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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.
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.
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. Forgotten in many people’s looking for Christ’s return is His presence with us, even now, through the reality
of His Holy Spirit. Whether obedient or defiant, everybody and everything ultimately belongs to God. Jesus Christ belongs to us because we belong to Him as the gift of life from God. We do not own Him.
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”
“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. Since Jesus Christ’s
actual purpose in His Work is to extract us entirely from the knowledge of good and evil, and 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 - while 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 their ever present 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 that hold 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. As we have learned to distinguish between
the good food of the world’s knowledge and wisdom for healthy living and the bad, 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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