CHURCH OF
THE LIVING
GOD
PART I
J. M. CARDONA
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Ministering to its Members scattered abroad
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MISSION STATEMENT
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To be followed by the RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD, all
rising into a worldwide PARADISE. And ALL to live for a
hundred years. And then forever in the New Heaven and the
New Earth. To spread to all the Universe, (Mark 13:10; Acts
3:21; Rev 5:10; 20:4; Isa 65:20; Rev 20:11-15; Rev 21:1-7).
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• To carry the WARNING, and for it to be a WITNESS to these
eastern nations.
• To WARN and TELL to the peoples of the East that the FOUR
HORSEMEN of the Apocalypse now rides with ferocious vigor.
Their long journeys across the millennia beginning from inside
of the GARDEN OF EDEN launched by the lying evil and
wicked serpent,, and will soon climax in the destruction of the
wicked one and his legions as evil and wicked, that old serpent
Satan the devil and his deceived fallen angels, (Rev 6:2
{white}; 6:4 {red}; 6:5 {black}; 6:8 {pale}.
• That we point to the nations and its peoples, and families, that
the Eternal Creator God has left a window open for the
blessing of health and prosperity to be known if they would be
glad and sing for joy, and PRAISE THE GOD OF CREATION
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for all His wonderful works! That they would learn to PRAY
and PRAISE the Everlasting LORD, (Ps 67:1-7; Ps 147:1-20;
148:1-14; 149:1-9; 150;1-6; Mat 26.30; Mk 14.26; Eph 5.19;
Col 3:16; Jas 5:13).
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THE WORK OF GOD-21ST CENTURY
PROCLAIMING THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD
MINISTERING TO ITS MEMBERS SCATTERED ABROAD
Dear Friend,
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SO AMAZING, INDEED! FAR BEYOND AND SO WAY ABOVE ALL
THAT THE CREATIVE IMAGINATIONS OF SCIENCE FICTION
WRITERS COULD POSSIBLY VISUALIZE. BACKWARDS AND
FORWARDS, IN INFINITY NO FUTURIST COULD EVEN BEGIN TO
CONCEIVE: THE GLORY AND WONDER OF THE WORLD TO COME!
THESE ARE SENT FOR YOU AND TO YOU. THEY SHALL NOT
RETURN TO THE DIVINE AND HOLY ONE THAT SENT THEM
EMPTY, NEITHER VOID. THE ORDAINED PURPOSE FOR WHICH
THEY WERE SENT WILL BE FULFILLED. THIS IS THE INVIOLATE
WILL OF GOD.
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READ THIS THEN. SKIM IT NOT.
CONTEMPLATE ON IT AT NOON.
THE GIVER OF LIFE AND LIGHT SENDS THIS DIVINE BEAM. THIS
SACRED FIRE. THIS HOLY TORCH. TO ENTER YOUR MIND'S EYE.
INTO YOUR INNERMOST BEING. INTO THE WHOLE FABRIC OF
YOU, A LIVING SOUL. FOR YOUR INEVITABLE UNDERSTANDING.
AT YOUR OWN PACE. ONLY BETWEEN YOU AND HiM. IS THIS NOT
WONDERFUL?
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Mystery of the LIVING GOD – Part 1
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TRIBUTE/ DEDICATION
DEDICATED TO MANKIND
MISSION STATEMENT
DEAR FRIEND
CONTENTS
PREFACE
QUESTIONS
PROLOGUE
THE BOOK IN TWO VOLUMES
CHAPTER ONE
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CHURCH OF GOD
BEFORE YOU PROCEED:
BE FOREWARNED
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THE SPIRITUAL PERFECTION OF MAN
CHAPTER TWO
NEVER AN IDLE WORD
THEY DID NOT KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOING
CHAPTER THREE
THE MYSTERY OF THE CHURCH BUILT UPON
THE ROCK
THE FOUNDATION OF THE CHURCH OF GOD
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THE MISSING ELEMENT IN THE RELIGION OF THE JEWS
CHAPTER FOUR
WHAT TRUE RELIGION IS ALL ABOUT
CHAPTER FIVE
THE FOUNDATION OF THE DOCTRINES
FOLLOWED AND KEPT BY THE CHURCH OF
GOD
CHART:
BODY OF BELIEFS AND DOCTRINES OF THE CHURCH OF THE
LIVING GOD. PILLAR AND BULWARK OF THE TRUTH
CHAPTER SIX
BODY OF BELIEFS IN THE FAITH ONCE
DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS
IN THE SCRIPTURES IT IS WRITTEN AND SO THE CHURCH
MUST AND OUGHT TO BELIEVE AND FOLLOW. THUS, SAITH
THE LORD
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DOCTRINE OF THE GODHEAD
ANCIENT OF DAYS
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WHERE DID HUMAN NATURE COME FROM ?
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SERVANT OF ALL
CHAPTER SEVEN
THE HOLY BIBLE
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TO THOSE WHO LIVE BY MAN’S SELF-THOUGHT AND SELF-
TAUGHT WISDOM
CHAPTER EIGHT
THAT THEY MAY HAVE LIFE ABUNDANTLY
THE RIGHT BLESSINGS:
THE REFINEMENTS OF CULTURE THE BLESSINGS OF
CIVILIZATION
IT IS CALLED THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS
CHAPTER NINE
FAITH ONCE DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS
CHRIST HIMSELF DELIVERED THE TENETS OF THE FAITH
AND THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM BEFORE HE ASCENDED
TO HEAVEN
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JESUS WENT ABOUT AND LOOKED FOR HIS FIRST TWELVE
DISCIPLES, APPOINTED THEM TO BECOME FISHERS OF MEN,
AND LATER MADE THEM HIS TWELVE APOSTLES
CHAPTER TEN
THE ROLE OF ANGELS ON THE CHURCH OF
GOD
THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN THE HEAVENLY HOSTS
ANGELS OF LIGHT
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LUCIFER, THE FORMER LIGHTBRINGER, AND FALLEN
ANGELS TURNED INTO SATAN THE DEVIL AND MALIGNANT
DEMONS AND WICKED SPIRITS
KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD
CHAPTER TWELVE
THE TREE OF LIFE
THE MYSTERY OF THE TREE OF LIFE
EPILOGUE
LOVE
PHILIA
LIGHT
AGAPE
CHRIST IS LIFE
THINK: IF THE GODHEAD DWELLS IN YOU, WHAT CAN YOU
NOT DO?
MERCY
JUSTICE
FAITH
TRUTH
VISION
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PREFACE
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The traditions they derived from their sacred scriptures are
kept by them with much awe. Much reverence. With
fidelity. And loyalty. The tradition they
received from their forefathers. That went down from
generation to generation. The latter are held in cultic
affection. They live and die for these traditions.
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So, beware, if you would be one who would dare! Your
MESSAGE AND THE TRUTH YOU BEAR AND
BRING OUGHT TO BE, AND MUST BE, THE REAL
TRUTH. Lest you come in bearing nebulous doctrines.
And cause to fall many to the ditch of spiritual confusion
and destruction.
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Hence, the arising and existence today of myriad
denominations called churches.
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They went and formed different manners of worship, and
believed in myriad gods. These insisted their god is God.
And they adapted nomenclatures to establish their
different identity from the others, now competitors and
rivals.
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Pre-meditated takeover, and watering down of all the true
doctrines of God, even denying them altogether, has been
made.
The Church that Jesus, the Christ of God, built, thru the
truly faithful and true believers and practitioners of good
courage, carries on. Though the spiritual path remains
narrow, and few be they that were willing to walk therein.
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THE DETERMINED ADVERSARY OF GOD’S HEIRS OF
SALVATION, CALLED SATAN. THE INVISIBLE DEVIL,
AND HIS MALIGNANT, SIMILARLY INVISIBLE, DEMONS
AND WICKED SPIRITS,, HAVE CEASELESSLY TRIED TO
EXTINGUISH THE SPIRITUAL BODY OF THE LORD JESUS
CHRIST, AS HE HAS CAUSED HIS PHYSICAL BODY TO BE
MURDERED AND HANGED ON A TREE, A ROMAN
CROSS, ON CALVARY.
Couriered to you
By
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CHURCH OF THE LIVING
GOD
“And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon
this rock*, I will build my church; and the gates of hell
shall not prevail against it,” (Gospel Book of Matthew
16:18).
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PROLOGUE
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All these claim to the worship of, and allegiance to, GOD.
This Sacred Golden Scroll Series XCI Is a big book of twenty four
truth-laden chapters. So it will come in two volumes.
First Part, or Level 1 – The physical listed members who bear the
SIGN: SABBATH KEEPING, or they are called Sabbath
KEEPERS. And TEN COMMANDMENTS KEEPERS.
THAT IS THE LETTER OF THE LAW.
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> They are meek. They are humble. They are peacemakers.
> The fruit of the Spirit is manifested in their love, faith, hope,
gentleness and tenderness, in their peace and calm demeanor,
goodness, patience, and in their righteousness, humility and
meekness, temperance and moderation, in word, in thought, and in
deed, (Epistle to the Galatians 5:22-23) Not for their own glory. But
giving credit, tribute, and all for the glory, praise, and honor of God.
John 15:2; Eph. 5:9; Col. 3:12
> The essence. The substance, of the Church of God. The spirits
are subject to them, and their names are listed – written in heaven,
(Gospel Book of Luke 10:20), as they written in the Book of Life,
(Epistle to the Philippians 4:3).
> They are not self-righteous, neither vain, about their calling and
profession, but dwell among the earth’s inhabitants, their neighbors
and fellowmen, in true humility, in a spirit of harmony.
> They never give the impression that the rest of mankind is left
out, condemned to everlasting hell. Such an idea is absolutely
untrue. Most certainly ungodly. A deceiving lie by deceived persons,
unscrupulously passing out deceitful, diabolical, cruel lies and
doctrines of devils.
For God our Saviour wants all men to be saved and to come to the
knowledge of the truth, (First Epistle to Timothy 2:3-4). God wants
everyone everywhere to repent.
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Chapter One
BE FOREWARNED.
There are a number of many other things about the Church of God
that now you must understand.
> The Church is claimed and pronounced by the Lord Jesus Christ
as His Bride. To be kept pure. And spotless, prepared for her
Wedding with the Bridegroom, Jesus Christ, (Book of Revelation
21:2, 9).
> The doctrines of GOD, and the Lord Jesus Christ are proclaimed
and practiced in, and by, the Church of God.
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SO IT IS WRITTEN. THE CHURCH OF GOD SO
BELIEVE.
> And the Annual SABBATHS, The Feast Days of The LORD.
(Book of Leviticus 23:1-4). Which they faithfully observe and
joyfully keep, either as individually, or in joint fellowship of the
Church of the Living GOD. Week after week. Year after year. For
all their lives, as they draw breath.
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> THESE ANNUAL SABBATHS AND WEEKLY SABBATHS
ARE FEAST DAYS OF THE LORD ORDAINED FROM
CREATION WHEN THE ETERNAL GOD PLACED THE
SUN AND MOON IN THEIR FIXED ORBITS AS DIVINE
MARKERS OF TIME AND CYCLICAL SEASONS OF THE
DIVINE FESTIVALS OF THE LORD GOD FOR MANKIND,
(Book of Genesis 1:14).
The LORD God revealed to the people of Israel, whom He took out
of Egypt from their slavery for 450 years, thru His human
instrument Moses, what those FEAST DAYS OF GOD ARE in the
Book of Leviticus chapter 23.
The Lord Jesus Christ came from heaven and made manifest in to a
human being, flesh and blood, born of a woman, the virgin Mary.
He kept those Feast Days, together with his twelve disciples, whom
He later turned into his twelve apostles. He came to set the example
to them. To the end that His believers, followers and practitioners of
the Faith He once delivered to them, may FOLLOW IN HIS
STEPS, (Gospel Book of John 13:15; First Epistle of Peter 2:21).
> This sign that they are God’s called out, and Christ’s chosen
people, is one of most solemn and sacred calling and responsibility.
It does not make of them spiritually high and mighty. Neither more
holy than their neighbor, or any one. Rather, they are sanctified.
Meaning >> set apart to fulfill God’s holy purpose for them. It does
confers upon them the responsibility to live exemplary lives as they
follow the example of the Lord Jesus Christ, and from that mirror,
they shine.
>.To become the light of the world. And be the salt of the earth.
> Thus, whenever they observe and keep the Holy Seventh-day
Sabbath, and the
Holy Annual Sabbaths, three times a year, they hold forth the
Divine Sign of their sanctification.
The rest of mankind may refuse to do so, and observe and keep their
own sabbaths, and their own feast days, apart from what the Holy
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Scriptures reveal, (Book of the prophet Isaiah 1:13-`14). The world
calls them holidays, and festival, or feast, of this and that saint, or
saints.
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> THE REST OF THE WORLD OF RELIGION, OR IN ALL
CHRISTIANITY OF TWO BILLION BELIEVERS DENY
THESE HOLY DAYS AND THE TRI-ANNUAL SABBATHS.
> The Church has a specific purpose in being built by Jesus Christ.
What is it?
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REBELLION OF ADAM AND EVE IN THE GARDEN OF
EDEN. THIS, THEY PASSED ON TO THE HUMAN RACE,
TILL TODAY.
> The Church of God is ONE BODY with many members, (First
Epistle to the Corinthians 12:13).
> The Church of God, of Christ, has ONE God, and FATHER of
all, (Epistle to the Ephesians 4:4. 5, 6).
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> One Lord and Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ (First Epistle to the
Corinthians 8:6).
> One Spirit, the Holy Spirit of Power, (Epistles to the Ephesians
2:18; to the Philippians 1:7).
In the Church of God, the greatest among them is the servant of all,
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25 “But Jesus called them unto him, and said, ‘Ye know that the
princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that
are great exercise authority over them.
26 But it shall not be so among you but whosoever will be great
among you, let him be your minister; 1 Pet. 5:3
27 And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant,
(Gospel Books of Matthew 20:25-27; 23:11; Mark 10:43-44 ).
“And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and
whatever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and
whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven,”
(Gospel Book of Matthew 16:18).
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> ONE SALVATION, THAT COMES BY BEING BORN
AGAIN INTO THE FAMILY, AND KINGDOM, OF GOD,
(Gospel Book of John chapter 3, by being born again into the
Family, and Kingdom, of God, an immortal, spirit-born child of
God).
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with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were
called Christians first in Antioch,” (Book of Acts 11:26).
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You hear believers say: “They go to church.” Or, “They went to
church”.
The right and correct way is to say: “They went to worship services.”
(Of the Church).
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The New Testament Church of God worshipped in the FORMAT
of Fellowship and Worship Services in the Congregation attended
by:
> Saluting, or greeting, one another with a holy kiss, (Epistles to the
Romans 16:16; First Corinthians 16:20; Second Corinthians 13:12;
First Thessalonians 5:26; Kiss of charity: First Peter 5:14).
> Fervent Prayers. with all supplications, (First Epistle to Timothy
2:1; 5:5; Epistle to the Hebrews 5:7). They PRAY, AND LIFT UP
THEIR HOLY HANDS WITHOUT DOUBTING, (First Epistle
to Timothy 2:8). Luke 23:34; Ps 134:2
> With the skillful Playing and Use of Musical Instruments, (see
their names: Book of Psalms 149:3; 150:3, 4, 5).
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ALL THESE are conducted for the edification of the Body, the
Church of God, (First Epistle to the Corinthians 14:40).
(Note: Clap your hands, Shout unto God with the voice of triumph,
(Book of Psalms 47:1); Dance is mentioned in the Book of Psalms
149:3).
THE CONGREGATION OF THE CHURCH, OR
CHURCHES, OF GOD ARE ENJOINED TO ASSEMBLE IN
WORSHIP SERVICES AND FELLOWSHIP.
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THERE IS NEVER ANY VESTIGE OF FAMILIARITY.
ALWAYS OBERVED WITH JOY AND FERVENT ZEAL.
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THE GREAT MYSTERY
OF THE CHURCH OF GOD
Body of
Christ
Assembly Bride of
of Christ Christ
Christians House
Hold of
God
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If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given to you
ward: 3 How that by revelation He made known unto me the mystery;…4
Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of
Christ. 5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is
now revealed unto His holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; 6 That the
Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of the
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promise in Christ by the gospel. 9 And to make known what is the
FELLOWSHIP OF THE MYSTERY, which is from the beginning of the world
hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: 10 To the intent
that now unto the principalities, and powers in heavenly places might be known
by the church the manifold wisdom of God,” (Epistle to the Ephesians 3:3-10).
As many as the churches are, so is the story why and how they
started, many, and long.
It is in the nature of things that human beings are divided into types
and kinds.
So long as there are followers who would rather follow someone, just
to sit back, and relax, there will always be a leader, or leaders.
Leaders who are supposed to lead by work, and example. Not merely
to have and to use the power of authority and command. And end
up using selected scriptures to collect money from the followers and
supporters.
The principle is true in the story of the Church. And over time in
the churches.
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IT HAS COME DOWN TO THESE
The words and texts of the Holy Scriptures, or the Holy Bible, are
claimed to be the unexpurgated source of the articles of faith and
practice of their particular church.
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Mystery of the LIVING GOD – Part 1
Chapter Two
“Sanctify them thru thy truth: thy word is truth,” (Gospel Book of
John 17:17).
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THEY DID NOT KNOW WHAT
THEY WERE DOING
Then said Jesus, “Father forgive them, for they know not what
they do,” (Gospel Book of Luke 23:34).
The answer lies before that time of the need for humanity to be
redeemed.
> When GOD created the perfect and beautiful earth, it was not
meant to be ruined. It was created to be inhabited. That original
Earth was to be the dwelling place of mortal inhabitants who will
live, and later die, and later live by a resurrection from the grave, to
live forever in immortality.
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Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?...
Ps 104:5; Prov 8:29
5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who
hath stretched the line upon it?
6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid
the corner stone thereof?
7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God
shouted for joy,” (Book of Job 38:4-7).
18 “For thus saith the LORD God that created the heavens:
God himself
himself that formed the earth and made it: he hath
established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be
inhabited: I am the LORD, and there is none else,” (Book of
the prophet Isaiah 45:18). verse 5
5 “Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens
he avens and
stretched them out: he that spread forth the earth, and that
which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people
upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein,” (ch. 42:5).
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Every time their thoughts in error cause them to commit deeds
of disobedience, they sin. Every time they sin, death comes
hanging heavier over them.
“Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers hath transgressed
against me,” (Book of the prophet Isaiah 43:27).
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(Books of Leviticus 4;2; 5:15; 4:13; Book of Acts 3:17, 19;
17:30).
“All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God, (Epistle to
the Romans 3:23; 5:12).
The wages of sin is death,” (Epistle to the Romans 6:23).
GOD IS LOVE.
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SIN IS DESERVING OF THE PENALTY OF DEATH.
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Chapter Three
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JESUS, THE CHRIST OF GOD, BUILT THE CHURCH
OF GOD UPON HIMSELF, THE ROCK.
> “To the church of God which is at Corinth, (First Epistle to the
Corinthians 1:2).
> “We have no custom, neither the churches of God,” (ch 11:16).
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IF THE BUILDER DOES, ALL ELSE WILL FOLLOW IN
SMOOTH FLOW. LIKE CLOCKWORK REGULARITY.
The law of cause and effect in operation in the created universe, and
reduced from the biggest, largest size, thru, and to, descent to the
lowest quantity. Even to the multi-cellular, sub-atomic level. And
from the utmost volume and mass to the smallest equation. The
Law of Cause and Effect follows, and is applicable, in all these.
Primary example: Gravity pulls all men down, so men are all
earthbound, Gravity is the cause. The going down is the effect. It is
inevitable. Inviolate. A fixed principle in the created universe. Set in
motion by the Eternal Creator GOD. We see this on terra firma, the
earth that all men, born of women, flesh and blood mortals, dwell
in.
Life is not all technical equations, numbers. And now, in the 21st
century, digits. Not in-depth analysis. Uninvolved evaluation and
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factual research with charts and figures galore. Not endless
information gathering and ultimately, information overload!
Modern 21st century man has fallen into the trap. Competition.
Survival. “Must win at all costs” motto and mantra. The rat race.
Stress. Anxiety. Withdrawal into self-protection, and loss of trust of
others is the result. Crafting of firewalls from intrusion in to his
private world and personal universe, his well-guarded space.
VERBOTEN TO OTHERS. Forbidden. Intrude NOT. Such
tragedy. The SYSTEM has done in the human person, flesh and
blood, born of woman.
Feeling and emotions attend the entire range of the business, and
conduct, or vice-versa, of life.
Passion and intensity must attend activities that men do. Capacity to
care. Willingness to show and share affection. Compassion is
primary in communion with suffering mankind. With one’s
neighbor. Willingness to reach out and touch the lives of others, and
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to be mutually touched, as well. It is never really a one way street,
but two, and mutual. And so it never dries and never dies.
LOVE, above all. In the Greek, not just Eros, Neither philia.
The former and the latter, both being physical and material, will
pass away into the night, so to speak. As the saying goes, fade
into the sunset, And perish from the thoughts and memory of
men. The fire and the passion will die down. Much, ought and
must be, in overflowing agape, spiritual love, which never dies.
It is everlasting, above all else.
Love that is shared and given. The more you give it away, the
more you have it. Such a beautiful paradox. Meant to be known.
Meant to be experienced by every one.
First Corinthians 13
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And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I
give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me
nothing.
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Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity
vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily
provoked, thinketh no evil;
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Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth
all things.
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Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall
fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be
knowledge, it shall vanish away.
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For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
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But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part
shall be done away.
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When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I
thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
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For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now
I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
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And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest
of these is charity.
The Eternal Creator GOD dealt with His created mortals with
loving kindness:
35 “And they remembered that God was their rock, and the
high God their redeemer.
36 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they
lied unto him with their tongues.
37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they
steadfast in his covenant.
38 But he being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and
destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away,
and did not stir up all his wrath.
Num 14:18, 20
39 For he remembered they are but flesh, a wind that passeth
away, and cometh not again,” (Book of Psalms 78:36-39).
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The Lord Jesus Christ showed the way in his recorded dealings
with mankind.
12 Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold there
was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she
was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
13 And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and
said unto her, ‘Weep not’.
14 And when he came and touched the bier: and they that bare
him stood still. And he said, ‘Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.’
ch 8:54; John 11:43
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15 And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he
delivered him to his mother.
16 And there rose a fear on all: and they glorified God, saying, ‘That
a great prophet is risen up among us; and that God hath visited his
people,’ (Gospel Book of Luke 7:12-15).
5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them saying, ‘Go
not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans
enter ye not.
ch 4:1, 5; 2 Ki 17:24; John 4:9
6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
7 And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at
hand. Luke 9:2; ch 3:2; Luke 10:9
8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils:
freely ye have received, freely give,”
(Gospel Book of Matthew 10:1, 5-8).
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IF YOU ARE SICK, CALL FOR THE ELDERS OF
THE CHURCH
13 “Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry?
let him sing psalms, (Epistle of James 5:13)
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> HE INSPIRED THRU THE HOLY SPIRIT THE
WRITING OF THE PSALMS. THE WRITING BY MEN OF
PURE HEARTS THE WRITING AND COMPOSITION OF
SPIRITUAL SONGS AND HYMNS THROUGHOUT THE
ROLLING CENTURIES, IN EVERY GENERATION OF
BELIEVER AND PRACTITIONERS OF THE FAITH
ONCE DELIVERED.
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INVOKE IN PRAYER FOR HEALING BY HIS SHED
BLOOD OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF THE LAMB.
HEALING IS FORGIVENESS OF SINS, (Epistle of James
5:15)
“Bless the LORD O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his
holy name.
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy
diseases,” (Book of Psalms 103:1-3). Ex. 15:26; Deut. 7:12-15;
Ps. 130:8; Is. 33:24; Jer. 50:20
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ACCORDING TO YOUR FAITH, IT SHALL BE
DONE UNTO THEE
13 And Jesus said unto the centurion, ‘Go thy way; and as thou
hast believed, so be it done unto thee.’ And his servant was healed in
the self same hour,”(Matthew 8:13).
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faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the
other undone,” (Gospel Book of Matthew 23:23).
Listen, mortals, and read what the Divine Creator proclaimed unto
you:
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THIS IS THE LAW OF THE CLEAN AND THE UNCLEAN
MEATS. THE FOOD LAW. THE SEPARATION AND
DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE CLEAN AND THE
UNCLEAN MEATS TO EAT, AND NOT TO EAT.
IN MODERN
LANGUAGE, IT IS CALLED “THE DIETARY LAW”. THEY
ARE DESCRIBED IN FULL AND DETERMINATION IN THE
BOOK OF LEVITICUS CHAPTER ELEVEN.
The apostle Peter recounted the vision to the apostles that were in
Jerusalem.
The apostle Peter, at that point in time, was long past the time when
Christ was with them in His days in human flesh. This proves that
they were taught that the Food Laws were always in effect. That the
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first Christians knew and lived by the Food Law of Leviticus chapter
eleven.
The Colossian Christians were new converts in the true faith once
delivered to the saints. They were Gentiles in times past, (Epistle to
the Ephesians 2:11). When they commenced in their practice of the
Faith, and lived in the Way, as they were taught by the original
apostles, their neighbors, who were practitioners of the heathen and
pagan ways, and who ate anything they could lay their hands on
without any distinction whatsoever, jeered at them. They laughed at
them. They judged them.
When they observed and kept the weekly holy Sabbath day, the
seventh day, and the tri-annual Sabbath days, and the Holy Feast
Days of God, their unconverted neighbors and the unbelievers
around them, persecuted them, and judged them.
The apostle Paul, Christ’s chosen apostle to the Gentiles, and then
to the former Gentiles, now converted brethren in the Church of the
Living God, wrote the above epistle to them, The brotherhood is
their witness, and to each other, before God. Thereby, the world
outside of the brotherhood can not therefore judge them, (Epistle to
the Colossians 2:16, 17-23).
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The doctrines of devils believed by the unbelievers forbids to marry,
and commanded to abstain from meats, especially on their
determined particular days, which God has created, and
commanded to be received and eaten with thanks giving, of them
WHICH BELIEVE AND KNOW THE TRUTH, SANCTIFIED
BY THE WORD OF GOD, AND WITH PRAYER, (First Epistle
to Timothy 4:1-5).
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The yawning void in the lives of widows and fatherless children
produces so much pain and sense of loss, as well as a sense of
direction and purpose. A vast chasm of emptiness in the lives of
them who were left behind. Of these that the ever Merciful and
Loving God cares for, so that He set His Will for them in sacred
Scriptures. The rudder by which these families are moving on in the
world is missing. God their Father would will that void be filled by
those who would profess to practice the religion God approves of,
and consider to be true.
He decrees that every one who confesses the true Faith once
delivered must remember all these mortals bereft of husbands and
fathers.
To remember them with mercy and loving kindness as God does.
Surely, if they do, they would be on God’s side. And God blesses
them who choose to come on His side for these.
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Chapter Five
THE FOUNDATION OF
THE DOCTRINES
FOLLOWED AND KEPT BY
THE CHURCH OF GOD
God is Love. God is Light. God is Full of Compassion. Mercy.
Justice. Faith. Truth. Vision. Hope. Christ is The Life. Christ is
The Truth. Christ is The Way. Christ is the Resurrection.
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LOVE.
LIGHT.
LIFE.
TRUTH
MERCY.
JUSTICE.
FAITH.
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THESE EIGHT, WHICH CONSTITUTE THE
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD, INTERCONNECT. THEY
FORM THE SEAMLESS CIRCUIT IN WHICH ALL THAT
IS GODLY CONFIRM THE TRUE DOCTRINES THAT
EVERY MEMBER OF THE CHURCH OF THE LIVING
GOD BELIEVE AND PRACTICE, (Second Epistle of Peter
1:1-8)
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ANALYZED, OBSERVED, AND MEASURED, EVEN
DISECTED, UPTO TO THE CELLULAR AND ATOMIC
LEVEL.
2 “For all these things hath mine hand made, and all those
things have been,” saith the LORD: ‘but to this man will I look,
even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at
my word,” (Book of Isaiah 66:2).
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ADORE, LOVE, AND PRAISE, AND FOLLOW, AND
OBEY, HIM.
The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’s, but the earth,
hath he given to the children of men, (Book of Psalms 115:16).
44 “And he said unto them, ‘These are the words which I spake
unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be
fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the
prophets, and in the psalms concerning me. Ver. 6
45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might
understand the scriptures,” (Gospel Book of Luke 24:44-45).
“For thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted
above all gods,” (Book of Psalms 97::9)
26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these
things, that bringeth not their hosts by number: he calleth them all
by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in
power; not one faileth. Ps 147:3
28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting
God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not,
neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding, (Book
of the prophet Isaiah 40:21-28). Ps 147:5
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9 And thou, Solomon, my son, KNOW THOU THE GOD OF
THY FATHER, and serve Him with a perfect heart and with a
willing mind; for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth
all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek Him, He will be
found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off forever,”
(First Book of Chronicles 28:9). Jer 9:24
14 “For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ. 15 Of whom the whole family on heaven and earth is
named.”
(Epistle to the Ephesians 3:15)
6” For unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his
shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The
mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government, there shall be no end, upon the
throne of his father David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and
to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even
forever. The zeal of the LORD will perform this,”
(Book of the prophet Isaiah 9:6-
9:6-7)
1 “In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God,
and the word was God,” (Gospel Book of John 1:1).
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WHEN ONE MEMBER OF THE GODHEAD WAS
MANIFEST IN THE FLESH, (Mystery of Godliness, I Tim 3:16)
46 “For had you believed Moses, you would have believed me, for
he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye
believe my words?” (Gospel Book of John 5:46).
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HIS REVELATION AT THAT TIME TO THE RELIGIOUS
LEADERS OF THE JEWS UPSET THEM. TO THEM, THE
ONE TRUE GOD MEANS ONE DIVINE BEING AND
PERSON. JEHOVAH, YHVH IS HASHEM AS THEY CALL
HIM TODAY. THE TRUTH OF ELOHIYM BEING THE
GODHEAD WITH MORE THAN ONE MEMBER IS
BLASPHEMY TO THEM.
8 “But unto the Son he saith, ‘Thy throne O God is for ever and
ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
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9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God,
even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy
fellows.
10 And, thou Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the
earth; and the heavens are the work of thy hands,” (Epistle to the
Hebrews 1:8-10)
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“Ever searching and never able to come to the knowledge of the
truth,” (Second Epistle to Timothy 3:7).
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WAS THE ANCIENT OF DAYS ALONE AS THE
GOD IN THE GODHEAD – IN ELOHIYM –
BEFORE JEHOVAH/YAHWEH/ YHVH?
‘AMEN >>>is Jesus Christ > Jesus Christ is the spiritual Rock (1
Cor 3:10), the Rock is YHVH /LORD/Yahweh/Jehovah/the
Eternal/ >>>> is the God with GOD (The Father) >>>> is the God
of the Old Testament>>>>who was the Creator in the Beginning
(Gen 1:1, John 1:1).
QUESTION:
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“AND NOW, O FATHER, GLORIFY THOU ME WITH
THINE OWN SELF WITH THE GLORY THAT I HAD WITH
THEE BEFORE THE WORLD WAS.”
Phil. 2:6; Col. 1:15; Heb. 1:3
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The word “trinity” does not appear in the original New Testament
scriptures. Holy Scriptures. Scriptures used to imply it is an error by
addition by the original translators, who believed in the doctrine of
the “Trinity:”
7 “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father,
the Word,
Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one.” (First
Epistle of John 5:7).
8 *And there are three that bear witness on earth, the spirit,
and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.”
(First Epistle of John 5:8).
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WORDS SIGNIFYING NOTHING. FOR IT DOES NOT
EXIST IN REALITY.
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I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy
name for thy loving kindness and for thy truth: for thou
hast magnified thy word above all thy name, (Book of Psalms
137:2) Ps 28:2; 1 Ki. 8:29; Ps
5:7
“Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that
comes out of the mouth of God,” (Gospel Books of Matthew
4:4; Luke 4:4).
> 1. “Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not
eat of it. For in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely
die,”(Book of Genesis 2:16-17).
15 For that which I do I allow not; for what I would, that do I not,
but what I hate, that do I.
16 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
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17 For know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good
thing: for to will is present with me; but now to perform that which
is good I find not. Gen. 6:5; 8:21
19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would
not, that I do.
20 Now If I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin
that dwelleth in me.
21 I find then a law, that when I would do good, evil is present
with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man.
23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law
of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which
is in my members.
Gal. 5:17; ch. 6:13, 19
24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body
of this death?
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the
mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of
sin,” (Epistle to the Romans 7: 25).
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Thereby Live by the Pure Word of God
7 “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground,
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a
living soul,*” (Book of Genesis 2:7). ch 3:19, 23
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*heb. nephesh >>>> that which breathes; a breathing creature;
mortally (Strong’s: 5315).
*Gk. psuche >>>> used interchangeably: spirit, soul; , vitality,
linked with emotion, emotional life; life, linked with mind and
heart, seat of thinking , feeling, and purpose, (Strong’s: 5590).
“The soul that sinneth, it shall die,” (Book of Ezekiel 18:4, 20).
Rom 6:23
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THERE IS A SPIRIT IN MAN
7 “Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit
shall return unto God who gave it.” Gen. 3:10; ch. 3:21
God reaches out to man, and the Spirit of God links to man’s spirit
to give man, by inspiration, wisdom and understanding.
1 “The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the
LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the
foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him,”
(Books of the prophets Zechariah 12:1; Isaiah 42:5).
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THIS IS THE SAME SPIRIT THAT LATER IN DEATH
RETURNS TO THE DIVINE CREATOR. THE CHARACTER
FORMED, BUILT, AND PERFECTED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT
IN MAN, OVER A SPIRITUALLY CONVERTED LIFETIME
WILL BE THE VERY CONSTITUENT SPIRIT AND MIND
THAT GOD WILL INVEST WITH A SPIRITUAL BODY TO
BECOME HIS IMMORTAL SON, HIS CHILD WHO WILL
LIVE FOREVER. THIS IS THE TRUE SALVATION WHICH
IS A GIFT OF GOD, AND GRANT THE REWARD OF A
CROWN OF LIFE, WITH HONOR AND GLORY.
27 “For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with
his angels: and the he shall reward every man according to his
works,” (Gospel Book of Matthew 16:28).
NOTE: The planet Earth was created most beautiful and ultra
magnificent in perfect order. At that time, in its beginning, the
sons* of GOD – the angels of heaven beheld it and sang for joy,
(Book of Job 38:7). Ch 1:6*
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THE AWESOME
DESIGN AND ORDER IN CREATION IS VISIBLE,
EVIDENT, MEASURABLE, AND OBSERVABLE.
THEY ALL SHOW THE PRESENCE OF THE ALL-WISE, ALL-
KNOWING CREATOR GOD WHO MADE THEM ALL.
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SOME BILLIONS OF YEARS LATER, THE FORMER
ARCHANGEL LUCIFER, FORMER AMGEL OF LIGHT AND
CARETAKER OF PLANET EARTH, CONNIVED WITH ONE
THIRD OF THE CREATED ANGELS OF HEAVEN. THEY
CONFEDERATED IN REBELLION TO OVERTHROW GOD.
Unthinkable, yet true!
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AND TO TAKE OVER GOD’S THRONE.
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SATAN THE DEVIL IS CALLED IN THE SCRIPTURES,
PRINCE OF THE POWER OF THE AIR. THE RULER OF
THIS WORLD. THEREBY, THE DEVIL CAN BROADCAST
WICKED IMPULSES INTO HUMAN MINDS.
WHY?
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COVETED WHAT WAS NOT FOR THEM, (Epistle of Jude
verse 6).
31 “And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was
very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day,
(Book of Genesis 1:31). THERE WAS NO HUMAN NATURE
IN THE ORIGNAL CREATED FIRST MAN, ADAM.
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(“Very good” is an expression of the superlative. Absolute perfection
in every way).
6 “And when the woman saw that the tree was good
goo d for food, and
that it was pleasant to the eyes,
eyes and a tree to be desired, to make
wise she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat. and gave also
one wise,
unto her husband with her, and he did eat. 1 Tim 2:14
WHEN the first two created human beings partook of the fruit
from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, human nature was
born in mortals. Self-will took over.
Adam, when confronted by the LORD, did not accept the blame.
Vanity and pride already manifested in the tainted character of the
first man. He pointed his finger to Eve. Finger-pointing started
thenceforth. Humility was not in him anymore. Innocence was
gone.
The LORD held the man, Adam, responsible. He was the head, the
leader, of the first family. The stronger vessel, so to speak. And so, it
shall be so, throughout all the generations of the human race. Thru
all the offsprings of mortals, flesh and blood, born of woman.
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Constant insufficiency shall dog men’s struggles and efforts. It will
be only toil and strength-draining labors.
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18 “ Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou
shalt eat the herb of the field; Ps 104:14
19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return
unto the ground; for out of it was thou taken: for dust thou art, and
unto dust shalt thou return. (Book of Genesis 3:17-19). 2 Thes 2:10
Constant toil, and hard-scrabble has become the lot of the human
beings since that time till today.
Follow these that God has commanded, and you and your children
shall live, (Book of Deuteronomy 6:1-25; 7:11-26; 8:1; 9:1).
13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and
keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
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14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret
thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil,” (Book of
Ecclesiastes 12: 13-14).
Why did the Lord GOD Almighty bring human life into existence?
The ultimate resolution, the final bottom line of the whole matter:
26 “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them
have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air,
and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping
thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God
created he him; male and female created he them,” (Book of Genesis
1:26-27).
13 “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and
keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of men,’ (Book
of Ecclesiastes 12:13).
How will the Most High GOD bring such an everlasting goal for
that mortal, born of woman, flesh and blood, to pass in the process
of time?
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‘I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE. NO MAN
COMETH TO THE FATHER BUT BY ME,” (Gospel Book of
John 14:6).
3 “Jesus answered and said unto him, ‘Verily, verily, I say unto thee.
except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
ch. 1:13
4 Nicodemus said unto him, ‘How can a man be born when he is
old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be
born?
5 Jesus answered, ‘Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be
born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of
God. Mark 16:16
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of
the Spirit is spirit.
7 Marvel not that I say unto thee, you must be born again.
8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and they hearest the sound
thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth; so
is everyone that is born of the Spirit,” (Gospel Book of John 3:3-8).
50 “Now this I say, brethren, flesh and blood can not inherit the
kingdom of God, neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for
the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible,
and we shall be changed.
Zech. 9:14
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal
must put on immortality,” (First Epistle to Corinthians 15:50-53).
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NOTE; CHRIST STATES THAT OUR DIRECTION IS TO
GOD THE FATHER, THRU JESUS CHRIST, WHO IS THE
DOOR TO HIM.
49 “As we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the
image of the heavenly.
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom of God; neither do corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold I show you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we
shall all be changed.
52 In the moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for
the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible,
and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruption must put on incorruption, and this mortal
must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and
this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to
pass the saying that is written, ‘Death is swallowed up in victory,
57 Thanks be to God which giveth us the vicotory, through our
Lord Jesus Christ,” (First Epistle to the Corinthians 17: 49-57).
23 “But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward
they that are Christ’s at his coming,” (First Epistle to the
Corinthians15:23).
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16 “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,
with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God, and the
dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together
with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we
ever be with the Lord, (Second Epistle to the Thessalonians 4:16-
17).
2 “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear
what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall
be like him; for we shall see him as he is,” (First Epistle of John 3:2).
Is 56:5; Rom. 8:15; 2 Cor. 4:17
21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like
unto his glorious body, according to the workings whereby he is able
to subdue all things unto himself,” (Epistle to the Philippians 3:20-
21).
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“That they all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee,
that we may also be one in us,” (Gospel Book of John 17:21)
24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered the kingdom
to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule, and
all authority and power.
25 But he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet,”
(First Epistle to the Corinthians 15:24-25).
28 “And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the
Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him,
that God may be all in all,” (First Epistle to the Corinthians 15:28).
> He came to make men understand the letter of the codified Law,
that kills, if taken and applied abruptly, strictly, and very literally,
without room for mercy, studied judgment and weighing of the
circumstances and facts. iF not tempered with kindness in its
application. It is black and white, If you sin, zaaaap! zzzath! comes
the retribution and punishment.
Death, without mercy! Eye for an eye. Tooth for a tooth! Do it,
man, right now, or you’re dead! Behead! Cut off the head at once!
Cut off the fingers! Cut off the hands!
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READ THE HEART. READ THE ATTITUDE.
READ THE MOTIVE.
That the Law is done away by the sacrifice and death of Christ at
Calvary. That Christ has nailed the holy Ten Commandments
of true righteousness to the cross.
18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot
or one title shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Luke 16:17
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19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least
commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the
least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and
teach them, shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
20 For I say unto you, that except your righteousness shall
exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in
no case enter into the kingdom of heaven,” (Gospel Books of
Matthew 17-20; Luke 16:17).
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KINGDOM A TRILLION TRILLION YEARS OLD), he will
not depart from it,” (Book of Proverbs 22:6).
(God will put fear in their hearts---they will not depart from
God: Book of the prophet Jeremiah 32:40).
Isaiah 55:3
> New members of the Church of God are called, and considered,
babes-in-Christ.
> Thereby, there is the right effort to make them undergo an
intensive orientation in the first stage doctrines and practices, to
stronger meat. God decrees this for the body of believers.
> They are carefully nourished with the milk of the word. The first
things. The first principles. In stages, for the reason they do not
suffer spiritual feeding indigestion. Thru gentle feeding. By loving
care in teaching the truths of God, (Epistle to the Hebrews 8:1-3).
> The young in the faith are treated with care. Lest they get hurt
and offended unnecessarily. The “spiritual giants” in the Church
ought not to look down on these young ones, so to speak. In due
time, they wil mature, and then are able to receive stronger meat of
the word.
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drowned in the sea.” (Gospel Books of Matthew 18:6; Mark 9:42;
Luke 17:2).
SERVANT OF ALL
25 “ But Jesus called them unto him, and said, ‘Ye know that
the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and
they that are great exercise authority upon them.
26 But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be
great among you, let him be your minister; 1 Pet.5:3
27 And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your
servant,” (Gospel Books of Matthew 20:26-27; 23:11; Mark
10:44).
13 “For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not
liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one
another,” (Epistle to the Galatians 5:13).
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SERVE THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
6 “But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead
wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit,
and not in the oldness of the letter,: (Epistle to the Romans 7:6).
ch.2:29; 2 Cor. 3:36
Read and Believe the Author and Finisher of the Faith Once
Delivered
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18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled
with the Spirit;
19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.
20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God,”
(Epistle to the Ephesians 5:1-21).
Live By Every Word That Comes Out of the Mouth of God Gospel
Books of Matthew 4:4; Luke 4:4).
They were filled with love, compassion, and mercy, for the
peoples of the world they were proclaiming the everlasting
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Gospel to. Christ taught them how to be compassionate. They
performed signs and true wonders, thereby. Healed both the
physically, and spiritually sick, crippled, blind, deaf, paralyzed,
infirm, demon-possessed. THESE DO WITH THE
SPIRITUAL POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT FROM GOD
THE FATHER BY THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.
“If Christ is with us, who can be against us. “…For we are more
than conquerors through him that loved us,” (Epistle to the
Romans 8:31, 37b).
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SO IT IS WRITTEN. THE CHURCH OF GOD SO
BELIEVE.
3
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the
word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things
which do appear.
4
By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than
Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God
testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
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5
By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and
was not found, because God had translated him: for before his
translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
6
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh
to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them
that diligently seek him.
7
By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet,
moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the
which he condemned the world, and became heir of the
righteousness which is by faith.
8
By faith Abraham,
Abraham when he was called to go out into a place which
he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out,
not knowing whither he went.
9
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange
country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with
him of the same promise:
10
For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder
and maker is God.
11
Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed,
and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she
judged him faithful who had promised.
12
Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so
many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is
by the sea shore innumerable.
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13
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but
having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and
embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims
on the earth.
14
For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a
country.
15
And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence
they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
16
But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly:
wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath
prepared for them a city.
17
By faith Abraham,
Abraham when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he
that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,
18
Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:
19
Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the
dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
20
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
21
By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of
Joseph;
Joseph and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff.
22
By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of
the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his
bones.
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23
By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his
parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not
afraid of the king's commandment.
24
By faith Moses,
Moses when he was come to years, refused to be called
the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
25
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than
to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
26
Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures
in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.
27
By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for
he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
28
Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood,
lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
29
By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the
Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
30
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed
about seven days.
31
By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed
not, when she had received the spies with peace.
32
And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of
Gedeon,
Gedeon and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David
also, and Samuel,
Samuel and of the prophets:
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33
Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness,
obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions.
34
Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out
of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to
flight the armies of the aliens.
35
Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were
tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better
resurrection:
36
And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea,
moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
37
They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were
slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and
goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
38
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts,
and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
39
And these all, having obtained a good report through faith,
received not the promise:
40
God
Go having provided some better thing for us, that they without
us should not be made perfect.
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They Confess God, His Name, and His Great Works, and His
Christ and the Hope in His Coming Again As King of kings and
Lord of lords >>>> Before Men
40 And to him (Gamaliel) they agreed: and when they had called
the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should
not speak in the name of Jesus, and they let them go.
41 And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing
that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name,
4 And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to
teach and preach Jesus Christ,” (Book of Acts 5:40-42)
55 “But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up stedfastly into
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heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right
hand of God,
56 And (STEPHEN) said, ‘Behold I see the heavens opened, and
the son of man standing on the right hand of God.
59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, ‘Lord
Jesus, receive my spirit. ch.9:14; Ps. 31:5; Luke 23:46
60 And he kneeled down, and crIed with a loud voice. ‘Lord, lay
not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell
asleep,’ (Book of Acts 6:8; 7:1-60).
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Chapter Seven
That man is to live his life. He is to live out his life. His existence.
His very and every organic constitution of his being bespeaks bare
ignorance at his beginnings. Quite unlike other created creatures,
particularly the animal kind who live by instinct built-in to them,
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mankind was made to learn how to live, using his mind, and free
will.
Every man is born carnal. He commences his every day life by living
by a set of rules. And disciplined personal order. Man is not an
animal that lives by instincts and automatic way of doing things.
Man was made a human being of free will. He was made to make
decisions. Whether for ill, or for good.
Whether right, or wrong. CHARACTER is the fruit of that way of
living.
Mortal man, born of woman, flesh and blood, would need a guide
how to live. A manual how to operate the body and mind.
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CONTINUED TRIAL AND ERROR. THE MESS IS GETTING
WORSE.
All of these were products of the knowledge of truth and error. The
millennial admixture in human knowledge and learning.
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THE NET RESULT IS WHAT IS WITNESSED AROUND
TODAY, IN THE VERY 21ST CENTURY!
“There is a way that seemeth right to a man, but the end thereof are
the ways of death,” (Book of Proverbs 14:12; 16:25)
Rom. 6:21
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THE NEXT TWENTY SEVEN WERE WRITTEN IN GREEK.
2 “I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for
thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy
word above all thy name,” (Book of Psalms 138:2). Ps. 28:2; Ps.
5:7
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>> “Bind up the testimony. Seal the law among my disciples,”
(Book of the prophet Isaiah 8:18).
>> “To the law and to the testimony. If they speak not according
to this word, it is because there is no light in them,” (Book of the
prophet Isaiah 8:20)
>> “Now all these things happened unto them for examples: they
are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world
are come,” (First Epistle to the Corinthians 10:11). Rom. 15:4; Phil
4;5; Heb. 10:25
>> “For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for
our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures
might have hope,” (Epistle to the Romans 15:4).
>> “And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures,
which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which
is in Christ Jesus.
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God,
and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for
instruction in righteousness.
17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto
all good works,” (Second Epistle to Timothy 3:15-17).
>> They were written for our guide to salvation and everlasting life.
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MAN IS COMMANDED TO SEARCH THEM
“Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life; and
they are they which testify of me.”
> They are commended to search and study them, (Book of Acts
17:11; 8:28, 29).
“These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they
received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the
scriptures daily, whether these things were so.
Is. 34:16; Luke 16:29; John 5:39
> They are reproved that were unskillful in them, or slow to believe
them, (They can make you wise unto salvation, (Second Epistle to
Timothy 3:15).
> If out of the narrow and strait way, lost to the broad way to the
left, and lost to broad way to the right, they will bring you home to
the center, towards GOD THE FATHER, thru the Lord Jesus
Christ, THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE. With the
spiritual power of the Holy Spirit,
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6 Jesus saith unto him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no
man cometh >>>> unto the Father, >>>> but by me,” (Gospel Book
of John 14:6).
> If one’s life is out of order, made helter skelter and confused,
and dysfunctional, they will reform and reorder you, and bring order
to your disordered, dysfunctional life.
“Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his
conversation (CONDUCT, BEHAVIOR, ATTITUDE) his way
aright, to him will I show the salvation of God.” Ps. 27:6; Gal.
6:16
> If in heaviness and depression, they will comfort you, and lift you
up anew, (Book of the Lamentations 3:41).
> If dull and deadened, they will quicken and renew you.
> If chilled and cold, they will inflame you. Set you on fire again.
> If jaded and stale, they will refresh your hearts and minds.
> If shaken, disappointed, they will edify you and bring renewed
inspiration and driving motivation upon you,
FOR THEY ARE SPIRIT. AND THEY ARE LIFE: 63 “It is the
spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I
speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life,” (Gospel Book of
John 6:63).
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A man who has set his mind and heart to go, to embark, march
onward, to carry on his IRREVERSIBLE, IRREVOCABLE,
spiritual journey into GOD, THRU, BY, WITH WHICH, and
WHEREIN, HE WILL BE ENTWINED in all these
dimensions of being. HE WILL TRULY KNOW THE
WIDTH. THE HEIGHT. THE BREADTH. THE DEPTH,
IN THE FULNESS, AND KNOWLEDGE, OF GOD, AND
OF THE LOVE OF CHRIST.
Chapter Eight
You have heard it. And heard it often. “God loves the poor.” In
other words, He delights that there are so many poor, and He, the
God of Providence, who owns all the gold and silver, all the cattle of
a thousand hills, dearly loves the poor.
In other words, God the Maker and Provider of all things good and
wonderful, “so dearly loves the poor in their mire and muck and
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poverty. In their confused existence” THIS IS THEIR IDEA. THE
MANTRA OF, AND FOR, THE POOR IN MEN’S MINDS.
One of the principal reasons why Christ came, was to bring life to
mankind, and that they may have it more abundantly.
He would lay down the very way and principles by which, if they
abide in them, they would have the true abundant life, NOW IN
THIS TIME.
To the blessed ones that did heed, listened, and did live accordingly,
the Lord Jesus Christ pronounced:
28 “Then Peter began to say unto him, ‘Lo we have left all, and
have followed thee.
29 And Jesus answered and said, ‘Verily I say unto you, There is
no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or
mother, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s.
30 But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses,
and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands,
with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life,”
(Gospel Books of Mark 10:28-30; Matthew19:27-29; Luke
18:28-30). 2 Chr 25:9
2 “For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not
according to knowledge.
Acts 21:20; 22:3; ch. 9:31; Gal. 1:14
3 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going
about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted
themselves to the righteousness of God,” (Epistle to the Romans
10:2-3).
> WHY?
> WHAT?
> HOW?
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> WHERE?
> WHEN?
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2 “Until the day in which he was taken up, after that the Holy
Spirit had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had
chosen: Mark 16:19; 1 Tim 3:16
3 To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion by
many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and
speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
Mark 16:14
8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Spirit is come
upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto both in Jerusalem, and
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in Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the
earth,” (Book of Acts 1:2. 3, 8).
> From earthy, to heavenly, is God’s dream for the family of man.
> From the dust to which man will return in death, to the
resurrection of eternal life, is God’s Divine Vision when man was
first made “in the image, and likeness of God,” of ELOHIYM.
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of the Kingdom of God, to all nations, in all the world, to every
creature.
That all these, God created for His Praise. For His Honor. And for
His Glory. FOR HE IS GOD!
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TO BECOME FISHERS OF MEN, AND LATER
MADE THEM HIS TWELVE APOSTLES
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SO IN THE FIRST CENTURY CHURCH OF GOD AMONG
THE MANY THAT WERE CONVERTED TO THE FAITH,
WERE MEN AND WOMEN THAT WERE VERY COMMON,
AND VERY ORDINARY, AS THE WORLD MEASURES
THEM.
44 And the next Sabbath day came almost the whole city together
to hear the word of God, (Book of Acts 13:44-45, 48-49).
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> They came from all walks of life. They were working in all types
and kinds of trades. Avocations, And occupations.
A number practiced in the disciplines, and in the recognized
professions, in those days.
They were in the employ of business, and in the civil, and military,
governments, of that time.
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or fee. They are paid in forms of money, or goods with equivalent
money value.
The members of the Church of God, all over the world, in both the
western and eastern hemisphere were called out by God the Father
from all these spheres of human activity. Hence, they are engaged in
gainful occupations. Trades. Vocations. Avocations, Crafts.
Professions. Employment. Businesses, as small, or medium scale,
entrepreneurs and proprietors. Any other legitimate and profitable
activities to earn their living.
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Organized promotions and marketing of the products for
consumption, and housing, find them engaged as sales people,
agents, or consultants, either in the field, or in the office doing
executive and managerial tasks, and as independent contractors.
They are enjoined to be quiet and be busy, diligent, and honest, law-
abiding, in their dealings and interaction with the peoples of the
world, with their fellowmen. They are enjoined to love their jobs
and enjoy their work.
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They are Accountants. Janitors. Care givers. Teachers, in all levels.
Farmers, Gardeners, Orchardists. Secretaries. Nurses. Clerks.
Salesmen. Traders. Merchants. Consultants. Insurance and real
estate agents. Truck and taxi drivers. Managers. Executives, Bankers.
Lawyers. Laboratory technicians. Postal workers. Physicians.
Scientists. Computer analysts. Computer programmers. Telephone
operators. Foresters. Waiters. Chambermaids. Factory workers. Care
givers. Barbers. Beauticians. Masseurs. Construction workers.
Architects. Interior designers. Delivery man.
And, yes, tax revenue collectors like Matthew, the disciple of Jesus.
And fishermen, like Simon and Peter, like his brother Andrew, and
the other fishermen with him that were first called by Jesus, the
Christ of God.
> 4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
> 5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
> 6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God
which worketh all in all. Eph 1:23
> 9 To another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; Mat. 17:19; 2
Cor. 4:13; Mark 16:18
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> 10 To another the working of miracles;
> 11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing
to every man
severally as he will; Rom 12:6
> 12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the
members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is
Christ.
> 13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether
we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been
all made to drink into one Spirit.
> 15 If the foot shall say, ‘Because I am not the hand, I am not of
the body; is it therefore not of the body?
> 16 And if the ear shall say, “Because I am not the eye, I am not
of the body: is it therefore not of the body?
> 17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing, where
were the smelling?
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> 18 But now God hath seth the members every one of them in
the body, as it hath pleased him.
> 19 And if they were all one member, where were the body?
> helps;
> governments
> 31 But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet show I unto you a
more excellent way,” (First Epistle to the Corinthians 12:1-31).
12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for
the edifying of the body of Christ: 1 Cor 12:7
13 Till we all come to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge
of the son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the
stature of the fullness of Christ.
14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and
carried with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and
cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive. Is. 28:9; ch.
1:22
15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all
things, which is the head, even Christ: 2 Cor. 4:2; Heb. 3:9
16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and
compacted by that which every joint supplieth according to the
effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of
the body unto the edifying of itself in love,” (Epistle to the
Ephesians 4:11-16).
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LIKE THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL, THE
GOOD NEWS CAME FIRST, AHEAD OF THE BAD
“Remember the word that I said unto you. The servant is not greater
than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute
you; ...” (Gospel Book of 15:20a).
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“Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to
continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation
enter into the kingdom of God, (Book of Acts 14:22).
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ANGELS OF LIGHT
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Little babies were kept alive in the rubble of landslides. Crushed
buildings laid low by massive earthquakes, or ruined by
devastating floods. Little children survived airplane crashes.
They are invisible and strong spirits. They only show themselves
briefly, if necessary, under very necessary circumstances. With
their mission done, they again disappear.
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> An angel, the archangel Gabriel, appeared to Zecharias to
announce to him the conception in Elizabeth, his wife, and
coming birth of his son, the prophet John the Baptist, who will
be the voice in the wilderness to pave the way, and proclaim the
birth and coming of Jesus, the Son of man, and son of God, in
the flesh, who will be called Emmanuel (God with us), (Gospel
Book of Luke 1:11-19; 76-80).
> The archangel Gabriel was sent from God anew, six months later,
unto the city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin named Mary,
To announce to her that she will conceive in her womb, and bring
forth a son, and the child’s name will be called ‘JESUS’. The child
will grow up to be great, and shall be called the Son of the highest.
She was told that the Holy Spirit, the power of the Highest, shall
come upon her. That the Holy Spirit will overshadow her. And Jesus
shall be born of her, who shall be called the Son of God,
> The angel of the Lord came upon the shepherds abiding in the
field, keeping watch over their flock by night. The angel announced
to them”
10 “Fear not: for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy,
which shall be, to all people, 11 For unto you is born this day in the
city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.” (Gospel Book of
Luke 2:8-11), Gen. 12;3; Mat. 28:19; Mark 1:15
> The angel of the Lord opened the unlocked prison doors to let
the imprisoned apostle Peter out, (Book of Acts 12: 1-6, 7, 9-11).
> The angel of God was there to save the apostle Paul in the
tempest-tossed ship in the stormy ocean near the island of Crete,
(Book of Acts 27:23)._
> The angel showed in vision the final, last end time events, and
city of God to the beloved apostle John, in exile, in the island of
Patmos, (Book of Revelation 22: 1-8).
SUPERNATURAL BEINGS?
People wonder if Satan the devil, and his fallen angel legions now
malignant demons and wicked spirits, are supernatural beings?
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THEY SHOW THEMSELVES AS UNIDENTIFIED
FLYING OBJECTS. UFOS.
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In God’s order of the acts, this is the way He has scripted the
story of human affairs. On the world’s stage, as Shakespeare
would have it, so to speak.
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They were at balance, on day 1. Equal in weight it seems, at the
commencement.
In the process of time, the aggregation of evil acts made the side
of evil heavier. And every evil act produced a heavier weight of
consequences for doing evil.
In the Great Flood in Noah’s day, the punishment for total evil
in the human family was complete extinction in the floodwaters
that enveloped the whole earth.
Except for Noah and his family. All eight of them lived through
the Flood, kept alive in Noah’s Ark. Because Noah walked with
God. He was not a partaker of the evil in the knowledge of good
and evil. He lived in the righteousness of the good, in the same
knowledge of good and evil. The good news was the shining part
of his life, (Book of Genesis 6:8-9).
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Words that pertain to the good, are few, yet weighty.
He is not cluttered in his thoughts and in his ways, and his life is
simplified in goodness and righteousness, and in the good on the
scale.
In the evil side of the scale, you see all the multiplying
complications., and endless attempts to find solutions You
witness the myriad problems as a result of the evil things in the
evil side of the scale of knowledge of good and evil.
Words that pertain to the evil, bad, and wrong, are many. It
simply is too much to cope with by flesh and blood mortals. It
renders them unable to cope.
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The consequences in crimes are so mind boggling. For they are
so many. They are self-cloning, and multiplying like bacteria
and germs. Infectious diseases multiply and spread rapidly in the
human body system.
That proved to be the devil’s main weapon to bring evil, and its
myriad fruits, into the human family, and evil in the world
Satan the devil has crafted for man to be entangled in.
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Chapter Twelve
The LORD God of the Old Testament chose to use the TREE as a
symbol. Having created the tree, and designed it to be a repository
and demonstration of the most astonishing biological systems and
principles, all of life, all analogous and perfect parallel to the human
body and being, which was wonderfully and fearfully made. From
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all the way down to the lowest root, each and every rootlet, fiber,
and strand.
This makes the tree able to absorb all the biological sustenance of
nutrients from the very earth, the very ground in which it is
standing.
And the tree grows. From a seed, that buds and grows. To a sapling.
A seedling. As the human being, from a sperm, to an embryo.
The trunk and the branches, are like the human body and the legs
and arms!
The tree and the human being receive nourishment from the earth,
water, and the air, and energy from the sun, and the light energy of
the same sun, and from the transforming blessing of the dew that
falls from heaven at night.
The human being, grows and lives on the same earth. Not in some
other planet. Even as he moves around, he is gravity-bound, living,
standing, so to speak, on the same terrestrial ground, same terra
firma.
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WHAT IS THE LIFE IN THE TREE OF LIFE?
Christ, some four thousand years later, revealed in person, to His
disciples, all mortals, flesh and blood, born of women, that He is the
Way, the Truth, and the Life.
6 “Jesus saith unto him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life: no
man cometh unto the Father but by me,” (Gospel Book of
John14:6).
And so it is that your life in its entirety, must begin, be lived, and
end, and ultimately be fulfilled in Christ.
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EPILOGUE
Volume One
> LOVE
LOVE
14 “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of
God.
15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but
ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, ‘Abba,
Father.’
16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the
chidren of God. Job 32:8 Eccl 3:21; 12:7. Zech 12:1
17 And if children, then heirs, heirs of God, and joint heirs with
Christ, if so be that we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified
together.
18 For I reckon thst the sufferings of this present are not worthy to
be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
2 Cor 4:17; 1 Pet 1:6
> Philia is brotherly love. The filial love between parents and their
children. The love between friends. Love of neighbor. Love of one’s
kin’s and folks. The empirical self. The love of the bloodline and
family tree. Love of country. The love and caring about something
or someone else other than you is ennobling. This form and kind of
intense love bears transcendent fruit in you. This philia grows into
altruism. A selfless emotion of mature love that ennobles human
character.
> The love of, for, and from, God is agape. It is divine, spiritual
love, manifested in mortals, flesh and blood, born of women, that is
deathless. Boundless. Infinite. Forever. Everlasting. It is most
wonderful. Who can describe its glorious splendour? Only those that
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are filled and living with agape, in their hearts, minds, whole being,
understanding, can.
> LIGHT
5 “This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare
unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. ch
3:33; John 1:9
“You are the light of the world,” (Gospel Book of Matthew 5:14).
35 “Then Jesus said unto them, “Yet a little while is the light with
you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for
he that walketh in darkness knoweth not where he goeth.
ch 1:9
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> CHRIST IS LIFE
28 “And we know that all things work together for good to them
that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation,
or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or
sword?
36 As it is written, ‘For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we
are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay in all these things we are more than conquerors through him
that loved us.
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38 For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor
principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come.
Eph. 1:21
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to
separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord,”
(Epistle to the Romans 8:28-39).
> MERCY
> JUSTICE
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JUSTICE was missing and ignored in the religion of the Jews in the
days of Jesus, the Son of man, while he was on earth among the
Jews. For while the religious leaders, the scribes and the Pharisees,
were most meticulous and strict on the tenets of the codified Law,
and in their oppressive, UNFORGIVING additions to their
interpretations of it, and the keeping of them, justice was missing.
In this particular specific instance: about STRICT TITHING. The
absolute demand and collection, or payment to the utmost farthing,
of it. Justice went missing, it was banished out, and along with
mercy, and faith. These three were blanked out. By their very acts,
the letter of the Law killed. Justice, mercy, and faith would have
made it give life. The Lord Jesus Christ rebuked them, (Gospel
Books of Matthew 23:23; Luke 11:42). They ended up full of
hypocrisy, and were likened to whitened sepulchers, (Gospel Books
of Matthew 23:27; hypocrites – ch 15:7; 16:23; Mark 7:6; Luke
12:56).
> FAITH
> ASK GOD FOR THE VERY FAITH BY WHICH YOU CAN
BELIEVE THESE THINGS.
> TRUTH
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“Sanctify them through thy word. Thy word is truth,”(Gospel Book
of John 17:17).
All these in the world live by, and do their own thing. Guided by
their man-made persuasions and convictions. Abetted by the
invisible prince of the power of the air: Satan the devil, and his
legions of demons and wicked spirits, IN SOME PARTS
ACKNOWLEDGING GOD, YET REFUSE TO LIVE BY
EVERY WORD. IN SOME PARTS, GOD IS DENIED. AND SO
REFUSE TO LIVE BY THE WORD.
> VISION
ABRAHAM looked beyond his day and time, into the new world to
come. Even farther than the moment of the long awaited return of
the Lord Jesus Christ in the end of days.
Beyond the death, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, the
firstborn from the dead, (He died, gave up the spirit – Gospel Books
of Matthew 27:50; HE IS RISEN – Matthew 8:6; 27:53; Mark
16:6).
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twinkling of of an eye, (First Epistle to the Corinthians 15:51-54;
Firs Epistle to the Thessalonians 4:14-16).
He saw as they rose into the air to meet the returning Great God
and Saviour. (First Epistle to the Thessalonians 4:17).
Saw it all through the Second Resurrection of all those that ever
lived, and ever died, (Book of Revelation 20:12-13).
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Mystery of the LIVING GOD – Part 1
Part 11
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TO THE CHURCH OF GOD IN THE
WILDERNESS:
“NOW therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and
judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and
go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers
giveth you. Lev 19:37
2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither
shall ye diminish aught from it, that ye may keep the
commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
5 Behold I have taught you statutes and judgments, as the LORD
my God commanded me, that you should do so in the land whither
ye go to possess it.
6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your
understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear of these
statutes, and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and
understanding people.” Job 28:26; Ps. 19:7
7 For what nation is there so great who hath God so nigh unto
them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him
for? 2 Sam 7:23
8 And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and
judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this
day?
9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou
forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart
from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and
thy son’s sons; Prov 4:23
10 Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God
in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, ‘Gather me the people
together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn
to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that
they may teach their children.
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12 And the LORD spake unto you...
13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded
you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon
two tables of stone. Ch 9:9; Ex 34:28
14 And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you
statutes and judgments, that ye should do them in the land whither
ye go over to possess it,” (Book of Deuteronomy 4:1-14).
PARAPHRASE:
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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE SPIRITUAL
VALUES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS REVOLVING
AROUND PERFECT SPIRITUAL LOVE BOUND IN
RADIANT AGAPE
AS WELL AS EMANATING FROM IT
“Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, just, and
good,” (Epistle to the Romans 7:12).
13 “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and
keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man, (Book
of Ecclesiastes 12:13). Deut.10:12
He did not see death. ‘He was not, and God took him.’ He died in
his sleep, and was not conscious when he died. after 365 years. “He
was translated, that he should not see death,” {See Elijah: 2 Ki 2:11-
12; Heb. 11:5}. In the prophet Elijah’s case, at the latter point,
while alive, He was taken up into the atmosphere, the first heaven,
on a chariot, and carried back to earth. To terra firma, so to speak.
Like Moses, who went to die in an undisclosed place, else the people
will go and deify his bones. Make a religious icon out of it. Or
worship his bones, (Book of Deuteronomy 32:49-50; 34:5-7; Num
27:27;12-14). God did not allow such things. And so in the same
manner and principle was Enoch.
Noah and his family, eight of them altogether, lived thru the Great
Flood that drowned all living human beings, in their tens of billions
in their day, when it came upon the whole earth. Because the
righteous Noah “WALKED WITH GOD!”
YOU CAN!
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THE CHURCH OF GOD, RECIPIENT AND HOLDERS,
ALBEIT HEIRS, OF ALL THESE PRICELESS KNOWLEDGE
OF THE GLORIOUS TRUTH, AND THE REVELATION OF
THE MYSTERY OF SALVATION, ARE BIDDEN, AND
HELD, RESPONSIBLE TO, AND MUST, WALK WITH GOD.
Listen,
World of mortals…
GOD SPEAKS
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PASS THIS – “SACRED GOLDEN SCROLL SERIES XCI’’ - ON
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
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OF THE AGES. Aeons, Billions, countless Millennia, years
old wonderful secret.
HE DID!
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When that Phase of God's Work for which purpose He was
sent to earth and manifest in mortal, human, flesh and
blood, form was over, He cried on the upright crude stake,
at the very exact moment before He literally died, He said
on that wooden stake, “IT IS FINISHED” (John 19:30).
Has anybody ever really understood the immensity, the
unfathomable depth of that moment of total sacrifice of the
Son of God for the forgiveness of all the sins of all
mankind? Of the total, collective SIN of everyone who was
ever born, lived, died, and those presently alive, which He
bore and took upon Himself on that crucifixion?. Has
anyone ever shared the agony and pain when He was
pierced by a Roman soldier’s spear, and given bitter
vinegar to wet His thirsting lips? When He looked up into
Heaven, and exclaimed, as it were, as He had prayed with
great agony earlier with His disciples: “Father, if thou be
willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless, not MY
WILL, BUT THINE BE DONE,”(Luke 22:42). When He
willingly shed His precious Blood, THE BLOOD OF THE
LAMB OF GOD, for the redemption from the penalty of
death for sin hanging over ALL mankind? Has anybody
thought of God the Father’s unscalable sorrow as He
witnessed from Heaven the unspeakable brutal tortures
inflicted by good-for-nothing picky, petty, power-crazed,
puny mortals, clumps of clay, those “whitened sepulchres”,
and ultimately, the actual, literal death of the incarnated into
human flesh other member of the GODHEAD? In grief,
God the Father could just have pulled out the Holy Spirit of
power holding the entire created universe together. It would
have been , like a blink on the screen, that the visible,
physical, material universe could have disappeared! Faster
than the twinkling of an eye, all the physical, material
creation, visible and invisible, could just have evaporated.
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The LORD was absolutely certain He had done that
appointed job.
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precious Blood as the Lamb of God to
PURCHASE REDEMPTION FROM THE PENALTY
OF DEATH HANGING OVER EACH OF THEM. To
ultimately literally die that they may all be
JUSTIFIED.
“Where God has also exalted Him, and given Him a NAME
which is above every name; that at the NAME of Jesus
Christ every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and
things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every
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tongue should confess Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of
God the Father," (PHILIPPIANS 2:9).
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THE GREATEST COMMISSION MUST NOW BE
FULFILLED
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how to use and master them to accomplish and zealously
perform our individual part and role in our most interesting
task, our incomparable job, our thrilling assignment, in the
Great Work of God.
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Prayer
MYSTERY OF THE CHURCH
OF THE LIVING GOD
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Everytime we utter the phrase, it reminds us that we
belong to YOU. For this, we thank You ever so much. For
considering us at all.
For You called the base. the weak. the not many noble.
and yet YOU chose to accept us for spiritual adoption into
YOUR very FAMILY. To be children, sons of GOD.
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CONTINUE, OUR LOVING AND GRACIOUS
HOLY FATHER, TO FEED US WITH ALL THESE.
YOU KNOW HOW WELL THE WORLD
IMPOVERISHES US WITH ALL ITS
BOMBARDMENTS OF NEVER-ENDING
DECEPTIONS AND LIES.
Amen.
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