Introduction:
I would like to introduce you to my spiritual
Father: “The God of Love”. He changed my life. He is my life. He is the
Greatest to identify with and much more effective than a belief in the “Great
Bang”.
If you know Him, you will love Him with all your
heart, because He is a lovable God. He is
love. He loves the
whole world; every human being born on this planet, including yourself, personally. You may think:”Too good to be true.” Yes it is fantastic,
but true, as you will discover. He is
international, interreligious, interracial, interdenominational, the same in
every language. He does not see His
world He loves with borders, fences and separating walls. He does not see
mankind separated by color, race, religion, politics, denominationalism, nationalism, or any
other label. He is always active in finding and saving the lost, because He is
the one and only Savior of mankind. His
many Names describe only certain aspects of His Being. He is introduced to the
world as JHWH, the “I AM WHO I AM”. He is the Unspeakable, Incomprehensible, Self
Existing, Eternal, Omnipotent, Omnipresent, and Omniscient Origen of all that
is visible and invisible. He reveals Himself through His action and
communication.
His love is unselfish, inclusive, personal, initiating,
giving, sacrificial, unconditional and eternal.
Human love, unaffected by God’s love, is selfish,
exclusive, responsive, taking, conditional and temporal.
God loves you so much that He made the ultimately
sacrifice for you. He will even transfer you into His image, if you let Him.
You will be love. You will not only respond to love from those who love you,
but you will initiate love, including for the unlovable and extend it even for
your enemies. You will receive His world view.
In conversations with religious people and through
reading their literature, I noticed that many suffer from the consequences of
distorted images of their God which is reflected in their lives. They are
afraid and even scared to death of Him. Many try to ignore Him, hiding behind
pseudo sciences or let clerics do their thinking.
Religious organizations often use their “theonologic” scare methods in order to control the minds of their members and
extract their wealth through fear of agonies in purgatory and eternal hell. You
are probably familiar with some of such teachings concocted by these wolves in
sheep clothing. They teach that one can only be saved by being converted to
Christianity. What they really mean is, converted to their own church
organization. Religionists of today are no different than the ones that Jesus
described as:
Matt 23:15,24,27,28
15 "Woe to you, teachers of the law
and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single
convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as
you are.
24 You blind guides! You strain out a gnat
but swallow a camel.
27 "Woe to you, teachers of the law
and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look
beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and
everything unclean. 28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as
righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
To illustrate the conclusion of such horrific
devilish doctrines, consider the experience of the Jewish Edelstein family from
Poland during the Nazi occupation during World War 2. Mr. Edelstein was arrested while participating
in subverting activities with the partisans and was executed. Mrs. Edelstein, a
devoted religious mother with her two daughters was also arrested and
transported to a concentration camp. After months of exposure, sleepless
prayerful nights, their lives were also terminated. According to most church
doctrines, their immortal souls had to face their God. And since they were not
Christians, He sent them straight to hell, the ultimate torture chamber, where
their agony will never end. Would that God not be much more cruel than the Nazis?
Only a devil could invent such a horrible tyrannical unjust God who enjoys the
cries of agony of the tormented souls, offering no mercy or relief throughout
eternity. No one could ever love that kind of a God. Such distorted imagery of
God is also reflected in their inhuman relationships with one another.
“Christian” nations have fought the most brutal and destructive wars. Catholics,
against Catholics, Protestants of most denominations, against their brothers in
faith, killing one another by the millions. Not even sparing women and
children. And that was sanctioned by those “pious” church leaders, who led
their flocks to the slaughter and praying on both sides to the same God for
victory over the enemy. These hirelings just looked out to save their own
skins. What a blasphemy against God and the Christ that taught us to include
even enemies in our love to one another. Who could love that ugly “pseudo Christian
God’ they represent?
Yes, it is true that salvation is in Christ Jesus,
[translated into English means the God Anointed appointed and enabled Savior]. God sent Him into our world to be the way into His Kingdom of Love Justice and Peace and pay through
His sacrificial death the redemption price for every repentant sinner in this world and it is
only He who knows whom He has forgiven and saved and who has accepted His
sacrifice. Arrogant spiritual blind men have always misinterpreted the word of
God, just the way their father the devil did when he tempted Jesus.
He said:” Many false prophets will come in my name and deceive many.”
A Christian, meaning being Christ like, is not one who confesses to be one, but one who is one, regardless of their religion, race or nationality.”From the beginning of this world, before the existence of “Jews and Christians,” Christ, the Co Creator, and God our spiritual Father, loved humanity. His Spirit was available to everyone. All who accepted the guidance of His spirit became children of God. They needed no other label. By their fruits they were known as “Christ like” or “Godly”, because they became the workmanship of God.
2500 years after creation, the new nation of Israel received the assignment to be a light to the world, by revealing the God of love through their godly conduct. They failed miserably. God had to say to them trough His prophets:
He said:” Many false prophets will come in my name and deceive many.”
A Christian, meaning being Christ like, is not one who confesses to be one, but one who is one, regardless of their religion, race or nationality.”From the beginning of this world, before the existence of “Jews and Christians,” Christ, the Co Creator, and God our spiritual Father, loved humanity. His Spirit was available to everyone. All who accepted the guidance of His spirit became children of God. They needed no other label. By their fruits they were known as “Christ like” or “Godly”, because they became the workmanship of God.
2500 years after creation, the new nation of Israel received the assignment to be a light to the world, by revealing the God of love through their godly conduct. They failed miserably. God had to say to them trough His prophets:
Rom 9:27-29
27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:
"Though the number of the Israelites be like
the sand by the sea,
only the remnant will be saved.
28 For the Lord will carry out
his sentence on earth with speed and
finality."
29 It is just as Isaiah said previously:
"Unless the Lord Almighty
had left us descendants,
we would have become like Sodom,
we would have been like Gomorrah."
Matt 21:43
Jesus said:
43 "Therefore I tell
you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people
who will produce its fruit.
When “The Anointed,” [Christ] “The Savior” [Jesus] entered
our world in human form in order to reveal the true image of God He said:
John 14:9
He who has seen Me has seen the Father;
John 14:11
11 "Believe Me that I
am in the Father and the Father is in Me;
But He was rejected by the “respected” religious
leadership. He had to be murdered. They had another God to their liking and had
no intent to change.
John 1:12-13
Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his
name, he gave the right to become children of God, children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will,
but born of God.
Yes there will come a day of judgment, when all evil
and all unrepentant evil doers will be eliminated. Scripture calls it ‘God’s
strange work, His alien task.” Isa.28:21. It has to be done because of
necessity and justice, so that eternity can continue in love, peace, justice,
freedom and order in all of God’s creation.
Rom 6:23
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of
God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
For greater detail and answers to some of the open
questions on this and other subjects, please see my scripts.
Now let us open our minds and behold the true God.
Behold the creator of the universe
Isa 40:26
26 Lift your eyes and look to the heavens:
Who created all these?
He who brings out the starry host one by one,
and calls them each by name.
Because of his great power and mighty strength,
not one of them is missing.
Ps 19:1
The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
Mankind has always been awestruck when gazing into
the heavens and concluded:
“There must be a greater intelligence than ours.”
In most societies they named it God, meaning the origin
of everything, the One whom men’s limited three dimensional, five
sensual perception, is unable to
comprehend.
The One who cannot be described for lack of human perception and terminology.
The One who cannot be described for lack of human perception and terminology.
He is the
Absolute, The Sovereign.
Please let our limited terminology not confuse your
spirit and imagination. The “spirit universe” is extraordinary supreme. “Son of
God,” refers to the “Ultimate Origin” and the Being in whom He put so much of
Himself, that it is His Image, designed for His purpose. It is also the
expression of the compassionate loving relationship. This imagery gives us in
human terms a glimpse into the most benevolent realities. God has many sons who
are born of His spirit and who manifest His image in their lives. I hope that our Muslim Brothers who read this revelation, will not be offended by terminology by considering the spiritual meaning and significance.
Here are a few examples from God's Word:
Job 1:6-7
6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also
came among them.
Rom 8:14
14 because those who are led by the Spirit of God
are sons of God. [Please understand there is no gender in the spirit
universe. In this dispensation it also means that every woman who is led by the Spirit of God, is a daughter of God
In order to open our minds for understanding truth, we
will need to let the spirit of God reveal it to us and also define many words
in common use that are misleading,
GOD IS THE TRUTH..
Isa 55:9
9 "As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Gazing at just a tiny part of the universe through the Hubble space telescope, as seen in the enclosed picture, the astronomer stated, it contains over 10,000 galaxies, each galaxy contains up to one trillion stars and each star may have a system of planets. Now try to picture in your mind the entire universe. With amazement we must conclude:”How great God is”. And then looking at the illustration of comparative sizes of planets and stars including our little planet, we humbly realize: “how small we are.” Would the creator of the incomprehensible immense whole universe be even aware of that minute dot in the universe, we call planet earth, and much less of humans like you and me? Leaving in our minds for a moment the macrocosm and taking a glimpse through an electron microscope into the microcosm and see the precision of the building blocks of matter down to the atoms and its components, we can reasonably conclude that: “The almighty God who created the universe and also the components of the atom and microorganisms, living cells and beings, is well capable to know everything about us.” But surprisingly some argue: “There is no God.” All that exist is here by accident. Some ignorantly even try to shrink the Almighty to fit and contain Him in their religion or denomination, implying that “access to Him is only through us”.
Christ, the most accurate source of all knowledge,
wants us to know:
Matt 10:29-31
29 Are not two sparrows sold
for a penny ? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will
of your Father. 30 And even the very hairs of your
head are all numbered. 31 So don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
Is it not reasonable to conclude that the Super
Intelligence that invented and created the incomprehensible enormous as well as
the minutest, is well able to care for and even love us? Why would that God be
interested in me personally and even love me? Amazingly, it is true, because we
are a part of His creation and He has eternal plans for us. He wants to be our
spiritual Father, so that we may be born of His spirit and become His children.
God revealed to mankind in Jesus, that He personally
loves every individual born into our world.
What does that mean that God is Love?
1 John 4:16
God is love.
Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.
As the sun is energy, radiating and streaming light
and heat in perpetuity into the universe, so does God, who is 100% Love,
radiate and stream His Love to all His creation without ceasing. We have the
privilege to choose how much of that limitless Love we will receive which
transforms us into His image. God in us.
So stay tuned in.
Try to comprehend the truth that Jesus revealed in
the following parable:
Luke 15:11-24
11 Jesus continued: "There was a man
who had two sons. 12 The younger one said to his father, 'Father, give me my
share of the estate.'[this meant: Father you are already dead to me ] So he divided his property between them.
13 "Not long after that, the younger
son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered
his wealth in wild living. 14 After he had spent everything, there was a severe
famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. 15 So he went and
hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to
feed pigs. 16 He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were
eating, but no one gave him anything.
17 "When he came to his senses, he
said, 'How many of my father's hired men have food to spare, and here I am
starving to death! 18 I will set out and go back to my father and say to him:
Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. 19 I am no longer worthy
to be called your son; make me like one of your hired men.' 20 So he got up and
went to his father.
"But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was
filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him
and kissed him.
21 "The son said to him, 'Father, I
have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called
your son. '
22 "But the father said to his servants, 'Quick! Bring the best
robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. 23
Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let's have a feast and celebrate. 24 For
this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.' So they began to
celebrate.
Luke 15:10
I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels
of God over one sinner who repents."
Just imagine that. All heaven is involved in our
personal life. God is never too busy to embrace us with His love when we come
to Him. Can you fathom that this amazing God offers you personally, to be your Spiritual Father?
I know, it seems “out of this world” to believe
that, because it is. But it is true. This faith opens the most wonderful window
and door to heaven, as you will discover.
Does God want to be known by men?
God is a spirit being. Our limited
senses are unable to perceive a spirit being. Words are the communication of
the Spirit with physical beings. So God communicated with the spirit of men
through words.
Heb 1:1-3
1 In the past God
spoke to our
forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all
things, and through whom he made the
universe. 3 The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact
representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.
John 1:1-5, 10-14, 16-18.
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3
All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was
made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light
shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
10 He was in the world, and the world was
made through Him, and the world did not know Him. 11 He came to His own, and
His own did not receive Him. 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave
the right to become children of
God, to
those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor
of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt
among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the
Father, full of grace and truth.
16 And of His fullness we have all
received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses, but
grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has seen God at any time.
The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.
What a splendid way for God to reveal Himself to
mankind in human form. Now in Jesus, the previously announced Messiah, men
could perceive God with their own senses. Children of God, born through His
spirit, will also be granted at times unspeakable extra sensory perceptions,
but they always will be in harmony with the now written “Word of God”.
John 16:13
13 But when he, the Spirit of truth,
comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will
speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.
Do men want to know God? Do you? Come meet my
spiritual Father.
Jesus exposed two “Spiritual Fathers”:
1. The Origin of Light, Life, Love, Truth and Good.
2. The origin of darkness, death, hate, lies and evil, called Satan.
1. The Origin of Light, Life, Love, Truth and Good.
2. The origin of darkness, death, hate, lies and evil, called Satan.
This is why He said:
Matt 23:9
9 And do not call anyone on earth
'father,' for you have one Father, and he is in heaven.
We all are born into this world, without our choice
by our physical fathers. But we have to choose our spiritual father.
Jesus revealed in His Life His Father, the God of
Love, who is also our Spiritual Father after we are born of His Spirit. If you are not yet born of God’s spirit, than you
are not in the family of God and need to be born again of His Spirit.
John 8:44
44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry
out your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to
the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native
language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
John
3:5-7
5 Jesus answered, "I tell you the
truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the
Spirit. 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. 7 You should not be
surprised at my saying, 'You must be born again.'
For greater detail on this truth, please read my
script: “ The two greatest mysteries of
our world,” and “The Mystery of the Kingdom of God.”
The God of love.
John 17:3
3 Now this is eternal life: that they may
know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
The world’s greatest Teacher, the one who knows,
stated: That,” to know God and His Annointed is
eternal life”. This is not just life in quantity, but in quality in all
dimensions of godliness in love, peace, contentment and joy in perpetual
thankfulness. This “know” does not come from accumulating information to form a
mental image of God, though important in the beginning, but it happens through
divine transformation when our self becomes totally immersed in the will and
mind of God and our identity is no longer with our past self but with “Christ
in us,” our new self. Or as the Teacher
expressed this truth: “ I in you and you in Me.”.This knowledge is God
experience.
Can man understand and describe God and His Love?
God did not intend to hide His love. He always
shared His love with all His creation one hundred percent, never less, because
He is love, and does not fragment Himself.
In understanding God, and permitting Him to dwell in us, we will also
become love. This is the will of God that we are transformed into His image as
revealed in Jesus, the Living Word, the Communication of God.
The word of God is the most accurate revelation of
His Being. So I invite you to share with me in the delightful enlightening
revelations in His Word. Can you comprehend this super fantastic fact that God
loves you personally? Right now? The way you are? You think you are not worthy
to be loved by God? So did I. But when God through Jesus comes into your life,
He will bring all the worthiness with Him.
John 14:23
23 Jesus replied, "If anyone loves
me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
Would you like for Christ and the Father make their
home with you? Then you will become a godly temple. If you consent, you have
Christ’s promise: “We will come” and be the owners and permanent residents of
you.
The beginning of mankind:
In the beginning, man was created in the image of
God.
Gen 1:27
27 So God created man in His own image;
in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
GOD communicated with man and man understood GOD.
Gen 2:16
6 And the Lord God
commanded the man, saying,…"
God gave men a free will to choose between good and
evil, truth and lies, and life and death.
Gen 2:16-17
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, "You are free
to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will
surely die."
Please do not get stuck in the imagery of language,
but perceive the spirit and principle in it. In bible language, trees are fruit
bearers. Christ and God’s children bear the good fruit of His spirit. Satan and
his children bear the evil fruit of his spirit. Satan wants us to partake of
his spirit.
Deut 30:19-20
19 This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses
against you that I have set before you
life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live 20 and that you may love the
Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life.
The post creation record of God’s communication with
men is very sparse, but being created into His image means to be the recipient
of the will of God with the understanding of good including the definition of
right and wrong the latter being defined as sin.
Gen 4:7
7 If you do what is right, will you
not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it."
Sin or disobedience to God has negative consequences
in your life. Sin makes life miserable and is the ultimately cause of death.
Rom 6:23
23 For the wages of sin is death.
Isa 59:2
But your iniquities have separated
you from your God;
your sins have hidden his face from you,
Once sin separated men from God, the image of the God of Love in them faded very quickly, and man began to create God
into their own image and to their own liking. Even the very religious had a
distorted and faulty image of God, which was reflected in their selfish and
violent relationships with one another and especially with those of other
nations, races or religions.
Rom 1:22-23
Professing to be wise, they became fools,
23 and changed the glory of the
incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man — and birds and
four-footed animals and creeping things.
The history of mankind gives us abundant evidence of
this fact. Even the Israelites, who claimed to have a corner on God, had the
same problems.
Ex 32:8
they have turned aside quickly out of the way which
I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshiped it and
sacrificed to it, and said, 'This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of
the land of Egypt!'"
His instruction was:
Ex 20:2-4
"I am the Lord
your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage.
3 "You shall have no other gods before Me.
4 "You shall not make for
yourself a carved image — any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in
the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;
If we do have a distorted image of God, our
relationship with fellow human beings and His creation will reflect such
distortion.
How than
could we humans with our limited minds and vocabularies even dare to describe
and define the invisible Almighty God? Would not even our best efforts be
doomed to fail? Has it not been the desire of the ages: ”God, if you want to be
known, then reveal yourself to us.” What kind of revelation did man expect?
To be overwhelmed with His Omnipotence? That would
deprive men of their free will in their decision making, which is contrary to the
principles of the God of love.
God reveals and restores His image in man:
God in His infinite love lowered Himself and became
man in Jesus Christ. Heaven announced His arrival on earth. Heaven came down,
opening the door of all the graces and blessings of heaven. Now men can
perceive with their own senses the true image of God and His love in human
revelation.
Luke 2:10-11, 13-14
Then the angel said to them, "Do not
be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people.
11 For there is born to you this day in the city
of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
13 And suddenly there was with the angel a
multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying:
14 "Glory to God in the highest, And on
earth peace, goodwill toward
men!"*
God offers peace in His Son to all the people of our
world. Jesus is the “Prince of Peace”.
Where there is love, there is peace, there is God.
Where there is hatred, there is war, there is Satan,
the God of this world.
John 1:1-5, 14
In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made through Him, and without
Him nothing was made that was made.
4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of
men.
5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the
darkness did not comprehend* it.
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt
among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the
Father, full of grace and truth.
God can only be understood in Christ, the true image
of God, the word revealed in flesh and blood.
John 1:18
18 No one has seen God at any time. The only
begotten Son,* who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.
Heb 1:1-3
God, who at various times and in various ways spoke
in time past to the fathers by the prophets,
2 has in these last days spoken to us
by His Son,
whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds;
3 who being the brightness of His glory
and the express image of His person,
John 14:10-11
10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak
to you I do not speak on My own authority;
but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.
11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the
sake of the works themselves.
Col 2:9
9 For in Him dwells all the fullness
of the Godhead bodily;
Also the word of God in the Old Testament can only
be understood through the mind of Jesus. Many wrong concepts and
interpretations held by the Israeli hierarchy and theology, He came to correct.
Matt 5:21,22
"You have heard that it was said to
those of old,…
But I say to you…
John 1:11-12
1 He came to His own,* and His own* did not receive Him.
12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave
the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:
Blind, deceived, depraved humanity. He revealed
Himself to you in the most perceivable way; He became man; but you rejected Him.
You preferred a God to your liking, in your own image. Your God was the God of this world, the deceiver,
Satan, the god of war, power and greed. Your concepts and works proved it. You rather
preferred to see the God of Love dead, before you would consider changing your
ways.
Appallingly, our “Christian” world suffers from the
same deadly disease: Not knowing the true God, the God of love and peace, the strange
inconvenient God.
The strange misunderstood God.
When God in Christ entered our world, He was not
born to Kings in royal palaces.
He certainly could have made such arrangements. But
He chose to be born to a humble carpenter family and of all places in a barn.
What a humble beginning. Surely not what mankind would expect, for the Messiah,
the King of Kings. And contrary to all reason He came as a helpless baby.
Why not incarnate into a nine foot superman with a
thundering most melodious voice and features that all men would respect and
admire. No. Scripture tells us:
Isa 53:2
2 “He grew up before him like a tender
shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.”
He did not come to reveal a fantastic body. It would
have been only a distraction from His godly spirit and life. Later when He
chose the staff for His ministry, He did not call on impressive theologians and
revered priests with impeccable reputation. He chose men of simple status like
fishermen etc. who were not drunk with religious theories and philosophies. But
they were open for truth, which He could fill with the word and virtues of God.
Today managers would look for the most attractive and
gifted people they could find in order to succeed with their business. Imagine
a male choir with angelic voices being also an orchestra with the most gifted
virtuosos, whom the whole world would come to enjoy, paying generously to get a
ticket. And then at that occasion present the plan of salvation by the most
eloquent doctors of theology. What a success that could have been? Jesus could
have composed the out of this world heavenly symphonies in order to make His
good news more impressive. But it would have just been a distraction from the
power of the life giving, life changing and life sustaining creative word that
He incorporated. Could God have arranged it that way? Yes, but no. God works in
different ways. Jesus said “I am the way”. “Follow me”. There is no better way.
God works His wonders in humility and simplicity. We
humans often think our distracters are so important. The world seeks
entertainment. Men thought there was a need for a beautiful frame in order to
enhance the picture of the “Good News of the Kingdom of God.” Now mankind reveres the frame because it has
lost the picture. God’s simple way by His spirit in His most powerful word is
eternal life.
Christ reveals God as our loving Father.
John 16:27
27 for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and have believed
that I came forth from God.
Before we let Jesus and His apostles reveal the God
of love to us, we need to understand the biblical meaning of the word “love”.
In the translation from the Greek language into English, several Greek terms
with differing meanings have been translated as love.
Agape = godly
love, unselfish, giving, initiative, unconditional, inclusive, eternal.
Phileo
= human love, towards family and
friends, responsive, limited, exclusive, temporary.
Philanthropia
= love for man, motives can be selfish.
Philarguria = love of money, selfish, destructive, root
of all evil.
Eros = erotic, sexual love, natural, selfish,
unless saturated with agape love.
Godly love is no longer natural in man. It is a gift
from God through His spirit.
Rom 5:5
5 the love of God has been poured out
in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
Gal 5:22-23
But the fruit
of the Spirit is love,
joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, self-control. Against
such there is no law.
1 Cor 2:14
14 But the natural man does not
receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor
can he know them,
because they are spiritually discerned.
Love does not exist in isolation. Love needs
recipients. It needs to give, share and serve. God created and gave Himself to
His creation. All who receive Him will understand Him, love Him and become like
Him.
John 3:16
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Can we comprehend this marvelous truth? God loved
and still loves every human being of our world, that He gave His Ultimate Best
in His beloved Son to us, that includes you and me personally, so that we can
be born again and become citizens of His Kingdom.
Rom 8:31-39
31 What, then, shall we say in response to this? If
God is for us, who can be against us? 32
He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all — how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge
against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he that
condemns? Christ Jesus, who died — more than that, who was raised to life — is
at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate
us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine
or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:
"For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be
slaughtered."
37 No, in all these things we are more than
conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death
nor life, neither angels nor demons,
neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height
nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from
the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Matt 7:11
11 If you, then, though you are evil, know
how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will
your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!
What amazing grace!
God does not regard man made physical or mental
borders. He loves every human being in the whole world and is willing to
transform each individually into His image. Men always tried to confine God
into their own religions or denominations. Just imagine, according to world statistics,
we have today over 41,000 “Christian” denominations and most of them claiming to
be the true and only saving church. What blindness and deception. We have only
one savior and only He knows whom He has saved.
Acts 17:24
24 "The God who made the world and everything
in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by
hands.[ nor by human
minds.]
God designs and builds His Own dwelling places,
which are His children.
1 Cor 3:16-17
16 Don't you know that you yourselves are God's
temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? 17 If anyone destroys God's temple,
God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple.
John 14:6
6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes
to the Father except through Me.
2 Peter 3:9
9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise,
as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us,* not willing that any should perish but that all should
come to repentance.
God never uses force. Life from Him is based on free
choice. It is a free gift. As a loving Father, He makes us aware of the
consequences of ignoring or rejecting His gifts. He gives us the way, but only by
His grace will we be willing to walk it, when we understand Him and love Him.
John 7:17
17 If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from
God or whether
I speak on My own authority.
Jesus the King opens the door of His kingdom which He established on
this world.
He invites us to enter.
Matt 11:28-30
28 "Come to me, all you who are weary and
burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my
yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart,
and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is
light."
Luke 16:16-17
"The law and the prophets were until John. Since that time the kingdom of God has been preached, and
everyone is pressing into it.
Luke 11:20
20 But if I drive out demons by the finger of
God, then the kingdom of God has come to you.
Luke 17:20-21
20 Once, having been asked by the
Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, "The kingdom of God does not come with your careful
observation, 21 nor will
people say, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is,' because the kingdom of God is within you."
John 3:5-7
5 Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom
of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit b gives birth to spirit. 7 You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You c must be born again.'
When Jesus the King resides in us by His Spirit, then
we are citizens of the kingdom of God.
John 14:23-24
23 Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My
Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
Has God and Christ made their home with you? Too
fantastic to believe it could happen? God is willing. Are you? You could invite
Him right now.
John 6:37
37 All that the Father gives me will come
to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.
Please read the chapter “The kingdom of God.”
The image of God in His children.
John 1:12
12 Yet to all who received him, to those who
believed in his name, he gave the right [power] to become children of God…
Phil 2:14-16
14 Do everything without complaining
or arguing, 15 so that you may become blameless and
pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved
generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe.
1 John 3:1-2
How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that
we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The
reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2
1 John 3:7-10
7 Dear children, do not let anyone
lead you astray. He who does what is right is righteous, just as he is
righteous. 8 He who does what is sinful is of the
devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the
Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work. 9 No one who
is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he
cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. 10 This is how
we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are:
Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who
does not love his brother.
Many think and say that they are children of God, but
the proof is in what they are and not what they say they are. God’s children are
transformed into His image.
Matt 7:21-23
21 "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord,
Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my
Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on
that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive
out demons and perform many miracles?' 23 Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew
you. Away from me, you evildoers!'
Luke 6:46-47
46 "Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do
not do what I say? 4
Matt 7:20
Thus, by their fruit you will recognize
them.
Gal 5:22-26
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness
and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who
belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and
desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us
keep in step with the Spirit.
How do we become children of God?
Eph 2:10
10 For we are God's
workmanship, created
in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
1 Peter 1:23-24
23 For you have been born again, not
of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through
the living and enduring word of God.
John 3:5-7
5 Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom
of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit b gives birth to spirit. 7 You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You c must be born again.'
Ezek 36:26-28
26 I will
give you a
new heart and put a new spirit in you; I
will remove
from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to
keep my laws.
Heb 8:10
0 This is the covenant I
will make with the
house of Israel
after that time, declares the Lord.
I will put my laws in their minds
and write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
Phil 2:12-13
work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;
13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good
pleasure.
It is a peaceful assurance to know, that it is God
who accomplishes all His designing and building in us from start to finish,
even our cooperation is done by His Spirit. Our action is a fruit of the holy spirit.
Col 3:5-11
5 Put to death, therefore, whatever
belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires
and greed, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these, the wrath of God is
coming. 7 You used to walk in these ways, in the
life you once lived. 8 But now you must rid yourselves of all
such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from
your lips. 9 Do not lie to each other, since you
have taken off your old self with its practices 10 and have put
on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of
its Creator.
Rom 12:2
2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but
be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and
approve what God's will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will.
2 Cor 3:18
18 And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's
glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
1 Cor 2:16
6 "For who has known the mind of the Lord
that he may instruct him?" d
But we have the mind of Christ.
Heb 12:2
2 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith,..
John 14:23-24
23 Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My
Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
2 Cor 13:5
5 Examine yourselves as to whether
you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus
Christ is in you? — unless indeed you are disqualified. [reprobates, fakes.]
Christ in us means we are Christ like. We think,
speak and do as He does in complete dependence on God. Christ said: “The words
I speak, the works I do are not mine, they are my Father’s. Who sees me sees my
Father. I and my Father are one. I am in the Father and the Father is in me.”
Who sees us, sees Christ who is in us. Unless we are
reprobates, rejects, fakes.
Is God our Judge and Christ our defender?
In order to remove some of the distorting images of
God, some basic revelations need to be considered.
John 5:22,27
22 For the Father judges no one, but has
committed all judgment to the Son,
27 and has given Him authority to execute
judgment also, because He is the Son of Man.
He was one of us and we can relate to Him.
John 12:48
48 He who rejects Me, and
does not receive My words, has that which judges him — the word that I have
spoken will judge him in the last day.
John 12:47, 48
47 And if anyone hears My words and does not
believe,* I do not judge him; for I did not come to
judge the world but to save the world.
48 He who rejects Me, and does not receive My
words, has that which judges him — the word that I have spoken will judge him
in the last day.
As we get acquainted with Jesus through His word, we
become convinced that He is the son of God. No human mind could ever invent and
reveal such an image of God.
That is why men rejected Him. They did not want to
think and be like that God. There are no discrepancies between the Father and
the Son. The Son did not have to plead for us before the Father. Both love us
equally. We love Him as our Lord and agree with every word He spoke. We live in
harmony with His will without reservation. He is the only authority to judge
between good and evil. Selective obedience is disobedience.
To reject a word of God means rejecting God and
choosing condemnation. Judgment is an ongoing process during our lifetime. The
choice between life and death is ours. Remember the causality law.
John 5:24
24 "Most assuredly, I say to you, he
who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life,
and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.
1 Cor 11:31
31 For if we would judge ourselves, we
would not be judged.
John 16:26-27
In that day you will ask in My name, and I
do not say to you that I shall pray the Father for you;
27 for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and have believed
that I came forth from God.
There is no one in heaven that is against us. All
heaven is for us. Through the life, death and resurrection of Christ, every
believer has been redeemed, sins are forgiven, eternal life has been imparted,
and the image of God is restored. Christ paid for our redemption in full.
Nothing can nor needs to be added. It is a free gift. Believe it, accept it,
claim it and all that God offers you is yours. But this is an all or nothing
proposition. If you accept God in part, it will be reflected in your life. You
may have a lot of religion and forms of godliness, but you will not have the
mind and life of God. His power will transform and sanctify you completely. He
always finishes His works. Never less than 100%.
2 Tim 3:5
5 having a form of godliness but
denying its power. And from such people turn away!
Heb 10:10
10 By that will we have been
sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
1 Thess 5:23-24
23 May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify
you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be
kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 The one who calls you
is faithful and He will do it.
Heb 9:11-12
11 But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come,* with the
greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this
creation.
12 Not with the blood of goats and
calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all,
having obtained eternal redemption.
His sacrifice is sufficient to cover every sin
committed in our world. Every sinner who believes in Him, repents and accepts
His incredible wonderful gift, will have eternal life.
God is love.
1 John 4:7,8
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love
comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
John 3:16
16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and
only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Please note: God loved, and still does, the world,
that is all humanity; not just Israelites, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists or
Hindus etc. It is not your membership or label that identifies you as one of
God’s children it rather is what you are that proves that His spirit is in you.
Matt 7:20
20 Thus, by their fruit you will recognize
them.
Please note: We are not to be fruit inspectors and
critics, but fruit bearers.
Gal 5:22
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Rom 12:9-21
9 Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to
what is good. 10 Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another
above yourselves. 11 Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor,
serving the Lord. 12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in
prayer. 13 Share with God's people who are in need. Practice hospitality.
14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not
curse. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. 16 Live
in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with
people of low position. Do not be
conceited.
17 Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to
do what is right in the eyes of everybody. 18 If it is possible, as far as it
depends on you, live at peace with everyone. 19 Do not take revenge, my
friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to
avenge; I will repay," says the
Lord. 20 On the contrary:
"If your enemy is hungry, feed him;
if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.
In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his
head."
21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil
with good.
1 Cor 13:4-8
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy,
it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight
in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails
This is the clear mark of all that know God.
You may think: “but what does it mean to believe in
the name of Jesus”?
Acts 4:12
12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.
This is very true. It is not the Hebrew word Jesus
or the Greek word Christ. It is what these names stand for, namely the image of
God who is able to save far beyond our narrow limited concepts. Who are we to
limit the Almighty.
1.John.4:9,10
9 In this the love of God was
manifested toward us, that God has sent His uniquely existing Son into the
world, that we might live through Him.
10 In this is love, not that we loved
God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Titus 2:13-14
our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
14 who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless
deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good
works.
What incredible love is this? The Creator gives
Himself to His creation to do with Him as they please. They reject Him, He
seeks to save them. They rule and dominate, He serves. They hate Him, He loves
them. They curse Him, He blesses them. They revile Him, He prays for them. They
spit in His face, He shows them mercy. They beat Him, He endures. They torture
Him, He offers them forgiveness.. They crucify Him, He gives His life to save
them. They kill Him, He gives them life. He really loved His enemies even those
that inflicted Him with pain and agony. At any time He could have said, they are not
worthy of my love and returned to heaven. But His love never failed, never
ended.
Acts 8:32-33
He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; And as a
lamb before its shearer is silent, So He opened not His mouth.
33 In His humiliation His justice was
taken away, And who will declare His generation? For His life is taken from the
earth."*
John 13:1
1.Now before the Feast of the Passover,
when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to
the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the
end.
1 John 4:16
16 And we have known and believed the
love that God has for us. God is love,
and he who abides in love abides in God,
and God in him.
God not only loves, but He is love. Whatever He
thinks, does and communicates is motivated by love. Motif, reason, and purpose,
is love. If it is “agape” love, it is from God.
James 1:17
17 Every good gift and every perfect
gift is from
above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom
there is no variation or shadow of turning.
Mal 3:6
6 "For I am the Lord, I do not change;
Heb 13:8
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today,
and forever
.
God is always 100% love and He loves always 100% no
matter what the circumstances or conditions. He does not love evil or sin, but
He loves the sinner,
the lost, the needy. Sin causes death. God is life.
There is no compatibility between God and sin, nor death. But God came to seek
the lost, free sinners from their sins, forgive and give life in abundance.
Matt 7:11
11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good
gifts to your children, how
much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
Rom 8:31-32
31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for
us, who can
be against us?
32 He who did not spare His own Son,
but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us
all things?
John 17:20
"I do not pray for these alone, but
also for those who will* believe in Me through their
word;
Jesus wants us to know that we are always on His and
our Father’s benevolent mind, wishing us only well. Only blessings come to His
children.
John 17:23
I in them, and You in Me; that they may be
made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me. Can you comprehend this?
God loves you, as He loves Christ. Let your mind dwell on this truth.
John 17:25-26
O righteous Father! The world has not
known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me.
26 And I have declared to them Your name, and
will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in
them, and I in them."
If you are believing in Christ through His words and
the words of His apostles, than you will know for certain, that God loves you
as much as He loved Christ. Is this possible? Too good to be true? You have His
word. It is 100% true. You can bank on that. His love is always 100%. It
changes not. What good would all the world’s riches, or the most beautiful gifts
be to you if you do not accept them personally?
Please consider the following illustration:
The Eternal Bank of Heaven.
Pay to the order of: Date:
Today Now
Your Name________________
My eternal love, total pardon, eternal life, all My blessings, My
kingdom.
Signed:
God, Jesus.
Memo:
Please endorse before claiming.
While you are reading this and you resolved in your
heart to take God up on His incredible, fantastic offer, than as an exercise of
your faith, put your name on the above line, endorse it, claim it and you will
receive more than you can comprehend.
God has given you many promissory notes in His word.
7,428 of them. Accept all of them personally by endorsing them. Than go to God
in faith to claim them. Every promissory note is covered in the Bank of heaven
100 %. He will never fail nor short you.
2 Cor 1:20
For no matter how many promises God has made, they are
"Yes" in Christ. And so through him the "Amen" [so be it] is spoken by us to the glory
of God.
Heb 13:5
For He Himself has said, "I will never leave you
nor forsake you."*
Jer 31:3
3 The Lord
has appeared of old to me, saying: "Yes, I have loved you
with an everlasting love; Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.
Isa 43:4
4 Since you were precious in
My sight, You have been honored, And I have loved you; Therefore I will
give men for you, And people for your life.
Isa 49:15-16
5 "Can a woman forget her nursing child, And not have
compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, Yet I will not
forget you.
16 See, I have inscribed you on the
palms of My
hands;
Isa 54:10
10 For the mountains shall depart And
the hills be removed, But My kindness shall not depart from you, Nor
shall My covenant of peace be removed," Says the Lord, who has mercy on you.
Rom 8:28
28 And we know that all things work
together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according
to His purpose.
Rom 8:35, 37-39
35 Who shall separate us from the love
of Christ? Shall
tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness,
or peril, or sword?
37 Yet in all these things we are more
than conquerors through Him who loved us.
38 For I am persuaded that neither
death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present
nor things to come,
39 nor height nor depth, nor any other
created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is
in Christ Jesus our Lord.
John 10:28-30
And I give them eternal life, and they
shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.
29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand.
30 I and My
Father are one."
Please understand that many promises are conditional
and you may disqualify yourself by choosing evil over good, sin over
righteousness, mammon over God. When you ask God, do it in the name of Christ,
that is “in harmony with His will.”
Do not get discouraged when your timing was wrong.
Our God is so gracious to do what is best in any situation in your life, at the
right time, His time.
If you ask for deliverance from a sin now, at this
moment, you know that is always the will of God for you. Name and confess that
sin, ask for forgiveness and immediate deliverance, repent [turn away from it],
believe that you have received your request, and it is granted.
Mark 11:24
24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask
for in prayer, believe that you
have received it, and it will be yours.
James 1:6-8
6 But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt,
because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
7 That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a
double-minded man, unstable in all he does.
John 14:13-14
13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. 14 You may ask me for
anything in my name, and I will do it.
The serving God:
Does men serve God or does God serve men?
Some imagine God sitting on a golden throne and all
heavenly beings laying on their faces worshipping Him day and night. This
picture would give a distorted view of God and heaven if it would not be interpreted
by the realities in the life of Christ. All heavenly beings including “the son
of men” love God with all their hearts 24/7, adoring Him as the highest
authority in total submission to His will in freedom of choice with unceasing delight
and thankfulness. Get the picture?
Rev 19:4
4 And the twenty-four elders and the
four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sat on the throne,
saying, "Amen! Alleluia!"
Amen is the expression of complete agreement and
submission. It means: yes, so be it. No “ifs” no “buts”. Every individual lives
in total harmony with God and therefore with one another.
Alleluia is the attitude of persistent unending
thankfulness.
God gives Himself lovingly to His creation in
service. He is the origin, the owner, the giver, the sustainer. He is the
greatest servant of all. Than all who bear His image are free will servants. In
heavenly concepts, greatness is measured by service.
Matt 20:25-28
25 But Jesus called them to Himself and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles
lord it over them, and those who are great exercise authority over them.
26 Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever
desires to become great among you, let him be
your servant.
27 And whoever desires to be first among you, let
him be your slave —
28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give
His life a ransom for
many."
Selfless service is godly. Lording and exercising
authority is ungodly even if it is done in the name of God. If you are not born
of the spirit of God you will not understand God nor the principles of the
kingdom of God.
John 3:5-7
Jesus answered, "Most assuredly, I
say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter
the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and
that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be
born again.'
God also was in the humble Christ when He washed the
feet of His disciples.
John 13:14-15, 17
Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have
washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet. 15 I have set you an
example that you should do as I have done for you.
Now that you know these things, you will
be blessed if you do them.
What a God is this. Washing the dirty feet of mere
human beings. Incredible.
How can we humans serve God?
Matt 25:40
40 And the King will answer and say to them,
'Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.'
1 John 4:20-21
If someone says, "I love God," and hates
his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has
seen, how can* he love God whom he has not seen?
21 And this commandment we have from
Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.
1 John 4:7-8
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and
everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
8 He who does not love does not know
God, for God is love.
If we have a loving relationship with God, we will have
a loving relationship with our fellow men. Are you fully aware that whatever
you do or say, good or bad, to your fellow men, including your spouse,
children, friend or enemy, you have done it to God? Do you comprehend that your
spouse is the daughter or son of your king, the God of the universe who is
always present with you and in you? What you do or say to others, He takes it
very personally. “You have done it to Me.”
If this seems unreal to you, than you do not know
God and the wonderful life in His kingdom. God’s children are like their
Father, ”agape love.”
Are you the image of God?
2 Cor 3:18
18 But we all, with unveiled
face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed
into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Rom 8:29
29 For whom He foreknew, He also
predestined to
be conformed to the image of
His Son, that He might
be the firstborn among many brethren.
Eph 4:13
13 till we all come to the unity of
the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
1 Cor 2:16
16 For "who has known the mind of
the Lord that he may instruct
Him?"* But we have the mind of Christ.
A “Christian” who does not think and do as Christ
did, is not a Christian. A Christian is Christ like that means godly.
2 Cor 13:5
5 Examine yourselves as to whether
you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus
Christ is in you? — unless indeed you are disqualified.
If Christ is in you, who is “agape love”, than you
also will be love. Not just “phileo love” which is responsive or reciprocal
human love. It will be the godly, unselfish, initiating, unconditional,
inclusive love. Love, that is international, interracial, interreligious, and
interdenominational. Dividing borders and fences are made by men. Christ tore
down these separations. He built bridges. And so do His children.
Matt 5:44-48
But I say to you, love your
enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for
those who spitefully use you and persecute you,*
45 that you may be sons of your Father in
heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends
rain on the just and on the unjust.
46 For if you love those who love you, what
reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
47 And if you greet your brethren* only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors* do so?
48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as
your Father
in heaven is perfect.
Matt 5:9
9 Blessed are
the peacemakers, For they shall be called sons of God.
Let not your mind be conditioned by the majority of
war makers and war profiteers in this world.
War, conflict, violence, force are the works of the
Devil. Whoever thinks and does such works, no matter what his religion, title
or position may be, is of the father the Devil the Destroyer.
[ Please refer to my paper on: “The kingdom of God” and
“The world’s greatest mysteries” for greater insight of this subject.]
John 8:44
44 You are of your
father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a
murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is
no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the
father of it.
1 John 3:7-9
Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is
righteous.
8 He who sins is of the devil, for
the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was
manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.
9 Whoever has been born of God does
not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been
born of God.
1 John 3:1
1.Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed
on us, that we should be called children of God!* Therefore
the world does not know us,* because it did not know Him.
If you would
live in poverty, destitute and hungry and a King of a world domain would write
to you, making you this offer: “ I would like to adopt you into my family and
make you heir of all the wealth of my kingdom.” What would you think and do?
This may not be a very exiting preposition to you. But
what does it mean to you, that
the almighty God has
said to you: “I love you. I want you to be my child and become heir
of my kingdom.”? Have you heard His voice, expressed in His
word to you? Have you taken it personally? Have you responded to His offer?
Will you? You will never have a better offer. You do not have to wait until you
become worthy of such a supreme gift. Jesus earned it for you. He is all the
worthiness you can ever have. And He also will give you a new life fit for the
kingdom of God.
Rom 12:1-2
1.I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies
of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to
God, which is
your reasonable service.
2 And do not be conformed to this
world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what
is that
good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Eph 2:10
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God
prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
Heb 13:20-21
20 Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from
the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the
everlasting covenant,
21 make you complete in every
good work to do His will, working in you* what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus
Christ, to whom be
glory forever and ever. Amen.
Phil 1:6
6 being confident of this very thing,
that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;
1 Thess 5:24
24 He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.
Do not permit Satan, nor men, nor any human
agency undo it.
Jude 24-25
4 Now to Him who is able to keep you from
stumbling, And to
present you faultless
before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,
25 To God our Savior, Who alone
is wise, Be glory and majesty, Dominion and power, Both now
and forever. Amen.
O, what a wonderful God we have.
He is love.
He loves you.
Do you love Him?