#23continuing works by JJ

“Like a Child”

“Verily I say unto you, who so ever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.” Mark 10:15 NKJV

“I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” Mark 10:15 NIV

Two verses, two versions almost exactly alike but for two words: “as, “like”.

What does this verse mean? I’ve heard sermons on it, saying, like a child means – just like a child would accept a gift from a loving parent with childlike trust and belief that their parent would never harm them, they accept with glee and love.

Even the “Billy Graham Bible” inserts parenthesis and says: (like a child would accept a gift.)

But is this word “like” to be seen as this implies that we must simply trust and believe with our whole heart that the gift of salvation can be accepted at face value?

I’m afraid not! Why? Because the bible says our heart is deceitful above all things and no man knoweth it. So what may seem to you as believing with a whole heart may in fact be a deception; however you feel about it, only God knows our heart, so how can any of us truthfully say that we believe with our whole heart?

The word “as” on the other hand implies that we CHANGE to become as a child in our acceptance of Salvation and the heavens reward.

Thus to become “as” a child is to say that we are to become as innocent as a child. For it is the innocence that a child has that makes them different than us.

This is the same as, “put to death the misdeeds of the body” and to repent is taken to mean in truth: to reconsider our sins from a divine viewpoint and choose to abide in the thought, will and emotion of God’s loving Way. Thus we become as a child, innocent of the sin we have removed by faith in Jesus.

Let me make sure you understand that…if you are still trying to repent like the churches are teaching which is as a turning away from sin 180 degrees and turning to God as you find Him in the bible, then you are still repenting in error. That repentance is as it is given meaning to in the OLD Testament. In the NEW Testament there is a new word given to us for the word repentance: METANOEO and it has the new meaning of: reconsidering your sins from a divine viewpoint and choosing to submit to the divine way of thought, will, and emotion. Thus when you begin repenting this way you are acknowledging that the way of love and truth found in “The MIND” of Jesus is whom you want to emulate in this life, and at the point that God sees your sincere effort to change to be “Christ-like” or a Christian, God will grant you the Holy spirit that completely removes from us the sin in our spiritual life. Yet the sin in our life is still in our Minds and needs to be eradicated thus giving meaning to the verse of becoming “as” a child.

This verse was first revealed to me at the beginning of my growth in the gift of prophecy; and was seen as 3 circles designating a person in life as a child, a teenager, and an adult.

Over the child we have drawn a line which is also added over the teenagers circle and over the adults circle. Then over the teenager we add a second line over his/her circle which is also added over the adults circle. And finally we add a third line over the adults circle. Hence we have one line over the child, two over the teenager and three lines over the adult. The first line is the same over each and is called separation from God due to Original sin. The second line is the same aver the adult and is called separation from God due to sin committed up to the age of a teenager; and the third line over the adult is called separation from God due to the sin committed up to the age of an adult.

When we are saved, these lines of sin are forgiven and disappear; but once we begin thinking, as we have grown to think, all but the first line re-appears.

In our Spiritual man they are gone forever, but in our natural man the MIND of these Sins is still within us at war against the spiritual man. Yet if we repent, in the true teaching of repentance, the sins we have committed willfully in the past to satisfy a desire for “worries, riches or pleasure” are given enlightenment as to the “motives of our hearts desire” and with the revelations of the Holy Spirit now being possible, we are now able to find a Loving (“love does no harm to its neighbor.”) and Truthful (applies to everyone equally) alternative, that we can Choose to submit to and abide in until it “transforms us by the renewing of our minds”.

Thus we eradicate the mindset of our past sins and acknowledge the mindset of God through Jesus. Thus we remove the lines from over our representative circle and become as one with no lines, which you will remember is “as” the child!

Since that vision of understanding, which went contrary to what I’d already been taught in the church, has been given to me, many more verses have been revealed and seen to compliment this revelation of understanding. You will see some of these verses in this article, or in my other articles, here or on my blog-site: worksbyJJ.blogspot.com or in my books on amazon.com.

I hope you enjoyed this and felt the thrill of spiritual recognition. If you have, then, as a fellow Christian I entreat you to “put to death the misdeeds of your body” by “working out your salvation” (filling up to the full measure of the measure of the faith you have been given.) REPENTANCE is a continuing effort!

In Him,

J.J.