The Most Important Message You Will Ever Read!
God does not predestine some to become His chosen ones (elect)
while rejecting others. It is His desire that no one
should perish.
(2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some
count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not
willing that any should perish but that all should come
to repentance.) However, He
does know beforehand (He has foreknowledge) who will
come to him and who will reject him, because He is
omniscient (all knowing). Nevertheless, God gives all
humans “free will” to choose, as they may. We may either
chose to believe that Jesus Christ is Lord of all, as the Bible
says, or we may reject that idea, and
live out our lives here on earth, as best we can, in our
own strength. Every human being is composed of a spirit,
a soul(mind) and a physical body. Every human soul is
alive and possesses the ability to develop "self
awareness" at the moment of conception. It communicates
with this natural world through the five senses. It also
possesses the ability to
communicate with the spirit world. The human
spirit, however, though it is the living breath of God, (Genesis
2:7), does not have
self-awareness or unique personality at the natural
birth. The bible calls it the breath of God and it
returns to Him when we die, without confessing Christ as
Lord. (Ecc. 12:7) The soul, on the other hand, goes
straight to hell, unless we make a confession unto Jesus
Christ, between the age of accountability and our
natural death. (Mat. 10:28) If our spirit were a
self-aware personage, at our natural birth, then Jesus's
words to Nicodemus would have made no sense, when He
said the following. He said that we must first be born
of water (natural birth) and also born of the spirit
(John 3:5) to see the Kingdom of God. No where does the
bible say
that we are automatically born of the spirit at the time
of our natural birth. Yes, our spirit is alive, like the
egg in the womb, because it is the living breath of God,
but it has no will to think, or choose right or wrong,
until it is united with the Spirit of the redemptive
Christ, becoming the new creature Paul talks about. Many
believe we have a twisted or dead spirit at birth,
inherited from Adam, but the scriptures do not support
that notion. What Jesus told Nicodemus would not line up
with what Paul said in 2 Cor. 5:17 if we had received a
twisted, sin laden spirit at the natural birth. Many
other statements in the bible also do not line up with
this idea, but that is much too involved, to cover here.
(more)
We
become born of the spirit when we make the heart felt
decision to confess the fact that Jesus
Christ as Lord of all. (Rom. 10:9)
This assures us that we shall receive eternal life, instead
of residing in hell forever. Jesus explains what eternal
life means in John 17:3. The time span to take
advantage of this opportunity, is commonly referred to
as the "age of accountability". During this time period, The Holy Spirit urges us, through our
thought life, to repent (of our unbelief), and believe
that Jesus Christ is who the bible says He is.
(Mark 1:15
And saying, The time is
fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye
and believe the gospel.) The scriptures do not tell us to repent of a
list of sins, because we are not able to understand the
scope of our sins at this point. We only need to repent of the
unpardonable sin of unbelief, by making the choice to
believe in Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit urges us to do this.
Some
isolated peoples of the world may respond to The Holy
Spirit's urging by addressing Christ, using a different
name. For instance, they may call Him The "Great White
Spirit" or "The Unknown God". Never mind that.
"A rose by any other name is still a rose". Semantics
or labels do not change the one requirement, for
receiving the gift of eternal life, as defined by Jesus
in John 17:3. Again, the only
requirement is that we confess from the heart that Jesus
Christ (by whatever label we give him) is Lord of all.
That message is communicated to
unbelievers, through Holy Spirit inspired believers, but
is also delivered directly through the power of The Holy
Spirit, Himself. Jesus, Himself, delivered this message
to Saul. (Act 9:5,6) It's a message which is delivered
to every person on earth, during the age of
accountability, in a personal way. (1
Corinthians 12:3). Eternal life begins the very
second, an unbeliever choses to repent and believe. At
that instant, we become born of the spirit, which makes
us a new personage. We become a new creature in spirit,
which is able to see and understand what's going on in
the spirit realm. This new birth
actually makes God our father. (Luke 20:36)
(Jesus explains more about what I have
briefly described here in a conversion with Nicodemus in
John 3:1-17)
The second most important step for a new born Christian is to receive
the power to live a more abundant
and fulfilled life, while living here on earth in our
natural bodies. We start this process by allowing The Holy Spirit, to anoint our mind, unto "good
works". (Eph. 2:110, 2Ti. 3:17) In the simplest terms
this second step is nothing more than allowing the Holy
Spirit, who already resides in our newborn spirit and
heart, to have full access to our mind (our thought
life). It is our mind which controls all our actions.
(Luke 11:13, Act. 1:5,6, 2:4,31,38, 8:15,17, 10:44-46,
19:2,6) With this anointing, The Holy Spirit gives
us power to align our circumstances, to the will of God,
bringing us more and more peace, which surpasses all understanding
(Phl. 4:7). At the same time, He also starts the
sanctification process, as we give Him permission to
conform more and more of our thinking to the way Jesus
Christ thinks. (Rom. 8:29, 12:2) The Jesus, himself, as
a man,
received this anointing of The Holy Spirit, as He was
baptized by John in the Jordon River. Simply put, we must want and seek
this anointing of The Holy Spirit. Once we seek and then receive His
anointed presence, He communes with us in our thought
life (mind), making
available His counsel on every situation we face in
life. He reveals the truth of God's word in a much
deeper way, than we could ever hope to discern for
ourselves. I have
tried living my life both ways, with His advice and
without it. His way is always so much
better.
This truth is simple,
profound, and missed by many Christians, to their
detriment.
These two steps, for obtaining the "best life" possible,
are the same for everyone. The first step of confessing
Him as Lord, assures us of an eternal relationship with
God, as our Father. The second step allows the Holy
spirit to start a counseling and cleansing work in our
mind, so we can be guided in the practical application
of God's truths as they apply to our everyday life.
I would never promote a life shaped by religion (Act. 26:5) or
worldly "do's and don'ts" (Phl 3:4-10), but rather one
shaped by an ever-deepening relationship with the God of
everything, through the anointing and guidance of The
Holy Spirit. The answers to life's problems is never
"one size fits all" but the way to obtain those answers
is. People who choose to do, what I have briefly
described to do here, in these two steps, will always
obtain the correct answers, and those who don't, won't.
It’s just that simple. As these steps are put into play,
the landscape around a person's life will increasingly
become an environment of more and more light and hope.
Obstacles, which once overwhelmed us, will become much
easier to navigate. (Philippians
4:13
I can do all things through Christ who
strengthens me.) Many past challenges disappear altogether. Yes, thoughts
lead to actions (Pro. 16:25) (Pro. 19:21). Godly
thoughts produce Godly actions. All other thoughts
produce actions, which may seen to work well at first, but eventually
unravel, revealing their
destructive consequences. The bottom line is this. Human beings, within
themselves, do not possess the ability to tell the
difference between the right course in their personal
lives or the wrong course. To do that successfully, we need God in our
spirit and The His Holy Spirit in our mind. Also, God
inspired
thoughts not only produce the best solutions, but they
produce the most satisfying solutions. As we continue in
the counsel of The Holy Spirit, these ongoing solutions
have enlightened consequences, which outlive us. They
build a legacy, which provides enlightenment and hope for those who come after us.
Without taking these two steps, however, that
enlightened legacy will never materialize. Here is the
truth. Many people are not going to do what I have
described needs to be done here. (Mat. 7:13
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the
gate, and broad is the
way, that leads to destruction, and many there be which
go in thereat:) I hope some who read this will, because these are the two
most imperative truths, to be acted upon, that will ever
be read on the internet, or anywhere else, for that
matter.
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