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God is Spirit:
Christ is a man, the BODY of God.
Christ has a GOD and a Father, but is is not THE GOD.
God is the LIFE of Christ, God's BODY.
Christ, the Body, only does what the SPIRIT, his God and Father, CAUSES him to say and do.
All creation DIED on the cross of Christ, a NEW CREATION arose WITH CHRIST.
Only ONE BODY AROSE from the grave, the BODY of CHRIST.
IMMORTAL LIFE; Christ, never again to die, was resurrected, we were JOINT HEIRS with Christ at his resurrection.
John 17:22 And the glory that thou has given me, I have given them, even as we are ONE, that they may also be ONE.
Christ is a man with a glorified BODY, he can stand in the flesh, or be the spirit of truth, physically present or omnipresent.
When you are harvested by the angels, in the twinkling of an eye, you will be the IMAGE of CHRIST.
1 Corinthians 15:53 .....This mortal (you) shall PUT ON IMMORTALITY ...
1 Timothy 6:16 ...... Christ ONLY hath IMMORTALITY ......
The gift of God is eternal LIFE, Christ is eternal life, your GIFT is being JOINT HEIR of GOD, by Christ
Christ is IN HEAVEN, at the right hand of his Father, but that heaven is the NEW HEAVEN ....this mystery ..... CHRIST IN YOU ....
Christ SECOND COMING .... like a thief, no one saw him save the one that RECEIVED HIM.
God Bless YOU!
I am so sorry that Gary is this way in your experience with him. I will pray for him.
Dear heavenly Father, we bring Gary before You in intercession asking You in the name of Jesus to being a real and lasting transformation in Gary through the working of the Holy Spirit to regenerate Gary and bring Him to faith in Jesus. We ask that You will show Gary that he is racist and that he bullies others. Bring the conviction of his sinfulness to him deeply and grant him repentance unto salvation. We ask that those who have been recipients of his racism and bulling will be healed and determine to forgive him and leave it behind them. We pray that these people will be protected from further abuse by Gary and that those who know You in Christ will share the gospel with him as the Spirit leads them to do so. We ask that you heal Gary's heart in ways that are needed for the things that have led to his racism and bully behaviors. Lord God, we know that You can change people like Saul of Tarsus, so we can believe that You can save Gary and bring about amazing change in his inner being and outward actions through the power of Your Holy Spirit. Let it be so for Gary. Amen
Many people go a long time before they realize that Jesus is in heaven with His glorified resurrected human body. I think that this is due partly to the common sayings we use of Him such as:
"You can ask Jesus into your heart"
"Jesus is always with you"
"Jesus abides in us"
"When two or more are gathered together Jesus is in their midst"
These sayings, though true, give the impression that Jesus is in Spirit form only. However, Jesus said that both the Father and Himself live in us when the Spirit of God dwells in us. This speaks to the unity of the Godhead and that God is everywhere present in His essence. But Jesus, (also everywhere present in His divine nature) retains his full human nature in heaven. He is the first fruits of what humans will be in heaven, perfected with glorified resurrected bodies. He is our High Priest who is a human who serves God as a mediator. Perhaps this is one reason for Him retaining His human nature. Other reasons for this is that our glorified human bodies will be able to physically see God in Him. Whether or not we will be able to see spiritual beings is known at this point. Will we be able to see angels with our physical eyes? Or will we have spiritual "eyesight" added to us as part of our glorification that would allow us to see spiritual beings.
Lots to think about, but we can take comfort and be at ease of mind and heart knowing that our Lord and Savior is like us in His human nature in every way but without sin. In His divine nature, He is like the Father and Spirit, which we are not. But these two natures are possessed by only one person, the divine Son of God. All of this was determined before creation int he Everlasting Covenant between the Persons of the Godhead for the redemption of mankind. Hallelujah! Now and always.
I guess very recently it just occurred to me that Jesus would retain His earthly body. Even though I have read the Holy Scriptures since I was a young child, it has taken me until I am in my 60's to realize this. My whole life I have always thought of only spirits existing in heaven.
I praise God and I am so content that someday, I will know these mysteries of the gospel.
God bless you all in our quests to understand.
Jesus reading the passage from the Isaiah as recorded in the gospel was unto the meek. "because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek." In this context Jesus referred to them in his sermon. "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth." (Matt.5:5). So Jesus to all intent and purpose was calling all those who would receive him, 'For I am meek and lowly,'. In Isaiah we read what eye has not seen nor ears have heart what the Lord had prepared for them the same is referred by St Paul "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him."(1 Co.2:9).
That they might be called trees of righteousness is what 'God hath prepared for them that love him. So we not looking at Israel or the Gentiles but who according to His promise, are blessed. As with Abrham they are 'pilgrims and sojourners' on the earth looking for Zion, the city whose maker and builder is God. "Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them." (Ps.84:5). They were fools in the eyes of the world and they were mourners 'in Zion" but they have goal. "They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God."(Ps.84:7) Does it matter days or years as the ungodly count their days?
Here we have the tree of righteouness,."And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; "(Ps.2:3) This tree is set in direct frame of reference so eternity is what charaacterizes every one of them. ""In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations." Twelve manner of fruits.
God did this for us, before the world began, deciding that the Son of the Father would become human to redeem us and have this human nature within His divine person for all eternity. So wonderful that God condescend eternally for our sake, not His.
As to your thoughts about Jesus appearing as human and spirit, I am not sure what you are referring to.
let me take a stab at it:
1) If you are saying that Jesus, being the eternally divine Son of the Father Who, before He took on a human nature, was eternally Spirit as the Father and Holy Spirit are always. Then that is true. A Spirit does not appear to humans, as we could not perceive a Spirit. The Holy Spirit manifests himself at times, as with the dove manifestation at Jesus' baptism and the tongues of fire at Pentecost. But manifestations are not the true essence of the Holy Spirit. There is a difference between manifestation of God and His true essence (Who He actually is). In the OT there were many theophanies and manifestations of God. The burning bush with the Angel of the Lord speaking out from it, one of the three that visited Abraham, the person wrestling with Jacob all night, the pillar of cloud/fire in the wilderness, the visions given to prophets of the Ancient of Days, the shekinah glory of God's Presence in the tabernacle. These were manifestations but not God showing Himself as His true self in His pure Essence.
2) If you are saying that Jesus and the Holy Spirit are the same person, then I would direct you to the Last Supper Discourse in John chapters 14-17 to see how Jesus speaks of the Father as being truly another Person of the Godhead other than Himself and the Holy Spirit being another person of the Godhead other than Himself and the Father. There are three Persons in One Godhead (Divine Being). So, the Jesus asks the Father to send the Holy Spirit to the disciples (and subsequently to each believer).
Maybe this will be helpful to you.
Again, I go back to 1 John 3:9 and I share with you the literal translation:
Whosoever has been born of God DOES NOT PRACTICE sin; for God's seed remains (or abides) in him: and he CANNOT PRACTICE SIN, that is, he does not have the capacity to practice sin because he has been born of God.
This is not saying that a person who has been born of God will never sin. And this is in no way telling us that we are sinless as Jesus was.
Let me ask you:
Do you consider yourself a sinner?
Are you pure the same as Jesus was pure?
Are you walking without sin the same as Jesus walked?
Now, if I may quote you, you said, "If one is born again & is a new creature in Christ Hebrews 10:10,28,29 sanctified once & for all,{past tense} Col 1:22 & then sin, would that not plunges us back into the condition of Adam's' transgression?"
A few days ago in one of your posts, you told someone that you have not yet been born again, so how would you answer this?
If you are not yet born again (as you say), then you are still living in your sin, and until you surrender your life to Christ, and are born from above, you will die in your sin.
I only say this out of concern for your spiritual welfare since you yourself said you have not yet been born again.
The held tradition is Adam and Eve are the man, male and female created on day six. It will be defended dogmatically, and for no reason other than that is what has been taught. There are only 5 chapters from the creation of Adam until the flood, 1656 years. There is so much we have not been told.
There are two Adams in the Bible the first in Genesis 2 and the last, Jesus our savior, 1 Cor. 15:45. Everyone living today is the descendant of Adam and Eve due to the flood where Noah and his sons and wives are the only eight humans after the flood and we all came from them.
The male and female on day six were to be fruitful and fill the earth and have dominion over the entire earth. Could Adam and Eve do this in the Garden of Eden, they did not have children until they were cast out of the garden, if this was on day six, after they had sinned, would God say everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good, Gen. 1:31? What does it change? Nothing, since the flood Eve is still the mother of all living, all before the flood is washed away.
Sin began with the first Adam and salvation was with the last Adam Jesus and what was before the first Adam we have not been told. We must study without preconceived ideas and our ears open to the teaching of the Spirit of God. Study the words earth and field. Could Adam and Eve fulfill the earth and have dominion over the entire earth being in the Garden of Eden?
There is more I could say but it does not change the plan of God, we all are descendants of Adam and Eve, and evolution has no part in creation. The teaching of man causes doubt, Truth sets us free, study for your understanding and your conscience.
God bless,
RLW
There is only one creation of man.
Genesis ch 1 is the beginning and the time in days etc.
In which god formed all things.
Genesis ch 2 is an explanation of how and what Gods process was. We can see this in Genesis ch 2 vs 4-5
4
These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
5
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
Look at the words in vs 4 These are the generations (present tense)
Vs 4 again when they were created. (Past tense)
Vs 5 of the field before it was in the earth .key word being (before ) meaning prior to him creating it.
Hope this helps.
May Gods peace and Grace be upon you.
GB I love you all.
We are told to WATCH and SEE.
Isaiah 21:6 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go set a watchman, let him declare what he SEETH.
Isaiah 21:10 Oh my threshing, THE CORN (SEED) of MY (Christ's) FLOOR: that which I (Christ) have heard of the Lord of host (my God and Father) have I (Christ) declared unto YOU (my SEED).
The anointing IN US will teach us all things.
God Bless YOU!
The Bible,mainly Revelation is full of enigmas,puzzle.You referred to Revelation 8;1 that says:There was silence in heaven for 'the space half an hour'.How can we understand this period of time that GOD revealed to JESUS through His sealed book?
Moses in his pray to the Lord GOD said:Ps.90:12-Teach us to number our days,that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.Verse 4- a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday.
Peter Apostle quoting Psalm 90,wrote:Beloved,be not ignorant of this one thing,that one Day is with the Lord as a thousand years,and a thousand years as one Day-2Pe.3:8.
In fact,in accord to the Biblical Chronology,the source of Truth,on GOD's six Days of works and one Day of rest(a total of seven days)plus the Scriptures that teach that one Day is with the Lord as a thousand years(II Pet.3:8)so MANKIND would go through six GOD Days of 1,000 years each(a total of 6000 years) plus a Millennium of 1000 years rest (now a total of 7000 years).
That said:Once 1000 years on GOD's clock is one Day, if we know that MANKIND would go through six GOD Days of 1,000 years each, so according to the MANKIND calendar mainly among the Gentile nations, more specifically Christians nations, one day has 24 hours, so in my view on hour on GOD's clock correspond to a period of around 42 years -->1000/24=41,666 years.Thus we can say that "half an hour" on GOD's clock correspond to around 21 years (20,8...)
Would be this period of around 21 years(the same period that was necessary to finish the rebuild of Jerusalem,and begining a new period after the consecration of the Temple in Jerusalem)yeah,would be this 21 years corresponding to the first 21 years of the current millennium?
Not curious,of course,but trying to search an understanding of the Revelation 8:1 about "half an hour" on GOD's clock,pointing the beginning of the fulfillment in this current millennium the sound of the first Trumpet of the successive seven GOD's Trumpets.
A dream a sister had 2 weeks ago that a pastor of one of our congregations here told us.
There were lots of us, people from the church. We were walking up a mountain but we didn't get tired at all. At the top there was a building having classes in it. We all went into the appropriate class and had lessons. After the lessons finished we went to sleep all of us inside a room in that building. The next morning we started getting out of that building through a very narrow exit. First a sister called Osana went out(the names have a meaning in grk). After her it was me. Osana was praying and all of us got filled with joy. As I am walking I see sister Anastasia. She was putting some slubs in the right place at a slab pavement where there was a couch ready to depart. Behind me there was brother Manoles. He was full of calmness and through his calmness he was giving directions to us, without us hearing his voice. Infront of me I see brother Elias. I saw his back, he was wearing a coat which he threw away towards us and so that coat covered all of us. Next to me I see my husband Photes, he was very very tall and he sheds light on all of us. Then brother Christophoros came, the pastor of the church. He approaches, he puts his hands on all of us and we felt his breath coming inside us. And then I hear the voice of the Lord who says "IN 2 MINUTES YOU DEPART"
And I rise up and I hear the voice of the Lord talking to me.
Osana (Hossana, praise in Hebrew) is praise and in praizing God you receive joy.
Anastasia (grk for ressurection) is the resurrected Christ who will put everything in the proper order and He will give directions.
Manoles (from Emmanuel which means "God with us" in Heberew) is God who with His calmness and peace gives directions to you.
Elias (from Elios which in grk means sun) is the power of the Holy Spirit who will cover you with the Spirit's power.
Photes (from phos which means light) is the light of Christ which enlightens your lives.
Study God's word until your ONE with the word, God will bring all scriptures to mind, you don't have to memorize them.
God Bless YOU!
Nothing is happening today than has not been happening now for 2000 years.
At Christ resurrection, HE OPENED the seven seals of Revelation.
For 2000 years wars, pestilence, and famine has PREVAILED on earth.
Christ has divorceded OLD ISRAEL, they were never THE PROMISED SEED of Isaac, Christ was the promised Isaac, the true ISRAEL, from the house of Judah.
The OLD temple is no more, THE NEW TEMPLE was raised THREE DAYS after Christ died on his cross.
Old Israel along with all the other DEAD will be RAISED back to live when the JUDGES of the earth have been gather.
Those judges have to first be harvested,
When harvest, they become the IMAGE OF CHRIST.
This mortal shall PUT ON IMMORTALITY, Christ ONLY hath IMMORTALITY ..... 1 Timothy 6:16
All those already harvested; are already the image of Christ, they have been in the 1000 year: ONE DAY, reign with Christ NOW, some for 2000 years. the parable of the workers in God's vineyard, is representative of this, all CALLED at different hours of the DAY.
All these at present are ministering Spirits, angels of fire. At some point, Christ will resurrect all back to there bodies of flesh and blood, and God will say to the JUDGES; APPEAR, and all the world will see Christ appearing in the CLOUDS OF HEAVEN, his judges, his IMAGE.
2 Kings 6:17 ..... open their eyes, that they may see, And the Lord opened the eyes of the young men, and they SAW, and, behold, the mountain was FULL of horses and chariots of FIRE (our God is a consuming fire) round about......
Everyone, is going to see, some NOW, some LATER.
Don't try to predict TIMES, only God knows, but we can know that it is all just ONE DAY, TODAY the day of salvation.
God BLESS YOU!
Until Christ has ASSEMBLED all the JUDGES of the EARTH, thing will continue as they are.
Yes there is TWO creations of man.
The FIRST was when he made man out of the dust of the earth and breathed the breath of life into man.
The SECOND is when ALL FLESH and BLOOD died on the cross of Christ.
Three days later a NEW CREATION arose, Christ and his wife, EVE, taken from Christ's rib, bone of Christ's bone flesh of Christ's flesh, NO LONGER living by the breath of life, BUT, LIFE by the SPIRIT of GOD.
God BLESS YOU!
Jesus stopped reading at the right verse, not reading the rest, as you noted. The day of vengeance will come at His second coming. But in His earthly years, He was the Anointed One to bring the good news of salvation in and through Him to all nations.
I remember you from a few months ago. Thank you for the reminder to pray for you, your son, and other family members.
Dear Heavenly Father, today we come to You to intercede for Terrimastasz and her family. Please heal the disharmony in her family with three generations living in the same household. Kepp them together in a home and prevent them from needing to move. Help Robert to continue the healing you have begun in him and teach him how to interact with his Mom and Grandma respectfully. Be the buffer between these family members when situations get frustrating and anger rises up. We ask that You will answer the needs of this family quickly and restore this family in relationship to one another and to You and Your Son, Jesus. Strengthen Terri as she is the one "between" generations in this home. Give her wisdom and guidance in what to say and do each day. Transform the hearts of everyone in this family to be more and more like Jesus with each new day. We askk all this of You Father, in the name of Jesus, Your beloved Son. Amen.
Dear Heavenly Father, we come before You today to pray for this nephew of Malsmom. We ask of You in the name of Jesus for complete healing and recovery for this nephew from all the effects of this accident. We ask that these surgeries are truly helpful in bringing about healing of his body. Spare his life, Father, and bring him home soon to recover with the proper help he needs. Lord God, this nephew is precious and this accident unforeseen by him, but You know all and are all powerful, so you are certainly able to heal this young man and restore him to wholeness. Amen.
I would like to give some suggestions on memorizing selected Scripture verses. While I am not sure if you are asking for this approach or for the memorizing of large passages of Scripture, I will speak to memorizing key verses. These practices have helped me to memorize verses that I can still quote word for word after several decades.
1) Read the passage out loud several times throughout the day. By reading out loud you will develop a specific cadence to the words that one does not have when reading it silently.
2) in a journal, write out the verse by hand and copy the verse over and over again in this journal. The act of writing engages the mind in additional activity that strengthens memory of what is written.
3) Have another person read the verse out-loud to you often. This uses the brain in a different way than the above two actions and will help you to remember in addition to other actions I mention.
4) Try to make the verse into a melody that can be sung. This employs additional aspects of brain activity. We remember words to songs so well because of the melodies. If you can play an instrument and play the verse on it as you sing it, that would be an additional boost for memorizing.
5) Concentrate on the meaning of the verse so that your mind will associate the actual wording with the lesson it teaches.
6) Concentrate on one verse at a time for a set period of a week or several weeks.
7) Be patient and not rushed.
I am sure that there are other helps for memorizing Scripture. In all of this, being prayerful about learning the verse and ask the Holy Spirit to help you. Scripture memorization should ne done "in the Spirit" and not just by using our minds to learn, but both are needed for a verse to be ingrained in our minds, hearts, and souls.
Hope this is helpful.
Hello Angel
Hebrews 1:2
, "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;"
The greek text says "centuaries" not "worlds". But again "centuary" is a Hebrewism for "world". I think that Paul means that Jesus created everything in the universe but we can not say anything really about the spiritual world since we don't have any revelation about an angelic genesis.
The verse means that Jesus as a God was the one who ordered the creation of the universe. In any paricular action All 3 Persons participate. In genesis it was The Son who ordered and the Holly Spirit who executed the order. Everything that God does, He does it through His Spirit. That is why the Spirit is often described as the hand or arm of God. Like man uses his hands to do something, God uses the Spirit.
The heaven of heavens has already been set up.
They (the new heavens) had to be set up before Christ could reign on earth.
They (the new heavens) had to be set up before the DAY of the LORD could come.
They (the new heavens) had to be set up before the Kingdom of God could come.
The were setup when creation was resurrected as the BODY of CHRIST.
The fourth heaven is YOU, where GOD DWELLS, YOU the house of God, YOU the BODY of GOD.
God BLESS YOU!
Then in Genesis 2v.7 Another account of God creating man. This time the account says He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life making him a living soul.
Not until verse 22 do we have an account of the creation of woman who God began with Adam's rib. Adam taken from the dust - woman taken from man.
So was there two creations of man?
"God Is Good All the Time"
In every dawn's first light, God's grace does shine,
A steadfast beacon through the darkest night.
In trials and in joy, God's love aligns,
A truth unwavering, a guiding light.
Through tempests fierce and tranquil, serene seas,
In every heartache, every joyful chime,
In life's uncertain, ever-changing pleas,
God's goodness echoes through the sands of time.
In every moment, every breath we take,
We find God's blessings, pure and so divine.
In sorrow's depths or love's sweet, tender ache,
God's goodness evermore, an endless line.
In life's grand tapestry, this truth we find,
God's goodness, constant, both in heart and mind.