Sunday, August 8, 2010
#25 Continuing Works by J.J.
“Tomorrow’s World”
July/August 2010
“Longtime Tomorrow’s World publication, Tomorrow’s World television, as well as the organization web site, its [informative booklets] and Tomorrows world bible studies course--> goes way beyond what virtually all other religious works on earth are able to do…why is this possible?”
It’s a long and tedious introduction that brags of it’s “achievements” and hints very strongly towards what it teaches--that they are the vanguard of bible truths that take the appearance of prophecy and an enlightenment of bible doctrine.
All of this achievement must be God’s will…all of this ability to interpret the way of the bibles verse and purpose must mean that they are the chosen! Or the duped!!!
On page five of the July/August 2010 edition in Tomorrow’s World publication, Editor-in-chief, Roderick C. Meredith attends to his works in the Lord by sharing a teaching of the gospel according to…whom?
Is this what he truly believes, or is he just an ever zealous congregational member high on the power and responsibilities given to him by “The Living Church of God”, out of Charlotte North Carolina…himself being duped?
I admit their prophecies are fascinating reading. I’ve read them from teachers such as Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong, Mr. Teac, or the likes of Gerald Flurry and Mary Baker Eddy and by the esteemed Hal Lindsay.
They offer remarkable scenes of reality and portent, only they all do the same thing…after telling you that their church is chosen, and raised your spirit with the teachings of their prophecy, they tried to tell you that you are special because you belong to the only true church; a remnant of true believers that will eventually be hunted down and killed unless they prepare for those times just ahead.
That almost sounds like me only I don’t know how to interpret prophecy/predictions and I don’t teach the Ten Commandments.
I teach you how to find the truth in and of God’s Love. His Agape Love.
But what is Mr. Roderick C. Meredith trying to get his readers to believe? Let’s take a look… “for although many churches and religious leaders have bits and pieces of biblical truth, they do not - and indeed dare not - make these specific predictions that I have just made. For they definitely don’t understand. Why?”
Before we see his dramatic dare to do façade become an act of pride to boast, let me interject a few idle possibilities..
Why indeed does he dare us to make the same specific predictions he just made?
Well, duh! Of course nobody dares “repeat” what was said and back it up with the scripture truths you claim to have knowledge of, ‘that, “they definitely do not understand.” it would be ludicrous and they would just laugh at your naivety, it’s a law not worth breaking on a dare. Or a whimsy!
To “them” that would only be lowering themselves to your level of Tom foolery, ‘…Let him rant and rave like all of the others.’
Perhaps, but so what, let all the leaders have their bits and pieces of the biblical truth and judge for themselves, who is right and who is wrong.
Are we up to it? Show me your truth Mr. Meredith..
But first, before we get too deep to see our footing, let me congratulate Mr. Meredith on his fine performance of manipulation. You do this by sharing a visionary battle for your congregation of bible prophecies and their intrinsic value to the big plan of making them believe that they are a remnant people and only they who believe as “I“, will also believe what I’m going to share next.. .
Manipulation: Whether those five specific prophecies are given any bearing in the forthcoming dogmatic dogma being delivered is bollucks..He surely is entitled his day of profession. A person who belongs in a church organization which professes to know the truth of the gospel like only the chosen can know. But perceived truth given with falsehoods with the purpose of trying to give valid-eity to the falsehoods by the merit or perceived value of the Truth, is called: manipulation. And for Mr. Meredith to pump up ‘his’ truth with a nonsensical dare that no one would dare to speak out against him by voicing his-same-words is pure nonsense and yet masterfully done.
Why I bet he got some congregational members to shake some fists and nod some heads there.
But what about his truth “they definitely do not understand?” This is where it gets interesting .. Lets see what scripture he will throw at us and try to convince us of, once and for all, he knows what he is talking about.
I believe strongly, he knows what he is talking about, he’s got it all down pat! Practice does not make perfect but to the naïve they look the same, practice does make perfect, they say; but will it stand up to the scrutiny of unbiased, unbrainwashed.. Yes, he has many in his church, brainwashed, or you would have seen his masterly delivered gem of manipulation.
Given to a congregation that has subscribed to his publication that boast of all they have achieved in the name of true Christianity. Where if someone was to ridicule him simply by refusing to be caught up in the glorious preamble to his dogmatic delivery that follows.
Yes. Why indeed Mr. Meredith, do I not understand you..”I” the proverbial lost son that has no understanding?
“Because God’s inspired word tells us over and over* (*no more or no less than the rest of his word.)that the vast majority of humanity is blinded to the real God and to his Truth. Even most professing Christians are actually a part of this world and will be deceived by satan the devil.” (My bad, sorry I didn’t think satan and devil should be capitalized.)
Do you see it folks? This is a true scripture, but so far the only thing that gives this verse relevancy to “applying” to “this” group of people “yOu” is.. “Remember these basic scriptures we have cited to you again and again?” Repetition. (pg. 5&6)
Revelation 12:9 does indeed say satan deceived the whole world; and another verse says he has powerful demon ministers helping him.
How will you be able to “test the spirits?” Already, if you do not believe this inspired scripture you are belonging to the group depicted by this verse of scripture.. “But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those that are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ who is the image of God, should shine on them. “here, the Apostle Paul clearly tells us that satan has blinded most human beings.”
And !!! This Mr. Meredith has helped blinded you to feel you need to agree with him wholeheartedly or be counted in with the blind who don’t believe satan the devil could and does blind the world!
Well I certainly believe that verse revelation’s 12:9, and I’m certain any God believing man or woman would believe Revelations 12:9 too, so far all you’ve done is quote a verse, Rev:12:9, and tell us if any one doesn’t believe in that verse, then they belong to the list of unbelievers found in the second verse IICor.4:3-4 as those veiled and unable to believe in Jesus.
But truthfully, the verse says that those who are veiled are unable to believe “The Truth” “lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.”
“For as much as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.
And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of our selves; but our sufficiency is of God; who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great pleasure of speech: and not as Moses which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: but their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same veil untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which veil is done away in Christ.
But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart. Never the less when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.” (IICor.3:3-16. Auth KJV.)
You see, its not about believing the world is blinded by satan to believe a lie, but that they are blinded and believe. But you have twisted it to sound like - if anyone does not believe in the truth that satan has blinded the whole world, then we are doomed.. Unless of course we believe in him and do what he says.. Where you contest that what we MUST DO is keep the Ten Commandments as he did!
Yet we just read: that the glory of the commandments is [that ]“which is abolished.” [That]: which the letter killeth but the Spirit giveth life. [That].. Even unto this day, when Moses is read the veil is apon their heart. Never the less when it, (the heart of man) shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away!
We’re not to turn to the Ten Commandments, (the letter,) but to turn to Jesus! And nowhere in this does one read that doing the Ten Commandments are the same as turning to Jesus.
Yes, Jesus kept the commandments and abided in God’s Love(agape). And we are to do God’s will.. But Jesus never said those that do God’s will are doing the Ten Commandments for our reasonable service; they are doing them so as to abide in God’s Love.
Jesus said, “I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.”
One must strive to abide in the love of God! By doing God’s will!!! Which is what??? To keep the commandments?!? NO!!!
“For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him who sent me. And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I shall lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the will of him who sent me, that everyone which seeth the Son, and believeth on him may have ever-lasting life: And I will raise him up at the last day.”(John6:38-40)
Is this what Mr Meredith is preaching? Let’s see.. “Why is it that people think that they ‘know God’ and expect his blessing when they simply refuse to obey the magnificent spiritual law which he gave..”. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS!?!?
Nooo!
Those are written in stone: “for if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious!!!
(Emphasis mine.)
You see Mr. Meredith rightly quoted Revelations 14:12,: “Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.”
And the faith of Jesus.. (This is not given the weight of interpretation that is needed..) Instead of insight it is quoted and boistered by the oracular persuasion of “being surrendered to God” “so that Christ may live his life within them through the Holy Spirit.” [That] He(God)will reject those religious people who simply will not obey God’s laws.”
“Only those who genuinely obey God’s commandments are given true understanding.” But when did God teach you to put the cart in front of the horse?
When did God teach you that the Ten commandments which were written-on-stone and fadeth away were a spiritual law?(see above) Wake up Mr. Meredith lest you find your self in a circle of denial.
What even makes you believe that surrendering is even an option? Your five predictions? Your large holdings, your churches C.E.O.?
You got it wrong my friend, those five predictions based on an understanding of the bible are not meant to win us over on a dare.. “prophesying serveth not for them that believe not,but for them which believe.” “If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say that you are mad? But if all prophecy, and there come in one that believeth not, one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged by all: and thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face, he sill worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.”
Am I talking Ten Commandments here? No! I’m talking Prophecy. How does following the Ten Commandments reveal the secrets of his heart? What? By his failures to live by the commandments? No! this implies he must accept your teaching to put it to task and prove your teaching is of a Truth..
But the one “…who is unlearned, is convinced of all, he is judged of all: and thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest;”
Again I ask you: how does an unlearned one become convinced of all and judged of all: by acknowledging that you all follow the Ten Commandments?
Admit it, you didn’t make such a jump when you joined, did you? If truth were to be told, you continue to think that it does because of all the love you have found in God through the truth you discovered about your self, and you attribute that love to the practicing of doing the ten commandments; the reality is that it was your search for understanding why you kept failing to live up to the standard of excellence that was given to Moses.
Does that last statement make you swell with the pride of achievement? Then you have completely overlooked the bold under lined action. I hope that’s not you.. I Would that you reflect with sober thought the things that entangle you and what untangles you!
Jesus said: “those by the wayside are they that hear; then cometh the devil that taketh the Word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. They on the rock are they which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time and temptation fall away. And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. But that on the good ground are they, which in honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.”
You see Mr. Meredith, you bring a person to the ten commandments and say they are a fruit of the gospel, when the real fruit of the gospel is found when we do battle with our deceitful desires that seek to satisfy a fulfillment of a worries riches and/or pleasure, and a motive of our heart becomes revealed. At that time if you are born of the Holy Spirit you will also be enabled to find a Loving and Truthful alternative to your motive; thereby making it possible to choose who you wish to endorse by allowing into your heart. Not by being surrendered, but by submitting. God’s Way of Heart is one we choose to live in, but we had to find it first. There is no let go and let god fill you with his very character. God is found in the choices we make when we ask ourself: Why do I do the wrong that I do?
When we do that we find the fruits of the spirit: “Love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, Faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the spirit, let us also walk in the spirit.” .. And here it is that we obey the commandments. Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is do; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor. Owe no man “anything”, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. [For this],thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shall not kill, thou shall not steal, thou shall not bear false witness,thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.”
Evidence that “The Way” of christian worship and of understanding is not in following the way of the commandments, but rather, it is found in the effort to walk in God’s Love. Hence the following of the Ten Commandments become a measure of our Faith, “but Faith which worketh by love.”
Remember Psalms 111:10 - “.. a good understanding have all those who do his commandments.” they had it before they did the commandments.
But what is this!! “so even the professing “Christian” religions of this world have mixture of good and evil. They have adapted literally scores of doctrines and practices straight out of paganism as [we] have documented many times. ( they have soundly rejected the direct commands in the New Testament to keep all of God’s Ten Commandments. Not merely some new commandment given by Jesus.”
Whoa! Hold on a minute there Mr. Meredith! Jesus didn’t say that we had to follow the ten commandments, that was what the Jews were told to do by Moses. Jesus did say they were done so as to abide in “His” Love. Jesus did give a new commandment twice in the same chapter where he says: “A new commandment I give you, that ye love one another as I have loved you.”
Lets look at what else Jesus said “if ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Fathers commandments, and abide in his love. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you!..” “these things I command you, that ye love one another.”
Now see! If I learn to know God’s love(of agape)and love my brother in “it” just like Jesus loved us in “it”, then I’m fulfilling the commandments as a side benefit. Love does no harm to its neighbor therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. NOT love means we must do the commandments, but rather, as we love in God’s Agape Love, we will not trespass against God’s commandments, but rather we will be seen to be abiding in them.
As we love Agape, we are in accordance to the commandments. Not as: “various religious leaders who are simply not able to understand or grasp the specific end-time prophecies which we clearly explain to you in our telecasts and in this magazine! We have a responsibility to help you understand the truth! So it is only in that light that I make these statements.”
My friend, you reading this, don’t fall for such show-manship! Prophetic teaching is not so blunt and misleading as this false doctrine. It’s really very, very easy to carry the yoke that has Jesus as the strength of Truth; in tandum with Jesus in unity of spirit thru faith that is proven to express itself in the agape love of God The Father; our Father, my Father, and I hope by your Father.
That’s a lot of Fathers and not one of them is “in relationship” with you through observation and formality of knowing and practicing of following in Jesus’ footsteps by any act of self will, such as, that of following a commandment, will allow me to know that you fail to realize, that any relationship with God has to be founded in the enlightenment of understanding and the life of God due to an awareness of sight that is known in the heart.
“without these, we who are past having feelings have given to desire to work all unseemliness with greediness: but ye have not so learned Christ; (eph.4:17-24) #20-24 “if so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: [what was I taught.. ](oh yeah!.) “that ye put off concerning the former conversation, the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be re-newed in the spirit of your mind; and that ye put on the new man, which after God, is created in righteousness and true holiness.”
This is not the “Ten Commandments”!
Clearly the bible tells us we need to be a new creature, a new man inside out. And the only thing that prevents it being so is our putting deceitful desires in our path that we satisfy for our own deceitful reasons that appease a worry, riches, and/or pleasure.”
Oh yes, all are guilty, all have done that! That’s what keeps you from knowing God! Let me say it again.. The only thing that keeps us from knowing God is our selfishness and greed to be satisfied by a worries, riches, and/or pleasure.
We need to change that much is true, but this change can not be gotten by the formality of practicing to resist sinning against the ten commandments by obeying the commandments.
Where is the hearts measure of love to be found in all of that? Love that does no harm to its neighbor, also means it doesn’t do any harm to us either. Why beat yourself up for failure to live the commandments, when the truth is, that you only fail to live in the commandments if you also fail to look at the lie that lies beneath our lustful desires. Our deceitful desires? Why is that lie there?
Deceitful desires are lying desires and if you don’t know when you are lying to yourself ask yourself are you in pain?!
Pain of loneliness, pain of lusts, pain of just being unloved, pain of jealousy, envy, pain of peer pressure, pain of inadequacy, .. Remember.. Love does no harm. Look around you, why are you in pain?
I’ll tell you why you are in pain, why the church is blind, and doesn’t want you to know why you are hurt, aching for answers that can’t be given with the band-aid of false doctrine; do-this, don’t do-that, this kind of remedy is no remedy at all, it’s the problem.
Hello, can you hear me? Why, when you are feeling so mush* despair do you pray to God to help you to live a sinless life that doesn’t break any of God’s Commandments, when by god you side-step any true cleanliness, because now you have taken you out of the equation - now all that matters is that you pray and surrender your will to God; so that your will is as his will. NOT!!! Did Jesus ever surrender?
WOW! God wants a relationship with you. God wants to see Jesus’ heart in your heart and in your mind! Having His thought, will, and emotion become your chosen thoughts, your desired will, your joyful emotion reverberating with the joyful emotion of our Lord Jesus expressing the image of God’s Love running through him; Jesus said: “All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, AND He To Whom The Son will reveal HIM.” (Luke 10:22)
Here’s your Faith!! WE believe in The Father because of knowing His Love as it is revealed by Jesus whom we can not see, but we believe in Him because God’s Agape Love is mine with the choosing as it stands revealed as the loving way alternative to the excuses we have for sin in our life. And get this, the increase of God’s love is ours with the choosing, after we find it in our proper way of repentance. This is the knowledge of the “Hidden Wisdom” this is “The Way” of Love(Agape)chosen in the alternatives revealed by the Holy Spirit as you questioned your mind and heart “why did I do the wrong that I do?”
Need more proof: John 17:25-26 “Oh righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto them thou name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them and I in them.”
You will grow in God’s love and with love comes understanding. “thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thy see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.” How?!? By teaching them to know “The Way” of Christian worship/service - how to cast the speck from their own eyes first! Because only then, can they learn from the Holy Spirit, given to them when they first believed. It’s up to himself or herself, to search their hearts motive for why it yearns to sin and thereby fall short of the glory of God.
What passion do you resist of the worries, riches and/or pleasure? Why? Find the Truth of why you choose to pamper your indulgencies at the cost of learning to take responsibility for your actions; of the old you. And you will find and spiritually recognize the new you that you must choose to be; and abide. Want more proof?
“And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and depth of judgement; that ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ; being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.”(Philippians 1:9-11)
This relationship you develop with God is as you learn his knowledge and develop your insights into understanding the love that you find in this assured method of repentance, this confident awareness of God’s love being made manifest in our being by the making of a choice.
Look: if you honor the Ten Commandments more than you honor knowing the life of Jesus..why is it the preachers and churches that preach the practice of the formality the Ten Commandments, are so unable to see their only true growth in the spirit came from soul searching for the reason why they could not do a failed commandment. That soul searching has a structured path of unserstanding that reveals the mind of Christ and the person of Christ through Faith that expresses itself through Agape Love. It is known as “The Way”
More than an instruction, it’s a way of being one with Jesus: “The Way, The Truth, and The Life.”
So you see, you can find knowledge if you look hard enough into the perfect law of love. Or you can surrender your soul to the negative aspect of the teaching of obeying the ten commandments.
(sigh)
I hope that you can see a glimpse of what it means to walk with God, and how it be a growing and aware experience of seeing the light of reality around us and in us, and not as a dogmatic doctrine.
In Him,
J.J.
Monday, July 26, 2010
#24 Continuing works by J.J.
“Looking through The Rose colored Glasses
of Christian Science"
by
J.J.
An interesting aspect of Christian Science is that they try to view the world as a world of spiritualization where love is expressed as they believe Jesus expressed it; where all error is found in not knowing the universal constant that God is love and all of his creation is in his image, perfect as well.
Yet this view tells them that the legion of demon spirits that Jesus cast out of the lunatic and into a herd of pigs was simply a parable of Jesus casting out the error of the lunatics mind. Completely ignoring the words said and of the pigs going amok and running over the cliff.
A Christian science practitioner who has a hard time acknowledging an actual conversation of Jesus, or being unable to accept the sin of Adam and Eve for the same reason, that error entered into their minds and they were unable to comprehend the kingdom of heaven within; which wouldn’t explain why all of mankind is now fallen, or to neglect the importance of the epistles of Paul simply because they want to emulate the life of Christ, completely ignoring the fact that Paul was given special dispensation by Jesus, who taught him personally while in the spirit, and was given the job of teaching the gentiles how to come to know God through Jesus.
This way of looking at the gospel with rose colored glasses is sacrificing much of the wisdom to be found in the gospel; creating a block of doctrine to blind them from further growth.
I’ve seen this in churches that create their doctrine from one verse and suffer the rest of the gospel to conform to their one scriptural verse, or be rejected. Not only do they reject the teachings of the rest of the bible they also reject anyone in their congregation that do not adhere to their doctrine.
I am saddened by this phenomena that happens to the many would be disciples of Christ.
I know they want to know the love of God in their lives and actually think they are walking in his love because they force themselves to believe in Gods love; but they did nothing to determine what God’s loving way was, nor did they submit to a revelation of discernment. They didn’t suffer the agony of learning to resist the sin and determining to live in the revealed way of love.
Because of this ‘Blinders syndrome’, they may never come to know the truth of Jesus nor the love that comes from God and acknowledged by the Holy Spirit as the Way to submit to until it causes within us a transformation of Mind.
I hope that if you are in such a relationship with a churches doctrine that you will be able to see it and will seek out the one true way to know God in a personal relationship with knowledge; as it says in Ephesians 4:17-24 (memory quote:)
‘you are separated from the love of God and darkened in your understanding due to the hardening of your heart; having lost all feeling, having given yourself over to lust with a continual lust for more. You however did not come to know Christ that way. If you have heard him and been taught by him, YOU were taught with regard to your former way of life to put to death the old man which is corrupted by its deceitful desires. And to put on the new man created in true holiness and righteousness.’
Of course this was written by Paul whom they don’t listen to anyway, and if you press them to learn from Paul they come back at you and say that the epistles of Paul were not written to us but to the churches of their day that needed personal letters written to them to address their personal failure in walking in Christ; they don’t apply to us….
Not only is this ridiculous, it is not true! Look at the beginning of Paul’s letters and see he addresses them to all Christians every where!
Where does that leave them? “We have our differences but we also have too much in common than to argue over this.” They say.
Thus they avoid any serious soul searching for truth and they keep their distance from you who they consider to be in error.
#23continuing works by JJ
“Like a Child”
“Verily I say unto you, who so ever shall not receive the
“I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the
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,
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
#22 Continuing works by J.J.
This Health Care Plan has been upgraded to include senior-citizens. My desire is to offer them, along with low income families, a low cost Medical Billing Payment Plan in this Plan I call "MB3P A Supplemental Health Care Plan" But believe me it's MORE than supplemental!!!
I've given you my phone number and I want to hear from you if after reading my Plan, (found in blog #12) its been re-edited and now covers seniors and pays dividends! But, alas the plan is still only available in San Diego California and needs a minimum of 100 members to go active. Later, perhaps I will offer franchises to the entreprenuer of the other cities across America, just, not at the moment.
With your growing interest and memberships we as a team can begin to offer a plan to beat all plans, even Obama-Care.
Please read the letter below, then go to my re-edited blog number 12 and read all about this Love Inspired Health Care Concept, and if you are interested I await your call. J.J.
Low Cost Supplemental Health Care
For low income Families
And Seniors
Trade in your insurance for MB3P and SAVE!
Yes, if you are paying more than $300.00 a month for your insurance plan, you are paying too much!
At MB3P you only pay three-hundred dollars a month for health coverage for your entire family. How is this possible? It is possible because this health plan is a co-op.
Every time a new member signs up for our health plan the amount of the potential coverage increases. If just two people signed on, then the potential coverage would be $420.00 (that’s $210 dollars per every person signed on.) And if only one of them filed a claim they would receive as much as they need of the total amount of the $420.00 to pay their medical bill.
It’s like the old trickster that would say give me ten dollars and I will double your money for you. And then promptly folds the money in half. Only we don’t do any folding. The money that you contribute to the common fund, as a member of MB3P, is adjusted and goes on to paying any claim that is filed, with the understanding that when you do file a claim you will be given the same coverage potential. Yet with the increase of new member sign-ons the coverage potential will increase and bigger bills will be enabled to be paid.
You may not need any plan for paying your hospital bills at the moment, but if Governor Swarzenegger has his way, he will soon implement a statewide insurance plan. He tried to get the vote in January but failed; but rest assured he will try again.
When he succeeds in making insurance coverage mandatory by law, insurance premiums will skyrocket, yet at MB3P we will only modestly raise our monthly cost to $400.00 at that time we will then be able to include coverage of monthly prescriptions, and that’s still a lower payment than any insurance plan, without the headaches they would give you with their red tape disadvantages; and don't forget we pay dividends!
In the days ahead I will reveal the MB3P plan in the following pages and you can see for yourself how it will work. I’m not going to hide a thing, if anything is to be hidden it will probably be the added benefits that I will add-in as the membership grows and the plan becomes more successful.
You may have seen the mention of this Health Plan in an earlier visit to my web-page…At first I just put it out there that if anyone wanted to be an agent for MB3P was an opportunity for doing so; but I didn’t give it my priority attention to seek the employees out; my priority was in my articles of Faith and the book I recently finished and got published.
That is all done now, though’ I still have a few more articles to type up and place here for you who enjoy reading them; but because times are difficult and donations to my web-page are scarce, and I do need to start making a living, it is time to switch my priorities and push for the establishing of the MB3P Supplemental Health Plan.
It is now ready and licensed, it’s been checked for fraud detection and passed with flying colors; but then, I knew that it would because it is a spiritually inspired program that seeks to be a benefit to so many.
• Here’s the first benefit…for the first one hundred people to sign on for this MB3P supplemental health coverage plan, I will offer a $25.00 discount to your sign on fee. (Be sure to lay claim to it when you apply.) Plus when future benefits are added on as we grow more successful, you will be the first to receive these possible future benefits. I envision such added-in benefits as a one-time $10,000 life insurance/ educational benefit. Perhaps even a home improvement benefit. Whatever the benefit will be it will be added-in without any increase in your monthly payment.
I do not plan to ever have a deductible placed in the plan. And co-payments are to always be non-existent. Some limitations will apply but nothing grievous, some of which will be eliminated as memberships grow. So Please…I am asking you…if you live in San Diego California, give me a call if you are interested in signing on to the MB3P Supplemental Health Plan. You can reach me at: 619-408-7998. If you miss me, leave a message and I’ll get back to you ASAP. I need you for this to work and it will work!
Friday, April 9, 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Continuing Works by J.J. #18
Dear Humanist,
I call myself J.J. and do not consider myself anything other than a gifted Christian, and I’m not sure of the humanist stand on Christianity…However I have read of Bertrand Russell, a self-professed Humanist, and consider him an anti-Christ due to his complete misunderstanding of Christianity.
Yes he knew of Christian religion, but that is not the same as understanding “The Way” of Christianity, and all he knew was “as taught by the ‘worlds’ churches.” And I know that knowledge, that is being taught, is greatly impaired.
Hence any organization finding a voice out of Christian teaching ‘as it is taught’ is operating under a false premise and making conclusions based on false criteria.
As exampled by “The Free-thought Forum” newsletter volume 15 issue 1: I quote: “Whether 5000 years ago or yesterday, true faith (i.e. fanaticism) demands strict unquestioned obedience.”
This is not true of “True Faith” but actually of “Blind Faith!” Fanaticism means: “to have no reason for your belief.” Yet true faith demands that you have a reason. Even Jesus says: “Be prepared in every season to give a reason for your belief.”
The churches do not have this reason within themselves because they are blind to “The Way” of Love and Truth. In fact they mis-teach six major Christian concepts: Faith, Hope, Love, Obedience, Belief and Repentance. [There is a reason for this, but that is not now the issue I am addressing.]
Hence none of the wars perpetrated by the churches were sanctioned by Jesus but rather by over zealous blind leaders. These same kind of leaders are written about in the Bible as ‘the blind that shall lead the blind and both fall into a pit.’
In Old Testament days slaughters were carried out by these same kinds of zealots, only they were doing so because of God’s word as given by the prophets of God, and they, (the prophets) knew full well why these ‘wars’ were necessary. And they were!
But the modern “Roman Catholic” wars were not sanctioned or truly cognizant of God’s Will. So, to gripe and complain against God for mostly what “men” have done for ‘power’ or ‘greed’ is a bad case of ‘blaming the wrong person.’
Now I am no scholar to be able to show the Godly reasons for those wars or slaughters carried out in the Old Testament days, but perhaps a reading of some of Mary Baker Eddy’s books such as “The prophets of old” or some such title, might shed some light on those Godly reasons.
Some of those Godly wars were carried out only after hundreds of years were given to change their ways but they didn’t even knowing their extermination or salvation depended on it.
Even today there are people in other countries that will come to an end through war, conducted by man and appearing as necessary, but the real reasons are seen in the bible and they know they choose to rebel against God for their worship of their false god.
We think it’s over oil, but it’s not. It’s a spiritual or “Holy War” and I don’t know about you but I would rather be a Christian in thought, will and emotion than a Muslim that kills you if you disbelieve in Allah.
Only Christianity in its purest form can be worth dying for, yet we are not asked to die for Christ but to live for Christ!!
This you understand when you condemn the blindness of the Mormons in the article on page two.
The humanism that is aghast of this evil in many of the cultic religions is a fair assumption of the facts that blind followers need to find a God of Love and Truth, and ‘that’ is the same conclusion to be given to fanatical Christians that are just as blind to the Love and Truth of God. They are Christian only in name not in faith. And without God man cannot reach the prize so desired of love and truth.
So, in conclusion, Humanism is rejecting only the blind faith religions and don’t know enough of the “True Faith” to distinguish the difference. And to shun the Bible’s true teaching, so as to learn to become the best of humanity based on the best they can achieve, is doomed to failure because, in order to become the best we can be requires the enlightenment that can only be found in the spirit of God; not in the spirit of man.
But it appears the Humanists have burned their bridges before knowing how to cross them.
There’s a reason for this true teaching not being known until these “End Times” when the teachers of this “Hidden Wisdom” will be revealed, and humanists as well as the false cultic religions will need to humble themselves and Meekly learn to come to God through Jesus as “The Way” is taught by these “End Time” teachers.
In Him,
J.J.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Continuing Works by J.J. # 17
“The parable of the good Samaritan”
Works by J.J.
There may not be enough words to describe the Co-existence of The Word God The Father and The Word God The Son, but they remain the same with but one exception in our times: We shall know him as we shall know ourselves; for in Him we move and breath and have our being. Adopted? Yes, but made one in the spirit of God…in The Holy Spirit we learn to grow mature and come to know the thoughts, will, and emotions of our Lord Jesus Christ.
*1 - Consider: God the Father is spirit! In all and through all knowing instantly the “polarization” of our choices, God knows as soon as we know…we are a family in the making and when it is 100% filled the end will come.