Well these people in LA said I was the reincarnation of this actor in my last lifetime, so I just asked the universe as I used to do by asking out loud and it showed me the three different times I did it, that I was this actor. Yet now I realize it was the devil messing with me. There's a guy online that says he's John the apostle because so many psychics told him. So he holds healing seminars and travels worldwide telling people he is.
I had another experience in 1984 in DC when I lived there. I was having this dark person really bother me and they could appear and reappear in different areas of town easily with no car. One day I was running from there in fear, this guy up ahead was walking. I slowed down to walk with him, he wore a long trench coat and had golden curly locks of hair to his shoulders. I felt safe with him and he introduced himself as Gabriel. A very tall man, he held out his hand and wanted me to go with him, I didn't and he and the bus he got in just disappeared going down the street. When I was being harassed in LA by those dark people, I went to the library one day just to be in a quiet place. I opened a book of art and saw a painting of arch angel Gabriel by some painter in the 15th century. It was the same guy I saw in DC back then. I wondered...this was in 2004.
I was told that 2016 is the time of his return. I have seen it on this website by another who said the same thing after I was told this.
When you talk about the devil having relationships with women on this earth at that time, I believe over the centuries it just kept happening. A major repeat of evil people on this planet that are still doing dark things to this world. People think its the little gray guys from space, or the Illuminati, the one world gov't etc. At my job I hear people talking about not believing in God and laughing about the chapter in the bible of revelations. I heard this the other day "so these Christians think that we're going to have a rapture like in the book of revelations and the worlds going to end" when I walked by this guy at my work said this as he laughed.
As for my writing I have, I'm still a little skeptical about it. I feel like he deserted me because I haven't heard anything from him in awhile about the book, and I was thinking it was the devil fooling me. I don't have any money to publish this book, I live a life on a shoe string.
The tribulation you speak of and people being beheaded. I thought that the Antichrist will put out the mark and those who refuse it will be taken to the concentration camps they are setting up all over the US. There they will beheaded or burned. I thought this would happen right before Christ returns. As for people ascending into heaven, the new age movement now is doing this thing where their saying..you can descend and go into the 4th and 5th dimension now and not have to be part of this world, through clearing your energy and letting go of the the 3rd dimension.
This new age ascension, 2012 earth moving into the 5th, aliens, David Icke the man with the scary books, hollywood movies of the earth being destroyed by the sun's flares is all produced by the devil to create fear and havoc amongst the many.
So Donna, and anybody else out there reading this, what do you think? Surely there has to be someone else on here who is following this conversation and would like to add their views on whats going on with this world today. Even that Bible code book whats that all about?
oh yeah I believe the s--- is going to hit the fan in the next 5 years and things will really get worse, but what about us, will we die? be lifted off the earth in safety or like in that movie "The Knowing" which is an interesting thing, have men come down in ships and take us to a beautiful place. That movie is really something.
I end with this, I sat in a cafe a few years ago by myself looking out the window. This young man walks in and starts talking to me at my seat. First thing I notice, he pulls up in a lotus. Second thing he says, "I'm a christian, and really believe in Jesus, when I was 10 I saw myself one day be lifted off the ground and taken up to the sky in the middle of a field, since then I believe." I sat there in my chair and looked at his car and thought..if your a Christian why do you drive a car like this, for it's hard for a rich man to get into heaven.
One more thing..if a person cremates themselves to ash how can they be lifted up outta the ground if they have no body. Shouldn't the body be buried without being burned up?
Thanks again Donna for all your encouragement and advice, scriptures, as well as just being there.
Dear Linda, I wanted to respond also to the part of your letter about God's Word saying that no man has seen God at anytime. I found the scripture, and some more that relate to it. No man can see God, but mankind, to whomever He will reveal Himself, can see His Christ; His Image; His only begotten Son, which is also His Word; words, and is the Sword of His Spirit, and we can see God, the Father IN the Face of God's Word; God's only begotten Son; Christ Jesus. The reason Christ is the ONLY begotten of God; the Father, is because Christ was always with God, always existed, was always part of that which is God, and literally CAME FORTH from God. All mankind that receives Christ is born of; begotten of, God BY Christ; BY God's Word, and by His Spirit, thus the Spirit of God's Word. For, the WORDS of Christ are spirit and life.
It is IN the Face; the WORDS, of Christ, that we see; perceive, and come to know, the Father. As, Christ Jesus is the EXPRESS Image of God, the Father. As, Christ was/is the very HEART of God, the Father, expressed unto us. Christ IS the Word, and thus the WORDS of the Father, speaking unto us. As it is written:
I John 3:I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
John 7:16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
John 12:44 Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me.
When Christ Jesus says 'My words,' they are not His as far as where; Who, they came from. The words of God's Word; Christ, are the words of His Father, just as Christ; God's Word, is God's; the Father's.
There are so many beautiful and deep things touched upon in the prayer that Jesus Christ prayed to His Father in John, chapter 17. One thing is that He says, in so many words, 'Father, you gave mankind ME, and I gave them your WORDS.
John 17:1 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou GAVEST THEM ME; and they have kept thy word.
7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
8 For I have GIVEN unto them THE WORDS which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
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John 14:9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is NOT MINE, but the Father's which sent me.
25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
_________________________________________________ John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
18 NO MAN HATH SEEN GOD at any time; the only begotten Son, which is IN THE BOSOM bosom of the Father, he hath DECLARED him.
John 6:63 (Jesus said...)63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: THE WORDS that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
_______________________________________________ 2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God IN THE FACE of Jesus Christ.
Psalms 27:8 When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
Psalms 17:15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with THY LIKENESS.
________________________________________________ I John 3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
2 Beloved, NOW are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when HE shall appear, we shall be LIKE HIM; for we shall see him as he is.
_________________________________________________ Hebrews 1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
3 Who being THE BRIGHTNESS his glory, and the EXPRESS IMAGE of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
WOW! That is so awesomely beautiful how the Lord Jesus made Himself known One on one to you in those 14 seconds. No, there's no reincarnation of mankind, as far as any of us having lived prior to this life.
There are devils; evil spirits; evil angels, who WERE God's angels, and thus 'sons of God,' who, along with Lucifer (now Satan,) turned from God, and fell from Heaven, and had sexual relations with some of the women of mankind, which women therefore had children by those devils.
While one may say that those children were half human; mankind, and half-devil, that's not the case. As, the ONLY thing human; mankind, about them would be their 'fleshly bodies.' Inside those bodies were NOT any SOULS, but evil spirits; devils. And God's Word referes to those devils as 'men of renown,' because they lived prior to being born into human bodies.
Genesis 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of RENOWN.
But I can understand why you would feel like you were one of the apostles, because once you received Jesus Christ, you became a member of 'the FAMILY OF JESUS CHRIST.' We cannot help from feeling like we KNOW one another, and as if we've known one another all our lives. It's the Spirit of God that's in each of us. You were not personally there back in the days of the apostles. But the Lord God Who is IN you, and Whom you are IN, was there. And your spirit is joined with Him; with the Spirit of God.
As a matter of fact, since you are filled with the Holy Ghost; the Spirit of God, you KNOW ALL THINGS in your heart. You, and I, and all those filled with His Spirit, just don't UNDERSTAND all those things. But our hearts KNOW. That's why when we hear, or read, the truth, it bears witness in our hearts, we KNOW it's true, even if we can't understand why, or how, it's true, etc..
1 Corinthians 6:17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
1 Corinthians 6:19
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1 John 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
EPHESIANS 3:1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
7 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
13 Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end.
Amen.
HEBREWS 12:18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
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Almighty God has such a special and great purpose
for your book! He foresees what's coming. As, He is getting ready to shake this world like never before, to make one last MIGHTY CALL unto mankind to ESCAPE the Great Tribulation. And even though the Great Tribulation is not the worst thing, as God's WRATH TO COME thereafter is worse than that, and the worse of all is ETERNAL DAMNATION, still, the Great Tribulation is going to be horrible, because no one will be upon earth that has the Spirit of God in him, or her. All those that have His Spirit are, altogether, His BODY of people, to Whom He is their Head, and are all us that have received Him; Christ, our Head, and serve Him, and will all be drawn up to meet Him in the air before the Great Tribulation takes place.
The Great Tribulation is a time when everyone that believes God, and His Son, are real, and that they SHOULD HAVE received Christ, and repented of sin, and desired to obey Him, will WISH THEY HAD NOT PUT HIM OFF. Because they will then see JUST HOW very wicked this world is, that it is NOT for them, and that all that time they spent serving the world just to please themselves was NOT WORTH IT.
God will use that time to let the eyes of many be opened, and let them seek Him, and find Him, but they will end up having be beheaded; lose their lives, as far as physically, in order to make it to be with Him.
I see it like this, had they been serving their TRUE Head, Christ, they would not have had to lose their own physical head.
But they will gladly do so, knowing that they will rise up to heaven instantly.
But during the Great Tribulation, prior to those that repent of their sins before God being beheaded, God will greatly use them to tell, and teach, others about Him, those that never received Him before. There's a scripture in the Old Testament that, speaking of that time, says 'Do not go to them, let them come to you.'
In other words, the Lord, using His angels, will be helping His people HIDE OUT from wicked people trying to find and kill them. When it is time for them to die, GOD Himself will decide that, and not the devil.
But prior to the Great Tribulation, again, the Lord is ready to make one last mighty call unto mankind. It's already started, as people are getting frantic, uncertain, and very uncomfortable, with the way the world seems to be getting by with mocking, and insulting, the Lord God; the Lord Jesus. People, even those that have refused to receive Him, are so like a bunch of kids. While little kids want their way, and like to try to get by with wrong things, I've always noticed how, regardless of how they may try, they would feel betrayed, unloved, and abondoned, if no one cared enough about them to NOT LET THEM get by. There's something about knowing someone cares enough about you to scold you, and try discourage you from wrong, even if you want to do the wrong.
And what I have seen lately are people who, even though they have not received the Lord, and repented of their sins, they are very disturbed at it seeming as if the Lord God Whom they KNOW is true, even though they have not yet received His Christ; His Word; His only begotten Son, is seeming not very powerful, or why would He let the world get by with all the evil onslaughts, and all the speaking as if they have the right to SILENCE His people.
The Lord is merely allowing it temporarily, for His own reasons, His own purpose, His own glory, and to the TOTAL SURPRISE of the wicked. He is now letting; incouraging, all those that want to choose the side of Satan, to go ahead and do so, and be as bold as they can be about it (for now.) It's call 'separating the sheep from the goats; the tares from the wheat.' He is letting everyone TAKE THEIR STANCE.
But BEFORE He calls; draws, His people in whom all is His Spirit, up to meet Him in the air, things are going to happen, earthquakes like never before, whirlwinds; hurricanes, floods, etc., fires, that are going to destroy (not KILL) all those that have not received Him, and those that have that have been walking in sin against Him, devasting them more than they ever imagined could happen. And WE will be the only ones safe and sound, and shining like LIGHTS unto all that WILL run to us to hear about the Lord our God Who's Spirit is IN US, and Who's POWER we have working in and through us.
Once, during that time, all will hear that will hear, and receive Him, which the Lord will give a certain amount of time, He will then draw us, and all those that are newly born of Him, up to meet Him in the air.
And THEN the Anti-Christ; Satan, will sit and decare his ugly liar self as God.
I want to tell you something the Lord told me; gave me, sort of like a poem, about 4 years ago, when He began showing me these things. But I need to get to sleep. I will write more tomoro. Love in Christ Jesus,
Donna
Hi and thanks! goodness since I was a child I read the bible, then gave it up in my teens. I did Buddhism for years and prayed at a piece of paper, which they thought was enlightment. I was showns signs of Jesus everywhere I went, and just ignored it. I lived in LA for years and was bothered by satanists for years, they tried to kill me and really wanted me dead. Something kept me safe and alive and no matter how hard they ran me off the road I wouldn't die. So I left the city and moved a few states away, to a quiet town. One day, this bright light shown down on me from the sky, it hit my heart of pure love, it was as bright as the sun, and I saw Jesus smile in it. I felt him and pure love the purest I ever felt thought out my whole body and had a knowing it was him, for about 14 seconds. I ran to a enclosed area, sat down and repented as well as told him I was sorry I never paid any attention. to him. Now it says in the bible that no one has ever seen God, I don't know what that was, but to me it was a sign that yes he did exist. Then he started to talk to me in these writings of these words and wanted me to put it in a book. I got scared, for I didn't want to be like a false prophet, I have about 5 chapters and I want to publish it and give it to people who are looking for him. For that is what I was told to do. He said the book would only fall into the hands of those searching. I am basically a loner, my family doesn't want anything to do with me. I get harrassed at my job, and people make me feel like I don't fit in anywhere I go. There is a reason for everything I believe, I am trying to understand now the bible thing about do not be of this world. Didn't God create this world, then why not be a part of it. There is so much I want to understand, but all I know is, I was supposed to die so many times in this life and haven't. I've been kept alive, to be at this time on Earth. Do you believe in reincarnation? I felt like I walked with him back at that time as one of his apostles. Well thanks again for being there and understanding, I look forward to your comment..
To Linda: Dear Linda, I want to thank you for hearing God's Word. It is clear that you do, as I do. You see, the truth, as it is written, bears witness in your heart. Even if there are things you do not understand, as in being not able to fully understand mentally, and thus not being able to explain it in words, your heart KNOWS. And the more you read, the more you will understand what your own heart KNOWS, because you have received the truth with your heart, meaning that you DESIRE the truth.
Before I say what I have to say for now, since I just barely got off work, and am tired, that I want you to keep looking for my 'TO LINDA' messages, because I will continue to write to you, to take up from where I left off.
Also, I want to say that, after I tell you what I have to say for now, following that will be holy scriptures to confirm; back up, all said.
First, I want to say that the physical body that you are in right now is TEMPORARY, or as God's Word says it, TEMPORAL. It's actually DEAD. But since you have received Christ, His Spirit has quickened it; made it alive, in a very special way.
Unlike those that have not yet received Christ, who's physically bodies are likewise DEAD, your body, even though you cannot see it with your physical eyes or experience it fully with your physical realization, is QUICKENED; made alive, by the Spirit of God in Christ.
Those that have not yet received Christ, have temporary life in them for one reason; purpose, and that is so that they MAY receive Him. They, as we, have the BREATH of God's Spirit, (not God's Spirit, as we do,) but the BREATH of God's Spirit, IN them. That is the life from God that means that no one would exist if it were not for God's spiritual breath in them, giving them the chance to live and recieve His Word; Christ; His Spirit; eternal Life.
Most people do not get it. They don't even have a clue, that the only reason that they are able to BREATH their next breath, and to THINK their next thought, and to go about DOING whatever they do, is for the purpose of TIME to receive Christ Jesus as their Lord and Saviour. There IS no other reason why the Lord God allows people who have not yet received Christ to LIVE, so that they MAY, if they choose; if they WILL.
This TEMPORATY life is far less than a mere blink of any eye compared to ETERNITY. And there is not even one sin that could ever be worth hanging onto; refusing to repent of, in the face of LIVING FOREVER in the love of Almighty God, Who OWNS IT ALL, and Who has made ALL THINGS NEW for those that receive His love, which is to receive His Word; Christ, and to obey it, always beginning with repenting, when we mess up. To avoid that, is like a child whom you so dearly love refusing to do that one and only thing that he or she could do TO GET OUT of trouble; the mess.
That precious child CANNOT do any amount of GOOD or RIGHT things to get his, or her, own self OUT of the trouble, EXCEPT to follow your instructions. And, with God, His instructions when it comes to our sinning, is ONE THING, and thus ONE WAY, only, when it comes to GETTING OUT, and that is DOWN, spiritually; heartfully, speaking, ON OUR KNEES, simply ACKNOWLEDGING; CONFESS; ADMITTING, 'Lord, according to YOU, and thus YOUR Word, I was wrong, sinfully wrong, to think, speak, or do that. I'm sorry, and seek your mercy; please forgive me.'
We could try doing a hundred good and right things in the meanwhile, TO NO AVAIL. Because we do NOT get the glory for that which cleanses us of sin. Only God, and the BLOOD of His Christ; His Son; OUR Saviour; the Shepherd of OUR soul, can get the glory for our cleansing from our sins.
Since you have received Christ, and have not let go of Him; God's Word, thus WORDS, should you physically die right now, you would step right into the arms of Christ; into heaven; into glory.
You would not feel a thing. It would be like opening the door of your house, and stepping outside. Only it would be even easier than that. Because Christ Jesus IS the Door, and He would instantly take your hand, and lift you, up and totally out of this world, to where He is.
The reason that people cannot see the SPIRITUAL newness, as far as our NEW; perfect, bodies, is because it's not time. God LOVES, and DESIRES, and LOOKS FOR, our FAITH in His Word. If we could see everything for how it really is spiritually, we would not NEED to have FAITH in Him.
God's Word says that 'Without faith, it is impossible to please God.' I remember when I first read that, at about 12 years old, and I cried, to think that such was all God wanted from me, was for me to have FAITH in Him, and thus in His Word.
And since, as it is written, 'Faith WORKS by LOVE,' I knew that the love had to come first. I knew that I had to love Him, as He commands; 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your might.' At first that overwhelmed me, because I did not know how to, or if I was able to, do as He required. It made me feel bad, because I wanted to love Him how He wanted. But just by my DESIRING TO; WANTING TO, kept me sincerely sorry when I failed to. And I never failed to let Him know it, even if I, for whatever stupid reason, put it off.
God KNOWS your heart, and if you truly love Him, you WILL repent of any and all of your sins, in due time, because you won't be able to stand yourself until you do, no matter how slight the sin may be.
As for your dying physically, do you remember all those people prior to Christ's coming to pay their debt of sin, and death, who died IN FAITH, looking FORWARD to the coming of the Messiah? Those were all the ones that lived, and physically died, prior to Christ's shedding His blood for the sins of all of mankind.
Isaiah 26:19 Thy dead men shall live, together with MY DEAD BODY shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the deEzekiel 37:13
And ye shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves.
Matthew 27:52
And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
Matthew 27:52
And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
Matthew 27:52
And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
(NEW Testament:) MATTHEW 27:
50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
54 Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
No one could actually be CLEANSED of their sins, but only have their sins COVERED, prior to Christ dying for our sins. So, it was not until Christ Jesus paid the price for 'the wages of death' for us, that any could actually be risen up, and received by our Heavenly Father, AFTER Christ entered heaven FIRST, because He IS the RESURRECTION and THE LIFE!
John 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I AM the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
Your physical body is temporal. But just because you cannot see your perfect heavenly body, does not mean it is not there. It is, by faith in God, and it will be manifested; come to light; come to sight, when you physically die, or when Christ comes to draw those that love Him up to meet Him in the air (whichever comes first.)
If He came right now to draw us up, your physical body would instantly DIE, so quickly that all that would be seen is your physical body suddenly changed into a glorious perfectly beautiful heavenly body that CANNOT DIE!
TEMPORAL is all those things that, FOR NOW, we cannot see with physical eyes, but they shall come to sight in due time.
2 Corinthians 4:18
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are TEMPORAL; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
1 Corinthians 15:48
As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the HEAVENLY, such are they also that are HEAVENLY.
1 Corinthians 15:49
And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the HEAVENLY.
Your heavenly new perfect body is like a new dress; clothes, or a new house; a new tabernacle, that never gets worn out. You; your soul; your spiritual self, for now, lives in your old physical body, which is like an old, decaying, house, or old raggy clothes. Your old physical body shall be dissolved; die, and God will CLOTHE you with your perfect everlasting heavenly body. It will look like your old one only enough to tell it's you, but moreso what the Lord MEANT for your body to look like, flawless, perfect, eternally healthy and glorious, never ill, never aging, never dying.
2 Corinthians 5:4
For we that are in THIS tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but CLOTHED UPON, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
I was wondering this, I like all you have to say you seem to know a lot about this book. I always wondered if it repeats about God being eternal life there is no death but of the devil, then why are people dying if they have a strong connection to God. It says God is eternal life and God didn't create death, it is of the devil. So if a person is sin free, and close to God then why should they die, shouldn't they have eternal life here on earth?, or does eternal life represent his kingdom.
I have never been close to God until now and have been reading his word daily. I find that what you mean when you said when you take his word and read it daily his knowledge and love become a better understanding.
"Be it now within your heart to know that I am with thee, and pray to me often. Repent when you feel you must, for I will hear. It is with this that you will find truth within your soul, it is with this that I will then come into thee heart. Ask me for forgiveness and pray and this will allow you a closeness to thy father in heaven.
For thy comes like a thief in the night, for all those who know me will give this a thought. For the many who don’t will find this to suffer. For this is true onto those who believe in me . The book of revelations is the true parchment to what is about to perceive on this Earth, Know it and seek it, for all is explained into this time on earth, the thousand days is coming to an end, and this world will see the wrath of God. Over time all the ones who are with God shall not suffer of what is to become of this world, for now it’s the time to know of these things. For I will follow the last of days, when all is heard from on high of heaven. Ye shall know of this by the way of this world and its consequences those thee will see present. For all who know and follow god will be taken to his kingdom, those who follow the devil will fall with him. Those who receive the mark, will not be able to enter his kingdom. Let it be known unto this time on earth, for this time will soon prevail and you shall hear it in the winds. You shall hear the thunder from the sky, you shall know the mystery of God which you thought never existed. For thine is here at this time of great wrath to tell thee of these things to come. For it is written in the book for a reason on earth at this time. For God will call upon all those who will be judged to let this be known. Many think of not this isn’t the truth, for I am Jesus Christ your savior and am from God in heaven. I died for your sins and ascended into heaven only to return one day to earth. For listen to my words and ponder these thoughts, thee will know when I return of my glory onto heaven. Now I say onto thee that the almighty father in heaven is now returning to this time on earth for all is known by thee. For the time is for all who hear this know it in their hearts and may God be with thee." -Jesus
Hi Matthew Gene, That is so true. It's cos true love comes only from God. It is not even our own personal love that can properly love anyone, much less everyone. Only God's Personal love in our hearts can do that, and we can only truly love others when we do so in honor of His love for each of us. It is not even about what we FEEL, but always about what we think, say, and/or do, in accordance with God's commands unto each of us.
If you hate your brother enough to murder him.Then how could you love your nabor or your nabors nabor.Or even so how could you love your mother or father.Then this being said how could you love God or Jesus and the holysprit.
REGARDING VERSES 8-10: The difference between those of mankind that are born of God, and those that are not, is that those that are not have not received Christ. Until they do, they CANNOT repent in the way of true repentance. This is why no one need repent IN ORDER to receive Christ, since one CANNOT until and unless one does, and this is why the gifts and the calling are WITHOUT repentance.
Romans 11:29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
As, it is the love and GOODNESS OF GOD in Christ that LEADS a man unto repentance.
Romans 2:4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the GOODNESS OF GOD leadeth thee to repentance? Romans 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the LOVE OF GOD, which is IN Christ Jesus our Lord.
Yet, we are still all brothers in Christ, regardless of those that have not received Him from and with their hearts so that He may be IN them. As, He died for ALL, even for those who are considered to be SINNERS as we were before we recieved Him. ROMANS 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
2 CORINTHIANS 5:15 And that he DIED FOR ALL, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
Also, while we that are born of God cannot commit sin, as far as WITH the 'mind of Christ,' which is God, and which we have, we CAN sin WITH THE FLESH, by yielding to sin, and thereby serving sin. ROMANS 7:20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then WITH the MIND I myself serve the law of God; but WITH the FLESH the law of sin.
The MIND refered to is NOT the CARNAL mind, whch is FLESH:
Romans 8:7 Because the CARNAL MIND is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
But the MIND of Christ, which is SPIRIT:
Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
1 Corinthians 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the MIND OF CHRIST.
Although we CAN sin, that NEW CREATURE we each are in Christ CANNOT. If we serve sin with our flesh, thereby LETTING sin have it's way, we are allowing our OWN WILL, instead of God's to take control. However, having the MIND of CHRIST, God HIMSELF gave us HIS WILL to resort to, meaning we can SAY NO to our own fleshly; carnal, will, and turn it back to the WILL of God:
Philippians 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both TO WILL and to do of his good pleasure.
That 'TO WILL' is one of the gifts of the Spirit of God, PRAISE GOD, He has made it EASY on us:
Romans 6:12 LET NOT sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
We are GODLY because we have RECEIVED, and have continued to LOVE, Christ, DESPITE our inclination to yield to sin, and thus we REMAIN IN Him, having our sins COVERED by His BLOOD, giving us grace, and time, to repent of any sin/s we have not yet repented of, and receive the forgiveness for, the and cleansing away, of our sins the moment we repent.
It is BECAUSE we have received Christ, and ARE thus SPIRIT BEINGS; SPIRIT of God's Spirit; BORN of God, that we, despite our sins, are GODLY, and it is BECAUSE we are GODLY that we CAN, and, by God, we WILL repent of; CONFESS, our sins unto the LORD. Hear this Old Testament prophetic prayer that clarifies that the GODLY are inclined to sin, as far as to yield to it, and to HAVE SIN to admit to, and confess, unto the LORD. And as you read, take note that the GODLY are those that, DESPITE their sins, TRUST IN THE LORD, are BLESSED, RIGHTEOUS, UPRIGHT IN HEART, COMPASSED ABOUT WITH MERCY, AND SONGS OF DELIVERANCE, and HID in Christ, HID from the WRATH of God, as the blood of Christ covers our sins:
PSALMS 32:2 BLESSED is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
5 I ACKNOWLEDGED my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I WILL confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
6 For THIS shall EVERY one that is GODLY pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
7 Thou art my HIDING place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt COMPASS ME ABOUT with songs of DELIVERANCE. Selah.
8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, MERCY shall COMPASS HIM ABOUT.
11 Be glad IN the LORD, and rejoice, ye RIGHTEOUS: and shout for joy, all ye that are UPRIGHT IN HEART.
NONE of this means that a born again child of God can serve sin, and refuse to repent, and still be saved in the end. God's Word warns us. God is a just God, warning the righteous to NOT forsake Him, and warning the unrighteous to turn unto Him.
In the meanwhile, prior to physically dying, which if one that received Christ dies with any sins being unrepented of, then that person had to have ceased to LOVE the righteousness of God, which is Christ Jesus. And that soul will be cut off from Him:
Colossians 1:23 If ye CONTINUE IN the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
1 Timothy 4:16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; CONTINUE IN them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
ROMANS 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Romans 11:22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou CONTINUE in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
Even if we yield to sin, to, at that point NEED to repent, IN ORDER TO continue in the goodness of God, it is God's GOODNESS that, at that point, LEADS us UNTO repentance.
So, what is the problem if we serve sin, if we WILL, however eventually, repent? Well, in the meanwhile we get bombarded with lies and feelings of DOUBT that we ARE godly, righteous, blessed, etc., and we start THINKING as if we are NOT these things, and our JOY and CONFIDENCE becomes less and less. THAT is how Satan WANTS us to think and feel. But since Christ has died for our sins, Satan can NOT any longer make us his servants, and KEEP us in bondage to sin. It is NO LONGER Satan's grounds; jurisdiction; right. As, NOW, it is only WE, YOU YOUSELF, I MYSELF, that can keep us, you, me, being a servant to, in bondage to, sin, meaning we can STOP IT, REFUSE IT, by turning unto the LORD to repent, and thereby be cleansed and receive the forgiveness of God INSTANTLY, and then PROCEED to CONTINUE in obedience unto the Lord. Any time we yield to sin, the FIRST STEP before we can continue to WALK in the Lord, is down on our knees, heartfully speaking, and repent. Is NOT repenting of our sins INSTILLED in the VERY prayer that Jesus instructs us to pray DAILY?
LUKE 11:3 Give us day by day our DAILY bread.
4 And FORGIVE US OUR SINS; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.
When we hate sin, and are quick to repent of it, AND read; eat and drink, the Word; WORDS, of God, the less and less we are inclined to sin, as the LOVE OF GOD perfects us more and more each day.
But, due to the danger of our continuing in sin; putting of repentance, God loves us TOO much to not deal with us here and now for our own good, not according to our sins, which the wages of is death, but in order to correct us, and keep us from the dangers of being in sin:
1 Corinthians 11:32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
John 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Revelation 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and CHASTEN: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Hebrews 12:8 But if ye be without CHASTISEMENT, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
ROMANS 12:4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed
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I will end with saying this unto all those that have received Christ; God's Word; God's RIGHTEOUSNESS, and who are therefore GODLY, RIGHTEOUS, who's righteousness is of the LORD, that, if you have sin, to date, that you have not repented of; have not acknowledged; admitted, and confessed, unto the LORD, here's the thing: You WILL. It's far better for you to not force your heavenly Father to HAVE to sorely chastise you, because He WILL if need be. And you know full well in your heart that, when it comes to where the rubber meets the road, should you be chastised of Him, you will NOT blaspheme Him as if He is unjust, or as if He does not love you (there IS no if,) but you will stand corrected, and repent of your sins before Him. So, knowing you WILL, why wait? There is no good reason to wait, and nothing but MANY good reasons to come clean NOW. Until you do, you, as far as the NEW CREATURE you are in Christ in your Innerman, has fallen asleep at the wheel so to speak, and is either in a spiritual coma, or is getting that way, and the LORD is calling you to WAKE UP! Don't you worry, if He has to SHAKE you, He will, since the longer you ignore Him, the more deaf your spiritual ears get.
And don't believe the lies of the devil telling you 'But you messed up AGAIN, and have repeately, and God's tired of hearing you repent,...'
As, first of all, if you are a MESS, you are your heavenly FATHER'S mess, and NONE of Satan's business whatsoever. You ARE upright, but it is Christ that is bearing you up. The moment you repent, it is embracing the One that holds you up.
Psalms 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: NO good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
2 Corinthians 5:15 And that he DIED FOR ALL, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
verses 8-9-10 the two children one is born of god I must assume the other is born of the devil that which is born of the devil commits sin that which is born of god does not sin and cannot sin because he is born of god its a position he has in Christ because he keeps his commandments 3:23 to believe that Jesus is his son and to love one another as he gave commandment has nothing to do with the law of Moses. Abraham believed god and it was imputed onto him for righteousness Romans 4:3 what did Abraham do to obtain righteousness he believed god what does god command you to believe 3:23 that Jesus is his son and to love one another as he gave commandment by this know we the children of god and the children of the devil whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of god neither he that loveth not his brother 4:3 and every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of god neither he that loveth not his brother may also be speaking of Jesus seeing that he is also your brother John 14:21 He that hath my commandments and keepeth them he it is that loveth me 3:23 as gods word he gives you the fathers commandment to believe that he is his son and as his son he gives you his commandment to love one anothere
Hello friends,what are my thought's about this verse in my opinion i see for one thing that this verse is directly speaking to a, BROTHER! you may say what kind of brother, is it a brother who is a bible believeing, god fearing, toughtalking, walking, professing,and may i go on further etc etc.or just a brother who may have not know the in depth love and character of GOD the father and jesus and the holy spirit.You can't dislike a brother once you have experiance an offence coming your way like it say, later in the chapter about cain killing his brother abel for he was jealous of his actions I DON'T CARE how much you may say within yourself how much you love the lord, as far as im concerned, you can still have all the opportunite in the world to receive an offence, GOD forbid that you who are a christian can hold on to these impulses you who should be more caring about the next person, not just your brother, yes a person, that person may be the one you see over and over again sitting in the back row well why dont you just walk up to him and introduce yourself instead of thinking about how brother offended you if he does go to him and ask for forgiveness, to crucify that anger in your heart and replace it with gods love ,sorry cant love god and hate your brother at the same time. So i can ask jesus in my heart, yes, be saved yes BUT! can i still have a oppertunity for an offence yes, no, yes, no, well what is it STOPPPPPP! we need to still day by day grow up in spiritaly need for gods love thats what we need in our lives so i welcome offence not that i should be a partaker of what was done wrongfully to me both good or bad but that i should yeild every memeber of my body to be subjected to jesus my saviour for his glory not mine.
Sin is the disobedience to God’s law, good deeds without obedience to God’s commandments will be unto death ;for works without faith (belief with obedience) is dead and the wages of sin is death.
Well these people in LA said I was the reincarnation of this actor in my last lifetime, so I just asked the universe as I used to do by asking out loud and it showed me the three different times I did it, that I was this actor. Yet now I realize it was the devil messing with me. There's a guy online that says he's John the apostle because so many psychics told him. So he holds healing seminars and travels worldwide telling people he is.
I had another experience in 1984 in DC when I lived there. I was having this dark person really bother me and they could appear and reappear in different areas of town easily with no car. One day I was running from there in fear, this guy up ahead was walking. I slowed down to walk with him, he wore a long trench coat and had golden curly locks of hair to his shoulders. I felt safe with him and he introduced himself as Gabriel. A very tall man, he held out his hand and wanted me to go with him, I didn't and he and the bus he got in just disappeared going down the street. When I was being harassed in LA by those dark people, I went to the library one day just to be in a quiet place. I opened a book of art and saw a painting of arch angel Gabriel by some painter in the 15th century. It was the same guy I saw in DC back then. I wondered...this was in 2004.
I was told that 2016 is the time of his return. I have seen it on this website by another who said the same thing after I was told this.
When you talk about the devil having relationships with women on this earth at that time, I believe over the centuries it just kept happening. A major repeat of evil people on this planet that are still doing dark things to this world. People think its the little gray guys from space, or the Illuminati, the one world gov't etc. At my job I hear people talking about not believing in God and laughing about the chapter in the bible of revelations. I heard this the other day "so these Christians think that we're going to have a rapture like in the book of revelations and the worlds going to end" when I walked by this guy at my work said this as he laughed.
As for my writing I have, I'm still a little skeptical about it. I feel like he deserted me because I haven't heard anything from him in awhile about the book, and I was thinking it was the devil fooling me. I don't have any money to publish this book, I live a life on a shoe string.
The tribulation you speak of and people being beheaded. I thought that the Antichrist will put out the mark and those who refuse it will be taken to the concentration camps they are setting up all over the US. There they will beheaded or burned. I thought this would happen right before Christ returns. As for people ascending into heaven, the new age movement now is doing this thing where their saying..you can descend and go into the 4th and 5th dimension now and not have to be part of this world, through clearing your energy and letting go of the the 3rd dimension.
This new age ascension, 2012 earth moving into the 5th, aliens, David Icke the man with the scary books, hollywood movies of the earth being destroyed by the sun's flares is all produced by the devil to create fear and havoc amongst the many.
So Donna, and anybody else out there reading this, what do you think? Surely there has to be someone else on here who is following this conversation and would like to add their views on whats going on with this world today. Even that Bible code book whats that all about?
oh yeah I believe the s--- is going to hit the fan in the next 5 years and things will really get worse, but what about us, will we die? be lifted off the earth in safety or like in that movie "The Knowing" which is an interesting thing, have men come down in ships and take us to a beautiful place. That movie is really something.
I end with this, I sat in a cafe a few years ago by myself looking out the window. This young man walks in and starts talking to me at my seat. First thing I notice, he pulls up in a lotus. Second thing he says, "I'm a christian, and really believe in Jesus, when I was 10 I saw myself one day be lifted off the ground and taken up to the sky in the middle of a field, since then I believe." I sat there in my chair and looked at his car and thought..if your a Christian why do you drive a car like this, for it's hard for a rich man to get into heaven.
One more thing..if a person cremates themselves to ash how can they be lifted up outta the ground if they have no body. Shouldn't the body be buried without being burned up?
Thanks again Donna for all your encouragement and advice, scriptures, as well as just being there.
It is IN the Face; the WORDS, of Christ, that we see; perceive, and come to know, the Father. As, Christ Jesus is the EXPRESS Image of God, the Father. As, Christ was/is the very HEART of God, the Father, expressed unto us. Christ IS the Word, and thus the WORDS of the Father, speaking unto us. As it is written:
I John 3:I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
John 7:16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
John 12:44 Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me.
When Christ Jesus says 'My words,' they are not His as far as where; Who, they came from. The words of God's Word; Christ, are the words of His Father, just as Christ; God's Word, is God's; the Father's.
There are so many beautiful and deep things touched upon in the prayer that Jesus Christ prayed to His Father in John, chapter 17. One thing is that He says, in so many words, 'Father, you gave mankind ME, and I gave them your WORDS.
John 17:1 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou GAVEST THEM ME; and they have kept thy word.
7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
8 For I have GIVEN unto them THE WORDS which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
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John 14:9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is NOT MINE, but the Father's which sent me.
25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
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John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
18 NO MAN HATH SEEN GOD at any time; the only begotten Son, which is IN THE BOSOM bosom of the Father, he hath DECLARED him.
John 6:63 (Jesus said...)63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: THE WORDS that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
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2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God IN THE FACE of Jesus Christ.
Psalms 27:8 When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
Psalms 17:15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with THY LIKENESS.
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I John 3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
2 Beloved, NOW are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when HE shall appear, we shall be LIKE HIM; for we shall see him as he is.
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Hebrews 1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
3 Who being THE BRIGHTNESS his glory, and the EXPRESS IMAGE of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
There are devils; evil spirits; evil angels, who WERE God's angels, and thus 'sons of God,' who, along with Lucifer (now Satan,) turned from God, and fell from Heaven, and had sexual relations with some of the women of mankind, which women therefore had children by those devils.
While one may say that those children were half human; mankind, and half-devil, that's not the case. As, the ONLY thing human; mankind, about them would be their 'fleshly bodies.' Inside those bodies were NOT any SOULS, but evil spirits; devils. And God's Word referes to those devils as 'men of renown,' because they lived prior to being born into human bodies.
Genesis 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of RENOWN.
But I can understand why you would feel like you were one of the apostles, because once you received Jesus Christ, you became a member of 'the FAMILY OF JESUS CHRIST.' We cannot help from feeling like we KNOW one another, and as if we've known one another all our lives. It's the Spirit of God that's in each of us. You were not personally there back in the days of the apostles. But the Lord God Who is IN you, and Whom you are IN, was there. And your spirit is joined with Him; with the Spirit of God.
As a matter of fact, since you are filled with the Holy Ghost; the Spirit of God, you KNOW ALL THINGS in your heart. You, and I, and all those filled with His Spirit, just don't UNDERSTAND all those things. But our hearts KNOW. That's why when we hear, or read, the truth, it bears witness in our hearts, we KNOW it's true, even if we can't understand why, or how, it's true, etc..
1 Corinthians 6:17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
1 Corinthians 6:19
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1 John 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
EPHESIANS 3:1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
7 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
13 Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end.
Amen.
HEBREWS 12:18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
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Almighty God has such a special and great purpose
for your book! He foresees what's coming. As, He is getting ready to shake this world like never before, to make one last MIGHTY CALL unto mankind to ESCAPE the Great Tribulation. And even though the Great Tribulation is not the worst thing, as God's WRATH TO COME thereafter is worse than that, and the worse of all is ETERNAL DAMNATION, still, the Great Tribulation is going to be horrible, because no one will be upon earth that has the Spirit of God in him, or her. All those that have His Spirit are, altogether, His BODY of people, to Whom He is their Head, and are all us that have received Him; Christ, our Head, and serve Him, and will all be drawn up to meet Him in the air before the Great Tribulation takes place.
The Great Tribulation is a time when everyone that believes God, and His Son, are real, and that they SHOULD HAVE received Christ, and repented of sin, and desired to obey Him, will WISH THEY HAD NOT PUT HIM OFF. Because they will then see JUST HOW very wicked this world is, that it is NOT for them, and that all that time they spent serving the world just to please themselves was NOT WORTH IT.
God will use that time to let the eyes of many be opened, and let them seek Him, and find Him, but they will end up having be beheaded; lose their lives, as far as physically, in order to make it to be with Him.
I see it like this, had they been serving their TRUE Head, Christ, they would not have had to lose their own physical head.
But they will gladly do so, knowing that they will rise up to heaven instantly.
But during the Great Tribulation, prior to those that repent of their sins before God being beheaded, God will greatly use them to tell, and teach, others about Him, those that never received Him before. There's a scripture in the Old Testament that, speaking of that time, says 'Do not go to them, let them come to you.'
In other words, the Lord, using His angels, will be helping His people HIDE OUT from wicked people trying to find and kill them. When it is time for them to die, GOD Himself will decide that, and not the devil.
But prior to the Great Tribulation, again, the Lord is ready to make one last mighty call unto mankind. It's already started, as people are getting frantic, uncertain, and very uncomfortable, with the way the world seems to be getting by with mocking, and insulting, the Lord God; the Lord Jesus. People, even those that have refused to receive Him, are so like a bunch of kids. While little kids want their way, and like to try to get by with wrong things, I've always noticed how, regardless of how they may try, they would feel betrayed, unloved, and abondoned, if no one cared enough about them to NOT LET THEM get by. There's something about knowing someone cares enough about you to scold you, and try discourage you from wrong, even if you want to do the wrong.
And what I have seen lately are people who, even though they have not received the Lord, and repented of their sins, they are very disturbed at it seeming as if the Lord God Whom they KNOW is true, even though they have not yet received His Christ; His Word; His only begotten Son, is seeming not very powerful, or why would He let the world get by with all the evil onslaughts, and all the speaking as if they have the right to SILENCE His people.
The Lord is merely allowing it temporarily, for His own reasons, His own purpose, His own glory, and to the TOTAL SURPRISE of the wicked. He is now letting; incouraging, all those that want to choose the side of Satan, to go ahead and do so, and be as bold as they can be about it (for now.) It's call 'separating the sheep from the goats; the tares from the wheat.' He is letting everyone TAKE THEIR STANCE.
But BEFORE He calls; draws, His people in whom all is His Spirit, up to meet Him in the air, things are going to happen, earthquakes like never before, whirlwinds; hurricanes, floods, etc., fires, that are going to destroy (not KILL) all those that have not received Him, and those that have that have been walking in sin against Him, devasting them more than they ever imagined could happen. And WE will be the only ones safe and sound, and shining like LIGHTS unto all that WILL run to us to hear about the Lord our God Who's Spirit is IN US, and Who's POWER we have working in and through us.
Once, during that time, all will hear that will hear, and receive Him, which the Lord will give a certain amount of time, He will then draw us, and all those that are newly born of Him, up to meet Him in the air.
And THEN the Anti-Christ; Satan, will sit and decare his ugly liar self as God.
I want to tell you something the Lord told me; gave me, sort of like a poem, about 4 years ago, when He began showing me these things. But I need to get to sleep. I will write more tomoro. Love in Christ Jesus,
Donna
Hi and thanks! goodness since I was a child I read the bible, then gave it up in my teens. I did Buddhism for years and prayed at a piece of paper, which they thought was enlightment. I was showns signs of Jesus everywhere I went, and just ignored it. I lived in LA for years and was bothered by satanists for years, they tried to kill me and really wanted me dead. Something kept me safe and alive and no matter how hard they ran me off the road I wouldn't die. So I left the city and moved a few states away, to a quiet town. One day, this bright light shown down on me from the sky, it hit my heart of pure love, it was as bright as the sun, and I saw Jesus smile in it. I felt him and pure love the purest I ever felt thought out my whole body and had a knowing it was him, for about 14 seconds. I ran to a enclosed area, sat down and repented as well as told him I was sorry I never paid any attention. to him. Now it says in the bible that no one has ever seen God, I don't know what that was, but to me it was a sign that yes he did exist. Then he started to talk to me in these writings of these words and wanted me to put it in a book. I got scared, for I didn't want to be like a false prophet, I have about 5 chapters and I want to publish it and give it to people who are looking for him. For that is what I was told to do. He said the book would only fall into the hands of those searching. I am basically a loner, my family doesn't want anything to do with me. I get harrassed at my job, and people make me feel like I don't fit in anywhere I go. There is a reason for everything I believe, I am trying to understand now the bible thing about do not be of this world. Didn't God create this world, then why not be a part of it. There is so much I want to understand, but all I know is, I was supposed to die so many times in this life and haven't. I've been kept alive, to be at this time on Earth. Do you believe in reincarnation? I felt like I walked with him back at that time as one of his apostles. Well thanks again for being there and understanding, I look forward to your comment..
Before I say what I have to say for now, since I just barely got off work, and am tired, that I want you to keep looking for my 'TO LINDA' messages, because I will continue to write to you, to take up from where I left off.
Also, I want to say that, after I tell you what I have to say for now, following that will be holy scriptures to confirm; back up, all said.
First, I want to say that the physical body that you are in right now is TEMPORARY, or as God's Word says it, TEMPORAL. It's actually DEAD. But since you have received Christ, His Spirit has quickened it; made it alive, in a very special way.
Unlike those that have not yet received Christ, who's physically bodies are likewise DEAD, your body, even though you cannot see it with your physical eyes or experience it fully with your physical realization, is QUICKENED; made alive, by the Spirit of God in Christ.
Those that have not yet received Christ, have temporary life in them for one reason; purpose, and that is so that they MAY receive Him. They, as we, have the BREATH of God's Spirit, (not God's Spirit, as we do,) but the BREATH of God's Spirit, IN them. That is the life from God that means that no one would exist if it were not for God's spiritual breath in them, giving them the chance to live and recieve His Word; Christ; His Spirit; eternal Life.
Most people do not get it. They don't even have a clue, that the only reason that they are able to BREATH their next breath, and to THINK their next thought, and to go about DOING whatever they do, is for the purpose of TIME to receive Christ Jesus as their Lord and Saviour. There IS no other reason why the Lord God allows people who have not yet received Christ to LIVE, so that they MAY, if they choose; if they WILL.
This TEMPORATY life is far less than a mere blink of any eye compared to ETERNITY. And there is not even one sin that could ever be worth hanging onto; refusing to repent of, in the face of LIVING FOREVER in the love of Almighty God, Who OWNS IT ALL, and Who has made ALL THINGS NEW for those that receive His love, which is to receive His Word; Christ, and to obey it, always beginning with repenting, when we mess up. To avoid that, is like a child whom you so dearly love refusing to do that one and only thing that he or she could do TO GET OUT of trouble; the mess.
That precious child CANNOT do any amount of GOOD or RIGHT things to get his, or her, own self OUT of the trouble, EXCEPT to follow your instructions. And, with God, His instructions when it comes to our sinning, is ONE THING, and thus ONE WAY, only, when it comes to GETTING OUT, and that is DOWN, spiritually; heartfully, speaking, ON OUR KNEES, simply ACKNOWLEDGING; CONFESS; ADMITTING, 'Lord, according to YOU, and thus YOUR Word, I was wrong, sinfully wrong, to think, speak, or do that. I'm sorry, and seek your mercy; please forgive me.'
We could try doing a hundred good and right things in the meanwhile, TO NO AVAIL. Because we do NOT get the glory for that which cleanses us of sin. Only God, and the BLOOD of His Christ; His Son; OUR Saviour; the Shepherd of OUR soul, can get the glory for our cleansing from our sins.
Since you have received Christ, and have not let go of Him; God's Word, thus WORDS, should you physically die right now, you would step right into the arms of Christ; into heaven; into glory.
You would not feel a thing. It would be like opening the door of your house, and stepping outside. Only it would be even easier than that. Because Christ Jesus IS the Door, and He would instantly take your hand, and lift you, up and totally out of this world, to where He is.
The reason that people cannot see the SPIRITUAL newness, as far as our NEW; perfect, bodies, is because it's not time. God LOVES, and DESIRES, and LOOKS FOR, our FAITH in His Word. If we could see everything for how it really is spiritually, we would not NEED to have FAITH in Him.
God's Word says that 'Without faith, it is impossible to please God.' I remember when I first read that, at about 12 years old, and I cried, to think that such was all God wanted from me, was for me to have FAITH in Him, and thus in His Word.
And since, as it is written, 'Faith WORKS by LOVE,' I knew that the love had to come first. I knew that I had to love Him, as He commands; 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your might.' At first that overwhelmed me, because I did not know how to, or if I was able to, do as He required. It made me feel bad, because I wanted to love Him how He wanted. But just by my DESIRING TO; WANTING TO, kept me sincerely sorry when I failed to. And I never failed to let Him know it, even if I, for whatever stupid reason, put it off.
God KNOWS your heart, and if you truly love Him, you WILL repent of any and all of your sins, in due time, because you won't be able to stand yourself until you do, no matter how slight the sin may be.
As for your dying physically, do you remember all those people prior to Christ's coming to pay their debt of sin, and death, who died IN FAITH, looking FORWARD to the coming of the Messiah? Those were all the ones that lived, and physically died, prior to Christ's shedding His blood for the sins of all of mankind.
Isaiah 26:19 Thy dead men shall live, together with MY DEAD BODY shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the deEzekiel 37:13
And ye shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves.
Matthew 27:52
And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
Matthew 27:52
And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
Matthew 27:52
And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
(NEW Testament:) MATTHEW 27:
50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
54 Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
No one could actually be CLEANSED of their sins, but only have their sins COVERED, prior to Christ dying for our sins. So, it was not until Christ Jesus paid the price for 'the wages of death' for us, that any could actually be risen up, and received by our Heavenly Father, AFTER Christ entered heaven FIRST, because He IS the RESURRECTION and THE LIFE!
John 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I AM the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
Your physical body is temporal. But just because you cannot see your perfect heavenly body, does not mean it is not there. It is, by faith in God, and it will be manifested; come to light; come to sight, when you physically die, or when Christ comes to draw those that love Him up to meet Him in the air (whichever comes first.)
If He came right now to draw us up, your physical body would instantly DIE, so quickly that all that would be seen is your physical body suddenly changed into a glorious perfectly beautiful heavenly body that CANNOT DIE!
TEMPORAL is all those things that, FOR NOW, we cannot see with physical eyes, but they shall come to sight in due time.
2 Corinthians 4:18
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are TEMPORAL; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
1 Corinthians 15:48
As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the HEAVENLY, such are they also that are HEAVENLY.
1 Corinthians 15:49
And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the HEAVENLY.
Your heavenly new perfect body is like a new dress; clothes, or a new house; a new tabernacle, that never gets worn out. You; your soul; your spiritual self, for now, lives in your old physical body, which is like an old, decaying, house, or old raggy clothes. Your old physical body shall be dissolved; die, and God will CLOTHE you with your perfect everlasting heavenly body. It will look like your old one only enough to tell it's you, but moreso what the Lord MEANT for your body to look like, flawless, perfect, eternally healthy and glorious, never ill, never aging, never dying.
2 Corinthians 5:4
For we that are in THIS tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but CLOTHED UPON, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
I was wondering this, I like all you have to say you seem to know a lot about this book. I always wondered if it repeats about God being eternal life there is no death but of the devil, then why are people dying if they have a strong connection to God. It says God is eternal life and God didn't create death, it is of the devil. So if a person is sin free, and close to God then why should they die, shouldn't they have eternal life here on earth?, or does eternal life represent his kingdom.
I have never been close to God until now and have been reading his word daily. I find that what you mean when you said when you take his word and read it daily his knowledge and love become a better understanding.
"Be it now within your heart to know that I am with thee, and pray to me often. Repent when you feel you must, for I will hear. It is with this that you will find truth within your soul, it is with this that I will then come into thee heart. Ask me for forgiveness and pray and this will allow you a closeness to thy father in heaven.
For thy comes like a thief in the night, for all those who know me will give this a thought. For the many who don’t will find this to suffer. For this is true onto those who believe in me . The book of revelations is the true parchment to what is about to perceive on this Earth, Know it and seek it, for all is explained into this time on earth, the thousand days is coming to an end, and this world will see the wrath of God. Over time all the ones who are with God shall not suffer of what is to become of this world, for now it’s the time to know of these things. For I will follow the last of days, when all is heard from on high of heaven. Ye shall know of this by the way of this world and its consequences those thee will see present. For all who know and follow god will be taken to his kingdom, those who follow the devil will fall with him. Those who receive the mark, will not be able to enter his kingdom. Let it be known unto this time on earth, for this time will soon prevail and you shall hear it in the winds. You shall hear the thunder from the sky, you shall know the mystery of God which you thought never existed. For thine is here at this time of great wrath to tell thee of these things to come. For it is written in the book for a reason on earth at this time. For God will call upon all those who will be judged to let this be known. Many think of not this isn’t the truth, for I am Jesus Christ your savior and am from God in heaven. I died for your sins and ascended into heaven only to return one day to earth. For listen to my words and ponder these thoughts, thee will know when I return of my glory onto heaven. Now I say onto thee that the almighty father in heaven is now returning to this time on earth for all is known by thee. For the time is for all who hear this know it in their hearts and may God be with thee." -Jesus
Romans 11:29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
As, it is the love and GOODNESS OF GOD in Christ that LEADS a man unto repentance.
Romans 2:4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the GOODNESS OF GOD leadeth thee to repentance?
Romans 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the LOVE OF GOD, which is IN Christ Jesus our Lord.
Yet, we are still all brothers in Christ, regardless of those that have not received Him from and with their hearts so that He may be IN them. As, He died for ALL, even for those who are considered to be SINNERS as we were before we recieved Him.
ROMANS 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
2 CORINTHIANS 5:15 And that he DIED FOR ALL, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
Also, while we that are born of God cannot commit sin, as far as WITH the 'mind of Christ,' which is God, and which we have, we CAN sin WITH THE FLESH, by yielding to sin, and thereby serving sin.
ROMANS 7:20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then WITH the MIND I myself serve the law of God; but WITH the FLESH the law of sin.
The MIND refered to is NOT the CARNAL mind, whch is FLESH:
Romans 8:7 Because the CARNAL MIND is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
But the MIND of Christ, which is SPIRIT:
Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
1 Corinthians 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the MIND OF CHRIST.
Although we CAN sin, that NEW CREATURE we each are in Christ CANNOT. If we serve sin with our flesh, thereby LETTING sin have it's way, we are allowing our OWN WILL, instead of God's to take control. However, having the MIND of CHRIST, God HIMSELF gave us HIS WILL to resort to, meaning we can SAY NO to our own fleshly; carnal, will, and turn it back to the WILL of God:
Philippians 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both TO WILL and to do of his good pleasure.
That 'TO WILL' is one of the gifts of the Spirit of God, PRAISE GOD, He has made it EASY on us:
Romans 6:12 LET NOT sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
We are GODLY because we have RECEIVED, and have continued to LOVE, Christ, DESPITE our inclination to yield to sin, and thus we REMAIN IN Him, having our sins COVERED by His BLOOD, giving us grace, and time, to repent of any sin/s we have not yet repented of, and receive the forgiveness for, the and cleansing away, of our sins the moment we repent.
It is BECAUSE we have received Christ, and ARE thus SPIRIT BEINGS; SPIRIT of God's Spirit; BORN of God, that we, despite our sins, are GODLY, and it is BECAUSE we are GODLY that we CAN, and, by God, we WILL repent of; CONFESS, our sins unto the LORD. Hear this Old Testament prophetic prayer that clarifies that the GODLY are inclined to sin, as far as to yield to it, and to HAVE SIN to admit to, and confess, unto the LORD. And as you read, take note that the GODLY are those that, DESPITE their sins, TRUST IN THE LORD, are BLESSED, RIGHTEOUS, UPRIGHT IN HEART, COMPASSED ABOUT WITH MERCY, AND SONGS OF DELIVERANCE, and HID in Christ, HID from the WRATH of God, as the blood of Christ covers our sins:
PSALMS 32:2 BLESSED is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
5 I ACKNOWLEDGED my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I WILL confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
6 For THIS shall EVERY one that is GODLY pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
7 Thou art my HIDING place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt COMPASS ME ABOUT with songs of DELIVERANCE. Selah.
8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, MERCY shall COMPASS HIM ABOUT.
11 Be glad IN the LORD, and rejoice, ye RIGHTEOUS: and shout for joy, all ye that are UPRIGHT IN HEART.
NONE of this means that a born again child of God can serve sin, and refuse to repent, and still be saved in the end. God's Word warns us. God is a just God, warning the righteous to NOT forsake Him, and warning the unrighteous to turn unto Him.
In the meanwhile, prior to physically dying, which if one that received Christ dies with any sins being unrepented of, then that person had to have ceased to LOVE the righteousness of God, which is Christ Jesus. And that soul will be cut off from Him:
Colossians 1:23 If ye CONTINUE IN the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
1 Timothy 4:16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; CONTINUE IN them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
ROMANS 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Romans 11:22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou CONTINUE in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
Even if we yield to sin, to, at that point NEED to repent, IN ORDER TO continue in the goodness of God, it is God's GOODNESS that, at that point, LEADS us UNTO repentance.
So, what is the problem if we serve sin, if we WILL, however eventually, repent? Well, in the meanwhile we get bombarded with lies and feelings of DOUBT that we ARE godly, righteous, blessed, etc., and we start THINKING as if we are NOT these things, and our JOY and CONFIDENCE becomes less and less. THAT is how Satan WANTS us to think and feel. But since Christ has died for our sins, Satan can NOT any longer make us his servants, and KEEP us in bondage to sin. It is NO LONGER Satan's grounds; jurisdiction; right. As, NOW, it is only WE, YOU YOUSELF, I MYSELF, that can keep us, you, me, being a servant to, in bondage to, sin, meaning we can STOP IT, REFUSE IT, by turning unto the LORD to repent, and thereby be cleansed and receive the forgiveness of God INSTANTLY, and then PROCEED to CONTINUE in obedience unto the Lord. Any time we yield to sin, the FIRST STEP before we can continue to WALK in the Lord, is down on our knees, heartfully speaking, and repent. Is NOT repenting of our sins INSTILLED in the VERY prayer that Jesus instructs us to pray DAILY?
LUKE 11:3 Give us day by day our DAILY bread.
4 And FORGIVE US OUR SINS; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.
When we hate sin, and are quick to repent of it, AND read; eat and drink, the Word; WORDS, of God, the less and less we are inclined to sin, as the LOVE OF GOD perfects us more and more each day.
But, due to the danger of our continuing in sin; putting of repentance, God loves us TOO much to not deal with us here and now for our own good, not according to our sins, which the wages of is death, but in order to correct us, and keep us from the dangers of being in sin:
1 Corinthians 11:32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
John 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Revelation 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and CHASTEN: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Hebrews 12:8 But if ye be without CHASTISEMENT, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
ROMANS 12:4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed
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I will end with saying this unto all those that have received Christ; God's Word; God's RIGHTEOUSNESS, and who are therefore GODLY, RIGHTEOUS, who's righteousness is of the LORD, that, if you have sin, to date, that you have not repented of; have not acknowledged; admitted, and confessed, unto the LORD, here's the thing: You WILL. It's far better for you to not force your heavenly Father to HAVE to sorely chastise you, because He WILL if need be. And you know full well in your heart that, when it comes to where the rubber meets the road, should you be chastised of Him, you will NOT blaspheme Him as if He is unjust, or as if He does not love you (there IS no if,) but you will stand corrected, and repent of your sins before Him. So, knowing you WILL, why wait? There is no good reason to wait, and nothing but MANY good reasons to come clean NOW. Until you do, you, as far as the NEW CREATURE you are in Christ in your Innerman, has fallen asleep at the wheel so to speak, and is either in a spiritual coma, or is getting that way, and the LORD is calling you to WAKE UP! Don't you worry, if He has to SHAKE you, He will, since the longer you ignore Him, the more deaf your spiritual ears get.
And don't believe the lies of the devil telling you 'But you messed up AGAIN, and have repeately, and God's tired of hearing you repent,...'
As, first of all, if you are a MESS, you are your heavenly FATHER'S mess, and NONE of Satan's business whatsoever. You ARE upright, but it is Christ that is bearing you up. The moment you repent, it is embracing the One that holds you up.
Psalms 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: NO good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
2 Corinthians 5:15 And that he DIED FOR ALL, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.