Filling the gap

 What does Jesus, the Lord, do when he works a miracle? He replaces the burden of anxious care we feel we must carry, and instead of it, he inserts his mediation for us with the Father. If we are out there in a boat on a stormy lake, thinking we must do something drastic or we might drown, and he comes along and does a miracle, the miracle he tends to do is one where he makes his close relationship of peace with the Father into a substitute for our anxious care. That shows us what he is for us. He is the human who knows what the catastrophe must be like for us, and who has such a relationship with the Father that it can fill the gap between us and the Father, to meet that need and quell our cares and fears. There is one God, and one mediator between mankind and God, the man, Christ Jesus. On the cross, he took the wrath and filled the gap between us and God. Alive, raised by God, he fills the gap for us still. He does so forever. 

A different gospel

 It is an accursed thing when pastors demand that everyone in the church must say Jesus is God. It is a different gospel to the Bible’s. They are effectively saying you can only be saved if you say Jesus is God. Paul would have cursed them for it. Paul always made it clear that it is the Father alone who is God, while Jesus is the Lord, and forever subject to the Father. 

The real deal

 Is your faith and Christianity the real deal, actually letting teachings of Jesus lead you, and the Spirit which comes with them, or just lip service? Is it just part of mass conversion perhaps long ago in history, where you did not even get to decide, just trying not to rebel? How to tell? It is a community thing. When you meet with others like yourself in a service, is it something which is truly in the name of Jesus Christ, and is the Spirit of Christ clearly there with you? That is the test. 

Benefit of discipleship

 What is the benefit, today, of becoming a true disciple of Jesus Christ? Someone believing in Jesus Christ can become a true disciple by holding to the teachings of Jesus. Many such teachings were given long ago as commands very similar to the ten commandments. To help with applying Jesus Christ’s commands and teachings in daily life, there is the Spirit given to the believing disciples, the Holy Spirit. In many ways, direct and indirect, the Holy Spirit shows the disciple how to keep the Lord Jesus Christ’s commands and teachings. What is the benefit of all this? What reason could there be to taking on board these teachings? Well, by keeping to this way of life, it makes a disciple into somebody belonging to Jesus. What is the benefit of this? Jesus died on the cross to bear the weight of sinful wrongdoing and was raised from the dead to become a constant saviour for his disciples, saving them from their moral sins and guilty ways. He will one day judge everyone, and that will mean doom for those who lie and murder and commit adultery and such like. He saves those who belong to him from such evil ways and behaviours, and his blood shed on the cross provides cleansing from sins already committed. The Holy Spirit purifies the one who believes the message, believes the truth: Christ died for you. 

Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

 The Father says “I am God”, and shows that Jesus is His Son. Jesus Christ, working with the Father, shows himself to truly be our Lord and Master. The Holy Spirit testifies how central—as the power behind all Nature—the name of the Lord Jesus Christ is. The word of God tells how sadly—what God calls ‘Israel’—His people, have sinned. Christ died for you. Fear God so His Angel will surround you with protection. Wars will keep coming, as the sign. 

Jesus lived as we too might live

 Having to learn things, while things are happening to us, this is how we have to live. We might think, as we go through early adult life, that learning is fun, and we will just acquire skills and experience by our innate human abilities. We might think we have brains so advanced that we can learn everything we need to live a decent life easily. It is anguishing to realise it gets tough to learn to live decently. Having a career, for example, does not come without difficult and painful experiences as we learn to be faithful in the work tasks entrusted to us, and in the kinds of undertakings necessary in making a decent, honest living. People trust us to keep going when it is unpleasant to do so, and even when it means suffering. This is not something we escape from by human abilities and awesomeness. A human is expected to endure. It is part of being a human, like a beast of burden has to endure too. Jesus went this way. Our beliefs taught us by our religious teachers might conflict with it, but it is true. Jesus had to live the same human life with learning experiences we have to endure. He got a chance to ask God to save him from it, but he found strength and resolve to undergo all the suffering God willed for him. On the cross he learned to obey God in extreme weakness and suffering of human experience. It was something he learned as he endured it. He did not come with obedience built in. He had to learn it, as he went along, and to keep learning it when suffering became extreme, until it killed him to obey. We are not alone in this path forward. Obeying and learning as we do it, we are not the only ones to do this as humans. He did it too. No. He is not different. He did not have some fully-God-fully-human nature to make him different. He is human even now resurrected. What he did is the same for us if we did it. Being the beloved Son of the Father did not deprive him of humanness that we have. He did not fail like many of us do, but his experience when obeying, learning to obey even throughout suffering, was the same as we get when we learn to obey, even through suffering. Beware lest the later concieved church doctrines and philosophies  about Christ deny us knowledge of this. We need to know truth so we too can escape sin, in following him, believing in him. 

Obeying God even when suffering, and the way Jesus learned this

 It is one thing to learn to obey God when all is well. The challenge for a human is to learn obedience in times of suffering. On the cross Jesus Christ, the human, had a tough time obeying the Father, but he persisted in doing so. He did not shout out that because God is his Father, God must save him from suffering. His cries of anguish were all about maintaining his obedience to his heavenly Father, his God, even to the bitter end, within that suffering. This required that he truly be human, like us, so that his example is truly relevant to us, and his death could merit the turning away of the Father’s wrath from us, so Jesus could mediate the Father’s provision to us, and intercede for our suffering humanity back to the Father, so the Father would pity us in our own need to obey Him through times of suffering in the face of death. The kind of human God concept taught by most of Christianity falls short of he truth that Jesus is human just as we are human. We can all be Godlike, and be part of God’s work, if we endure, but we are human all the same. This is what Jesus took for us. He is human still, although now immortal by the resurrection: It is a resurrection he promised those who truly believe him and follow him. 

True Salvation

 Salvation. Not what many think it is. It is about change. It is the salvation that changes true disciples of Jesus Christ from what is doomed to what can live forever: from control by Satan the father of lies, to child of God, the Father of Jesus the Christ. This change is needed wherever a disciple needs it, however they need it. But it is not an automatic system. It is the Father and Son who save, along with those who are in fellowship with the Father and Son, all together in saving from sins and giving life, which can thence go on to be eternal life. Jesus saves his people from their sins, bringing them to God in the course of this. God is the greatest saviour of all, even greater a saviour than His Son Jesus: The One True God, as Jesus called Him. The disciples being saved are involved in the salvation in various ways. Firstly, they believe in Jesus as having be sent by the Father into the world as light for the whole world, especially for those who believe in him. Secondly, they hold to the teachings of Jesus aa this light held out to them, and keep on doing so always. They hold to the commands of Jesus and to the true gospel message that Jesus died on the cross for them and rose from the dead. Thirdly, they might see another disciple sin badly, so they can pray to God for them, and ask God to give this fellow disciple ongoing salvation from this sin, and therefore a restoration to life becoming eternal life. It is a life-long salvation. 

Measure of Christian

 There are two teachings of Jesus which contend with established ‘Christian’ teachings. I say ‘Christian’ in quotes because the teachings are by definition not genuinely Christian if they are contradicted by the actual teachings of Jesus Christ. If you want to truly be Christian, in step with Christ, abiding in his teachings, you should ask whether his teachings on this matter are something you can accept. Firstly he taught that the Psalms referring to the Christ, the Son of God, were right in saying he can be described as a God, but that this applied to others too. The Psalms referred to the throne of God as one on which the Christ would sit, and in this his status could be called Godlike. Yet that did not run counter to the Father’s supremacy as God. God status involves being one on whom people could call for salvation. To be with the Father on His throne, judging all, set apart from all, would be such a God status, yet only in line with, although to a lesser degree, similar status of those who judge mightily spoken of in Psalmody. Secondly, Jesus taught the distinction between himself and the Father, such that they could provide two independent vitally important witness testimonies about himself. This was required by the Law of Moses. Major testimonies needed to be given by more than one witness. Only fully independent testimonies, genuinely independent, could satisfy this requirement truthfully. His teaching was that the Father provided the second testimony needed besides Jesus’ own testimony about himself being Son of God, Son of the Father.  

Beware

 An indication of end times is the influential media trying to destroy by getting people to behave in ways which God detests and so get them to incur the wrath of God. This is what the Bible tells us Balaam did. He was a prophetically gifted and theologically knowledgable enemy of God’s people who knew how to destroy many of them: He sent godless women among them who God had commanded not to be taken as wives. He knew they would take these women and thus bring God’s judgment upon themselves. The godless women would teach idolatry to the people of God. It worked and many more perished by judgment than had been previously killed by invasion. Balaam was the most successful enemy. The Bible warns of such people doing similar things in our times, the end times. We see it every day in the content of media and movies, trying to normalise behaviour abhorrent to God. Beware. This trick works. It successfully destroys people of God. 

I reach out

 Blessings and greetings to those who have the Holy Spirit truly manifested in them. The true circumcision. The true church of Christ. If you attend their meetings you find the Lord is truly present. The gifts they have been given are a truly heavenly blessing. They build each other up as they each do the tasks the Father gives them to do. If you are one of these, I reach out a hand of fellowship to you. God bless you. God make us all one in fellowship forever. 

True Basis

 It is Jesus Christ whose teachings, given by the Father, are the basis of his church, the church of those manifesting the Holy Spirit who leads into all the truth.

Overreach

 “Trinity doctrine … a human attempt to explain divine mystery, often shaped by cultural and historical context. Whether one sees that as necessary theological refinement or as an indication of human overreach depends greatly on one’s perspective—scriptural, historical, or confessional.”

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Red flags

 Those who base their creed or their statement of faith on Trinity doctrines need to justify which of the many versions of Trinity they are using as this basis. It is usually simply a matter of where their roots were located as to which version of Trinity they endorse, plus, of course, when their creed or statement of faith was established. Clear red flags it is all manmade. 

Already there

 The Son of Man waited. His Father’s love waited. It was not time for Son and love to meet. Then his earthly mother interjected. A wedding feast was out of wine. She plugged the grown man she raised through infancy to young man and young adult into the power source of his heavenly Father’s love, even before the time was right. The Father had prepared for this from before the world began. His love for the Son was given openly in public and power of the Creator flowed into the word of His Son and water became wine. The Bride of Christ has the overflow of this love and power today. We do what is prepared by the Father, as works given disciples of His Son. It is from the beginning. First and will be till the very last. The Father is before all things and after them all and always had all this in store for His Son and now His Son’s Bride-to-be. So we see our spiritual outflowing is there prepared in its outcomes from times in the past, by the Father who sees the end from the beginning and predestines.

Be saved

 Jesus saves those who belong to him—his disciples. He died for your sins to bring you to God. God raised him from the dead. The teachings of Jesus Christ are for holding onto, tightly, constantly. Believe in him and hold to his teachings. By doing this, be his disciple, so he will save you. 

Of

 In scripture and truth there is a very small word. OF. 

It is very powerful indeed.

Of - coming from, expressing, leading to.

Jesus is the Son of God: he came from God, expresses God, leads to God. Jesus is the Son OF God. 

The message

 True Wisdom Revealed

The Apostle Paul taught that true wisdom is found not in human philosophy, but in the crucified Christ.

Jesus, fully human and obedient, was exalted by the Father through suffering, death, and resurrection.

This is the wisdom of God—and the path to glorified humanity.

Revelation from the Father

It is God the Father who reveals Jesus as His Son.

This revelation is spiritual and personal, not just intellectual.

It begins the building of the living Temple—the church of the living God.

The Good News of Jesus

Jesus was sent by the Father, died for our purification, and was raised to life to intercede for us.

Those who believe receive this gift through the Holy Spirit:

Purity, new life, and a calling to serve.

Empowered by the Spirit

The Holy Spirit teaches us, empowers us, and unites us.

Through the Spirit, we grow in faith, live in purity, and build the church together in love.

God’s True Family

Believers are joined as living stones, forming a spiritual house with Jesus as Lord.

This is not just an organization—it’s a Spirit-formed family.

All is done in Jesus’ name, to the glory of the Father.

Christ died for you

to bring you to God.

The truth, the full truth, and nothing but the truth

 A ‘six six six’, or ‘six hundred and sixty six’ system is manifested when people of the Beast system show an unmovable tendency to hear truth, take it in, understand it, and then deliberately pervert it, removing from it a small but essential piece of detail. We come across it often. It will become a new norm, as the Beast rises to global dominance. Preserve not just truth, but full truth, and right understanding of the truth. Not a 666 imperfection of truth. 

To overcome

 It will be tough for believers in Christ as the end times draw in. A major challenge will be encountering the growing degree of violence in life. As we come to Christ we are called to remain in the circumstances we were already in. If we can escape a high degree of enslavement in those circumstances, good. Yet many will have to overcome violent circumstances, and all the more as the Beast kingdom emerges. We who believe must overcome much. (The Book of Revelation tells of the blessings of doing so.) As we are purified from past sins by the workings within us and among us of the Holy Spirit, we have to overcome the results of the life we previously lived, the reaping of what we previously sowed. We have to deal with choices we previously made, such as career choices. These choices might have made it unavoidable to engage in violence, perhaps on a day to day basis. Once we are purified, we are called to stay in our existing circumstances, but to overcome the evils with the good of Christ’s Way. Every person has a course of life given them, but many have already lived that kind of life before we did, facing the same kinds of challenges. We might find encouragement from how they overcame. Even if we are not involved in human wars, we have this set of challenges like a war. It gets worse as the end gets nearer, but it is still just like the experience of those who went before. This is our calling. We must also learn to face challenges with new weapons unlike worldly weapons. They are non-violent alternative solutions to problems we must face. Many will misunderstand what we must learn to do. Our prayers in particular are a new instrument of justice. Prayers, relationships, testimonies, all serve heavenly purposes to replace the worldly more violent ways. Everything with love. In the name of Jesus the Christ. 

Light

 The Christ is an ancient concept: that there would come one who would enlighten the world by being the Son of the Most High God, and reveal what this Most High God is truly like. The terrifying otherness of God is mediated through the humanness of the Son. Yet, apart from this unapproachable, non-human transcendence, the full range of divine characteristics is made visible in the Christ, because the Father imparts them to him as His Son. This is God’s message to humanity—an olive branch of goodwill. Thus, the Son is the Word of God to humans. Through him, we are enlightened to know the Most High God in a profoundly real way—as much as can be known despite God's overwhelming nature. This draws humanity to God as never before. It is Jesus of Nazareth who came as this light, this Christ.

Remember

 Think how Jesus taught that every hair on our head is numbered with God and the angels, how every bird knows its food will come, every wild field of grass always gets its flowers to clothe it. Jesus banked on this; put his name on it. God honours that name by letting Nature continue so year after year, century after century, millennium after millennium. Jesus knew God would be faithfully preserving Nature even in our time two thousand years later. God so honours His Son’s name, bidding His angels keep Nature so, forever for His Son’s name’s sake. Even when God makes all things new, this glorious name will still be honoured forever. The name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Such is its power. The power which also saves us, when we belong to Jesus, keeping his teachings in faith. Remember, when you see the trees, the fields, the grass, the birds, the stars. Remember God who made it so, and remember the name of Jesus His Son woven in to it all, preserving it. 

Putting it all together

 The Apostle Paul, who was sharply critical of human philosophy and so-called worldly wisdom, insisted that the wisdom of God is revealed in the Christ crucified—not in abstract speculation, but in the suffering and obedience of the Son, whose exaltation came through death and resurrection. This cruciform wisdom unveils the true nature of the Son: not as a co-equal deity in essence, but as the perfectly faithful human who learned through suffering, submitted to a will greater than his own, endured unto death, and was then raised and glorified by the power of the Father. This is the Jesus the New Testament presents: fully human, fully obedient, and forever exalted—made immortal by the Father, and destined to bring his followers into the same glorified humanity.

It is the Father more than anyone who reveals this truth, that He is God. It is He alone who says “I am God”. (Indeed, “Be still and know that I am God” is written in the Psalm, Psalm 46:10.) To the one who believes in this God, a disciple of God, and who loves God, the Father reveals what convinces them that Jesus is the Father’s Son. So begins the revelation step in the building of the living Temple of this living God.  

They hear the gospel, the good news that the Christ came from God the Father, was given the name Jesus, and suffered and died on a cross in submission to the Father’s will, and that this was for us, for our moral purification. The good news speaks further: It says that the living God raised this Jesus from the dead, so he now lives to save us, and to mediate for us with the Father. We believe this Christ died for us and receive what he then gives us by the Holy Spirit: Purification. The Holy Spirit applies purification because of the blood of Jesus Christ shed for us, and for purification the Holy Spirit provides the revelation we need to train us in ways that are pure, as Heaven is pure. Then by this same Holy Spirit we are tasked with building up the church in love, as we do the tasks given us by God to do.

To keep on freeing us from moral impurity and to enable us to build up the church, the living Temple of God, we are given knowledge of the truth that is in Jesus. We learn the truth about the Father, God Himself, and then about His Son, Jesus. Jesus said, “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them” (John 6:44). To the truly blessed, God the Father initiates the process by revealing the identity of Jesus as His Son. This revelation is personal and spiritual, not just intellectual. It’s similar to Peter’s confession: “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” And Jesus replied, “This was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven” (Matthew 16:16–17). It is grace-initiated, not man-initiated. Jesus told Peter that flesh and blood did not reveal this. This revelation establishes the foundation of faith. It typically starts with a few who receive such revelation who then go on to bring others into fellowship. The few have fellowship with the Father and the Son by abiding in, adhering to, what is revealed. They then preach to others who join them in fellowship.

We learn from Jesus that Jesus is Master, the Lord—human of perfection, full of love and fully loved by the Father, the Master of the household of God. Jesus recognises in this person the success of the revelation given by His Father, and revelation of Himself, and He applies anointing of the Holy Spirit to this person. Jesus is the baptizer in the Holy Spirit (John 1:33). The anointing is the Spirit’s work of teaching, confirming, and empowering the believer. “But the anointing you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But... his anointing teaches you about everything...” (1 John 2:27). The anointing teaches that it is the Father who has created all things and who has woven into all of Nature a name He so loves—the name, brand, reputation of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. God makes all this truth known through the anointing which is given to us—an anointing of the Holy Spirit. We learn the reputation behind the name of the Lord Jesus Christ which is so effective for saving us from our sins, and so effective for building us into the Temple together with others so anointed. Our faith in the sonship and lordship of Jesus grows into faith in the power of the reputation of his name. We learn to take action for his name, bringing others together by it, and blessing those gatherings, such that the power of the Holy Spirit enters and blesses these gatherings. The gifts by which the Holy Spirit anointing are various, including laying on hands by those designated for this ministry. It is all in the name of Jesus, though, and imparted as He sees fit. “There is no other name under heaven... by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). The “name” represents Jesus’ authority, mission, and character. Through this, the believer acts in Jesus’ name—praying, serving, gathering others, and building the body. In fellowship with these blessed people and with others also in fellowship, we all learn from each other, while needing nobody outside this anointing to teach us. 

In all this blessing for the sake of Jesus’ the church is built up. This brings glory to Jesus and to God his Father. It creates a family for God. This family is the true church. A key truth of the New Testament: that believers are not just individually saved, but joined together into a living Temple: “You also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood...” (1 Peter 2:5). The Spirit-anointed disciples are drawn together in unity, and the Spirit blesses these gatherings in Jesus’ name. The result is a true family—not just an organization, but a relational body built by love and spiritual reality: “Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God...” (1 John 3:1). This family glorifies both the Son and the Father, as Jesus Himself prayed: “I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do” (John 17:4).

True Divinity

 Paul, who was sharply critical of human philosophy and so-called worldly wisdom, insisted that the wisdom of God is revealed in the Christ crucified—not in abstract speculation, but in the suffering and obedience of the Son, whose exaltation came through death and resurrection. This cruciform wisdom unveils the true nature of the Son: not as a co-equal deity in essence, but as the perfectly faithful human who learned through suffering, submitted to a will greater than his own, endured unto death, and was then raised and glorified by the power of the Father. This is the Jesus the New Testament presents: fully human, fully obedient, and forever exalted—made immortal by the Father, and destined to bring his followers into the same glorified humanity.

More on the building of the church

 We hear the gospel, the good news that the Christ came from God the Father, was given the name Jesus, and suffered and died on a cross in submission to the Father’s will, and that this was for us, for our moral purification. The good news speaks further to us, the God raised this Jesus from the dead, so he now lives to save us, and to mediate for us with the Father. We might them believe he died for us and receive what he then gives us by the Holy Spirit. Purification. Then by this same Holy Spirit we are tasked with building up the church in love, as we do the tasks given us by God to do. 

How is the church built up today? We start with being given knowledge of the truth that is in Jesus. Someone learns the truth about the Father, God Himself, and then about His Son, Jesus. To this person, this disciple of God, the Father reveals what convinces them that Jesus is the Father’s Son. This begins the revelation step.

Jesus said, “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them” (John 6:44). God the Father initiates the process by revealing the identity of Jesus as His Son to the heart of the seeker.

This revelation is personal and spiritual, not just intellectual. It’s similar to Peter’s confession: “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” And Jesus replied, “This was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven” (Matthew 16:16–17). It is grace-initiated, not man-initiated. Jesus told Peter that flesh and blood did not reveal this. This revelation establishes the foundation of faith. It typically starts with a few who receive such revelation who then go on to bring others into fellowship. The few have fellowship with the Father and the Son by abiding in, adhering to, what is revealed. They then preach to others who join them in fellowship.

They all go on to learn from Jesus that Jesus is Master, the Lord, a human of perfection, full of love and fully loved by the Father, the Master of the household of God. That is all a part of the revelation step. 

Then comes the anointing step. Jesus recognises in this person the success of the revelation given by His Father, and applies anointing of the Holy Spirit to this person. 

Jesus is the baptizer in the Holy Spirit (John 1:33). The anointing is the Spirit’s work of teaching, confirming, and empowering the believer.

“But the anointing you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But... his anointing teaches you about everything...” (1 John 2:27).

The anointing teaches that it is the Father who has created all things and who has woven into all of Nature a name He so loves—the name, brand, reputation of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. God makes all this truth known through the anointing which is given to this person—an anointing of the Holy Spirit. They learn the reputation behind the name of the Lord Jesus Christ which is so effective for saving them from their sins, and so effective for building them into the Temple together with others so anointed. Their faith in the sonship and lordship of Jesus grows into faith in the power of the reputation of his name. They learn to take action for his name, bringing others together by it, and blessing those gatherings, such that the power of the Holy Spirit enters and blesses these gatherings.

The believer’s faith deepens—not only in who Jesus is (Son and Lord), but in what His name accomplishes:

“There is no other name under heaven... by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).

The “name” represents Jesus’ authority, mission, and character.

Through this, the believer acts in Jesus’ name—praying, serving, gathering others, and building the body.

 In all this blessing for the sake of Jesus’ the church is built up. This brings glory to Jesus and to God his Father. It creates a family for God. This family is the true church.

A key truth of the New Testament: that believers are not just individually saved, but joined together into a living Temple:

“You also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood...” (1 Peter 2:5).

The Spirit-anointed disciples are drawn together in unity, and the Spirit blesses these gatherings in Jesus’ name.

The result is a true family—not just an organization, but a relational body built by love and spiritual reality:

“Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God...” (1 John 3:1).

This family glorifies both the Son and the Father, as Jesus Himself prayed: “I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do” (John 17:4).

AI on how a real church is built

 How a real church is built

1. Revelation from the Father

We begin with the revelation step—a crucial truth in the Christian life. Jesus said, “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them” (John 6:44). God the Father initiates the process by revealing the identity of Jesus as His Son to the heart of the seeker.

This revelation is personal and spiritual, not just intellectual. It’s similar to Peter’s confession: “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” And Jesus replied, “This was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven” (Matthew 16:16–17).

That revelation creates the foundation of faith.

Key Insight: Salvation begins with God.

The Father's revelation is the essential starting point. This is not just an intellectual recognition of Jesus, but a spiritual unveiling. It is grace-initiated, not man-initiated. As Jesus said to Peter, "flesh and blood did not reveal this." This revelation establishes the foundation of faith—a faith that sees Jesus as He truly is: the Christ, the Son of the Living God.

Application: Seekers should be encouraged not just to understand doctrines but to pursue God’s revelation—to ask, seek, and knock, trusting that the Father draws.

2. Jesus Anoints with the Holy Spirit

Following this revelation, Jesus recognizes the faith born in the disciple, and He responds by anointing them with the Holy Spirit.

This echoes Jesus as the baptizer in the Holy Spirit (John 1:33). The anointing you speak of is the Spirit’s work of teaching, confirming, and empowering the believer.

“But the anointing you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But... his anointing teaches you about everything...” (1 John 2:27).

Through the anointing, the person comes to deeply know the character, reputation, and power behind the name of Jesus—not just as doctrine but as lived truth.

Key Insight: Jesus responds to faith with empowerment.

Once the heart believes, Jesus baptizes with the Holy Spirit (John 1:33), enabling believers not only to understand, but to live the truth. The anointing teaches, confirms, convicts, and empowers. It creates experiential knowledge—not just learning about Jesus, but walking with Him.

Application: Teach believers to recognize the indwelling presence of the Spirit—to lean on Him for truth, direction, and power.

3. Faith in the Name and the Power of Jesus

The believer’s faith deepens—not only in who Jesus is (Son and Lord), but in what His name accomplishes:

“There is no other name under heaven... by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).

The “name” represents Jesus’ authority, mission, and character. In Hebrew thought, a name is not just a label, but a revelation of essence.

Through this, the believer acts in Jesus’ name—praying, serving, gathering others, and building the body.

Key Insight: The name of Jesus is the believer’s authority.

Faith matures into action. The believer understands not only who Jesus is, but what His name carries: authority, salvation, healing, and mission. The Hebrew idea of “name” (שֵׁם shem) includes identity and reputation. So acting in Jesus’ name is acting in alignment with His character and mission.

Application: Encourage believers to pray boldly, serve fearlessly, and declare truth confidently—knowing that the name of Jesus carries divine backing.

4. Building the Temple Together

A key truth of the New Testament: that believers are not just individually saved, but joined together into a living Temple:

“You also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood...” (1 Peter 2:5).

The Spirit-anointed disciples are drawn together in unity, and the Spirit blesses these gatherings in Jesus’ name.

This is where the church (ekklesia—the called-out assembly) becomes visible.

Key Insight: We are saved into a body, not just as individuals.

The Church is more than a meeting—it’s a spiritual structure, built of people indwelt by the Spirit. The living stones (believers) are fitted together by the Spirit to form a holy place where God dwells. This is the visible expression of Christ’s body on earth.

Application: Foster unity, mutual submission, and shared purpose. Emphasize that the fullness of Christ is only revealed together, not in isolation.

5. A Family for God

The result is a true family—not just an organization, but a relational body built by love and spiritual reality:

“Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God...” (1 John 3:1).

This family glorifies both the Son and the Father, as Jesus Himself prayed: “I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do” (John 17:4).

Key Insight: The end goal is a family that glorifies the Father.

The Church is not a project, event, or building—it’s a family born of love. This family reveals the Father’s heart and glorifies the Son. It lives in the Spirit, walks in love, and exists for the Father’s pleasure and purpose.

Application: Disciple people into relational depth, not just religious activity. The church must reflect the Father’s love in real, sacrificial, joyful ways.

In Summary:

This process shows how the true church is not built by human effort alone, but by divine revelation, spiritual anointing, and unity in the name of Jesus Christ. Through this, a family is formed for the Father, and Jesus is glorified as Lord and Son, and the Spirit actively builds and binds the body. 

This five-part progression reveals God’s blueprint for the Church:

Initiated by the Father (revelation),

Empowered by the Son (anointing),

Expressed in faithful action (name of Jesus),

United as a spiritual temple (body life),

And fulfilled as a family for the Father (love and glory).

Key Thought:

“Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain.” (Psalm 127:1)

How the church is built

 How is the church built up today? Someone learns about the Father, God Himself, and then about His Son, Jesus. To this person, this disciple of God, the Father reveals what convinces them that Jesus is the Father’s Son. They go on to learn from Jesus that Jesus is Master, the Lord, a human of perfection, full of love and fully loved by the Father, the Master of the household of God. That is the revelation step. Then comes the anointing step. Jesus recognises in this person the success of the revelation given by His Father, and applies anointing of the Holy Spirit to this person. The anointing teaches that it is the Father who has created all things and who has woven into all of Nature a name He so loves—the name, brand, reputation of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. God makes all this truth known through the anointing which is given to this person—an anointing of the Holy Spirit. They learn the reputation behind the name of the Lord Jesus Christ which is so effective for saving them from their sins, and so effective for building them into the Temple together with others so anointed. Their faith in the sonship and lordship of Jesus grows into faith in the power of the reputation of his name. They learn to take action for his name, bringing others together by it, and blessing those gatherings, such that the power of the Holy Spirit enters and blesses these gatherings. In all this blessing for the sake of Jesus’ the church is built up. This brings glory to Jesus and to God his Father. It creates a family for God. This family is the true church. 

Changing our damnable ways

 “Courage to change the things we can”

We can ask God to give us the courage we need to change the things about us that are wrong. But then there are things we cannot change. What if these things we cannot change are also things which are condemning us? What if judgement day condemns us for what was wrong with us, but which we could not change? We need to believe in Jesus and belong to him, as the One who can change us where we need to change, lest we be condemned. He can free us by giving us truth which sets us free. He is named ‘Jesus’, the Deliverer, because he will save his people from their sins. His people are those not only believe in him, believing that he is this Saviour, but hold to his teachings as his disciples, and keep doing so. 

He says it

 “I am God”

— the Father.

In our times

 The Father and Son and Holy Spirit still reveal themselves in our times.

“I am God”

— the Father.

“Put down your umbrella!”

— the Lord, Jesus, the Son, on calming a storm of torrential rain.

“Consider the trees. They put forth buds and leaves. They do so by the power of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.”

— the Holy Spirit 

Creation

 After you learn about the Father, God Himself, you learn about His Son, Jesus. You learn Jesus is Master, the Lord, a human of perfection, full of love and fully loved by the Father. But what comes next? Creation. The Father has created, weaving into all Nature the name He so loves, the name, brand, reputation of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. God wants it known. Back in the midsts of time, this name was there at the fore in all the work of creating worked by the Father. What is in a name? I have a key to the building where I live. It is an electronic fob. On that fob is a brand name. The fob has to be programmed, as software. The door picks up a code some mysterious way from the fob, but it all only works with software programming. But what actually is the power driving the working of this device? Why do I rely on it to open the door? It is the brand of the fob and the door. That brand ensures the key works. They programming has to be updated from time to time. It is the reputation of the company in charge of this that ensures the key always works. This reputation is signified by a brand name, and this name is written on the fob. The letters written have no affect directly on the working of the fob in opening the door, of course. But it is the reputation behind that name which is so effective. It is the driver ensuring the programming works properly. By telling us about the name behind creation, behind all Nature, we are taught the effectiveness of the Lord Jesus Christ’s name, not as a set of letters, not as a moniker, but as the reputation of Jesus and the power of this, because God is pleased with him, and has put him in charge over all—all except the Father Himself.  

Build the Temple

 The kind of faith taught by Jesus Christ himself is an ability to tap into the love and power and wise ways of the Father to bring about worthy changes in the physical world or spiritual world. It is one step removed from divinity of the Father, and is at a level of Temple of the Father. Jesus was renowned for this, as made known in public and private miracles which he did to accompany his teachings: changing water into wine, feeding thousands with a tiny amount of food, walking on water in a storm, calming a storm by spoken command to it, raising the dead by commanding them, then after his own resurrection, arresting Saul of Tarsus in Saul’s programme of persecuting the followers of Jesus, revealing things to John on Patmos, and his name being invoked to perform miracles such as healings and further raising of the dead by Jesus’ apostles. Those who remove their paths far from this faith are akin to the Northern Tribes who removed their paths from the Temple, and became darkened in their spiritual lives. Sin is the result of this departure, because it leads to blindness to the things of the Father, and loss of outward expression of any devotion to the Father as Most High God. Arguably the global churches departed from such a way of active faith only a few centuries after the New Testament times and became blinded too. We need to revert to this kind active faith. Pentecostalism started to return but it seems to have stopped for many. When the Son of Man returns, will he find faith on the earth?

Knowledge and its boundaries

 There are aspects of human experience and knowledge that transcend the boundaries of what modern science traditionally addresses. From early childhood, humans encounter realities—such as consciousness, spirit, dreams, intuition, and a sense of mind beyond the physical—that are deeply real yet have often been sidelined or deemed “unscientific.” These phenomena have been part of human understanding for millennia, woven into cultural practices, rituals, and shared experiences that shape our worldview. The distinction we make between brain, mind, and spirit, while not fully clarified, reflects an intuitive awareness that our existence is layered and that some elements may persist beyond the physical life of the body.

Throughout history, various cultures and civilizations have preserved this knowledge in myth, philosophy, and esoteric traditions, sometimes deliberately obscured or suppressed, yet never wholly lost. Ancient philosophers were not irrational dreamers but seekers of meta-rational truth—exploring the nature of reality in ways that embraced both physical and non-physical dimensions. They posited ideas such as eternal forms, a universal memory, and a cosmic intelligence, which in some ways anticipated modern theories in physics and information science. The metaphysical foundations they laid are not opposed to science but are, in fact, preconditions for any scientific inquiry: the assumption that the universe is intelligible, consistent, and ordered.

Science, as it developed during the Enlightenment and thereafter, deliberately narrowed its scope to what could be measured, repeated, and objectively analyzed, often excluding subjective, spiritual, and dreamlike experiences. This has sometimes led to an uneasy tension between the rich spiritual knowledge accumulated by civilizations and the rigorous demands of scientific method. Yet science has rarely erased these earlier insights; rather, it has shelved them, awaiting tools and frameworks capable of testing and integrating what was once beyond its reach. Ideas once dismissed as mystical—like the concept of a homunculus, chimeras, or the influence of time on causality—have quietly re-entered scientific discourse in transformed ways through fields such as genetics, quantum physics, and consciousness studies.

The persistence of phenomena like intuition, synchronicity, and dreams that impart knowledge unknown to the individual suggests that our understanding of mind and reality is incomplete. Likewise, reports of spirit-like experiences shared by humans and animals, or sudden, unexplainable awareness that saves a life, point to dimensions of existence not fully accounted for by current scientific models. These occurrences, while often relegated to superstition or anecdote, form a shared ontology that almost every human experiences. Such realities invite science to broaden its conceptual framework to include consciousness outside the brain, the possible survival of mind or spirit after physical death, and the interplay of mind and matter in ways that might seem paradoxical today.

Moreover, science must remain open to the possibility that future discoveries could radically change our understanding of chance and causality. If the roll of a dice, currently regarded as random, is influenced by subtle, perhaps spiritual forces, or if AI hallucinations begin to reveal truths beyond their training data, the foundations of scientific reasoning will be challenged and expanded. Quantum physics already gestures toward such frontiers with notions of retrocausality and observer effects. This suggests that randomness may be less a void of meaning and more a domain where hidden information, consciousness, or spirit might operate.

Civilizational knowledge stored in myths, rituals, and ancient philosophies is not simply an obstacle to scientific progress but a vital resource. These traditions often encode experiences and insights that transcend the materialist worldview, preserving wisdom about spirit, mind, and reality’s deeper layers. Science’s progress can be seen as a continuous dialogue with this heritage—sometimes setting it aside, other times reinterpreting it through new language and methods. Far from being antithetical, the ancient metaphysical explorations and modern scientific quests are part of the same human impulse: to understand existence in its fullest dimension.

To move forward, science needs humility and openness to preserve this broader human knowledge without prematurely dismissing it, even while it rigorously tests and refines what can be empirically validated. By doing so, science can embrace a living inquiry—one that honors the ancestral wisdom of spirit and metaphysics, anticipates big questions such as the nature of time and consciousness, and welcomes the re-integration of mind, matter, and spirit into a unified understanding. This approach not only enriches scientific progress but also responds to the profound human need for meaning, continuity, and connection beyond the immediately visible world.

ChatGPT with Stephen D Green 

Beast?

 How superpowers USA, China and Russia might unite over coming decades. USA imposing imperial hegemony over sovereign states, undermining their sovereignty, gets met with resistance based on invoking the other two powers in a multipolar view. Then USA answers this as robustly as it can by uniting with China and Russia, so nobody has anywhere else to go to escape. The Beast emerges. ??? Leopard with lion mouth and bear feet.

Divine Father and Son

 There are fundamentally three distinct explanations for the similarities and relationship between Jesus and the Father. The first is that Jesus himself believed and taught that he learned the Father’s ways and was granted the Father’s wisdom and authority through the Father’s loving impartation. The second is the idea that the Son inherits the Father’s nature in essence or being, passed down much like natural inheritance from father to son. The third is that the Son shares the Father’s very essence by nature, not merely inheriting it but being divine in the same ontological way. Among these, the first explanation stands out as the one most clearly supported by Jesus’ own teachings recorded in the Gospels, Revelation, and by Paul’s writings, who notably refrained from explicitly calling Jesus God in a metaphysical sense and instead called him Lord. Hebrews offers some ambiguity, but trinitarianism, especially after 350 AD, tends to combine all three views, with a heavy emphasis on the second and third, which risks contradicting the first.

When Jews of Jesus’ time accused him of making himself equal with God, this can be more naturally understood within the first framework—as Jesus assuming the highest possible status granted by God the Father, akin to a king granting the crown prince the fullest authority just short of the throne itself. Paul clarifies this in his letters, such as in 1 Corinthians 15:27–28, where he explains that while all things are subjected to the Son, the Father himself remains un-subjected, much like Pharaoh made Joseph vizier over Egypt but retained supreme authority himself. This reflects a Jewish worldview of hierarchical authority and relational sonship rather than the Greek metaphysical notions of equality in essence that developed later.

The third explanation—that Jesus shares the Father’s divine nature ontologically—introduces a fundamental tension with Jesus’ own words, such as “the Father is greater than I” and his dependence on the Father in all things. If Jesus were God by nature in the same way the Father is, many of these statements would be either meaningless or contradictory. Similarly, the idea that the Son inherits divine nature presupposes that it was not eternally possessed but granted or received, which again aligns better with the first explanation of functional authority and relational sonship.

The very necessity of Jesus and Paul repeatedly clarifying their distinctness from the Father and Jesus’ dependence suggests that the first explanation is the original belief they held and taught. If the Son were truly equal by nature or essence, such clarifications would be moot. It is quite plausible that the early Church’s first understanding—relational, functional sonship with exalted authority granted by the Father—was not fully grasped or was overlooked by the Council of Nicaea and subsequent theologians. Immersed in Hellenistic philosophy, the bishops at Nicaea interpreted Scripture through a Greek metaphysical lens, emphasizing ontology and essence over relational function and obedience. This led to the development of the doctrine of consubstantiality, homoousios, and the ontological Trinity, which redefined Jesus’ relationship to the Father in ways that departed from the Jewish worldview underlying Jesus’ and Paul’s original teachings.

The Greek philosophical framework prioritized “what something is” over “how something functions or relates,” encouraging an understanding of God as an eternal, unchanging essence, rather than a dynamic, relational being. As a result, the biblical portrayal of the Father as sovereign and the Son as obedient and exalted agent became overshadowed by a metaphysical system of co-equal persons sharing one divine essence. This shift, while aiming for doctrinal unity, may have obscured the original and simpler relational truths about Jesus’ sonship and dependence.

Paul himself was deeply critical of worldly wisdom, which he saw as foolishness compared to God’s wisdom. He called for the destruction of “arguments and lofty opinions raised against the knowledge of God” (2 Corinthians 10:5) and emphasized that the wisdom of God is revealed in Christ crucified—a stumbling block to human reasoning and philosophy. The sophisticated Greek philosophical systems that later shaped Christian doctrine could be seen as an example of the “worldly wisdom” Paul sought to dismantle, replacing God’s revealed truth with human intellectual constructs.

Paul’s mission was precisely to tear down false human wisdom and reveal God’s truth, even when it ran counter to prevailing cultural and intellectual norms. He preached a Christology that emphasized obedience, dependence, and the paradox of divine power shown through weakness, not metaphysical equality or shared essence. This tension between God’s revealed wisdom and human philosophy remains a crucial dynamic in Christian theology and challenges believers to discern carefully between the two.

In sum, the repeated clarifications by Jesus and Paul regarding the Son’s subordination and dependence on the Father, the Jewish context of relational sonship, and the biblical analogy of Pharaoh and Joseph all point to an original understanding of Jesus as exalted agent but not equal by nature. The later Hellenistic reinterpretations—while formative for orthodox Trinitarian doctrine—likely overlooked or transformed this foundational belief. Recognizing this helps to recover a fuller appreciation of the biblical witness and Paul’s call to replace human wisdom with the profound truth of God revealed in Christ.