The Way of Jesus Christ That I Believe and Why I Believe Him
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COPYRIGHT JANUARY 14, 1996; Revised 1/7/2004; 05/13/09
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"Another survey conducted by the Lutheran Brotherhood asked, “Are
there absolute standards for morals and ethics or does everything
depend on the situation?” Seventy-nine percent of the respondents in
the 18-34 age group said that standards did not exist and that the
situation should always dictate behavior. Three percent said they were
not sure. If this poll is correct, 82 percent of all students believe
that right and wrong are relative terms and that morality is a
ridiculous concept. . . . . 'There is no such thing as absolute
truth. . . . there is no such thing as absolute truth; different
people can define truth in conflicting ways and still be correct.' In
1991 in a George Barna poll 66% of Americans agreed: 3/4’s of 18-25
year olds, 59% of 55+ year olds. . . . About one in three American men
claims to be a born-again Christian, but only 28 percent attend church
on any given weekend. . . . Barna also found that even men who claim
to be Christians . . . . 28 percent deny that Jesus was physically
raised from the dead, while 27 percent say He committed sins.
Surprisingly, 55 percent of self-identified Christian men agreed that
all people “experience the same outcome after death, regardless of
their way into heaven. . . . Barna found that less than half of
Christian men believe that there are absolute moral truths (47
percent) or that the Bible and religion should be primary influences
on moral thinking (40 percent)."
On the other hand, Jesus -Jehovah God says "25 There is a way that
seems right to a man,
but in the end it leads to death."(Prv16. NIV)
***Isaiah 32:6 For the fool speaks folly,and his heart is busy with
iniquity,to practice ungodliness,to utter error concerning the LORD,
to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied,and to deprive the
thirsty of drink. ESV
***Psalm 118:27; 144:15 . . . God [is] Jehovah, . . .
***Psalm 14:1; 53;1 "The fool says in his heart, "There is no
[Jehovah] God. God is not [Jehovah]."They are corrupt, . . . ESV/YLT
***Zephaniah 3:17 Jehovah thy God [is] in thy midst, . . .
***Isaiah 42:5 This is what God Jehovah says— WHO CREATED THE HEAVENS
and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from
it, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk on
it —
***Colos 1: . . . the Father, who has enabled you to share in the
saints' inheritance in the light. 13 He [the Father] has rescued us
from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the
Son He loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
15 He [the Son] is the image of the invisible God [the Father], . . .
16 because BY HIM EVERYTHING WAS CREATED, IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH, the
visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or
authorities— all things have been created through Him and for Him. 17
He is before all things, and by Him all things hold together."
***1Cor 8:4 About eating food offered to idols, then, we know that "an
idol is nothing in the world," and that "there is no God but one." 5
For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth—as
there are many "gods" and many "lords"—6 yet for us there is one God,
the Father, from whom are ALL things, and we for Him; and one Lord,
Jesus Christ, through whom are ALL things, and we through Him.
***John 10:30 The Father and I are one."
***John 14:6 Jesus told him, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
No one comes to the Father except through Me"
The Way of Jesus is the Only Way to God and His Kingdom in Heaven; to
LOVE that is kind, unselfish, compassionate and patient; to TRUTH that
enlightens and liberates; to LIGHT that enlightens and edifies; and to
LIFE with God that never ends and is gloriously fulfilling and
purposeful. Jesus showed and shows us the WAY He wants to Live His
Life in and through us.
THE BEST WAY TO LIVE IS JESUS' WAY
Do you want to have a significant part in
untying the straps that bind people to oppressive yokes,
freeing the oppressed from oppression,
breaking the heavy burdens of hurting people,
sharing your food with the hungry.
giving drink to the thirsty,
finding adequate shelter for the homeless,
clothing those who need clothing,
loosening from people the chains of crippling wickedness,
freeing those involuntarily enslaved,
saving children and women from s-x slavery,
taking care of the sick,
helping those in prison,
delivering the innocent from false accusations,
meeting the needs of the needy,
seeking justice for the oppressed,
helping the blind,
protecting the poor and homeless,
taking care of needy orphans and widows,
helping and taking care of needy relatives,
and trying to stop evil doers from doing evil to others?
Jesus says, "Come, follow me." Mat 4:19; 19:21.
Are you willing to ask Jesus to save you from all that you are without
Him, to come and live in you to make you fit for Heaven, to give
yourself and your life to Jesus ---
***to break the bonds and chains of wickedness,
***to untie the restraining ropes of enslaving, oppressive and
burdensome restraints;^
***to set the oppressed free,
***to protect foreigners from abuse and harm,
***to unselfishly, patiently, kindly and compassionately love and
provide for the needy foreign resident;^
***to try to help and provide justice for the needy, the fatherless,
the widow and the helpless;
***to rescue the poor and needy from the hands of the wicked,
***to rescue those wrongfully taken off to be killed, those moving
toward slaughter in the womb or outside of it, especially in the
matter of abortion;^
***to uphold the rights of the oppressed and the destitute,
***to remove every burdensome and oppressing restraint,
***to share bread with the hungry,
***to give something to drink to the thirsty,
***to provide housing for the poor and homeless,
***to clothe the inadequately clothed when they are encountered,
***to help take care of the sick and imprisoned,
***to see to it that bereft women and children are taken care of,
***to not ignore or neglect one's own familial flesh and blood,
***to rid public gatherings of scornful and accusatory finger-pointing
and malicious speaking,
***to offer that with which sustains life to the encountered hungry,
and
***to effectively meet the needs of the encountered afflicted^.
~Eph 5:7-11: 2Tim 2:24-26; Gal 6:1; `Mat 29:19,20; Acts
20:25-35; ^ Isaiah 58; Mat 25; James 1:27; Jer 22:16; Deut 24:17;
10:18; Prov 24:11; Psa 10:14; 82:3,4; 146:9; 68:5.
This is the LIFE that only King Jesus, the Messiah, asks you to live,
and offers to LIVE in and through you, if you will ask Him to come and
LIVE in you, making you fit and compatible for His Kingdom and Heaven
today; asking Him to work, accomplish, motivate and will in you His
work and will. Jesus says -
" 20Look, I am standing at the door and knocking. If anyone listens to
my voice and opens the door, I'll come in and we'll eat together." Rev
3 GW
Do you want to live in a world where people are joyful, peaceful,
good, faithful, dependable, gentle, well self-controlled, unselfish,
compassionate, patient, kind, humble, considerate, just, truthful,
hopeful, persevering? Only He has made it possible for us in our
spirits to know and live in such a world today, while we live today in
a world full of evil, injustice, jealousy, pride, arrogance, evil
anger, bitterness, resentment, vengeance, exploitation, violence,
abuse and exploitation.
BUT IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN ABSOLUTE AND ETERNAL TRUTH, YOU DON'T
BELIEVE IN JESUS FOR HE IS THE TRUTH AND THE ONLY WAY TO THE FATHER.
Do you believe that the Word of God, the Judeo-Christian Holy Bible is
the ABSOLUTELY TRUE Word of God?
I have no argument about or disagreement with Matthew and Hebrews
being written in Hebrew. It would be perfectly logical for James and
Peter to encourage and even participate in a Hebrew version/copy of
any parts of the NT written originally in Greek.
Doesn't change the fact that we have copies of Mark in Greek dug up in
Israel dated at 51 AD.
Yahweh-Yashua has always kept His Word useable and used among His
children, and has promised to keep it so. That being the case, He
would never let His people go without His Word. His people are
scattered all over the world and so He would scatter His Word all over
the world, keeping the agreement between the copies of His Word so
that His people everywhere would have His Word.
If His Word has been hid His people/children for decades, centuries,
generations ---then I don't believe that "hidden Word" is His Word,
whether it be Greek or Hebrew. For me the final test in debated and
controversial passages is this, "What rendering is supported by the
vast majority of the 15,000 translations, copies, versions etc, from
Asia, the Mid East, Africa and Europe; dating from 200 AD to 1500 AD,
that was being used by His people at the time written, so known
because they walk in obedience to His Word in the Name of Yahweh-
Yahshua. I am not interested in nor do I have the time for new
translations or versions that have been hidden from the people of
Yahweh-Yahshua for decades/centuries/generations. He has promised to
always cause His people to have His Word. There are few miracles
greater than the miraculous degree of agreement between the Old Itala,
the Coptic, the Peshitta, the Vulgate and the Textus Receptus. Even
the Siniaticus (found in Palestine) and the Vatinicus (found in the
archives of the Vatican), both of which have been dated in the 400s
AD, agree more than they disagree, and what disagreements exist do not
change any of the basic Christian creeds/doctrines. Where they agree,
I find the Word.Where they disagree, I refuse to be dogmatic and I
wait on Him and His Spirit. When it comes to such passages, even after
I have received direction from Him and His Spirit, I still refuse to
be dogmatic. " Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. 2 And if any man
thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to
know. 3 But if any one loves God, he has been known of him." 1Cor 8
IS JEHOVAH JESUS ALIVE AND TRUE TODAY?
Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. I can testify to Jesus being
alive and active on planet earth from my own experiences, but since
you don't know me you might be inclined to not believe me. For that
reason I have included many proofs, some involving the science of
statistics and probability, below. I know He lives because He drove my
truck when I had fallen asleep behind the wheel and driven up on the
curb so that both my left wheels were on the curb traveling at
60 miles an hour in rush hour traffic--- and He save both me and truck
without any damage to either. He drove my van safely and expertly in
the jungles of Mexico's Yucatan jungle and swamps when I drove
foolishly on a dirt two lane road elevated 8' above the swamp on both
sides and the dust coming at me was so thick I couldn't even see the
road or the swamp --- and enable "blind" me to stop and park
perfectly with only 2" between my right wheels and the drop off into
the swamp. He drove my car when I was coming down the mountain from
work on a one-lane-each-way road and came up behind a double diesel
followed by three cars. Impatient me decided that since it was clear
to pass and the other weren't passing that I would
pass all of them. When I pulled out to pass the car in front of me
pulled out to pass and I turned sharply to not hit him and the last
thing I remembered was calling "JESUS!!!!!!" as I saw my car rapidly
closing on the little two foot wall with the 100' drop on the other
side. When I regained consciousness I was driving my car on the
same road but then I was a quarter of a mile in front of the double
diesel and the three cars following it. No scientific explanation is
possible. It was humanly impossible. But my Jesus worked and willed
in unconscious and/or blinded me so that He drove in me better than
I could have driven myself in the circumstances given. These three
times and many other times He has saved and redeemed my life from
disaster and death, so now my life belongs to Him and for His service.
The exciting thing is that there is empirical proof that Jesus rose
from the dead. As usual it is not easily available or so plain that it
hits you in the face as irrefutable, because God has chosen that it is
by the foolishness of preaching the Word that people are to come to
know Him. One of his servants, at the 20th century dawning of the
modern scientific age, chose to set out to prove empirically that
Jesus is alive and well on the planet Earth.
His name was George Mueller of the faith orphanages of Bristol
England. A mentally disciplined teutonic student from Germany, Jesus
saved Him, cleaned up his act and charged him with the care of
Bristol's orphans. George had been challenged to trust in God instead
of people for the supplying of his needs by the life and practice of
Franke in the operation of his orphanages in 1727. Franke had
determined to depend solely on Jesus for not only his own provision
and care, but also for the provision and care of the orphans in his
care. When he needed something, he prayed to the Father in Jesus name
and he received not only enough for himself but also for his orphans.
It was 1835 and George had already experienced Jesus' miraculous
provision in answer to prayer alone as he pastored in local chapels.
He had determined that if Jesus could take care of him, a very poor
man; if he could care for children in an orphanage as he felt Jesus
leading; if He would give him the strength and courage to ask no
person but God in Jesus' Name for anything --- to ask only Him for the
money needed for the children, the staff, his wife and he; then indeed
he would be able to prove by the specific answers to specific prayers
that Jesus is alive and well on planet Earth, hearing and answering
prayers today as He promised He would. He determined to keep a careful
record of each and every need, the prayer about that need, and the
miraculous answer to prayer that met that need. Before he finished he
had completed what is now available as a ten volume
record of need, prayer and miraculous provision. The newspapers of
the time are still available on microfiche at the public libraries for
those who want to confirm that there was no human record of George
soliciting funds from people, taking offerings, having fund raisers
and advertising his needs.
So where is the empirical evidence that Jesus is alive and well and
answering prayers today? If you take just one of those ten volumes
and feed all the variables into the computer using the math science of
statistics and probabilities to determine what the probabilities of
that provision taking place merely by chance, by luck, you would come
up with a figure exceeding one in one billion. Such proof that it was
impossible to explain what happened with George by mere luck and
chance is still difficult to accept by the unbelievers and the
skeptical, but it is a marvelous scientific confirmation of what we
who have tasted Jesus already know -------- HE IS RISEN, RULING AND
SOON TO COME AGAIN AND SET UP HIS KINGDOM ON EARTH AS HE PROMISED HE
WOULD!!!!!!
Brethren, we have a cloud of such witnesses about us, enough to
embolden the faith of the most feeble among us, the doubting
Thomas's. Amy Carmichael of India and Hudson Taylor of China
Inland Mission duplicated George Muellers experience, except that they
didn't keep such detailed records, evidencing that we can tell only
Father of our needs and He hears and answers our prayers of faith in
Jesus. There is a veritable Hall of Fame of believers who have
similarly experienced Jesus' miraculous answers to their specific
prayers in a way that defies all of the odds, is virtually impossible
in
human terms, and demonstrates anew that HE IS RISEN, RULING AND SOON
TO COME AGAIN!!!
Read the biographies and autobiographies of Hudson Taylor (England
and China 1890's), of Amy Carmichael (Ireland and India 1900), of
Prince Kaboo of the Kru's of Monrovia Africa (aka "Samuel
Morris"Africa and USA 1900), of Smith Wigglesworth (England
1910's), of Sadhu Sundar Singh (India 1920), of Gladys Alward
(England and China, 1920's), of John Hyde (England and India, 1920),
of Esther Ahn Kim's awesome and amazing "If I Perish" made into a
film by the Japanese government as an act of penance after the war
(Ahn Ei Sook of Korea, 1940's), of Corrie Ten Boom (Europe 1940's), of
Brother Andrew (Europe and USSR 1960's), of Catherine Marshall (USA
1970's), of Harold Morris (USA 1980's), of Becky Tirabassi (USA
1990's), and of the autobiography of Rabi R. Maharaj (THE DEATH OF A
GURU), England, Trinidad, India 1980's)
ALL THE FOLLOWING ARE FROM THE HCSBible
God says His Word is Truth, absolute Truth.
***Psalm 25:10 All the LORD's ways [show] faithful love and truth to
those who keep His covenant and decrees.
***Psalm 31:5 Into Your hand I entrust my spirit; You redeem me, LORD,
God of truth.
***Psalm 40:10 I did not hide Your righteousness in my heart; I spoke
about Your faithfulness and salvation; I did not conceal Your constant
love and truth from the great assembly.
***Psalm 57:3 He reaches down from heaven and saves me, challenging
the one who tramples me. Selah God sends His faithful love and truth.
***Psalm 86:11 Teach me Your way, LORD, and I will live by Your truth.
Give me an undivided mind to fear Your name.
***Psalm 111:7 The works of His hands are truth and justice; all His
instructions are trustworthy.
8 They are established forever and ever, enacted in truth and
uprightness
***Psalm 119:160
The entirety of Your word is truth, and all Your righteous judgments
endure forever.
***Jeremiah 4:2
if you swear, As the LORD lives, in truth, in justice, and in
righteousness, then the nations will be blessed by Him and will pride
themselves in Him.
***John 1:14 The Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We
observed His glory, the glory as the One and Only Son from the Father,
full of grace and truth. . . . 17 for although the law was given
through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
***John 4:23 But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true
worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Yes, the
Father wants such people to worship Him. 24 God is spirit, and those
who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.
***John 8:45 Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.
***John 14:6 Jesus told him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through Me.
***John 14:17 He is the Spirit of truth. The world is unable to
receive Him because it doesn't see Him or know Him. But you do know
Him, because He remains with you and will be in you.
***John 15:26 "When the Counselor comes, the One I will send to you
from the Father —the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—He
will testify about Me.
***John 16:13 When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into
all the truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak
whatever He hears. He will also declare to you what is to come.
***John 17:17 Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.
***John 18:37 "You are a king then?" Pilate asked. "You say that I'm a
king," Jesus replied. "I was born for this, and I have come into the
world for this: to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth
listens to My voice." ALL THE ABOVE ARE FROM THE HCSBible
THE ONLY REAL TRUTH IS JESUS' TRUTH, THE EMBODIMENT OF TRUTH
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> THIS I BELIEVE TO BE TRUE <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
** Having genuine faith in the Jesus Christ of the Bible, I believe in
the one
true God whose oneness is forever revealed simultaneously as Father,
Son and the Holy Spirit; who are able to act only in perfect unity,
never independently of each other, never in opposition to each other,
and never separated from each other, never able to act or be contrary
to each other or their character.
Mt 3:16,17; Mk 1:10-12; Lk 3:21,22; 1 Cor 8:4-6; 2 Cor 5:21; Heb.
4:15; 6:18; 1
Peter 2:22; 1Jn1:5; 3:5; John 17:11, 21-23;
De 6:4 Hear, Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah;
De 10:17 For Jehovah your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of
lords, . .
Ps 47:7 For God is the King of all the earth; sing psalms with
understanding.
Ex 34:14 For thou shalt worship no other *God; for Jehovah--Jealous is
his
name--is a jealous *God;
Nu 23:19 *God is not a man, that he should lie; neither a son of man,
that he
should repent. . .
De 4:24 For Jehovah thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous *God. . .
De 7:21 Thou shalt not be afraid of them; for Jehovah thy God is in
thy midst, a *God great and terrible [<3372> causing astonishment and
awe, being held in awe, inspiring reverence, godly fear and awe].
Dt4:31 --for Jehovah thy God is a merciful *God, . . .
De 6:15 for Jehovah thy God is a jealous *God in thy midst; . . .
2Sa 22:3 God is my rock, in him will I trust--My shield, and the horn
of my
salvation, My high tower, and my refuge, My saviour: thou wilt save me
from
violence.
Ps 48:14 For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our
guide until
death.
Ps 54:4 Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is among them that uphold
my soul.
Ps 68:20 Our *God is the *God of salvation; and with Jehovah, the
Lord, are the goings forth even from death.
GOD THE FATHER, THE ALMIGHTY CONSUMING FIRE, THE MOST HIGH GOD
*** I believe in the one true God who is Father, Son and the Holy
Spirit. I Believe in God, the Father Who is the Almighty Consuming
Fire and Most High God, of whom are all things and who never has been
seen by mortal man, Who never was a man and has never had a wife; and
in Jesus Christ, His Only Son, Our Lord and God, the Creator of
Heaven, the heavens, Earth, angels, Lucifer, all living things
including humans and all created things and beings. Having genuine
faith in the Jesus Christ of the Bible, I believe in God, the Father
Almighty, Who is the Spirit of whom are all things, who is a
consuming fire of greater intensity than even our Sun. Father has
never been flesh and bone, never a man, never had a flesh and body
with a penis,and who has never had a wife. He has never been seen by a
mortal man who continued to live. Before Jesus was born in Bethlehem,
Father revealed Himself to mankind (Abraham, Moses, Isaiah) through
Jehovah-Jesus. Father sent Jehovah-Jesus, His only Son born of a
woman, to live in a human body and and to let His human body die for
our sins and salvation as the required blood sacrifice, the Passover
Lamb of God. John 4:24; 17:11, 21-23; 1Cor8:4-6; 2 Cor 3:17; 1Tim
1:17; Ex 24:17; De 4:24; 9:3; Isa 30:27-30; 33:14; Heb 12:29
I believe that Father
1.] "is a spirit; and they who worship him must worship him in spirit
and truth."Jn 4:24; 2 Cor 3:17
2.] that Father is glorified by Jesus and that Father glorifies Jesus.
Jn 17:1
3.] that Father has given Jesus authority over all flesh Jn 17:1-3
4.] is "the only true God" Jn 17:3; 1 Cor 8:6; John 1:1; Ephes 4:6
5.] gave His Son, Jesus, work to complete and direction as to what to
say and do. Jn 5:30; 17:4
6.] glorifies Himself and Jesus, and had glory with Jesus before Jesus
created the world Jn17:5,24
7.] gave apostles, disciples and believers to Jesus Jn17:6
8.] sent Jesus to earth Jn 17:8
9.] is so One with Jesus that all that belongs/pertains to Father
belongs/pertains to Jesus Jn 17:10
10.] keeps in His Name all those He has given to Jesus, so that they
may be one (Jn17:11)
11.] keeps from (out of) evil all those He has given to Jesus Jn 17:15
12.] sanctifies those who belong to Jesus by His Word/Truth Jn 17:17
13.] is in Jesus, and Jesus in Him Jn 17:21
14.] loves Jesus and His disciples Jn17:23,24; Col 1:13
15:] is the source of Grace and Peace Col 1:2
16:] is the God of Jesus (Col 1:3
17:] makes us fit for sharing the portion of the saints in Light Col
1:12
18:] delivered us from darkness and translated us into the Kingdom of
Jesus Col 1:13
19.] is a consuming fire Ex 24:17; Deut 4:24; 9:3; Isa 30:27-30;
33:14-26; Heb 12:29
20.] is the origin of all, all coming out of and from Him 1 Cor 8:6
21.] is the One into Whom, to Whom, and towards Whom all His children
are 1 Cor 8:6
22.] is the Lord God who shall give Jesus the throne of David Lk 1:32
23.] is the Lord God who is the Alpha and the Omega, who is, was and
is to come, the Almighty Rev 1:8
24.] has been seen by only one living human, His Son Jesus Christ Ex
33:20; Lk 10:22; Jn 6:45,46; 1:18; 1 Jn 4:12; 1Ti 6:16
25.] declared from the heavens about Jesus, "This is my beloved Son,
in whom I have found my delight." Matt 3.
26.] designated Jesus as the Mediator between man and Father 1 Tim
2:5; Ga 3:19; Heb 8:6; Heb 9:15; Heb 12:24
27.] inspires all Scripture given to mankind 2 Tim 3:16
28.] works all the diversities of Spiritual gifts and all the
differences of administrations of those gifts
1 Cor 12:6
29.] "set some in the church, firstly, apostles; secondly, prophets;
thirdly, teachers, then works of power, then gifts of healings, helps,
governments, kinds of languages. " 1 Cor 12:28
JESUS, THE SON, GOD REVEALED IN A HUMAN BODY
*** I Believe that the human body of Jesus was conceived by the Holy
Spirit, humanly born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius
Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried. I believe that God is
Spirit and that the flesh and blood body of Jesus Christ was not God,
but that Jesus Christ was God tabernacling in His human body of flesh
and blood, in which He bore our sins as the Lamb of God. While His
body was in the tomb, He descended into Hell and proclaimed His
Message to the spirits that were in prison. On the third day He rose
again from the dead in His eternal flesh and bone bloodless body. He
ascended into Heaven and now sits at the right hand of God the Father
Almighty. From there He shall return as He was taken up in His flesh
and bone bloodless body to rule the earth from David's throne in
Jerusalem in fulfillment of all the covenants to Abraham, Israel,
David and Solomon. Jesus Christ as God will judge the Living and the
Dead. Only those who have come to salvation in the Father through
genuine and total faith in the atonining and propitiating and
redeeming work of His only begotten Son alone will have eternal life
with Jesus and the Father in Heaven.
Having genuine faith in the Jesus Christ of the Bible, I believe in
the one
true God who was revealed as the Son, Jesus Christ, Our Lord and God,
Who
before He had a human body was Jehovah-Jesus the Creator of Heaven,
the
heavens, Earth, all angels, Lucifer, all living things including
humans. Jesus'
human body was conceived by the Holy Spirit. Jesus humbled Himself to
be in a human body born of woman, humanly born of the Virgin Mary in
order to be the human Passover Lamb of God, to become mankind's
Mediator with the Father, to learn human obedience, to experience
human temptations and trials and infirmities. Jesus suffered under
Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried. Jesus bore our
sins in His human body, not in His Spirit which remained holy and
sinless in His human body. As His human body was dying, Jesus
commended His Spirit in its holiness to the Father as His body that
bore our sins died. Jesus descended into the lower parts of the earth
and preached to the spirits which were in prison while His body was in
the tomb, raising that body again on the third day from the dead with
its eternal flesh, bone and
bloodless body, leading captivity captive and giving gifts to humans.
Jesus in
that eternal body ascended into Heaven and now sits at the right hand
of God
the Father Almighty. Jesus now is in Heaven as a transfigured man, in
a robe reaching to his feet,’ and with a golden girdle across his
breast. ‘The hair of his head is as white as wool, as white as snow.
His eyes are like flaming fire; and his
feet are like brass’ as when molten in a furnace. His voice is like
the sound
of many streams. In his right hand are seven stars, from his mouth
coves a
sharp two-edged sword, and his face is like ‘the sun in the fulness of
its
power.’ Who from there shall return in the same way as He was taken up
in His flesh, bone and bloodless body to rule the earth from David's
throne in
Jerusalem in fulfillment of all the covenants to Abraham, Israel,
David and
Solomon; and Who will be the only Judge the living and the dead.Jn
1:1-9;
17:11; Col 1:14-24; Matt 1; Luke 1; Mark 14, 15, 16; 1 Pet
2:24;3:18-22; Lu
24:39; 1 Cor 12; Acts 1; Rev 1 & 20 & 21.
I believe that Jesus
1.] gives eternal life to all who have been given to Him by Father Jn
17:2
2.] on earth could only do what the Father gave Him to do and say Jn
5:30
3.] had glory with Jesus before Jesus created the world Jn17:5
4.] all that belongs/pertains to Jesus belongs/pertains to Father Jn
17:10
5.] came of from Father and was sent by Father Jn17:8
6.] ask Father to keep His disciples out of evil Jn 17:15
7.] kept and guarded in Father's Name all those the FAther had given
to Him Jn17:12
8. is in His disciples Jn 17:23
9.] is the One by Whom are all things 1 Cor 8:6, by means of Him are
all things, on account of Him are all things John 1:3; He created
everything Col 1:16;
10.] is the One by Whom are all His disciples. 1 Cor 8:6
11.] is Jehovah, the Creator of all Gen 2:4, 24; De 4:32; Isa 41:20;
Isa 45:8-18; Mal 2:10; Col 1; John 1
12.] is Lord and King, the "King eternal, immortal, invisible, the
only wise God, to whom should be honour and glory for ever and ever. 1
Tim 1:12-17
13.] is God John 1:1
14.] is the beginning (Col 1:18) and was with God in the beginning
John 1:1-9
15.] enlightens every human being who comes into the world Jn 1:9
16.] is the One in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins
Col 1:14; Mt 1:21
17.] is the visible image of the invisible God Col 1:15
18.] is Creation's firstborn from the dead never to die again Col
1:15,18; Rev 1:5
19:] is the One for whom all things were created Col 1:16
20:] exists before all created things Col 1:17
21:] is the by whom all are placed together, set in the same place,to
brought together, stand, are set one with another, comprehended,
shown, proved, established, exhibited,composed and/or consist. Col
1:17
22.] is the one who is to have the preeminence in all Col 1:18
23.] made peace through the blood of his cross to reconcile all to
Himself Col 1:20
24.] was in the human body that was conceived by the Holy Spirit in
Mary Mt. 1:18,20; Lk 1:35
25.] shall rule over the house of Jacob for the ages, with an unending
Kingdom Lk 1:33
26.] was holy in His human body Lk 1:35
27.] in His human body sought always to do only the will of His Father
Mk 14:36
28.] is the Messiah/Christ, the King over Israel chosen by Father Mk
14:61
29.] is the Son of the Blessed Father Mk 14:61,62
30.] now sits at the right hand of the Father Mk 16:19; 1 Pet 3:22
31.] bore our sins in His body on the cross, His body put to death 1
Pet 2:24; 3:18
32.] is the one who brings us to Father 1 Pet 3:18
33.] now has a flesh and bone body instead of a flesh and blood body
Lk 2:39
34.] will return in the same way that He left, visibly in the clouds
Acts 1:11; Rev 1:7
35.] is both Lord and God Rev 4:11
36.] appeared to Abraham, for Jesus is the only living human who ever
saw Father and lived Ge 12:7; Ge 17:1; Ge 18:1; Ge 26:24; Ex 33:20; Lk
10:22; Jn 6:45,46; 1:18; 1 Jn 4:12; 1Ti 6:16
37.] wrestled with Jacob, for Jesus is the only living human who ever
saw Father and lived Gen 32; Ex 33:20; Lk 10:22; Jn 6:45,46; 1:18; 1
Jn 4:12; 1Ti 6:16
38.] appeared to Moses, for Jesus is the only living human who ever
saw Father and lived Ex 3; De 31:15; Nu 12:8; Ex 33:20; Lk 10:22; Jn
6:45,46; 1:18; 1 Jn 4:12; 1Ti 6:16
39.] appeared to Gideon, for Jesus is the only living human who ever
saw Father and lived Judges 6; Ex 33:20; Lk 10:22; Jn 6:45,46; 1:18; 1
Jn 4:12; 1Ti 6:16
40.] appeared to Samuel, for Jesus is the only living human who ever
saw Father and lived 1Sa 3:21; Ex 33:20; Lk 10:22; Jn 6:45,46; 1:18; 1
Jn 4:12; 1Ti 6:16
41.] appeared to Solomon, for Jesus is the only living human who ever
saw Father and lived 1Ki 3:5; 1Ki 9:2; Ex 33:20; Lk 10:22; Jn 6:45,46;
1:18; 1 Jn 4:12; 1Ti 6:16
42:] was seen by Isaiah, for Jesus is the only living human who ever
saw Father and lived Isa 6; Ex 33:20; Lk 10:22; Jn 6:45,46; 1:18; 1 Jn
4:12; 1Ti 6:16
43.] is "the root and offspring of David, the bright and morning
star."Rv 22:16
44.] is declared by Father to be His beloved Son, in whom He has found
His delight. Mat 3.
45.] is the Father designated Mediator between man and Father 1 Tim
2:5; Ga 3:19; Heb 8:6; Heb 9:15; Heb 12:24
46.] is the one and only Lord, Master of all, Possessor and Disposer
of all, Owner of all, the Sovereign, King of all Kings,
Prince of all Princes, the Chief of all Chiefs Ephes 4:5; 1 Cor 8:6
47.] unselfishly and compassionately cherishes in LOVE those who are
hIs, giving Himself for them, sanctifying and cleansing them with the
Word, in order to present them to Himself gloriously and in glory, h
oly and without blemish Ephe 5:22-33
48.] always has been and always will be subject to God the Father
1Cor15:23-28
***Before He was revealed as the Babe of Bethlehem, Jesus Christ,
appeared as a flesh and bone man (Gen 18), even as a man who wrestled
with Jacob (Gen 32), as King seated on a throne (Isa 6); and appeared
as fire on a bush (Ex 3). His face could not be seen, but He would
permit some of His servants to Him, but not His face.(Ex. 33; Isa 6).
According to the Scriptures, JESUS, AS JEHOVAH,
1.] kept and guarded in Father's Name all those the FAther had given
to Him Jn17:12; Psa 121:5
2.] dwells in His true disciples Jn 17:3; Isa 45:14; Gal 2:20
3.] is the One by Whom are all things 1 Cor 8:6, by means of Him are
all things, on
account of Him are all things John 1:3; He created everything Col
1:16; Psa 121:2 Prv 22:2
4.] is the Shepherd of God's sheep Psa 23:1; John 10:1-20
5.] is the Light of God to the world Psa 27:1; John 1:6-10; John 14:6
6.] is the beginning (Col 1:18) and was with God in the beginning John
1:1-9; Prv 8:22; Jer 17:12,13
7.] is the One in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins Col
1:14; Mt 1:21; Isa 12:2
8.] is the One by whom all are placed together, set in the same place,
brought together, stand, are set one with another, comprehended,
shown, proved, established, exhibited,composed and/or consist. Col
1:17; Amos 5:8; 9:6
9.] shall rule over the house of Jacob for the ages, with an unending
Kingdom Lk 1:33; Psa 10:16; Ps 95:3;
the Messiah/Christ, the King over Israel chosen by Father Mk 14:61
10.] is God the Rock of His people Ro 9:33; 1Co 10:4; 1Pe 2:8; Mt
16:18; Psa 92:15; Isa 26:4
11.] saves and is the Savior of His people. Lu 19:10; Joh 12:47; Mt
18:11; Mt 15:24; Psa 34:18; Isa 45:17; Hos1:7
12.] is the Judge of all created ones Isa 33:22; Psa 9:7; 96:13; Jn
17:2; John 3:17; 5:22
13.] is both Lord and God Rev 4:11; Dan 9:3; Ex 34:6; Psa 80:4; 88:1
14.] empowers His people to do His will Ph 4:13; Psa 37:23
15.] is the Head over all 1 Cor 11:3; Eph 1:22; 4:15; Col 1:18; 2:10;
1 Chron 29:11
16.] has a throne in Heaven Re 3:21; 7:17; 20:11,12; 22:1,3; Psa 11:4
***He was revealed as Jesus of Bethlehem and Nazareth,
appearing as a normal human man, living as the humble and
suffering servant of God, and dying as the Lamb of God to
be our Passover and save us from Hell and Death by faith
in Jesus alone for this salvation.
***He rose from the dead He appeared in his miraculous
body, sometimes appearing as a normal man, sometimes as
the glorified and risen Son of God, sometimes in a blinding
light as with Paul, and always supernaturally. Today He
appears in this manner in Heaven:
Rev. 1:1 . . . the Son of Man, clothed in a robe which reached to His
feet, and
with a girdle of gold across His breast. 14 His head and His hair were
white,
like white wool--as white as snow; and His eyes resembled a flame of
fire. 15
His feet were like silver-bronze, when it is white-hot in a furnace;
and His
voice resembled the sound of many waters. 16 In His right hand He held
seven stars, and a sharp, two-edged sword was seen coming from His
mouth; and His glance resembled the sun when it is shining with its
full strength.
According to the Scriptures, FATHER (the unseen Jehovah) AND SON JESUS
(the seen Jehovah),
1.] glorify each other: Father is glorified by Jesus and that Father
glorifies Jesus. Jn 17:1
2.] are the one true God: Father and Jehovah Jesus; "the only true
God" Joshua 22:34; Psalm 100:3; Jn 17:3; 1 Cor 8:6; John 1:1; Ephes
4:6; 1 John 5:20
3.] possess all in common equally: so One with Jesus that all that
belongs/pertains to Father belongs/pertains to Jesus Jn 17:10
4.] keep and guard in His Name from (out of) evil all those Father has
given to Jehovah-Jesus, so that they may be one (Jn17:11,12,15; Psa
121:5
5.] are in each other Jn 17:21
6:] make us fit for sharing the portion of the saints in Light Col
1:12; Ephe 5:22-33; Heb 13:20,21; Ph 2:13
7.] live in Jesus' true disciples Gal 2:20; Rom 8:11
8.] raised the dead human body of the living Jesus from the dead and
made it an eternal body. Acts 2:24,32; Rom 8:11; Heb 13:20;Joh 2:19;
Joh 10:17, 18;
9.] are both Father and God, called The mighty God <0410 'el {ale}>,
The Father of Eternity, Isa 9:6
10.] sanctify those who belong to Jesus by His Word/Truth Jn 17:17;
Heb 13:20,21; Ph 2:13; Ephe 5:22-33
THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD, GOD THE SPIRIT
*** Having genuine faith in the Jesus Christ of the Bible, I believe
in the one
true God revealed as the Spirit, Who hovered over the face of the
waters at the beginning of the creation of the heavens and the earth;
Who comes into the world and enlightens every human, convicting them
of their sin, His judgment and His righteousness; Who comes upon and
fills the servants of God for supernatural ministry; Who seals and
indwells the children of God; Who gives His servants serving gifts,
enlightenment, rest and comfort; Who leads and places His servants
when and where He pleases; Who descended upon Jesus as a dove; Who
quickens and gives birth to Spirit in man; Who is received of and in
His children for and in unity. God the Spirit may be tempted, grieved
and quenched by mankind but never changing and always holy. God the
Spirit speaks to mankind and inspired the Scriptures of God; Who works
His fruit in His children both to will to do His will, and to actually
do His will; Who makes intercession with groanings which cannot be
uttered; Who searches all things, even the depths of God; Who washes,
sanctifies and justifies the children of God in the name of the Lord
Jesus; Who transforms us according to the glory of the Lord from glory
to glory; Whose promise in Jesus we receive through faith; Who works
in us to worship Father and Son; by Whom *we* have all been baptized
into one body in Christ; Who says " Come, and let him that is a thirst
come; he that will, let him take the water of life freely; and WHO IS
NOT MOTHER as the Moslems believe, NOT FEMALE, HAS NO FEMALE BODY, AND
HAS NO FEMALE GENATALIA." [Gen 1:1-6; John 4:24; 16:7-11; Ephes
5:15-22; Rom 8:14; Ephes 4:1-6; 2 Tim 3:15ff; Gal 5; Eph 5:22-33; 1Cor
12; Re 22:17] The Moslems/Muslims teach that the Holy Spirit of the
Bible is Mother, a false teaching of the apostate and heretical
segment of the Egyptian Coptic church at the time Mohammed lived.
I believe that the Holy Spirit of God
1.] hovered over the face of the waters at the beginning of creation
Gen 1:2
2.] filled the servants of God with Moses Ex 31:3; Ex 35:31
3.] came upon people giving them super natural powers in their
suffering and for their service to Father. Nu 24:2; 1Sa 10:10; 1Sa
11:6; 1Sa 19:20, 23; 2Ch 15:1;2Ch 24:20; Mt 3:16; Ro 15:19; 1Pe 4:14
4.] lifted people up and took them places in visions Eze 11:24;
5.] knows the things of God than men can't know 1Co 2:11
6.] indwells the bodies-temples of the children of Father 1Co 3:16
7.] enables the children of Father to declare sincerely and truthfully
that Jesus is Lord 1Co 12:3
8.] is grieved by our sins Eph 4:30
9.] seals the children of Father to/for the day of redemption Eph 4:30
10.] enables the children of Father to worship Father Ph 3:3; Jn 4:24
11.] confesses/proclaims/agrees through true believers that Jesus is
the Christ/Messiah who has come in a human body 1 Jn 4:2
12,] is God, the one and only Spirit of God Jn 4:24; Ephes 4:4; 1 Cor
12:6+11
13.] is called and sent by Jesus to help, succour, aid, assist, lead,
empower and enable those who belong to Jesus Jn 16:7-11; Rom 8:14; Gal
5:18
14.] convicts the people of the world of sin, their disbelief in Jesus
Jn16:7,8
15.] convicts the people of the world of righteousness, the
righteousness available in the finished work of the Lamb of God Jn
16:7,8,9,10
16.] convicts people of the world of judgment, judgment of sin,
sinners, Satan and his demons. Jn 16:11
17.] fills the children of Father so that they may live as they are
commanded to live, " speaking to [themselves] in psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs, singing and making melody in [their hearts] to the
Lord; always giving thanks for all things to God the Father in the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¶ submitting [themselves] to one
another in the fear of God." Ephes 5:18-21
18.] enables us to wait for the hope of righteousness in Christ by
faith Gal 5:5
19.] enables us to walk in Him and not fulfill the flesh's desires for
what God has forbidden/condemned Gal 5:16,25
20.] produces in the life of the Jesus believer "love, joy, peace,
longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, [and] temperance
Gal 5:22,23
21.] is manifested to the children of God for their edification and
profit 1 Cor 12: 7
22.] gives a diversity of gifts to the children of God as the Spirit
of God wills, working those gifts in them 1Cor 12:7-11
23.] in/by/with Whom we are baptized into the one body of Christ 1 Cor
12:13
24.] says, "Come! And let the one hearing say, Come! And let him who
is thirsty come. And he willing, let him take of the water of life
freely." Rev 22:17
According to the Scriptures, FATHER AND THE HOLY SPIRIT,
1.] are "a spirit; and they who worship him must worship him in spirit
and truth."Jn 4:24; 2 Cor 3:17
2.] dwell in Jesus' true disciples by His Spirit. Rom 8:11
3.] work all the diversities of Spiritual gifts and all the
differences of administrations of those gifts, 1 Cor 12:6; giving a
diversity of gifts to the children of God as the Spirit of God wills,
working those gifts in them 1Cor 12:7-11; Jn17:6; 1 Cor 12:28;
4.] inspire all Scripture given to mankind 2 Tim 3:16; 2 Pet 1:19-21
According to the Scriptures, THE SPIRIT AND JEHOVAH JESUS
1.] dwell in Jesus' true disciples Jn 17:23;Isa 45:14; 1Co 3:16
2.] are grieved by sin and disbelief Eph 4:30; Luke 19:41-43
3.] make intercession for the saints of God Rom 8:27, 34
According to the Scriptures, THE FATHER, SPIRIT AND SON JESUS
1.] live in the true disciples of Jesus Gal 2:20; 1 Cor 3:16; Rom 8:11
2.] are God, the one and only God Jn 4:24; Ephes 4:4; 1 Cor
12:6+11;Joshua 22:34; Psalm 100:3; Jn 17:3; 1 Cor 8:6; John 1:1; Ephes
4:6; 1 John 5:20
********JESUS IS NOT THE FATHER. JESUS IS GOD.
********THE FATHER IS NOT JESUS. THE FATHER IS GOD
********THE SPIRIT IS NOT JESUS OR THE FATHER. THE SPIRIT IS GOD.
JESUS, THE FATHER AND THE SPIRIT ARE THE ONE TRUE GOD.
THE ONE TRUE GOD IS JESUS, THE FATHER, AND THE SPIRIT.
The Triune God is one God because -----
1. no member of the Triunity appears to be able to act
independently (do His own thing) of any other
member of the Triunity,
2. no member of the Triunity appears to be able to act
in opposition to any other member of the Triunity,
3. no member of the Triunity appears to be able to do
anything contrary to the will of any other member of the
Triunity.
4. no member of the Triunity appears to be able to act
contrary to the nature of God
5. no member of the Tirunity appears to will/want/purpose
to do anything independent or contrary to the united will/
desire/purpose of the other members of the Triune God.
6. when one acts separately and distinctly, as at the baptism
of Jesus, that one appears to be act for and in perfect
harmony with the others
7. the Son always has been and always will be subject to God His
Father,
an impossibility for any other living being (1Cor 15:23-28).
The Triunity-God described above appears to be a unity-God,
appears to be the one true God of the Bible.
There is no one living creature on earth of which this can be said.
There are no three living creatures on earth of which this can be
said.
Man is a three part being, i.e. body, soul and spirit.
His body and soul are able to act contrary to and
independent of his spirit. His spirit is able to
oppose and act contrary to his soul and spirit. The
spirit can leave the soul and body no matter what
the soul and body want. Man, created in the image of
Jesus in His human body, is a triune being but
not nearly as triune as God. The Triunity-God described
above appears to be the God of unity, union and harmony
and appears to be the one true God of the Bible.
De 6:4* Hear, O, Israel. The LORD [Yehovah, singular] our God
['elohiym,
plural] is one LORD [Yehovah,singular]. [the CJN has "Adonai our God,
Adonai is one"]
Ephes 4: 4 There is one body and one Spirit, as ye have been also
called in one
hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God
and Father
of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all.
Can a small child understand and explain all that his parents are and
were?
Can a lowly servant understand and explain all that his employer is
and was?
Can a human explain how a sperm and an ovum, each of which has no soul
or spirit, can become a human with a spirit and a soul?
Can a human understand and explain the God who created the universe
and him?
If any one think he knows the nature and being of God, he knows not
the nature and being of God yet as he ought to know it. 1 Cor. 8:2
The best we can do is believe what this amazing God says about
Himself,
and leave the understanding and explaining to Him.
That which He has told us about Himself in the Scriptures is "divinely
inspired, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction,
for instruction in righteousness; that the man of God may be complete,
fully fitted to every good work."
[2 Tim 3:16,17]
END OF PART ONE OF TWO. THE REST IS IN THE FILES/DOCUMENTS SECTION OF
THIS GROUP as "The Way of God Jesus That I Believe."
Ron Tyler
If His Word has been hid His people/children for decades, centuries, generations ---then I don't believe that "hidden Word" is His Word, whether it be Greek or Hebrew. For me the final test in debated and controversial passages is this, "What rendering is supported by the vast majority of the 15,000 translations, copies, versions etc, from Asia, the Mid East, Africa and Europe; dating from 200 AD to 1500 AD, that was being used by His people at the time written, so known because they walk in obedience to His Word in the Name of Yahweh-Yahshua. I am not interested in nor do I have the time for new translations or versions that have been hidden from the people of Yahweh-Yahshua for decades/centuries/generations. He has promised to always cause His people to have His Word. There are few miracles greater than the miraculous degree of agreement between the Old Itala, the Coptic, the Peshitta, the Vulgate and the Textus Receptus. Even the Siniaticus (found in Palestine) and the Vatinicus (found in the archives of the Vatican), both of which have been dated in the 400s AD, agree more than they disagree, and what disagreements exist do not change any of the basic Christian creeds/doctrines. Where they agree, I find the Word.Where they disagree, I refuse to be dogmatic and I wait on Him and His Spirit. When it comes to such passages, even after I have received direction from Him and His Spirit, I still refuse to be dogmatic. " Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. 2 And if any man thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know. 3 But if any one loves God, he has been known of him." 1Cor 8
*** Having genuine faith in the Jesus Christ of the Bible, I believe that mankind was created by Jesus Christ. Without the enabling of His Spirit and renewing by faith in Jesus, people are unable to do anything acceptable to Jesus, all of their good deeds and works and righteousnesses are as unacceptable to Jesus as filthy leprous rags, and they are completely unable to save themselves from the presence and death penalty of their sins. Isa 53:6 ; Isa 64:6; Colos 1; Ephes 2; John 15; Titus 3; Romans 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8
*** Having genuine faith in the Jesus Christ of the Bible, I believe that only those who have come to salvation in the Father through Jesus Christ from death and sin with genuine faith for salvation and holiness before God in nothing else and no one else besides the atoning, propitiating and redeeming work of His only begotten Son, Jesus, will have eternal life with Jesus and the Father in Heaven. There is nothing we can do to save ourselves, to make ourselves fit for the Father. The good soil was dead and "unsaved" without the Word and the water of the Spirit. We cannot generate or have faith on our own or by ourselves. Like the good soil, worthless and dead without the Spirit and Word, faith is begotten in us upon receipt of the Word and the quickening of the Spirit. He quickens faith in us and we call on His Name and He saves us. All others will have their place in Hell. John 14:4-6; Ephes 2:6-10; Mr 16:16; Joh 3:18; 5:24; Ac 13:39; Ro 3:22-26; Ro 4:5+16; Romans 10; Titus 3:3-5; Rev 21 & 22.
*** Having genuine faith in the Jesus Christ of the Bible, I believe that His Word in the original texts was inspired by the Holy Spirit as he worked in His servants to write, and that He has preserved His Word for us in the Body of Christ on earth and for His use in us today, so that He may thoroughly prepare us for all of His good works. 2Sa 23:2; 1Ki 17:24; Lu 1:70; Ac 1:16; Ac 28:25; 2Ti 3:16; Heb 3:7; 1Pe 1:11;2Pe 1:20, 21
*** Having genuine faith in the Jesus Christ of the Bible, I believe that all true believers are fellow-citizens of the saints and of the household of God, being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the corner-stone, in whom all the Church building fitted together increases to a holy temple in the Lord; built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit. Ephes 2 + 3
*** Having genuine faith in the Jesus Christ of the Bible, I believe He has given some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some shepherds and teachers, for the perfecting of the saints; with a view to the work of the ministry, with a view to the edifying of the body of Christ; until we all arrive at the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, at the full-grown man, at the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Christ; in order that we may grow up to Him in all things, who is the Head, the Christ; from whom the whole body, fitted together, and connected by every joint of supply, according to the working in its measure of each one part, works for itself the increase of the Body to its self-building up in love. Ephes 4; Rom 12; 1 Cor 12.
*** Having genuine faith in the Jesus Christ of the Bible, I believe that Jesus has died and has risen again, and that God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus. I believe that the Lord Jesus Himself, with an assembling shout, with an archangel’s voice and with the last trump of God, shall descend from heaven; that the dead in Christ shall rise first, that then the living who remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord Jesus in the air, and thus we shall be always eternally alive with the Lord Jesus. Mt 24:31; 1Th 4:16; 1Co 15:52; Re 10:7; 11:15
*** Having genuine faith in the Jesus Christ of the Bible, I believe that a man shall leave father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh; that they are no longer two, but one flesh; that in the Old Covenant He allowed His servants Abraham, Jacob, Gideon and David to have more than one wife and blessed those polygynists who walked in His Way; that in the New Covenant all the leaders and officials of the assembly should have only one wife; that humans should not separate those God has joined together; that a genuinely believing man should not free himself from his own genuinely believing woman; that a genuinely believing woman is maritally bound to her own genuinely believing man as long as he lives; that if her own man has fallen asleep in Jesus, she is free to be married to whom she wills who is in the Lord; that God hates divorce but permitted it, never commanding it, in the case of sex sin in order that Assembly discipline (Matt. 18:15-18 with 1 Cor 5:3-11 and 2 Tim 2:24-26) may take place for the sake of reconciliation and restoration since sex sin does not break the marital bond of two genuine believers. Gen 2; Exodus 21:7-11; Deut 21:15-17; 2 Sam 12:8; Titus 1; 1 Tim 3; Matt 19; Mark 10; Rom 7; 1 Cor 7
*** Having genuine faith in the Jesus Christ of the Bible, I believe it is Jesus’s will for me, as He enables and as I have opportunity, to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, to feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, to do justice to the fatherless, to plead for needy widows, to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the oppressive yoke, and to set free those crushed by their experiences, to break every evil yoke, to welcome to shelter the homeless, to clothe those in need of clothing, to comfort and visit the sick and imprisoned. Mt. 25:34-44; Ps 10:18 ; Ps 103:6 ; Ps 146:7 ; Isa 1:17; 58:6-14; James 1:27; 1 John 3:14-19
*** Having genuine faith in the Jesus Christ of the Bible, I believe that no one who continues in union with Him keeps on practicing and living in disobedience to Jesus, that no one who continues to disobey Jesus has seen Him or knows Him. I believe that the person who continues acting righteously according to the Word of God, practicing righteousness, is righteous, just as Jesus is righteous. I believe that the one who is habitually practicing and living in disobedience against Jesus is a child of the Devil, that no one who is a child of God habitually practices and lives in disobedience against Jesus. I believe that the God-given germ of life remains in His child, and he/she cannot habitually disobey Jesus--because he/she is a child of God. I believe that it is by this we can distinguish God’s children and the Devil’s children, that no one who continues to act unrighteously is a child of God, nor one who does not continue to unselfishly and compassionately cherish in Love the people in his/her life. 1 John 3:6-10 WEY+TCNT+DBY
*** Having genuine faith in the Jesus Christ of the Bible, I believe that hereby we know that we know him, if in response to our total dependence on Him alone to save us from our sins and make acceptable to Father, He works and wills in us to continue to obey his commandments. The one who says, I know Jesus, and does not continue to obey Jesus’ commandments, is a liar, and the Jesus, the Truth, is not in him; but the one who continues to obey His Word, in him verily is the Love of God perfected. I believe that it is by this that we know we are in Him, the one who says he abides in Jesus ought to be living even as Jesus lived. 1Jn 2:3-9
*** Having genuine faith in the Jesus Christ of the Bible, I believe that we should consider one another for encouraging each other to Love each other and good works, not ceasing to meet together, for those who don’t remain in fellowship with other believers show they never were of Christ, since Jesus’ true believers remain in fellowship with other believers.Heb 10:24ff; 1Jn2:3-19
*** Having genuine faith in the Jesus Christ of the Bible, I believe that neither myself nor my possessions belong to me, because I and them have been bought by Jesus and belong to Him. I believe that what I have has been entrusted to me by God for me to be a wise and fruitful steward, to use and to share with others in need as He leads. 1Cor6:19,20; Ac 2:44 -48; Ac 4:32-36; 2Cor 8 & 9
*** Having genuine faith in the Jesus Christ of the Bible, I believe that Jesus wants me to compassionately and unselfishly Love and show kindness to my enemies, those who are against me, who try to hurt me and hate me. I believe it His will for me to say good words to those who curse me, and to pray for those who insult me. If I can’t get away, I believe I am supposed to offer my cheek to the one who already has hit my face rather than hit back. If my enemy takes an article of my clothing I believe I should offer him/her yet another. I believe I am supposed to give what the Lord leads to the one who keeps on asking me for stuff, and that i should not demand the return of that which another has evilly taken from me. I believe He wants me to do to others as I want them to do to me. Luke 6 & Rom 12
I believe in The Holy Catholic Church, an invisible Spiritual building which has been reared on the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, the cornerstone being Christ Jesus Himself, in union with whom the whole fabric, fitted and closely joined together, a communion of saints which is growing so as to form an invisible Spiritual holy sanctuary in the Lord; in whom all in Christ also are being built up together to become a fixed abode for God through the Spirit.
I believe in the Forgiveness of Sins on the basis of God initiated regenerating faith, trust and dependence soley in Jesus and His atoning work for our salvation
I believe in the Resurrection of the believer’s body, as Jesus' body was resurrected as a Spirit sustained flesh and bone body, and the believer’s Life Everlasting in the presence of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
I believe, “that whosoever shall put away [or divorce] his wife, not for fornication, and shall marry another, commits adultery”; that “he who marries a put away [or divorced] wife commits adultery” [because if they are both genuinely saved in JESUS they are still maritally bound to each other til death parts them Rom 7:1-3; 1 Cor 7:10,11,39]; that if the unsaved/unbelieving mate of a genuine Jesus believing mate does not want to dwell with the believer, the believer may separate from the unbeliever; that if the unsaved/unbeliever leaves/abandons/divorces the Jesus believer, the believer is no longer maritally bound to the unbeliever and is free to marry a believer; that if a man keeps his wife and takes another wife, it is polygyny [Ex 21:1-11; Dt. 21:15-17; Ezek 23; 2 Sam 12:10-14]; and that polygyny may not be officially or publicly practiced in the USA since it is illegal. Amen.
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///The proof that we know Him and are His is the fact of the obedience to His Word in the Bible that He works and wills in us.
***1John2: 18 ¶ Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have CONTINUED with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
***1John 2:3 ¶ And hereby we know that we know him, if we CONTINUE keeping his commandments. 4 He that says, I know him, and does not CONTINUE keeping his commandments, is a liar, and the Truth is not in him; 5 but whoever CONTINUES keeping his word, in him verily the love of God is perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him. 6 He that says he abides in him ought, even as *he* walked, himself also so to CONTINUE walking.
///If we aren't obeying Him and His Word, we are liars if we say we know Him and the Truth, Jesus, is not in us.
///He clearly tells us that we are to live by and according to every Word which He has given to us.
De 8:3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with the manna, which thou hadst not known, and which thy fathers knew not; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread alone, but by everything that goeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live.
Mt 4: 4 But he answering said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which goes out through God’s mouth.
Lu 4:4 And Jesus answered unto him saying, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
Joh 6:63 It is the Spirit which quickens, the flesh profits nothing: the words which I have spoken unto you are spirit and are life.
///Salvation belongs to them who, after having complete faith in Jesus alone to be made right with God by the empowering and enabling of the Spirit of God, experience the Spirit of God working and willing in them to the end that they are obeying Him and His Word.
Heb 5: 8 though he were Son, he learned obedience from the things which he suffered; 9 and having been perfected, became to all them that obey him, author of eternal salvation;
Mt 7:24 Whoever therefore hears these my words and does them, I will liken him to a prudent man, who built his house upon the rock; 25 and the rain came down, and the streams came, and the winds blew and fell upon that house, and it did not fall, for it had been founded upon the rock.
Ac 5:32 And *we* are his witnesses of these things, and the Holy Spirit also, which God has given to those that obey him.
Ro 1:5 by whom we have received grace and apostleship in behalf of his name, for obedience of faith among all the nations,
Ro 2:8 But to those that are contentious, and are disobedient to the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there shall be wrath and indignation,
Ro 6:17 But thanks be to God, that ye were bondmen of sin, but have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching into which ye were instructed.
Ro 10:16 But they have not all obeyed the glad tidings. For Esaias says, Lord, who has believed our report?
Ro 15:18 For I will not dare to speak anything of the things which Christ has not wrought by me, for the obedience of the nations, by word and deed,
2Co 10:5 overthrowing reasonings and every high thing that lifts itself up against the knowledge of God, and leading captive every thought into the obedience of the Christ;
2Th 1:8 in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who know not God, and those who do not obey the glad tidings of our Lord Jesus Christ;
1Pe 1:22 Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth to unfeigned brotherly love, love one another out of a pure heart fervently;
///Those who are not obeying the Word of God and have rejected Jesus and His Salvation shall suffer the vengeance of God in Hell for their disobedience.
Hell is a place of pain, trouble, sorrow, judgment, condemnation, and punishment designed for those who reject Jesus and His salvation. Mt. 23:33; 2Sa 22:6; Ps 18:5; Ps 116:3 Hell is a place of unquenchable fire. Mt. 5:22; Mr. 9:43; De 32:22
Both the body and soul may be destroyed in Hell. Mt 10:28
Finally Hell/Hades and all those in it will be cast into the Lake of Fire. Rev. 20:14,15
Hell Fire and Eternal Torment
Our God has NO PLEASURE in the death of the wicked.
***Eze 33:11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
Abba Father does not get his jollies by barbecuing sinners or eternity. Hell is a function of the nature of God and suffering in Hell in a matter of incompatibility.
Our God is a holy consuming fire:
***De 4:24 For Jehovah thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous *God.
***De 9:3 Know then this day, that Jehovah thy God is he that goeth over before thee, a consuming fire; he will destroy them, and he will cast them down before thee,
***Isa 33:14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling hath surprised the hypocrites: Who among us shall dwell with the consuming fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting flames?
***Heb 12:29 For also our God is a consuming fire.
What happens when you put "gold, silver, precious stones" in the fire? They remain gold, silver and precious stones. When Shedrack and Meshack and Abednego were in the fire with Jesus they remained who and as they were because Jesus, by their faith in Him as Jehovah-Jesus, had made them compatible with the fire and His fire did them no harm.
What happens when you put wood, hay, grass, stubble and straw in the fire? They are consumed. The guards who threw Shedrack and Co. in the fire suffered death b y the fire because Jesus had not made them compatible with Himself, because they hadn't been made compatible by faith in Jehovah-Jesus.
***1 Cor 3: 11 ¶ For other foundation can no man lay besides that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if any one build upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, straw, 13 the work of each shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire shall try the work of each what it is. 14 If the work of any one which he has built upon the foundation shall abide, he shall receive a reward. 15 If the work of any one shall be consumed, he shall suffer loss, but *he* shall be saved, but so as through the fire.
***1Pe 1:7* that the proving of your faith, much more precious than of gold which perishes, though it be proved by fire, be found to praise and glory and honour in the revelation of Jesus Christ:
The fire that touched Isaiah's lips did not hurt him but purged and cleansed him.
***Isaiah 6: 6 And one of the seraphim flew unto me, and he had in his hand a glowing coal, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar; 7 and he made it touch my mouth, and said, Behold, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin expiated.
The earth shall be purged and cleansed by His fire
***2Pe 3:7 But the present heavens and the earth by his word are laid up in store, kept for fire unto a day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. . . . 12 waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements, burning with heat, shall melt?
Hell and the Lake of Fire is not made for Father and His angels to get their jollies watching a sinners barbecue. Hell and the Lake of Fire causes the death (lack of sinful activity) of sinners and continuously causes the dissolving and burning destruction of the sin of the sinners. At the very least, the torment of Hell for the sinner is being prevented from doing the sins they want to do, and the continuing destruction of all the sin they will and desire to do. Can you imagine forever knowing what you love, long and want to do and never being able to do what you love, long for or want? That is torment. Suffering that kind of torment for ages is Hell.
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MISC.
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http://www.kirkal.com/view_group.php?group_id=442
INTERRACIAL
Interracial or inter-ethnic relationships, dating and/or marriage for born again in Jesus, reborn in the Spirit, Bible believing and Jesus obeying Christians who are dealing with these issues
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InterDatingMarryingInJesus2
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http://www.lilaguide.com/groups/Interracial_Interethnic_Kids_Parenting
http://www.hi5.com/friend/group/4096440--Interracial_Interethnic_Relati--front-html
http://en.groups.zorpia.com/group/the_bible_interracials_vs_racism/
LOSS/RECOVERY/SUFFERING
Experiencing loss, suffering and/or recovery as born again, reborn in the Spirit, Bible believing and Jesus obeying Christians, and dealing with the issues involved according to the Bible.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ForTheFatherlessWithoutDads
http://dad4thefatherless.multiply.com/
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http://www.lilaguide.com/groups/Fathering_the_Fatherless
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LynnLossRecovery
ttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/SufferingAndChristians-STDsLossEtc/
http://groups.google.com/group/Grief_Loss_And_Recovery_In_Jesus
http://groups.google.com/group/PGChristianLivingIssues
http://sufferinstdsjesus.multiply.com/profile/group
http://maritalcrisisrecovry.multiply.com/
http://recoveryinjesus.multiply.com/
http://www.meetup.com/ProgressingSanDiegoChristians/
MARRIAGE
Marriage, separation, divorce and/or remarriage helps for born again, reborn in the Spirit, Bible believing and Jesus obeying Christians who are involved in
and dealing with these issues involved according to the Bible.
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http://www.lilaguide.com/groups/EducatingChildrenWell4Eternity
http://en.netlog.com/clan/JesusMarriage
http://www.hi5.com/friend/group/3901883--Biblical_Marriage_is_Sexual--front-html
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POLITICS
This is an attempt at an examination of what it means to be a genuine disciple of Jesus and a citizen of secular society/country that may be hostile to Jesus and Christians. Jesus' Spirit instructed His disciples to submit themselves to the secular civic leaders/rulers, as long as that obedience did not involve disobeying the clear+specific+explicit commands of Jesus, even if they are Hitlers, Maos, Stalins or Amins.
http://groups.google.com/group/PGChristianLivingIssues
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Life_Issues_Today
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http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=83981485182
http://politicsandjesus.jiglu.com/
http://www.meetup.com/ProgressingSanDiegoChristians/
PRAYER
Come join us as we pray for each other, for the needy, making petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings for every one, especially for rulers and all who are in high positions, in order that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in a deeply religious and reverent spirit. This will be good and acceptable in the eyes of God, our Savior, whose will is that every one should be saved, and attain to a full knowledge of the Truth.
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PRISON
Prisons, parolees, prisoners, families of prisoners, parolees, and born again, reborn in the Spirit, Bible believing and Jesus obeying Christians dealing with the people and issues involved according to the Bible.
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http://www.meetup.com/ProgressingSanDiegoChristians/
SEX
Born again, Reborn in the Spirit, Bible believing and Jesus obeying Christians who are involved in sexual relations and sexual morality, and dealing with the sexual issues involved according to the Bible
This group is for born again, reborn in the Spirit, Bible believing and Jesus obeying Christians who are dealing with sexual issues according to the Bible
**Prov. 5:18 . . . rejoice and be glad with the wife of your youth. 19 . . . her breasts should satisfy/intoxicate/saturate you at all times; you should be intoxicated continually with her [sexual] loving
***Eccles 9:9 Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun— . . .
***1 Cor 7: . . . 2 but because of sexual immorality each man should be [sexually] having his own woman, and each woman should be [sexually] having her own man. . . 8 To the unmarried and the widows . . . 9 But if they do not continue to have self-restraint [keep on abstaining from sex sin], they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with desire. 10 I command the married —not I, but the Lord—a wife is not to leave, depart or separate from her husband. 11 But if she does leave, depart, and/or separate, she must remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband—and a husband is not to forsake, lay aside, leave, let, put (send) away, remit his wife. . . . 13 Also, if any woman has an unbelieving husband, and he is willing to live with her, she must not forsake, lay aside, leave, let, put (send) away, and/or remit her husband. . . .15 But if the unbeliever leaves, departs and/or separates himself from her, let him leave, he should separate [himself from you].. A brother or a sister is not bound in such cases. God has called you to peace. . . . 39 A wife is bound to her husband by [God's] Law as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to anyone she wants—only [to someone] in the Lord.
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http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5505037122
http://www.friendster.com/group/tabmain.php?gid=3091106
http://en.netlog.com/clan/SexAndJesus
STDS
Born again, Reborn in the Spirit, Bible believing and Jesus obeying
Christians who either have STDs or have loved ones who do,
and dealing with the issues involved with STDs according to the Bible.
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http://groups.google.com/group/PGChristianLivingIssues
http://sufferinstdsjesus.multiply.com/profile/group
http://www.meetup.com/ProgressingSanDiegoChristians/
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For God, the Father in Heaven who is a consuming fire, so unselfishly and compassionately loved humans that He sent His only Son who was miraculously born of Mary to meet the requirements of justice and die in our place to take on Himself the judgment we deserve for our sins, so that if we believe Him and rely on Him to make us right with Father and save us from all that makes us incompatible with Father, He makes us compatible with Father so we can live with Him forever in His Love, liberating Truth, enlightening Light and everlasting Life.
PLEASE PRAY FOR PALIN, HUCKABEE, HANNITY AND BECK
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