God loves everyone and other false doctrines embraced by today’s modern Churches.

Many of the Preachers and Teachers in today’s Churches state that God loves everyone in the world but scripture says otherwise. On one hand the Bible clearly states that nothing can separate the believer “In Christ” and that includes even himself by using the words things above or things below, nakedness being used as a term for sin, as shown in the Garden of Eden. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Romans 8:35 NASB-I recommend reading the verses before and after this one. We are kept by the power of God and not our own strength which can fail. Jesus and the Father keep us in their hands and no one can take us out!

What about those in Hell or going there? If God also loved them they would not be in that state, in fact the scriptures declare that God hates the wicked, he is angry with them constantly; this is definitely not an expression of love!

The second falsehood I wish to point out is the teaching that Christians are to forgive everyone for anything all the time. The latest I just read at a web site was that God’s forgiveness based upon repentance is different than the believer’s forgiveness; they are saying that with God there must be repentance for their sin but with the Church we are to forgive without the person being sorry or repentant. Forgive me but would that not over shadow God Almighty who requires repentance for forgiveness? We are to imitate the Lord Jesus who did not overlook repentance and did not forgive the sins of the self-righteous Jews that included the Scribes and Pharisees, even calling them children of the Devil

Paul the Apostle was apparently very angry with Alexander the Coppersmith who did him much harm, Paul did not forgive him and asked the Lord to repay him which I’m sure the Lord did! Paul did not exclude this revenge from the Saints, he told them not to take their own revenge but do as he did, give then into God’s hands to repay. Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, “VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY,” says the Lord. Romans 12:19 NASB.

In the Book of Revelation the souls of the martyred Saints under the Altar cried out for vengeance upon those who murdered them by asking; “How long Lord”, they had NOT forgiven them! Consider also that believers brought other believers before the Church for disputes or for money owed to them, why didn’t they just say; I must forgive you? And when a believer had a grievance against another believer they were to go “Privately “to them in order for them to repent or correct the problem. If this failed they were to bring a spiritual believer in order help resolve the issue, if this didn’t work the person could be brought before the Church assembly. Paul had written about some being put out of the congregation. With “Blanket” forgiveness there would be no need to do anything but the word refutes that. And consider if our Country was attached what are we to do as Christians? Jesus told Roman believing Soldiers to “Do your duty, don’t take bribes” He did NOT tell them to forgive their enemy and lay down their swords! What would the world be like if God did not take up the sword against the Germans and Japanese with many Christians soldiers laying down their lives so we can live and worship in freedom!

Christians according to God’s word should not take fellow believers to a Civil Court but can take an unbeliever to Court. If the “Blanket” forgiveness for believers were true then no believer could sue anyone or legally settle a dispute because they would have to say I forgive you. If you take this to the extreme, imagine if someone breaks into a believer’s home, wife and children are brutally murdered and the believer is kicked out of his own home and the bad guy lives there. This man is supposed to say; I’m not even going to tell the Police because I love and forgive you! Gee, imagine if that was Paul the Apostle, that would be much worse that what the Coppersmith did to him. The truth that is backed up by scripture and Jesus said to *confront them, and if they repent then you must forgive them. God understands that we are weak in our human frames, we have the treasure of the Holy Spirit in these earthen vessels but his power is given to us for pulling down strongholds and everything that exalts itself above God like Satan and those who belong to him and we are kept by his power also. If you want assurance that God loves you, believe in Jesus of whom the scriptures proclaim from Genesis to Revelation, when you do he will quicken your spirit and soul and you will have the truth because HE will be abiding IN you forever!

*This is only for believers in the Church, the body of Christ, but like the thief on the cross, he was forgiven all his sins, went to Paradise with the Lord but still had to lose his flesh to death for his crime. Christians today can lose their lives for Christ or acts of sin that the Law demands death but in both cases when the body dies the spirit and soul join Jesus in Heaven INSTANTLY! On the cross Jesus paid for ALL our sins, past present and future!

Note: I have written previously about this subject in greater detail, it can be found in my blogs about the subject of forgiveness.

Author Ken

August 2014

Jesus Christ, the Father’s perfect likeness!

He is the reflection of God’s glory and the exact likeness of his being, and he holds everything together by his powerful word. After he had provided a cleansing from sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Highest Majesty Hebrews 1:3 ISV.

In times past God hid himself from men. He clothed his glory and brightness with clouds and chose to dwell in a Temple made with hands, hidden in the Holy of Holies.  No man could look upon him as he truly is and live. Only Moses was allowed to see his back parts while hiding in the cleft of the Rock. (Jesus)

This man Jesus lived a normal life, called the carpenter’s son by the locals. We know through God’s word that he had brothers and sisters who had no idea who he really was but Mary and Joseph knew and they treasured this secret in their hearts. There was an ongoing lingering suffering that they both experienced because of those who knew that Mary was with child before they were joined together as man and wife. Jesus also had to bear this false gossip that was repeated by the evil Pharisees one day after he had rebuked them. “You are doing the deeds of your father.” They said to Him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father: God.” John 8:41 NASB.

Obviously they had heard about this through the gossip from the people that knew Mary and Joseph and used it to insult Jesus, thus calling him falsely one born through sin.

It was at the wedding in Cana that his ministry began and his glory displayed by changing water into wine, a “New Creation”. That miracle symbolized the greater miracle of being Born Again, a New Creation by God himself, born from above as Jesus told Nicodemus the Pharisee.

The disciples and the masses had no idea of who this man from Galilee was but they knew God was with him by the great miracles he performed. Even a Pharisee acknowledged that a man could not do these signs and wonders except God be with him?  If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.  John 9:33 KJV.

This was said after Jesus had opened the eyes of a man born blind. I always loved reading how Jesus spat on the ground, mixed the dirt and spittle together and put it in the blind man’s eye sockets; do you really understand what he did? He displayed the power he used in creation, he created NEW EYES! God created man from the dust of the earth.  We are composed of organic matter which is found in the ground along with water, when Jesus mixed the two together he made new eyes! (All things were created by him and for him)

When these things took place his brothers at first *mocked him but later we learn that he saved them also. The Bible tells us that they were his half-brothers/sisters, having the same mother but different Fathers; he was born from above through the Holy Spirit and they were born from below through Joseph. Jesus revealed his glory on the** Mount as God the Word in human flesh. He is Emanuel, God with us and all of the fullness of the God dwells in him! (The brightness of God was seen shining through his flesh on that Mount)  This is why when asked to see the Father, Jesus replied; how long have I been with you and you don’t know me, when you see me, you see the Father also. He is our God walking with his people and after his resurrection actually dwelling in them as he had promised from his word in the Old Testament and confirmed in the New Testament.

Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said, “I WILL DWELL IN THEM AND WALK AMONG THEM; AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE. 2-Corinthians 6: 16 NASB.

So now we see clearly that Jesus is the second Adam and the perfect likeness of God as we read in the Book of Hebrews. Sinless in his flesh God himself dwelling in him, hidden to eyes but revealed through his words and works. How marvelous that God himself would eat drink and walk with his created men and women. As the Apostle John wrote that they had seen his glory and his humanity and how wonderful that we believers are in his family as his own children by adoption. This should bring praise and adoration of our Lord and Savior Jesus on this day as well as every day.

*For even his own brothers did not believe in him. John 7: 5 NIV.

**As the men watched, Jesus’ appearance was transformed so that his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as light. Matthew 17: 2 NLT.

Some have twisted God’s word by denying that Jesus had brothers and sisters by saying that the word’s reference to them was of those who followed him, this is ridiculous because his followers did believe in him and his brothers were in the house with him when they mocked him. The word declares them as “His own brothers”. After the birth of Jesus Mary and Joseph had more children, son’s and daughters. This came as God blessed their marriage, the wife with many sons was a sign of blessing in the eyes of the Jews. As today, children are gifts from God. It is always wise to rightly divide the word of God and it comes with a warning in the Book of Revelation that those who add or “Twist the word” as we are told in the New Testament will suffer dire consequences! Revelation 22: 18

Author Ken

March 2014