The true gospel of Jesus Christ is not anyone’s best honesty other than God’s. No one other than God could have planned it or put it into practice in others throughout history and in you. A human being could never have come up with the reality of the gospel or even an explanation of it. The Truth/Christ Jesus is simply beyond what human beings understand or are capable of understanding. You will understand exactly why if God has given you the grace to hear him if you are born again as a new creature in Jesus Christ.
The Gospel of Jesus Christ is God Himself as His Word and a very particular part of Him.
It is not the truth that God uses what is called “language” by some to communicate His thoughts to man in a will-neutral manner. While that is exactly what many say is the overall situation of communication between God and man, that is not the truth. Most who advocate for a will-neutral medium of communication between God and man are ignorant that in doing so they are committing the unforgivable sin. Others are perfectly aware of it and it is their intention to get others to commit the unforgivable sin by default and think of that default as the only genuine praise to God and piety; as the most honest religion possible. They seduce their neighbor with a false gospel based on the reputation of the true gospel and yet into angering God against them while being deceived they are worshiping God as the the only possible righteousness and in addition, supposedly doing so “on purpose” with their ‘own free will’.
The true gospel of Jesus Christ was never intended by God to be executed in the midst of a lack of competition from a false gospel of a false Jesus Christ, or in the midst of an already righteous people or among those who were all free willed, as smart as possible and who already knew everything else there is to know. It was always intended to be the point of the sword against lies that are living spirits that goes into the midst of a totally deceived people who are non-metaphorically spiritually dead and incapable of giving themselves life and sets them free in new life; it was meant to flourish in the midst of the strongest opposition and in the full knowledge of that competition.
As the introduction to the gospel and as part of it, some history.
The Fall of Man: God’s creation of His Own Opposition
There are verses in the Bible which God’s enemies hate that verbatim states that God created all that is and created all that is exclusively by the means of Himself as His Word.
John 1:1-5 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
God personifies Himself as His Own Word. He states in words that He IS the Word being spoken and written. He is spreading Himself as He writes and speaks. He is also plainly stating that He as Word created all that exists and that nothing exists unless He made it.
God creates all things, to even include us as new creations by the means of His Word. The Word which we are used to hearing as The Gospel is the means by which we are recreated in Christ/Word. Jesus Christ is the Word of God made into flesh. That the Word of God became flesh is called The Incarnation of the Word. The evidence is found in many places in the Bible. One place is the same chapter of the Gospel of John in which God has already stated He IS His Word and has created and actively creates by the exclusive means of Himself as Word. The same chapter:
John 1: 14-18 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
Understand that two important truths are in evidence and in evidence as God as Word:
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God is His Word. He does not ‘use language’ as a tool that is not part of Himself
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God created all that is by the means of His Word
God’s Word on the matter that He created all that can exist and already does exist and all that will exist brings up an immediate stark reality: God created good and evil and the environment in which one exists beside the other. That does not make God evil, it just shows Him to be truly all powerful and unrestrained in His use of Himself as all-power. Some have sought to maintain in the speech/word that is not-God that God cannot create anything that is not of His Own character and thus saying that God created evil is a slander against God and dishonors Him. But trying to limit God truly dishonors Him and the reality that He did in fact create something not of His Own character actually proves Him to be Infinite, Almighty God. He is not restrained in the least. God even verbatim says He creates..is actively creating, evil:
Isaiah 45: 5-7 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
We’re a bit ahead of ourselves and we’ve read ahead in Scripture from the actual scene of the Fall of Man, ( Genesis 3 ) but only so we would know that when God Speaks, He is ‘doing Himself’; He is creating as He speaks and He is creating all things of which He speaks. We’ll do it once more to bring in more evidence.
If God is to be opposed, He must create His Own opposition for His Own reasons because none else could do so. In fact, God mocks those who think to oppose some of his more fearsome creatures ( Leviathan, Behemoth, the dragon/Satan, etc..) and directly states that if it is futility by man to oppose those creatures then man of course has no hope of opposing God:
Leviathan is said to be undefeatable in physical battle by men:
Job 41: 1-11 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee? Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants? Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more. Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him? None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me? Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
The dragon/Satan is said to have successfully deceived the whole world and is unrivaled in cunning and deceit among creatures:
Revelation 12: 9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Yet God Says of Himself that He is also the only Savior:
Isaiah 43:10-13 Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour. I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God. Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
Short Summary : God is the only Savior both as saving one creature from others and saving any creature from Himself because He created and actively creates every facet of the opposition and all things from which one needs to be saved.
Here is one verse among many in which a group of men call on God for deliverance from other creatures and another in which God declares through His servant that He has sent himself as Word to rescue those whom He choses from God’s own wrath:
I Samuel 7:8 And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry unto the LORD our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.
Acts 17:29-31 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device. And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
Again, we’ve gotten ahead of ourselves a bit concerning the Fall of Man. But we know that God is His Word, He is the only creator, He creates with His Speaking, He creates his own opposition and that He is the only Savior both from both the opposition between creatures and from His own wrath.
Now we get to the Fall itself, which was nothing less than the giving to Man a different speech than God Himself Is. God Spoke the Fall into existence by His act of Speech through Adam concerning leaving his father and clinging to his wife as the law of marriage. The serpent then immediately goes to the woman, knowing that if he can deceive her, the Man will Fall in order to be with her.
Genesis 2: 23,24 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
How did Adam know he and Eve would have children and that there would be such things as fathers, mothers and children? We know that God actually spoke the law of marriage into existence as creation through Adam because the Incarnate Word of God, Jesus Christ expressly says God spoke the law of marriage and that the Scripture cannot be broken, thus proving that pre-Incarnate Christ was the native speech of Adam and Eve before the Fall of Man:
Matthew 19: 3-6 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Adam was speaking, but pre-Incarnate Christ was the Spirit of his speech. That was prior to the Fall.
God created a different speech than Himself as head of the opposition to Himself and had given the serpent to that speech. That speech, among other things, is anti-Christ, which is to say, the anti-Word of God. ( It is not an accident that there is a Christ and an anti-Christ ) It is a living spirit. It can create nothing and those over whom it has power can create nothing, nor do they have the expectation of any creation at all: the non-creating speech is their mind. Note here the absolute distinction between the definition of languages between the two speaks that is already apparent: God is His Word and creates by His acts of speech, while non-creating speech openly mocks the thought of anything existing outside the limits of its own power and abilities and is always going on about conserving what already exists expressly because of its incredulity that God as Creating Word / Christ Jesus exists. Those in non-creating speech do not even know that God as Word exists, even though they often pretend to be Christians and try to always do what they call Christian behaviors. So their way of speaking is to speak as if non-creating speech was the only speech in total reality while never, ever explicitly mentioning that fact: to deny God by the default of a definition of an implied single language in all of reality. They often write in such a manner as “the definition of speech” or “the origins of language” which subtly denies God as Word by implying only one speech/language exists by the singular noun they use. If one is their student, why would one search for the origins of another language than the ‘one’ they define in order to be approved of by them? They prove they have non-creating speech by the way and manner in which they speak and their expectations of what that implied single language can or cannot do. In their vernacular, words are literally physical sounds with attached ‘meanings’ that describe what already exists and as such are a tool men and God must use in order to communicate with each other.
Where did all that get started? How did it come to pass that men got another language than God? The serpent deceived Eve and her husband, by the creating/forcing act of God’s law of marriage, sided with her. First, the speech of the serpent directly assaults the validity of the Word of God when viewed from within the common sense of non-creating speech, but as if the non-creating speech he is speaking is the only speech in total reality …as if the serpent is giving Eve “better information” in the same speech God speaks. Eve has never heard any other speech than God as Word, She is then deceived that because of the nature of the Word she speaks is supposedly being the same as the one the serpent speaks, the word of the serpent is equally valid and has power to give her hitherto unknown truth. The speech of the serpent was and is a living spirit that entered her and after she gets her husband to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, God specifically tells Adam that was has been created is cursed because its head, Adam, has treated the voice of his wife, which is now the non-creating speech as more valid and more truthful than God’s voice.
Genesis 3: 17-19 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
God doesn’t say just “because you disobeyed me and ate of the tree I commanded you not to eat from..”, but specifically points out that Adam had listened to a different speech that God Himself Is. From that point onwards in all of history, man has had non-creating speech as his only speech and has always viewed the Word of God with hatred and incredulity and creation as acts of speech with unbelief. Indeed, the powerlessness of non-creating speech has been turned to an emotional positive in deceived Man by the means of portraying non-creating speech as the only speech in total reality coupled with the deception that the exact powerless character of non-creating speech is what provides an ideal environment for a supposed free will of man. To have a free will, men need an environment in which to act that will not interfere with their use of their will and the supposed exclusivity and real powerlessness of non-creating speech seems to exactly fit that niche. The non-creating speech itself is Lie/Anti-Christ/Sin just as the Word of God/Creating Speech is Jesus Christ/Truth/Life.
So we see that what is called the Fall of Man was the switching of languages in man and a setting up of opposition to God specifically by the means of opposing the Word of God and the creating character of the Word of God. We also see an opposition between two spirits both of which are languages: one is the Holy Spirit and the other is anti-Christ.
Those in anti-Christ as their native language and common sense constantly mock God thereafter and even the more humble of the unbelievers find God incomprehensible because they rely on their own speech and common sense and can do no other. That the switching of speaks resulted in a lessening of both the lifespan and outlook and abilities of Man is evident immediately: they go from a creating, expanding outlook to a defensive outlook. They want to cover themselves.
Genesis 3:6-8 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
Immediately the voice that is God as Word now scares them, despite the supposed ‘new wisdom’ they got from the fruit by which, they were told, they would become gods themselves.
Genesis 3: 9,10 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
As time goes on, Man becomes more and more evil and the life force he received from the Word of God becomes less and less simultaneously. He begins to live a shorter and shorter lifespan in exactly the accord with his becoming more and more evil:. The list of names from Adam onward demonstrates more and more evil and less and less years until finally:
Genesis 6:5-9 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
God wipes out all those not in Noah’s immediate family that hear only anti-Christ as their native language. But the non-creating speech is in the flesh of Ham, Noah’s son, at the least and Noah and Noah’s entire family. After the Flood, it again is man’s only speech. Most evil acts in the Bible are immediately preceded and then wrapped at the end by acts of non-creating speech; just like a top and bottom lip coming together. God again saves man from the worst results of non-creating speech by confounding the non-creating speech at Babel.
God did not confound man at Babel, but man’s language. God also did not confound Himself as Word thus again proving the existence of two speaks.
Genesis 11:1-9 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
God plainly states as His Word that he confounded “the language of all the earth”. Yet Christ / Word of God was not and is not confounded to this day.
So far: You have read where that non-creating speech/ human speech came from, why God created it, how he set it in motion and what He is doing with it. Read here as well as God speaks to it, specifically making reference to its claim of being the only speech in total reality and its ignorance of new creation even though it knows all there is to know in what had already existed to that point and has controlled men on that basis:
Isaiah 47: 8-15 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments. For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me. Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know. Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee. Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it. Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.
God declares the thoughts of its mind, knowing that it imagines to itself “I am, and none else beside me.” and yet tells it things will happen to it that it cannot imagine ( and thus those in whom it is a language cannot think or imagine) and will not know from where those evils will come. It trusted in itself to deceive everything and everyone because it knew all things in the old creation as the only speech men had and did not believe at all that new creation was possible because it could not perform it; and Man, who seemed the source of new creation before the Fall whom it had overcome it thought to rule with as using Man to govern everything else. God shows us in that pronouncement against Anti-Christ that the point of all witchcraft and sorcery existing, even its own mind, is to get at Man and in its success at the express command of God, it is deceived merely because it thinks to have prevailed against Man.
Now it is an easy thing to see God’s adversary: where it came from, why it hates God, and also that those in it are to suffer the same wrath as is planned for itself unless they are saved out of it. We also see that God placed man in it in order to demonstrate His power, wrath and His salvation both to Man and to all creation and now we see that He also keeps those in it that He despises:
Romans 9: 15-26 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
What then is the place of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the totality of these things? Simply, the gospel is both the means of new creation of us before God whereby He translates us into Him as Word by Speaking Himself to us and saves us from both the wrath on anti-Christ and all those in it. It is also the deliverance to us of a more complete understanding of both the antagonism between anti-Christ and Jesus Christ and God’s complete triumph over anti-Christ and Satan.
God through pre-Incarnate Christ / Word of God made laws, promises and gave authority to certain angels, creatures, nations and men. The Word of God/Christ’s Incarnation, death and resurrection served the triple purpose of annulling those former laws and promises and fulfilling them in every respect by the death of the one who spoke them into existence, such promises and authority being made sure in past times by God’s swearing by Himself, on His Own life; of returning all power to God; and of thus leaving God free to save whom He wills because of the fulfillment of His former Word and the annulling of the power He had given to others by which they had controlled men. Anti-Christ’s extreme hatred of God is proved in its persecution of the Incarnate Word of God to physical death. God swore on His own life by His act of Himself as Word. Now that He as Incarnate Word has died and been resurrected, there is no going back. Everything starts over and those who wrought evil and are not to be forgiven cannot escape.
When we hear of the birth by the virgin and the life of the Incarnate Word of God, the cross of the Incarnate Word of God, the resurrection from the dead of the Incarnate Word of God and the giving of the Holy Spirit to us after the resurrection, all things traditionally and truthfully associated with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, it is plain that they did not take place in a vacuum nor were they completely unconnected with the rest of reality.
God says that it was of advantage to the Word of God to suffer and die. He says it by calling the Incarnate Word of God the Christ.
Luke 24:44-48 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses of these things.
God is more than Word: He is Spirit and Love. He is life. He is power. But God made His Word specifically in the stead of His other aspects, flesh. The Word of God was made flesh and the whole godhead dwells in Him.
Hebrews 1:1-3 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 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; Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
Colossians 2:6-10 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
When we speak the gospel of Jesus Christ we are not then speaking non-creating speech. We are speaking as God dwells in us the same as he dwells in the flesh of Christ and God is speaking through us with exactly the authority, and creating power, for instance, of God speaking the law of marriage through Adam. It is God who does the speaking through us and He does so as His Word.
Purposes of the Gospel of Jesus Christ:
The first purpose of the gospel is to newly create us and afterward to build us up in more of God.
We have stated and shown that God is His Word and that he creates all that is by speaking. Some verses that demonstrate God actively creating and what he spoke immediately coming into being are:
Genesis 1: 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Daniel 10:18,19 Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me, And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me.
Matthew 9:2 -7 And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee. And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth. And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts? For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk? But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house. And he arose, and departed to his house.
When we hear the Word of God, we are born again just as immediately. God directly states we are born again in this present flesh we have now ( and not in some unspecified future time as those who speak a false gospel imply because their speech cannot create anything ) by the means of His Word and specifically as the speaking of the Gospel:
1Corinthians 4:15 For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have (past tense) begotten you through the gospel.
1Peter 1:23-25 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. ( active tense )
James 1:18 Of his own will begat he us ( past tense..they are already new creatures in Jesus Christ ) with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
God Says He is the speaker of Himself as Word when we are used by Him to speak the words of God:
Matthew 10:20 For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
First God newly creates us by the means of His Word. This is the case with all true Christians. Those who have not been born again are not Christians. They may be in the future, but a Christian has already been born again in Jesus Christ and is already a new creature.
2 Corinthians 5:17,18 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
Part of that new creation is His taking up residence in us as our new word and mind. God says that after new birth:
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we are the temple of God
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we have the mind of Christ
Two verses among others that demonstrate God’s presence in us right now:
1 Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1 Corinthians 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
In speaking to us, God gives us Himself, not mere knowledge about Himself. God then creates through us others of the household of faith in Jesus Christ as He speaks through us. That is the only true evangelism: new creation.
Supposedly “making a decision for Christ” is not new birth and is a false and therefore pagan religion. Those that do that false religion and propagate the lie that God can be ‘chosen’ by the human will or that God can be given to others as men, women or children decide teach sedition against Christ and unity with anti-Christ. Roman Catholicism, Mormonism, and all ‘free’ will based religions are of anti-Christ and there is no new birth into Christ to be had among them.
As new creatures and in the mind of Christ, we see many things we about which we were formerly deceived. The lifting of the deception was accomplished by the mere new creation itself, as it also caused an exodus of our being from non-creating speech and a non-creating mindset we were not even aware we had, as we disbelieved there was any other with which to compare it.
It is a lie to hear ‘about’ Jesus Christ, that one needs to be saved, what one needs to be saved from and even the details of how God goes about saving us in the speech that is not God but which seeks to mimic God. Lucifer will praise God in Lucifer’s speech for a purpose. Yet for those for whom God has made it impossible to hear Him, to be told that they must escape their own speech is simply too much, especially given that they are deceived that they must save themselves by acts of will. How exactly is one to switch one’s speech from anti-Christ to Jesus Christ? How does one get Out of human speech? How does one use one’s will to do away with one’s being and start over as non-metaphorical new creature with a new will? Of course these things are impossible for a supposed “free willed” creature and any creature. So the usual lie is that these things aren’t necessary or that they ‘happen’ after death after a lifetime of ‘earning the right’ to go to heaven after following the rules laid down by false priests and anti-Christs.
While many attempts to explain those very things as other terms have been tried and are tried to this day as false religion, none can actually perform it because they are all spirits of non-creating speech. Many false religions claim that one is gradually moved from a less righteous state to a more righteous state over thousands of years of constantly being reincarnated. Yet at each stage of the idealized reincarnation one comes back in the same speech, with the same expectations and the supposed increased righteousness is supposedly demonstrated through acts of will. The proof of the mysterious increase in righteousness of false religion is simply to follow religious dictates more rigorously and simultaneously to hold poverty and a certain amount of public ridicule by one portion of the populace and praise by another portion as a virtue. There is no thought in those false religions of escaping non-creating speech / human speech outright and in one step of new creation in this life. So a bad copy/misinterpretation of what God actually does to us and through us is put off for some unspecified future time and the claim is that one will eventually get a similar result after thousands of years as a kind of mysterious spiritual evolution that no one has ever proved actually exists and God has Himself cursed and confounded the speech that speaks it.
As well, other false religions, with the same end in mind, ( to never have to prove what they claim but to make their claims a supposed equivalent to what God does in us in an instant,) put off the idealized state of righteousness until after physical death and imagine a place on a general other plane of existence wherein the exact same results are obtained through whatever environment the idealized place has. It’s only real quality is that it is not here and not now and therefore is not forced to create something as proof of its power, but holds its adherents by sheer peer pressure ( the real feeling but deception that the beliefs of the false religion are being successful for someone else or have worked in the past and that feeling is instill through a myriad of propaganda techniques to the crowd.)
Even though false religion is no defense against the Gospel of Jesus Christ, God does not give Himself to all. In a general collection of those whose only speech is anti-Christ, and who may be competing amongst themselves for converts to their own systems of a bad copy/misinterpretation of what God does to us in an instant, the gospel is preached and only a few are made to hear God. One speaking event by God to a large collection of individuals, all of whom are not Christians and only a few actually hear God. In fact, the most mock the speech of God and specifically mock its demonstration of power and its declaration of more demonstrations of its power in the future that are far beyond the capabilities of the speech that mocks God.
Act 17:19-34 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.) Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device. And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter. So Paul departed from among them. Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
God perfectly understood what He Said as Himself to those intended to understand it and relied on His Own understanding and power to save them. Those few were saved and yet did not immediately have a perfect grasp of what God had done in separating them from the crowd and from human speech. The understanding comes later and with experience.
The repentance spoken of is misunderstood by the speech of those who heard what was to them “a presentation of Paul’s personal beliefs” as requiring an exodus from human speech. No word order or amount of words was or is sufficient to have done repentance with when all one has is anti-Christ to think, speak and pray with. It is then a constant habit of anti-Christ through false Christians, who have never had the actual exodus from human speech to call repentance an act of will and non-verbal event in an effort to dodge the exposure of the powerlessness of their own speech. Anti-Christ in those in false religion at the time of God’s Word through Paul merely waited until it heard what it could say in those who heard was a over-the-top claim of power by the ‘beliefs of Paul’ and then grabbed that opportunity to mock at its own powerlessness. (..And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter. ) That became their opportunity to run away from the Word of God, exactly as all men have been doing since they received non-creating speech as their native speech.
Again, God speaking through one of His servants, and the reaction of those not given ears to hear God was to cover their ears and then kill the servant:
Act 7:52-60 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it. When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
God spoke through Stephen at the last and did not blame those who were used by anti-Christ to kill Stephens body. God knew who the true enemy was and because of that understanding, it was true justice to excuse the victims of deception. But in the mind of non-creation, of anti-Christ, it appears arbitrary of God to simply excuse some murderers at that time but not others all through history.
God had done so before in that same understanding and gotten the same accusation by anti-Christ. Note anti-Christ’s speech through Pilate, claiming to be able to release the Word of God and to have power over Him:
John 19:10,11 Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee? Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.
Christ/Word of God knows that neither Pilate or his speech has any such power as anti-Christ claims and knows Pilate is deceived. Since it was of advantage for the Word of God in flesh to die, He played the victim while anti-Christ was deceived it had won. But in dying, God took back all his power and promises; anti-Christ all those in it has lost forever.
God was also able to turn anti-Christ against itself through the means of the lie of human free will anti-Christ had always relied on to hide itself.
Matthew 10:34 -36 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.
While God sends His Word as the gospel that newly created us and newly creates other real, literal new creatures in Jesus Christ through us, He also controls anti-Christ and sends to those who love anti-Christ and who cannot escape human language a lie that makes them fight each other. God verbatim says this:
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
In particular, God’s sending forth certain spirits to exacerbate the situation in the midst of that lie that he sends by the means of anti-Christ plainly shows his intent to destroy all those in the speech that is not-God:
Revelation 6:1,2 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
The word of God, portrayed as a Lamb, opens the seals and is the only one worthy to open the seals. He sends a spirit that first goes to set some men over others and thus build resentment within the lie of human free will. The lie of human free will, that men can effect their own salvation by saying certain words to God with the speech they already have and thus being able to supposedly manipulate God, can write their own destiny, can only be spoken in non-creating speech / anti-Christ.
Revelation 6:3,4 And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
The second then takes advantage of the firsts accomplishments, which is itself a fulfillment of older prophecies that are themselves spoken as if already accomplished by Creating Speech/Word of God:
Zechariah 8:9,10 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, that were in the day that the foundation of the house of Jehovah of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built. For before those days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; and there was no peace for him that went out or that came in, because of the distress: for I let loose all men, every one against his neighbour.
Revelation 6:5 ,6 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
God then exacerbates the wicked even more by making basic necessities expensive within an overall definition of money that is itself based on the lie of free will. Money is already in this day deceptively seen as a representation of units of free will and effectively speed in the lie of free will. If you have the money, you can immediately get what you want ..except getting Out of non-creating speech. This only aids the first two which are on-going the whole time.
Revelation 6:7,8 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
So while God is sending His Word, the Spirit of Jesus Christ to those He has chosen to hear His Word, He is sending death to all the rest. Yet the next seal out of the seven is a gift of grace while destruction rains on the wicked and the wicked, entrapped as they are in anti-Christ, think they are proving themselves strong in a dog eat dog world they have supposed constructed out of their own desires and wisdom with a ‘free’ will. Anti-Christ is being ruined by what it cannot see or hear, exactly as God had formerly stated, while simultaneously the elect are being blessed.
Revelation 6:9-11 And when it opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of them that had been slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held; and they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O sovereign Ruler, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell upon the earth? And there was given to them, to each one a white robe; and it was said to them that they should rest yet a little while, until both their fellow-bondmen and their brethren, who were about to be killed as they, should be fulfilled.
So, what have you heard? In what speech did you hear it? The word of God clearly says that you must be careful what you hear and that your words will both justify or condemn you.
Mark 4:22 -25 For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad. If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given. For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath.
Matthew 12:36,37 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
God tells us these things and we live through them in order to be witnesses that God is indeed God, that Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son and Word of God.
Isaiah 43:10-13 Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour. I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God. Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
Isaiah 48:6-13 Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them. They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them. Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb. For my name’s sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off. Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another. Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.
When men ask to hear your “witness for Jesus”, they invariably mean that you should give God thanks for gaining something relatively rare in the pop ideology of your day.
1John 4:3-6 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
If jobs are scarce, they want to hear God gave you a good job. If faithful men or women are scarce, as they always are, then they want to hear your joy over having a faithful spouse. If vacations are rare, they want to hear how God blessed you on vacation. They have such expectations because they only have non-creating speech. They want to hear a prosperity, gospel-lite version of ‘praise’. When God through you says “I’m Out ..of human speech and in Christ.” they will only roll their eyes and say in anti-Christ “yeah. Right.” The false gospel has so destroyed them that they only wish to hear that the spirits God sent forth to take peace from men and to cause men to kill each other have used you in such a manner as to make you relatively high up in the pecking order of that destruction while you are still alive and a slave to non-creating speech as they are. But the only real witness of Christ can only be understood in new creation and in escape from human speech as a whole.
1 John 1:1-10 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full. This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
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The same antagonism that anti-Christ has against God and the Word of God it has against all those in Christ.
All through the Old Testament we read of the antagonism between the servants of God who heard God as Word and those who never heard God as Word and thus disbelieved God at every turn. It is also plain that in every instance, such antagonism was generated by the mindset of those in non-creating speech about not having enough of anything and as such either consuming in panic what was stored by the faithful and those through whom God created new things or destroying it on the premise none would be replaced by God and thus an equality of status of whom was righteous in their society would supposedly ensue on the basis of ruin or consumption. They seek to destroy any surplus to ensure none can be seen to be more blessed than any other. That understanding is summed in:
Galatians 4:29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
What is called the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the overcoming of non-creating speech and all the effects of it for those who have been grace in Christ/word of God.
I John 3:7,8 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
The works of the devil are overthrown in new creation and in the annulling/fulfillment of his power.
1John 4:14-17 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen