What are the spiritual mechanics of being born again?

I'll give my thoughts on this matter and we'll go from there. Just for the record, if I'm speaking of baptism, it's the spiritual baptism that I'm speaking of unless otherwise noted. I'll tell you if I mean water baptism.

If you ask someone what being born is, they're likely to respond with something like the wind blows where it wills, all from John 3, etc. But I think the Bible does give us some insight and that insight helps tremendously in interpreting Scripture over all.

When we are placed into/immersed/baptized into Christ, we receive everything at once, all the ingredients to be saved. Thus we are complete "in Him" and lacking nothing (Col. 2:10-14). This is the Church, the Body, that the placing into, or the baptism with the Holy Spirit spiritually unites us with. By receiving the indwelling as a result of our faith, we are placed into Christ, becoming one with Him. Setting aside the legality of our salvation, that is, being saved/delivered from the penalty of sin, the focus in this thread will mainly be in our being saved/delivered from the power of sin. This is the practical side of being saved and is called being born again, which not only frees us from the power of sin, but also allows us to begin to be conformed to Christ likeness (Gal. 3:2-3).

Being born again is the result of being placed into Christ.

When the Bible speaks of our being raised up with Him, or raised up in Christ, it's speaking of our being born again. When it speaks of being crucified with Christ, dying with Him, that is the necessary death that must precede being raised up with Him. When we are placed into/immersed/baptized into Christ, we're also placed into/immersed/baptized into His death, and raised up with Him, thus we are born again.

These are verses that I believe are speaking of being born again, though they do not use the typical language. These are all speking of the Spirit baptism, known as the baptism with the Holy Spirit by Jesus.

Romans 6:3-11 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Col. 2:10-14 and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power. In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

Gal. 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

Gal. 3:2-3 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit (baptism with the Holy Spirit) by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? ---- *(added by me)*

26-27 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptized (with the Holy Spirit) into Christ have put on Christ. ---- *(added by me)*

Ephesians 2:5-6 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

1 Peter 3:21 There is also an antitype which now saves us--baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Being born again is simultaneous to being placed into Christ, also being placed into Jesus' death and raised up with Him.

The Bible tells us that we are saved/delivered through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. I believe this is saved/delivered both judicially and being born again. But when the Bible speaks of being 'raised up with Him', like Ephesians 2:6, I believe that it's specifically speaking of our being born again.

Do you recognize this Scripture of speaking of being born again? Is this a metaphor, or does this really happen spiritually when we receive the Holy Spirit.

Dave

The story of Santa Claus has a dark origin in the legends of Saint Nicholas, who is said to have resurrected three boys murdered and pickled by an evil innkeeper. This gruesome tale was a part of his mythos in medieval Europe and contributed to his being associated with dark companions like Krampus or Père Fouettard, who punish naughty children. Over time, the modern, cheerful Santa Claus image emerged, largely through Clement C. Moore's poem and Thomas Nast's illustrations, which downplayed or ignored these darker origins.

And don't forget what the name 'Santa' is an anagram of.

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Was Jesus really born on December 25th when the sheep were lying low ?

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Why do some people speak in an at least 700-year-old version of the English language?

I’ve always struggled with feeling God’s presence. It’s hard having faith in something I can’t feel or haven’t really EXPERIENCED in the way I hear stories about. It makes me scared that my faith isn’t genuine or if I’m doing something wrong.

I’ve been a Christian since I was 4. Yes, this has haunted me for awhile because I feel like that was way too young, but I feel as if I’ve had enough faith since then (and panic prayers) that at some point it really did become genuine. Plus I read “Stop Asking Jesus into Your Heart” by JD Grear to help with some of my fears.

But now, I don’t know if I’m just backsliding or if it’s something more serious.

I’ve never been good at prayer or Bible reading. I get distracted. I get busy. I have really good phases where I do it daily and then I drop off and have trouble getting back on it. But even then, it feels more like studying and learning information instead of meditating and sitting with God. I read, do a quick prayer, and go about my day. I’ve tried to sit with Him more, but then my thoughts just wander, and I don’t ever hear Him or feel Him.

I keep trying to pray for God to reveal Himself to me. To ease my anxiety. To give me some kind of answer. But I hear nothing. And then I just become less motivated to read the Bible or pray. I’ve never been good at praying anyway.

I don’t know what to do at this point. Has anyone else experienced this? Is this normal for Christians to just feel distant? I feel like most of my “encounters” with God have just been vicariously through others. I know all the answers to questions at church, am very familiar with the Bible, and serve regularly, but it just feels like I’m following obligation and not living by faith.

It feels like I’m just forcing everything, and I don’t know how to make it feel real.

August 6, 2025 | Fletch Matlack​

Young men, God has designed wild places to unlock spiritual truths in your heart. Wilderness experiences are a visceral means of drawing you nearer to Christ—a needed antidote to the numbness of our comfortable, digitally driven lives.

By wild places, I don’t mean the community park. I mean a place where cell service is unlikely, where the only creature comforts are the ones you’ve carried with you. In short, wild places are, well, wild. If you’re ill-equipped, they can turn dangerous quickly.

Of course, God has created the wilds for man and woman, young and old. But after 20-plus years of guiding people, I can confidently say God has specially tuned the hearts of young men to hear spiritual truths in wild places. Here are four examples.

1. Beauty Leads to Worship​

The wild world is filled with beauty that Instagram cannot capture. When you’re standing in creation, far from home, subject to your environment, every sense is engaged. It’s a beauty you don’t just observe but feel. It’s enrapturing: pine trees sighing with a rush of wind, a solitary loon calling across a dusky lake, alpine balsams pillowed in snow, a sky so dark the Milky Way spills across the horizon.

To experience these wonders, and a million others like them, is to recognize you’ve stepped into glory. As C. S. Lewis writes, “Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one.”

I’ve stood with young men on mountaintops, or beside riverbanks, and worship suddenly erupts. It’s not that we begin singing (though this has happened), but we break into spontaneous expressions of gratitude for Christ, who made all things and holds them together (Col. 1:16–17). We speak words of Scripture, like Psalm 19, almost instinctively. God has designed wild places to point your heart to Christ’s beauty and glory. Worship is the only natural response.

2. Simplicity Leads to Prayerfulness​

When you travel to wild places, the stresses of normal life are left behind—if only for a moment. Life becomes simple. Everything you need is in your backpack or canoe. Your work is to keep moving, to control your breathing. Set up camp, break it down again. Make a fire, cook your food, make sure bears and stray embers bring no ruination. Life in the wild is intense; mistakes can quickly lead to misfortune. But this simple intensity strips away distractions. You become single-minded, focused.

Young men, simplicity is a revelation for your soul. When life is reduced to a simple set of objectives, with no screens to distract, it becomes much easier to meditate on the things of God. Thinking becomes praying, and praying becomes easier. The simplicity of the wild and the worshipfulness it produces amplify a prayerful state. Perhaps this is why Jesus frequently sought out wild places to pray (e.g., Luke 4:42, 5:16; Matt. 14:23).

3. Adversity Leads to Fortitude​

If you’ve reached a wild place, you’ve experienced difficulty: burning muscles, lungs desperate for air, downpours threatening to drown your tent, mosquitoes resistant to chemical warfare, uncooperative stomachs, uncertainty about whether you can make it through. Wild places cannot be accessed without some form of adversity. But the reality of the wild is that, one way or another, you must push through—even if it’s to bail.

I’ve seen it play out with dozens of young men: When suffering comes, Scripture becomes the driving thought. I remember: in my weakness, he is strong (2 Cor. 12:10); we ought to count trials as joy (James 1:2): these present sufferings are not worth comparing to future glories (Rom. 8:18). God’s Word presses you forward through the challenges of wild places, trusting he’ll bring you to better moments. Young men, God has filled wild places with challenges, and he has created you to overcome challenges.

I think of wilderness adversities like a school, preparing young men for life’s greater sufferings. Any fortitude gained through battling the wilderness, God will surely use when he leads you through a future spiritual wilderness.

4. Wild Experiences Lead to Brotherhood​

After returning from a wild place, I’ll often be asked, “How was your trip?” I offer a brief report, but it’s impossible to explain to someone who wasn’t there. For the friend who was there, all we need is a glance to remember. And the stories we love to repeat aren’t of blue skies and clear waters but of when we came through the storm together, when we struggled side by side, and when the wild places forged a brotherhood between us. Nowhere but in the wild have I more consistently learned that a “brother is born for adversity” (Prov. 17:17).

The wild places are for you. Find a friend, leave your screens behind, and get out there to discover that creation declares the glory of God (Ps. 19:1).

Disclaimer: Fools walk into the wild with no experience. If you don’t have experience, find a more seasoned man. Likely, he’ll be eager to introduce you to wild places. If you don’t know anyone, ask God to bring such a man into your life. God loves to give good gifts!

Now, it is important that we read the words of Jesus here in the context of the whole of John, chapter 6, and in the context of his other teachings, and that we interpret his words from a biblical perspective and not from our own human understanding of what we think these words mean. For Jesus also talks about what it means to come to him in other passages of Scripture which give us a more full understanding of what he means.


And when Jesus took up his cross it was to put our sins to death with him so that, by God-persuaded and God-gifted faith in him, we can now die to sin and live to God and to his righteousness in walks of obedience to his commands. He suffered to set us free from our bondage to sin, and we must suffer, as well, first in self-denial, and in dying to sin, and in following him in obedience to his commands, and then in being persecuted, as he was, for our faith in Jesus Christ, and because we live for him and no longer for self.

And what he makes clear to us in the whole of John, chapter 6, he also makes clear to us in Luke 9:23-26 and in Matthew 7:21-23. And that is that we cannot just make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ and then be guaranteed salvation from all sin and heaven as our eternal destiny. So, when he says here that the one who comes to him he will never cast out, he is speaking of all those persuaded of God as to his righteousness and holiness, and of their sinfulness, that they must die to sin and obey God.


So, combine John 6:35-40 with Luke 9:23-26 and Matthew 7:21-23, and with the whole of John, chapter 6, and it will give you a much more clear picture of what it means to come to Jesus and to believe in him. For belief comes from God, it is authored and perfected by Jesus Christ, it is gifted to us by God, and it is persuaded of God as to his righteousness and holiness, and of our sinfulness, and of God’s requirements that we deny self, die to sin daily, and follow him in obedience to his commands. It is NOT of our flesh!

[Hebrews 12:1-2; Ephesians 2:8-10; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; Acts 26:18]

For all that the Father gives to the Son will be of God, by his design and purpose for our lives, according to his will. It will not be according to human will and purpose. And the Scriptures are very clear that we must die to sin and obey God or we don’t know God, we are not in fellowship with Christ, and we do not have eternal life with God. But for those who are dying to sin daily, who are walking in obedience to our Lord, by God-persuaded faith in him, we have salvation from sin and eternal life with God secured for us.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom
Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after You
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

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An Original Work / December 3, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

A federal judge has sided with two female inmates who sued a Texas prison that put them in physical danger by forcing them to be housed with male prisoners who identify as women.

In an order published Nov. 17, United States District Judge Sidney Fitzwater of the Northern District of Texas Fort Worth Division ruled that Federal Medical Center Carswell, a women’s prison in Fort Worth, cannot house trans-identified male inmates in women's housing units or allow them to enter women's showers, restrooms, changing areas and dormitory spaces.

Fitzwater, who was appointed to the bench by former President Ronald Reagan, directed FMC Carswell to either “reassign male inmates away from plaintiffs’ housing and privacy areas” or “house such inmates in a secure, segregated area at FMC Carswell (including the Hospital Unit or a comparable setting) that preserves access to programming and services while preventing access to female-only privacy areas.”

The ruling comes in response to a lawsuit filed by inmates Rhonda Fleming and Miriam Crystal Herrera on Nov. 4.

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ASHLAND, Va. - A masked burglar who caused a chaotic, drunken rampage at a liquor store on Saturday was identified as a raccoon.

What we know:

The incident occurred early on Saturday morning at a closed liquor store in the Ashland, Virginia, area.


According to Samantha Martin, an officer who works at the local animal control, the raccoon fell through one of the ceiling tiles.

An employee at the store found the raccoon, which was described as a "trash panda," passed out on the bathroom floor at the end of its "drunken escapade."

Photos of the aftermath showed smashed bottles of scotch and whiskey from the bottom shelf, a collapsed ceiling tile, and alcohol pooling on the floor.

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What has the world come to?

Hello,

I find work to be very overwhelming, I’ve been incredibly irritable, annoyed, and stuck in a rut, but I still need more money.

Please pray that I can calm down.

Peace and blessings!

A Christian pre-med student has gone viral in recent days for filing a religious discrimination complaint with the University of Oklahoma after a trans-identified teaching assistant allegedly flunked her for an essay stating that gender ideology is "demonic."

Samantha Fulnecky, a junior at the University of Oklahoma who is majoring in psychology, received a zero out of 25 for a 650-word opinion essay she was told to write in her "Lifespan Development" class in response to an article about social gender expectations, according to The Oklahoman.

According to a copy of her essay published by the local outlet, Fulnecky asserted that God created two distinct genders with different roles, and that the idea of changing one's gender is a satanic assault against that design.

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I’ve been reflecting lately on how often Scripture warns us about greed and how closely that warning is tied to God’s call for justice and care for others. Jesus speaks about money and the dangers of wealth more than almost any other topic, yet many Christians today find conversations about justice uncomfortable or “political.”

So I wanted to ask the community here:
Why do you think discussions about justice and greed create such tension among believers?
Is it a matter of theology, culture, politics, or something deeper in the human heart?


I’m preparing a video on this topic and would truly appreciate hearing a range of Christian perspectives!

HEBREWS
Analysis by Kenneth S. Wuest
Wuest's Word Studies
From the Greek New Testament


I. The New Testament is better than and takes the place of the First Testament because its Founder, the Messiah, is better than... (1:1-8:6)


1. The prophets (1:1-3) since Messiah is...

....a. God the Son (vv. 1,2)

....b. Heir of all things (v.2)

....c. Creator of the universe (v.2)

....d. Outshining of God's glory (v.3)

....e. The expression of the nature or essence of Deity (v.3)

....f. The sustainer of the universe He created (v.3)

....g. The sacrifice that paid for sin (v.3)

2. The angels (1:4-2:18), since He...

....a. Has a better name, Son (1:4,5)

....b. Is worshipped by angels (v.6)

....c. Is Creator and Master of angels (v.7)

....d. Has an eternal throne (v.8)

....e. Rules in righteousness (v.8)

....f. is anointed with the Holy Spirit (v.9)

....g. Is unchangeable (vv. 10-12)

....h. Is seated at God's right hand (v.13)

....i. Has ushered in a Testament which displaces theirs (2:1-4)

--------(1) Warning against letting New Testament truth slip away (v.1)

--------(2) If rejection of First Testament truth was punished (v.2) how much more will rejection of New Testament truth be punished (v.3) and which truth was spoken by the Lord who is superior to angels, and which was attested by miracles (vv.3,4)

....j. Is to be Ruler over the Messianic Kingdom (vv.5-9)

--------(1) Angels, being servants, cannot rule (v.5)

--------(2) Adam placed over earth, lost his dominion through sin (vv.6-8)

--------(3) Our Lord has regained it for man, who will be associated with Him in His rule. (v.9)

....k. Is the High Priest who has put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself (vv.10-18)

--------(1) He becomes Savior through His death on the cross (v.10)

--------(2) This death made possible through His incarnation (vv.11-16)

--------(3) As High Priest for human beings, it was necessary that He become incarnate (vv.17,18)

3. Moses (3:1-6) because...

....a. He is Creator of Israel, Moses only a member of that house (v.3)

....b. He is Son of God over Israel, Moses only a servant (v.5)

....c. He is the reality, Moses the type (v.5)

4. Joshua (3:7-4:13) because He leads into spiritual rest which is better than temporal rest into which Joshua led Israel.

....a. Warning against hardening their hearts toward the Holy Spirit as the wilderness wanderers hardened their hearts against God. (3:7-9)

....b. That generation did not enter Canaan rest (vv.10-11)

....c. The evidence of the fact that the recipient is saved is that he retains his profession of faith in Christ under the stress of persecution, not going back to the First Testament sacrifices. (vv.6,14)

....d. The recipient will die in his sins if he fails to put his faith in Christ as High Priest, just as the wilderness wanderers died a physical death because of unbelief. (3:15-4:8). The name "Joshua" should be in the text rather than "Jesus" (v.8)

....e. Exhortation to enter rest in Christ, and warning against continued unbelief. (vv.10-13)

5. Aaron (4:14-8:6) since He...

....a. Ascended through the heavens into the actual Holy of Holies (4:14-16)

....b. Was taken, not from among men, but from the Godhead (5:1)

....c. Is sinless (v.2)

....d. Is an eternal High Priest (v.6)

....e. Becomes actual High Priest through His death and resurrection (vv.7-10)

....f. Is the reality as High Priest, which does away with the types of the First Testament (5:11-6:12)

--------(1) The recipients hard to teach and dull as to spiritual perception (5:11)

--------(2) They had been instructed in New Testament truth (v.12)

--------(3) They were babes, that is, immature in their spiritual thinking(v.13)

--------(4) They are exhorted to put away "the beginning word of the Christ," namely, the Levitical ritual, and be born along to New Testament truth (6:1)

--------(5) They are exhorted not to lay down again a foundation of First Testament doctrines (vv.1,2)

--------(6) They had been enlightened by the Holy Spirit as to New Testament truth (v.4)

--------(7) They had tasted of that which constitutes salvation (v.4)

--------(8) They had been willingly led along by the Holy Spirit in His pre-salvation work, Thus being a "partaker" (same Greek word translated "partner" in Luke 5:7)

--------(9) They had tasted the Word (v.5)

--------(10) They had seen the attesting miracles. (v.5)

--------(11) They had been led into repentance (v.6)

--------(12) Now should they fall away from their profession of faith in Christ and back to the sacrifices, it would be impossible to renew them to repentance (vv.6-8)

--------(13) The saved among the recipients would not apostatize (vv.9,10)

--------(14) The unsaved exhorted to follow in the steps of faith of the saved. (vv.11,12)

....g. Is a High Priest who actually brings the believer into an eternal standing in grace (vv.13-20)

--------(1) Abraham, the man of faith who was rewarded, a precedent (vv.13-15)

--------(2) God's oath and God's promise guarantee the believer's eternal retention of salvation (vv.16-18)

--------(3) This salvation made possible by the presence of the High Priest in the heavenly Holy of Holies (vv.19,20)

....h. A High Priest after the order of Melchizedek (7:1-3)

--------(1) Melchizedek, a sinner saved by grace, had no recorded parents, no recorded date of birth or death

--------(2) A type therefore of Jesus Christ in His eternal priesthood.

....i. A High Priest in a superior order of priesthood (7:4-10)

--------(1) The Aaronic priests received tithes (vv.4,5)

--------(2) Melchizedek received tithes from Abraham, therefore, was better than he (vv.6,7)

--------(3) Melchizedek in type still receiving tithes, whereas Aaronic priests die (v.8)

--------(4) Aaron in Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek, therefore the latter is superior; therefore, our Lord is better than Aaron, being a priest in the order of Melchizedek (vv.9,10)

....j. Is High Priest of a Testament that offered a sacrifice that put away sin (vv.11-22)

--------(1) The First Testament neither offered nor made anything complete (v.11)

--------(2) First Testament priest came from tribe of Levi, the New Testament priest from the tribe of Judah (vv.12-17)

--------(3) First Testament set aside in favor of a better Testament (vv.18-22)

....k. Lives forever: the Aaronic priests died (vv.23-28)

--------(1) Because mortal, there were many Aaronic priests (vs.23)

--------(2) Our Lord because eternal, has a non-transferable priesthood (vv.24,25)

--------(3) Thus able to save the believer forever (v.25)

--------(4) A better High Priest, because sinless (vv.26-28)

....l. Officiates in a better tabernacle (8:1-6)

--------(1) His tabernacle the heavenly one, Aaron's merely the type (vv.1-5)

--------(2) His Testament therefore better than the one Aaron served under (v.6)

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Editors’ note: The Christian Post Opinion Page has published two countering views on Calvinism. To read the opposing view in the piece titled “Which comes first in salvation order: Faith or regeneration?” click here.

Want to know a secret? If you’re a Christian, you were saved before you knew you were.

Now, I’ll bet that the vast majority of you reading this think that you made a personal decision — all on your lonesome — to receive Christ, and once done, you were a child of God in the faith. John Chipman believes this, as evidenced by his article, “Which comes first in salvation order: Faith or regeneration?”

He says, “Faith precedes regeneration. Always. For everyone.”

Many think that the reverse is heresy and short-circuited. Still, I’m going to ask you to give me a few moments to make a case for the position of regeneration (the Spirit’s supernatural work of giving spiritual life to us, transforming the heart, and enabling faith, so that we become a new creation in Christ), preceding faith. I used to believe the reverse in my earlier Christian walk, but am now convinced that we can’t make that move of commitment towards God until He enables us to do it.

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World War III will break out in 2026 and last for six years before concluding. The old world order will then come to an end. The Luciferian dark forces currently manipulating Western Nations from behind the scenes will retreat, the rule of God will be restored, and the world will be re-Christianized.

America's mandate has ended. The liberal international order, sustained by Pax Americana, will cease to exist after the war. The United Nations, secular nation-states, and liberal democracy will all be consigned to the dustbin of history.

A portion of the old state powers will be destroyed by nuclear bombs, born from the very darkness they themselves nurtured.

As a crucial part of the divine plan for humanity's redemption, he will personally choose a devout Christian monarch in the East. Holding his hand, God will raise up a universal empire aligned with Christian ideals and righteousness. Using this empire as a sword, He will judge this fallen world, and the monarchy-aristocracy system will be restored.

The future of the world is a New World Order led by the emerging Christian Universal Empire.

2037 (tentative) marks the beginning of the New World Order.
A new era of mythology has arrived.
The Eastern Crusaders will wage war against all antiChrist forces.

The future of the world is a New World Order led by the emerging Christian Universal Empire.

「“Who has stirred up one from the east,calling him in righteousness to his service?He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him.
He turns them to dust with his sword,to windblown chaff with his bow.」(Isaiah 41:2 )

Apparently this has gone viral. Everyone is praising the priest for his patience and gentleness, and everyone is condemning the lady for, well, everything from extreme rudeness to possible demonic possession. I don't know about the demons, but she does seem to have an almost supernatural ability of talking fast. Either supernatural or chemical.

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So here it is in my writing

Revelation 13:18 18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.

1 Kings 4:29-5:12 29 And God gave Solomon wisdom and exceedingly great understanding, and largeness of heart like the sand on the seashore. 30 Thus Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the men of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt. 31 For he was wiser than all men—than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all the surrounding nations. 32 He spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were one thousand and five. 33 Also he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree of Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, of birds, of creeping things, and of fish. 34 And men of all nations, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom, came to hear the wisdom of Solomon.

1 Kings 10:14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,

2 Chronicles 9:13 The weight of the gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents

1 Kings 10:20 Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like it had ever been made for any other kingdom. 12 lions total. 6 lions on one side, 6 steps in the middle, 6 lions on the other side.
The author of Revelation is saying the first beast in Revelation 13 will be like king Solomon. Solomon ruled in Palestine/Israel from physical Jerusalem in the 900s BC. There are prophecies to David in the old testament that he would have a son, build a house in Gods name, and rule forever. David's son Solomon built the first house of God / temple, but he didn't rule forever. This was fully realised in Jesus who built the new covenant church the house of God the temple, and rules forever in the new Jerusalem. Revelation 22 16 “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you[a] this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.” Here Jesus combines that prophecy to David along with "A star will come from Jacob" from Numbers 24:17", and says it was about him. Also he is saying he existed before David "before Abraham was I am', "in the beginning was the word" etc. Jesus said "behold one greater than Solomon is here" about himself. He was saying Solomon was the greatest king in the old testament but I am a greater king. Also Isaiah 11:1), which states that a shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse, and a Branch will bear fruit from his roots.

Solomon was the "star of David" in the old testament. In the NT some of the apostles said to Jesus when will you restore the kingdom to Israel? Meaning they wanted a country like it was back in Solomon's time when ancient Israel was at its peak politically, militarily, economically, and had the most power over other nations. Jesus reply was the day of Pentecost. Some people also said to Jesus when you come into your kingdom let us sit on your right hand, and left hand. In their mind they meant when you become political king on this earth let us have high important positions with you. Jesus said you don't know what you are asking aka do you really want to be tortured, and then killed on my left, and right side on a cross ? Some people tried to make Jesus king politically but he sneaked away. So the first century AD Jews/Judeans had a very political mindset about who their messiah was going to be. In Ezekiel 33:24 the Israelite think they own the land of Canaan “Son of man, the people living in those ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as our possession. God then says he will kill them due to their sin. The promise to Abraham about seed, and the land was made to Jesus Galatians reveals. The parable of the tenants in Mathew 21 summarises the old covenant. End part: 38 “But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.’ 39 So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. 40 “Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” 41 “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and he will rent the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.” 42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes’[h]? 43 “Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. 44 Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.” 45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard Jesus’ parables, they knew he was talking about them. 46 They looked for a way to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowd because the people held that he was a prophet. The OT Jews at Jesus time saw Jesus was heir to the land of Canaan so killed him thinking they could steal the land for themselves. The kingdom of God was taken

from them, and was given to the world via faith in Jesus instead of being centered around a temple in physical Jerusalem with Levite priests etc. God brought those wretches to a wretched end in 70 AD when he used the Romans to destroy the city of Jerusalem, the temple, and kill the people that killed Jesus. God himself evicted the synagogue of satan (SOS) from Palestine in 70 AD now since 1948 AD the SOS is back on the land building their Revelation 13 kingdom. The hexagram is called the star of David due to the SOS not believing in Jesus, and applying the messianic concepts from the old testament to their political king messiah. In their religious texts (Maimonides Misnheh Torah) their messiah builds a temple, rules from physical Jerusalem, is a political genius (all like Solomon), and beheads anyone that doesn't worship him (not like Solomon but same as Rev 13 anyone who won't worship the beast is killed). The hexagram is also called the star of Solomon. The hexagram is the mark of the beast. Christians are Jews, and the Israel of God Romans 2 28 29 Galatians 6 16. The symbol for Jesus the biblical star of David is the cross but the symbol for the synagogue of satans messiah is the hexagram hence the name star of David they use for it.


The Jewish Utopia Michael Higger The aim of this work is to present, in a comprehensive way, the traditional Jewish conception of the ideal life for individuals, as well as for nations. The problems taken up in the book are discussed, not from a theological viewpoint, but rather from that of the prophecies of the prophets as interpreted by the rabbis. The doctrines concerning God, Torah, Israel, Messiah, the future world and so forth, are, therefore, referred to, only where they are directly related to the subject of an ideal life in the ideal era to come. For my main problem is to reconstruct an ideal social life on earth as pictured by the rabbis of old. To understand the rabbinic conception of an ideal world it will help us if we imagine a hand passing from land to land, from country to country, from the Persian Gulf to the Atlantic Ocean, and from the Indian Ocean to the North Pole, marking “ righteous ” or “ wicked ” on the forehead of each one of the sixteen hundred million inhabitants of our earthly globe. We should then be on the right road toward, solving the major problems that burden so heavily the shoulders of suffering humanity. For mankind should be divided into two, and only two, distinct and unmistakable groups, namely, righteous and wicked. To the righteous would belong all that which God’s wonderful world is offering ; to the wicked would belong nothing. In the future, the words of Isaiah, in the language of the rabbis, will be fulfilled: Behold, My servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry ; behold, My servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty ; behold, My servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed.** This is the force of the prophecy of Malachi, when he said: Then shall ye again discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. Rev 13 16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name. Maimonides laws of kings and their wars. 5 It has already been explained that Noachides are always executed by decapitation except in cases when one engages in relations with the wife of a Jew or a consecrated maiden. In the latter instance, he is stoned to death. A Noachide who transgresses these seven commands shall be executed by decapitation.

A Noachide is executed on the basis of the testimony of one witness and the verdict of a single judge. No warning is required. Relatives may serve as witnesses. However, a woman may not serve as a witness or a judge for them. Revelation 13 15 The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. Rev 20 4 And I saw the souls of them that had been beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the Word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast, nor his image, nor had received his mark upon their foreheads or on their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. Login to view embedded media from 5:35 on in that video the synagogue of satan explain what has to happen to Christians when they have a bet din aka when their messiah comes, and they have a central ruling sanhedrin, and enough power over the nations, and legal system to do what they want. Noahide is a concept from the leaven of the pharisees/oral torah/ traditions of the elders/ talmud etc not the bible. It means someone that denies Jesus, and all other religions, and submits to them

Peace in Christ.

Even though we deny the Holy One and choose “another jesus” the Barabbas (the son of the church fathers)…one that is being preached by false prophets…there is forgiveness.

Act 3:14-20 KJV
(14) But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
(15) And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
(16) And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

For we have all done it through IGNORANCE (not to know for lack of knowledge of the Word of Truth) as do our church rulers. This ignorance is forgivable….

(17) And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.
(18) But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.

…if we “repent” (that is, to think differently…change our mind after receiving of the full knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ) and be converted (to turn around back to God) so that our sins may be blotted out. Our sins have hid His face from us so that we do not reflect His presence to the people of the outside world.

If we return to Him, the times of refreshing shall come from the “presence”….the face…of the Lord of whom we shall then reflect to the people of the outside world who will then “see” Him through us and behave much differently towards us: with good things.

(19) Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
(20) And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:

We are to HEAR His voice as He comes to give us an understanding…a full knowledge…. through the opening up of the Scriptures. We are to HEAR all things... whatsoever He shall say unto us.

Act 3:22-23 KJV
(22) For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
(23) And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.

If we obey His voice that we will hear, and keep His covenant, then we shall be a peculiar treasure unto Him above all people of this earth. We shall be unto Him a kingdom of priests…a holy nation.

Exo 19:5-6 KJV
(5) Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
(6) And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

Saul/Paul received mercy because all that he did against the church as he did it IGNORANTLY in unbelief. The grace of our Lord is exceedingly abundant towards those who will repent and be converted. Saul/Paul is the pattern today for those who will believe on Him unto receiving an age-lasting life.

1Ti 1:12-16 KJV
(12) And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;
(13) Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
(14) And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
(15) This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
(16) Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.

Saul/Paul counted all his religious thoughts and ways as a loss in order to gain the excellency of the knowledge of Christ. He did repent….he did change his mind in order to receive what he heard Christ the Lord saying to him.

Php 3:7-10 KJV
(7) But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
(8) Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,

Saul did not go about defending his own righteousness (which was for him of the law) in the face of Christ whom he heard speaking to him. He believed Christ. He was found believing what he heard. He changed his mind after hearing His voice.

We also are to change our minds and receive His knowledge and NOT be found defending our denomination church viewpoints as contained in their handwritings. He was found of Him in the faith of Christ...believing what Christ told him.

(9) And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
(10) That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

We have this ministry as we are to receive MERCY for the things we did in ignorance of the Word of Truth. We are to renounce the things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the Word of God deceitfully. We are to change our minds about these things and preach the Word of God in truth and sincerity…not serving for own belly but serving the Lord Jesus Christ.

2Co 4:1-4
(1) Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
(2) But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
(3) But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost (perishing):
(4) In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

When a church ruler has sinned and done things through IGNORANCE…

Lev 4:22-26 KJV
(22) When a ruler hath sinned, and done somewhat through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD his God concerning things which should not be done, and is guilty;

…and it comes to his knowledge (and it is the voice of Jesus that gives us the full knowledge of the Truth)…

(23) Or if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish:

…he is to repent…to change his mind (lay his hand upon the HEAD of the goat and kill it…)

(24) And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the LORD: it is a sin offering.

…and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from our sins …they shall be blotted out. His sacrifice atones us of our sins done in ignorance of the Truth.

(25) And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering.
(26) And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.

But if we sin willfully AFTER we have received the knowledge (epignosis = FULL KNOWLEDGE) of the Truth, there shall not remain any more sacrifice for sins. If we continue to not repent and do evil towards what we hear, then the sacrifice of our Lord does not cleanse us. We shall die in our sins as judgment for our willful sin after we have received the FULL KNOWLEDGE of the Truth.

Heb 10:26-31 KJV
(26) For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the (FULL) knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
(27) But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
(28) He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
(29) Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
(30) For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
(31) It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

The “dead”…being dead in sins and trespasses…shall hear the voice of the Son of God who comes to give us the full knowledge of the Truth. They that will hear shall LIVE. They will believe in what they hear. They will repent...change their minds and receive what they hear. They will count all the religious things that they once thought as a loss in order to gain the excellency of the knowledge of the Lord Jesus who comes to give us an understanding.

Joh 5:25 KJV
(25) Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.

But those who will be contentious towards that they hear and will not obey (that is, believe) the Truth…the full knowledge of the Truth…but will obey unrighteousness (indignation and wrath...doing evil towards what they will hear) will receive tribulation and anguish as the Lord shall judge His people. They will mortally die in their sins as judgment and there will be no way to reverse it as there will be no more sacrifice for willful sins.

Rom 2:6-11 KJV
(6) Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
(7) To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
(8) But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
(9) Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
(10) But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
(11) For there is no respect of persons with God.

There are 2 canons of the bible.

Luke 24:44-53 He said to them, “Remember when I was with you before? I said that everything written about me must happen—everything in the law of Moses, the books of the prophets, and the Psalms.” Then Jesus opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.

Law Psalms Prophets - this canon list excludes 1 Enoch, and other OT texts (Jubilees, Test of the 12 patriarchs, Tobit, 1/2 Maccabees, and others). Josephus gave the same canon list around 100 AD, and it was Genesis to Malachi organized into around 24 books. This is the primary canon.
Josephus: Historical Evidence of the Old Testament Canon

Jesus also referenced 1 Enoch, and called it scripture

Jesus talking to the Sadducees who asked about resurrection.

Mathew 22 29 Jesus replied, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. 30 At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.

1 Enoch 15. God talking to the angels that left heaven, came down to earth, and bred with woman.

But you originally existed as spirits, living forever,
and not dying for all the generations of eternity;
7 therefore I did not make women among you.’
The spirits of heaven, in heaven is their dwelling;

Jesus tells the people he is talking to they do not know scripture and then proceeds to cite 1 Enoch about how God did not make women for the angels in heaven so he is calling 1 Enoch "scripture", and believed it was written before the flood by Enoch 7th from Adam like it says it was.

So Jesus has 1 Enoch in his canon there, and same with Jude with the "Enoch 7th from Adam prophesied" quote. This is the secondary "hidden" canon. Apocrypha means hidden, and Jesus said

Mathew 11
25 At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. 26 Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do.

Some Christians refer to 1 Enoch or any other text outside the primary (protestant) canon as apocrypha, and for them it means myth / pseudepigrapha . God has hidden those texts from them possibly due to

Romans 1:22
22 Professing to be wise, they became fools,

and

1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God. As the Scriptures say, “He traps the wise in the snare of their own cleverness.”

Yes the secondary canon is hidden but hidden does not mean myth/ pseudepigrapha it just means it is for people that choose to believe the bible wherever it may lead otherwise maybe God thought it would be throwing pearl before swine to reference it in very obvious ways.

This concept of 2 canons in the NT goes back to 2 Esdras (internal date 557-457 BC consistent with 1 Ezra, and same genealogies as 1 Ezra which go back to Aaron son of Levi) where Ezra, and some others rewrite the bible because it was destroyed by the Babylonians

2 Esdras 14
44 So in forty days, ninety-four books were written. 45 It came to pass, when the forty days were fulfilled, that the Most High spoke to me, saying, “The first books that you have written, publish openly, and let the worthy and unworthy read them; 46but keep the last seventy,that you may deliver them to those who are wise among your people; 47 for in them is the spring of understanding, the fountain of wisdom, and the stream of knowledge.” 48 I did so.

The 24 was for the worthy, and unworthy aka everyone- this would of been the now protestant canon from Genesis to Ezra (Malachi, and Nehemiah may not of been written at that time as they came a bit later on in the 400s BC), and the other 70 was 1 Enoch, Jubilees, Test of the 12, Life of Adam, and Eve, Assumption of Moses, Testament of Job, Tobit, Baruch, other ones that still exist today, and some others that would be lost works today. For the NT it would be proto James, pseudo Mathew, gospel of Nicodemus, Didache, History of Joseph the carpenter, and some others. The expanded canon is only for the wise.

2, and 3 Enoch, and book of Jasher are all myths not inspired written after 70 AD (inspired scripture stopped 70 AD based on Daniel 9). 3 Enoch, and Jasher are Jewish fables (1 Titus 14), and 2 Enoch is either Jewish or Samaritan fables.

Jasher says Shem is Melchizadek like the Talmud does in an attempt to discredit Jesus from being a priest in the order of Melchizadek. 2 Enoch mentions the 532 year great cycle which was not discovered until 400s AD. 3 Enoch says It was written by 'rabbi' Ishmael which the Talmud says was 130 AD however the synagogue of satan actually believe it is pseudepigrapha written much later.

...wait till you meet Mr. Zanu. He's brilliant. He's like a reverse visionary when talking about the past. So far, in every conversation I've heard, people who disagree with him end up agreeing with him in under an hour. He's like a steamroller made out of information and insights.

My whole adult life I've heard people on TV saying "we need to have a serious conversation about race in America", but it never happened. It's finally happening.


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I watch Christians (mostly male) torture themselves over lust. I think it is fair to say that most Christians have been misled about what kind of lust that Jesus was talking about. Here it is in a nutshell.

The word almost always translated as “lust” in Matthew 5:28 is the Greek ἐπιθυμέω (epithumeō). In every other place in the New Testament it’s translated as “covet” or “desire” (sometimes even positively), and in the Septuagint (the Greek Old Testament that Jesus and the apostles quoted) it’s the exact word used for “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife” (Exodus 20:17). So the context is clearly coveting → mentally violating the Seventh Commandment by fantasizing about adultery with a married woman.

Jesus was intensifying the Torah’s command against adultery, not issuing a blanket condemnation of sexual desire or attraction. The early Church Fathers (Augustine especially) later universalized it into “any sexual thought outside of procreative marital sex = mortal sin,” and that sex-negative overlay got baked into Western Christianity (and then influenced some Jewish and Muslim interpretations too). But Jesus didn't say that at all.

So yes: noticing an attractive single woman and feeling turned on? Perfectly normal, healthy, and morally neutral.

Mentally undressing your friend’s wife and cultivating the fantasy? That’s the “adultery in the heart” Jesus was talking about.

Other later church figures widened the topic to saying that all lust is bad. But that's not at all what Jesus said. I feel bad hearing Christian males feeling guilty for no good reason.

Can anyone relate to this?

Jesus Christ, the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – left his throne in heaven, came to earth, and took on human flesh in being born as a baby to a virgin woman, but conceived of the Holy Spirit, and not of man. So he was not born with a sin nature as we are. And while he lived on the earth he was fully human and fully God (God incarnate), and he never sinned. And at the age of 30 he began his earthly ministry. And so he called 12 men to be his disciples and to work alongside him in ministry.

During his 3 to 3 ½ years of ministry on the earth, he healed the sick and afflicted, raised the dead, delivered people from demons, fed the hungry, comforted the sorrowful, and he performed many miracles. He also taught the critical importance of repentance for salvation from sin and for eternal life with God. And repentance, which is gifted to us by God along with our salvation and the faith to believe in Jesus, is a change of heart and mind resulting in a change of behavior away from sin to obedience to our God.

There were many people who followed Jesus for a period of time, but many of them deserted him later on when his teachings became too hard for them to accept. For they were mostly following him because of the miracles he performed. But the religious rulers and people of influence in the temple of God mostly rejected him and fought against him, and tried to find ways to trip him up with his words so they would have cause to accuse him of wrong. And eventually they had him put to death on a cross, hoping to end him.

But it was God’s will and purpose that Jesus Christ should suffer and die on that cross. For in his death, he put our sins to death with him so that, by God-persuaded and God-gifted faith in him, we will now die to sin and live to God and to his righteousness in walks of obedience to his commands, by the Spirit. For in his death and resurrection he rendered powerless him who had the power of death, that is the devil, in order to free us from our addiction to sin so that we will serve God with our lives, living holy lives pleasing to him.

[Isaiah 53:1-12; Matthew 26:26-29; Luke 17:25; John 1:1-36; John 6:35-58; John 8:24,58; John 10:27-33; John 20:28-29; Romans 5:8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 9:5; 1 Corinthians 11:23-32; 1 Corinthians 15:1-8; Ephesians 2:8-10; Philippians 2:5-11; Colossians 2:9; Titus 2:13; Hebrews 1:8-9; Hebrews 2:14-15; Hebrews 4:15; 1 Peter 1:20-21; 2 Peter 1:1]

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

And this is the truth of the gospel message taught by Jesus and by his New Testament apostles, which we can discover for ourselves if we read the Scriptures in their appropriate biblical context, and if we do not rely on other humans to tell us the truth. For many are they who are teaching lies in the name of Jesus, and in the name of the gospel of our salvation, who are teaching that all we have to do is to make a verbal confession of Christ as Lord, and now all our sins are forgiven and heaven is secured us for eternity.

But by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

So, please be students of the Scriptures who study them in their correct biblical context, and who believe the teachings of Christ and of his New Testament apostles, and who do not rely on other humans and on social media and on preachers to tell you the truth. For many speak lies, either willfully with the intent to deceive, or unknowingly out of biblical ignorance. And please know that the Scriptures teach that if sin is what we practice, and not obedience to God, that we will not inherit eternal life with God.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

Who Believes?

Based off Isaiah 53
An Original Work / October 3, 2013
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Gospel message, who believes?
Jesus Christ died on a tree,
Saving us from all our sin,
So we might be cleansed within.

Had no beauty found in Him,
That we should desire Him.
Man of sorrows, suffering;
Crushed for our iniquities.

Surely He has borne our griefs;
From our sadness, brings relief.
Bore the stripes; forsaken, He,
So forgiven we might be.

We, like sheep, have gone astray,
Each of us turned his own way.
Jesus calls, “Repent today;
My commandments, now obey.”

Jesus said, to come to him,
We must die to all our sin.
Crucified with Him, we live,
Walking in His righteousness.

Suff’ring servants, we will be,
Taking His identity on us,
When confessing Him
As our Savior, Lord and King.

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Freeing Us From Slavery to Sin
An Original Work / December 2, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Obama judge, so not a surprise.

Evening everyone. Got a cat scan tomorrow and getting ready to go to bed. I’d appreciate prayers for a good result. Thank you!