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After a recent tragedy a distraught first man was confiding in
a friend, a second man.
The first man said, “I’ve done too many evil things in my life. There’s no way I’m going
to go to heaven.”
The second man replied, “How is it you can do God’s thinking for Him?”
The first man then said, “What do you mean? I’m not a good person.”
To that the second man said, “That’s what faith is for. When you are proven in Christ, His justification
becomes yours and you do not need to prove yourself. Otherwise, you will continue trying to bring everyone else down with
you.”
After a long silence the first man answered, “Oh. I never saw it that way before.”
Life is not about choosing between living in your lawful
flesh person or living in your religious spirit person. Life is not electing to live of the world because
we are not worthy of living of God. Life is about whether flesh or spirit responds to God's created central command in Christ
- with those we are accountable; so that our flesh person in the world is living under God’s graces through our spirit
person.
In our naïve simplicity we assume that
heaven is our goal. Religious traditionalists, officially integrated groups
and their off-chute ‘me first’ prejudiced advocates, believe God’s Law and His Gospel in Christ is a ‘members
only’ way to life. Heaven, as a location - a goal oriented self-protective debasement/elation posturing of outcome-based
ethical efforts denies the very call from our Creator Father for Who He is.
It unwittingly (for most),
pits people against people against a falsely perceived supernatural deity that feigns to be God Himself; whether in and of
Christ or not. However, heaven is a place; whereas God in Christ is Who we are responding to as the King of
kings and Lord of lords. That means those kings and lords are served by many who are not kings and lords - with respect to
who they (or we) are in their clothes of excellence from God.

Statements of Belief - Statements of Faith
When people consider sin and sinfulness they think of the
usual debilitating acts of the flesh so often spoken against from the religious pulpits. They equate their ideas about sin
with the guilt-laden values social compliance requires and are taught that the pains of remorse are necessary points of progression
unto holiness. Definitions of sin in natural worldly wisdom do create a springboard of sanctimonious annoyance that draws
from various forms of displayed attitudes gauging calm and violent behaviors. Those can be symptoms of sin but are not sin
itself. True sin and sinfulness, in God’s wisdom, is found generated from hypocrisy.
It is not a hypocrisy that identifies inconsistencies between
what we say and do, it is presented from within in causing others to trust in a ‘better you’ than you know exists
in order to establish or keep established the false front of self-esteem. It is why we impose our manipulative measures to
string others along to get them to do as we wish while hoping they will think our contrived sequence of events are their own
idea, helpful and considerate values from God, or simply fateful happenstance. Put another way, sin is the working of disincentives
and punishment against incentives and payoff.
Hypocrisy is unbelief, love of self above others (and therefore
a loss of who you are to those whom you depend and those who depend on you), and contempt for or ignorance (ignoring external
and internal calls to faithfulness) of God. When the Bible illustrates crucifying the flesh in order to find true living vitality
in Christ, the message is not speaking about finding holiness through beating into submission the partaking of fleshly sensations
as one might encounter. Nor does one’s corporeal instinctual desires and needs preclude acceptance of God’s righteousness
through faith in Him.
The Gospel message is speaking about aligning your naturally
given living wholeness of experiential undertakings with the orders of orientation God created in His design for healthful
and joyful life. As we are promised to God in Christ whether or not we accept the invitation, “Christ crucified so that
we might have life through His resurrection” means that His work for us is sufficient enough to lead and guide our decisions
– as our decisions are made with respect to who is with us with regard to who is expectantly promised to us.
We cannot be trusted, no matter who any of us is or claims
to be, if God is not trusted through our acceptance of His will in Christ for those to whom we rely day by day. That day-by-day
reliance is not found in the priorities of creature comforts and a ‘nice-is-right’ compatibility. And, it is not
founded in who supplies a roof over the head and food on the table. Because of shame in the face of God’s purity, we
are reluctant to place our filth on His Cross. However, that is why He sent His Son… so that we may live our flesh lives
in confidence.
Around us every day are criticisms from others that infringe
into our faithing tenacity. With respect to each person’s private rights to have and to hold a personal bond of marriage,
the pleasures of caring interaction are also understood to be symptoms of trustful promise not to be avoided. They are found
in knowing unconditional acceptance - through parentage if pre-adult or matrimonial vows if living in adulthood - according
to God’s will in Christ’s victory in our heart of hearts.
It is best to remind ourselves that God loves us beyond
our understanding in ways where our yearning for Him has a planned “process”. That process is allowing our humble
realization that He always knows better than we do in all things. The words, ‘humble’ and ‘humility’
are not references to a groveling submission to an all powerful angry god where we reject anyone who does not fit our personal
desires. Worldly 'grace' has something to do with being 'nice' and requires emotional consignment. Godly grace has a depth
of deference only faith-in-action can extend.
‘Humble’ is comprised of ‘human’
and ‘able’ as ‘humility’ is comprised of ‘human’ and ‘ability’ in seeing that
God is God to lift us into His creative attentiveness. God wants us to follow Jesus Christ – not because we are required
to want to follow Him, but because we want to follow Him in His requirements. In self-defensive worldly wisdom people interpret
properly concerned chastisement as ridicule. Then, it is an easy step to “kill the messenger” so to speak.
To search for God’s leading from a point of view found
in our ideas, dreams, and emotionally changing responses to our and others influences, causes a false spirit of control over
circumstances, at the very moment where God is with us to guide our hearts with His loving-kindness through the very interaction
of companionship. He certainly does not want us to slander our commitments to marriage and family in what we allow.
But, He is with us even then (rather, especially then) to
guide our wrongdoing into doing what we do for the right reasons. Scriptures' witness of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, teaches
us to trust Him in doing what traditional wisdom tells us not to do: “Put all your eggs in one basket.” In that,
be careful not to gloat in the conscientious freedom of God’s glory. He does not encumber people with testing to guide
them to recompense. Jeremiah 23:33-40
Anyone who mocks a faithful (and not so faithful) follower
of the Gospel of Life, is mocking themselves in doing wrong to themselves, by doing wrong to followers of His Word. As each
sphere of significance properly should hold in respect various levels of interdependent place(s) of priority, individuals
involved (employed) can retain their attentions of integrity in positive accord to their responsibilities.
Governmental services are subject to the authorities of
general community interests. Community ventures are subject to the authorities of commercial and private business welfare.
Trade and industry is subject to the authorities of the collective organized church’s specific needs. Community church
collective cooperation is subject to the authorities of individual church/family requirements.
Pre-adult children are subject to the authorities of their
parents who, together as one where the wife is subject to the authorities of the husband, are subject the authorities of God
(the Generating Creator) through Christ (the Word of Generation) via the Holy Spirit (the Truth of the Word that causes what
is to be).
"The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine." 2 Timothy 4:3

1] We accept as true the God of the Holy Bible is the personal
and all encompassing God of Creation of the universe, the earth, and all living beings.
2] We accept as true all Scripture is given by inspiration
as a witness of Yahvah, the one and only true God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction
in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect (sound of mind and heart), thoroughly furnished unto all good works in
Christ, through faith considerations and activities.
3] We accept as true the Holy Bible to be the witness of
the Word of God, Jesus Christ; That the Bible has been somewhat altered throughout the centuries, by clerical and political
persuasions, requiring faith to rely in the true unalterable Word of God manifested in the man, Jesus Christ.
4] We accept as true God’s name "Yahvah" is a correct
transliterated rendering of the four sacred consonants from the Hebrew Scriptures into the English Scriptures.
5] We accept as true the name “Joshua” is the
English translated name of Jesus; that the name Yahvahshua, or Yahshua, is the English transliterated name from Hebrew, of
the Greek title “Jesus Christ”.
6] We accept as true the Bible account of Creation: That
God in six days made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day.
7] We accept as true the core thread of God’s intent
of witness throughout History and Scripture is the sanctity of Holy Matrimony, the marriage of a man and woman to be united
as one under a name of honor.
8] We accept as true the church is composed of the family
structure. A man, his wife, and their children are God’s designed pattern of example for the world of His created ways:
That a gathering of each of the family churches together is the collective Church – the Body of Christ.
9] We accept as true that Adam was created perfect originally.
Through disobedience with Eve and Satan against God’s will for His priorities of respect for authority, Adam fell, bringing
death (separation from life giving truth), and the wrath (disapproval) of God upon humankind.
10] We accept as true that Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son
of God, the Word made flesh - formed by the moving of the Holy Spirit at the hand of the angel Gabriel, born of Joseph and
Mary: That by and through His Truth of being, the Holy Spirit, all things were, and are, made.
11] We accept as true the term ‘virgin’ in Scripture
refers to a woman who has yet to conceive a child: That Jesus Christ was conceived by the seed of Joseph and the ovum of Mary
in a holy acceptance of the Mortal soul of Almighty God: That the angel Gabriel met with Joseph and Mary to inform them of
God’s choice, by the moving of the Holy Spirit of Truth upon their physical union of marriage (betrothal), to bring
about His conception.
12] We accept as true Christ died for us, that His atoning sacrifice
on Calvary took away our errors of understanding and misdeeds with a covering, through our acceptance of His Authority, of
grace and mercy: That also, He was raised from the dead in absolute victory over everyone’s disrespect of the priorities
of authority of the Truth of life.
13] We accept as true, by His own Word of prophecy, Jesus proved
His Messiah-ship by remaining in the tomb 3 days and 3 nights, rising back to life at the end of the Sabbath, and ascended
into Heaven.
14] We accept as true: “For
God so loved the world that his only begotten Son he gave, that whosoever believes on him might not perish, but have life
forever. For God sent not his Son into the world that he might judge the world,
but that the world might be saved through Him. He that believes on Him is not
to be judged: he that believes not, already has been judged - because he has not believed on the name of the Only Begotten
Son of God. And this is the judgment: That the light has come into the world, and men loved rather the darkness than the light,
for wicked were their works. For, whosoever doth practice corrupt things hates the light, and comes not unto the light lest
his works should be reproved. But, he that does the truth comes unto the light that his works may be made manifest, that in
God have they been wrought.” (John 3:16-21).
15] We accept as true Jesus Christ bought the victory of life not
only for Israel, but for the sins (separateness from the Truth of living of Creation) of the entire world: That salvation
is by grace through faith, and it is the gift of God, and not of works; it must be preached, and is necessary for all.
16] We accept as true any measure of faith we may actively exercise
is drawn from the faith Jesus Christ used to face the Cross.
17] We accept as true that repentance of self-serving will, conversion
unto appreciation of our purpose of life, sanctification (being lifted up in honor) by the work of Christ, and baptism (immersion
in water) must be preached (shared with others): That intercessory prayer and anointing combined with the faith of the receiver,
according to the finished work of Christ, will heal the sick and save the soul.
18] We accept as true the literal return of Jesus Christ after
the Great Tribulation of darkness, when He shall take the Throne of David, and rule on earth for the prophetic thousand years
known as the millennium.
19] We accept as true the Holy Spirit of Truth and His mission
of salvation through sharing the Word: That baptism (washing through with the truth) of the Holy Spirit, and the nine gifts
of the Spirit are for the followers of Jesus today. That no follower of Jesus particularly ‘owns’ any of the gifts
in that God is with us wherever we are and will manifest His power of life, as need be, according to the circumstances and
people present.
20] We accept as true the Ordinances as different from the Commandments:
That there are natural rules of better healthful living that, if cast aside, do not necessarily endanger our eternal soul’s
salvation (depends on who, what, and why as situations of faith and personal development prevails).
21] We accept as true the ordinance of communion as established
by Jesus Christ to be held as often as we eat a meal. The unleavened bread and fruit of the vine are reflections of the Ordinances
of the Law of Moses, while the bounty of thankful array of abundance in a shared meal reflects the reality of Christ’s
fulfillment of the law: That there are three high ordinances of communion; Feast of Trumpets, Passover, and Pentecost for
the gathering of churches to fellowship and celebrate: That these are the modern Thanksgiving (Christ’s physical presence
born with us), Easter (Christ’s transformation from flesh living into eternal living), and Memorial Day (Christ’s
spiritual presence born with us) times of year.
22] We accept as true that prayer is the center of living: That
whatsoever the pressing purpose of need, prayer should be that God's Will be done. We must forgive to be forgiven while forgiveness
should be requested. The Holy Spirit will help us to pray. When we ask in faith, and in the Name of the authority of Jesus
Christ, He will give attention to our pleas. We do not use fasting because it is expedient or cheaper that way. Prayerful
fasting is for intercessory concern in behalf of those we are placed to recognize need our assistance.
23] We accept as true that God chose a people unto Himself to be
His servants for the witness of salvation to the world. Those servants are the descendants of Abraham, called Jacob in the
material sense of retribution for sin, and Israel in the spiritual sense of redemption from sin.
24] We accept as true the Bible contains God's expectations for
humankind as given to Israel: That through Israel's prophets came the inspired witness of Scripture.
25] We accept as true the rule of civil law was given by God to
Israel. The law was given for Israel's well being. God commands us to obey civil law as it applies to our daily living unto
Him in the world.
26] We accept as true that Sunday is the seventh day of the week.
Sunday is observed as the Sabbath of God and Israel was to observe a day of rest as a sign between Israel and God: That Jesus
Christ became the Sabbath of the world.
27] We accept as true that Israel is to be punished when God's
laws for the nation are disregarded: That the unfaithful are enfolded into Christ’s death on the Cross: That the New
Covenant (The New Testament of the fulfillment of God’s purpose for Israel) was made with Israel (the entire twelve
tribes of Israel and not only the tribe of Judah) which means Israel was ordained to be Christian, and that Jesus Christ Himself
is that Covenant.
28] We accept as true that Israel was promised, by prophecy, redemption:
That Jesus Christ came to Israel and was recognized as the Liberator of Israel and, therefore, the entire world: That His
death and resurrection completed that liberation: That the kingdom of God will be directly established by the Authority, and
in the personage, of Jesus Christ the Messiah on the throne of David, during the restoration of all things.
29] We accept as true that, after Christ's death and resurrection,
Israel is called by a new Name - the new name is the Lord's Name - ‘Christian’ or Christ man – same as He
ever was, is, and will be revealed.
30] We accept as true there is an enemy of living humankind, as
he is the enemy of God, named Satan. He is called the serpent who has power with devils (perverted messengers), and men and
women, has a subverted people bound to resentment, spite, and self-deification who will not to hear God - some of whom are
clever to deceive people as "ministers of righteousness" of a ‘gospel law’ of works, in some of our organized
religious establishments – usually by undermining the sound structure of a family in some way or another.
31] We accept as true that Jesus Christ has overcome and finished
the power of Satan. The authority of His Name through faith in the decision to oppose Satan’s influence by followers
of Christ’s Gospel makes the devils' dastardly deeds ineffective.
32] We accept as true that Satan, so we may live unto ourselves,
works to deceive us into believing we and/or others are unworthy to be saved: That the Good News of the passion of the Gospel
of Jesus Christ is given as the Gift of Life, precisely because of our unworthiness.
33] We accept as true that no child born naturally of the flesh
is innocent, except One: That anyone who is reborn, through faith, of the Spirit of God through Jesus Christ, is innocent.
34] We accept as true that the Lord Jesus Christ, along with His
followers, are at battle with Satan influencing ‘his’ followers: That Jesus Christ and His Body of believers is
the victor: That the Word of Gospel is sufficient to convert the lost and confused away from the condemnation of adversity.
35] We accept as true the resurrection of the dead as prophesied,
as proven, as taught by the Scripture and that the resurrected will reign with Christ: That the righteous who have passed
away are resurrected and rewarded at the second coming of Jesus: That the still living, whether in faith unto Christ or enemies
of the Cross, will then all be transformed from a natural body into a spiritual body.
36] We accept as true the people who have not had the opportunity
to respond to the Gospel before death will be preached to by Christ during the time between His death on the Cross and His
Resurrection. The wicked dead who have consciously rejected Jesus Christ, with clear knowledge of Who He is to them, are resurrected
to the final Judgment, and not to a second trial or chance during the millennium.
37] We accept as true the wicked will be eternally destroyed: That we, in Christ, will judge the fallen angels:
That many people who believe they are guilty of blasphemy and bound to eternal ruin, are not.
38] We accept as true the seventh trump will sound at the end of
the Great Tribulation. That each person lives through his or her own tribulation… that marriage is God’s designed
avenue of family structure to faithfully endure the trials of living.
39] We accept as true the saints shall inherit the earth and will
reign with the Savior on earth during the millennium, and after final Judgment, throughout eternity.
We do not believe in doubt. Whether obedient or defiant, everybody and everything ultimately belongs to God. Nobody can prove their merit to God because justification comes from Him. Jesus Christ
belongs to us because we belong to Him as the gift of life from God. We do not own Him. Forgotten in many people’s looking
for Christ’s return is His presence with us, even now, through the reality of His Holy Spirit.
In God’s Kingdom of righteousness in Christ people have various gifts, places and positions, talents and
abilities, interests and concerns, and duties where what may seem to be foolishness to one is the breath of life to another.
A person is not a hypocrite to embrace newly revealed truths about who he or she is, while allowing what they thought they
were to perish, by and through asking for God’s grace of mercy through faith acceptance, for having been bamboozled.

A firm caution
Never esteem angels as superior or equal with yourself or
anyone else. They are a different order of beings as distinctly separate from human beings. Angels are the warrior/messenger/glorifiers
of God’s bidding and are not to be collaborated with in any way. Angels cannot become people, and people do not turn
into angels in the hereafter.
Fallen angels, called demons, retain their immortality and
gifts of purpose created by God because God’s Word of promise cannot be revoked. They left their place with respect
to their duties unto God by infiltrating humankind with jealous deception to gain access to the creative process. Their subversion
of Christ’s Word of creative power is propagated through peoples’ will of choice to make God of us when He asks
us to be of Him.
Belief in things about Christ’s personage, as manifested
through His life are not Who He is that He asks us to acknowledge for our salvation. Extrapolations about how He came to be,
when and how He will return, the ways His Spirit moves among us, and which version of the Bible is reliable, build beliefs
centered on the intellectual/emotional stirrings of the creature (scientific process to compensate for the risks of doubt
found in the fears to trust through faith) instead of the Truth of the Word (the Holy Spirit of Christ’s being) of our
Creator.
When we open doors of influence to role playing our demonstrations
of togetherness as like faith believers, we are portraying (putting on a show for those around us) a socially founded pride
of self that distances us from God’s reasons to bring us into His glory. The “congregational experience”,
beliefs in what God is to us that override who we are to Him, have nothing to do with whether or not we are saved by His grace,
through His faith, in Who He is.
Much time and effort is wasted in diverting our hearts away
from His leading in our daily lives by esteeming what we believe about Christ’s ‘past’ with our forefathers
and His ‘future’ with us as opposed to others who are not “like we are”. No matter our culture or
religious history, Jesus Christ is Who He is unto God the Father in Who He is, and always will be. There are many religions
of offense to God where the keeping of their false faith against fear results in eliminating anyone that does not fit particular
standards of works.
Nobody can be saved through belief in His birth by a virgin.
Nobody can be saved through belief in His return in a rapture. Nobody can be saved through belief in speaking in unfamiliar
tongues. Nobody can be saved through belief in KJV sounding oratories called prophetic interpretation of unfamiliar tongues.
Nobody can be saved through belief in miracles in health and finances. Nobody can be saved by ridding a population of infidels.
Nobody can be saved through belief in uplifting Christian entertainment and praises.
The theatrical church setting where it is generally believed
one “finds God”, or finds salvation, is exactly the same setting God lost His people’s attentions to time
and time again throughout history – many well known instances of which are recorded in the Bible. God is not a God of
retribution to destroy people who He knows are swayed by demonic forces He has already defeated in Christ’s Resurrection.
Excuses to enjoy our indulgences in God’s name most
often come with the self focused attempts at personal validation called “witnessing”. A shame is how few of the
world’s people genuinely follow Christ unto God’s saving hand because they are put off by an unwitting or intentional
false witness to lift up the flesh person in the emotional spirit of objectives as the soul person in the responsive spirit
of truth.
The vast majority of believing Christians follow a different
Jesus than the Man, the Messiah of God’s redemption, Who walked the face of this earth, was crucified by His church,
and rose again to a new life for everyone; including those of the church who oppose(d) Him. The way people are fooling themselves
following the false Jesus, the anti-christ, is believing that being a Christian makes a man or woman nice and malleably compliant
to well behaved social order in goodly works.
Outcome based Gospel preaching, perpetrated by demonic influences
and forces bent in twisting people away from their faithful reliance in God, preaches a gospel of self edification that rests
its tenets in and on the transformed nature of the instinctual flesh person to be in authority over the self and others by
submission to selfless allowance of church doctrines and precepts. This is why many marriages and families are falling apart
as Christian believing people.
Meanwhile, the actual Gospel is their commission to preach
the good news of freedom to be what God designed the soul person to be in authority over the flesh person – and therefore
an authority over the church. It is not that anyone has no faith to believe rightly, it is that most pastoral leaders are
themselves steeped in ideas and words about God as yesterday or tomorrow. Church patterns of orders in activities set our
temporal goals for what salvation means.
People learn to believe that salvation is for the purposes
to build sanctuaries where pastors can shepherd a flock, without regard to the dignity any man and woman have in Christ to
be their own authority together in Him, over the church that requires tithes and offerings hidden at the price of gathering
for worshipful entertainment. Building materialistic bodies of Christ for God’s kingdom by “planting churches”
serves to distort into diversion the purposes for God’s personally revealed and shared Gospel, though inadvertently
some people do honestly seek and find salvation through sincere faithful belief.
But, the church soon corrupts one’s trust in our alive
and personal God. A person may ask the question that asks how to know if he or she is responding to instinctual emotional
flesh-person decisions to be living aware, or spiritually sensitive soul-person decisions to be living aware with, “How
do I know the difference between the good of God chastising me into conviction for my sinful ways, and the evil of the devil
harassing me into ‘common sense’ that is no sense, for standing up for God’s truth?”
Jesus Christ knows the difference. Our commission is to
risk the risk of our measure of faith in trusting Him in our daily moments; any troubles, pitfalls, and hardships endured
for His sake give us to realize that wrongfulness is not the issue. Who God is through Christ in us through faith unto salvation
is the ever-present issue at all times. Satan wants us to blindly believe in personal happiness as our goals in serving God,
so he uses our natural desires to attach our defenses to Godly attributes without Him, the Person in the now we openly share
with those we are honestly involved, guiding our hearts.
When we judge and rate the moments and what they express
as good or bad, and hold people responsible for their good or bad in whether we choose to accept or reject them because of
it, we are ignoring our own and other’s faith unto salvation in Christ by boosting our positive defenses against the
fears of doubt that exhibit scrutinized balances between successes and failures. Two things to be wary of, and taken in prayer
and entreaty for God’s Name sake when noticing religious groups of any variety: A “party atmosphere” and
“us against them” postulations.
The reality that every moment is a moment of truth in God’s
grace of mercy is skirted round by searching for moments of opportunity to convict our fellow persons for their evil ways
to set up our own stability in good ways. But, in fact, since Christ paid the full price for humankind’s evil ways,
the evil ways we fight against, against people, to elevate our own personal bubble of self-righteous-indignation, are the
evil ways of satan, the devil, and his fallen cohorts – and not the actual soul person’s personal and/or collective
intent of anyone who is deceived in their blindness to act ungodly.

Apostle Paul Defends His Work for Christ
2 Corinthians 10
1 - Do you think I am a coward when I am with you and brave when
I am far away? Well, I ask you to listen, because Christ himself was humble and gentle.
2 - Some people have said that we act like the people of this
world. So when I arrive, I expect I will have to be firm and forceful in what I say to them. Please don't make me treat you
that way.
3 - We live in this world, but we don't act like its people
4 - or fight our battles with the weapons of this world. Instead,
we use God's power that can destroy fortresses. We destroy arguments
5 - and every bit of pride that keeps anyone from knowing God.
We capture people's thoughts and make them obey Christ.
6 - And when you completely obey him, we will punish anyone who
refuses to obey.
7 - You judge by appearances. If any of you think you are the
only ones who belong to Christ, then think again. We belong to Christ as much as you do.
8 - Maybe I brag a little too much about the authority that the
Lord gave me to help you and not to hurt you. Yet I am not embarrassed to brag.
9 - And I am not trying to scare you with my letters.
10 - Some of you are saying, "Paul's letters are harsh and powerful. But in person, he is a weakling and has
nothing worth saying."
11 - Those people had better understand that when I am with you, I will do exactly what I say in my letters.
12 - We won't dare compare ourselves with those who think so much of themselves. But they are foolish to compare
themselves with themselves.
13 - We won't brag about something we don't have a right to brag about. We will only brag about the work that
God has sent us to do, and you are part of that work.
14 - We are not bragging more than we should. After all, we did bring the message about Christ to you.
15 - We don't brag about what others have done, as if we had done those things ourselves. But I hope that as
you become stronger in your faith, we will be able to reach many more of the people around you. That has always been our goal.
16 - Then we will be able to preach the good news in other lands where we cannot take credit for work someone
else has already done.
17 - The Scriptures say, "If you want to brag, then brag about the Lord."
18 - You may brag about yourself, but the only approval that counts is the Lord's approval.
(CEV)

Understanding the Sinner’s Prayer
“Dear God,
I acknowledge that You are holy, righteous, and just. I confess my sinfulness to You; I have repeatedly broken
Your law and deserve eternal punishment. Forgive me for my sin and give me the grace to turn from my selfishness and rebellion.
Thank You for taking my place on the Cross as punishment for my sin. I receive You as Lord and Savior. Please
give me the grace to live the kind of life that will glorify You in all that I say and do. In Jesus’ name, Amen” ~ Ray Comfort
“Just say this simple sinner’s prayer and you will
be saved,” never saved anyone, nor does the prayer. Jesus Christ does the saving in that He saved everyone through His
Resurrection into justification for all. Through His absolute intercession once and for all, in our behalf, in victory over
everything about us that is contrary to God’s Creation of just life in Truth, Jesus Christ finished all that was, is,
and is to be by dying on the Cross at the hands of religious crucifying rebels.
Believing there is a God is not what salvation is about;
just as believing one has an earthly father has nothing to do with respecting him in honoring his efforts and expectations.
However, the sinner’s prayer does acknowledge contrition and honest desire to follow Christ’s will in faith unto
salvation. In that sense, the decision by saying the prayer, and the placing of one’s self into claiming what belongs
to each of us by God through the saying of the words, is a step in acceptance of His salvation already given as the gift of
life.
The problem is in saying the words in repentant sorrow about
the harm we have done to ourselves and others in an attempt to be accepted by the group of believers who surround our conversion
experience. When speaking of heresy, it can be found in situations where the focus of spiritual conversion is centered in
who we have been as different from who we, and others, want us to be.
Believing this serves not to only reinforce our need for
salvation, it makes true salvation more difficult because the experience of emotional cleansing by Godly principles causes
us to believe His power of the Gospel brings us to being the good side of our dual flesh nature. Jesus Christ’s actual
purpose in His Work is to extract us entirely from the knowledge of good and evil. His concern is bringing our attentions
into His justified new existence in God’s Purity of Righteousness.
It stands to His senses of wisdom that the good side of
us we are trying to build unto Him must also be cast aside. Instead of traditional socially accepted attempts to control our
lives through false Gospel, the focus of spiritual conversion must be always in and on Who Jesus Christ is in God the Father.
The self we are sorrowful over to want to save is the very self we must relinquish in our selfless allowance for Christ to
be Who He says He is.
Trust through faith in Him, for Who He is, is His required
process for our acceptance of the life of who we are in Him He has for us to receive. Organized churches want us to be saved,
and we want to be saved, and God wants to save us. But, each the three, has different motives for our projected desires to
be saved.
Belief in sorrow over personal shame and guilt as “the
way” of submission unto salvation is a tradition men and women use by the powers of clerical controls to establish and
entrench the managing of the lives of a congregation. Persons already know their own guilt and shame before hearing about
the Good News of Who Jesus Christ is… and His alive intervention in our behalf before a loving God.
One person may find acceptance of salvation by recognizing
their own sorrow over living in evil ways. Another person may be so traumatized by constantly living in guilt and shame that
the Gospel is simply a ready and joyful welcome. ‘Theatrical evangelism’ usually has two combined motives: social
behavior control and money. Behavior control to get and keep the inflow of money and more money to get and keep behavior control…
However, recognizing Who Jesus is requires no blubbering,
groveling, self-debasement before the public church, public offices, mental health professionals, or individuals, bent on
lording it over others with psychodynamic facilitation. Many people have been outwardly open, or inwardly contained, in their
crying despair over evil and their own and other’s faults and concerns, that have no solution without faith and trust
in ways where their acting out is ever presently displaying a constant acknowledgement
that something, someone, needs to pick up the slack they know they cannot do themselves.
Forcing persons with bullying, limitations, fault exploitation,
segregation, and any of the many techniques touted by Christendom as showing the wrath of God’s disgust for who we are
outside His leading, serves to further drive away the realities of understanding of the Truth of Christ for many needing revealed
positive honesty. The true Word of the Purity and Holiness of God for Who He is becomes thwarted by and through lackadaisical
schemes.
Those schemes hold to the ‘work in progress’
results oriented pressures that a person must “reach the end of themselves” before he or she can accept salvation.
The very joy of Christ and His Word of life is absolute release, at any time, from personal bondage to the entertaining thrills,
practices, and habits hidden self-loathing causes. It is God’s motives that hold merit over us and any others interested
in our soul’s condition.
The condition of our soul, and how our soul’s spirit
leads our living (or not) cannot be fully determined by the self, and certainly not others. Part of using the measure of faith
God gives to us through Christ is in recognizing Him as the Author and finisher of who He intends us to be. We are unable
to precisely know the whys and why knots behind why we are the way we are without Him. And, by His will of concern and grace
of protection, we may never know during this flesh life all that makes up the reasons we have the difficulties we have.
Because the Word of physical knowledge of witness provided
by God’s prophets and apostles carries the message of His Truth of being unto Salvation, we jump to the conclusion that
the Bible itself is God’s Word. Throughout the Bible we find references to God being the “bread of life”
in Christ. We have learned to distinguish between the good food of the world’s knowledge and wisdom for healthy living
and the bad.
So we instinctually assume that salvation will give to us
the strength in partaking of the knowledge of God’s Word to be the person(s) we want to be. What we expect to receive,
because our expectations in seeking God are most often misplaced to lift ourselves up in God’s Name, will keep us outside
His grace instead of allowing Him to lift us up into His Name for ways and purposes we cannot fathom or plan.
We get the feeling to believe the taste of the goodness
of God is the same as the taste of goodness we are used to seeking for self justification. The taste of the actual saving
Bread of life is quite different from the taste of the food of the witness of Him in Scripture. But, our spiritual food for
faithful reliance in God’s spiritual leading, (touted by many to be the Bible as the inherent infallible Word) is, in
fact, God’s Word manifested in, through, and by the living Man, Jesus Christ.

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