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.