Life from Death

Posted by triumphantloveinchrist.blogspot.com Wednesday, December 25, 2013

                                                LIFE  FROM  DEATH

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” {Gen. 1:1,2}

We see in this primordial account of the disruption of God's original creation, a stark picture of DEATH. None of the figures of life are present in these opening verses of the Bible. Yet it is from this cold,... dark, formless emptiness, made such by the rebellion of Lucifer and his celestial followers, that The Spirit of God begins His transformative work to produce life in its fullness. This is always God’s modus operandi, FIRST Death, THEN Life. We are inclined to think the opposite order is true, i.e. - Life begets Death. But as we study the Scriptures, we are confronted with the inescapable principle that Life PROCEEDS OUT OF Death. 

Adam was the epitome of this biblical truth. The Creator formed him out of dead material... the elements of earth. Even when his formation was complete, he was dead. His lungs, heart, brain, and all other organs were perfectly formed within him... yet he was dead. His blood lay still within his arteries, awaiting the pulse of life to be given by the breath of his Father. Yes, Adam was DEAD before he received LIFE from God.

Death is not the end, but the beginning of God’s ways. As a matter of fact, Death is the essential state in order for Life to emerge! God Himself is LIFE. All His creatures must be made aware that their life is found ONLY IN HIM. It is impossible to enter the realm of Life, without first having passed through the dark corridor of Death. Death is God’s mandated pathway that is dark and fearful indeed, but by faith we can be assured that it leads to a better and higher state of resurrected Life.

 We have a picture of this truth in the birth of a child. From the dark “grave” of the womb, the unborn child transforms into a more complex and higher form of life to prepare it for the new and brighter world it must enter at the end of the appointed days of gloomy darkness. The birth of a baby liberates it from the blackness of its entombment, bringing it into the freedom and light of this world.

The natural world echos this same principle. A caterpillar enters the sarcophagus it builds for itself, and must “die” there in order to be resurrected as a beautiful, transformed creature, in order to break the confines of earth, and to soar to new heights in the heavens. As an annual reminder of The Creator’s way, the stark and barren tree of winter without a sign of life, transforms into the lush and thriving shade tree of summer. The dry and shriveled corn seed, lying buried in the cold, dark earth, when the appointed season beckons, bursts forth in newness of life, rising high above the soil which held it, and bearing no resemblance of its former self, and producing multiple seeds of goodness in the ear it bears.

Our Savior used this very example to express the certainty of His resurrection from Death to Life:

“Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and DIES, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it PRODUCES MANY SEEDS. Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates (loves less) their life in this world will keep it for eternal (eonian) LIFE.” {John 12:23-25}

There is a great truth in this passage for those that have eyes to see, and ears to hear. The death of an individual life brings life to many. While this is preeminently true of our wonderful Lord’s death and resurrection, there is truth here applicable to all. None of us “lives or dies to himself”, but we who have received Christ’s Spirit through faith in Him, are all vessels of blessing and life to others. It is when we die to self, that as members of His spiritual Body, we, by the operation of His Spirit at work within our lives, become channels of life and love to many!

Even that which we call ‘Life’ is really ‘Death’ in its various stages. We are born into this world dying, our bodies producing new cells to replace those that have reached their terminal stage. Even the replacement cells are themselves dying, and will need to be replaced by newly formed cells if the body is to remain "living". If this process in our bodies would stop at any point, our real state of death would become quickly apparent to all!

We are all existing in the realm of Death, which will finally claim each of us, some sooner, some later. Death is as near to a young man's back, as it is to an old man's face! Thankfully, The Son of God entered into our Death state, in order to impart His Life to us! Through faith, we enter into HIS DEATH and emerge into His RESURRECTED LIFE, believing that His death delivered mankind from a bondage we could never break free from ourselves. Through God's mandated pathway of FAITH, we receive His Spirit of grace, and are transformed incrementally into His likeness, as we grow in the knowledge and appreciation Him. For, "Without FAITH, it is IMPOSSIBLE to please God." {Heb. 11:6}

BELIEVERS in Him and His Cross accomplishment, receive His Life BEFORE we finally experience our physical death! In this way we are united to Him in spirit and need not fear our coming physical death, knowing that we will be resurrected by Christ’s power over Death to live with Him always and bask in His Love and Grace! The Grave will give birth to its children of God's Kingdom of Light!

Believers in our Savior's defeat of mankind's Nemesis, enter into the enjoyment of His resurrected Life ahead of the remainder of Adam's race.
The apostle Paul explains:
“Now if we DIED with Christ (through faith), we believe that we will also LIVE with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin ONCE FOR ALL; but the life he lives, he lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves DEAD to sin but ALIVE to God in Christ Jesus.” {Rom. 6:8-11}

Not only do believers in Jesus' sacrifice of Himself for all humanity, DIE to self, but through that same FAITH, are resurrected NOW, to walk with Him in newness of His LIFE!
Listen to our apostle:
“Since, then, you have been raised with Christ (through faith), set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For YOU DIED, and your LIFE is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, WHO IS YOUR LIFE, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.” {Col. 3:1-4}

Not only do we experience Jesus' life in our daily lives NOW, but we will live with Him in TRANSFORMED, VIVIFIED BODIES when He returns to resurrect His own:
“But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the Firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a Man. For as IN ADAM ALL DIE, so IN CHRIST ALL WILL BE MADE ALIVE (vivified). But each in turn: Christ, The Firstfruit; then, when He comes, those who belong to Him....” {1 Cor. 15:20-23}

Paul continues:
“Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who SLEEP (IN DEATH), so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus DIED and ROSE again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have FALLEN ASLEEP in Him. According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have FALLEN ASLEEP.  For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and THE DEAD in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still ALIVE AND ARE LEFT will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord always. Therefore encourage one another with these words.” {1 Thes. 4:13-18}

Let's rejoice together in the fact that Jesus Christ has been transformed from the earthly Man of flesh, into the glorified, vivified, celestial Man! He IS our LIFE! However it will require our metamorphosis at our resurrection or rapture, before we can join Him in our glorified body made to be like His. As we await that joyous Day, let us put off the DEATH of sinful living produced by the flesh, and live with Him BY FAITH in the celestial realm of LIFE at the right hand of His Father and ours! Come soon, Lord Jesus!


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God's Forgiveness

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“Who is a God like you,
who pardons sin and forgives the transgression
of the remnant of his inheritance?
You do not stay angry forever
but delight to show mercy.
19 You will again have compassion on us;
you will tread our sins underfoot
and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.
20 You will be faithful to Jacob,
and show love to Abraham,...
as you pledged on oath to our ancestors
in days long ago.” {Micah 7:18-20}

Why are Christians so willing to believe that the God they worship will one day forgive the nation Israel her many heinous sins against Him, but refuse to believe that He will extend that same forgiveness to the rest of humanity?

Israel is but a microcosm of all the nations of humanity. God purposely separated Israel out from all the other nations on earth, not because they were better than the rest, but because He wanted to reveal His abundant grace to all mankind, through the MOST rebellious of all Adam’s descendants!

In fact, Jesus declared that the residents of Sodom would have believed and repented of their wickedness had they seen His miracles.

“Then Jesus began to denounce the towns in which most of his miracles had been performed, because they did not repent. 21 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. 23 And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades. For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.” {Matt.11:20-23}

If the residents of Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum will ultimately be rescued from Hades (The Grave), and given their inheritance among the redeemed of Israel, then we can be confident that God will do the same for all His wayward sons of mankind. He chose Israel as the greatest example of His longsuffering grace, so that all men would be assured of their ultimate rescue from sin and death.

Even those of Sodom will one day repent before God’s awesome presence and be forgiven their perversion. This is not God OVERLOOKING sin, but the forgiveness of all based upon the death of His Son upon Calvary’s Cross. The price for their sins was paid. Sodomites will take their place among all those of Adam’s race, to declare the glory and redeeming love of their Creator.

Does this statement offend the reader? Read the following verses slowly and deliberately, and allow The Spirit of God to reveal their truth to your heart.

“Your (Israel’s) older sister was Samaria, who lived to the north of you with her daughters; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you with her daughters, was Sodom. 47 You not only followed their ways and copied their detestable practices, but in all your ways you soon became more depraved than they. 48 As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, your sister Sodom and her daughters never did what you and your daughters have done.
“Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. 50 They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.
51 Samaria did not commit half the sins you did. You have done more detestable things than they, and have made your sisters seem righteous by all these things you have done. 52 Bear your disgrace, for you have furnished some justification for your sisters.
Because your sins were more vile than theirs, they appear more righteous than you. So then, be ashamed and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.
53 HOWEVER, I will restore the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters and of Samaria and her daughters, and your fortunes along with them, 54 so that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you have done in giving them comfort. 55 And your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will return to what they were before; and you and your daughters will return to what you were before.” {Eze. 16:46-55}

Restoration is always God’s purpose. It was the self-sacrificing love of God for His creatures that brought The Son of God to earth. The same spirit of superiority that infected Israel because of their special access to God, has sadly taken up residence in the hearts of Christians today. God has given us clear statements from Paul’s pen, that He will save every child of Adam in the end. May we be delivered from the unforgiving spirit of the Older Brother of the Prodigal Son parable.

“The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in him ALL THINGS were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; ALL THINGS have been created through him and for him. 17 He is before ALL THINGS, and in him ALL THINGS hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in EVERY THING he might have the supremacy. 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to RECONCILE TO HIMSELF ALL THINGS, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace THROUGH HIS BLOOD, shed on the cross.” {Col. 1:15-20}


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What is Love?

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                                             CAN LOVE EVER FAIL?

“Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed His love among us: He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as ...an atoning sacrifice for our sins.” {1 John 4:7-10}

What is love? The Scripture answers this question simply and profoundly, God is Love. Apart from Him, love does not exist! The horrendous scene of Calvary’s Cross was the self - sacrifice of Love on display for the universe to witness. Love always gives, not because it expects to receive in return, but simply because that is the essence of Love. It is what true Love does. There is no such thing as “conditional love”, for these words are mutually exclusive. Love has no “conditions” for its existence or display, even when such proffered love is deemed to be unwarranted or is rebuffed.

Jesus Christ is the embodiment of God’s Love. He came to earth to reveal Love to humanity. Religion views God’s Love through the distorted lens of man’s invented "conditional love”. In order to justify this perverted view of love, they affirm that God’s Love was only really meant for the obedient among His creatures, those that return His Love. They conclude that God’s “unreceived love” is transformed into distain and hatred for those that ignore, reject, or simply fail to respond to God’s Love, resulting in “eternal torment” for all those once “loved” by God.

So, according to Christendom, as long as an unbelieving person is breathing, he is loved by God. But when that person takes his last breath, God no longer loves him! Does He ANNULL His Love? “Oh”, some say, “God loves all, and Jesus came to save all, but if God’s love is spurned, He will withdraw His love and there will be hell to pay!” And then, God's VENGEANCE on that individual will replace the "love" He once had for him! So The Savior, according to this doctrine, is not really The Savior of the world, as the Scripture affirms, but The POTENTIAL Savior of all. This is a shallow, fleeting love indeed, a "love" that evaporates like the morning dew! Does this teaching accord with REAL Love? Is God’s incomparable Love erased by unbelief, and replaced with a torturous hatred more intense and overwhelming than His original Love? If God ever CEASES TO LOVE, then He ceases to be GOD.

Man’s religion has put God in a box. Men have limited the omnipotent Master of the universe by their small, cruel, and heartless CREEDS. Christendom’s doctrine of Eternal Torment supposes that God’s Love is limited to a person's lifetime, whether short or long. Christendom's "hell" is filled with untold BILLIONS of Adam's race, children and adults! It is the failure to understand Love that declares an end of God’s work in a person's life at the grave. John The Baptizer, filled with The Spirit of God declared: 
“ Behold! The Lamb of God, Who takes away the sin of the world!” Was he mistaken? Christendom declares that he most assuredly was! Religion's blind teachers declare that most of the world’s sin will remain FOREVER, unforgiven, the price being paid with TORMENT in a fiery “hell", with “The Savior” outside,  locking it's red-hot gates and withholding the keys... FOREVER!

Hell is a myth, a word not found in the original languages of the Bible, a cruel sword of hate, invented by the clergy to instill fear, and to maintain psychological shackles on the people. Christendom has created an eternal torture chamber of fearful agony to elicit the mindless obedience of the masses to its clergy. The mere thought of such endless torture overwhelms the sane mind. It presents the very OPPOSITE of the true character of The Father; that of endless, limitless love, grace, and tenderness.

It is undeniable that scripture teaches that God punishes the disobedient among mankind. The question is: “How, and for what PURPOSE?” For what purpose do we punish and chastise OUR children? Is it not with the goal of correction and reformation? Is this out of our HATRED for our children, or our LOVE for them? Is it not for THE GOOD of our beloved sons and daughters that we impose painful correction? Do we impose ENDLESS PUNISHMENT on them? Is our love for our children GREATER than The Almighty's love for His? Do we suppose that The Almighty is UNABLE, or worse, UNWILLING to accomplish the same for His created and beloved, foolish children?

We need only to read the parable of the selfish prodigal son to get a glimpse of how God is able to restore even the most insolent of His children. It was only the humbling of his proud heart that restored him to his father’s bosom. Does the grave create an impassable chasm that His Love can never bridge? Would the fires of an eternal furnace melt the cold hearts of those created in His image? Will not rather, the REVELATION OF HIMSELF to the lost sinner have the desired effect on the rebellious or the simply uninformed among men? As Job exclaimed when confronted by The Almighty: “My ears had heard of You but now my eyes have seen You. Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”

Were we left with no clear statements from Scripture as to the goal of The Creator for His creatures, we might be justified in believing in “eternal” punishment. We know from our previous study of the Greek word 'EONIAN', that it is not "ETERNAL". It is a refusal to believe Paul’s received gospel from JESUS, of what Christ came to accomplish at Calvary, that has led to such a sinister doctrine. Paul penned much of the “N.T”, yet NEVER ONCE mentions “hell”, much less threatens anyone with its torments! Please don't take my word for it, check it for yourself! The next question that should arise is: WHY NOT? Why would the apostle Paul NEVER warn his readers about "hell" if, like he affirmed to the Ephesian elders,.... "I have not failed to declare the WHOLE counsel of God to you"? 

To Paul was given the secret blueprints for the consummation of The Father’s Plan for His creation. He reveals in his writings that mankind was ALIENATED from God, Christ’s Cross RECONCILED them! Mankind stood CONDEMNED, The Cross JUSTIFIED them! He teaches us that IN ADAM, mankind was LOST, but IN THE LAST ADAM (Christ), they are SAVED!

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. LOVE NEVER FAILS."{1 Cor. 13:4-8}   Christendom's leaders proclaim that LOVE will fail to reach God's objective in most of mankind... but I believe God!                

“For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him (Jesus),  and through Him to RECONCILE TO HIMSELF ALL things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through His blood, shed on the cross.” {Col. 1:19,20}


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From Death to LIfe

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Death is essential for new and higher life. This principle can be seen all around us. Nature gives testimony to this all-encompassing truth. A small, dry, seed, with the God-appointed germ of life within its hull, when b...uried in soil, gives birth to a new, and much greater entity, its roots expanding outward and ever deeper, established in the earth, and reaching upward toward the life sustaining rays of the sun.

The lowly caterpillar, drab and unnoticed, confined to the ground, and venturing not much beyond the locality of its birth, when it emerges in vibrant life from its spun sarcophagus of death, has no resemblance of its former self, and soars with graceful ease through the heavens above, its beautiful, higher form evident, observed and admired by all.

The seasons themselves speak of resurrection from death. Deciduous trees, with their lush, green leaves of summer, in the autumn, morph into new, colorful versions of themselves. Their life seemingly ebbs away and finally succumbs to the cold and barrenness of winter’s death. All seems lost, until at last, the warmth of the spring resurrects their life and begins the annual cycle once again.

Jesus said: “Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. 25 Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.” {John 12:24, 25} This is the spiritual principle and counterpart to that which is visible to us in nature. Jesus often used parables concerning the natural world to introduce higher spiritual truth.

In the same way that a single buried wheat seed produces a stalk with dozens of life-giving seeds, a life lived out of loving sacrifice, and to the glory of God, results in death to the desires of self, and produces a cornucopia of spiritual abundance. This was the path chosen by our Savior, His selfless life and death securing mankind’s redemption through His resurrection, in the abundant power of a vivified life.

However, a seed never planted, that is, a life lived to the gratification of self, and a refusal to die to self-will, generates great shame, and future remorse when summoned before the judgment throne of The One Who sacrificed His all out of His great love for mankind. The self-willed unbeliever struggles blindly through his days, refusing God’s treasures as he holds tenaciously to that which has no lasting value. The SECOND DEATH will provide the only means of remedy for such a person, a necessary cleansing of ethereal fire, provided by The God of Love, to prepare the lost child to receive His resurrection Life.

Fire is used by man for the purification of any unburnable substance, and the elimination of that which is impure. Metals of all types are subjected to the furnace in order to purify, and eliminate any dross from the crucible. The Lake of Fire will not be God’s eternal torture chamber as Christendom teaches, or the means for the annihilation of those entering its spiritual inferno. It is rather the Master Craftsman’s REMEDY of reconciliation for those who entered physical death, not having died to self-will. This burning lake represents His Flames of Purification, fanned by His infinite Love, to prepare those He created and redeemed, through the death of His Son, for their spiritual cleansing, and a new, resurrected life with Him.

Those yielding to the Spirit of God in their lifetime on earth, are joined to, and united in the Death and Resurrection of Christ now. It is this spiritual life that produces love and joy in the believer, and teaches him to discard the empty hull of his dead former Adamic self, and seek after those higher spiritual treasures secured for him by his Savior’s blood. It is the triumph of Love producing a harvest of grace within him. This God-required and God-supplied faith, transfers the believer into the very life of Christ experientially through the in-dwelling of His Spirit.

It is the privilege of the believer to suffer the rejection and distain of those around us. In doing so, we join in our Lord’s heartaches experienced during His days on earth from those He loved and ministered to. Let us suffer now with Him, without bitterness or regret. Let us keep our eyes focused on Him, and pray that we may be conformed to His Image as we gaze on His perfection, so that we can say with our apostle Paul:

“But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8 What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. 10 I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.
12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” {Phil. 3:7-14}



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Did Christ Succeed or Fail?

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                Did Christ Succeed .... Or Fail?

At first glance, this seems to be a ridiculous question. Of course Christ succeeded! He is The Son of God! He was and is incapable of failure! He asked the question of His accusers while on earth, “Who of you convicts Me of sin?” And we have the steadfast testimony of Christ Himself, “I always do that which pleases The Father.” 

At the beginning of His ministry, we hear The Savior say, “My food, is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work." At the close of His earthly ministry, Jesus triumphantly declared, “I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.”

So, if Christ never missed the mark of perfection, but always accomplished the task for which He was sent, why does Christendom claim that He failed in His objective to SAVE HUMANITY? This was THE WORK for which He was sent.  Jesus testified, “For the Son of Man came to SEEK and to SAVE the lost.” And who are “The Lost”? Is it not every descendant of Adam’s race? And what was the means by which Christ was to save the Lost? Was it not THE CROSS? 

The Son Of God, called "The Second Man" came into the world to undo the disastrous results that the first man, Adam imposed on humanity, SIN & DEATH. The testimony of Scripture as to The Son of God’s success is overwhelming. He accomplished His goal by way of His suffering, death, and resurrection. Mankind's deliverance was only possible through the suffering of a sinless sacrifice. Here are a few passages proclaiming this glorious victory of Jesus Christ:

“The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, WHO TAKES AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD!” {John 1: 29}

“They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD.” {John 4:42}

“I (Jesus) will keep on driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I WILL REACH MY GOAL” (Crucifixion). {Luke 13:32}

“When He had received the drink, Jesus said, “IT IS FINISHED!” With that, He bowed his head and gave up His spirit.” {John 19:30}

“And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD” {1 John 4:14}

“That is why we labor and strive, because we have put our hope in the living God, WHO IS THE SAVIOR OF ALL PEOPLE, and especially of those who believe.  Command and teach these things.” {1 Tim 4:10,11}

“His purpose was to create in Himself one new humanity out of the two (Jews & Gentiles), thus making peace, and in one body to RECONCILE BOTH OF THEM TO GOD THROUGH THE CROSS.. {Eph. 2:15,16}

Consequently, just as one trespass (Adam’s disobedience) resulted in condemnation FOR ALL PEOPLE, so also one righteous act (Christ’s obedience) resulted in  JUSTIFICATION AND LIFE FOR ALL PEOPLE. {Rom. 5:18}

“For as IN ADAM ALL DIE, so IN CHRIST ALL WILL BE MADE ALIVE.” {1Cor. 15:22}

“For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him (Christ), and through Him to RECONCILE TO HIMSELF ALL , whether on earth or in heaven, BY MAKING PEACE THROUGH HIS BLOOD, SHED ON THE CROSS.” {Col. 1:19,20}
Dare we say with apostate Christendom that Jesus failed in His objective? Are we to honestly believe that it is orthodox to hold to the idea that He was unable to rescue the vast majority of humanity? What of the Hindus, Muslims, and apostate Christianity? This vast group is composed of BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS of humans for whom Christ died and was resurrected. Will they all be lost to the flames of “hell”? 

Such a dogmatic creed of religion reveals the blindness and unbelief of those that claim to wear the mantle of the Church’s “clergy”, and are eager to damn all other fellow sinners, in total disregard of the contrary message of the Scripture’s “Good News” for all. They confidently affirm that man has the final say in the matter, whether to believe or not. Some sects of Christendom even teach that God elected this unbelieving group for eternal torment before He created them!! 

As a teacher of scripture, I was once guilty of blindly swallowing this poison pill of religious pride, believing this destructive doctrine of eternal punishment. The sheer multitude of trained theologians attesting to the reality of “hell” and “eternal damnation”, suppressed the testimony of my heart and conscience. I somehow was able to ignore the evidence of the scriptures concerning our Lord's total and complete triumph over sin and death. I foolishly and arrogantly declared that man’s iron will would prevail over God’s divine will, and that in spite of The Savior’s work of redemption, Christ would ultimately fail in His unequivocally stated goal to save ALL HUMANITY.

A real danger in believing Christendom’s common creed concerning “eternal punishment” is the necessity of the existence of sin and death FOREVER. For, if unredeemed men remain forever lost to the fires of The Second Death, then their sins will remain upon them, and indeed multiply exponentially through their hatred and cursing of God. Their hatred of their would - be "savior" turned eternal "torturer" would make SIN an ETERNAL blight! Instead of the elimination of sin, THE LAKE OF FIRE would only serve as a nursery for more sin, multiplying its growth and strengthening its grip on those desperately needing release from it's unrelenting stranglehold on them. 

Thus, Christ would be found to have fallen woefully short of His goal to save mankind. His title “Savior Of The World” would prove to be ridiculous, and would be a legitimate cause for Satan's mockery, a false title of shame that Jesus would be forced to bear throughout all eternity. Christendom has declared that Jesus is merely a "wanna-be savior", unable to attain His title, stymied by man's unbelief, never to reach His goal as THE VICTORIOUS SAVIOR OF ALL of Adam's lost race. The First Adam's power to doom the race would prove to be more potent than The Second Adam's ability to undo the results! (It brings me pain to even write such rubbish that Christendom has espoused!)

Therefore, when the Scriptures declare that Christ indeed came to earth to eliminate sin from His creation, and not just transfer sin to another location, namely, “hell”, and The Lake Of Fire, we have a very real conflict with Christendom's dogma of eternal torture. But if the accepted tenets of Christendom are true, then the following verses MUST be false, and we should burn our bibles, and instead cling to the accepted religious creeds of men!

Look, the Lamb of God, WHO TAKES AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD!” {John 1: 29}

“But He has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages TO DO AWAY WITH SIN BY THE SACRIFICE OF HIMSELF. {Heb. 9:26}
“He (Jesus) is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for THE SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD.” {1 John 2:2}
The Church's hierarchy have made this blunder in their doctrine of an impotent "savior". Multitudes have suffered unbearable emotional torment at the thoughts of their lost loved ones experiencing unspeakable, endless torture in “hell” at the hands of “The Savior”, for remember, Jesus is The One Who stated: “I have the keys of death and hell.” (Gk. 'Hades' = Grave). Instead of giving our Lord His rightful title of ‘Victor’ over the grave and Savior of His creatures, they have portrayed The Lover of mankind as “Hell’s Gatekeeper”, having the keys, but callously refusing the inmates ultimate release and relief from their unspeakable torment!!

Our leaders have mistakenly taught that all opportunities for salvation end at the grave, a teaching NOWHERE FOUND in Scripture. On the contrary, we have direct, clear statements assuring us that God will reconcile ALL HIS CREATURES unto Himself. They believe the spiritual enlightenment of believers before death to be the only ones delivered. They mistakenly think that they are members of an eternally exclusive “Salvation Club”, where members are ONLY admitted BEFORE death, and that only they will enjoy the benefits of the accomplishments of The Savior’s victory over sin and death. 

Christendom's leaders confidently state that believers ALONE will receive The Creator's love and mercy, all others being repudiated and tortured by God for eternity. They mistake the gathering of God’s FIRSTFRUITS with His full harvest of humanity. They fail to see the significance of the FIRSTBORN in scripture, viewing them instead as the ONLY BORN! The unbeliever will indeed be chastised for his unbelief and wicked deeds, which will prepare him to be illuminated to God's truth and righteousness. 

God's judgments are for the PURPOSE of producing illumination, humility and repentance from the disobedient sons of stubborness, not endless torture. That would serve no purpose and would be inconsistent with God's Plan for reconciliation. God is The Just Judge, He will not exact limitless agony on the lost of mankind, for a life of limited disobedience and unbelief. Eternal damnation is an evil, narrow, self-serving doctrine that must be repudiated by believers if we are to make any progress in the understanding of how LOVE behaves and in humble service for our Lord, Who is indeed....... The Savior of The World.
 


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Resurrection vs. Vivification

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Vivification is different than simple resurrection. There were several instances in The Bible where dead individuals were returned to physical life after expiring. The son of the widow of Zarephath was resurrected through the prophet Elijah, Our Lord resurrected a ruler's daughter, and also the son of a widow in the town of Nain as he was being carried out for burial! And who can forget Lazarus who was brought back to life after being entombed 4 days. All of these examples eventually succumbed to the processes of death again, and remain in their graves to this day awaiting The Creator's summons from deathdom.


However, when Jesus was brought out of the grave by the power of His Father, He came forth glorified, that is to say, His body of humiliation was transformed to a  spiritually empowered body of flesh and bone. His vivified body was capable of appearing and disappearing at will, and able to transport instantly to any desired locale. This was possibly the same type of body as that of Adam before his fall in Eden, clothed in the bright aura of  perfection from the hand of his Creator Father. He was empowered with supernatural vitality, and having God infused knowledge of the natural world, he was able to perfectly name all animals according to their varied characteristics. All of this wisdom was forfeited upon his disobedience to The Almighty's prohibition. He was stripped of his innate vitality, and was brought  into a slow, progressive march downward, which culminated in death's unyielding clutches.

This is what The Second Adam freed humanity from! Because our Deliverer defeated Death in His glorious exit from the grave, He remains forever in a transformed, VIVIFIED body which can never be touched again by death! He now embodies the power and glory of The Father. As believers in Him, this is our destiny as well! We will share His likeness with glorious power and endless vitality. We will experience a metamorphosis upon our vivification to life. Never again will we grow weary, or need sleep to revitalize our frame. For the ages to come, and then eternally, we will serve Him with loving devotion with praise to Him constantly on our lips!

The dead that are RESURRECTED to face the sentence of The Lake Of Fire are not yet VIVIFIED, but will be after their sentence is completed. Although they are resurrected to stand before God, they are not yet immortal. They have simply been returned to consciousness to judgement. This will result in their “SECOND DEATH”.

But as final as this appears, with God, death in scripture always precedes life! Far from being a finality, death is merely the necessary preliminary state in anticipation of the life to come! This was Adam's state before God breathed into his nostrils life's breath. He was fully formed in God's image, a perfectly formed man, with a heart ready to beat, lungs ready to expand with air, and blood ready to course through his veins....yet lifeless, dead. He was dead before he was alive.

This is God’s final ultimate purpose and unwavering goal, to VIVIFY ALL His creatures. God saves humanity, not FROM death, but OUT OF death, that they might know and worship Him eternally, out of grateful hearts of love. Vivification is God's end goal for all His creatures, and He never fails to complete His goal! This is the outcome of perfect Love, the reconciliation of every earthly and celestial creature, restored to The Creator's presence and bosom.

“I am charging you in the sight of God, Who is VIVIFYING ALL”.. {1 Tim. 6:13 CLT}

Most of us have been so programmed by our various religious backgrounds, to believe that God will ETERNALLY punish those that reject His Love in their short lifetime on earth. This belief and teaching runs deep throughout Christendom.

Our hearts simply cannot believe that God’s love could go beyond the grave to save ALL Adam’s progeny created in His image. Or, even if we believe that He desires to save them from their suffering, we imagine that His holiness will not permit Him to do so.
So, we have imagined a hopelessly controverted, bi-polar god, who struggles against himself. His ‘LOVE NATURE’ desires to do good to his “children of disobedience”, but is prohibited from doing so by his never-forgiving ‘HOLINESS NATURE’. How we have limited The Omnipotent God of the universe by our superstitious religion! God is Love, and Love never fails!

“...because we hope on the living God, who is THE SAVIOR OF ALL MEN --especially of those believing.” {1 Tim. 4:10}

Our Bibles begin with these words: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”
The Creator made both realms, and therefore owns both, and all life that He made to dwell in them. The Slanderer has been given temporary custody of both, but his rule will be terminated soon, when The Crucified One returns to take to Himself His purchased possession. 

The eons were created by The Sovereign in order that He could put on display for His creatures their utter weakness and depravity apart from Him; but also, to reveal what counteracts man’s doom, His redemptive Love and Grace. It is His goal that both realms, heaven and earth, be filled with beings from His creative hand, to respond instantly to His Heart of Love. The Cross of Christ made this goal a sure and certain reality!

The first man was made from the soil, made in the image of God, and as such was God’s representative over the Earth. This first ADAM failed in his commission to administer righteous rule and dominion over it. Instead, he brought chaos and destruction to himself and God’s planet.

And so, due to the failure of the first man, a second Man was needed to correct the failure of the first, and save him and his descendants from destruction. Christ is The Second Man, as if there were no other men between Adam and Himself. These two men alone bore the unsullied image of The Father. The first man had lost that image through disobedience. The Second Man regained it.

The Second Man was The Son of The Father, Who came out of the heavens, with the mission to reconcile all that was ruined back to The Father. Through Christ’s obedience even to the death of The Cross, He accomplished deliverance for all of those the first man had lost through his failure.

In His resurrection into vivified life, Christ Jesus brought ALL of the first man’s children with Him. Their Life is in Him, even as it was in Adam. All of The Father’s creation is safely back in His possession forever, because of The Cross of our Savior. His subsequent vivification to life safely secured creation's destiny.

“For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in Him (Jesus),  and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through His blood, shed on the cross.” {Col.1:19,20}

Let’s rejoice together in the VICTORY of The “LAST ADAM” and revel in His accomplishment of rescuing and reconciling ALL HIS CREATION!

This is our message to our unbelieving family and friends: “God is conciliated toward you, not counting your sins against you. He placed all your sins on His Son at Calvary’s Cross. Believe today that He has accepted His Son’s blood sacrifice for your complete deliverance from sin. By your faith in this good news, you are reconciled to God and delivered from any future separation from The Creator, The all-powerful Master of the universe, but most importantly, your loving Father.”

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!  All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:  that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.  We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.  God made Him (Jesus), Who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.” {2 Cor. 5:17-21}

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KNOWING GOD

Posted by triumphantloveinchrist.blogspot.com Saturday, August 10, 2013


KNOWING GOD

We have a common phrase in society to describe a beloved figure that goes as follows; “To know him is to love him”. When we really get to know a person through our constant interaction with them, varied nuances of their character is revealed to us. “Love at first sight” is an impossibility. One may be attracted to another at first, but it requires much more time together to cause that attraction to grow into love. Often, that initial feeling of fondness, is completely reversed after a more intimate relationship reveals serious character flaws in that person that cause the initial infatuation to be changed into revulsion.

The goal of any relationship is to become more and more of one mind. In order for this to be possible, self interest must be set aside in the more noble quest to enter into the beloved’s realm of interest. It is only when we pour our energies and interest into the life of another that a new appreciation for that person takes form, and love is deepened to a greater degree.

Our Creator desires to have a fulfilling love relationship with each and every one of His created sons and daughters. The astounding thing is that God would love any one of us. We are all hopelessly flawed, with no capacity within, to perfect ourselves. Yet, the scriptures declare that, having complete knowledge of us, God loves us anyhow, and proved it by giving the best He could offer, His Son.

“For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” {Rom. 5:6-8}

The reason that the bulk of humanity does not love God, is that they do not KNOW Him. Notice, I did not say “know about Him”, for few indeed are those that do not have at least a rudimentary knowledge of God’s existence and power. But, this is a far cry from having a personal relationship with The Lover of our souls. Even believers do not “know” Him in the way that they will ultimately, in future glory.

 However, we can yearn for that future knowledge of our Lord even now! This was our apostle Paul's deep desire when he exclaimed:

 “But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of THE KNOWLEDGE of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from The Law (of Moses), but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may KNOW Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.” {Phillip. 3:7-11}

 Paul wanted to experience Christ’s resurrection power in his everyday life. Paul’s desire should be our desire as well. We should have an insatiable thirst for an ever increasing intimate knowledge of our God, so that we proclaim with King David of old:

“As the deer pants for the water brooks,
So pants my soul for You, O God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God?” {Psa. 42:1,2}

To many, the mere thought of being in God’s presence evokes an uncomfortable feeling, perhaps even a sense of fear or dread. But, for the one who has tasted the presence of His Spirit as the wellspring of life, it becomes his heart’s yearning goal! It is the final blessed apex of a feeble and imperfect love of the creature for The Creator, to embrace Him in heartfelt love and gratitude for all He has lovingly given to us.

Another popular saying is: “Knowledge is power”. While this may carry truth in the world of business, it becomes eminently more so in matters of the heart. A more mature UNDERSTANDING of our God:  WHO He is, WHAT His Plan was, and HOW He accomplished it through His Son, unleashes the unlimited power of His Spirit of love within us, and a burning desire to be with Him in prayer and meditation of His Word. It is the result of this awakening of the heart, that we are able to love even our adversaries, just as God has done; and then we are emboldened to proclaim His love and grace to all, reaping love’s harvest: overwhelming JOY!

Jesus, our Lord, stated His purpose for entering humanity’s realm:

“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the LOST.” {Luke 19:10}

It is this same Greek word “Lost” (‘Apollymi’), that is translated “Destroyed” in {Luke 17:29}:

 “People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and DESTROYED them all.”

 The wicked inhabitants of Sodom were “destroyed” due to their willful lack of knowledge of The Almighty. They were "LOST" to God due to the IGNORANCE of Him, that resulted in their selfish, perverse deeds. This is the harvest of lives that are worshipping SELF, instead of God. This same spirit of "SELF-WORSHIP" is alive and well today, the fruits of which are evident in our chaotic world.

The nation Israel was given the marvelous privilege of an intimate relationship with The Almighty. God singled them out from all the other nations on earth to be a Light to the rest of the love of God. Their dismal failure to return God's love was a testament to man's depraved hearts. The prophet Hosea mourned over the nation Israel, saying: “My people are DESTROYED from lack of KNOWLEDGE.” {Hosea 4:6}

 But the same prophet implores Israel's rebels:

“Come, let us return to the Lord. He has TORN us to pieces but he will HEAL us; he has INJURED US but he will BIND UP OUR WOUNDS. After two days he will REVIVE us; on the third day he will RESTORE us, that we may live in his presence. Let us ACKNOWLEDGE the Lord; let us press on to ACKNOWLEDGE Him.” {6:1-3}

This is Love’s goal, to save the lost or destroyed among mankind, mostly through much pain and hardship. This is how God draws His creatures to Himself. We all must come to the end of our own futile efforts to deliver ourselves. Whoever lacks the love for The Almighty, which only His Spirit gives, is lost. All mankind was lost, until The Lover of mankind appeared to save ALL. Love conquers all obstacles, including mankind’s hatred or a general disinterest for God. Pure Love overcomes EVERYTHING, and will save ALL men.

 The argument presented by many goes thus: “But God will not FORCE anyone to be saved.” True!, but remember, the reason any person does not love God, and come to Him in humble faith, is due to the fact that he does not KNOW God. An ILLUMINATION will occur within every mind, of Who God is, and His Sacrifice of His Son for their rescue from darkness. Therefore, there is coming a time when ALL will know Him, and therefore ALL will love and adore Him!

Listen to the prophet Jeremiah:

 “This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares the Lord.
“I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God, and they will be my people. No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘KNOW THE LORD,’ because THEY WILL ALL KNOW ME, from the least of them to the greatest,”  declares the Lord. “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”   {Jer. 31:33,34}

Israel was chosen by God to be put on display, for all mankind to see the miserable failure of even a privileged group of humanity. They were a microcosm of all humanity, a test case to display the wickedness of the human heart. Although they were lovingly given special blessings from The Almighty, their foolish hearts led them to spurn God’s goodness, and in their revolt against His love, commit unspeakable evil, including idol worship, leading to prostitution, persecution of God's prophets sent to warn them of their evil, and even murder in the form of child – sacrifice to pagan idols! Yet, as we see from the above passage, God will shine His Light into their dark hearts in the coming era!

 The fact that most of humanity die never KNOWING Christ, does not mean that God is through with them. Christendom’s doctrine of “eternal damnation” only proves how little they know of Love, and of Love’s power. This evil tenet of religion supposes that the lost of humanity will remain FOREVER obstinate, proud and unrepentant, even as God subjects them to the fires of hell for eternity as a retribution for their rejection of Him!

But the scriptures declare that “Love never fails”! Once brought into the presence of PURE Love, every heart will melt before Him, and although they must pass through the fire of God’s correction, Love will rescue every last one. This was the purpose of the Cross of Calvary! Will Christ succeed or fail in His mission to “seek and save the lost”? Will we believe the scripture that plainly declares:

 “And being found in appearance as a Man,
He (Jesus) humbled Himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
 Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place
and gave Him the Name that is above every name,
 that at the Name of Jesus EVERY knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
 and EVERY tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.” {Phillip. 2:8-11}

 I believe God's promise of universal reconciliation to Himself through Jesus Christ, the perfect Son of His love, is the greatest news mankind could ever hear! This is what makes the GOSPEL of The Cross the "GOOD NEWS" that it is! It is not just good news for SOME, but for ALL! Let us enter into that KNOWLEDGE OF HIS LOVE today by faith in the accomplishment of Jesus' ONCE FOR ALL sacrifice for ALL HUMANITY! 

Yes, "KNOWLEDGE IS POWER"! Never a truer statement has been made. Our knowledge of The Omniscient One, and His grandiose Plan for His created beings, can only be understood by those that have received His Spirit through FAITH in His Son's accomplishment of The Father's Purpose at Calvary's Cross. Only then can we obtain spiritual POWER. Then we will KNOW Him.

"Because of this I also, having heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and the love to all the saints, do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and REVELATION in the RECOGNITION OF HIM, the eyes of your UNDERSTANDING being ENLIGHTENED, for your KNOWING what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints..." {Eph. 1:15-18 YLT}

 

 


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Introduction: Triumphant Love Has Saved All !

Posted by triumphantloveinchrist.blogspot.com Saturday, November 3, 2012

TRIUMPHANT LOVE WILL SAVE ALL!

The all encompassing love of the Creator, sent His beloved Son, Jesus Christ, to rescue mankind from the ravages of sin which produced death in Adam, and was transferred to all humanity. This powerful love of The Omnipotent One has been perverted by religion's dogmas, to become no more than an inept, mostly failing attempt on His part to save Adam's race.

According to Christendom's leaders, God must settle for the rescue of a handful of the vast billions of His progeny, created in His image, from Satan's clutches. The rest, according to this creed, will be tortured perpetually by God in eternal fire, without hope of rescue. We are assured by the clergy, that God, Who is Love, will never forgive any of these condemned, because His holiness will not allow it. Thus, God's holiness hamstrings His love and His ability to deliver all. How frustrated the Creator must be!

Scripture plainly teaches us that God's motivation to save mankind was self - giving love. This is the overriding message of God's Book to man. However that magnificent love has been greatly reduced by the doctrine of eternal torture in "hell" to any that do not accept that love from God in their short lifetime on earth. Many have turned away in disgust from Christianity solely due to this despicable doctrine of eternal torment. They rightly conclude that a love that is transformed into hate or indifference when the unbeliever takes his last breath on earth, is undeserving of their consideration. Such a bi-polar god is NOT what the scriptures portray, only man's perverted religion could devise such an ogre. 

 

Most of what is believed about the destiny of the lost of humanity comes from the mistranslation of key Hebrew and Greek words, particularly: 'Olam', 'Aion', and 'Gehenna', 'Hades', translated as "forever" and "hell" respectively. These blunders by the translators, (especially the KJV which was the sole English translation available to readers for about 270 years), have led Christendom down a long, dark road of error and a false perception of our Creator/Father.

However there are several passages, mainly from the pen of the apostle Paul, that clearly teach universal salvation following age - related chastisement away from God's presence. This rescue of God's creation was secured through the blood of His beloved Son, Jesus Christ. Many of these passages have long been ignored or explained away by the leaders of denominational churches. 

The previous and upcoming articles on my page refute religion's skewed view of The Almighty, and His desire, ability, and undeterred goal to save all of His rebellious creatures. I invite you to take a look at these articles that go into further detail about these topics. My desire is to make these things known to everyone, and that an honest, biblical discussion about this important topic will be sparked among friends and fellow believers in Jesus, so please feel free to comment on these articles. I am not offended by any disagreement. I myself would have condemned these conclusions not that many years ago! Now, however, it is my life's purpose to make these truths known to all that will hear and judge for themselves whether these things have merit or not.

I realize I do not have all the answers, but I will rely on the Scriptures to present my discoveries on these all-important issues. All our emotions and opinions based on traditions from man's religion are of no consequence. God's Word alone, properly translated from the original languages, reveals The Creator's mind on these topics. 

I firmly believe that most believers in Jesus Christ have been adversely conditioned from false church teaching of eternal punishment, to have a grossly inaccurate view of the God of their salvation and His ultimate goal for His creatures. When the shackles of religion are broken, and realization of our loving Father's true goal for ALL His creatures becomes known to the believer, it produces a joy unspeakable to each receptive heart!

It is God's Spirit alone that can reveal His Truth to the sincere truth seeker. I believe that the biblical principle found in Proverbs 2:1-5 expresses it best: 

"My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding, and if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God."

 




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Being raised in a Christian home, I heard the Bible read in our family devotion after dinner each day. My heart was stirred to accept Jesus as my Lord at an early age. I have always had a thirst for spiritual truths and a greater understanding of God's future plans for His creatures. Since coming to recognize Apostle Paul's teaching concerning God's secret goal of universal reconciliation made known to The Body of Christ, I have had an unquenchable desire to make these truths known to fellow believers and those disillusioned by Christendom's false dogma of eternal torment in hell. I pray God will use me to be His instrument to reveal these long neglected truths from Paul's epistles to seekers of higher scriptural understanding..

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