continuing works by J.J.

Entry #4

12,000 furlongs each in width, length and height। One furlong equals 220 yards, or 660 feet। One eighth of a mile।

12,000 equals 1,500 miles, equals 22,500 square miles (times) 12 equals 270,000 square miles or comparable to the size of the state of Texas।

It is said that the entire world population can fit in the state of Florida and Florida can fit in Texas about 4 ½ times.

Yet in the book of Revelations, we read that over 2/3’s of the world population will die during the trials and tribulation period yet to come. And of that even fewer will go to heaven because many will receive the “Mark of the Beast”.

Hence, the Texas size city of Heaven called: “New Jerusalem” will be plenty big for all of the born-again Christians living there.

Will you be there? Or will you perish in the times ahead? Or should you survive the tribulation period will you be cast off because you received the mark of the beast?

What is this Mark? It’s not clear what it is. Some churches think it’s the sign of when we worship God. Any day that is NOT a Saturday Sabbath! Some think the mark is an implantable chip that does away with the use of money. I don’t know what it is; yet both are plausible. And both are avoidable! “IF” you are prepared to wait out the crucial period of time that the tribulation period will cover, which is believed to be of 3 ½ years.

Three and one half years and in that time over 12 times the population of the United States will die worldwide! That’s scary!

I’d like to prepare for that time but it would take millions! Do you want to help? Make a donation? I’ll happily accept your gift of a donation to me at PayPal to prophet_JJ@mail.com that’s up to you; I hope you do, but understand…your money won’t buy you a pass into heaven! Only by being Born-Again of God’s Holy Spirit will guarantee your entrance into heaven.

Many churches have two redeeming features…redeeming in my eyes, They: 1.) preached the bible; making it available to the masses. 2.) And they led an “Altar Call”. That won’t save them from the judgment to come; only being born-again will save them. But if you are being called of God and you walk the Altar Call and per chance receive The Spirit of God, then all is good. Yet if you haven’t received the Holy Spirit of God for your Salvation, or if you have, you BOTH need to know “The Way” of God’s doctrine.

That’s the beauty of “The Way”, to the unsaved, it is the way of instruction that leads to salvation; and for the saved, it is the way of instruction that increases our ability to walk in and know the Lord God as a personal God and The Lord Jesus as our savior.

What does that mean to you and me? It means that we can be confident of going to heaven when the end comes to all things as we know them; it means we get to see life now in its reality; it means we are never alone, God is always with us and his name is Jesus. He’s our Lord, our savior, our friend and our brother.

He answers our prayers, gives us healing, and strengthens us, comforts us, encourages us. He makes us creative, his love becomes our love and our eternal future is secured in him.

Listen to me!! I’m talking to all of you reading this blog, and to all of you that ought to read this blog…Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, your wife’s and families; the Copeland’s, the Hagan’s, the Dollar’s, the Meyer’s, the Hicks…every church congregation, church leader even every person not in church or in a non-christian church…all of this blog is meant for you to read so as to come into the understanding of the love and truth of The Word: God the Father, and The Word: God the Son.

I’ve read your books and articles and I’ve seen your need for this word I am sharing.

OUCH!!! My head must be so swollen with ego…Heh? Not really. I speak from knowledge of spiritual strength and I know many of you will laugh it off and go on your merry way. Yet for those of you that take it serious, a time will come that you will complain that: “I can’t see through your eyes!” and your frustration will overwhelm you. STOP!!!

Don’t let it get you down! All you have to do is take baby steps of walking in “The Way” of God’s Love and Truth. Just pick that one MAJOR problem in your life you would like to overcome and forget about the others; you can work on them later on. FOR NOW: take that one problem and begin working on it. On paper write it down and ask yourself, (on paper) “Why do I do this _____What? Write it down! Then begin to answer it with all the answers you can think of.

If you find yourself blaming someone else go back and erase that answer; that is not the answers you need. Look to only the answers that make you responsible…for accepting, for believing, for assuming, for choosing, for concluding.

Behind all of those reasons/excuses are loving and truthful alternatives that you can CHOOSE to do instead. CHOOSE to believe in instead.

Here’s your guideline to follow: “Love does no harm to its neighbor.” And “Truth applies to everybody equally.”

If your alternative answers only serve your interests then they are not the right way of Love and Truth. “Look intently into the perfect law of Love.” You will get the hang of it; it takes time and patience. But mostly it takes determination to find and to do.

Let’s stop for now. Till next time.
In Him,
J.J.

continuing works by J.J.

Entry #3
Hello again,
After reading that last entry I probably secured the wrath of all of the fundamental churches out there.

The churches are all the same when it comes to putting down their doctrine teaching…Testy! Try it sometime with a Jehovah’s Witness, they will not even deign to talk to you . “You have your belief and I have mine!” They say, all of them, not just the JW’s.

In chapter 16 verses 2 and 3 in the book of John the apostle, Jesus says that the churches. (although he calls them synagogues,) will kill the true Christians, thinking that they are doing God a favor. And what favor is that? Why, they are killing all of the heretics who don’t believe as they believe!

History repeats itself once again and the Catholic sponsored crusades will once again strike down the believers that don’t believe as they do. The “Blue Laws” will once again be in effect.

The first to be attacked will probably be the Muslims who worship on a Friday, then the churches that worship on the Saturday Sabbath; both in violation to the Catholic’s day of worship on Sunday.

Now what does all of this have to do with the price of tomatoes in Alaska? Nothing! It’s just some of the interesting facts that those that are doing, refuse to admit; and those that are witness to, refuse to acknowledge.

Did you know that according to a psychological study done recently, it stated that the odds are 9-to-1 against changing someone’s belief, even if you can prove their belief wrong!!
Paul says he is often hindered in his travels because of the peoples beliefs saying, “lest he builds on someone else’s foundation.” (Rom. 15:20-22)

It takes time to set a person on the one true foundation established by God in Christ Jesus. Everyone is blessed if they are “Meek” (teachable), but few are meek to a teaching contrary to their accepted belief.

Here’s the rub, you are probably thinking like the song that says: “you can’t even run your own life I’ll be damned if you’ll run mine…” Heh!!! I know exactly what you mean. I’d hate to have someone tell me, “You need to change your life and I can tell you how to do it right.”

Just who the hell does this guy think he is anyway? Alright, we both know that no one is going to change my life except me! The mistakes we make serve to teach us what we need and “I” don’t need some “Christian Guru Busybody” telling me what to do. And that’s that!

And I agree. 100%. Only, I’m not a christian guru busybody. I’m a person gifted with the gift of prophecy that took me 26 years to learn, of the message in understanding that, when it finally came into focus as a doctrine of God, I found that it comforts, strengthens and encourages us If we accept it.

I lived it, I know who needs it, (everyone!) and I have learned how to share it so they will get it. But I can’t make you change. That’s your job. I’m only telling you that if you have a problem in your life that you WANT to get rid of and find that you can’t get rid of it, then, all I am saying is give the true teaching of the gospel a chance to do it’s magic. It works and the benefits are enormously beneficial in this life and in the life to come in the kingdom of heaven. And you will learn to believe in heaven even if you think it’s a bit wishy-washy now.

Scripture seems to tell us that we have approximately 41.6 years to find enlightenment; it took me about 26 years to find it; but you should take less because you have some one here to share the teaching with you, but you have to want it. You have to want to change your life for the better.

Shia, you can fill that “God size hole” in you with a God size answer that puts the whole of life into perspective that is a pleasure to behold or you will continue to throw empty boxes of confusion into it and soon discover the boxes weren’t so empty after all and your even more confused.

The big name preachers are out there; everyone of them would like to take credit for being the preacher that brought you to God…Joyce Meyer, Kenneth Copeland and wife, Kenneth Hagen and wife, Crefloe Dollar and wife, Billy Graham and wife, on and on and on…and not one of them will tell you “The Way” of God and Jesus, his apostles, and those of us that know to love him, like I am sharing with you right now.

Let me give you another article to start you on The Way. Make a hard copy of this and read it, read it often. All the other articles will be in compliment to it. I hope you like it, it took me over 25 years to write it.





The first of the articles:
THE WAY
From
"Works by J.J."


“And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: and thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, “this is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.” (Isa. 30:20-21)

I believe this is an end-time prophesy. Continue reading on to verse 26 to see this is to happen: “in that day,” which along with the phrase: “in those days” is almost always a reference to the end-times.

Could verse 25 referring to: “the great slaughter when the towers fall…” be talking about the twin towers of 9/11 infamy? And has verse 26 happened yet? I dare say, NOT! Perhaps it’s a duel prophecy, that happened then, and will happen again now?
So then, what is this: “The Way?” I believe it is a spiritually understood message that teaches us how to give our whole heart and soul to the walking in the truth and spirit of God.

It is a message hidden in the gospel that is revealed to apostles and prophet’s, (Eph. 3:1-7), and those that love God, (I Cor. 2: 6-10) However, of those that love God, it must be understood that the love for God we are to express is the “Agape” love He reveals to us as we walk in its spiritual enlightenment, and not the love we imagine, Eros – phileo – storge – or Epithurmia; with our emotions.

Read with me John 4: 23-24 “…But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth: For the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”

Do you find it curious that Jesus would say such a thing: “the hour cometh and now is…” Why not just say, ‘The time has come?’

I believe the reasoning is clear, the teaching of the way started with Jesus and the apostles, but the prophets, or ‘teachers,’ were being held back till these end-times. Thus the hour [that] cometh, is referring to these end-times, while the hour that now is, is referring to Jesus and the apostles time.

“Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ. 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…”

Continued reading in these two remarkable chapters in Ephesians chapter 3 & 4 tells us that this message of understanding found in the mystery of Christ is a message of “fellowship,” that, according to verses 4: 11-16, it is given to bring us into: “a unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God!” Amen!

But have we come into this unity yet? There is a false attempt to unify the churches, (the organizations of man’s invention), orchestrated by the Catholic Church, but its unity is not in “the mind of Christ” where true faith is known, but its unity is simply in the profession of belief in Jesus.

Of the majority of the over 34,000 different Christian doctrine teaching churches, we have that unity already, but of the one doctrine known as “The Way” there is no unity of understanding. Men are still being deceived by the craftiness of Man’s teaching.

A reason many churches today don’t accept any different teaching purportedly from a prophet, is because many churches do not even believe prophets exist any longer. They quote I Cor. 13: 8-10 and say: “that which is perfect,”is the King James canonized Bible. And if you point to chapter 14 verses 1 & 22, as saying desire the gift of prophesy because prophesy is for believers; then they come back at you and say: ‘the letter to the Corinthians is not written for us today, but to the Corinthians back then, and while some of it is useful today, most of it isn’t.’

Wow! I just read out Chapter One vs. 2 to them and say: “Your lost buddy!” Read it:
“Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours.”

It speaks clearly, the letter to the Corinthians is also a letter to us!!

It’s obvious that satan has attempted to corrupt the Bible and its believers. He’s been successful with both to some degree. But the time cometh – these end-times, when the teachers of “The Way” are being revealed. Why, you may wonder, did God hide the teachers of the way? Wouldn’t they have prevented so much corruption?

The answer can be found when we consider the ministry of Jesus. His ministry was to the Jews only! Why? (Acts 13: 46-48 tells us why.)

His purpose and message was to fulfill the 10 commandments; a message that caused the Jews to believe he blasphemed. Yet in truth he taught a deeper message of understanding. Had he gone to the gentiles they would have gladly enjoyed his power and miracles, but his message would not have been understood. The gentiles did not give reverence to the Law of Moses, and certainly would have had no reason to crucify Jesus, which was necessary for the anointing of the New Covenant.

For this same reason is the message of “The Way” given unto the Christian churches of today. It is a message of deeper understanding in the “Fellowship” we can have with God, found in the “unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God.” Yet because it is “spiritually” discerned, which only Born-again Christians are, “We” are the only ones able to come into the discerned understanding. Yet, this discerned message will be very difficult for most of the churches to grasp and accept because of the many blind faiths that they have already accepted in blind ignorance. Most of the churches don’t want a deeper understanding that goes against what they teach.

The good news is, it’s a covenant that Jesus ushered in, and I don’t have to spill my blood to make it a valid Testament. But the bad news is, I probably will spill my blood over it because of the anger of the many fanatical Christians, (whether truly born-again or not) who will believe that by killing me they will be doing God’s will. Even as the Jews did! (John 15: 20, 16:2)

Read Colossians 1: 9-13, “…that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding…that you might walk worthy of the Lord…increasing in the knowledge of God…giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light…and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son.”

I can’t prove it to you, but like God did with Isaiah in1:18, and Paul did with king Felix in Acts 24: 25, I can make a “reasonable” argument to make you see that the way is true. And, if in the reasoning of scriptures I am able to get one of you to acknowledge and accept this message so that you –move: To put your feet firmly onto the ‘path of understanding,’ so as to establish it for yourself; then I thank you for the opportunity and for helping me cover over a multitude of sins. (James 5: 19-20)

It’s a clue brothers!! If one sin brought all this death into the world, then the difficulty of the task that would remove a multitude of sins, must be no easy task….

In fact, a recent ‘Science of the Mind’ journal stated, that the odds of changing a persons already accepted beliefs are 9 to 1 against being successful, even, if you can prove them wrong in their belief.

Yet, Matthew 10: 41 says: “He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward.” What is a prophet’s reward? It’s a confident understanding of the faith to believe in Jesus, while walking in the spirit of God’s love and truth.

In the churches of today most Christians have a blind faith. They do not know how to develop a personal relationship with God. They do not know the true meaning and application of the six key concepts of the gospel: Faith, Believe, Hope, Obedience, Repentance, and Love. Once learning those, they still need to grow “determinedly” true to their calling. (See Jude 3)

How many of us have resisted sin to the point of shedding our blood? How many have agonized in our resistance to sin? To fail and fall into wretched despair? To then pick yourself up to strive a little farther, to gain a little more insight? To walk a path that most don’t even know exists?

Let’s look at your doctrines…How many teach that II Tim. 2:15 means to ‘study your bible to know when it’s taken out of context?’ It doesn’t! How many teach that Mark 10:15 means, that like a child trustingly receives a gift from its loving parents; we too must trustingly receive the gift of salvation from Jesus? Your wrong! How many say we are not suppose to judge others?
Missed. that one too. How about Romans 10:17 says ‘faith comes from hearing the word of God?’ Nope, wrong again. How about, repentance means to turn away from your sin 180º and turn to God in prayer or as you find him in the Bible? That faith must be acted upon by belief to become real…that hope is in an empty grave from which Jesus rose…that walking in love means stopping the wrong you do and show love instead??? Get any of those right? Did you say yes to those? They are all No!!

How about this one: we can not prove there is a God? Did you say yes? Wrong! We can. Did you say we can? Then tell me how! That’s the teaching of “The Way” and it will tie up every one of these questions you missed into one clear concept of understanding.

Have you ever heard of the phrase: W.W.J.D. (WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?) Is that a good phrase? Nope, it’s not.

There’s Billy Graham, Kenneth Copeland, Kenneth Hagin, Pat Robertson, Creflo A. Dollar, Merlin Coruthers, Robert Falwell, Robert Schuller, Joyce Myers….are any of them teaching “The Way” as this article does? Nope. Not a one. Every preacher I’ve ever heard or read of has not been seen to be teaching “The Way” as you will see me do in this article. None of them know it.

Listen to Paul in I Cor. 1:10 “Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.” Are ‘they’ saying the same thing? Do you see that in the Christian churches of today?

Maybe a little bit in one denomination, but the rest of the world sees even that teaching as being wrong. What is the hidden wisdom spoken of among the mature in Christ? As referred to in I Cor. 2: all? And NO! Mr. Creflo A. Dollar, it’s not the gift of tongues as you so proclaimed in your telecast.

Can you, dear reader, admit you don’t know? Can you admit that even your favorite pastor/ evangelist hasn’t taught you how to know for yourself: the wisdom of this knowledge? How to have the one mind of Christ? Can you let loose of your churches doctrine, so as to consider the reasoning of the teaching in The Way? 9-to-1!!! Says NOT.

Ask yourself right now, “If I let go of all that I’ve been taught in church, what do I have left over to hold onto?? How confident am I in this?

Jesus says: “In every season have a reason for your hope.” I ask you, “Why do you believe in Jesus?”

There are only three answers. Number one: ‘I believe by faith.’ This answer tells me you aren’t ready for the truth. You are still holding on to your churches doctrine. It’s a vague answer, and if told to a non-believer, would have no value to them. It would require you to explain faith, and in “The Way”, repentance comes before faith.

Jesus’ first words were: “repent and believe the good news.” Faith is a fruit of the spirit, and the Holy Spirit is the gift of repentance.
Number two: I believe because I’ve repented and proven that God is not a liar, so when he says that Jesus and the Father are one, I know he is being truthful and I believe him. (see John 3: 31-36) This is the correct response. It opens the door to sharing the doctrine of repentance. Not as the churches teach, but as the Bible teaches.

The third answer is: I believe because I have received the Holy Spirit. This answer is half right. The Holy Spirit is given to lead us to the acknowledging of the truth in/of Jesus. (II Tim. 2:25-26). Jesus is the truth, and when we repent unto the acknowledging – (spiritually discerned recognition) of the truth revealed by the Holy Spirit, we can then say we have a reason to believe in Jesus. But jumping from receiving the Holy Spirit to instant belief in Jesus is a blind admission. Faith is established through the love found in the acknowledgement of truth. (see proverbs 24:3-4, Galatians 5:6).

I pity those with the kind of faith depicted by their answer of number three. They know they are saved, yet have not yet established their understanding of The Way, and do not grow into the knowledge of God’s Righteousness which allows us to receive his abundant promises…(see II Pet. 1: 3-11).Quite possibly many of those who gave answer to number one are of this faith; but are so caught up in their churches teaching they could only give a vague scriptural response. And sadly, many of the first response are not even saved. They just think they are because they were mis-taught the meaning of Romans 10: 9,10 and 13 to mean that a sincere confession of faith makes one a child of faith. It does, but how do we know we are sincere in our hearts? “mans heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it?” (Jer. 17:9)

Only God can know it. Not us. God also looks to see if we are fully prepared. He uses the parable of the two kings who go to war.

The king only half prepared lost the war. But Jesus says: “Not one that the Father has given me has been lost.” Hence God also determines our preparedness. This is why he gives us the promise of John 3: 19-21.

Too many people are letting the churches interpret the bible for them. A good example is found in Mark 10:15; “Verily I say unto you, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, * he shall not enter therein.”

Do you see that asterisk? At that place in a bible put out by the Billy Graham Association, he inserts a parenthesis and adds: (like a little child trustingly receives a gift). But why choose a positive quality of a child? Some children are petulant, and pout and throw temper tantrums to get what they want. I believe this goes deeper, back before the child even knows who God is, but knows of him in their innocence. Hence if we repent of our sins until our conscience is clear, then we will know the innocence of a child and know God firsthand.

Now let’s look at repentance. But first take a break….go on get up and stretch…

Are you back? Okay…most churches teach repentance is turning away from your sin, 180º . But that’s the Old Testaments way of repentance. The old covenant of the 10 Commandments have been replaced with the new covenant of Jesus and a new commandment: John 13: 34 says it like this: “A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.” For as we see in Romans 13: 8-14, love is the fulfilling of the law.

In the New Covenant we now have the word of God engrafted in our hearts and minds by the Holy Spirit, and through the Holy Spirits guidance we are able to come into acknowledgement of the truth of that engrafted word. (please see pages 24-26 for the example given to Sandy, in my book: God’s Prisoner).

In the Old Testament, that’s all they could do was turn away from sin. In the New Testament we are called to confront sin so that we can reconsider sins motive from a divine viewpoint of thought, will and emotion; and then choose to submit to the way of God in his Agape Love.

That is the meaning of the new word used in the New Testament Greek : ‘metanoeo’. It’s a completely different word than the word used in the Old Testament, yet preachers every where seem to like to use the Old Testament word as found in the book of Isaiah. (please read I Cor. 2:16 in an amplified Bible.)

With knowledge of our need to question our sins motives rather than turning away from even considering them, James in 4:1-8 tells us to ask of ourselves the questions necessary to discover the reasons for the motives we have that desire to experience pleasure. And in 1:13-15 he uses the word: Entice. Which is defined in a dictionary as: seeking to satisfy the desire for riches and/or pleasures. And Jesus, in Luke 8:5-15 adds the third desire of: worries, of the worries, riches and/or pleasures that keep our Fruits from maturing.

Then we are taught in Eph. 4:20-24 to put-off the deceitful desires of our sins, and put-on the revealed alternatives created in ‘true holiness and righteousness’ which is to say: The Mind of Christ Jesus.

In a crude example: who knew that a reason for drinking or drugs was to gratify the desire of a pleasurable sexual relationship? Yet the question remains: Why do I need drugs or booze to obtain this desire? For some reason I, (we) may have learned to fear that we were not able to have such a relationship without the help of the booze or drugs. We need to find the cause of that fear.

“When I was a child I thought like a child, talked like a child, acted like a child. But now I’m a man! I put childish things behind me.” I can’t do it tho’ if I turn away from my sin without even knowing why I do it! Those false faith Christians who say you don’t need to know why are wrong!! You do need to know. Why? Because when you see the truth of why you fear, you will also be given to see and understand that the person who hurt you by laughing at you, is still thought to be laughing at you, and you drink or do drugs to forget it in your current attempts to start a relationship. You are able to understand that, that person is or was immature and you are now able to forgive them. Then and Now!!

Would you let a kid’s laughter at you now as an adult be a reason to get high? Of course you wouldn’t. You would see to be patient, gentle, kind, and understanding, (all Fruits of the spirit) to the kid who is immature acting towards you today. Then, what a joy to know it’s not me, but them! I can now see their immaturity is their handicap. It is the reason for their bitterness and sorrow. And you say to yourself: I can love you now with the compassion of Jesus who said: “Father, forgive them, they know not what they do!” They may say they do, but they don’t because they are not acting in love. “Love does no harm to its neighbor.” They haven’t found the love that repentance reveals in the alternatives to our reasons for sin and becomes the light of the word that we learned to see and submit to.

I didn’t see that wisdom when I was a child and crying. And if I just turn my back on my sin and act loving – and that’s what it is, acting—I’m just being a wolf in sheep’s clothing. And your love becomes imagined love. Not the love we find in the understanding of truth, the love we can easily submit to in our obedience because we now understand the cause of our fear.

When you find this true love and submit to it, and continue to abide in it, it will transform you. It will increase with each measure you find and put-on, (submit to and abide in,) you will be conformed to the mind of Christ.
This is how II Pet. 1:3-11 is done…
This is how Eph. 4: 17-24 is done…
This is how Romans 12: 1-3 is done…
This is how Matthew chapter 7 is done…
This is how Matthew 23: 25-28 is done…
This is how James 4: 1-8 is done…

It all ties together. Now read John 17: 25-26 Jesus reveals the love of God! He does this so that God the Father and himself can both (spirit and truth)make their home in us! Now read Luke 10:22! Jesus is not seen but he reveals the Father to us. How? By his love! Our faith is established in love…(Gal. 5:6).

“Faith [love] is the evidence of things not seen, the substance of things hoped for…” I John 3:2-3 …if our love increases with just the small measure of faith that has been given to us, imagine knowing the fullness of what we will be when we are given to know the fullness of Jesus at his 2nd. Coming. (see I Cor. 13:12)

To the Jews Paul said, “But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in the newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.” (Rom. 7:6) Yet Paul also said it to us; “[God] Who 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.” (II Cor. 3:6)

All that turning our back on sin and turning to God in the bible is the same thing as holding to the letter! Jesus said, “You diligently study the scriptures thinking that by them you have eternal life. These are the same scriptures that testify of me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life.”niv

We don’t come to him in scripture, or song, or prayer, or fasting; we come to him in repentance.

“The light shines in the darkness but the darkness has not understood it nor overcome it.” As we repent of the darkness, the light of God’s love is seen. Jesus is showing it to us. “The kingdom of heaven is within.” Now you know what that means. “Meekly accept the engrafted word which can save you.” “Repentance leads to salvation and growth in the spirit.”

Another example of false teaching that lives by the letter is II Tim. 2:15. “Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman who needeth not to be ashamed, who rightly divides the word of truth.” Where does it say, ‘study the bible?’ It doesn’t. But many churches today interpret it as such because they don’t know How to walk in the spirit and truth of God.

Compare that verse with I John 2:28, “And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.”

This is the same verse. The word study means: “diligently strive” so, to diligently strive to abide means: we repent unto the acknowledging of the truth in love and submit to the trans-forming conformation of becoming one with the mind of Christ. Christian means Christ-like!

Let loose of those things you were taught in church to believe and make room, (John 8:37niv) for the truth. John 7: 14-18 tells us we will learn of God’s way if we become, “men of truth with no unrighteousness in us.” Jesus is our righteousness, as we grow to know his way, we grow to know him! In Gruden’s dictionary the pearl of great price is the message and the person of Jesus.

Truth is covered with a lie; repent to find it! If all you do is read the bibles do’s and don’t do’s and follow them, all you are doing is hurting yourself. But if, while you resist doing the wrongs the bible says don’t do, and at the same time begin your search with repentance, to find the light of God’s love under the darkness of sin’s motive and then submit to that loving response, then, you will be in obedience and grow in your understanding.

Once you are saved, for repentance leads to salvation, continue in your repentance to gain “Godliness”, and in godliness we find the abundant life!

Jesus promises to finish our faith. (Heb. 12:2) So once you begin walking on the road to salvation and gain the gift of repentance: The Holy Spirit, if you were to die before finishing your growth, Jesus will finish it for you in heaven.

An interesting aspect of walking in The Way is; when, in the end-times, the anti-christ appears as an angel of righteousness, telling us to love God, be at peace with all men, repent and believe…you will know he is a fake because he doesn’t tell you how! The Way of repentance is how!!

He can cast out demons to make a show of his powers, but he knows that if you haven’t learned to find the loving and truthful alternatives to your sin, you won’t know how to fill the emptiness, and the demon will come back and bring 7 more demons with it. And you know he won’t tell you how fill yourself with the love and truth of God because he has no truth in himself.

Many Christians are not being obedient to the love beneath the sin, and because of this dis-obedience, even Jesus will become a stumbling block. For Jesus is: “The Way, The Truth and The life.”

I’ve shared the way with many already ‘indoctrinated’ Christians and initially they love the message of understanding, but a few days later they reject it: 9 to 1!! It’s hard to give up a false belief. By rejecting the way, they are rejecting Jesus. If they are born-again, they will be saved as one passing through the flame, but they will suffer loss. (I Cor. 3:10-15)

If you don’t walk in the way you won’t become good teachers of the way. (Matt. 7:3-5, 13:52) for it is the increase of treasures that makes you a good teacher and disciple in Christ.

Teaching will sharpen your ability and exercise your senses to distinguish between good and evil ways. It’s a life long process that stands the best chance of standing strong in the coming tribulation period. And though many churches teach that Christians will be raptured and not face any tribulations; there is no conclusive proof of this teaching. And ample proof that it won’t. It would also necessitate that we reject other verses that seem to say we will suffer tribulations.

You’ve read the New Testament, now set it aside for a while, while you perfect your walking in the way. Then come back to it and see the many verses you didn’t see before. Write your insights down, for re-reading later. Abide in the fruits especially of patience.

Don’t get caught upon the doctrines of men: of baptisms, of tongues, of Sabbath days… the Lord God The Father, wants for us the same thing he did for those of old: To walk in the truth, (in Jesus) with all our heart and soul.

So now you can see why the way was revealed to Christians now, everything I said a Christian would understand. Can you meekly accept it? Are you teachable? We can thank God that understanding is not a prerequisite to salvation. Spiritual growth can take years. Salvation can reach the world faster; Which was necessary before the evil in the world, destroyed the world.

“Prophets are for believers!” (See I Cor. 14:22) If you see the reasoning of all this and believe I’m right, you just can’t go back to the way you use to believe. This is your defining moment.
The End

continuing works by J.J.

Entry #2 "Works by JJ"

Hello again,
You know how it is, life is tuff and you pray to God for wisdom to see your way out of the mess you are in and life goes on.
Did God answer? Is he ever going to answer you? The churches you go to infrequently only serve to remind you why you go infrequently…at least the vibes are good and the members mean well, even if the answers they give are empty of the wisdom you seek.
There’s got to be more to life than the daily grind… You know what I find interesting? All the gadgets of James Bond or Batman. When I was a kid of 11 or 12 yrs. Of age I tried making myself a batman utility belt. I even like survival gear, like what they sale at emergencyessentials.com…Swiss army knives, colloidal silver, MRE’s, (that’s “Meals Ready to Eat”, and first aid kits. I like to make a first aid kit and carry it with me in my backpack. Ready like Freddie, I like to say.
I still like gadgets and survival gear, but now with my views on the “End-Times” trials and tribulations period yet to devastate the world, my interest in these things is such that I’d spend thousands if I had it to spend. Not just for myself but for the “church”.
Yes the Church, that group of Born-Again believers that see The Way of God’s doctrine as I do, and move to prepare for the times ahead.
A lot of Christians don’t believe in the “End-Times” period of trials and tribulations because their church (denomination or not) has taught them to think we Christians well be raptured up into heaven before the poop hits the fan. Well, I don’t believe that, and I’ve heard tell that the whole scenario of a “pre-tribulation Rapture” was discovered to be a hoax perpetrated by a girl overseas who supposedly told of it while in a trance of spirit possession. Documented by a historian.
I had already come to the conclusion that the pre-tribulation rapture was a hoax before discovering that the book had been written; there are just too many instances where Jesus talks of the times to come and doesn’t declare it. And in order to believe it you have to accept a post-tribulation rapture too! Some churches go so far as to say there are three raptures.
But, whether you want to believe one way or the other is not what’s important…what is important is whether you are prepared to meet your God when the time comes.
I ask you: if you were to die will you go to heaven or hell? It’s not a guess or an assumption, you can know with a certainty! And here’s the good part, along with a more sure understanding of The Way of Love and Truth in the gospel good news is a more confident life, full of a view of reality that affects every person you see with the ability to know every persons inner being. This means you can know how to judge their worth as friends, advisors mates, or enemies.
Your future wife, should you get married, will also be seen as prudent or foolish; and if she wisely accepts your guidance in life, you will need to know how to teach her The Way of Love and Truth to make for a long and caring, loving, honest marriage.
The true Christian walks in knowledge, compassion, optimism, creativity, and love.
The reality of life reveals the needs in life. It’s not about walking around with your head in the clouds out of touch with your surroundings; it’s about enjoying life and demanding more from it. Friends need it, family needs it, lovers need it, businesses need it…and all can have it, “IF” they learn to accept it in Jesus.
It’s not hard, it’s not unreasonable, it’s not about believing in something you don’t know of; and it definitely IS NOT about going to church and becoming a zealot of blind faith and obedience to a list of Ten commandments. Where: you are expected to tithe, bible study, sing hymns, attend church regularly…etc. etc.
A true Christian lives much like everyone else; goes to work if he has a job, plays when he feels like playing, does what he chooses to do with no regrets, loves as he does, helps others when he can and is not bound to it, but above all he loves God and Jesus and has the attitude of gratitude and sees how it is that he can give the right word of advice to those living without a clue to the reality of life.
Here’s a small article for you to read and begin to learn how to walk as a Christian giant!
Later gator!
J.J.

The Error of Christianity
From
"Works by J.J."

According to the World Christian Encyclopedia there are over 34,000 different Christian doctrine teaching churches.
Are all of them wrong? Are all of them right? Are any of them right? Are any of them wrong? Does anyone know?
I know! And I know you think you know. Can anybody ever really know? I smile, I laugh. All the supposed great thinkers, all of the supposed great evangelists; I know, none of them really know.
It has been said that the odds of changing a person’s mind once they have already accepted a stand in their belief, is 9 to 1 against you, even if you can prove them wrong!!
Why is it that, “Blessed are the meek, (teachable) for they shall inherit the earth.”
Why is it that, “…he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sin?”
Where one sin in the unsaved soul is enough to condemn a person to hell’s fire, a covering of a multitude of sin must testify to the difficulty of the task.
Which of the churches shall cast out the believers and kill them thinking they do God service?
Which of the Christians will be the ones to hear the shout of the angel: “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues?”
Why are people all over the world looking for answers that the churches have not been able to answer to their satisfaction?
I know! And I know you think you know. I smile, I laugh…I’m sad. All the great thinkers, all of the supposed great evangelists; I know, none of them really know.
“In those days…I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.”
“In that day…shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner anymore, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: and thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is The Way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.” Isa. 31:19-21
In these days we call the End-Times, we will be given pastors and teachers to teach us a message of the gospel that most of us will reject! A message called: “The Way.”
Jesus is The Way, the truth and the life…. Yet the churches are focusing on: The Truth of Jesus: The evangelical message of the gospel.
Like the Jews who focused on the letter of the law, (Rom. 7:6) we Christians are given the same admonition: “…as ministers of the New Testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.” (II Cor. 3:6)
The letter killeth and the spirit giveth life, yet in all of the thousands of Christian doctrines being taught, NOT ONE of them is teaching us The Way to knowing the life of the spirit other than the evangelistic way of confession and repentance.
Oh sure, we teach we need to be born-again…we teach no one can get to heaven except through Jesus, (which makes him the way, but not The Way!) We have taught, as best we knew how, the 3-fold message of the gospel as found in Luke 24: 46-47; His birth, death and resurrection, and of repentance and the forgiveness of sins. But of the six key gospel concepts: “faith, hope, love, believe, repentance and obedience;” all are taught according to the letter, not the spirit!!! Hence, they are not according to the “The Way” in Christ Jesus.
I know none of you know. And I know you think you know.
I attach no fault, no blame. God hid his teachers till these end-times for a reason. Praise God in his wisdom!!
But he made provision for the continuation of his gospel through his apostles and his prophets and through those who love God; and in the end times, through his teachers.
Between his, (Jesus) time and ours, The Way has been kept hidden, but we, that are born-again, are meant to be able to accept it when it gets taught. Why be meek, why be humble?
This is the main battle to be faced today: to be able to discern the truth of The Way, and accept it so that we can also accept it’s reward.
Pride, boasting, vanity, ego, closed minded, self-seeking… 9 to 1!!! Do you fear your churches ex-communication? Does your family tradition mean more to you? Is the teacher of ill repute?
Oh, that you could see the beauty of The Way…in the time just ahead when the anti-christ shall appear as an angel of righteousness, all who know The Way will know he’s a fake!
I know where I will stand, I know where most of you will stand…I smile…I laugh… I am sad… I cry.


In Him, J.J.

"Works by J.J."

I call myself J.J., This is a "Works by J.J."
Life has its ways to open our eyes to the reality we do not notice...No, not the ability to point out the obvious scenes and scenarios. The wisdom expressed during those times is enslaving; the building up of dependency because I can see these and you can't so you must put your trust in me to steer you clear of the obstacles so many fall into...
Okay, I admit it, sometimes it seems as if its a dog eat dog world and I got milk bone underwear!!!
But Reality doesn't require a play by play revelation to boast of its "hidden status"! All it really needs is a word of instruction that gives an increase of understanding when applied.
Some, if not, most of us have strong experiences that teach us to "go with the flow", "don't worry be happy", "forgive others as well as yourself", and on...but do you ever notice that the books that quote you the cliches never seem to have the cliche that fits your life?
Shia LaBeauf, I envy your movie success because you can do for yourself in ways my poor self can't; but I don't envy your insecurity in life.
You ask what is life all about and don't know the answer even though you say you have a "God size hole inside you!"
But heh!!! I got a good word for you if you want it!!! Here it is, you ready for it???
Okay, here goes...don't drop it, the answer to life that you are looking for is...JESUS.
Wa...Wa...Watch out, don't drop it!!!
Jesus is your answer but not like you have been thinking. Not like the churches have commonly taught you!
Go back to read paragraph three, reality has a "Hidden Status" yet there really is a word of instruction that reveals the increase of understanding and hence purposeful choices that can reflect your true measure of worth in the world.
And...I know what it is!!!
The mysterious knowledge that many have trodden upon in ignorance willful and blindly to twist and warp its truth to their own selfish ends.
But dear reader, its not selfish to make a living from being a teacher of truth...."Do not muzzle the ox that treads the grain...", "A servant is worthy of his hire."
I earned my credentials even if they were freely; given, and I'll be happy to share them with you all. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------.