Lord and Judge over all. I want to share the whole messsge is that there is righteousness to be found by trusting Jesus, Isa, Yeshua - sent from God for our salvation. It means to follow Him. It means to let life come to you all through your days from Him to make you righteous for the sake of His name, as God intended. It means letting Him change you for the better until you are a true child of God in true nature and not just in name. It means consenting to Him changing you and making you a new creation. Making you righteous. Setting you free. Then letting you live to love others like you.

Knowing Him Who Made You

He, way back, was in the world, as John wrote in his gospel, and though it was made by Him - and we too were made by His powerful authority and name - even what was made by Him did not know Him. So the opposite of this - knowing Him rather than merely knowing about Him - is to realise the reality of the existence of the One who made you - who made me - so that when that One comes to you personally like He did to people long ago - but this time by spirit reaching out to you - when He knocks on your heart's door you really spiritually know it is the One who made you - your Master - who is there and you open to Him and because you have this faith in Him He can make your heart His home. This Master who made you can be your soul mate. He who rests in the very bosom of the Father can make His home with you and then you know Him.

Kingdom of God

When we work a miracle or pray through into reality a wish for justice we are involving God in the world and increasing His influence by bringing to bear on the world around us the existence of God - the highest divine creator Spirit - and the belief we have that He will act on our behalf when we pray. This is increasing the Kingdom of God - bringing it. We have a capability initialised in us when we hear of God and things He has said that gives us a tiny but powerful ability to believe He exists and will act in answer to prayer - even our prayers - even if we are insignificant. His answers are with power we cannot imagine. Use that little muscle in your head that can assert His ability and will to do what even you ask. Once you use this in prayer - not just praying it but believing in certainty He will answer the prayer justly and He knows true justice - you will find this thing called by Jesus Christ 'faith' is like a little muscle you have and can use over and over. You know you've got it when you've successfully used it and after a few successes it feels like part of you. You will find you have the Kingdom of God within you.

Climate Change

Science says - "Oops we might have shot the planet and ourselves in the foot with industrialisation probably causing destructive climate change". Christ says - "Stop destroying the planet by turning your life around starting here with Me and then starting with cutting out the lies and lying. Then hold to My teachings and I'll free you from your other blunders too." Now that I can go with - especially as I learn Christ actually got crucified so it could work out for me - that shows me there is a reason to strive for better and there is a real God in ultimate charge

The Existence of Teaching Spirits Throughout History

So, folk, how do you feel about the existence of spirit teachers and one great Spirit teacher who have been teaching the same teachings nowadays as they taught leaders in ancient Sumeria? The ideas and knowledge of humans change over time as new information is added to old - like with ways to determine the position in the season cycle of the current actual day - moon being the easiest sign since it goes through simple cycles but then sun and stars showing that moon is insufficient. The two get put together by early man but it is complex. Then spirits teach how to make sense of it all and not only do you get a calendar but a sage-seer leader to teach it to others and a repository of writings considered sacred to save humans from the evils of ignirance so they can plant crops. The same spirits still exist and occassionally show their existence by teaching and helping humans throughout history and today. Their teachings don't change like progressive human knowledge.

Why is the Death of Jesus Christ So Important?

What is so interesting about the crucifixion of Jesus the Christ? Take your mind to the days of Rome in the time that Peter and Paul lived there and walked the streets much like people walk similar streets in Rome today. They were both there because they witnessed a person called Jesus of Nazareth the Christ. They knew a moment had happened in their lifetimes that we think of today - the Christ Jesus had lived and spent years doing miracles but had been crucified. Both had seen this Jesus alive after that crucifixion. What actually made this event cause them to end up in Rome and us now to make much of the crucifixion that took place a thousand miles from Rome but was so important they had to be there years after it in Rome to take a message about it to the centre of the Roman Empire at its height? It was this - the start of a new covenant by God with mankind. It was spilt blood but sacred blood that marked a new time in the peace possible between man and Creator, God. It made union with God a real possibility, even for pagans who believed it. Even for you and me whatever your background or religion of culture.

Isaiah Prophesied Of Jesus

The ancient prophet Isaiah was foretold he would be sharing a name with a future coming salvation. The salvation would be in the form of a man with a very similar name to his - his name is Yesha‘yahu in Hebrew and the salvation would come through somebody of whom he was like a sign - the name of Jesus in Hebrew is Yeshua. Isa in Arabic - similar to Isaiah. The similarity of name was pushed home when children born to Isaiah had to be given sign names. And around this time the name Immanuel was prophesied too to show that Jesus would mean that the salvation of God was so close since Immanuel means God with us.

Read more in Isaiah 7 and 8

except (16-18):

"Bind up the testimony; seal up the teaching among my disciples. I will wait for the Lord, who has hidden his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in God. Look! I and the children the Lord gave me are signs and wonders in Israel from the Lord of heavenly forces, who lives on Mount Zion..."

How we Learned the Earth is not Flat

Much of modern science came from Bablyon and that time - trigonometry especially plus planetary science. Stone Henge may evidence knowledge from the earliest times of Old Babylon and Predynastic Egypt. Emmeduranki was probably the first planetary scientist, 3000 BC. (Sumerian Enoch.) The sources of such knowledge were of course excitingly mysterious. They knew about planetary orbits. They understood the roles of the Sun and Moon in year lengths and timing of crop seasons. Their calendar knowledge got lost by the Egyptians later plunging them into famine because they lost track of the seasons. The Sumerians knew about 365 day years and leap years and finer details people are largely ignorant of even today but the height of Greek wisdom established again with gadgets helping them like the Antikythera mechanism - a superb if slightly inaccurate calendar and eclipse predicting mechanical computer. So the Greeks revived the wisdom of Sumeria and Babylon, building on it. Computer science was probably largely invented by whoever invented devices like the Antikythera mechanism and then by Aristotle with his move toward formal logic and logic mathematical symbols but the Islamic trade travellers and sages seem to have made a leap in this computing and in planetary science for travel for trade routes with their wisdom like their zairja gadget - which they attributed back to Enoch (Idris). Ramon Llull reinvented it in Europe as his Ars Magna and Lebnitz used this know-how to create computer science and modern philosophy concepts - though not popular until Bertrand Russell documented and formalised it all and these guys were building foundations for modern physics maths and astrophysics we got with people like Einstein and Hilbert (plus nuclear power). 'Shoulders of giants' but angels were the basis of planetary science via Enoch - not giants. And Enoch, Emmeduranki, wasn't just taught by the angels but was inspired by the same Holy Spirit who teaches us today of the wonders of Creation and of the Creator Father and Son team.

The Truth Which Shows the Falsity in Trinity Doctrine

Jesus has at some point in past before time been conceived by God when God who is from everlasting to everlasting became Father - and His children are always His children once He calls then sons and daughters. Trinity disputes this. The Spirit we do not know about in this sense we know eternal past concerning God and Jesus. He cannot be God or if Trinity doctrine is correct then the teaching of Jesus would be made a nonsense that blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is unforgiveable whereas blasphemy against God is forgiveable. If Trinity doctrine is correct that the Spirit IS God then Jesus saying that the blasphemy against God is forgiveable but blasphemy against the Spirit is unforgiveable becomes nonsensicle.

How Jesus Fulfilled and Completed the Law

Jesus has always been since before time - the Son of God who with God created all things - always had a knowledge of righteousness which to some extent was put into the Law - but this righteousness is most perfect at source in the knowledge Jesus had from before time - direct one-to-one close knowledge of the Father who is perfect - and this complete knowledge of God's righteousness and complete obedience to it and complete righteousness as the Righteous One who is righteous enough to well please the Father - when this Jesus came in flesh as a human to live here 2000 years ago it conpleted the picture of righteousness that was started in the Law. It excelled the Law but was what the Law could bately capture because the Law was limited by what could be written in words and what people with a tendency to limit law's scope by their hardness could be given as Law. Jesus Himself coming greatly increased the scope and power of how righteousness that actually pleases God could be passed on to humans but it required Jesus to speak truthfully - which He does always - and the Spirit after Him to pass on truth in words but more than words too - passing in that righteous way truthfully now that Jesus has introduced it and made the way for it by His blood - His crucifixion death on a cross - and it all requires the hearer and receiver of all this to have faith in that truthfulness and in the pleasure Jesus is as righteous Son to God so people believe this is the true way towards pleasing God righteously. Plus Jesus now sympathises with our weaknessnes so can be our Great High Priest with all that entails.

Christ is Greater Than the Law of Moses

We followers (or would-be followers) of Christ do not follow the Law of Moses because we at least have it in the gospel that Christ was able to explain the background of a law of Moses and give a better version of how it would have been if there had not been hardness - so showing the weakness in the commands given as laws - the context of the people first receiving those laws affecting what could be given. The example given was Christ speaking about the Moses law for divorce and Christ knowing better having been at the giving of those laws and being at the side of God and being the very wisdom of God and having all the fulness of divinity. So we can be sure Christ knows how the laws should have been and can give us His knowledge by the Spirit now given us - if we believe and receive Him, the Holy Uncreated Spirit,  in Christ's name. Scripture alone does not give this but only a taster. We need the Spirit and to be born again so we follow the leadership of the Spirit who has the fulness of what Christ has which all comes from the Father, God.

I don't know for certain whether Leviticus 19 verse 27 forbids shaving - no human on Earth does. So nobody can know with certainty if they have broken this law and therefore The Law as a whole. I guess there are similar exanples affecting women. So you might find one concordance that gets you out of the guilt but how do you know a better concordance might drop you back into the guilt. Nobody can become righteous with any certainty this way. Jesus the Christ is the only certainty and the Spirit given by God in Jesus' name. Their testimony is valid because they do know all the law but know the perfect way they teach too. This perfect way is what they offer - not perfect keeping of the Law. 

Religious Experiences

A human communicated to me by spiritual means some twenty years ago who I straightaway thought to be the same one born of a virgin two thousand years before who died and rose from the dead - death by crucifixion - and appeared visibly standing on a shore as disciples of His fished in boats away from that shore and He spoke to me like He had spoken to them - to work a sign to show Himself as Lord over Nature. The Prince of princes. Before He was born He had spoken as human in the hearing of a now very famous prophet and commanded to one of the highest angels what to tell the human prophet. All this came to me days after the Father and God of this human came in a dream to me and spoke of things to do to help my fellows in my workplace with a coming marriage - signalling my own meeting of my future wife perhaps who I didn't yet know would be my wife but it was a wife for which I had been pleading with God. Weeks later I witnessed the grace of the Holy Spirit in a meeting with tongues being spoken of angel origin and being given in my own spirit the interpreted words in my own tongue - telling the glory of the name of the human who had spoken to me from heaven and proven to me miraculously by spirit who He is. Then still later I was told of the sins of God's people and the sign to show it which happened straight after and love for this God came to mind as something to be shown by each one loved by Him and that the voice is important to tell these things loudly to all. This was the word given to me "Israel has sinned". And the sign was the Gulf Wars and mass surveillance like a black eagle with white eye flying overhead.

Spiritual Rebirth

Spiritual rebirth is where spirit does so much in a discple of Jesus Christ that it supercedes natural birth. It can be a result of holding to Jesus' sayings in scripture or the work of the Holy Spirit now He is sent in Jesus' name - including inspired preaching. Truth sets free. Starting to hold to the spirit words can be for a while before truth sets free but the promise of Jesus is there all the while. Truth of which Jesus spoke is the truth He is Son of the God the Father as seen in God raising Him from the dead. Realising it fully sets free and puts love of brothers who also believe permanently into the heart. You cannot unknow it but you can be cast out of the Vine you are part of as a branch - Jesus is the Vine and the Father is the gardener who can do the casting out - if you don't hold faithfully to the spirit sayings and truth that put you in the Vine.


Recorded in the Gospel of John chapter 8 there is the description by Jesus Christ of permanent membership versus temporary servitude in God's house - only permanence classes as sonship because there are no temporary sons. In the first letter of John, 1 John , combined with John 8 it is shown that permamence comes only from the One who is permament already in God's house - the Son of God, Jesus. He only makes permanent sons of God - the temps are but servants - servants of sin whose sonship is sonship of Satan - rebirth makes them permanent - permanent sons of God - in all of 1 John he never mentions anything about being unborn or needing rebirth again - only non-sons need rebirth in all of 1 John. Plenty of times he says people behaving unlike sons have never been sons because sons do not behave like non-sons in regard to hatred of sons and lies - at least, not in a persistent way. Temporary non-son behaviour is corrected by life from God through Christ His Son, such as after prayer by intercessors who can be Jesus and can be other sons. You are either a permanent son or not a son at all.




Knowing the Truth leading to sonship? For me, it was asking God to show me Father Son and Spirit then when He did just that it was Jesus He showed me, Jesus showing Himself with perfect clarity as indeed Jesus and as my Lord and Master, this of course results in my unevitable conclusion in my heart of hearts that Jesus is God's divine Son. To make it all the more certain God showed me Himself the Father and the Holy Spirit worked in me to show Himself too and a brother who also had the same Spirit who spoke of the Lordship of Jesus Christ using tongues and interpretation of that heavenly tongue.

Keep The Gospel free of Worldliness

Don't mix worldly teachings in with Jesus' teachings so it makes no sense. Worldly evangelists say - pray this or admit to this and that and you'll be fine - saved! Always saved because what you did will always be there in your past as a one-off event. God will honour it.
Jesus says - believe He IS then hold to His teachings and wait while holding to them for a truth that He will give you. You do and it is always there in your future that in obedience you will keep adhering - unless you are not a true adherer and therefore not a true disciple. If you do what Jesus says is God's will and you get the promised truth from Him it gives you confiedence He accepts you as a disciple but in obedience you keep on adhering. His promise is also that freedom puts you in a permanent place with God. You only now need to demonstrate to the universe that God is true by your permanence vindicating what Jesus taught. He said you need to remain by His word remaining in you and John later said by His truth remaining in you too (John wrote it after that truth was materislised in the truth of Jesus being crucified then raised). So keep His words to receive His blood/bought truth then keep His words and that truth to renain in Him and bear fruit for God's glory. All the time loving enough to obey Him and believing that He truly IS and hoping in Him, loving the others in Him like He does and the truth commands us - to be what the truth makes us.

Peer Review of Advice to Enquirers by Evangelists

A typical modern way of leading enquirers (not anything personal is intended - just a peer review of the kind of advice frequently given) is to say "accept Jesus as your Lord and Saviour" and yet there are words attributed to Jesus Himself "Not everyone who says to me 'Lord, Lord' will enter the kingdom of God". Is this advice people give enquirers in contradiction to Jesus' own advice. One advises to say effectively to Jesus "Lord, Lord" - to accept Him as Lord and Saviour. The other says this is not enough. Who is right? The teachers of our day or Jesus Himself? What does Jesus say? Does what Jesus says make a difference to what teachers and evangelists of our day say to enquirers?

The Way of True Discipleship of Christ

Jesus Christ taught that true discipleship is about holding to His teachings. His teachings require certain changes to people's behaviour. Before such changes He showed how people's behaviour marks us a being evil and effectively children not of God but of God's evil chief adversary. Key behaviour of this adversary of God and all of us us lying. It is clear to me that by not lying I have committed to the first key change required and I hold to the spirit words that this is indeed required of me and all who would be a true disciple. So this is a discipleship step, as is the faith to start to be a disciple - faith that Jesus IS.
But the kind of discipleship that is true is not unreal - it involves slips and falls. Peter was rebuked by Paul for hypocrisy - the kind that Jesus rebuked in hypocrites too - but that does not mean Peter was just a hypocrite. He was a true disciple. He fell and had to be put right and once put right he became a true disciple again. Jesus promises righteousness to true disciples. I might lie at some time but I try not to and my slavery to lying was broken when the gospel of Christ having died for me sunk in one time when it was preached well and I was ready to hear it properly and the Holy Spirit came upon me and broke the lying habit that I had had as a teen. If I do lie and err it isn't the end as long as I get back up or someone picks me up but I do need forgiveness from God and maybe anyone offended by the lie or hypocrisy. I don't always notice so I tend to ask almost daily in case or especially if aware of a slip. But I continue in the way of discipleship and amazing hope from Jesus with thanks to God. Really this is the only true way - the real one. Anyone tell you different don't listen - but maybe you might just have misunderstood them. The Lord makes it clear. Besides lies Jesus mentions hatefulness or murderousness and adultery but I pick on lying like He did because it is s key evil way we get from Satan that has to stop when discipleship truly starts. John 8, etc.

The Law of Love

Regarding the Law of Moses, freedom in Christ should not be set aside for Jewish Law even though the Law was given by God and Christ did not abolish it but rather brought it to its ultimate goal by creating a new way while including the old - like Eve being formed from the rib of Adam. The way to seek now is the new way and it is marked by freedom. How is it if He created a new way while including the old that the new way doesn't require obedience to the old way except in the summation of it - love? He kept the rules of the old way whose summation is love and He died so the rules of the Law of Moses lost power over Him when He rose from the dead but the summation of them - love - remained in Him as it does even after death when we keep our love. So we obey risen Lord Jesus and this means obeying His love and sharing in the same love He has. Love for His followers plus love that even extends to His enemies and bears with them to some extent - whatever we learn is true of His present day love is our duty to share. This is the new way.

The Son of Man will Soon be King

The Son of Man will Soon be King

The Lordship and Anointing for Kingship of the Son of Man is subject of the gospel but it is little understood. Few preach about there being a Son of Man becauee for many preachers this is a name shrouded in mystery. Yet it is clearly used as a name for Himself by Jesus when He was among the people of Judea and Samaria in the flesh having been born of a virgin under the power of the Holy Ghost. He meant His special suitability to be Lord over all humans having been Lord over angels and forces of Nature before He took human form as a baby. This taking of human form would be first of two steps necessary to secure God, His Father's, plan to place Him over all His works including humanity and God's temple anong humans which He would build. The last step to complete it would be for Him to die at human hands under human rule and Mosaic Law and then to rise to unique eternal resurrection life as the firstborn from the dead. Already He had been firstborn over all the Universe we see and all creation we do not see but He had also to become firstborn from the dead - The Resurrection. All this. when it was future in heaven before He came, gave Him a name Son of Man as the One chosen of God to bring all rule together including sinful man and finally hand it to the Father. This is the work for which the Father anointed Him and proclaimed the angels should worship Him. Soon He will be seen by all coming in the clouds - coming to reign. Eternal life is so far only His to have and give because He alone is the eternal Resurrection. It is only those in Him who have this available to them because it is only there in Him not given except in Him. To have it or a part in it in your future it is only there for you in Him so you have to remain in Him to receive any of it and to have it there for you when you die so He resurrects you who are His. That is ONLY if you are His and remain in Him and His words and truth remains in you.

God's Limited Palette

I try and always write my comments with this smartphone. It is like a painting artist using a limited palette - if you don't know, well a limited palette is where you paint a painting using only maybe six or seven colours of paint or even less perhaps - partly as a discipline and partly for the design effect a bit like Japanese minimalism. Using only a smartphone is also a way to bridge a generation gap with people who never got into PCs or mainframes and landline telephones and even typewriters. Why say this? It is by way of explaining my theory or belief that Jesus is God's limited palatte. God used Jesus who would always one day become flesh so was called Son of Man and God involved Him and perhaps made Him to be the One through whom all things were made. He became like us so some may be saved by His human understanding of us. And to rule us by being Lord yet being able to be Lord over nature and angels and now us too using only limited powers we ourselves might use! With faith and righteousness. So God is behind it all pulling the strings of yhe Universe and angels and even Jesus and eventually us. How do we know this? Because He calmed the storm so they said even the winds obeyed Him yet He taught them to do the same as He did by using faith like He had which even they could have too - in the Father, God - and do as He as Lord. He is Lord because He masters faith and teacher because He teaches us to do the same. God's limited palatte.

The Son of Man is Lord over the Sabbath

The Son of Man is lord over the Sabbath
The words we have in scripture that Jesus spoke after explaining that the Sabbath was made by God for man, not man for the Sabbath. A day in every week for rest. Even the week came from God. It is known all over the world through almost all history as a series of cycled seven day periods with one day marking the cycle and the last day of the cycle is set apart by the God who made the Universe and by the Son of God with whom God made the Universe and this last day of the cycle is a rest day for humans. God gave it to descendants of His human friend Abraham even though that meant intervening for them to enforce their masters to let them have it as a weekly day off. Later He said those living near them who wanted to show honour to thrir God could rest on the seventh dsy too as a mark of their devotion to let them have an outlet of love for The Creator God, this real life God the Jews were saved by out of slavery. So it was for human benefit God gave it both as a rest day and as a means of expressing love in obedience to God whose command it is. Now Jesus the Son of God shows who He is in history when saying that He is lord of this day because He said He is lord over it on the basis of being made for mankind and God had made Jesus the Lord over mankind so hence He is lord over this sabbath given by God for mankind. But most noticably He said "Son of Man" showing clearly He is made exactly like man by birth as a human in order to best benefit those over whom God has made Him Lord - hence showing the reason He is called since ages past "Son of Man" even before coming as a man when He was Lord over angels with God and nature itself - as made known to the earliest human prophets like Enoch in Sumerian times, before God had even appeared to Abraham, before even the pyramids or Stone Henge were built. Now appeared in flesh Jesus makes known to us all who He is and what His purpose is - to receive authority to rule over humans too, especially thise who want to show devotion to the God who with Him had created the Universe and given mankind the week and the weekend command of a rest day to honour Him with and in love to obey His command willingly if we so wish to have such a command to obey.

Divine Love

Like a good father The Holy Spirit is there in labour and birth and childhood through to maturity so you can be children of God by following Him. This is real not theory or mere metaphor - it is a present person making you God's all along the way with visits like fraternal visits of a hard working father who is out and about but still makes time to ensure he stays in your life too among all the other lives he gets involved in. You can put confidence in His doing this to make you holy as He is holy and you need not put confidence in rites like circumcision and feaste which were an old way before this way that trunps those human flesh things. So many depend on human action to keep them from unworthy living - and Gid did give those at one time to hekp before He gave a new way. Even Moses was compelled by God's wrath against him to get circumcised and keep the way of Law and flesh but now that Christ has been crucified and the Spirit is given therenis a eay of Spirit and life in the Spirit. So find it. Let it find you.

The Spirit is given as you truly believe in that cross, God's cross, the cross of the crucifixion of His own dear Son Jesus, as you receive THIS TRUTH: that it includes YOU. That God's grace reaches even you. Yes you. That it is even for you.

I too have to realise that Jesus of Nazareth did actually die and His death's benefit to others actually includes me - he died on that cross for me - but he did so also for you. Yes I have to realise you reading it was also for - that the death that makes the Spirit rightfully given was for you the reader of this. You who read this are one for whom Jesus the Christ of God died. This qualifies you, if you receive this truth of his crucifixion death, for the Spirit to come to you and give you truth and truthfulness and power of truthfulness within you. The way is to let this take over and lead.

Not only is it Spirit being given you that Christ dying for you entitles you to (when you receive the truth of it) but when floods of judgment come from God then mercy in the midst of it by power from Jesus - living Jesus the true Christ and Son of God - here and now in this day and age we live in.


It is for you WHO BELIEVE - for you who have faith in God the Father for whom Jesus taught and in whose authority Jesus leads and does His work.


Just like God honours my faith - your faith you who have real faith in Him - so He honours Jesus' faith and loves Jesus.

This gives me - you too who have real faith in God - real unity with Jesus.

In Jesus' case though this honouring by the Father has been that Jesus is alive from the dead raised by the Father - eternally. So I realise even as I think of these things.

But say it - He is blessed who comes in Jesus' name such as the Spirit who comes in Jesus' name and Jesus is blessed who comes in the Father's name and the Father is blessed who sends the Spirit and sent and sends and will send Jesus and raised Jesus from the dead and can raise those worthy of it too as Jesus does this in the will of the Father who sent Him and sends Him.


Rebirth

Personally I grew up in a pastor's home with everyone assuming I knew all I needed to know because I could quote scripture more than everyone else but I didn't even know what sexual immorality or sin meant having read the Bible for myself with nobody explaing such things because I was so young and by the time I should have understood everyone thought I must already know because I quoted the scriptures so much. Or maybe I annoyed them so much they were happy to keep me in the dark. Plus the scriptures told me not to major on meanings of words so anyway I still don't know what all those things even are. But I read to find out what rebirth means in Jesus' teaching (like a 'Zaccheus') wanting to see for myself. What I do understand a bit is lying and I don't understand much else (and I don't kniw all the meaning of what lying is in some ways either like is it a lie to hide truth or think an untruth or possible untruth in my head?). I find it clear that Jesus made a promise to each person who holds to His teachings and He was addressing mixed mental capability people including unschooled ones. His promise of righteousness seems to be very inclusive by majoring in John 8 on what is most obviously evil like lies and murderous love of people being killed and I can accept it on general terms like I'm sure He meant it - it is of Satan - a very powerful primal spirit influencing everyone in the Earth (or trying to do so) - and against God to lie and hate like that. This little bit I can accept and it seems enough for me and others. It is enough to hold to this clear understandable tenet of His and wait for His promise to be faithfully met by Him  while keeping these clear evils out of my life as others do too. His promise of truth that sets free seems to be fulfilled in two things that followed His John 8 sermon about this - His death for us to make a new truth exist - 'the gospel' of His crucifixion and resurrection - then the coming of a Holy Spirit to reveal and apply truth to the heart of the believer in this gospel.

Defense Against Judaization

The teachings of Christ major on teachings like the Good Samaritan and most non-Jews know this even though they know nothing of the Jewish Law in scripture. Yet when I see a cyclist who has been knocked down in the city street by a motorist, the Lord's (Jesus') testimony is true that there are some who go near to help while others walk on by and there seems to be no obvious correlation between church going and the divide between good Samaritans and those who carry on walking. First aid training might make more difference than church attendance but I do not know. The fact is about 30-50% seem to be willing to help but less than 10% go to church here so many help but do not go to church. I guess the truth is still the way Jesus told it even with there being a church besides a synagogue. Still the place for Law is synagogue and the place for gospel is the church and the synagogue too and even the marketplace and Internet. Only those under Law need Law but everyone needs gospel. If you are seriously worried the Law needs pushing and preserving then keep it where it belongs - synagogue.

A Minimum Read of Scripture for those who are able to Grasp it

Everyone with a bank account ought to check the balance from time to time even if you aren't a fastidious book keeper. You can go overdrawn with your spiritual account too and if you are not a Jew but are in Christ the miminum check is to read Galatians and see if maybe you are in danger if falling from grace. Don't wait till a leader tells you - they might be ignoring their own spiritual bank balance too. I don't preach study of scripture to all because not all are capable but God is still loving towards them. Yet if you can read it a bit and don't know the Law because it doesn't apply to you in Christ, at least have a look at Galatians and see the Law must not be allowed to enslave you with its feasts and especially its circumcision.

Seeing the Kingdom of God when Born Again

As for the born again SEEING the Kingdom of God, maybe the revelation testimony I have throws light some (few) might find acceptable on that. I had a task given me twenty years ago to lead a house group 'Bible study' and I tried to pick a topic I would find satisfying thinking others might also find it satisfying too. I always wanted to know what scripture meant by heaven so I picked the book of Psalms and dilligently combed my way through it looking for any indication of where heaven is and what is meant by it. I was suprised and delighted to find a lot of clarity and consistency about heaven being just  above the clouds. It includes the clouds. It means the God controls the weather by the word of His power and uses the weather to show that rule and power to humans. I even invoked it when I found a Psalm to the effect of asking God to bring an end to an evil among men affecting the invoker in asking God to rend the heavens and come down and scatter the enemies. I invoked it against the local authority for which I worked and it was scattered and ended by it because they were making my employment seven years of hell. I found God accompanied my efforts to rebuke the top boss there in answer to my invokation by sending a terrible storm to rage all the time I was before a board of top managers as I tried to show them their fault. After that it was only weeks before word came from central gov that the large council would be abolished and all the employees sent to surrounding councils to work. Only a few remained with the immediate lesser authority in the city and I was with them. I used the knowledge of this sense of heaven to lead the study. A little later I was asking to see Jesus (and God and the Spirit) - not by seeing His resurrected flesh but by some showing of Himself to me. I had taken my study further finding it was clear in prophesy that floods are how God judges nations. A flood had come to my city (Wikipedia and news stories mentioned it) and the river was in flood. A psalm said to go and see the works of God and destructions He has wrought so I did. Living by a bridge over the river I went in torrential rain with a huge umbrella to see it and think of it as God in His power causing it. On the way back I had the voice of Jesus in my spirit and mind say emphatically and very authoritatively "Put down your umbrella!" I told you the test already but when I did so the torrential rain stopped so quick not a drop seemed to touch me. I knew it was Jesus and later He proved it again. In my mind and spirit now I can picture it with a spiritual focus even while I walk in town and it is like SEEING the power of the rule of God.

The Kingdom of God

Kingdom of God seems to me to go like this. If I do what human government does not want me doing I could in some cases be called a criminal. If I do what goes against what God wants me to do I am in this case not doing His will and His will is higher than the will of human government so I could be worse than criminal in some cases. If I do what He wills then this is better and saves me from a worse situation than if were labelled a criminal in what I do by human government. This is God's government higher than human government. It is what makes it best to be found doing God's will and what makes it dangerous to be doing otherwise. God wills that we believe in His Son - believe in His being who He is with the name He has - and then we give up lies and hated first and foremost because they are of Satan and against His will. Then God's will is that we hold to what He have Jesus to teach all our lives. The truth we learn as a result sets us free from doing what is against God's will so God wills we hold to the truth we receive from the first time we start receiving truth after we learn this will of God - and live according to it all our lives. The transformation of liar to truth teller then truth abider is by the power of the Holy Spirit and by the power of the spirit and truth in Jesus' words and sayings and deeds from God. So Jesus calls it rebirth because it takes the place in God's eyes of human birth which was not enough - this being born again makes us children of God in thr kingdom of God. It seems from Paul's teachings to coincide with starting to be led by the Spirit of God. In Jesus' teaching it coincides with being spoken to by the Spirit and recognising the Spirit like a wind blowing. Receiving living workings of the Spirit and not just the spirit in His teachings.

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Truth Gets Sacrificed to Exalt its Supposed Teachers

Why do so many want to rob The Father of the rightful worship that He is The God? Jesus had the means and position to claim this accolade for Himself too besides the Father being The God. Had Jesus done so it would have meant His proclaiming the Father to be The God but also the Son as being The God but Jesus DID NOT PROCLAIM THIS and instead He proclaimed the Father alone to be The God - His God -and He proclaimed Himself to be The Lord. For this reason (and for other ways that He pleased The Father) The God proclamied Jesus to be His Son. Why are so many trying so very hard to deny or avoid these truths? Maybe it is in order to promote themselves (the very thing Jesus refused to do Himself) and to promote their teaching - maybe for this reason, this cause, these truths about God are being wickedly suppressed. In my experience and frustration of early in life seeking after righteousness it does seem that truth is made a sacrifice for the promotion and exaltation of the many trinitarians who claim to be its teacher. Repent while you can for the sake of righteousness and the name of God He gives His Son.

How to know all this is true? On one hand The Father told first century (AD) Israel by these ways: Miracles He personally gave Jesus to do (the gospel records record many that He did); teachings He gave Jesus to teach (the gospel records tell what some of them were/are); the voice by which He spoke from heaven (the gospels record it as do epistles). So we have scripture - even if we aren't sure of the translation and meaning in detail. The Father told me in a dream twenty years ago too but maybe you discount that - obviously I don't and cannot. On the other hand Jesus testified of this truth too. Again found in scripture. Those who have witnessed Him since can back it up in what we see He is like but the detail of what He said is still for many of is most clear in scripture but the Spirit brings it to those born of God too and some of it to the world maybe.

Jesus still does the mighty works from God today - and through history we can probably find records of His works; plus there is the Spirit working the works of God the Father and of Lord Jesus in believers down the ages (having started to be recorded in books like Acts) and I expect there are many books to be found recording such works down through history.

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The Spirit

The Spirit, actually the seven spirits from before the throne of the One God, looks throughout the Earth to see who fears God and keeps His commands and He indwells each who He sees truly belongs to Christ and He speaks to them but they know not whence He comes to them and whither He goes. Then out of them comes this river of life that He is. All in the name that was from before the beginning of time in which all nature works and this name belongs to Lord Jesus the anointed One of God, the Son of  God the Father.

Holy Spirit and Son of Man (Kurdish translation)

هەولى سپيەرەت ئيت جيين سەچ ئە وەندە ذات ذە سێيم هەولى سپيەرەت هاز بين ئەراوند ئينسپايەرينگ پييپەل ئۆن ئێث ئاسەتێيند ثاوزەندز ئەڤ ييەز ئە مێسەج ئاى ويتنەست فرەم هيم وۆز سەو كلەوسلى ئايدێنتيكەل ئين سەبستەنس ئاند ئين سەم ئەڤ ذە وێدينگ تو ئە مێسەج فيوو بيلييڤد هيى سپەوك فايڤ ثاوزەند ييەز ئەگەو باى ئينسپايەرينگ وەن ئەڤ ذە فێست ئێڤە پرۆفەتس كەمپلييت ئين ئێينشنت ئيراك ئاند بيكۆز هادلى ئێنيوەن بيلييڤز ئيت وۆز

هيى ذێن ئاز ناو گيڤز ويتنەس كەنسێنينگ ذە هێڤەنلى سەن ئەڤ مان ئاند ذە نێيم ئەڤ ذيس سەن ئەڤ مان ئاند ذە ئەثۆرەتى ئين ذە نێيم ئەڤ ذيس لۆد ويى تەدێى نەو ئاز ئييسە ئۆر جييزەس ذە ڤێرى فابريك ئەڤ نێيچەر ئەدهيەز بريك نێيم ئاند باى ذيس نێيم ذە هەولى سپيەرەت سێز ئييڤەن ذە ترييز ئەڤ كريێيشەن گرەو ئاند پوت ئاوت ذێيە

ذيس تێلز ئەس ذات ذيس سەن ئەڤ مان هاز ئيگزيستەد سينس بيفۆ سەچ نێيچەر ستاتەد بيكۆز هيز نێيم ئاند ئيت ئۆل وێن ئيت وۆز جەست ذە كريێيتە ويذ نۆت يێت ئێنى كريێيشەن ذێيە وۆز ذيس سەن ئەڤ مان ئاند هيز نێيم ئەڤ ئاند سەپرييم ئەثۆرەتى باى ويچ نێيچەر كێيم تو بيى سەو وێن ذێيە وۆز جەست ذە كريێيتە ئاند نۆت يێت ذە كريێيتەد نێيچەر ويى ئا پارت ئەڤ تەدێى ذە سەن


Holy Spirit

Holy Spirit

It's such a wonder that the same Holy Spirit has been around inspiring people on Earth so many thousands of years. A message I witnessed from Him was so closely identical in substance and in some of the wording to a message few believed He spoke fuve thousand years ago by inspiring one of the first ever prophets with it in Sumerian ancient Iraq and because hardly anyone believes it was from that time and from the Holy Spirit but I do it helps me be sure it was not a trick that I heard such a similar message given in tongues with interpretation in a UK church twenty years ago. He then as now gives witness concerning the heavenly Son of Man and the name of this Son of Man and the authority in the Name of this Lord we today know as Isa or Jesus. The very fabric of natute adheres to this name and by this name, the Holy Spirit says, even the trees of creation grow snd put out their buds year after year. This tells us that this Son of Msn has existed since before such nature started since His name so underpins and authorises it all. When it was just the creator with not yet any creation, there was this Son of Man and His name of Lordship and supreme authority by which nature came to be. So when there was just the Creator and not yet the created nature we are part of today the Son of Man too was there with Him learning from Him and through this Son of Man and the Lordly power of His name given to Him by the Creator all things came eventually into existence.

If you don't want to be buried alive, don't play dead

If you don't want to be buried alive don't play dead. There are some who believe in spirits like God and the Holy Spirit and angels and spirits or ghosts of those mortals who die but won't admit it and the trouble with playing dead is what is done with dead bodies - and they don't tend to be considered when food is apportioned out.

Angels

I saw an angel once and it looked like an exotic animal with wings (larger than a jungle fruit bat or flying squirrel) and clearly intelligent - not what I expected an angel to look like but similar to a gargoyle but real like any jungle exotic creature. I think it was a vision but real - spiritual like seeing a ghost. I was so scared of it. Like I said one of its wings was covering the eye facing me which I would orherwise have looked into. In terror I started trying to drive it away I think by preaching to it that Christ was crucified for us humans. That worked. I didn't know if it was good or bad but later was ashamed thinking it was sent to encourage and protect me cos I had be scared to preach to take souls from Satan in case he didn't let me get away with it lightly - thinking this before I went to sleep. It was there sat on my chest when I woke up! Anyway that was before I started commenting here. The intention is to turn sons of Satan toward becoming sons of God and later the Holy Spirit pointed out to me about angel protection for me by refering me to Daniel 3 and, via a reference in that chapter, to Psalm 34:7 (just when I was thinking of that verse). He did this as a spirit-like 'voice' clear as crystal in my mind so I went and looked it up. The words were just this "Daniel three".

All this reality is the same as recorded in scripture and how scripture came into existence so question this and you have in honesty to question scripture.